What’s Really Happening When You’re Having A Spiritual Awakening?
You’ll know when your more spiritual side has woken up. People just talk about being spiritual woke. But there’s a difference between the trend and the reality. Those that truly experience spiritual awakenings accept change into their lives. Most people only drift within a spiritual awakening and they don’t really have one at all.
So here’s a metaphorical concept of what an awakening is:
A spiritual awakening is more like falling down and allowing yourself to discover your surroundings. While a spiritual shakeup is more like falling down and then looking for any hook or hand to scoop you back up. So, someone having a spiritual shakeup reacts more out of fear, while a spiritual awakening allows you to accept the fall and slowly seek your way back up and find balance.
What most people think is a spiritual awakening is really just a spiritual shakeup. They have been spiritually vulnerable and allowed others to take advantage of their empathy and kindness. Most people are upset for a few days or weeks, and then they return back to the same situations. Others find new people or attract opportunities to reface the same situation all over again. That is not a spiritual awakening.
Other people will go through a number of experiences that lead to extreme disappointment, like a series of unfortunate events or a near death experience. The awakening is in the revelations of your reality during these experiences. It’s difficult to explain but you just know that something isn’t right. You’ll want to draw boundaries, but you’ll be unsure on how to do this. Most people cut off many friends and family because it’s difficult to understand the cause and effect of things — and to be honest, there is not one person, place or event to blame. Your awareness is only expanding. Everyone and everything is guilty, including yourself. We have spiritual awakenings because our expectations are in conflict with reality. A healthy outlet for the imagination is necessary.
Creating Spiritual Boundaries
Most people watch TV or listen to music and this helps entertain the imagination. People who are more creative or spiritual have a lack of boundaries with their imagination. So they are more influenced by what they watch or listen to. They often carry out what they see or listen to in the real world, and they expect others to be on the same page. But other people may not watch or listen to the same entertainment. Other people may have boundaries. So they don’t carry out the subconscious influences from the popular television series, “Game of Thrones” onto their everyday work life. It’s important to properly balance out your imagination with real life.
Those who have had near death experiences, often times feel a need to make a lot of sudden changes in their lives. Maybe they need to change their routine or their diet. There’s a need to create new limits and take on new responsibilities. Many turn to religion or spirituality as an alternative outlet because they realize that they could have been dead. So, they take that second opportunity of life to understand their experience. People who have near death experiences often become less tolerable. This is because the near death experience forces limitations to prevent others from disturbing your spiritual path and purpose.
Healing From Disappointment
There’s no simple solution to prevent disappointment except to only have expectations in situations that make sense. Always lookout for the right signs. Sometimes the right signs are not the signs that we are most familiar with. Our comfort zones are what’s trying to be shattered during a spiritual awakening so that we can see a different perspective of our reality. We can be use to friends, colleagues, family members and authority figures whom we may feel familiar with. That natural sense of approval is what we think that we like or need. The truth is that relationships become outdated. Sometimes relationships evolve together. Other times, they become damaged because people’s motives and interest change. When one person is unfulfilled in a relationship, communication becomes awkward, then people become resentful and act out of resentment. The innocence of the relationship is damaged. Some people only have relationships like this; where there are many dependent conditions satisfying the relationship. It works for a lot of people. But spiritual people do not have relationships with too many conditions. They appreciate another person’s energy, and other conditions are just an added benefit which shouldn’t completely destroy the connection.
Finding Yourself Again
While undergoing a spiritual awakening, it’s very easy to become confused and indecisive. There’s so much to learn and once you think you understand something, it seems like a new source of information intervenes. This is because we can’t know everything. We can only get to know ourselves more and how we feel. Our interactions with the world constantly remind us of who we are and our potential. When our friends and family no longer match our vibe, this can cause an identity crisis. This is a normal part of the process and you should allow time to explore your spiritual curiosities in a safe and healthy manner.
