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Have you heard of the microcosmic orbit?
Circulate the energy in your microcosmic orbit. 
What practice are you doing exactly?
It sounds like you are just concentrating on your root chakra, but it's better to move the energy around, and focus on your other chakras as well.

My opinion is that kundalini energy is the same as yang chi, or the fire element, and it can be cultivated by sitting quietly in full lotus, and by celibacy. As you cultivate fire energy, the energy will circulate through your microcosmic orbit, and then it will settle into your lower dantien (which is called the sacral chakra in kundalini yoga). However after a few years of practice, the fire chi will burn out blockages of the sacral chakra, and will move into the solar plexus. Then after another few years, it will burn out impurities of the solar plexus and then move into the heart chakra. And so on. The fire energy will progressively move to settle into higher chakras, until it reaches your 3rd eye and astral senses awaken tremendously. 
Of course if you practice with full celibacy, and for many hours a day, this process could happen much faster, but if it goes too fast, it will be extremely difficult to process psychologically and energetically, so it is better to have a slow and steady practice, than to burn yourself out and 'go schizo'. 
If you practice Taoist cultivation techniques, like I have been describing, you should learn to have a good control over the energies you are cultivating, and should recognize when to back off the practice. 
If you're having bad effects usually it's because you are sending more energy than you can handle in a particular area, and often because the energy is imbalanced. Try to keep the 4 elements, and 7 chakras in reasonable balance. The lower three chakras are grounding.
gpt
This was obscenely helpful, thank you very much for the insight