What Is a Spiritual Awakening and It’s Importance

The term spiritual awaking has been emerging a lot recently in popular culture. But what is a spiritual awakening?

Spiritual awakening is described as a mental maturity process. It is the moment you realize that the world does not revolve around you and that not everything that happens has to do with you. It is the moment you realize your existence holds minor importance in the grand scheme of things, and the same goes for everyone else.

Usually, people have to go through an emotionally traumatic experience in order to kick start the process of spiritual awakening and begin to let go of their sense of self.

Letting go of the sense of self is a mandatory requirement for someone to be considered a spiritually awakened person, or “woke” or “enlightened”.

The reason for this is the concept of oneness that everything and everyone is all connected with each other, being one thing in the end.

In essence, spiritual awakening is the time you realize that we are all one and the same, but at the same time maintaining your sense of self and individuality while not persisting on your ego.

This process is called an “awakening” because once you make these realizations, you quickly start to question everything, be it social norms, personal or social beliefs, and even your habits.

You start looking for a purpose and a meaning in life.

Furthermore, while trying to give answers to these questions, you begin to see things from a different perspective.

You start thinking that your previous views and thoughts were part of a dream you were living and that you have awakened from.

How is spiritual awakening triggered

So what is it that triggers this process? Well, there is no definite answer to this question, although there a couple of candidates.

Generally, it is some kind of negative experience that triggers the spiritual awakening process. Sickness, traumas, surviving a life or death situation like war, the loss of loved one are some of the many examples which can be become triggers.

Because there so many things that can begin the awakening process, people have experienced it at almost any period of their life regardless of age.

Signs indicating spiritual awakening has begun

Now that we have a clear picture of what a spiritual awakening is, how it can happen and what you can do to promote it, let’s talk about a couple of indications and what they mean.

Before we go on, we have to clarify something important. Since the observations below are conclusions from yourself, about yourself, you should be really cautious and continuously observing your thoughts and behavior. 

The reason you need to be self-cautious is that it is really hard to be objective with yourself and draw conclusions. Always take your thoughts about yourself with a grain of salt, be it good or bad.

1. Observation and behavioral change

This is one of the most common signs of spiritual awakening. Most people are living their life like robots; they do automated tasks on repeat.

When you begin to awaken, questions about yourself, about your habits and basically the most straightforward things which all of us accept without thinking, will start to emerge.

This is described as if you were observing yourself from a third-person perspective.

A few examples of questions that will emerge on this phase of the awakening are:

  • Why do I feel that way right now?
  • Do I need all the stuff I buy?
  • Why is my life feeling like a chore?

2. Abandoning attachments

Another classic, which is easily noticed as well. Attachments are something we all have, whether we realize it or not.

It is the attachments we got, along with our habits and the people we spend time with that define us. 

So, in essence, everything comes in the form of an attachment, even our habits and friends are a form of an attachment to our brain and soul.

Most of the time, though, we attach ourselves to matter, be it either a car, money, drugs, food, etc.

When you go through awakening, you slowly become conscious of your attachments. The idea of being attached to things starts to feel unpleasant, and before you know it, you begin changing your lifestyle around these things.

Convenience is no more a priority, ideals and ethics take its place. Once you reach a point where you consciously thing that way and make choices like this, then you on your way for spiritual awakening.

3. Care for mental health

Most of the time, it is terrible mental health that prevents a person from reaching spiritual awakening.

To care about your mental health is to accept your emotions, accept your emotional trauma burdening you form the past. Only when you accept these things, you will feel emotions truthfully and on a bigger scale.

The goal of accepting your feelings is to achieve inner peace. The inner peace is a requirement for awakening. 

When you reach the state of the inner peace, you allow yourself to feel every feeling in the spectrum without losing your cool and to know what you are feeling, accept it and go on with your life without it getting to you.

4. Synchronicity and Connectivity

Getting your ego out of your head and feeling more as a part of something bigger is another sign. 

The feeling of connectivity can emerge through various activities and situations. Connectivity means that you are able to feel a connection with every living being and with nature as well.

Spending time in nature, stopping to eat meat, spending time with other people and getting to know them are only a few of the things you can do to get more connected with the world around you.

But there is more after you have started to feel more connected with the world. The next step is synchronicity.

But what is synchronicity?

Synchronicity is when you feel that something is going on, or that is going to happen if you make a particular choice. This happens because your brain is taking a lot more information into account. Although you might not realize that since it happens subconsciously, and that is because you allowed yourself to connect more with life around you.

Because of this, you intuitively know some things, but you don’t know why.

That is synchronicity.

Finally, after synchronicity is more prevalent in your life, your intuition is becoming more reliable and accurate. Being highly intuitive is an excellent sign of your spiritual awakening process.

Reaching, and more importantly, maintaining a state of high intuition during which you feel things right before they happen, is a skill almost exclusive to awaken people spiritually, and is made possible through all the previous signs and stages of the process.

Habits that help you to trigger spiritual awakening

Although it is not entirely up to you to begin your spiritual awakening, there a few practices you can start that will help you induce it onto yourself.

Additionally, these practices will make the process progress smoothly as long as you make a habit out of them. 

These practices include:

  • Meditation
  • Laughing
  • Dancing
  • Volunteering
  • Gratitude
  • Spending time in nature
  • Slowing down and reflect

Last words from The Positive Creators

Concluding, spiritual awakening is more of a process rather than a state; it never ends.

It is a never-ending process because you always have more to learn, more people to connect with, and more feelings that you can feel.

And just to clarify something, spiritually awakening is not some kind of superpower, you won’t be able to predict the future or be inside the head of other people.

Being spiritually awaken has more to do with your peace of mind and the independence of your soul. You become spiritually awaken when you realize that matter is just matter, and that what’s important is life.

You begin your awakening when you finally accept that you are not essential and that your ego is a burden that forces you to make individual choices in life that you don’t have to do.

Instead, you can start practicing gratitude, even for the most essential things that do not seem relevant and that everyone takes for granted.

Spend more time in nature rather than the city. Get more in touch with it. Some spiritual leaders suggest walking barefoot on the beach or in the woods is a therapeutic experience by itself.

And finally, start meditating. Meditation is the most important habit to develop if you want to awaken spiritually. It clears your mind and helps you slow down, reflects about the past, which in return enables you to achieve inner peace.

So we hope that we answered your questions “what is spiritual awakening” and that we helped you on your journey to become woke person.

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