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Goosebumps or Psychic Chills

You call them goosebumps. 

You call them chills. 

Whenever we feel cold, or when we feel strong emotions such as fear, pride, shock, or inspiration, we can feel our body hair straightening up and the tiny goosebumps on our skin. But sometimes, we get them without any particular reason. When you get such goosebumps, without any reason, what does that mean? What is your body trying to say to you? In this blog, we will find out what spiritual or psychic chills are and the spiritual significance of goosebumps.

What are psychic chills?

Indian Hatha yoga textbook Gheranda Samhita describes this feeling of psychic chills as a phenomenon of awakening of a true Bhakti or phenomenon of devotional love. The same thing has been recorded in the legendary epic of Mahabharata. When Lord Krishna revealed his true form on the battlefield of Kurukshetra, Arjuna experienced similar kinds of feelings, just a million times stronger.

Random goosebumps or chills for no reason at all are termed psychic chills. Various things like conversations, touch, or energies passing through you can be the reason behind them. It can be a warning, a confirmation, confrontation, upcoming change, or your spirit guide trying to send you a message. Let’s take a look at these reasons one by one.

What is the spiritual significance of psychic chills?

It’s all about energy: It is considered that the reason behind spiritual goosebumps is the energy upsurge. This may happen when universal powers are trying to communicate with us. These external energy fields often interfere with our energy field, causing chills. Every living thing, place, and time has its energy. This energy could be pleasant or toxic, and when our internal energy field interacts with these energies, they could interfere with our mood, physiology, and soul.

That’s the reason we feel very pleasant and positive around some people and in spiritual places like temples, because the positive energy within these people or places enhances our positivity, causing goosebumps. On the other hand, when we interact with negative people or go to dark places like battlegrounds or a hospital mortuary, the negative vibrations from that place interact with our energy fields, bringing us down along with them. In such times, we get negative chills.

Prayer Chills: Whenever you get chills during your prayers, consider, you are on the right path of devotion. Getting goosebumps on our skin while praying means your mind, body, and soul are entirely in sync with your prayers, and you are establishing a connection with the Divine. Getting chills during prayers is a sign of actual devotion. It means you have immersed yourself entirely in your prayers, and you have forgotten about your ego.

Message: Many times, chills mean someone is trying to communicate with you. It could be an unseen friend, your guardian angel, or your spirit guide who is trying to look out for you. Psychic chills or goosebumps are just manifestations of these messages. The key is opening up yourself to welcome these messages and understanding what these powers are trying to say to you.

Warning: Many times, these psychic chills could be a warning for the danger ahead. That unseen friend, guardian angel, or the spirit guide of yours might be trying to warn you not to go there, not to interact with certain people, not to execute that particular plan of yours. It might be the universe trying to tell you the possible hazardous outcome of your actions.                 

Even if you are not so much of a spiritual type of person, these goosebumps can remind you to get on the track of spirituality. If you are a spiritual individual, these chills can be decrypted only by you. Your subconscious is seeking some answers, and the universe is trying to give you a hint through these chills.

Answers: While walking down the path of spirituality, it’s common to have thousands of questions in your mind. These questions could be about your job, relationships, spiritual path, or other aspects of your life. In spirituality, you have to seek answers to most of those questions, all by yourself. 

When a seeker’s mind is preoccupied with a specific question, 

Divine energies come to aid. In such conditions, goosebumps can be interpreted as a solid, positive, and welcoming sign from the universe. But for this, you must know yourself and how to interpret these signals.

Chills during meditation: Many seekers get chills during meditation. They often get chills from the base of their spine, directed towards the head. Often this phenomenon is related to the process of Kundalini awakening. It largely depends upon your mood prior to the meditation. These goosebumps or chills will be more energetic rather than physical. They are signs that your meditation is working for you.

During meditation, when your awareness expands, it activates more neurons than your natural state. As you go deeper into meditation, it causes activation of more and more neurons from your brain, releasing the happy neurotransmitters and elevating the meditator’s overall mood. When you feel, or hear a name, an idea, or an option while being in the meditative state followed by the chills, consider the universe is confirming that you have received a clear message from the Divine consciousness.

How to decode the psychic chills?

What matters the most is how you feel. Whenever you get these goosebumps, analyze yourself. Pay close attention to how you are feeling physically and emotionally. 

Feel good chills: these are associated with positive emotions. They will indicate faith, courage, positive transformation, hope, warmth, and embracing. Once you are in tune with your feelings, you will be able to analyze them easily.

You will experience these feel-good chills when you see the person you love or when you are about to hear that long-awaited good news. These goosebumps can be felt when you have managed to quiet your mind in a deep meditative state.  

Not so good chills: Call it bad news, spidey-sense, or heebie-jeebies, but when there is some disconnect between your mind, body, and soul, or if there is a disturbance in the balance between them, you can sense these not so good types of chills. This is an entirely natural phenomenon and an indication of your energy compass working perfectly, trying to steer you away from the trouble. If you are percolating on something negative the whole day, you often experience these negative chills.  

We all must be aware of what’s happening in our minds and our surroundings, so when we experience these psychic chills, we can recognize them and determine our action plan based on the hints given to us. Maybe you need to be at a particular place to help someone, or you must remove yourself from a specific situation, or you should follow restraint. Being in tune with yourself will give you the ability to read on these chills. Spiritual practices like meditation and Mantra chanting will help you to channelize and cultivate this gift properly. However, consulting your Guru will be the best option for taking up any new spiritual practices.

Have you ever experienced such chills? We would love to hear about your experience. We hope you have gained some insight into the nature of psychic chills.

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