Background
Guru Sanju explains that emotional overwhelm during Kundalini awakening can appear as extreme fear, grief, sadness, guilt, blame, anger, crying, laughter, overthinking, and an inability to remain grounded in the present moment. She connects these repeating emotional experiences with unresolved trauma and emotions that were suppressed rather than addressed at their root.
She teaches that freedom requires practical changes rather than continually remaining inside the emotional story. Her approach includes spending time in nature, reducing practices that keep old emotions active, stopping active catharsis, limiting unnecessary discussion of emotional experiences, leaving victimhood, caring for the body, addressing medical conditions, stopping Kundalini practices when necessary, improving hydration and nutrition, and obtaining an accurate diagnosis. She emphasizes working on the exact problem so that Kundalini can progress through efforts made in the right direction.
When Emotions Become Overwhelming
During Kundalini awakening, you may feel unable to control your emotions. Extreme fear, grief, sadness, guilt, blame, and other lower emotions may continually arise without an obvious reason. Anger may keep returning, and you may find yourself unable to focus on the present moment and simply feel life as it is happening.
These emotional triggers may be connected with past trauma, childhood trauma, adulthood trauma, or other traumatic experiences. The emotions created by these experiences were never addressed fruitfully. You never went to the root cause and worked on uprooting them from the root.
When these emotions originally arose, you suppressed them. Later, when something triggered the same emotions again, you still did not work on them. During Kundalini awakening, these unresolved emotions can become overwhelming.
When You Are No Longer Living in the Present
Sometimes you are crying, sometimes laughing loudly, sometimes completely lost, and sometimes continually overthinking events that happened in your life. These events keep you ungrounded because you are continually feeling emotions that do not belong to what is actually happening in the present moment.
Some people also report experiencing emotions or energies that they believe they have never experienced in this life. They may interpret these experiences as coming from past lives. For example, someone may feel what they understand as the energy of having been a criminal in a past life and experience that energy in the present.
All of this can keep you in a constant state of restlessness. Your sympathetic breathing remains activated, nervous system dysregulation can happen, and you may go through traumatic episodes that prevent you from feeling who and what you are in this moment. Eventually, you can even forget how to live life in the present.
Walk in Nature Unconditionally
The first step in working with emotional overwhelm is to start walking in nature unconditionally. Unconditionally means that you should not expect anything from nature because nature is neutral.
When you spend enough time in nature, you can forget what time it is, what day it is, and what period it is. If you spend a great deal of time there, you may even forget your identity. That is the power of nature.
Stop Practices That Keep You in the Emotional Loop
The second step is to examine whether you are doing too much breathwork, meditation, or other practices that keep you inside the loop of old emotions and memories. If these practices are continually keeping you there, stop doing them.
The third step is to stop active catharsis of any kind if you are doing it. Also stop trying to make too much sense of your life. Life is actually meaningless, so you do not have to interpret everything from an emotional perspective.
Stop Repeating Your Emotional Story to Everyone
The fourth step is to stop gossiping and continually discussing your emotional overwhelm with people who are not genuinely connected with solving your problem. Stop repeatedly sharing your stories with people on social media, friends, strangers, or others who cannot provide a direct solution.
You can share what you are experiencing with someone reliable, an expert who can understand your condition and give you a direct solution. The purpose should be to work on the problem rather than continually repeat the emotional story.
Stop Treating Yourself Like a Victim
The fifth step is to stop treating yourself like a victim. You may have victimized yourself as though you alone are facing all the problems of the world. This is not the case.
You have to work on your blocked energies. If the energies are blocked in your body, work on the body and the blockages. Work on detoxification, sleep well, eat well, clear your bowel, and address hormonal disturbances.
Get yourself treated by your doctor when necessary. If you need the help of medical practitioners, take that help.
Stop Kundalini Practices and Support Your Body
The sixth step is to stop kriyas, Kundalini Yoga, or other Kundalini practices if you are deliberately doing them and they are contributing to the problem. Do not keep stimulating the system when you are already emotionally overwhelmed.
The next step is hydration. Keep yourself hydrated, eat and drink well, and give your body the nutrition it requires through natural fruits and vegetables.
Get the Exact Kundalini Problem Diagnosed
The seventh step toward becoming free from emotional overwhelm is to get your Kundalini diagnosed through me. I have the power to diagnose your Kundalini so that you can identify and work on what is keeping you connected with your past.
In fact, I consider this both the first and the last step: take my expert diagnosis for your individual case and work on the exact problem. If you have a dental problem, you go to a dentist; you do not go to a heart surgeon. I am a Kundalini specialist, so if your problem is Kundalini-related, you have to go to the specialist.
I teach that when you go to the right specialist, the exact problem can be addressed immediately instead of remaining trapped in overwhelming feelings and trying to take everything upon your own head and under your own control.
Excessive Control Creates More Freeze Mode
Your need to control everything can create more freeze mode instead of releasing you from past trauma or the energy blockages within your body. Trying to manage every part of the experience yourself can therefore keep the same pattern active.
When you go to the expert, get yourself diagnosed, work on the exact problem, and become free, you may realize that this was a much better decision than continually struggling with the experience yourself.
Kundalini Progresses Through Right Effort
This is how Kundalini progresses. Kundalini progresses through efforts made in the right direction. If you take the right efforts, you can become free.
This is the power of working with an expert and working with the Guru. I have the power to diagnose your past, present, and future. If your fear is connected with future uncertainty or something unknown to your mind, I teach that you can gain clarity about what is going to happen next.
Heart Chakra Blockages Can Affect Your Experience
For example, if your energy is blocked in the heart chakra and you are unable to love anyone, I connect this with problems involving respiration. Your breathing can become compromised, under-breathing can happen, or overventilation can happen.
I connect these problems with blockages in the heart chakra. Once the blockage opens, there is a possibility that Kundalini will move upward, rise into the higher chakras, and ascend higher.
Work on the Exact Problem and Live Freely
Once these blockages begin opening and Kundalini progresses, you can become free and live life freely and confidently. The purpose is not to remain trapped in overwhelming emotions but to identify exactly what is happening and work on it in the right direction.
Get yourself diagnosed, work on the exact problem, and live freely.