Chakra Opening, Kundalini Rising, and Soul Growth: How They Connect and Why Meditation Alone Won't Get You There

Chakra opening, kundalini awakening, and soul growth are three processes that everyone in the spiritual community talks about — but very few understand how they actually connect. From years of observing higher energy movement in people’s bodies and watching how highly evolved souls develop, I’ve found there are exactly two approaches to genuinely opening your chakras. One you can do on your own. The other requires a master. And neither works the way most people expect.

Before I describe them, here’s the principle that governs both: opening chakras is a facilitator, not a solution. Open chakras don’t automatically produce enlightenment or spiritual growth. They create the conditions for growth to happen — by allowing kundalini energy to rise through the Sushumna channel and by improving the flow of higher energy through your body. But you still need to do the actual work of releasing the limiting beliefs stored in each chakra. Open doors don’t mean you’ve walked through them.

Chakras opening, spiritual growth, and Kundalini awakening

Approach 1: Opening Chakras Through Your Own Inner Work

This is the path available to everyone, and it’s the one that produces the most lasting results. It involves sustained daily practice across several dimensions — not just meditation. This is important to understand, because many people believe that meditation alone is enough to open their chakras and reach enlightenment. It isn’t. From what I’ve observed, spiritual growth is about 90% action and 10% theory. Meditation provides the theory and awareness. But you need to live what you’ve learned in daily life to produce real change.

Think of it like learning mathematics. You attend the theory lectures, which is valuable. But you actually master math by solving real problems. If you only attend lectures without doing the exercises, you’ll understand the concepts intellectually without being able to apply them. Spirituality works the same way. You have to apply what you learn in meditation to your daily actions — living as a higher-vibration being through your choices, not just during your practice sessions.

The practical elements that support chakra opening through self-work include: meditating daily (with a practice suited to your current level), releasing subconscious limiting beliefs through targeted inner work, improving your diet (moving toward plant-based eating supports higher vibration in the body), applying spiritual principles in your daily actions (being kind, being altruistic, serving others — not just during practice but consistently), reconnecting with nature and Earth’s energy through grounding practices, and making conscious choices about your environment, work, and the people you spend time with.

If you genuinely apply these practices daily with dedication and sincerity, it’s possible to reach soul enlightenment in a single lifetime and even achieve body wisdom. Enlightened beings like Yogananda, Vivekananda, and Ramakrishna achieved soul enlightenment by meeting these conditions. The key isn’t finding the right technique — it’s maintaining the full spectrum of practice consistently. Most people who feel stuck in their spiritual growth are missing one or more of these elements, usually the action component. Working with a spiritual coach online or an experienced spiritual mentor online can help identify which elements are missing in your specific situation.

One important caution: opening the root chakra is particularly challenging because it’s where kundalini energy sits dormant, and careless approaches can trigger the dangers associated with premature kundalini activation. This is one area where having proper guidance from a spiritual development course or experienced teacher matters significantly.

Approach 2: Chakra Opening Through Higher Initiation (Shaktipat)

The second approach is rare and requires a specific type of master. A highly advanced soul — one who has reached at least a 7D vibration (enlightenment level) with a body vibration close to 5D — can initiate the forced opening of your chakras through a powerful directed burst of energy. This process is known in some traditions as shaktipat. The energy emanates from the master’s third eye chakra and can push your chakras from their typical 1–10% openness to 100% in a single session.

Currently, there are about 2 to 3 masters worldwide capable of performing this level of initiation. It’s not something available through a weekend workshop or an online spiritual school in the conventional sense — it requires a master with genuine energetic capacity at a level very few humans reach.

Here’s what I’ve observed happens after a shaktipat initiation: once the chakras are forced open to 100%, they begin to close again almost immediately. Without sustained effort from the student, they typically settle back to around 50% within a few weeks. This is still a dramatic improvement over the 1–10% starting point, and it gives the student a much stronger baseline to work from than any other method provides.

I open my students’ chakras to 100% and then monitor how they evolve in the weeks that follow. After the initial drop, a diligent student who follows all the practices from Approach 1 can nearly fully reopen their chakras from this elevated baseline. The combination is powerful: the forced opening gives them an energetic head start, and the daily practices give them the tools to maintain and build on it. This is one of the specific interventions available through our spiritual awakening course online, where students receive both the initiation and the ongoing guidance to sustain the results.

How Chakra Opening, Kundalini Rising, and Soul Growth Connect

These three processes form a connected system:

Chakra opening creates the conditions for energy to flow. When chakras are blocked (as they are in most people, typically 4–8% open), the kundalini energy that sits at the base of the spine can’t rise. The channels are too constricted. As chakras open, the pathway through the Sushumna channel clears, and the energy has room to move.

Kundalini awakening & rising is what happens when the pathway is open enough. The kundalini energy begins to ascend through the Sushumna channel, passing through each chakra and increasing in vibration as it goes. Each time it passes through a chakra, it encounters and activates the limiting beliefs stored at that level — bringing them to the surface so they can be recognized and released. This is why kundalini rising often feels uncomfortable: it’s not the energy that’s the problem, it’s the beliefs it’s encountering.

Soul growth is the result of releasing those beliefs and integrating the higher awareness that comes with increased energy flow. As limiting beliefs at each chakra level are released, your vibration rises (awareness level) — both soul and body. Your perception of reality expands. You begin learning the life lessons your soul came here for. And your alignment with your soul’s optimal path improves. This is what genuine spiritual growth actually looks like — not dramatic experiences during meditation, but a measurable shift in vibration, awareness, and how you navigate daily life. An energy reading or psychic reading online can track these shifts objectively.

Where to Start

If you want to know how open your chakras are right now, a free psychic reading gives you the specific percentages for each energy center and your current soul and body vibration on the chakra scale. This tells you exactly where you stand and where the biggest blocks are. If you’re ready to start clearing those blocks, an energy healing online session targets the beliefs that are keeping your chakras constricted. And if you want the full path — both approaches to chakra opening, daily practice guidance, kundalini support, and measurable progress tracking — that’s what our spiritual development course was built to provide. Working with a spiritual life coach ensures you’re applying the right practices at the right level for where you actually are — not where you wish you were.

Your chakras are designed to be open. The energy is designed to flow. The question is whether you’re doing the work that makes it possible — not just the meditation, but the full 90% that happens outside of it.