If you are in your spiritual awakening journey and going through a spontaneous Kundalini awakening, you must be experiencing many symptoms in your body that are connected to your nervous system. This discourse will give you clarity about what is happening to you and why it is happening. Once you know why you are suffering, or what the issues associated with your Kundalini and nervous system are, you will be able to act on the efforts that are required to heal your nervous system or to process Kundalini.
Let me first give you an understanding of the deep connection between Kundalini and the nervous system, and why your nervous system is affected during Kundalini awakening. First of all, you need to know that Kundalini energy lies in its dormant state in most human beings, including you.
In all the births that you have taken so far—or all the births of all the human beings who are in the matrix, or in the world doing their normal regular functions—they are actually not aware of the existence of Kundalini itself. Even you were not aware of the existence of Kundalini energy, because in a normal human being, Kundalini performs the functions of life in a very mild way, in a very calm and peaceful way.
Most of the time, Kundalini moves in the energy channels very slowly, or the intensity—the voltage—of Kundalini energy is too low to be felt by any human being. But Kundalini is the life force that is responsible for all your life’s activities. It is the life energy flowing in you. You will get to know about Kundalini in its fierce state when it gets spontaneously awakened.
When it spontaneously awakens, the voltage of energy with which Kundalini flows in your energy channels is too high—and that voltage is extreme for the nervous system to process or to respond to. For the nervous system, a sudden outburst of Kundalini energy is like some trauma or some natural disaster, like a cyclone, like lightning, like a tornado happening within your physical body. Because the Kundalini flows in the subtle body, it flows in the energy channels along with your prana. But the quality of energy that Kundalini itself is, is of an electrified nature—and that electricity, and the voltage of that electricity, is too much for your nervous system to process, because your nervous system is not designed to process Kundalini energy of such a high voltage.
Now, this is the condition when Kundalini is getting awakened in you suddenly and spontaneously. According to your brain’s and nervous system’s evolutionary journey, the brain is designed in such a way that if anything is endangering your physical existence, the brain is going to activate the sympathetic nervous system. And that sympathetic nervous system activates the sympathetic breathing in you.
When you are practicing sympathetic breathing, understand that you are in a restless state and unable to relax. You are constantly in the freeze, fight, or flight mode. The energy flowing through your subtle body in the form of Kundalini energy is sending signals of danger, because it feels alien to your nervous system—it is foreign to your natural state.
Your nervous system is not designed to comprehend Kundalini in ordinary conditions, or in the case of a normal human being. Yet in your last birth, when you were about to be free, you did not realize that it was your last birth.
You do not know that this is your last birth. You are unaware that you are going through a Kundalini awakening—and that everything you are experiencing is because of this awakening.
You experience tremors. You experience depression and anxiety. You experience fibromyalgia. You experience conditions related to the brain, such as Alzheimer’s disease. You are gradually losing your memory. You are gradually losing your cognitive function.
You are not able to function well in life. You have been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, multiple sclerosis, or irritable bowel syndrome. You may have many other issues affecting your physical body. You have digestive problems. You have breathing-related difficulties. You are unable to breathe normally—you are always breathing through your chest.
Now, what is happening? All of this is alien to your nervous system.
And since you do not know that you are going through a Kundalini awakening, you become more fearful of the symptoms you experience—and that fear aggravates your condition. It worsens the state of your autonomic nervous system, which controls your sympathetic breathing. Your central nervous system regulates your vagus nerve, and the vagus nerve keeps you in the best state of being.
When your autonomic nervous system is disturbed, you are either in an extreme sympathetic breathing mode or an extreme parasympathetic mode. Both of these modes prevent you from fully participating in life. If you are experiencing an extreme level of parasympathetic breathing, then what happens? You enter a condition where you feel lethargic, heavy, fatigued, and have a depressive tendency—you do not feel like participating in life.
You feel lonely. You go through agony, sadness—most of the lower energies—in which you cannot function, participate, or take action. This happens because your parasympathetic breathing has reached an extreme level.
Similarly, when you constantly experience anger, anxiety, rage, hatred, jealousy, restlessness, or frustration about life or other people, it is due to the overactivation of your sympathetic breathing.
You need to understand that excess of anything is harmful. So, it’s essential to maintain a balance. But that balance—which activates your vagus nerve—is not possible until and unless Kundalini is processed toward freedom.
Only when Kundalini completes its journey to the crown chakra and merges with universal consciousness—when you attain enlightenment, or enter that state of cosmic orgasm between Kundalini and consciousness energy, the Shiva–Shakti energy—when they unite together, that is the state that activates your nadi.
