What Is a Spiritual Awakening? Understanding What It Is and How to Know If You Are Experiencing One

Let me start by saying this… if you’re reading about or researching spiritual awakenings, you’re experiencing one. This isn’t a subject you stumble onto by accident. Your intuition led you to this path for a reason so you can understand what is actually happening with you. Notice that I wrote “with you”, not “to you”. Spiritual awakenings don’t just happen. Your soul chose exactly when to wake you up and there is a purpose behind the timing.

Ok, now what exactly is a spiritual awakening? I like to think of it as a mid-life crisis that doesn’t have to happen during your mid-life. I was 33 years old when mine began, but you can go through this at any age. The reason I compare it to a mid-life crisis is because they are both periods of reevaluation and transformation. Now, let me break this down in a simple way. Every person on this planet has a soul and that soul has a spiritual agenda. Your soul is a lifelong student, always eager to learn and experience everything the universe has to offer. You might be asking, “How does it do that?” It chooses to incarnate into a physical vessel (your body) that has the capability to experience all of the wonderful and not so wonderful situations of human life. This is all for the purpose of growth. The more experiences your physical body has, the faster your soul evolves. Every time your soul incarnates, it chooses a main purpose or theme for that lifetime. From my experience, and that of my spirit team, your soul chooses to “wake you” at the point where you have enough wisdom to start working towards your life purpose. More often than not, you will experience some type of event that shakes you to your core. This is what I refer to as a catalyst because it jumpstarts everything. It can be the ending of a relationship, the loss of someone close to you, or even a relocation. It doesn’t even have to be a negative event. It could be a something amazing, like getting married or having a baby. Also, sometimes a person can just awaken without experiencing a catalyst. I had a traumatic event, which triggered a major upheaval in my life, so I’m thinking that a random awakening sounds pretty nice, lol. For those of you that did have a major life change, that was the point in which your soul said, “Ok, enough. Time to wake up now. You’ve got work to do.” This is especially true if you’ve been holding onto something that has needed to be healed and released… like yesterday. All of a sudden, your life is flipped upside down and you’re thinking, “WTF just happened?” You’ve just come to the realization that you can’t live the same way you have been. You begin seeing people and situations from a different perspective and that prompts you to take a look at yourself. You start healing and releasing the things you’ve been taught to believe, and, in the process, you find yourself … your real and true self. You go within and start reevaluating yourself and your life. Then, you reach a point of transformation so that you can start living the life you were meant to. I know this sounds “woo woo” to many of you, especially if you’re science-minded, so let me explain it from that perspective. Everything in the universe is made of energy, even you. Your physical body vibrates at a certain energetic frequency, which attracts people and situations that are also vibrating at that same frequency. For my random wakers, your soul chooses to wake you and floods the cells in your body with energy that is vibrating at a higher frequency. Now, your cells can only contain so much energy and if they’re receiving new energy, they’re going to purge any that is of a lower frequency. For those of you that experienced a catalyst, just know that the exact same thing happened in your physical body. You just chose to do it with more flair. What can I say… some of us like to be dramatic!

So, if you still aren’t sure whether you’re experiencing a spiritual awakening, here are some questions for you to reflect upon. First of all, have you gone through a major life change recently and feel different somehow? Have you had a moment of “clarity” that caused you to see things in a new light? Are you beginning to question the world around you? Have you experienced anything that would sound crazy to other people, such as psychic moments? Do you feel a sudden urge to change your job or move to a new city? If you answered yes to any of these questions, please keep reading.

If you are going through a spiritual awakening and, if you’ve read all the way to this point, you absolutely are, just know that there are millions of people that are going through the same thing because we are in the middle of a mass awakening on the planet right now. You might feel crazy, but don’t worry, you’re not. Also, please know that this is a time of introspection, healing, and deep transformation, so if you need support, please reach out to a qualified health professional. There are therapists out there that are very open to spiritually-minded people… you just have to do your research. If you don’t feel comfortable with that, there are tons of spiritual awakening support groups on social media. Spiritual awakenings are difficult, but SO worth it and you don’t need to go through this alone. We’ve got you. :)