Part 6 of 6: Spiritual Awakening
A spiritual awakening is something that begins to happen to you, not really something that you can just decide you want. But once you do feel the stirrings for one, then you can take steps to get there.
As with many good things, there can be a potential downside.
Whenever you grow as a person, there may be others who simply won’t. They liked you better the way that you were before – so you might experience some jealousy as well as someone trying to sabotage your journey. You may lose the support of others and may even end up having your motives challenged or ridiculed.
When you feel that you’re having a spiritual awakening, one thing that can go wrong is that you can want it so badly that you end up trying to rush it.
You push yourself, trying to reach new levels of consciousness when you’re not truly ready for this life changing event yet. When you attempt to rush through a spiritual awakening, it doesn’t work.
You’ll end up feeling frustrated and stressed. Remember that a spiritual awakening isn’t something that must take place overnight. It can be a short journey or a long one.
Another thing that can go wrong is you’re not kind to yourself through the journey. When you are awakened, it lets you see yourself more clearly than you ever have before.
As a result of this, it can make you see things that you might not like about yourself. But instead of beating yourself up and wallowing in guilt, you have to let it go and be kind to yourself.
This is why a spiritual awakening needs you to be free from thoughts that can fill you with negative emotions.
Another thing that can go wrong is that you play the comparison game.
You look at your life, then you compare it to someone else who has had a spiritual awakening. You might feel that they have more enlightenment so you feel inferior – or you beat yourself up that it took you so long to get there.
You need to understand that it’s not a race and comparing yourself can only cloud your ability to enjoy sincere enlightenment. Trust that your process won’t be like anyone else’s.
You might want a spiritual awakening and yet when it happens, you discover that going through it is harder than you thought – so you must be doing something wrong.
Just trust the process! You’re only feeling that way because you’re being shaken out of your comfort zone.
Keep in mind that a spiritual awakening brings light, but that light exposes things that can limit your ability to fully experience it.
As a result of that, you’ll discover that the change brings out some pretty tough things such as the kind of pain you might have spent your life trying to avoid. This type of pain can be emotional pain – but sometimes, you might feel pain within your body.
When you experience this, you might believe that you’re on the wrong path so you shut down. But as light expands within you, it’s only making room for enlightenment.
You have to let go of any assumptions about what you think an awakening is and just actually allow yourself to feel through it. That’s going to bring out things that you might not really want to face.
Sometimes these will be things that you didn’t want to deal with in preparation for a spiritual awakening because you thought they might be too hard to confront. But during the process, the enlightenment will deal with them.
Just recognize that the pain won’t last forever. Because of the emotional side of an awakening, sometimes, you can feel physically drained or even sick. It might even lead you toward feelings of deep sadness.
This is all a normal part of the process as you let go of anything that’s holding you back. Be as open as possible to the concept of changing the core of who you are.
Resisting it is natural and normal, but you’ll need to stay fully aware of what’s happening and how and why you’re fighting the awakening so that you can remove those obstacles and find the new life that’s waiting for you!
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