Many misconceptions surround the spiritual journey, but few are as potent and potentially derailing as those concerning the Kundalini awakening. Is chasing the ‘spiritual high’ of a Kundalini awakening actually holding us back from true embodiment? Let’s explore the truth about Kundalini awakening and why so many people get messed up in the early stages, mistaking a momentary glimpse for the final destination.
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The Peak Experience and The Inevitable Crash
Many practices you might find online promise a Kundalini activation. While many of these practices are beautiful, they often lead to a common pattern. People do an activation, enter an utter bliss state, leave feeling supercharged with the world being super responsive, and then they crash. This can also happen spontaneously without any specific practice, leading to a similar type of peak experience we might call a Kundalini awakening.
This is where the confusion begins. We must understand a critical distinction.
Awakening is not the same as embodiment. Discovering it is not the same as mastering it. Knowing that you can is not the same as consistently doing.
It’s like discovering you can get in a car, push the gas pedal, and go really fast. That initial rush is exhilarating. “Woo-hoo, look at me. I’m going fast.” But knowing how to push the gas is not the same as having the skill to drive safely and arrive at your destination. You can just as easily crash and burn. We have to learn how to drive the vehicle of our own consciousness, and there isn’t usually an instruction manual.
Awakening vs. Embodiment: The Glimpse vs. The Journey
Even with a guide, you’re going to roll over the curb and scrape up against something a few times until you learn what it feels like to drive the vehicle. This is the difference between embodiment, which is the long-haul journey, and awakening, which is the glimpse. The “ah, yes I can” moment, followed by forgetting how we did it and falling into a series of loops. This is normal and okay.
However, a lot of the spiritual “fluff” out there overemphasizes the complete bliss state instead of emotional mastery. Instead of feeling all emotions, we’re taught to just chase that bliss state, which ultimately leads to avoidance. This creates a situation where people have a Kundalini awakening with zero capacity for what that looks like embodied over the next year. Many facilitators are not ready to address this because they see clients for one session, send them on their way, and never witness the absolute hell that can unfold afterward. I’ve been through it myself and have watched others go through it too.
What is a Kundalini Activation, Really?
A Kundalini activation is a massive flood of the divine feminine energy. This creates a massive amount of reassurance and a profound feeling of bliss, joy, or safety within yourself. It’s a beautiful and necessary thing. When we flood a system that has been stuck in the masculine polarity, as humanity largely has been, it can create a lot of balance. It brings people back to a more gentle, nurturing, and kind state. They start to recognize negative self-talk patterns, discover what joy actually means to them, and get a compass for the direction they want to go. This is all very good.
The problem arises when people start chasing that initial high, defining their goal as that one peak experience. If we were to put this on a graph, people who have been living at one frequency suddenly fly up to a peak experience and define that peak as the goal. No. The goal is to be able to embrace the entire experience, peak and valley, around a stable center point.
Understanding The Truth About Kundalini Awakening as a Catalyst
That profound “aha” moment in an early spiritual awakening is designed to be a catalyst, not the place you fight to get back to. It’s meant to show you what’s possible and what you’re capable of. Then, you need to carry that awareness into every moment, not polarize to exist only in that peak state. I used to think that was the goal, but lessons learned down the road show you that it’s a catalyst moment meant to shatter your reality and break your perceptions.
If this happens too fast, it can leave people with no context, leading to dissociation from the world, life, and themselves. This can result in what we might call a spiritually induced psychosis.
The Dangers of Rushing the Process
This is why I refuse to do certain activations, even when people ask. I get asked all the time, “Can we do an entire 13 chakra activation in one session?” Yes, I could. No, I won’t. For the average person, it would be very damaging. Giving someone a powerful tool to activate Kundalini energy all the way through their chakras without context is irresponsible.
I once shared a powerful technique on TikTok after telling the story of how I overwhelmed myself with it. I warned people a dozen times, “Do not do this all at once. Do one chakra a week at most.” That week, I received at least five messages from people who had blown themselves to bits, saying, “I wish I’d listened to you. My life is shredded.” People chase the high.
This is also why in our guided processes, content is unlocked one week at a time. It takes a level of embodiment and processing time. Time to see it show up in your life, your relationships, and to go through those brutal moments of integration. If you blast through it, you spiral.
