Awakening
Ultimately this process of ego dissolution is the path to spiritual freedom. In spiritual freedom, we are free of the ego and our primal instincts. We are free to truly be. For more on spiritual freedom, you can read this link:
How to Find Spiritual Freedom
If you get stuck as you're going through all the content on this page, please refer to these posts. They'll help you to search this blog and the more than 800 spirituality blog posts that are here:
How to Read this Spirituality Blog
How to Find Answers on this Spirituality Blog
Before going further, please read the below post about spiritual awakening. It'll help you to understand how I approach the topic and how to find the right content on this spiritual blog for you.
Am I Having a Spiritual Awakening?
I also recommend this blog post as another important starting point to guide you on your spiritual path:
What Should I Do After Awakening?
These posts are meant to help you navigate the initial part of the awakening transition.
Surviving the Awakening
If you have already processed this phase and life is settling back down, then let me point you to this collection of posts:
After the Awakening
Over-arching Phases After Awakening
In my own experiences and in listening to the stories of those who have awakened, I've noticed these two over-arching phases as we transition into our embodied awakened selves.The Shadow and Dispelling the Darkness
Embracing Your Light Phase
Tools for Building a Supportive Foundation During Awakening
Dissolving Issues With Awareness
Identify, Accept, Embrace, and Let Go
Intuition
How to De-energize Old Pain With Relaxation
Focusing on Reality (A really helpful post for dealing with powerful fears)
Healing Desires: The Differences Between Urges and the Need for Fulfillment
Releasing Issues Intentionally
Seeking Clear Reflections and Finding Shadows
Common Experiences and Questions
How Do I Get My Awakening Back?9 Popular Spiritual Awakening Questions
5 Signs of a Spiritual Awakening
The Spiritual Backslide
The Newness and Uncertainty After Releasing an Issue
The Bliss State Comes and Then It Goes
Understanding Releases and Relief on Your Spiritual Journey
7 Common Spiritual Awakening Experiences
Spiritual Awakening Stages
The Process of Healing Pain From Your Energy Body (A must-read!)
Spiritual Awakening Crash and Burn
Signs of a Maturing Soul
Chronic Fatigue and Spiritual Awakening
How Long Does a Spiritual Awakening Take?
Kundalini Awakening and Kundalini Experiences
Getting Stuck and Incomplete Spiritual Awakening Integrations
Lost in Spiritual Bliss: Reclaiming Your Self From the Trap of Good Feelings
Why Spiritual Awakening Can Make People Solitary
Getting off the Spiritual Plateau
Awakening After the Death of a Loved One
Feeling Alienated After Awakening
Loss of Focus During a Spiritual Awakening
Spiritual Sticking Points and Why People Like Being Stuck
Awakened and Being at a Loss for Words
Feeling Unprepared, Lost, or Confused?
Few people are really prepared to awaken, and for some reason, it seems to happen spontaneously for some people. That explosion of conscious awareness disrupts a lot of things, and people can respond poorly when they are not prepared. Here are some posts about this with some advice to help you transform difficulty into freedom.Repairing an Awakening Gone Badly
Spiritual Depression and Unconscious Ego Resistance After Awakening
Spiritual Awakening and Pain: The Torment of Internal Resistance
Has God Turned His Back on You?
Can a Spiritual Awakening Go Wrong?
Being Spiritually Prepared Versus Ready
Energy Sickness and Feeling Drained Energetically
The Unwanted Awakening: Denying Your Self and Your Love
The Dark Night of the Soul
While some of these are some older posts about feeling lost and confused after awakening, they are still relevant on a lot of levels.
