The Spiritual Awakening

A time comes in your life when you finally get it...when, in the midst of all your fears and insanity, you stop dead in your tracks and somewhere the voice inside your head cries out ... ENOUGH!  Enough fighting and crying and blaming and struggling to hold on to the illusion.

You learn that negative feelings such as anger, envy and resentment must be understood and redirected or they will suffocate the life force out of you and poison the universe that surrounds you.

Then you begin to take responsibility for yourself by yourself and make yourself a promise to never betray yourself and never, ever to settle for less than your heart's desire. As you learn and grow you start to make changes in your life, but you also start feeling different.

We call this Spiritual Awakening.

 The Symptoms 

Changing sleep patterns: restlessness, hot feet, waking up two or three times a night. Feeling tired after you wake up and sleepy off and on during the day.

Activity at the crown of the head: Tingling, itching, prickly, crawling sensations along the scalp and/or down the spine. A sense of energy vibrating on top of the head, as if energy is erupting from the head in a shower. Also, the sensation of energy pouring in through the crown, described as "sprinkles".

Sudden waves of emotion. Crying at the drop of a hat. Feeling suddenly angry or sad with little provocation. Or unexplainable depressed. Emotional roller coaster.

Changes in weight. The weight gain in the US population is phenomenal. Others may lose weight. Advice with respect to this issue: Don't freak out, just accept it as a symptom of where you are right now. Release your anxiety about this.

Changes in eating habits: Strange cravings and odd food choices. Some find they are not as hungry as they used to be; others may be hungrier.

Food intolerances, allergies you never had before. As you grow more spiritual, you are more sensitive to everything around you.

Amplifications of the senses, increased sensitivity. Sight: Blurry vision, shimmering objects, seeing glittery particles, auras around people, plants.

Skin eruptions: Rashes, bumps, acne, hives and shingles. Anger produces outbreaks around the mouth and chin. Advice: You may be sloughing off toxins and bringing Emotions to the surface. Accept it, for it is probably temporary.

Episodes of intense energy' which make you want to leap out of bed and into action, followed by periods of lethargy and fatigue. Advice: Roll with the nature of the energy - don't fight it. Be gentle with yourself.

Changes in prayer or meditation. Not feeling the same sensations as before. Not having the same experience of being in contact with Spirit or your guides. Difficulty in focusing.

Power surges: All of a sudden you are heated from head to toe. It is a momentary sensation, but uncomfortable. In contrast, some people feel inexplicably cold. I have experienced both. Advice: Ask your Higher Power to turn up/down the temperature a bit.

A range in physical manifestations: Headaches, backaches, neck pains, flu-like symptoms, digestive problems, muscular spasms or cramps, racing heartbeat, chest pains, changes in sexual desire, numbness or pain in the limbs and involuntary vocalizations or bodily movements. Advice: Remember what I said about seeking medical help if you need it!

Looking younger. Yippee!!!

Vivid dreams. Sometimes the dreams are so real that you wake up confused. You may even have lucid dreams in which you are in control. Many dreams may be mystical or carry messages for you.

Events that completely alter your life: death, divorce, changes in job status, and loss of home, illness and/or catastrophes - sometimes several at once!

• Forces that cause you to slow down, simplify, change, re-examine who you are and what your life means to you.
• Forces that you cannot ignore.
• Forces that cause you to release your attachments.
• Forces that awaken our sense of love and compassion for all.

A desire to break free from restrictive patterns, life draining jobs, consumptive lifestyles and toxic people or situations. You feel a compelling need to "find yourself" and your life purpose - now! You want to be creative and free to be who you really are. You might find yourself drawn to the arts and nature. You want to un-clutter yourself from things and people that no longer serve you.

Emotional and mental confusion: A feeling that you need to get your life straightened out - it feels like a mess. But at the same time you feel chaotic and unable to focus. Advice: Put your ear to your heart and your own discernment will follow.

Introspection, solitude and loss of interest in more extraverted activities: This stage has come as a surprise to many extraverts who formerly saw themselves as outgoing and involved. They say, "I don't know why, but I don't like to go out as much as before."

Creativity bursts: Receiving images, ideas, music and other creative inspirations, for Spirit is speaking to you about how you might fulfill your purpose and contribute to the Healing of the planet.

A sense of impending-ness. There is a feeling that something is about to happen. This can create anxiety. Advice: There is nothing to worry about.

Impatience. You know better, but sometimes you can't help it. You want to get on with what seems to be coming your way. Uncertainty is not comfortable. Advice: Learn to live with the uncertainty, knowing that nothing comes to you until you are ready.

A deep yearning for meaning, purpose, spiritual connection and revelation. Perhaps and interest in the spiritual for the first time in your life. "Constant craving", as K.D.Lang says. The material world cannot fulfill this longing.

A feeling that you are somehow different. A disquieting sense that everything in your life feels new and altered, that you have left your old self behind. You have.

"Teachers" appear everywhere with perfect timing to help you on your spiritual journey: people, books, movies, events, Mother Nature, etc…

You are moving through personal issues and learning at a rapid pace. You sense that you are "getting it" quite readily.

Electrical and mechanical malfunctions. When you are around, light bulbs flicker, the computer locks up or the radio goes haywire. Advice: Call on your angels or guides to fix it or put up a field of protection of light around the machine. Laugh.

Increased synchronicity and many small miracles. Look for more of this. Advice: Synchronistic events tell you if you are heading in the right direction or making the correct choices. Honor these clues and you cannot go astray. Spirit uses synchronicity to communicate to you. That's when you begin to experience daily miracles.

Increased intuitive abilities and altered states of consciousness: Clairvoyance, out-of-body experiences and other psychic phenomena. Intensified sensitivity and knowing. Awareness of one's essence and that of others.

Communication with Spirit. Contact with angels, spirit guides and other divine entities. Channeling. More and more people seem to be given this opportunity.

A sense of Oneness with all. A direct experience of this Wholeness. Transcendent awareness. Being flooded with compassion and love for all life.

Moments of joy and bliss. A deep abiding sense of peace and knowing that you are never alone.

Integration: You become emotionally, psychologically, physically and spiritually stronger and clearer. You feel as if you are in alignment with your Higher Self.