Going through a spiritual awakening can be confusing. It is one of the things that people often question and they wonder if it takes away their emotions or if they lose all of their family, friends or even their jobs.
If you are hoping to go through your awakening or if you think you might have already, keep reading.
Understanding Your Spiritual Awakening
The spiritual awakening happens when your soul becomes changed and it becomes awake. This happens usually after you have experienced something dark in your soul. When you become traumatized or you get into a place where you are deep in hurt or pain, your soul will start to wake up. Until this point, your soul is not really awake, and it craves things such as materialistic things and insignificant relationships.
The people around you will begin to see that you are changing. They might notice that you are being depressed or that you are going through some kinds of physical aches and pains. But even if you are and you decide to go to the doctor or take medicine, this won’t help you. Your soul wants to change, and it wants to find out who you are.
As your soul begins to change and wake up, you will see that your spiritual path is in front of you. You will start a new path and you will have an experience that is lifechanging.
As the awakening happens, you will see that there are doors that are opening that are different. These doors take you down a path that you have never been before. It is a journey that will cause you to feel awake and alive but it won’t be something that is exciting or that feels good right away. It also takes bravery to go through your journey.
Who Has a Spiritual Awakening?
Anyone that has gone through some kind of trauma might be going through their spiritual awakening. This can include someone that you love dying, tragic events that you have to face in your life or even some kind of trauma. This can be seen as the Dark Night of the soul and is something that leads to your awakening.
Differences Between Awakening and Enlightenement
People often wonder if there is a difference between an awakening and an enlightenment and there are. Here are some differences:
Awakening
Here is what happens when you go through your awakening:
- Your soul begins to wake up.
- You get rid of material things.
- You may or may not be enlightened.
- Your soul wants to be free.
- Your soul walks down the path for a long time
Enlightenment
Here is what happens when you go through your enlightenement:
- Your soul becomes an alive state.
- You will go through rebirth and other journeys.
- The soul is aware of where it is.
- The soul knows it has power.
- There are no more sufferings.
- The cycle of birth and rebirth stops.
Signs of Your Spiritual Awakening
Here are some of the signs that you might experience when going through your spiritual awakening:
Hard Times
Chances are that there have been some hard times in front of you recently. This can be someone that has died or losing a job. You may also have had some kind of financial loss or even a sickness. Some people that go through divorce experience this as well.
This is a time where you have to face what you are going through even when you feel lonely. This can feel impossible and like you cannot get away.
Meaning of Life
You might feel empty and that your life has no meaning. Nothing seems to make sense for you and you wonder what you are even doing.
Being Alone
You might desire to be alone to go out in nature or to meditate. You might choose to start journaling and going out with people that you aren’t used to. You are connecting more with yourself.
Questions
Here are some things you might start asking yourself:
- Why am I here?
- Am I more than a body?
- Do I have a purpose?
- Is my life full of meaning or meaningless?
- How do I become successful.
- Why do people have to die?
- What happens after dying?
- Should I be afraid of death?
People Leave
This can be a time where people that have always loved and supported you begin to leave you. This might end your friendship or your friends might get too busy for you. They might even break off things with you or someone might die.
Changing
Even though you don’t understand what you are going through, you might want to embrace change. This will make you feel even less peaceful, but you know that you have to have this change.
Sensitivity
You will notice that you become more sensitive and that you are not able to be around loud noises or around things in the news. Things that are violent get on your nerves and you may even feel restless.
Wanting Purpose
Having purpose is important to you. You question who you are, and you need to find your real meaning in life. You know that you have to have a reason, but you want to know what it is.
Life Lessons
This will be a time where you start to see that life is going to teach you something new. You realize that school taught you some things but not anything you are going through now.
Waking Up
You realize that you have been sleeping through most of your life and that you need to reflect on what is important and on what to do to move forward. You stop judging others and begin to feel sorry for people.
Caring and Compassionate
You might begin to care or be more compassionate at this time. You see that everyone is in different places in their life and you stop judging others and begin to forgive instead.
Helping Others
As you become more compassionate, you desire to help others and to see the world a better place. You want people to have better lives and to change for the good.
Happiness and Inner Peace
Material things no longer bring you happiness and you look for your journey. You try to experience new things without having to buy something.
Changing Jobs
This can be a time where you want to change your job of your career. This is a hard time during the awakening because people around you won’t understand why you are doing what you are doing.
They will begin to think that you are being foolish and that you are doing things for no real reason. It might also be a time where you breakup with your partner because you need something new.
Negative Habits
You will become aware of the habits that you have. Your negative habits will cause you to change and to move forward to something positive. You will change your mind and begin to look at your shadow self.
Strong Intuition
Intuition will allow you to realize that you are making good decisions. Your intuition will increase and you will be more aware of what you are supposed to do. You will rely more on your gut than other things.
