Spiritual awakening что это
Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps. we try to carry this message to other addicts. and practice these principles in all our affairs.
Получив духовное пробуждение в результате этих шагов. мы будем прилагать усилия чтобы донести эти идеи до других наркоманов. и придерживаться этих принципов во всех делах.
It wasn't what I thought of all these groovy people getting. having spiritual awakenings and being artistic.
Я заблуждался, думая что эти люди испытывают. духовное пробуждение или художественное вдохновение. Это была обыкновенная нарко-зависимость.
Of course Mycroft's spiritual awakening is tied to some sort of illness.
Естественно, духовное пробуждение Майкрофта связано с каким-то заболеванием.
Precisely. Steven Horowitz's spiritual awakening had the unhappy side effect of enraging a cross-section of blackguards and highwaymen.
Духовное пробуждение Стивена Хоровица имело обратный эффект яростного пересечения негодяев с грабителями.
Users claim it can give you a spiritual awakening, as well as intense diarrhea.
Говорят, он приносит духовное пробуждение, а также мощный понос.
On behalf of all your clients that you defrauded, I would like to congratulate you on your. Spiritual awakening.
От имени всех клиентов, что ты обманул, я бы хотел поздравить тебя с твоим. духовным пробуждением
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Spiritual Awakening Process
This will be a long post, but it'll be split into different sections for important junctures that can arise after a spiritual awakening. I'll start by explaining awakening as well as the importance of the conscious path, and I'll offer a number of different links to guide you deeper into this work and hopefully in the correct direction to help you progress.
Obviously, I can't cover every topic, and I do recommend using the "Search" tool on this site to find specific blog posts. I've covered A LOT of topics!
If you want personalized support to go deeper on the path, I offer one-on-one spiritual sessions via video chat. You can learn more about them on this link:
Without further ado, let's dive into this topic and help you go where you need to go.
What Is a Spiritual Awakening?
- A profound sense of love for everyone
- The loss of a sense of individuality and a feeling of oneness with all of life
- The ability to see spirits or auras
- An explosion of understanding about reality and spiritual truths
- A deep experience of peace and loss of desire
- Surges of energy/other sensations moving through their bodies
- Realizations about how lost people are in the world
- Experiences of bliss through psychedelics
- And many more kinds of experiences
I use this specific definition of awakening because it's practical. Different kinds of spiritual shifts warrant different kinds of approaches, and if we just call everything a spiritual awakening, then it obscures what is going on with someone. It's like using the term "plants" for all plants. How do you know how to handle one plant (let's say it's a cactus, but you don't have the word for that) versus another plant (an apple tree). The specifics are important. Otherwise you can take some very confusing and inappropriate actions as you would if you tried to treat a cactus and an apple tree the same way.
Here's some more information to help you understand what I define as a spiritual awakening is:
What Do I Do if I Had a Non-awakening Spiritual Experience?
If you had a spiritual experience that doesn't fit my definition of awakening, that's very normal. Spiritual awakening is very rare, but these other spiritual experiences are quite common and beautiful. There are all kinds of heart openings, mind openings, body openings, energy openings, and psychic openings that people have. What they all can be are inspirations to start/go deeper on the spiritual path and to go within.
One of the central tools of going within is learning to do self-inquiry. Focusing our attention on ourselves in this way helps us to discover and question ego assumptions and beliefs that keep us trapped. As we become more aware of different beliefs as well as other issues, certain types of work become possible, and then we can find specific spiritual tools to do that work.
Conversely, the common mistake people make after one of the above experiences is to try to make these pleasurable experiences come back (although not all openings nor awakening are inherently pleasurable). This grasping is a road to nowhere. All experiences are transitory. We can't keep any of them.
Instead, I hope to inspire you towards the path to spiritual freedom. This path leads a person to embrace ALL of life's experiences from a space of unconditional openness. This is a powerful path, and it requires the person to truly dedicate themselves to it. In dedication, the person can overcome their ego tendency to stay stuck in certain beliefs and other patterns. As the person's ego dissolves, they too become more conscious just like the person who had awakened, and sometimes, they manage to go further through dedication than the person who got thrown into the awakened river.
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What Do I Do if I Did Awaken?
