Spiritual awakening is the beginning of your spiritual path. However, it does not happen overnight. Spiritual enlightenment is a process that is complex and is distinctive for everyone out there.
Many people don’t even realize that they are spiritually awakened. Therefore, the universe plays a significant role in this. The universe gives you signs through synchronicity and other transformations in your life. Angel number 1111 is the first sign you see when you are spiritually awakening is taking place.
While you walk on your spiritual path, the universe starts making big and visible changes to your life. It could be challenging too. Many people face obstacles and other significant changes in their personal and professional life when spiritual awakening takes place in one’s life. Depending upon the current life situation, the journey of the spiritual path may vary for different people.
What is Spiritual Awakening?
When undergoing spiritual ascension also known as a spiritual awakening, we wake up to life. At this moment, one starts questioning social conditioning, habits, and old beliefs.
People with spiritual awakening start seeing their life from a different perspective. They get curious about their life purpose, soul purpose, situation after their death, and a lot more. Questions that scrutinize the primary nature of life will occur in one’s mind during spiritual awakening.
If this happens to you where you crave to know the meaning of life, it is the direct sign you are being spiritually awakened. Searching for the Divine or God is also a common trait of a spiritually awakened person.
Why Spiritual Awakening Took Place in Your Life?
When your soul is ready to experience a process of transformation, spiritual awakenings take place in your life. There can be numerous reasons that it is happening to you.
Generally, this spiritual journey starts when you encounter some major changes in your life. Separation from your close ones, serious health issues, big losses, and other reasons can trigger a new start in your life.
When your spiritual awakening journey starts, it never ends. However, the intensity of this journey varies. Sometimes you experience a calm period while sometimes chaotic. The vibrations keep changing. Nothing is stagnant in this journey.
Furthermore, when your spiritual journey begins, try to explore yourself. Always follow your instincts and heart. This will help you to choose the right path guided by the universe.
7 Stages of Spiritual Enlightenment
The process of spiritual enlightenment is a mix of complexity. People experience different types of stages while they get a wake-up call from the universe. There are seven stages you have to go through once a spiritual journey begins. Each stage brings different emotions. This is the entire process of everyone’s spiritual journey.
Stage 1: Feeling Lost and Unhappiness
The first stage is the period of the dark night of your soul. This time usually brings confusion, alienation, disconnection, and unhappiness in your life. You feel lost every time. In addition, you keep seeking something but have no idea what.
You feel a looming hollowness inside of you. The first stage of spiritual enlightenment emerges spontaneously. It can also happen due to your disastrous breakup, illness, someone’s death, and other major life changes.
Stage 2: Changing Perspectives
With a spiritually awakened journey, your perspective starts taking a shift. You see reality with a different vision. Not only this, you see through the delusions and lies spread by society.
Furthermore, you don’t feel happy with life. You get disturbed by all the sufferings you observe all around. Consequently, you don’t see life with the same perspective as you used to see it in the previous state (when you were not aware of the spiritual path).
Stage 3: Asking Deep Questions
As you get a wake-up call from the universe, you start getting deep questions in your mind. You seek your soul’s purpose, the meaning of life, and spiritual destiny.
Above all, you dabble in different fields such as self-help and metaphysics to find truths and your answers. Eventually, you focus on the beginning of your spirituality.
Stage 4: Experiencing Breakthroughs
The spiritual journey is not easy at all. You have to bear a lot to see a fruitful life. While you seek deep questions about life, you will somehow find new mentors, teachers, or belief systems that will enter your life to ease your suffering.
Although the journey is tough, you still get protection from the universe. You will observe that your old patterns start dissolving and your soul or true self starts emerging. You may have numerous mystical experiences of spiritual enlightenment. This will help you to show the nature of reality. Besides that, it is also the stage where you feel connection, joy, awe, and hope.
Stage 5: Feeling Lost Again
Life undoubtedly keeps moving so is the spiritual awakening journey. Even if you begin to understand your spiritual journey, you may still get disillusioned.
