Many people misunderstand what a Kundalini awakening is, which can lead to significant challenges early in the process. We are going to explore the kundalini awakening crash and discuss why ’embodiment’ is the real goal, not just a temporary bliss state. Many spiritual practices can induce a powerful Kundalini activation, leaving you feeling supercharged and in sync with the world, only to experience a hard crash afterward.
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The Bliss State and the Inevitable Kundalini Awakening Crash
While many Kundalini activation practices are beautiful, a common pattern emerges. A person enters an utter bliss state during a session, leaves feeling supercharged, and finds the world incredibly responsive. Then, inevitably, they crash. This experience isn’t always intentional; sometimes, it happens spontaneously without any specific practice or session, yet the result is a similar phenomenon we might call a Kundalini awakening.
Awakening vs. Embodiment: Learning to Drive Your Vehicle
It’s crucial to understand a key distinction. Awakening is not the same as embodiment. Discovering this energy is not the same as mastering it. Knowing you have the capacity for something is not the same as consistently living from that capacity.
It’s like discovering that you can get in the driver’s seat of a car and push the gas pedal and go really fast. It’s not the same as the skill of driving safely and arriving at your destination.
You can know how to push a gas pedal to go incredibly fast and still crash and burn. In those initial few seconds, you might feel exhilarating freedom, thinking, “Woo-hoo, look at me. I’m going fast.” However, real mastery requires that we learn how to drive the vehicle. Usually, there isn’t an instruction manual.
Sometimes we have a helpful guide, and other times we are figuring it out on our own. Regardless of your path, even with a guide, you’re going to roll over the curb a few times. You’re going to scrape up against something until you learn the feeling of what it’s like to truly drive your own vehicle. Developing this intuitive feel for your own energy system is a central part of spiritual expansion, and you can explore this further by learning to Ignite Your 13 Chakra Blueprint, where you can check the schedule for the next available class.
Ultimately, this highlights the difference between awakening and embodiment. The awakening is the glimpse, the “ah, yes I can” moment. What often follows is forgetting how we did it in the first place, leading to a series of loops. This is normal and perfectly okay; it’s part of the journey.
The Problem with Chasing Bliss: The Unspoken ‘Hell’
A significant issue arises from the amount of spiritual “fluff” out there. There’s an overemphasis on achieving a complete bliss state rather than developing emotional mastery. Instead of learning to feel all our emotions, we are often encouraged to just chase that high. This pursuit naturally leads to avoidance.
Many Kundalini facilitators are not ready to address this reality. They might guide someone to a powerful awakening but have zero capacity to support what that looks like embodied over the next year. They see their clients for one session, send them on their way, and never see them again. Consequently, they don’t witness the absolute hell that can unfold afterward.
And it is hell. I have been through it myself and have watched a number of other people go through it too. The crash is real, but understanding it as a necessary part of the journey toward true embodiment is the key to navigating it successfully.