If you did have an awakening, you are in for quite a ride. You do not call the shots, and you will need to learn how to surrender and support what awakening wants to do in transforming you. This kind of surrender is profound, and it will send your life into upheaval.
I want to be clear that just having some kind of breakdown is NOT awakening. The changes someone makes in their external life are also not the point of this transformation. We're not trying to create a more perfect or better life; those are ego goals. We are learning to how to be free of ego.
To learn that and many other important spiritual lessons, we learn to listen to our awakened energy and sense how it directs us towards certain issues and changes that we need to make space for a radical spiritual transformation. In this way, it is revealed to us what we are transforming into.
For more thoughts on making space for awakened energy to transform you, you can read these posts:
Moving Past the Initial Shock of Awakening
Awakening can feel like a dam has burst. Many people feel deluged under a whole variety of thoughts, emotions, and sensations. However, it is important to move past this shock into acceptance. As a person accepts what is coming up within him/her, then the person can engage with it.
That said, a lot of initial inner work seems to get done for us. It's almost like the Divine is showing us how inner work should go. As such, surrender is another one of our first lessons to help move past the shock of awakened energy. Choosing and actively engaging with ego issues is vital to doing inner work, but initially, surrender must come first.
With that said, surrender is not passivity. When you surrender to the river, you let it pull in the direction it wants to go. As you feel how it is moving you, you also swim. If you don't learn to swim, you're going to get smashed into a lot of stuff!
Neutralizing the Fight-or-flight Response
Surrender is also critical in neutralizing the fight-or-flight response that we all have and which can get triggered by awakening. This tension and fear adds a layer of resistance on top of the other layers of resistance people are bound up in. Actually, the realization that a person is completely caught up in all kinds of resistance and tension can be shocking in and of itself. Human beings are amazing at deluding themselves, and many people don't think they have any issues. As a result many people are shocked when awakening shows that a desire to be attractive, fears of not having enough money, the need to prove yourself, and many other ideas are wounds. They ARE major issues. These realizations are some of the many shocks people have after awakening, and this is just beginning--just beginning--to perceiving one's self clearly.
To assist in that perception--and you have to choose to want to see clearly and give up your illusions which many people don't want to do--you have to relax your body. Conscious breathing and meditation are two important tools that can help in neutralizing the fight-or-flight response that comes up with all these shocks to your system. As they're neutralized, things can start to flow a little easier, but it's still probably not easy yet. During the initial months and even years, a person is going to confront a lot of issues, stuck energy, and attachments.
Learning to Do Awakened Inner Work
As you relax and surrender, your energy will TELL you what you are going to work on, and then you have to work on it. In this way, a person is constantly pulled in the present moment to not just listen to what is coming up, but then to respond to what the awakened energy wants to do in that moment. For those who thought they were in control of themselves, this is a tough pill to swallow. But it needs to be swallowed.
Furthermore, the awakened energy is an amazing support in helping you to move through issues. It really does accelerate your healing and spiritual growth. While that can feel as subtle as being thrown through a brick wall, it is remarkably effective and intelligent. Again and again, you have to surrender to that intelligence, and then you can find spiritual tools that allow you to actively engage with whatever it is you are being pushed towards.
Most of those tools are about learning how to let go and process a lot of old pain that has gotten stuck inside of you. Eventually, we can talk about engaging with spiritual growth, but that's later on in the spiritual transformation process.
Paying Attention to Your Energy and Issue Cycles
As someone surrenders, calms down, and learns to do inner work, they can begin to perceive different cycles and eventually stages of working through issues and expanding into new states of conscious awareness. These expansions into new states of awareness and understanding are key distinctions from someone who is just having a breakdown.
In embracing these new understandings and realizations, the work can go deeper. You can perceive how different issues take a certain amount of time--a cycle--and you get better at interpreting what your energy is doing.
This all makes it easier to sort of plan your life. Sort of.
Stepping Into New Inner Worlds
As issues really break down, a person can end up into totally new spaces inside of themselves as well as in their everyday life. This can be overwhelming in a different way. The fear of the unknown is a powerful core issue that rears its head again and again. Once again, using the breath and other tools to relax into the present moment is an important aspect of neutralizing this unconscious fear. It helps to be with the newness and to see what arises in this space.