And here I will introduce to you what nadis are and how they are connected to your nervous system. Also, some energy activation is the highest state. When Kundalini starts flowing through the system—Sushumna and all the other nadis—the other two nadis -Pingala Nadi and Ida Nadi—that are connected to your sympathetic nervous system and parasympathetic nervous system are balanced in that state. Because when Kundalini completes its journey, it nourishes your nervous system. It creates a new nervous system. It rewires the old pathways. It removes all the old patterns from your nervous system.
When Kundalini is working in you, you need to know that you do not need to worry. First of all, you are worried—that is for sure. But once you take the understanding, once you are aware, you do not need to be worried. You need to understand that when Kundalini is processing its journey, it does many processes in you. Sometimes it activates your parasympathetic breathing, or it activates your sympathetic breathing.
You need to understand that when Kundalini is processing its journey, she does many processes in you. Sometimes she activates your parasympathetic breathing, or she activates your sympathetic breathing.
How does she do that? Suppose she is doing gentle, mild healing on you—there are many processes through which Kundalini does the cleansing, purification, and transformation work. Most of the time, she performs the act of cleaning, purifying, and transforming you. How does she do it? She clears your blockages in the energy channels.
Now, these blockages in the energy channels sometimes require very gentle healing, which Kundalini provides—or at other times, the process can be aggressive and volatile in nature. When it becomes dynamic and intense, you may feel hyper-activated because it stimulates your sympathetic nervous system.
However, when the process is gentle and healing, you are more likely to shift into parasympathetic breathing.
If you understand sympathetic breathing and parasympathetic breathing—or how your sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems are affected—you will realize that all the calm, peaceful, rest-and-digest states are governed by your parasympathetic breathing.
Moreover, parasympathetic breathing also activates the Ida nadi within you, which means the two are eternally connected.
Ida is connected to the calmer aspect of life, and Pingala nadi is connected to the active mode of your life. So, sympathetic breathing will activate your Pingala nadi, and vice versa. Both of these are correct.
Some of you may feel that the external environment sometimes affects your internal environment, and that happens from the body to the energy level. If your external environment is not good—for example, you are going through Kundalini awakening and you are in a family which does not understand Kundalini awakening—most of you are in a family where people are of the matrix, and you are creating more karmas, or you are settling karmas with them.
When you are settling karmas with them, there are conditions or situations in which other people make you feel guilty about your condition. First of all, your condition is undiagnosed. Secondly, even if you know that you are going through spiritual awakening, they are not convinced about it. So, it aggravates more of your sympathetic breathing.
And in that case, it activates your being lonely—not being alone, but being lonely gets activated. This creates many diseases in your body, many health problems in your body. And most of the time, it disturbs the first problem that it creates: it disturbs your sleep.
Your sleep pattern will be disturbed if your Pingala nadi is overactive. Similarly, when you are unable to process Kundalini, then your parasympathetic breathing is also on hold. Because when you are doing belly breathing—belly breathing means, when you are breathing, your belly is moving up and down when you are sleeping and when you are sitting—it is moving in and out, in and out. The movement of breathing is happening in you.
And when this is not happening—mostly when you are in your sympathetic breathing mode—your chest breathing is happening all the time. Your chest breathing is happening. So how to stop it?
If you truly want to improve your breathing, the first thing you must do is check.
Place one hand on your chest and the other on your belly. Observe carefully—is your belly moving?
You need to monitor the in-and-out movement of your belly to confirm whether proper belly breathing is happening. When you inhale, your belly should move outward. This is the point where your diaphragm is engaged. You must ensure that you’re activating this area by gently pushing it from the inside during inhalation.
As you inhale, try to push your belly outward.
As you exhale, try to pull your belly inward.
When you’re exhaling, make sure your belly is going in. And when you’re inhaling, your belly should move out. During a deep exhale, your belly should pull even further inward.
Let’s practice this together. Take ten conscious breaths with me now:
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Do it with me.
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Nine.
Ten.
Now, pay close attention to your diaphragm. This part should always stay relaxed and expanded—it should be in an inflated shape.
If your belly remains pulled inward, it means you are unconsciously holding your breath.
Let me explain what happens when this area is on hold.
When the diaphragm is tight and you’re not allowing it to move, it means you’re not breathing naturally. And when you’re not breathing, the respiratory centers in your brain—those responsible for controlling your breath—go into a pause mode.
When these centers are on hold, your entire nervous system also becomes restricted. It shifts into a constricted state.
Your blood circulation is affected too. The blood vessels tighten, which further leads to an overactivation of Kundalini energy. This overstimulation triggers the sympathetic nervous system, pushing you either into a high-alert state or into a freeze mode.
