As contemporary living becomes faster paced and more complex, the topic of spiritual awakening has become increasingly popular. The cultural shift toward digital excess and emotional exhaustion has led people to ask themselves questions about their identity, as well as their motivations for success.
A lot of society is beginning to think outside the box when it comes to achieving success. This thought process is prompting people to examine their beliefs, emotional patterns and values more closely than ever before.
The signs of spiritual awakening may initially be seen as curiosity, as awareness of one’s inner experience is typically the first sign of your spiritual awakening journey and your path toward a personal transformation.
Awareness of Self
During an early period of one’s spiritual awakening, a person may also begin to question many of the beliefs and emotional patterns that he/she has held for many years; as such, the signs of awareness will likely take the form of curiosity about one’s own inner experiences.
Sensitivity to Energy, Feelings and Emotions
During your spiritual awakening, you may notice increased sensitivity to the emotions, feelings and moods of others, as well as the energy around you; as a result, crowded places may feel overwhelming or claustrophobic, while quiet places might offer you peace, comfort and recovery from all of the ‘noise’ that surrounds you.
While some may interpret increased sensitivity to the emotional state of others to mean a lack of strength or resilience, greater awareness in regards to the emotions of others allows an individual to understand their own emotional state more deeply; this awareness is part of the process of gaining a better understanding of oneself.
Setting boundaries is part of a process that allows individuals to understand themselves better.
Searching for Meaning and Purpose
As an example, some people may become less satisfied with material success and will place more emphasis on their inner peace and fulfillment. Philosophy, spirituality, and mindfulness are areas that many people experiencing spiritual awakening tend to investigate in order to help their own personal development.
After this period of time of exploration, many undergo emotional changes and a change in lifestyle. During your personal development, you will go through many Emotional Growth processes, one of which involves processing many emotions deeply.
During your spiritual development, it will be common for you to find yourself processing many of the emotions that have been suppressed for a long time, so that they can heal. A lot of the old grief, anger, or fears that you have may come up unexpectedly as part of the healing process.
Changes in Awareness and Perspectives
Questioning the Beliefs of Others
Many people discover that the beliefs they have adopted and accepted, due to their upbringing are not resonating with them any longer.
Therefore, they will put more value in their own internal truth than they do in external validation from others. Through the practice of this questioning stage, one can arise spiritually by eliminating limitations in perception.
By using reflection, the individual is able to expand awareness and by using genuine inquiry, be able to go deeper into self-realization.
Connected to a Life Force
It will support the transformation of the inner self, and life’s purpose may feel more significant than merely making a name for oneself. The awareness will be able to translate into changes in how the individual lives their life.
Change in Life Style After Spiritual Awakening
Simplifying Life Style
Once one experiences a spiritual awakening, they will typically start to simplify their life. They will feel that they need to simplify their lives through the elimination of unnecessary routines, possessions, and commitments and that excess has become undesired and uninviting in their life.
Then the space that is available becomes another source of value. The act of simplifying their lives will support the individual’s spiritual growth by allowing them to avoid distractions.
This will help the individual to have a clearer mind. It allows an individual to live with a more intentional mindset and feel lighter in their everyday lives.
Shifting Relationships
A spiritual awakening may affect the dynamics of relationships for the individual as a result of changes in values that the individual experiences. It is inevitable that some relationships will begin to fade as the individual transforms into a different version of themselves.
This transformation may or may not allow the individual to connect with others. These changes are more about an individual’s inner work that allows them to let go of previous relationships rather than rejecting them.
The individual is able to connect with others due to the new state of their true self, which is more authentic. The choices that the individual makes are influenced by their self-realization.
Actions and Values Are Now Aligned
During this process of spiritual awakening, the individual is able to create a stronger alignment between what they do and what they value within themselves.
Integrity has become essential for the individual, as it allows an individual to make choices and decisions in an intentional manner.
Living within alignment with values has been shown to reflect the individual’s level of awareness through signs from within and by reducing internal conflict.
This in turn allows for the individual to prepare for more in-depth self-inquiry moving forward.
Self-Transformation and Self-Realization
Change of Identity
During this process of spiritual awakening, the individual’s identity will often change, as an individual will begin to develop a new sense of self.
Releasing Control
Through spiritual awakening there is less need for controlling outcomes, as there is now trust instead of planning and acceptance rather than needing to push through difficulty.
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Letting go promotes an individual’s spiritual growth.
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Stress decreases on its own, and life is felt to be guided and not forced.
Finding Inner Peace
People going through inner transformation often experience deep inner peace even if there isn’t anything happening to cause it externally.
Feeling calm is often a natural occurrence for many people at this stage of their journey. Many will experience a sense of being content at this stage.
