Integrative Change Takes a Ton of Energy - The Kundalini Awakening

The Kundalini Awakening.

Maybe you've heard of it. It's a fairly common psychedelic experience. There is an experience of cosmic energy shooting up the spine and reaching the head, where it then expands or blossoms. Usually, an explosion of enlightened insight accompanies it.

It doesn't last, and unfortunate are the souls that think it means more than it does.

Most people simply don't have the energy to maintain this enlightened view. They don't have the energy required to dismantle all of their deeply entrenched habits. They don't have the energy that it takes to interrupt their negative, repetitive thought patterns.

From this perspective, the kundalini perspective, our human bodies are an energetic system seeking increased flow and cohesion. At present, it is full of knots, blockages, and vortexes. We have plenty of energy, but most of it is bound up in patterns of fear, attachment, and misunderstanding. This is what practices like yoga and tai chi seek to ammerliorate. This is the thought behind accupuncture. This is why everyone is so crazy about 'breathwork.'

Before breathwork hit the scene, we were all just doing pranayama. The sanskrit and the tantric roots weren't sanitized out of the whole process. Depending on how you translate it, prana means breath or vital energy. Prana isn't exactly the breath, but it's the vitality in the breath. Yama means restraint or control. Ayama means expansion. So, breath control, energy expansion. something like that. You get it.

On any given day, a human has just about enough energy to digest their food, maintain their body temperature, grow their hair and nails, and do the tasks they need to pay the rent. There isn't a lot extra for things like conscious evolution and transformative change. We don't have the energy to create new positive habits, we don't have the energy to stop persistant negative habits.

That requires an entire reorganization of our energetic system. That requires enough energy to break through the long-standing energetic barriers that we've been fortifying over the course of our entire lives.

This is what I see when someone tells me, "I can't get to the gym," or "I can't leave the job that's killing me," or as Jane famously says, "I'm going to kick tomorrow."

It's really, really hard to coach someone into doing a thing they can't do. It's much easier to coach someone into cultivating free, flowing energy, or to coach them to dissolve blocked energy and move stagnant energy.

Maharajji told Ram Dass about psychedelics, "They give you a glimpse of heaven, but you can't stay."

This is what he meant. You may get a glimpse of the life you can lead if you reorganize your energy system. You may even get a little bit of purification of the sludgier bits of your channels. You may get a window of time when your neuro is a little more plastic and change is easier. But if you want to create change, it's going to take some energy. You'll have to cultivate your energy. Nobody can do that part for you.

I'm Gonna Kick Tomorrow

We've all said it. We didn't have the shakti to make it happen.

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