Freeze mode doesn’t necessarily mean that you’re always in sympathetic or parasympathetic breathing. You need to understand—it’s actually a mix of both. But primarily, your nervous system is on hold. It’s in a state where it doesn’t feel safe.
And this lack of safety leads to many inflammatory conditions in your body. That’s why so many people experience symptoms related to fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome.
Why does this happen?
Because your cells are not receiving the adequate amount of oxygen they need to function. When you’re unable to breathe properly, your cells are deprived of the oxygen required to produce energy. And when that energy isn’t being produced, your body can’t get the nutrition it needs for repair and rejuvenation.
This “hold” in the nervous system also causes vasoconstriction. What is vasoconstriction? It means your blood vessels—and particularly your nerves—are in a tightened, constricted state.
Imagine this: your musculoskeletal system is here, and your nervous system is wrapped around it. Now, if this nervous system is constricted—if it’s holding on tightly—then what happens? The surrounding muscles and bones are also pulled into that tightness. They’re not receiving the oxygen and blood flow needed for healing, rejuvenation, and healthy functioning.
When you begin practicing the techniques I will be describing in this discourse, it’s important to first understand why you need them. I’m going to help you identify the root cause of the issue you’re facing. Later, if you feel the need for more personalized support, you’re welcome to reach out for one-on-one consultation, where I can work specifically on your unique case. But for now, you must understand what’s truly happening inside your body.
Let me explain.
When one specific organ or body part enters a restricted state, it stops receiving enough oxygen. This often happens without us realizing it. The body starts to contract internally. The nervous system, in such a case, shifts into what we call a freeze mode—a survival state. In this mode, the system doesn’t receive the proper nutrition, oxygen, or energetic flow it requires to function optimally.
As a result, your blood circulation becomes limited. Blood no longer flows freely all the way to the outermost edges of your body.
Take your chest, for instance. If the chest area becomes congested, that entire region—and everything around it—feels tight or stiff. This stiffness is not random; it’s caused by the lack of blood reaching all the tiny, microscopic cells in that area. Your body contains millions of cells, and when blood doesn’t reach them due to constriction, stiffness becomes a natural outcome.
So when I say that your body is stiff or frozen, it’s not just an idea—it’s a physiological truth. The freeze response blocks oxygen, nutrients, and movement, and over time, this creates chronic tension, pain, and fatigue.
This is why we use specific breathing and movement techniques—to reverse this frozen state, to awaken circulation, and to help your system thaw out and return to a state of flow and vitality.
The moment you begin practicing belly breathing—consciously working with your breath—you’ll start to feel a noticeable sense of relief. It will seem as though the toxicity trapped within your body is being released, and as a result, your nervous system begins to relax.
But why does this happen? Why does your nervous system begin to calm down just because you’re breathing deeply?
It’s because, through conscious breathing, you’re sending an opposite signal to the brain—one that counters the usual stress or emergency signals. This process directly involves what we call your second brain: the solar plexus.
The solar plexus is a powerful energy center located just above the navel. It is the core region where multiple respiratory control centers and neural windings are concentrated. When you breathe deeply into this area—especially during belly breathing—you activate those centers.
This activation sends feedback signals to the brain. Your brain constantly monitors your breathing patterns through its respiratory centers. It checks whether your diaphragm is moving, whether there is a breath-hold, whether you’re in a state of emergency, or if your body is at ease. It also evaluates things like your blood pressure, oxygen levels, and overall breath rhythm.
So, when you breathe correctly—when your diaphragm expands and contracts fully—you’re literally instructing your brain that the body is safe. That single shift begins to deactivate the stress response and activates the rest-and-heal state of your nervous system.
There are many things you need to understand about how your brain functions—and how deeply it’s connected to your nervous system. Once you grasp this understanding, you begin instructing your brain on how to heal your body. And the brain receives that instruction.
That’s why this discourse—if you truly understand it—can initiate healing. Your brain will begin healing with you, not just for you.
Now, pay attention to the nerve endings in your solar plexus and gut region. These areas don’t just digest food—they monitor your breathing. They regulate the communication between your nervous system and your Kundalini energy.
Every time Kundalini flows through your energy channels, your nervous system receives signals—and reacts to them. This reaction is automatic unless you consciously begin to change it.
Changing this response is not possible without intentional work on the nervous system. This is what we call neuroplasticity. It’s the rewiring of your brain. It’s the reshaping of your muscle memory. In simple terms, it’s brain rewiring.
When you engage in this intentional rewiring, you’ll begin to understand that it is possible to change how your nervous system responds to Kundalini energy.
And yes—this transformation begins with intention.
When you work with intention, you’ll begin to realize that it’s just like learning a new skill. You are teaching your nervous system the skill of breathing properly—something it may have long forgotten.