These instances affirm the experience of self-awareness. Awareness becomes a stable state of being, which leads to challenges moving through awakening.
The Struggles of Transformation
Revisiting Old Patterns
Individuals who undergo a spiritual awakening do not abruptly remove old patterns and habits.
The individual will experience reoccurring patterns repeatedly. Each occurrence supports the individual’s awareness of the patterns, which gives them the opportunity to heal consciously.
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Each of these instances provides deeper awareness for the individual.
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There is a process of observing the patterns while going through inner transformation rather than forcing the change.
This will create an individual’s continued growth in spirituality.
Personal Awareness During Spiritual Growth
Awareness of Mental Patterns
As you progress through your spiritual growth, as your awareness expands into how you think and the habits you have toward your mind, you will develop a greater awareness of repeating patterns of thought. By developing this awareness of repeating thought patterns, you will develop a choice.
As you develop awareness, you will notice that the value you place on your thinking has decreased.
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Your mind will become increasingly quieter.
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Your inner space will gradually be increased.
Grow Through Understanding Emotional Triggers
The experience of spiritual awakening will magnify the triggers to emotional responses that were formed from past experiences.
Building Inner Guidance
As individuals undergo spiritual growth, the opportunity to develop trust in listening to their inner guidance and intuition will become a common experience for many.
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The decision of what feels good, right, etc. will become more intuitive.
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External validation will no longer play a major role in their decision-making processes.
Listening to the Inner You
To be aware, one has to be able to integrate their awareness during their daily life. An individual’s presence during their daily routines will become a natural outcome from their spiritual awakening.
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You will begin to live your life with intent.
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The process of integration continues your spiritual growth beyond reflection.
Acting Compassionately and with Integrity
The spiritual awakening process will foster the ability and motivation to engage in compassionate action aligned with what you have become aware of during your spiritual awakening.
Kindness will become instinctual rather than forced. You will engage in a more ethical manner as your choices will be guided by your integrity.
You will develop a more aligned life with your self-realization by engaging in actions based on your values, as well as the integration of your spiritual awakening.
Accepting That Growth Never Ends
In embracing the journey, you will continue your spiritual growth. The individual will continue to undergo their own transformation in a fluid manner, leading the individual naturally into their concluding thoughts.
Heightened Sensitivity Toward Truth and Authenticity
Discomfort With Falsehood
During a spiritual awakening, individuals become more aware in a heightened fashion of dishonesty, falsehood and superficiality or misalignment within their lives.
They will have a strong emphasis on seeking out genuine truth. They will engage in life in a more honest manner due to their inner transformation.
Desire for Authentic Expression
Spiritual development will also create an increased desire to express oneself in an authentic manner.
No longer are they going to feel comfortable pretending to be somebody other than themselves, and they won’t have the energy for people pleasing.
Self-expression will come easier as they progress along their spiritual path.
This shift allows for greater expansion of the self to come into their full potential.
Living in Alignment
The desire to align one’s life experiences and actions with the values and beliefs that are at the core of the self is also going to be heightened during a spiritual awakening.
The importance of action over appearance becomes the primary focus for the awakened individual. The importance of being in integrity is significantly heightened.
Increased Alignment will greatly reduce the inner conflict that the awoken individual has experienced.
Their life becomes more simplified. This increased level of simplicity also prepares and comforts many individuals to enter into the next phase of solitude and reflection.
Increased Need for Solitude and Reflection
An individual going through a spiritual awakening will have a much stronger need for solitude and quiet reflection on him or herself.
Silence will provide nourishment to him or her.
Balancing Solitude and Connection
Therefore, the time when they are most in a conscious and connected way with others helps to create a balance within their spiritual development.
By creating this awareness of balance, the individual is more likely to maintain good emotional health while he or she is going through his or her spiritual awakening.
The result of the equilibrium they establish should result in a much higher level of inner peace.
Compassion and Service
Working with others and providing help are expressions of awareness. As one has changed within, one looks beyond oneself to assist the other; we create a sense of purpose.
Judgment Reduction
As one grows spiritually, one becomes less inclined to judge others dramatically.
One begins to understand rather than blame. Awareness softens our responses. Compassion is a result of self-awareness.
One can develop much lighter and more uplifting relationships as one releases emotional burdens.
Living With Open Hearted Awareness
The quality of that openness grows steadily during spiritual development.
Awareness creates stability within ourselves; the stability of awareness serves as the foundation for all that will be explored later on.
Greater Inner Alignment
Being Guided From Within
Having experienced a spiritual awakening, one may develop a strong sense of being aligned with oneself, and the decisions that we are making will all come from a place of internal guidance as opposed to responding to external pressures or fear.
