Finding Clarity in Your Spiritual Awakening

Amidst all the insomnia, overwhelming anxiety, and other challenging symptoms that spiritual awakening can inflict, there’s still a way to stop merely hoping you’ll survive through the night, to instead live each day with empowered intent.

Whether you’re spending a week at the beach, traveling through Europe, or climbing Mount Everest, you’d likely prepare mentally and physically by researching all that the transportation choices and destinations have to offer, selecting specific places of interest to visit, and by packing everything you’ll need while away.

But you didn’t consciously decide to take this awakening journey; it just sort of happened. There was no time to plan or prepare. And now you feel helpless, at the mercy of the unknown. You don’t even know where you are on this path and what the final destination could possibly be. And the endless possibilities of what you could be doing to move you forward and sleep through the night, freeze you with overwhelm.

So let’s slam on the brakes:

Take a deep breath.

You’re going to be fine.

First, let’s dispel the common limiting belief that a spiritual awakening can only be chaotic. That’s not a universal truth. Second, not everyone having a spiritual awakening has to achieve the level of an enlightened guru. Though we are all already as enlightened as a guru, it’s the traumas that damaged our ego that left us disconnected from our self-love to access that higher understanding. However. it may not be your soul’s intention to do all the work necessary to experience that level in this lifetime. For example, your soul’s end goal could be as simple as finding great joy in volunteering, or to discover you enjoy hiking. Everyone’s path is different.

Where you are on the journey doesn’t really matter right now, but where you’re going sure does. The distress is caused by your ego’s feeling a lack of safety from the perceived unknown destination.  So let’s trick the ego into believing it has a some control by giving the journey structure and creating an achievable end goal with milestone markers en route. With a destination comes a clearer purpose.

I made it through years of the midnight of the soul, and kundalini awakening, and what worked best for my spiritual growth was when I finally figured out that I can reframe my awakening experience by naming it a journey focused on discovering, releasing and healing the various energies preventing the deepest connection to my inherent human spirituality of self-love, so I can live authentically. What’s the purpose of any awakening if not to discover your soul’s authentic soul expression and become unapologetically you?

How do you learn these tools that worked for me to create your own healing experience? I share them in a recently published book specifically written to help those at any stage of a spiritual awakening, called, Your Trauma Healing Journey: Lifeprint Reiki’s Guide to Reconnecting to Self-Love. In it, I discuss all the various types of unresolved trauma you may have experienced and offer shadow work exercises to facilitate healing. Most prevalent is religious trauma you don’t even realize is operating within.

Gaining self-awareness to these hidden traumas is a crucial part of the journey Especially of the root cause of the pain you’re experiencing to allow it to process. Our soul learns through suffering, but it doesn’t know what the lesson is yet. So, if you continually ask yourself, “What am I learning from this pain?” the answers will help move you faster through the awakening process. It’s also helpful to use the phrase as a journal prompt or mantra. For example, surviving this difficult process may have us believe we’re weak, but it’s actually teaching us how strong we are.

Because your ego is damaged from the lack of control in childhood, it subconsciously wants to control everything. What you need to learn is to surrender and trust the Universe, which can be a challenge for those who grew up not trusting their caretakers. The book offers ways to help understand and heal the past to feel the empowerment of surrender. You can’t change the past, but you can change how you feel about it.

Suffering and surrender is one of my 11 Insights to Happiness. Also on the list is curiosity, attachments and expectations, the illusion of polarity, forgiveness, compare and despair, boundaries, the power of loss, internal validation, connecting with ancestors and nothingness. Simply becoming aware of how these ideas operate within you and the conflict they create within can be an eye opening experience.

The book is filled with many exercises, other insights and coping tools to help you feel empowered during this awakening journey instead of a victim of it. You only need to suffer until your realize you don’t. BUY THE BOOK