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Jun 16, 2025 15 tweets 5 min read Read on X
Most people think sexual energy is just about sex.

Ancient traditions knew it as "kundalini", a life force that can literally rewire your brain and nervous system.

Modern somatic therapy proves they were right.

Here's how to harness this primal energy: 🧵 Image
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Kundalini literally means "coiled serpent" in Sanskrit.

It's dormant life-force energy sitting at the base of your spine.

The same energy behind sexual arousal is identical to what we call spiritual awakening.

We've just been taught to waste it through porn and sex. Image
This primal energy lies dormant in most people, blocked by stress, trauma, and unconscious living.

Once awakened, it begins to rise through the spine, moving through seven energy centers.

Before dismissing it as woo-woo, know that Kundalini is also neurological ↓ Image
Kundalini activates ancient parts of your brain (limbic system).

It triggers neuroplastic changes, i.e. rewiring how you process emotion, memory, intuition, and awareness.

Over time, you become more connected, calm, and creative.

So, how to harness it? Image
The bridge between trauma healing & kundalini awakening are the neurogenic tremors.

Your body naturally wants to shake.

Animals do this instinctively after surviving a threat, they tremor to discharge the stress.

Humans suppress this reflex. That's why we stay stuck.
I discovered Tension & Trauma Releasing Exercises (TRE) during my burnout in grad school.

Simple movements that trigger involuntary shaking.

Within minutes, my nervous system started discharging years of stored tension.

It felt erotic, alive, electric, but not sexual.
The shaking isn't random.

It activates your reptilian brain and limbic system, the primitive parts that modern life has shut down.

These ancient brain regions control creativity, intuition, and life force.

Kundalini awakening literally turns them back on. Image
On top of tremors, controlled breathing patterns can induce non-ordinary states where old emotions surface and resolve.

Holotropic breathwork puts you in a "dream-like" state where trauma becomes accessible.

It's like therapy at warp speed. Image
The goal with harnessing your sexual energy is integration where that wild kundalini fire becomes a steady river of vitality flowing through your daily life.

Let's talk about how to achieve this integration: Image
→ TRE (trauma releasing tremors) ↓

TRE releases trauma held in psoas (a deep core muscle near the base of the spine).

Once the tension is released from this area, people report "heat" running up the spine, involuntary body movements, emotional catharsis, etc.
2) Holotropic breathwork

It can trigger kundalini-like experiences through deep, circular breathing (no pauses between breaths) for 2-3 hours with music.

Never attempt this alone. Work with certified facilitators only.
3) Somatic therapy awakens kundalini by releasing trauma trapped in your nervous system.

It works "bottom-up", freeing frozen energy through body awareness, not forcing it upward through intense practices.

Master this method in my free course: bodymindaccelerator.com
I've seen clients redirect awakened kundalini energy into explosive creative projects, laser-sharp focus at work, heightened intuitive abilities, etc.

As Napoleon Hill says: "...it's the energy of all geniuses." Image
The bottom line is, real transformation is coiled at the base of your spine, waiting for you to give it permission to move.

Your sexual energy is your spiritual energy.

Stop wasting it and start transmuting it into something bigger than yourself.
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Apr 21
The body keeps the score, sure.

The more interesting question is why the person keeping the score and the person who showed up to therapy feel like two different people.

It's called structural dissociation. Everyone has some version of it. Most people never learn what it is: Image
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In 2006, Van der Hart, Nijenhuis, and Steele published The Haunted Self.

It showed how chronic stress and trauma fragment the personality. They create gaps between parts of the psyche that should be communicating.

The fragmentation happens on a spectrum.
The model names two kinds of parts:

ANP — Apparently Normal Part. The version of you that answers emails, pays rent, attends the meeting. Its job is daily life. Its goal is to avoid emotional material.

EP — Emotional Part. The version of you that holds the survival response. Fear, rage, freeze, collapse. Its field of awareness is the stressor, not the present moment.
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Apr 15
72% of people in trauma therapy can describe their emotions in detail.

Only 28% can locate where those emotions live in their body.

That gap has a name, "interoceptive dissociation."

Here's how to rebuild it, and why your sleep, your emotions, and your recovery depend on it: 🧵Image
Your brain receives roughly 10 million sensory signals from your body every second.

Heartbeat, gut motility, muscle tension, blood pressure, temperature.

Most of it never reaches conscious awareness, but it still drives your behavior.
When the interoceptive channel shuts down (and it does, reliably, after sustained stress or developmental trauma), something specific happens.

The body keeps sending signals.

The brain stops listening.
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Apr 13
Your body processes trauma faster than your prefrontal cortex can narrate it.

The amygdala fires in 12 milliseconds. Conscious awareness takes 500.

By the time you "know" something happened, your body has already stored the motor pattern.

Here's how to speak the language of the body:Image
This gap is why talk therapy has a ceiling.

You're narrating at 500ms what was encoded at 12ms.

The body's record is faster, older, and stored in a different format than language.

But why does it keep the specific pattern it does?
Different people store the same event in radically different ways.

One person freezes while another leaves their body entirely.

The pattern reveals something about the person's nervous system architecture before the event.

The trauma hit a system that was already configured a certain way.
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Mar 30
People in dissociative states consistently misjudge the passage of time.

By hours.

The clinical literature treats this as a symptom.

I think it's the mechanism: 🧵 Image
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Your brain has a region called the temporal-parietal junction (TPJ).

It sits exactly where the name suggests: where spatial processing meets temporal processing.

It's the part of the brain that knows where your body is in space AND where you are in time.
When that region goes quiet (and it does, reliably, in dissociation), two things happen simultaneously:

You lose track of where your body ends and the room begins.

You lose track of whether it's been 10 minutes or 3 hours.
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Dec 28, 2025
The most important skill to master in 2026:

Self-Regulation.

Without it, you'll stay lost, anxious, and stuck making the same mistakes as last year.

Here are 7 ways to take command of your nervous system (from a therapist): 🧵 Image
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What is self-regulation?

Self-regulation = your brain’s ability to manage thoughts, emotions, and actions under stress.

It’s what separates high-functioning people from everyone else.

And it’s trainable, if you understand the science. ↓
Most important is the prefrontal cortex.

This region regulates impulse control, focus, and emotional balance.

When stress overwhelms you, the amygdala hijacks the system, shutting down logical thought.

That’s why you say or do things you regret when emotional.
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Dec 27, 2025
Somatic Therapy is a revolutionary new method to reverse depression, anxiety and fatigue.

It combines neuroscience, psychology and biology to retrain the brain.

Here's what it is and how to do it:
Somatic Therapy was developed by Dr. Peter Levine after observing wild animals in nature.

He noticed that animals despite facing life-threatening events regularly, they don’t develop long-term trauma symptoms like fatigue or depression.

On the other hand, humans and domesticated animals are the only mammals that develop stress related illnesses after traumatic events.

Let’s explore why ↓
After experiencing stress, animals go through a natural regulation process:

Shaking, trembling, or deep breathing—is an autonomic response that restores balance and burns off excess cortisol.

These stress hormones if left unprocessed will develop into PTSD, depression, and anxiety disorders.

Watch the process:
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