Beyond Emotional Release and Heightened States

In the field of energy transmission and kundalini activation, much of what is offered today revolves around emotional release, cathartic expression, and heightened states of consciousness. These experiences can be powerful, sometimes even life-changing, but they are often mistaken for the end goal.

There is nothing wrong with these states. They serve an important purpose. Yet often, we don’t allow ourselves to let go of them. Facilitators emphasize them, participants expect them, and slowly a pattern forms where outer expressions are seen as proof that “the process is happening.” And it’s expected to happen constantly. This can create a kind of pretence, an impressive surface that may look like progress, but does not open the door to deeper rewiring or lasting transformation.

Few facilitators dare to go beyond these stages, as the subtler path does not always look dramatic. It may not earn the same immediate praise. But what is quiet on the surface is often what reshapes us most profoundly. After many years observing this field, the “fireworks” get old. What once looked impressive now feels incomplete. I long for more depth, for us to move beyond.

True transformation requires something deeper. It requires integration, allowing the body and psyche to acclimate before moving further. It requires stillness and recalibration, phases that may feel like “nothing is happening,” yet are where profound rewiring takes place. Recalibration often looks like stillness because the ego, mind, and nervous system need time to prepare for a new stage. For some this comes quickly, for others it takes longer, but in the stillness there is much to be explored. If we never allow ourselves to surrender to it, we remain circling in the same early stages forever.

It also requires shadow work, meeting the difficult depths that open the way for freedom. It requires embodiment, living awakening rather than visiting it. And it requires resting in Source, beyond both silence and movement, beyond what the mind can grasp.

This work does not override the nervous system in order to force an “experience.” Instead, it supports a natural unfolding at the pace each soul is ready for. And in the long run, this is what allows transformation to become stable, embodied, and real.

As facilitators, perhaps we need to stop making this work about ourselves, about delivering dramatic openings to validate our role, and overriding the nervous system to produce experiences that may not be natural or timely. Not everyone is meant to be broken open in the same way or at the same pace. This work is about the person in front of us: supporting them to walk their path, in the timing they are ready for, so that they can become truly empowered and embodied in their own experience.

Often in spiritual circles we hear words about the heart breaking open, the light pouring in, or the mind dissolving into oneness. These can be moving, even life-changing experiences, yet they still belong to the realm of change. They come, they go. If we make them into the goal, we may spend our lives chasing after moments that cannot last.

The deeper recognition is far simpler. What you are does not come and go. It is the quiet presence in which all experiences, blissful or painful, expansive or contracted, arise and pass. Love, light, stillness, even the sense of oneness, are not something you need to reach. They are expressions arising within the vastness that is already here.

Awakening is not about adding anything new, but about recognizing that what you are has never been absent.

This is what I mean by true empowerment. It is not about sustaining blissful highs or believing that non-duality means only opening to love or constantly feeling oneness with all. The deeper empowerment is found when we allow the whole of life, the silence, the shadow, the surrender, to transform us. That is when awakening ceases to be an experience and becomes the ground of our being.

My hope in sharing these reflections is that they may be supportive for those moving through these stages, sensing the nuances of the field, and longing for more. May these words serve as a reminder that what you truly are has never been absent, and that every experience, blissful or confronting, can become part of the greater unfolding.