Are you wondering if you’re going through a period of spiritual awakening? Or just losing your marbles?
Or perhaps you’ve been focusing on trying to heal and develop your spirituality, and you’re wondering if your efforts are paying off…
In this article, we cover some key signs that you might be going through a spiritual awakening.
How Do I Know If I Am Spiritually Awakening?
Spiritual awakening and enlightenment are often used interchangeably. They describe the journey towards inner peace, a bliss-like state, and the revealing of your Higher Self through a spiritual awakening process.
The spiritual journey of enlightenment happens when your ego stops governing you, and you’re able to see the infinite connectedness and intricacy of the universe. You stop seeing yourself as separate from the universe and others in it, and you realize your True Self. Your True Self is infinite, boundless, eternal, and connects everything in the universe (and beyond).
The spiritual path of awakening and merging the soul with the True Self is a progressive journey that has a variety of different successive experiences that are unique to the individual experiencing them and their karmic journey.
Sometimes when you’re going through a period of spiritual development, or spiritual awakening, it can be hard to know exactly what’s going on!
You might feel excited and like all the pieces are clicking into place, calm and supported, anxious, depressed, intense energy, or even confused. The experience is different for each individual.
Spiritual enlightenment is a successive journey of different experiences that help you to self-realize your true nature, and you experience multiple spiritual awakenings during your lifetime.
There isn’t a single clear roadmap to lead you down the road of spiritual awakening. Your path through the journey of spiritual awakening and enlightenment isn’t necessarily straightforward or linear, and it is unique to your karmic footprint.
The process of spiritual awakening is both dismantling things that no longer serve you, such as beliefs, habits, and systems, along with evolving past old boundaries that bind you.
Spiritual awakening does what it says on the tin. You awaken from what can be described as a dream-like state and consciously grow towards a more mindful level of consciousness that sees past the illusion of this current reality. This paradigm shift away from a material-based and ego-centred level of awareness allows you to grow, flourish, and evolve.
Avidyā means ignorance, incorrect knowledge, and misconception in Sanskrit. It is used through Buddhist, Hindu, and Yogic philosophy to describe the state of sleepwalking and operating from lower level consciousness prior to spiritual awakening.
During the process of spiritual awakening the veil of avidya—incorrect knowledge—is lifted and you begin your process of self-realization. During the process of self-realization, you start to operate from your Higher Consciousness and learn your true nature, which is Divinity itself.
Below is a non-exhaustive list of some common things that can trigger or be signs of spiritual awakening and healing. It can be hard to categorize exactly what your spiritual awakening might look like because it’s always different and is a unique individual journey.
Sometimes the experience of spiritual awakening feels good, like walking towards the light. And other times the experience of spiritual awakening feels uncomfortable, like a need to walk away from the dark. There is no wrong or right path when it comes to spiritual awakening, your journey is beautiful in its own way and exactly what you need.
Simple Signs Of Spiritual Awakening
1. You Feel Discontent And Unfulfilled
You may start to feel restless like you don’t feel like you’re living your most authentic life. You might feel like you aren’t truly being yourself, and that you want to break free from your ‘chains’.
There might be an inner yearning for things in your life to shift.
2. You Feel Depressed Or Anxious
Sometimes you need to switch direction and change the path in your life. This can be triggered by forms of mental health issues such as insomnia, anxiety, depression, or other forms of mental discomfort.
Suffering from a mental health issue can trigger changes in your life, and these shifts can set the foundation for a spiritual awakening.
Perhaps you feel like something needs to give due to mental suffering, and this triggers you to change certain things in your environment, body, or mind. There is a common consensus that when you hit ‘rock bottom’, the only way is up.
3. Pain And Discomfort
Spiritual awakening is quite often portrayed as being a wonderful fluffy warm journey, but this can quite often be far from the case. Sometimes a spiritual awakening can initially come in some form of pain.
Perhaps you break up with a long-term partner, or you disconnect from what was previously a strong friendship, or you were hoping to get a particular job but the interview fell through, or maybe you’re moving house and didn’t get the one that you thought you wanted.
More often than not, on the other side of the discomfort, sadness, or pain—is a wonderful spiritual awakening waiting to happen, and it manifests and flourishes from the depths of your suffering.
4. A Deep Sense Of Connection, Calm And Inner Peace
Sometimes a spiritual awakening can feel like peaceful bliss and a deep sense of cosmic alignment. Perhaps you feel that all is as should be and that you’re supported, loved, and cared for by Divine energy.
You might be able to sense the energetic support and power of the universe behind you and within you.
You might also feel more of a spiritual connection to the world around you, other humans, animals, and nature.
Perhaps you feel more drawn to community building or environmental projects. Or maybe you find yourself judging others less, and instead being drawn to learn about those who seem different to you.
5. Letting Go Of Attachments
Are you feeling like you no longer fit into certain boxes that you used to identify with or believe that you are? Perhaps you are having a shift in your personal identity, or belief systems.
Or maybe you’re letting go of the attachment to certain parts of your identity altogether?
Healing trauma and letting go of your attachment to certain trauma can also be a sign of healing and spiritual awakening.
Attachments and bonds can come in a variety of different forms, from identity and experiences to material objects and status.