In this stage, you feel tired or bored of spiritual practices or teachers. You may become unhappy with the false spiritual courses. Rather you want to dig deeper. In the end, you feel deeply upset and disturbed.
Stage 6: Inner Work
This is the stage where you have no interest in spiritual practices. Instead, you perform deep inner work. The pain inside you motives you to do it
During this period, you may also become a serious student of mindfulness, meditation, shadow work, ritual, bodywork, inner child work, and various transpersonal philosophies.
Stage 7: Joy, Expansion, Integration
When you successfully learn spiritual lessons from inner work, you start applying these lessons to daily life. In this stage, you experience long-lasting changes within yourself.
Many of you might experience mystical experiences in an integration phase. This should be noted that full self-realization or spiritual enlightenment is never promised; we have to strive for this gift. In addition, you may also feel like guiding others so you can bring peace, harmony, and joy into their life by passing on your spiritual journey experience.
20 Signs of Spiritual Awakening
The symptoms of spiritual enlightenment are not only restricted to emotions but also to the physical and psychological levels.
There are several spiritual ascension symptoms you must have noticed within you or in life. By going through the following symptoms, you can easily identify your spiritual awakening journey:
- You start feeling your life is deceitful.
- Always crave the meaning of your life.
- Start asking serious questions regarding life.
- Curiosity to know the purpose of your soul.
- Realize that you have been taught wrong about life.
- You might feel alone or lost.
- Start seeing through the illusions of society.
- You notice the unhappiness of most people.
- Feel like purging your life.
- Begin to experience compassion and deep empathy.
- You prefer to be alone.
- The conversation seems to be shallow to you.
- You might even want to quit the job.
- Keep seeing signs, omens, mystical experiences.
- You thirst for trust and authenticity.
- You make yourself aware of your old negative habits.
- Anxiety and depression can also be experienced by you.
- It can also make you sensitive.
- You feel like making this world a better place.
- You want to understand deeply who you are.
- Intuition power becomes strong too.
Apart from this, you may experience other spiritual awakening symptoms such as more synchronicity, unconditional love for yourself, and feeling wonder about life. You may also feel that we all are one.
10 Physical Symptoms of Spiritual Awakening
As specified earlier, the journey of the spiritual path may vary for different people. Similarly, there can be different physical signs of spiritual awakening for everyone. Here are a few symptoms you may experience within you:
Strong Senses- Your taste, hearing, smell, hearing power becomes strengthened. You may also find that you are a highly sensitive person.
Dizziness- Some people feel dizzy throughout the day or for a couple of days even if they are physically fit.
Food Intolerances- This can also be the symptom when you become allergic to certain food items that you were never allergic to.
Changing Weight- Throughout your spiritual awakening, you may gain or lose weight. This change would be visible if you are confused about whether you are on a diet.
Energy Fluctuations- Even if you are the most enthusiastic person in your friends or family group, you may still lose your energy for a while during this spiritual journey.
Changing Sleeping Patterns- When you are spiritually awakened, you will surely find differences in your regular sleeping pattern. You may sleep more or have disrupted sleep.
Vivid Dreams- Most people find dreams bizarre. However, experiencing vivid dreams could be one of the strong signs of spiritual awakening. Such dreams are usually intense and scary.
Fluctuation in Immune Function- Some of you might avoid this sign but this could be the one. During your spiritual enlightenment journey, your immune function can be decreased or increased.
Reduced Sex Drive- Your sex drive could also be increased or decreased during your spiritual awakening. Stress or tiredness can cause such problems.
Final Words!
If you encounter any of the aforementioned spiritual awakening stages and symptoms, it is not common at all. When you notice a rapid change in your life, health, and surroundings, this gives you an indication, your journey in the spiritual world has started. Hence, you observe a significant change in the mind, body, and soul connection.
Keep in mind, this journey may seem to be tough or challenging but this will transform your life for the better. Most importantly, you get guidance and protection directly from the universe. What else do you expect?