Being One
The awakening means that you are able to realize that the world is one. You live in a world in the physical and the spiritual and there is no changing that.
Spiritual Journey
As things change in your life you will see things happen that are good, bad and ugly. You will experience incidents that make you feel helpless but you will be more grounded than ever. Your spiritual journey will begin and you will want to do things that are more spiritual like meditating or listening to gurus.
Synchronicities and Coincidences
Your awakening will bring about synchronicities and coincidences that are wild and unexpected. These will be things that bring you joy and will give you favor.
As you are in the right place at the right time you will see that you have chosen the right journey to be on. The universe is giving you the favor that you need.
Beginning Your Journey
The path that you are on will bring you to a place where you need to be on your journey. You will meditate and pray, and you will see that you have peace. This will be a time of light and love in your life.
Why Does the Spiritual Awakening Happen?
The spiritual awakening happens because it is a time where your soul wants to expand. As you develop an awareness of the pain and suffering that you are going through, your soul will become ready for change.
There is no real cause as to why this is happening but your soul will be ready to go to the next level.
Symptoms of a Spiritual Awakening
You might want to realize how to tell if you are going through your spiritual awakening or not. There are things that you will experience in your body and your soul and these can come in the form of symptoms.
Here are some things that you might go through so that you can tell if you are going through your spiritual awakening:
- You feel tingling at the crown of your head. This can happen at the top of your spine, too.
- Your hair will grow faster.
- Your nails will grow faster than they normally do.
- Your sleep patterns will change and you might be getting more or less sleep.
- You will lose or gain weight.
- Increased sensitivity to light, colors and smells will surround you.
- Skin will begin to get pimples or dry.
- There will be pains, fevers and aches like you have a sickness but this is just your body resisting the change and won’t last for long.
- Mood changes will take place. You will feel happy at one minute and then angry or sad at another minute.
- You will have allergies to food and other things.
- Out of body experiences might happen more or more while meditating.
- You will be restless.
- You might experience depression or mental pain.
- There will be breakups and loss of relationships.
- You might lose your job.
- Feelings of helplessness.
- Your soul will advance and you will find peace in your mind.
- Real happiness will come.
Stages of Your Spiritual Awakening
There are different stages that you can go through in your awakening:
Stage 1
This is the stage that the awakening begins. You will feel that your life is changing and this can come after you lose someone that you love, lose your job, have a financial loss, accident, sickness or if you go through a breakup. This will be hard on you.
Some people in this stage will get depressed but they will begin to ask questions about the path that they are on.
Stage 2
In this stage you will begin to seek out the path that you need to go. This will be like a force that you cannot see that is keeping you safe. You will become curious of who you are and you will start to develop your mind, body and soul. You might crave podcasts or books that can help you to feel deeper about who you are.
Stage 3
This is the stage where you will choose the path that you want to be on. You will decide what path you should take and you will mediate and figure out which way to go.
Stage 4
Struggling is the part of stage 4 that is the hardest. This will be a time where everything seems to go wrong. You will wonder why you are going through so many problems and what you can do to solve them.
During this time, the universe will test you and see if you are going to keep on your journey or if you are going to just give in or give up.
Stage 5
The truth stage happens because your life will realize that this is the true journey for you. You will see that all of the paths that you take will lead to this path. No matter what spiritual ways you have had before, you will find the right way at this time.
Your energy will return, and your existence will be an experience that changes. There will be a non-duality in everything.
How to Become Awakened
Here are some ways that you can go through your awakening:
- Declutter: Get rid of things in your mind and your life that you no longer need. Make room for spiritual growth.
- Meditation: Learn to meditate and take a class or watch a podcast. This can help you move forward.
- Nature: Spend more time going outside and walking barefoot. Spend time with the trees and with the stars.
- Self-reflect: Look at yourself and ask questions that you need to know. Talk to a spiritual guide.
- Self-love: Love yourself and take care of yourself. Nurture your body, mind and soul. Read, meditate, be mindful of what you are saying and be compassionate with yourself.
Final Thoughts
The spiritual awakening can be a challenge, but you can make it through it. You will see that there will be doors that open for you that allow you to pursue just what you are looking for. Once you understand your awareness, you will learn to let your soul be open to new things. This path of spiritual growth will protect you and keep you from being stuck.
Questions to Ask About the Spiritual Awakening
Here are some things you might want to ask:
- What is a spiritual awakening? This is when your ego dies and you have a higher level of consciousness. This is similar to the enlightenement.
- What stages do you go through in your awakening? There are five stages that you will go through, and you will find out new things about yourself.
- What happens when you go through your awakening? You will have many changes that are easy and hard.
- How long does a spiritual awakening last? Some will last short, and some will take years.
- What happens after your awakening? You will have a new point of view on how you see life. You will focus more on yourself and on good things.