Financial success can be a tricky topic in everyday life so when it is coupled with awakening, money can turn into a grey area that can sometimes seem impossible to grasp.

Recently I’ve felt a building need to discuss this topic openly because it is often pushed to the side through shame, stress or embarrassment because of the pressure society places on us to be financially stable, and also because of the rising cost of living. As I investigated and started writing, it became clear to me that this is a big issue that deserves time to flesh out.

So I’m going to make an offering of a three-part blog series where we have time to normalise and create some warmth, support and open discussion around this usually closed-door subject.

This week, I want to get through the gritty part and shine a light on the many ways kundalini awakening can affect our finances.

I say to all of you who have experienced this — The struggle is real! You are not alone. 💪🏻

In the next blog, we will look at all the manner of tips and solutions to getting through this phase while you are doing the work that awakening demands of you.

Then in the final blog, we will present a feature special on a few past clients who had a particularly difficult time and have managed to break through all the trials to reunite with a steady income. I hope that by highlighting this difficult topic within this community we lift some of the weight I know a lot of people feel at this stage. 

One of the big challenges that we can face when we go through awakening is how to manage our financial life and the stresses that may be placed on it by awakening processes. This is a significant issue in awakening and something that does not get a lot of air time. I don’t know if I have ever read about it myself. 

For some people, awakening and Kundalini has very little impact on their financial life. They sail through their awakening process with great ease even if the process itself is stressful. 💸

For many people, Kundalini and awakening can be anywhere from a financial inconvenience that requires some re-thinking, to a financial devastation that makes it difficult to survive.

I want to honor that this can be a big part of the awakening journey and if you are somewhere on that spectrum right now—

I see you.

YOU DIDN’T ASK TO BE HERE BUT YOU ALREADY ARE.

People going through an awakening may find themselves in a situation of unexpected financial stress or an exaggeration of pre-existing financial strain. Why does awakening cause financial stress?

Firstly, let’s look at some of the many reasons you can find yourself in this position:

⚠️ This article will focus more on the financial pressures created by awakening rather than pre-existing circumstances, as those are beyond the scope of this offering.

• You have had a difficult, highly disruptive Kundalini awakening, especially if it was generated by psychedelics.  It has been so impactful on your sense of self that it has generated all the side effects that I would expect to see in a surging Kundalini crisis so going to work is going to be hard. There is suffering and the nervous system can be extremely stressed.
  You are dealing with side effects, holding yourself together or putting yourself back together, and going to work can seem alien, a slog and something that can seem very painful or even impossible to function well enough for. Many people attempt to return to the workforce but it has so many difficulties and pitfalls that are now inescapable.
• You experience a Kundalini awakening that has erupted huge amounts of trauma from your personal history. This trauma may already have been active or it has been activated and brought up by the Kundalini awakening.
  Trauma that is activated can become very disabling and our workplace is somewhere where we are forbidden to bring in our feelings, mental health issues or trauma suffering.The Kundalini process has put a lot of pressure on your mental health or brought up pre-existing mental health struggles for healing. Such healing takes time, can be demanding and may require a lot of privacy and time alone.
  It can make you very sensitive as you go through this healing journey.
• Extreme sensitivity arises and you find yourself unable to socialize in mainstream workplaces. You may no longer have an interest in or have the capacity for more superficial relationships and conversations. This can make working environments less comfortable as you become uneasy with chit-chat. It is often excruciating at certain points in the process. You can adjust your job role or find different roles where your exposure to people is reduced. Or you find a way to endure it if possible and needed, but it is never easy. Finding a way to work from home or for yourself, if possible, can also be very helpful, because you can control those situations much more. Although this is not always enduring, you can find your capacity to manage the superficial everyday world becoming easier as Kundalini stabilizes.
• We can be pulled acutely inward. During a Kundalini awakening, there is a certain phase that processes a need for us to function from our extreme introversion states making it hard to relate to the world. Being in the world can feel opposed to what we truly need in certain phases of our awakening.
• Changes in life calling and life path – or being pulled in a very different trajectory. Awakening can be a sudden or gradual course correction where you are pulled away from a previously established path or career trajectory, and either suddenly or slowly rotated toward a new one. This can make it excruciating to continue in your current role even though often we simply have to.
  What can be difficult with this challenge is that the new direction does not always appear instantly. The old one is falling away and the new one is taking time to emerge. It may be directly linked to a certain kind of progress in the awakening before your system, psyche and awakening perspective become a sustainable container for the new direction
  You may have hints of your new direction, a yearning for it, but it won’t appear before you are ready.
  This may be frustrating. In these circumstances, it is worth honoring the timing as an “interim” till we can make the shift to a more congruent path. Till then, appreciating that the old job role pays the rent, the mortgage or puts food on the table.
• Enormous changes in the reference point of who you are – changes in values and the evolution of your personality. There are times when you can go through anywhere from a slow ebbing away of your sense of self to a more cataclysmic abrupt dissolution. But ultimately your sense of self deeply transforms and during this process, it can be very hard to know who you are; what you want, and what is right for you.
  Often it is clear to know what we don’t want because every time we engage with it is overwhelming and even destructive. This can make it hard to work out what your next financial move might be. How to maintain your current financial situation? How to get out of something that is excruciating and into something new because who you are is in flux and the next expression and iteration of your deepest beauty has not emerged yet?
  
