Background
In this profound discourse, Siddha Guru Sanju uses the metaphor of being stuck in city traffic to explain how the ego blocks the natural flow of Kundalini energy and life itself. She draws a parallel between the congestion of vehicles and the congestion of the mind, showing how resistance, control, and identification with desires prevent energy and awareness from flowing freely. Through vivid imagery and practical instruction, Guru Sanju teaches a transformative breathing method—continuous long exhalation—as a means to dissolve egoic stuckness and realign with the effortless current of existence. This discourse serves as both a philosophical reflection and a practical energy technique within the Energetic Mastery Method framework.
Kundalini Awakening and Ego’s Traffic Jam in the Flow of Life
What do you do when you get stuck in traffic? The honking, the congestion, the endless waiting—it feels like life itself has stopped. As I travel today, I can sense what happens to the human brain and nervous system in moments like this. The noise, the chaos, the stuckness—all these sensations create tension inside you.
And this very experience of traffic is a mirror of your inner life. Your ego functions exactly like this traffic—it blocks the natural flow of life, the spontaneous movement of energy that Kundalini brings. As long as you are in the linear journey, bound by control, resistance, and mental chatter, the ego will continue to resist the flow. It will create bumps, detours, and unnecessary honking within you. Life wants to move freely, but your ego does not let go.
You need directional will. You need to learn how to move through life consciously, not by resisting but by aligning. To come out of any blockage in your life, you must cultivate the habit of will—a will that is not born from control, but from trust and surrender.
Your voice, your energy, your individuality—these are not meant for just one thing, one desire, or one identity. You were made for millions of expressions, for countless forms of life experience. Yet you become so identified with a single role, with a single image of yourself, that you begin to feel unsafe when life asks you to expand.
You fear allowing Kundalini to guide your life. You fear losing the little control your ego holds. This fear is the inner traffic jam—the same way cars fight for space on the road, your thoughts and identities fight for dominance within you.
The Ego’s Congestion and the Technique of Flow
Just as the city traffic blocks physical movement, egoic congestion blocks energetic flow. Every day, every moment, your ego gets you stuck—through opinions, judgments, insecurities, and comparisons. It traps your energy and keeps you in mental loops.
To free yourself from this state, I will teach you a simple yet powerful technique—continuous long exhalation.
Sit comfortably and begin exhaling slowly, deeply, and continuously. Let the breath flow out without interruption, as though you are releasing every bit of tension, resistance, and control with each exhalation. Continue until you feel a natural sense of emptiness—a point where there is no urge to hold, no desire to control, only release.
This is not a breath of effort or strain; it is a breath of surrender. It is not a desire to “deflate” completely—it is a conscious exhalation that says, I let go.
The one who is going—the ego—is what needs to be released. As you exhale, it is not the breath that leaves, it is your identification, your attachment, your egoic weight that departs.
Releasing the Ego from the Nervous System
Your breath and your nervous system are deeply connected. Every emotion, every memory, every reaction is stored as tension in your body. When you resist the flow of life, you create rigidity in the nervous system.
But when you consciously exhale and allow your body to move naturally with that breath, you are giving your system permission to release. Move your body gently if you feel the impulse—let your shoulders drop, your spine sway, your hands open. This is your body’s natural intelligence guiding the release.
As the exhalation deepens, the accumulated emotions, patterns, and egoic tendencies begin to dissolve. You will feel the mind becoming quiet, the heart expanding, and a deep peace settling in.
Through this practice, the Kundalini within you finds its space to rise and flow. It no longer remains trapped in the narrow lanes of ego. The blocked traffic of your inner world begins to clear, and energy starts moving in harmony again.
The Art of Exhalation and the Flow of Life
Do not resist yourself. Allow yourself to live. Life is not meant to be perfect; it is meant to be lived.
When you exhale fully, you teach your system the art of letting go. Incomplete exhalation means incomplete living. Each breath is a symbol of life and death—inhale is birth, exhale is death. If you never exhale fully, you never die to the old patterns, and therefore you never truly live.
Let your exhalation be long and relaxed, not forced. Feel how oxygen moves through your cells. Notice that oxygen absorption is not in the inhalation but in the exchange—when you release carbon dioxide completely, your body makes space for fresh prana to enter naturally.
If you keep holding your breath, or resisting the exhalation, you are preventing this natural exchange. That is how energy stagnates. That is how people lose vitality, clarity, and purpose.
So learn to exhale through life.
Every situation that feels stuck, every relationship that feels suffocating, every mental pattern that repeats—exhale through it. Flow beyond it. Let life breathe through you rather than you trying to control life.
Living Beyond the Ego’s Traffic
Be in the flow of life. Don’t get stuck in the traffic of your ego. Don’t become trapped in the illusion of control, the endless waiting, and the honking of thoughts that never cease.
When you live freely, life responds to your freedom. You begin to see opportunities instead of obstacles. You experience movement instead of stagnation.
This is the essence of Energetic Mastery—not to dominate your energy, but to become one with it. To live in such harmony that there is no separation between the inner and outer movement.
If you don’t live in flow, there will come a time when you will suffer deeply—not because life is cruel, but because life cannot flow through a blocked channel.
Look around. How much of your time do you spend trapped in the traffic of the cities, the matrix, and the constant noise of doing and achieving? How much time do you spend simply being?
Your desires, signals, and tendencies are not going to leave you on their own. You must awaken now. There is no next moment, no tomorrow for awakening.
Right now, in this breath, in this exhalation—be free.
Awakening to the Imperfect Perfection of Life
So enjoy the ride. Life is a journey, not a race. Every bump, every pause, every detour is part of the experience. Keep smiling, keep flowing.
And remember—there is no perfection to reach. The ego strives for perfection, but life itself is imperfectly perfect. It moves, it evolves, it creates new paths as it flows.
Let that be your realization.
When you stop seeking perfection and start living the moment, Kundalini flows through you effortlessly. It guides your path with intuitive intelligence far beyond what your mind can comprehend.
So breathe. Exhale. Surrender. Flow.
Let your ego dissolve into the movement of existence, and discover what it means to live freely, spontaneously, and joyfully in the divine traffic of life.