Breathing is both a voluntary and involuntary function. In fact, 99% of your breathing should happen involuntarily, regulated naturally by the body.
But what happens when you are going through Kundalini awakening?
You may enter a state known as kevala kumbhak.
Now, what is kevala kumbhak?
It is a spontaneous breath-hold that occurs in the gut region due to the overactivation of Kundalini. The Kundalini energy becomes so forceful that it induces this state of breath suspension—not as a technique you apply consciously, but as something that happens to you.
Why does Kundalini do this?
It accumulates all the prana—the vital energy—within the energy channels of the body at that very point in the gut. This is the region where the digestive system is located. And in that space, the five movements or qualities of prana—prana, apana, vyana, samana, and udana—all gather together.
They are brought into a powerful integration process.
Through this, ojas—your vital essence—is ignited within your energy system. The burning of ojas leads to a transformation within your energy channels, allowing the Kundalini to ascend further.
That ojas is being burned—ojas is like wood. And when wood is burned, fire is produced. Fire, in turn, leads to the production of energy. It’s like heat—energy gets transformed into a kind of smoky energy, or residual energy, once the heat is generated.
In the same way, when your inner energy—your ojas, like the wood—is burned, it produces tejas. And when tejas is burned further, it leads to the creation of a certain cosmic prana. This prana becomes the fuel for Kundalini—it powers her entire journey.
Now, this entire process—this combustion—is happening continuously, day and night. It keeps happening as part of Kundalini’s effort to cleanse you, to purify you, and to transform you from within.
If your Kundalini process has been active for decades, then this combustion has been happening silently, tirelessly, for decades. And even after liberation—even after you attain freedom—Kundalini doesn’t stop. She has other roles to play. And for those, she continues the same process—this inner combustion.
In this entire combustion process, your nervous system goes haywire. It becomes unable to cope with such a high voltage of electricity, and instead, it shifts into its default freeze mode.
This freeze mode must be unlocked. You need to take the initiative to change your nervous system’s response—towards life and towards Kundalini. That’s why breathing from your belly—from your diaphragm, diaphragmatic breathing—24/7 is the key to your healing.
But here’s the real question: is it possible for you to practice that on your own?
That’s the challenge. It is extremely difficult, because your brain doesn’t automatically rewire involuntary functions of the body. For example, your heart beats in a certain way—that’s an involuntary function, governed by the brain. You can’t manually make your heart beat. Similarly, your breathing—also an involuntary process—has been affected. And that disruption is directly linked to your nervous system problems.
Changing this won’t happen on its own. Intentional change is needed. And for that, you need someone powerful—that is me, your Guru—to work with you to alter your body’s response pattern. Once this response is changed, healing begins.
I’ve healed thousands of students—and myself—through this journey. The sadhana I did to process Kundalini was directly connected to breathwork. I made sure my breath was naturally flowing from my belly all the time.
Of course, I faced challenges. But I overcame them. Now, it’s your turn.
Understand this: it is possible to change how your nervous system responds. That alone should bring you great relief. Once you know healing is possible, the next step becomes clear.
But for now, let’s focus on what matters most.
You currently have no external solution for the way your nervous system and brain are functioning—especially when Kundalini-related issues are involved. This is the core issue.
And this introductory understanding is enough for now. More information won’t necessarily help you. What you need to know is: there is a solution to your nervous system and brain problems. And Guru Sanju is here for you—to work with you, exclusively for you—because each person is unique. Each case requires individual attention. You must rewire your brain and reprogram your neural pathways.
Your trauma needs healing, and there’s no one-size-fits-all solution. All right?
Whatever issues you’re facing in your physical body—they’re deeply connected to your brain and nervous system. If you heal your brain and nervous system, many aspects of your life will change. There’s no need to worry anymore.
Right now—as you read this discourse—observe how you’re feeling.
If you sense that your sympathetic breathing has been activated, just do this: place one hand on your chest and one hand on your belly. And as I’ve shown you before, start breathing. Inhale through your nose, and then exhale slowly. Extend your exhalation.
Sometimes it’s difficult to exhale completely. If that happens, use your mouth. Make the exhalation even longer. Exhale till the end.
Practice this while doing your daily activities. Count ten times… then twenty-one times… and you’ll begin to feel calmer, more peaceful. There’s nothing to fear.
You can take care of your body if you take care of your brain. And through this breathing, you are giving your brain biofeedback—an assurance—that everything is all right. You are telling your brain, “I am in control of my life.”
So don’t worry. Just keep communicating with your brain—through breath.
Start with this practice. And when you’re ready for deeper, more advanced guidance, you are welcome to work with me—whether through the projects or one-on-one consultations.
All right?
Have a beautiful day.
Thank you.