  If you are here, it requires tremendous patience and enormous courage and is worth it. 

• Being deeply broken down. Feeling broken down by the process of awakening can contribute to a lot of financial strain where processing trauma, often from beyond ourselves, going through enormous cellular and energetic psychological change, becomes exhausting. Going through awakening is like having two jobs.The first is Kundalini who is serving the process of awakening and giving our life force to that. The second is the job of our everyday life. Sometimes Job Number #1 takes 80% of the resources of your whole being, leaving you at times with 20% or less for Job Number #2.This makes going to work hard, yet sometimes we just have to do it, or at its most challenging we find ourselves completely incapable of doing it. I confess I have been in both places.

This is not an exhaustive list. There are many other reasons that we find ourselves here. Feel free to share your stories in the comments. I am pretty sure there are many thousands of people out there in this situation! It is definitely one of the big reasons why I provide more than 150 articles, free classes and free meditations on my website to help you. 

WHEN KUNDALINI BREAKS YOU.. AND YOUR BANK.

What are the financial obligations, added costs (extensive self-care, to start) and other pressures directly related to awakening?  The financial pressure Kundalini awakening sometimes places us under makes taking care of ourselves very, very, expensive. 

🥗 Let us start with our food such as finding out that we are allergic to certain foods. Or our body only wants organic. And as we know in this modern world, healthy food is expensive.

😰 We may also need help with historical trauma that comes up and requires trauma therapy. People often encounter difficult body symptoms that may emerge, requiring support—anywhere from Osteopathic, and chiropractic support, to naturopathic, nutritionists, and bodywork. Many natural things are designed to help but unless you are a talented herbalist you will need to buy every one of them. For example, flower essences may suit your awakening. You may also find that supplements are required to keep up with your body’s purification and build a higher frequency of cellular structure. Yep, these things do not come without a cost. 

🙋🏻‍♀️  You may even need to reach out to someone like me to help with your awakening with a difficult blowout, Kundalini process, trauma or determining the next positive moves on your path. 

All these things above require financial resources and lean into your capacity to provide them for yourself.

You can see how we can find ourselves in difficult financial circumstances where our abilities to earn money are debilitated, yet the extensive requirements for our healing journey continue to mount up.

KUNDALINI MADE ME REFLECT ON ABUNDANCE & PROSPERED

What should you keep in mind as awakening asks you to juggle or relocate finances?

When I found myself in this position, I worked as much as I could, which was only part-time. I did not go on a holiday. I lived very simply. I shopped at a second-hand clothing store. If I bought something new, it was a miracle. Every spare cent I had went on trauma therapy for my PTSD, on really good food, on supplements and health care and on a quiet, small cottage in the forest. That took everything. I knew I had to stick as closely as I could to my health plan and the demands of my awakening to prioritize my recovery.

I was in so much psychological pain from my PTSD that there was nowhere else my money needed to go other than that focus. It was a big sacrifice. It meant I was not doing the things my peers were doing. Yet, I was in the long-term process of becoming the person that I would become.

I am grateful for that, for myself, and for my dedication. It was very hard because I had to constantly make choices about how much work my system could manage – which was always limited. The requirements my healing journey needed included things that I could not afford, but I had to make the best choices with my limited resources.

With more finance, I could probably have progressed faster but I was in that place of facing the consequences of a lifetime of horrific trauma, coming at the same time as a Kundalini awakening. My recovery required a focus and careful prioritizing of how I spent my money. 💵 I worked with what I had (and did not have!), and ultimately emerged valuing the entire experience and the timing that it required.

HOW ABOUT YOU?

How have you navigated the journey and intersection of awakening and finance💲? 

Did you find a way to balance it all? Did you find it very challenging?

What kind of solutions did you find worked for you? How did you balance it all out? 

We would love to learn from you, too, and even feature your stories in a future blog. 

Please share your reflection in the comments below so we can build even more support around this tricky topic. If you are finding the balance of Awakening, Kundalini and finances tricky, please stay tuned for Part Two and Three of this Money, Finances & Kundalini mini-series where I share some tips, reflections and success stories. too.

I honour your sacred awakening!