- Spiritual Wandering and the Lost Years
- Shifting Perspectives: Walking Through a Weird Wonderland
- Post-Awakening Challenges: The Lost Gray World of Apathy
Matters of the Awakened Mind
These spiritual awakening blog posts talk about some of the opportunities, experiences, and challenges that go on in the mind after awakening.The Fear of Losing Your Mind
Between Disbelief and Belief
A Spiritual Belief System Vacuum and Filling the Void
Bringing Attention to the Spiritual Ego
Refining and Trusting Your Intuition
Unconfirmed Intuitions
Facing Your Ego's Death
Matters of the Awakened Heart
There are a lot of kinds of healing and ways our hearts continue to open after a spiritual awakening. It's not like we wake up and our hearts are instantly completely open and mature. There seem to be a maturing process and multiple heart expansions that arise for people.After a Spiritual Awakening Unleashes All Your Emotions
Opening to New Layers of Love
Forgiveness
The Heart Awakening: Falling in Love With Everybody
Permission to be a Hot Mess on the Spiritual Path
The Maturation of the Awakened Heart
Becoming Heart Strong
The Fire, Strength, and Resilience of Awakened Love
Deepening Shared Love Connections
Matters of the Awakened Body
The body has to understand every spiritual shift in its own way. When we know things on the gut level, we find an immense amount of inner peace with ourselves and the world. We also find that we naturally know how to interact with the world.Dietary Shifts and Food Needs in the Spiritual Awakening Process
How to Find and Release Physical Pain During a Spiritual Awakening
Discovering the Unconscious Stories of Your Body
Physical Rigors of Spiritual Awakening
Spiritual Awakening Body Changes and Rebirth
Phantom Physical Pains and Spiritual Awakening
Clearing Out the Physical Sludge on the Spiritual Path
Yoga and A Self-Guided Practice to Open Your Energy and Clear Issues
Grounding and Integrating Your Spiritual Awakening
Integrating Your Spiritual Awakening Through a Spiritual Sexual Practice
Hidden, Subtle Levels of Physical Fear and Agitation
5 Types of Spiritual Awakening Sleep Problems and Insomnia
The Animal Within: Retraining the Primal Instinctual Body
Accepting Your Body's Mortality and Frailty
Matters of the Awakened Energy Body
The energy body's way of growing and changing is unique and powerful. It influences all the other levels and requires its own kind of attention and care.Spiritual Awakening and Enhanced Energy Sensitivities
Rebuilding Boundaries After the Awakening
Psychic Emergence and Spiritual Awakening
Refined Healing Techniques for Refining Your Energy
When People Fall in Love With Your Energy
Energy-caused Involuntary Muscle Spasms or Kriyas
Spiritual Awakening Dreams, Dream-like Experiences, and Subconscious Processing
Sometimes, all the energy activity during the daytime doesn't stop when you close your eyes at night. Here are some thoughts about how awakening can continue during your sleep.Dreams and Processing Your Issues Through Your Subconscious
Subconscious Processing and Awakening
Spiritual Truths
Nothing Belongs to You
We Are All One: The Law of Interconnection
Working on Core Issues
Core issues define how we think about ourselves and about life in general. They get instilled in us at a very young age, and they have mental, emotional, physical, and energetic levels. Healing them is profound work, and it is profoundly important work. The more you let go of your core issues, the more at peace you can be with all of life.Uncovering Core Issues
The Fear of the Unknown
Love and the Search for Validation
Facing the Abyss of Self-Hatred
Shattering Core Issues With Spiritual Awareness
Losing Your Gender and Sexual Identities
Resting in Your Awakened Awareness
As you mature on the spiritual path, it becomes easier and easier to rest as your awareness. Here are some spiritual awakening blog posts about this reality.Melting Into Silence
Releasing Issues Intentionally
Expanding Into New Levels of Consciousness
How to Rebuild Your Life After Awakening
How Do I Make Decisions from No-mind?
The Many Endings and New Beginnings of Awakening
Embodying awakening is a time of great shifting, but throughout life, you will continue to shift and grow. Everyone will experience this differently, but predominantly, this initial spiritual awakening phase is a phase. It's the time of the caterpillar transforming into the butterfly. It should be embraced fully in the moments that it is with us, and then let go with the understanding that we are not working to get to a goal, that each moment is already a goal in and of itself.As this letting go and opening process continues, it becomes possible to realize deeper states of spiritual freedom.
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The butterfly picture on this page is a gift from Becky Stiller. You can see more of her work on her Flickr account.