And it may be awhile at times before something arises. Awakening bulldozes out a lot of weeds and junk, and so the garden that has been cleared may not sprout anything for some time. In this situation, it's important to practice patience and allow time for some of the seeds that have been buried--possibly your whole life--to gradually sprout.
What About All these Spiritual Awakening Signs and Symptoms?
Since awakening impacts all of us, any experience a person can have can be related to a spiritual awakening. You may have read some of these extensive lists of spiritual awakening signs and symptoms, and the longer they get, the more confusing they become.
The way I approach signs and symptoms has to do with whether there is an inner intelligence moving a person towards greater conscious awareness on its own. When that's there, then it's a greater possibility that what someone is feeling is related to awakening.
Someone has trouble with their digestion. But they're not eating well to begin with nor sleeping well, and those are key issues that impact digestion. In general, there are lots of things that can disturb the GI tract, but in this scenario, someone has also had an awakening. So what is going on?
Start by addressing the sleep and diet issues before deciding that this digestion issue is spiritually related and trying to address it with spiritual tools. It's possible that some old energetic and emotional stuff is stuck in the gut, but we don't want to jump to that conclusion too soon.
In general, you should always consult trained health practitioners about body stuff.
- Becoming clearer about what is real
- Discovering deeper aspects of love
- Becoming more peaceful
- Loss of desire (because you no longer need life to be a certain way for you to be at peace/happy)
Below are a couple of blog posts about some very common experiences that people label as "spiritual awakening symptoms." As I've said, I have blog full of posts about all kinds of experiences. Just use the "Search" tool to find some of them.
How Long Does Awakening Last?
This question is a real problem. There are a number of hidden assumptions, so I'll do my best to lay out the reality of awakening.
Everyone is in an intensely unique situation. They each come with different issues and different trajectories in life. If you think of one person as a dandelion seed and another as sequoia tree seed, how long does it take for them to grow to maturity? What are their trajectories through growth to maturity? One needs a few weeks, if that. The other needs hundreds of years! And what kind of nutrition and support do they need from their environment? They're very different, but both go through a sprouting (awakening) before developing in their own unique ways. People are like this; we're all seeds of different plants.
Then there's the issue of how much resistance someone puts up against that "sprouting," and that slows everything down.
There's also the idea of a certain outcome or goal here. So when someone asks, "How long does a spiritual awakening go for?" there's an implied goal. Does the person mean until they are totally free? Does the person mean when certain emotions or body sensations go away? Does the person mean until they've changed their life to something perceived to be better? There are a lot of assumptions here, and if you are wondering about how long an awakening will take for you, it's important to understand what you want in that "ending."
Actually, awakened energy doesn't end if it is surrendered to. It just keeps flowing. That may be towards total freedom for some, and for someone else, the energy may have wanted to help them heal a trauma and be well-socially adjusted. In this last example, that person is still deeply enmeshed with a lot of social beliefs and ego attachments, but the awakened space only seemed to care to heal them of the trauma. That was enough. Then the person plateaued.
So I can't answer this. I can only say that by surrendering to awakening, you can be transformed in the most intelligent way. And that will take the time that it takes, and it will flow for the rest of your life as much as you allow.
The Calming of the Energetic Storm
At some point, the surge of energy calms, but it doesn't stop unless someone puts on the breaks. Putting on the breaks can be done. People do succeed in not healing. They succeed in doing the bare minimum inner work asked of them by their awakening and then plateauing. Some even succeed in becoming more unconscious as they cling on to their ego attachments and fight with every last breath. These things happen.
But it is possible to come into a state of flow, and that flow can move someone, as I said, for the rest of their lives. Some few may even find their ways to total spiritual freedom.
However, before everything calms down too much, there are times when a person can choose to intensify the energy again. A person does this because they've realized how much freer they are, and they have come into greater humility about how much they still don't know about themselves. They realize that this is a sacred time for transformation, and they've realized that now is a perfect opportunity to go further into deeper attachments and core issues. So they choose to intensify the awakening now that the initial surge is over.
Multiple Spiritual Awakenings
Every now and then, someone has more than one spiritual awakening. This is really rare.