6. Increased Intuition And Energetic Attunement
Are you feeling more in tune with the energy of the universe? Perhaps you have a heightened sense of intuition? Or maybe your psychic ability is becoming a lot stronger. These are all possible signs of spiritual awakening!
Your energetic attunement to the world around you becomes stronger with spiritual awakening.
Perhaps you think of a friend you haven’t spoken to for a while, and then they call you. Or perhaps you meet someone new and know their name before they tell you.
Things can start to become unexplainably mystical and magical during spiritual awakening.
If you’d like to learn more about how you can awaken your inner temple and cultivate inner power, then read my article here.
7. Miraculous Synchronicities
It can feel like you’re driving and all the lights are green. Things just keep lining up and falling into place miraculously.
Due to your heightened spiritual awareness, you’re noticing the synchronicities between certain events, and things mysteriously just seem to manifest and happen for you.
Synchronicities can also help to guide you through life in the right direction if you start to pay attention to the subtle cues around you.
Perhaps you’re noticing certain messages showing up as slogans on people’s t-shirts? Or maybe you keep noticing certain names, details, or messages, showing up repeatedly throughout your day in odd places?
During a spiritual awakening, you tend to notice the deeper meaning of your life purpose and what these synchronicities are guiding you towards.
8. Comfortable In Your Authenticity
Are you starting to feel at home within yourself? Maybe you feel comfortable in your own body. Perhaps you’re beginning to truly trust in yourself. Or are you finally proudly being your true authentic self?
Accepting all of yourself and not being afraid of being yourself is a sign of spiritual growth!
Reaching a sense of inner satisfaction, self-worth, and confidence is a great sign of authenticity and spiritual awakening.
9. Decreased Sense Of Fear
Are you no longer stuck in fear mode? Are you letting go of the need to control and stress due to fear and anxiety?
Perhaps you notice a deep sense of trust taking over, and that you’re being supported by the cosmos. This is a lovely sign of a spiritual awakening.
10. Higher Levels Of Compassion And Empathy
Having a higher level of empathy and compassion for yourself and others is a wonderful sign of a spiritual awakening.
Perhaps you’re noticing that everything is an extension of yourself, and you’re sending out love to the universe because you feel this deep sense of connectedness.
Emanating loving kindness, unconditional love, and peace is a key sign of a spiritual awakening.
11. Being More Mindful And Conscious
A common sign of spiritual awakening is being more mindful and conscious. Self-awareness is an integral part of spiritual awakening.
Often self-awareness is the catalyst that will form the foundation of your spiritual awakening.
Are you starting to question certain behaviours, thoughts, mindsets, and actions that you habitually find yourself repeating?
Are you suddenly noticing your habits and patterns and trying to dismantle ones that aren’t helpful?
Are you able to self-reflect on your thoughts, actions, behaviour, and speech with an honest, non-judgemental and non-biased mindset?
12. You Have More Self Control And Inner Resilience
When you’re going through a spiritual awakening you will tend to find that you have a higher sense of inner peace, calm and resilience.
Going through spiritual growth doesn’t mean that your life is perfect and that things always go to plan. But it does mean that you have a stronger sense of inner resilience and inner power so when things do get chaotic, you can quickly bring yourself back to inner peace.
You no longer get drawn into the abyss of chaos, noise, and temptation that is designed to draw you away from the path of spiritual growth.
You will no doubt continue to experience emotions such as anger, sadness, frustration, despair, and pain, but they no longer entirely control and run your life. Your self-awareness and spiritual strength help to draw you back to the middle path and stillness.
13. More Focus On The Present Moment
Often you’ll find that you are drawn to the present moment during spiritual awakening as opposed to being constantly drawn into the past or the future.
Mindfulness and meditation practices are great at helping you to develop these skills, and they create a strong foundation for developing self-awareness and spiritual awakening.
14. Higher Focus On Balance And Holistic Health And Wellness
Those who are going through different stages of spiritual awakening start to become hyper-aware of the interconnectedness of everything in life. You begin to understand that you must look after yourself holistically in terms of body, mind, and soul.
You might start to notice that whilst working a lot is great for your financial abundance, it might mean that your happiness and wellness decrease.
Whereas focusing too much on health and wellness might lead to less focus on working and financial security, which in turn, can increase stress.
When you are spiritually awakening you seek fulfilment, happiness, peace, balance, and holistic health and wellness that caters to all the needs you have in life.
This means not being too lazy, but taking rest when you need to. And it also means working hard to maintain all of the resources that you need, without overworking until burnout.
15. Ability To Face And Heal Trauma
When you’re going through a period of spiritual transformation you might notice that you become ready to face a certain experience or trauma that you’re holding onto. Perhaps you feel ready to heal and let go of a particular pain or heavy experience that you have been carrying.
Spiritual awakening gives you the strength to do the inner work required for deep transformation.
16. Seeking A Spiritual Teacher
At certain points during your spiritual awakening journey, you may find yourself seeking a spiritual teacher or a new spiritual guide. A good spiritual teacher can help you to strengthen your spiritual practice and can guide you through your spiritual awakening journey.
If you’d like to learn more about the different stages of spiritual awakening, then check out my article here.
Conclusion
This list certainly isn’t exhaustive! As you can see, spiritual awakening can come in so many different forms.
Have you experienced any of these signs of spiritual awakening and healing?
And have you discovered your life purpose through your spiritual awakening experience? If so, let me know in the comments.
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