When Bliss Becomes Too Much: Grounding in High States of Consciousness

Many people seek elevated states — peace, joy, presence, even ecstasy. But what happens when the very thing you've been longing for becomes overwhelming? What if presence becomes so intense it's hard to function?

As someone deeply committed to spiritual integration and personal growth, I’ve experienced many high states — spontaneous waves of bliss or stillness that take over everything. No drugs, no meditating — just working away, breathing, and suddenly I’m on another plane of consciousness. You might have experienced this following a psychedellic journey, shamanic breathwork, MDMA, or an intensive spiritual retreat.

Sounds ideal, right?

Except… sometimes it isn't.

When the nervous system isn't fully prepared to hold that much energy, we can get a kind of ‘spiritual overload’, and the result can be:

• Bliss-Nausea or light-headedness.

  
  

• Dissociation or a "floaty" feeling including DP/DR

  
  

• No drive to do worldly things.

  
  

• Difficulty making decisions

  
  

• Trouble focusing on practical tasks

  
  

• A strange sense of fatigue that follows bliss

  
  

• Emotional dis-regulation and disruption of executive functioning (memory, focus, planning)

  
  

• Sleep disruption

  
  

• Headache/migraine during neuronal re-wiring.

This isn't a problem of too little spirituality. It's just a problem of needing more integration skills to balance out what is usually an over-activation of the higher chakras.

Let’s treat it with the respect and care it deserves – not as a problem to squash, but as a powerful current that needs grounding, containment, and direction.

The goal is not to escape the body — but to embody the light fully. That means learning to stabilise our nervous system while staying open to presence.

On Fire

10 Ways to Ground High States of Consciousness

Here are some tools that help me and my clients bring ecstatic or expansive states back into the body:

1. Touch the Earth

Stand barefoot on grass. Feel the gravity pulling you down. Press your feet into the earth and imagine roots growing from your soles. Touch something cold with your hands.

2. Eat Something Warm and Heavy

Stews, root vegetables, or protein (nuts, eggs, lentils, broth) can anchor you. Avoid too much sugar or caffeine when feeling floaty.

3. Use the Breath Intentionally

Instead of light, high breathing, practice deep belly breaths with a slow exhale. This tells your vagus nerve: “We’re safe. It’s time to settle.” The adrenals don’t know the difference between intense kundalini energy and danger.

4. Do a Mindless Chore

Wash dishes, vacuum the car, clean the toilet, even sorting your inbox can be grounding. Let your awareness move into the motion, rhythm, and small decisions.

5. Listen to Music with Drumming or Heavy Bass

Dance, stamp, jump, clap. Get into your body.

6. Use Heavy Things

Chop Wood, Lift Weights, use a weighted blanket. Also squats and lunges to move energy down into the legs.

7. Do something messy/sensory.

Cook, paint with hands, garden, knead dough.

8. Mindful Physical Intimacy (with partner or self)

Bringing that energy down to the Sacral and Root chakra is very helpful.

9. Have a Cold Shower or Cold Swim

The shock of the cold snaps consciousness back into the body and regulates the vagus nerve.

10. Helpful Supplements

B’s, Magnesium, Ashwaganda, Reishi, Omega 3,6,9, CBD, green tea.

The Sacred Role of the Body

It’s easy to get lost in the sky. But someone has to carry the light home — and that someone is you, in your human form.

Your business, your relationships, your body — they’re all temples waiting to be filled with the wisdom you touch in stillness.

So if you find yourself “too high,” it’s cool, it just means your cup is full, and now it’s time to pour it into the world.