The Inhale and Exhale of Life – Why You Feel Low After an Awakening

ALIGNED Podcast with Ashley Hämäläinen

Ashley Hämäläinen

Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality

4.8 • 818 Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

I’m releasing this episode a day early—because I can feel how much it’s needed right now. So many of us are moving through deep cycles of light and shadow, expansion and contraction. You are not alone.

On May 1st, I experienced a full day of Oneness—pure Light, complete Presence, a deep remembering of the true Self. And then, the next day… my skin broke out, my digestion slowed, my energy dipped. It felt like a crash—but it wasn’t. It was a contraction. The natural exhale after the inhale.

In this episode, I share the lived rhythm of spiritual awakening through the lens of Samsara—the spiral of life, death, and rebirth that pulses through every breath, every moment, every phase of our journey. I speak on Shiva and Shakti, the inhale and exhale of Consciousness, and why you’re not going backwards when things feel low after a spiritual high.

This is the path of Quantum Manifestation—not a linear rise, but a sacred rhythm. A return to Truth through both the opening and the closing. The Light and the body.

You are not broken. You are remembering.

Episodes to listen to and reference for more information:

* Healing In and Through the Body (Why So Much is Coming Up Right Now)
* Quantum Weight Release, Remembering Presence + Dissolving the Illusion of Separation
* The Afterglow of Eclipse Season

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Transcript

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0:00.0	On today's episode of the podcast, we are looking at the cycles and rhythms of life.
0:07.3	We are not here to escape these cycles, but to become conscious within them.
0:13.4	And so how often do you feel like when something opens, maybe for you spiritually, maybe in life, maybe an opportunity, and then immediately
0:24.8	after there's a contraction and you feel like, oh, I failed or I'm regressing.
0:30.1	This is an illusion.
0:32.8	This is an illusion because these cycles, this is the rhythm of life.
0:38.6	This is Shakti.
0:44.4	And we're going to look at this deeply today through the lens of quantum manifestation.
0:47.5	It's a beautiful episode. Let's dive in.
0:53.4	Welcome to the Aligned Podcast with Ashley Hamalainen.
0:59.6	Love is the thread that weaves us together and hear that is what we are guiding you toward.
1:03.2	Love, home, oneness.
1:13.7	Through channeled wisdom from the Akashic Records, quantum energetics, my own stories and lived experiences, along with ancient yogic science,
1:17.8	which comes from my husband, Yuzo, who joins me on the show from time to time, we celebrate all colors and seasons of this beautiful journey called Life.
1:25.4	With all of my heart, thank you so much for being here
1:29.9	hello my loves my friends my family hello hello welcome here you know right pressing record, I was sitting here buying myself a little
1:49.6	Mother's Day gift. That is coming up. And I always forget these things when it's for myself.
1:57.5	Like sometimes I even forget my own birthday until it like happens. It's like,
2:02.3	whoa, it's my birthday. And yeah, today I'm just feeling so tired and still inspired and
2:13.0	beautiful and it's it's a beautiful day, but but tired loomie didn't sleep last night what's what's new
2:21.9	like that that's just the way that it is at this moment but it was different last night like um
2:29.6	he was like really holding on to me and nursing so much and just would not go to sleep.
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