The Pace of Embodiment: From Years to Weeks
If we look at older, more ancient practices of chakra work, this would be a 12-year process, one chakra per year. You wouldn’t even think about doing it faster. Now, humanity’s baseline vibration has increased, so more people are capable of going through this process faster. We’re seeing more spontaneous awakenings because people are ready. A faster container can be functional, but 13 weeks is about the fastest we want to go. If you are looking for a structured, safe container to explore this work, I encourage you to check the schedule for the next Ignite Your 13 Chakra Blueprint event.
The Kundalini awakening is that peak high moment that catalyzes the journey. Coming off that peak, we can have rapid, instant manifestations. But then we go down into the valley, and we get to the bottom of that frequency swing. This is where the real work begins. We deal with transmutation and working through old patterns.
The universe has a built-in safety mechanism. It shuts off things like instant manifestation while you’re in the trenches of old programming and trauma. You don’t want instant manifestation turned on then; that would be a tragedy. You need to get reoriented and create a new baseline. A lot of people destroy things in this dip instead of recognizing it for what it is.
The Nature of the “Bliss State” and Source Consciousness
The hermetic law of rhythm states that everything has a rhythm. If we try to be in just one half of the rhythm, we inevitably fall. We can use that peak moment as a catalyst, a mile marker, but we shouldn’t be trying to get back to it. That peak state is the state of your higher consciousness, which is often what people encounter in a near-death experience. It’s a non-experiential state of absolute stillness, what scientists might call dark matter or what quantum physicists call the quantum field or superposition… everything and nothing all at once.
You can’t go there and still be here, but you can bring insights from that place into here. That experience of complete neutrality is what we might call perfect love because it has allowance for everything… good, bad, light, dark. It feels like bliss because in the moment you touch it, it has full allowance for you, too. Some call it God, source, or higher power. When we connect with it, it shatters our perceptions and makes us question everything.
Bringing Superposition into Your Reality
After a peak experience, manifestations can happen instantly because our brain is vibrating closer to that space of superposition, making our reality more flexible. But then we come down from that high and go into the dip, the part of ourselves that doesn’t know about this. We fight it, trying to get back to the peak state.
Instead, we need to recognize that the state opposite to the peak state, the downstate, is equally held in superposition. They are both valid options. You never left the peak state; you are simply exploring another experience within it. The key is to bring the full allowance, that unconditional love you felt at the peak, and share it with the part of yourself that exists in the other polarization. You become the messenger of that joy to a part of yourself that doesn’t know what it is yet.
The Razor’s Edge of Unconditional Love
This is where it gets tricky. If you meet yourself in that dip to make changes so that you can get back to the bliss state, you’re doing it with an insistence on an outcome. That’s not unconditional. That’s not the energy of higher consciousness. The means to the end doesn’t create the necessary relationship within yourself for harmonic collaboration.
You must walk a razor’s edge of having intention and choice while also having full allowance for that other part of yourself to do whatever it needs to do. Provide guidance without forcing it. Allow it to remain in the separation dip state for as long as it needs. When we do this, that bliss state begins to permeate all sides of our life’s frequency. We will never exist in an infinite bliss state as an individual because we are not the source superposition. If we were, we wouldn’t be here having this experience.
Embracing The Never-Ending Story
We are a part of that source, a tiny aspect of its infinite possibilities. We can spiral right to the edge of source consciousness, but we will never be it. Once a consciousness has known itself as an individual, it cannot be the all. It can touch it, poke it, and have a beautiful relationship with it, but it won’t return fully.
This journey is like The Never-Ending Story. It goes on forever, in both directions. The moments we pass through or come close to that source centerline… peak bliss states, meditation, death… we gain a new perspective. After one of these moments, we come away inspired, able to create and manifest. Then the universe says, “Great. Now go fetch every part of yourself that doesn’t believe this is possible.”
So we go into the dip, into integration. And the first thing we do is forget the bliss state and fight the process. Instead, we must simply carry that unconditional love we experienced and give it to every other part of ourselves. Take what you’ve been given and give it to everyone and everything else, starting with you.
The bliss is not a destination to get back to. The bliss is inside every single state, peak and valley. The answer is to be here now. Whatever you’re here now with, allow yourself in that state to be part of all that is. There is the bliss.
