Why Reiki Matters During Awakening
I don’t just talk about awakening. I’ve lived it, moved through it, and learned how to navigate the intensity that comes with it.
Across more than 40 years as an energy bodyworker, I have worked with many people who are in the middle of a shift, trauma, or energetic arousal. I often use Reiki to help settle the body, mind, and spirit during these experiences.
Any type of energetic growth can be difficult to move through.
There can be emotional waves, confusion, painful memories, and rapid changes that are hard to explain. Your whole being begins to move at a different pace, and your current life may struggle to keep up.
Old versions of you are falling away, and nothing feels stable yet.
If you are experiencing a kundalini arousal, everything can feel magnified tenfold in every aspect of your being.
Reiki can make this transition smoother, and I recommend it if it resonates with you. But it is critical to find a practitioner who has personally experienced spiritual awakening themselves.
This becomes even more important if you are going through kundalini arousal.
Whoever you choose should truly understand the experience from the inside out.
Why Reiki Is Different When You’re Awakening
Reiki is not just about relaxation.
When you are going through awakening, Reiki helps regulate your entire system.
Your energy may be moving faster than your body and mind know how to process. Your energy centers may be opening, clearing, and recalibrating. And if that process is not supported, it can feel like too much.
Reiki can help you:
• Ground into your body instead of dissociating
• Clear what is surfacing without becoming overwhelmed
• Stabilize your nervous system while your awareness expands
It allows you to move through the shift with more ease, more clarity, and more control.
Why the Right Practitioner Is So Important
Not all energy work is the same, and not everyone offering Reiki understands awakening or energetic arousal.
When you are in a sensitive and open state—especially during kundalini arousal—you are more receptive, more vulnerable, and more energetically exposed.
Working with the wrong person can leave you feeling:
• More ungrounded
• More confused
• Energetically drained or overstimulated
Energy work is not just about sending light or placing hands on the body.
Your practitioner must understand what is actually happening within your system.
Why Experience Matters
If someone does not understand:
• Kundalini energy
• Spiritual awakenings
• Emotional and energetic releases
• How trauma is stored in the body
They may unintentionally push energy where it is not ready to go, or fail to help you integrate what is already happening.
That is when people can start to feel worse instead of better.
You do not just need someone who is certified. You need someone who is aware, intuitive, and experienced in guiding people through real transformation.
What Reiki Should Feel Like with the Right Practitioner
When you are working with someone who truly understands this process, Reiki feels different.
After a session, you should feel:
• Grounded, not scattered
• Clear, not confused
• Supported, not dependent
• Calm, but still fully present
There is no force. No overwhelm. No pressure to be healed.
Instead, your system is guided gently and intentionally back into alignment.
This Is About More Than Healing
With the right practitioner, Reiki becomes more than a healing session—it becomes a space where you can navigate who you are becoming.
It can help you:
• Process what is happening without fear
• Release what no longer aligns
• Understand your own energy instead of being controlled by it
• Integrate the version of yourself that is emerging
Awakening is not something you rush through.
It is something you learn to move with and fully integrate.
Choose Carefully. Your Energy Deserves That.
If you are feeling the shift, if you know something deeper is happening within you, do not ignore it—but also do not hand it over to just anyone.
Work with someone who:
• Understands awakening, not just energy work
• Respects your pace instead of forcing change
• Helps you feel grounded, not dependent
• Can hold space for both your expansion and your humanity
Because the right guidance does not just help you heal—it helps you trust yourself while you evolve.
Are you going through a trauma event, spiritual awakening, or kundalini arousal and need guidance and support? Learn more about how I can assist you at www.groundededawakenings.com or reach out to me directly at lola@groundedawakenings.com.
Lola Scarborough, PhD
Awakening Navigator