Usually what happens is someone has multiple spiritual openings. Spiritual openings happen all the time, but they come and go. They don't drive a person to profound spiritual transformation for years. Awakening does.
Since many people don't get the spiritual awakening guidance they need the first time around, things can go awry. As I just mentioned, people can shutdown, regress, and plateau. Then for whatever reason, lightning strikes twice. If this is you, I hope this post and the next one below this paragraph can help you finally get the guidance you need.
The Path to Total Freedom
Eventually, an awakening turns to flow, and much like those people who didn't have the initial surge of awakened energy (which is most people) choosing to continue becomes really important. While it's possible for someone to achieve total freedom from the ego and animal body after awakening, it's more likely that someone does not. They can be flowing and freed of much of the ego, but they still have the most basic core issues and physical drives in place. Awakened energy takes us only so far initially. Now, we have to choose to go further to fully dissolve our most basic and entrenched attachments. In so doing, we can achieve total freedom.
Not everyone wants this freedom, and that's fine. Spiritual freedom doesn't impose itself on us, and a spiritual awakening was just a beginning point. It helped a person to let go of an issue or 12 and pointed them in the direction of greater conscious awareness and freedom. Now, it's up to you to choose to go further.
Spiritual Awakening Help to Go Further
As I said in this post, I've written about a lot of topics, but I can't write about everything. Everyone is different, so if you would like spiritual teaching tailored to you, you can reach out to me to talk about your spiritual path. I meet people where they energetically, intellectually, and emotionally are, and I take them further in the direction that their energy wants to go. I'm always intuitively listening to my students, and I speak intuitively and help them to follow their own inner flow, which often goes in surprising directions. So just as I mentioned about the importance of surrender in an earlier paragraph, surrender is a central practice in working together.
If this is of interest to you, you can learn more about my sessions and how to contact me on this link:
Spiritual Awakening Process
A spiritual awakening is the dissolving of the illusion that you are separate from oneness.
In this profound experience of dissolving, your energy intelligently breaks down your sense of separation, typically starting with your ego.
A spiritual awakening is realized throughout your body, heart, mind, and soul, but no sooner has that erupted than you are forced to see how limited you have been in so many regards. That bright light shining in the inner most depths of us asks us a potent question: "Now that we know the truth, will we clean up our home or will we try to ignore our illusions, pain, and misconceptions?"
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Many Initial Spiritual Awakening Experiences
There's no one way that people experience an awakening. The awakened state embraces all experiences and states of awareness. However, there are some common trends in awakening. For some people, spiritual awakening is a sudden, penetrating moment where something is seen and realized. Sometimes there's a lot of energy/heat/sensation in and around the spine, which is a hallmark to what many people call a kundalini spiritual awakening. Sometimes, a spiritual awakening is a profound moment of clarity about something or some aspect of one's self. Sometimes, a spiritual awakening is a kind of collapse where someone finally lets go of something, and the truth is revealed.
People experience spiritual awakenings in many, many ways. However, the arising of truth within you definitively stays. Your life is the altered by the awakened energy. This energy takes over, and for a time, a person feels rather out of control and even lost. But the person has been found, and the question now is: do you embrace the awakening or do you resist?
Reality Versus Illusion
From the perspective of the mind, a spiritual awakening offers you a clearer understanding of what is real versus what is illusory. You perceive many of the things that are made up, and when you get right down to it, just about everything in society is made up.
The initial awakening may not be earth-shattering for everyone. It may be more gradual as the individual begins to see how s/he bought into a certain way of living, decided some things were important and others were not, and so on. The basics of life also become very simple as the focus organically moves towards things like unconditional love, truth, and integrity to others. But in awakening, it also means giving up and letting go of tons of false beliefs and illusions about who you thought you are and what you thought life should be.
This is how the mind often views a spiritual awakening. Remember that awakening will affect everything--your heart, body, and subtle energy. Be aware that intellectually understanding a spiritual realization during awakening is just the beginning of embodying it.
I Get It!
Truly a spiritual awakening is an amazing moment, and as I've mentioned, it comes in all shades and shapes for everyone. I had one friend who says that she went around for a couple of weeks just saying, "I get it." Another friend quit smoking, and whammo, she got hit with an awakening. Yet another friend had a powerful experience where he simply asked, "Who am I?" In that sincere moment, the glass shattered, and the truth that he did not know who he was was seen. From that awakened moment, the truth erupted and began to re-shape his life.
