Kundalini or a Mental Health Crisis: How to Respond Responsibly

September 19, 2026

The Core Teaching
If your mental health and ability to function are deteriorating, do not remain isolated trying to resolve everything through a Kundalini interpretation. My first instruction is to have your health examined and take the practical steps that follow. Alongside that care, return gradually to first-person living: prepare food, engage the senses, spend manageable time in nature, and reduce endless screen consumption. Progress one action at a time. Spiritual meaning belongs within a life being cared for, rather than replacing the help needed to live it.

Part of my Kundalini and Mental Health guide · Teachings by Guru Sanju

When Kundalini and Mental Health Symptoms Overlap

If you are going through these kinds of symptoms, it is too much effort on your part to go through Kundalini awakening and have no solution for years or decades. You may not understand Kundalini, yet you may be going through different kinds of hallucinations, paranoia, constant mental chatter, sleepless nights, and insomnia.

You may have digestive issues and experience sudden jerks and sudden movements in the body. Your attention may become so distracted that you do not even know that you have stopped using your brain to think clearly and decide well.

You may no longer know the difference between what is right and what is wrong for you. You may not know how to process your feelings or express your emotions.

When You Cannot Express What You Are Going Through

You may not even know how to seek help. You cannot express what is happening to anyone, you fail to connect with your family members or anyone close to you, and you may feel a certain kind of shame.

You may also feel guilty about whatever health conditions you are going through. If you are going through Kundalini awakening and your mental health condition is deteriorating day by day, you may feel like a mental patient, and that is not a good state to be in.

Kundalini Has Awakened for a Bigger Purpose

Kundalini has not awakened in you to make you a mental patient. Kundalini has awakened in you for a bigger purpose. Kundalini wants to make you free, so do not punish yourself by thinking in this direction.

I am giving you hope in the right direction through clarity of thought and clarity of understanding of what Kundalini could be. You do not have to continue going through the mental health conditions that you are currently experiencing.

Observe the Impact on Your Life

What is the impact of these conditions on your life? You may be getting symptoms of committing suicide. You may be in chronic depression, chronic anxiety, and a chronic restless condition.

Your social life may have completely shrunk, and you may be living in a cage-like condition. You are not going out of your home. You may spend days, months, and years stuck at home, unable to express the conditions you are going through.

Stop living this way. Take the first action now.

Get Yourself Diagnosed from All Angles

The first action is to get yourself diagnosed from all angles through medical practitioners. Get your health, body, brain, mind, and everything checked.

After the diagnosis and after taking all the practical steps, you can understand what is happening and what needs to be addressed. You can then understand the Kundalini process in the right way and move Kundalini ahead in life.

Start Taking Self-Care

These actions will move your Kundalini from the head to the body. When you take action to diagnose yourself, also start taking self-care.

Self-care includes many actions. For example, you can cook your food. You can cook your own food and engage yourself in life.

You can get out into nature and feel the wind blowing. Experience life from the first-person perspective.

Experience Life from the First-Person Perspective

First-person perspective means that you stop spending your time on your mobile phone, television, or laptop. Start experiencing life from the first person. Feel it in your body.

When you engage all your senses like this, your mental health condition will improve. You will come from the head to the body.

Your electromagnetic field will expand. Your heart will expand, and your brain and the electrical signals released by your brain will expand.

Supply Yourself with the Resources Kundalini Requires

All of this is possible when you supply yourself with the required resources for Kundalini processing. You do not have to continue going through the mental health conditions that you are going through.

Still, if there is a possibility that you have issues with your mental health condition, you should know that there is a solution outside, and you should get those solutions.

Take Practical Care of Yourself

Start taking self-care. Drink plenty of fluids, take light, and use the other things required for taking care of yourself.

I guide my students who take my consultation. I solve your problem then and there. Whatever has been your problem so far, when you come to my sessions, you will get solutions for practically processing Kundalini.

You do not have to remain in mental clutter and mental chatter all the time.

Ground Kundalini One Step at a Time

You can progress well in your Kundalini awakening journey. When you do so, you will see that your Kundalini has come from the head and is grounding slowly.

One step at a time.
One action at a time.
One technique at a time.

This is how you have to progress well in your Kundalini awakening journey.

When Online Sessions Have Limitations

There is a limitation to what you can do in online sessions. If you feel that online sessions are not for you, you can also come for the physical sessions and physical projects that I normally conduct in farmhouses. Right now, I am conducting these in South India.

This is also a project with one of my students, and that student is progressing well in her journey toward freedom. That freedom journey is possible in my physical presence.

The Presence of the Guru Is Important

When you come into my physical presence, there are many different powerful miracles that happen through my presence. The presence of the Guru is important.

You do not have to remain alone in the journey and figure everything out for yourself while your mental health condition is deteriorating day by day. You can take expert help through practically working on yourself.

Invest in Yourself and Move Kundalini

Kundalini wants you to work on yourself. Kundalini wants you to invest in yourself. Invest your time, money, and energy in the right direction in moving Kundalini.

Kundalini wants to live life through you. She is on the evolutionary journey. She has traveled lives, and now this is the life where you can bring a change.

You can make a change in processing Kundalini by thinking in the right way and progressing in the right way. The rest of the guidance you can get when the Guru is there.

Come from the Head and Ground in the Body

Enjoy life. This is possible when you come from the head and ground in the body.

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