Mansi Poddar- Trauma Informed Psychotherapist Working Globally

psychotherapist in India by Mansi Poddar

In my head
Dark dank
Racing racey
Memories haunted
brutal
Setbacks heartbreaks
Emotional eating
Drinking for joy
Distracted stuck
Victim

This was the Kensho living = Growth through pain (illness, heartbreak, financial struggle, failure)

Now. I actively make Time for reflection, self contact, mindfulness and growth

Satori = Growth through insight (meditation, learning, sudden realizations)

If you’re deeply engaged in your own personal growth, you’ll experience more Satori moments - and fewer Kensho moments. (I was introduced to these concepts from mindvalley newsletter)

Kensho is a gradual process that often happens through the tribulations of life. A relationship breaks up, but you learn from it and your heart becomes more resilient. You lose a business, but you use the hard-earned wisdom to start your next one. You lose your job, but you learn who you are beyond your career. You suffer a health problem, but you discover personal reserves you didn’t know you had.

Kensho is the universe giving you tough love.

Now, Satori is the opposite.

Satori moments don’t come from pain. They come from awakening - from moments of pure insight, where everything suddenly makes sense.

These are the instant “aha” moments where you feel a shift in your consciousness.

They can happen:
✅ During a deep meditation or spiritual awakening
✅ While listening to a profound speech
✅ Through an altered state experience (like breathwork or plant medicine)
✅ When reading a book that completely shifts your perspective
✅ When you’re in nature, lost in a moment of deep contemplation

Satori moments feel like the universe whispering in your ear:

"Hey, you’re on the wrong path. Check out the view from this angle."

Once you’ve had a Satori moment, the things that once held you back no longer have power over you. It’s like your mind upgrades to a higher operating system—suddenly, things make sense in a way they never did before.

Imagine you’ve been struggling with a problem for years - and then one day, in an instant, you just get it.

That’s Satori.

Disclaimer- the narrations are not based on a particular persons life. They are the descriptions of how trauma and healing manifest in first person voice.

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