- Deep peacefulness,
- Bliss,
- A profound sense of oneness and lost of separation that feels amazing,
- Life going into high definition all around them,
- Tremendous inner quiet, and other experiences
There is a real trap in how people can cling to their experience of that first taste of water rather than to become a sincere seeker of the vast endless clean-water ocean of the Divine that awaits them.
Spiritual Awakening Signs
- Unconditional love
- Being able to clearly see what is real
- Loss of desire or need for anything external to complete you / wholeness as you already are
- A profound sense of calm, peace, or serenity
- An abiding energy that moves you intelligently and continually
All other spiritual awakening signs that you hear about can arise from awakening if the above ones are present. They're secondary spiritual awakening signs or symptoms, although I don't prefer the term spiritual awakening symptom. The word "symptoms" has connotations of experiencing a disease. In fact, you are being cured of the illnesses in which you have been living.
Without the above spiritual awakening signs, there's all kinds of reasons people can feel fatigue, energy shifts, depression, disconnected and what not. Many people are trying to self-diagnose a lot of issues, including serious trauma. Serious trauma should always be treated with professional trauma healers!
So we must be very cautious about what we "blame" on awakening. When it comes to the body pains and discomfort, when in doubt, check in with a doctor to ensure that your body is healthy.
The Dark Awakening
I want to add a new term to this spiritual awakening blog post, and that's the dark awakening. When someone awakens and has tons of pain, they may plunge into a period of ego and/or physical collapse. This can be a time of undiagnosable physical ailments and all kinds of emotional pain. They feel totally in the dark and often feel very helpless. I've seen this happen with three students, and it can be confusing because there is no sense of peace, love, clarity, or wholeness. Instead, that abiding divine intelligence starts moving the person right into their issues, and any sense of bliss or clarity doesn't arise until much later--even years later--in their spiritual journey. Hence, many people who have a dark awakening don't even realize they've awakened.
The key in knowing if you've awakened or not is that spiritual inner work makes a huge difference. There are lots of reasons someone can get plunged into some kind of unknown illness or deep depression. However, as someone embraces the pain and learns to listen to it, they start to learn how to break down the walls that are resisting this inner truth and love. Issues purge. The person lets go.
Then the darkness recedes, and they start to feel better.
With dedication, there tend to be moments of the aforementioned love and truth, and a person who has had a dark awakening might even have a moment of bliss that arises. However, a blissful experience is not the goal. Freedom is the real opportunity here, and in a dark awakening, the path to true spiritual freedom starts immediately by consciously embracing pain.
Spiritual Awakening Process
- Awakened
- Spiritually shifted
- Wanting to awaken
- Long-time seekers
- Spiritually curious
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Awakened
The following blog posts are meant to help you listen and follow this guidance to create greater ease in your transformation. Ultimately, awakening is taking you to your natural state where you are free of your ego and the suffering it causes.
As someone dissolves more of their ego, even deeply protected levels of ego go away such as gender and sexual identities.
Losing Your Gender and Sexual Identities
Spiritual Tools and Strategies for Awakening
Here are some tools and strategies to help you do the spiritual inner work you need to do. If you are brand new to spirituality, please look to the resources in the starting out section. You may also find my ebook to be helpful.
Expanding in Peace After Awakening
Eventually, all that work done in darkness and pain leads people into deeper conscious awareness. That typically makes people more at peace.
Spiritually Shifted People
The following posts are meant to help you understand your shift and go deeper inwards and towards spiritual freedom.
Wanting to Awaken
With that said, a lot of preparation should be done if you are considering doing this. You need to be prepared for any psychological, emotional, physical, or energetic shift that can arise. That typically means doing inner work to get to know what is residing in your unconsciousness.
Reading more posts in my Starting Out section will also help you:
Long-time Spiritual Seeker
Some of you may have been seeking freedom/the Divine/God for a long time. However, without the correct understanding, many long-time spiritual seekers become lost. They can become spiritual retreat junkies, spiritual workaholics, spiritual tourists, and other types of spiritual egos.
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