Ep172: Kundalini Therapist - Tara Springett 2
Tara Springett is a Buddhist psychotherapist who specialises in treating Kundalini Syndrome.
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Tara reveals how she works with her private clients, including how she assesses kundalini symptoms, her 5 step kundalini test, and emergency strategies for acute distress.
Tara discusses the 3 part foundation for psychological and spiritual health, as well the essential role that relationship plays in the enlightenment process.
Tara also shares her experience working at the intersection of kundalini with narcissism and other cluster B disorders, why it is that kundalini magnifies one’s latent negative tendencies, and why paranormal experiences and entity contact are inevitable for those with an awakened kundalini energy.
Topics include:
00:00 - Intro
00:54 - How Tara assesses a kundalini patient
05:20 - The 5 Step Kundalini test
05:57 - How rare is kundalini awakening?
08:37 - Criterion 1: An extreme interest in spirituality
09:00 - Criterion 2: Intensified emotions
09:54 - Criterion 3: Feeling energy movements in the body
10:30 - Criterion 4: Hypersensitivity
11:24 - Criterion 5: Paranormal experiences
12:55 - The most important symptom
13:15 - The anti-anxiety technique
16:21 - Enlightenment happens in relationship
18:30 - Bringing spirituality and psychology together
21:03 - Cultivating self love
22:29 - The 3 parts of an essential foundation
22:59 - Applying the anti-anxiety technique
27:54 - The importance of the client-therapist relationship
31:24 - Healing emotional attachment issues by relating to a divine being
33:31 - Tara’s approach to the relationships with her clients
34:58 - Challenges working with narcissists
35:39 - Interaction of kundalini awakening and cluster B personality disorders
40:17 - Religious conversion as a medicine for narcissists
42:12 - Kundalini and Borderline Personality Disorder
42:59 - Awakened gurus with personality disorders
45:33 - 5 chakra enlightenment
47:00 - Reckoning with one’s sexuality
47:44 - Cult leaders and spiritual power
49:59 - Kundalini magnifies one’s tendencies
52:10 - Advice for when choosing a guru
59:29 - How Tara keeps herself grounded and morally straight
01:04:05 - Tara’s history of being hard on herself
01:05:27 - Kundalini and different demographics
01:07:23 - The #1 cause of kundalini awakenings
01:08:53 - Paranormal experiences are inevitable
01:10:11 - Entities attachment and possession
01:13:00 - Dealing with horror visions
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