This new sense of alignment will also serve to provide an emotional balance for those experiencing greater inner transformation over time.
Decrease in the Need for External Validation
Indicators of this change may include the development of greater confidence in one’s personal boundaries.
The transformation to live authentically takes time and grows gradually away from the need to please others.
An individual has a greater sense of coherence within oneself when there is an internal alignment between thoughts, feelings and actions.
As a result, conflict diminishes and life becomes less fragmented.
Spiritual Trust Development
The development of spiritual trust encourages an individual to develop trust for the natural flow of life rather than constantly trying to force things to happen.
Consequently, an individual develops less urgency to “make” things happen and acceptance is built.
The reduction of anxiety supports one’s inner transformation. Recognizable signs of awareness are patience and emotional steadiness. Life supports rather than opposes an individual.
Letting Go of Decisions Based On Fear
The development of spirituality is instrumental in an individual releasing decisions made as a response to fear, lack and past conditioning.
Instead, decisions are made with an inner calm and with intuition. Instead of having resistance to a decision, there is trust.
The process of letting go of fear, supports an individual in the actualization of the self.
Embracing Uncertainty with Calm
The development of spirituality enables individuals to not view uncertainty in life as a threatening state.
An individual becomes ok with not knowing and curious about what is going to happen next.
Integration of Spiritual Awakening Into One’s Daily Life
The process of integrating an individual’s awareness from their spiritual awakening into the daily routine creates deeper awareness through the use of the senses.
The individual becomes present during the course of a routine. The individual experiences meaningfulness through this integration.
An internal transformation occurs gently and stabilizes over time.
We have a strong alignment when our emotions are clear, so we can continually see all of the signs of this growing self-awareness.
Distancing Oneself from Their Ego-Dominated Identities
The Ego-Self is Our Identity
The process of spiritual awakening usually leads to the realization that the identity a person has created of themselves is created by the “Ego” (i.e., the ego self).
A lot of the way a person views themselves has been influenced by the external environment, specifically through conditioning.
This realization is a form of emotional separation from ego characteristics that allows the individual to create a deeper form of awareness for themselves.
As individuals continue to develop their spirituality, they will naturally find that their desire to hold on to their title, status, or externally-based comparison with others will weaken in the same way.
Therefore, an individual’s identity will be more fluid than rigid.
By developing an internal transformation of the ego, an individual will be able to see how they react to their ego’s responses without having their reactions dictated by their ego.
As the individual becomes less reactive to praise or criticism regardless of who they are, they will gain greater levels of inner emotional stability.
By becoming less dependent on what is said about them, an individual’s ability to develop a greater sense of mental clarity and calmness will dramatically improve.
They will be able to respond from a place of being thoughtful instead of immediately becoming defensive.
Their sense of self-worth is not dependent upon anything else that is outside of them; therefore, their sense of self-worth builds internally.
Releasing the Ego Creates Inner Freedom
When an individual begins to free themselves from the influences of ego in their identities, they will experience an inner feeling of freedom and lightness.
The liberation to let go of attachments, expectations, and limits; enables one to grow spiritually.
As the person evolves internally by becoming aware in his/her environment, they will be able to develop an honest awareness of the world as it is.
Awareness is strengthened through spiritual growth; people become aware of their own lives through spiritual awakening.
With spiritual awakening, they will begin to become aware of their surroundings in a more honest way – without many of the illusions that inhibit them; such as fear and desire.
The reality that they live in becomes clearer, with an emphasis on seeing more directly what is happening around them.
Release of Illusions
As individuals grow and develop, they will learn to recognize and to let go of illusions about control, permanence, and external fulfillment.
As a result, the individual will become aware of how limiting he/she has made himself/herself and how limiting his/her expectations have created false labels, judgments, and expectations.
Acceptance of reality will set the person free and create the foundation to prepare them for the continued spiritual growth toward self-realization (accepting one’s true self).
Living in Truth
As the spiritual growth continues to flourish; the individual will learn not to live in avoidance or conformity with truth.
Instead, the choice of living in truth will guide the individual to have integrity.
Consequently, the individual’s choices will be made from a position of self-awareness.
This creates an attitude of being more open with the self, therefore greater honesty with others.
The experience of the journey through spiritual awakening stabilizes as the individual’s awareness of truth increases.
As the individual’s inner peace strengthens, their awareness will continue through reflective closing insights.
Conclusion
As the spiritual awakening continues, the person will increasingly experience life as intentional; grounded within the use of his/her inner wisdom to create connection to other people.
In addition, as the individual grows spiritually, the obstacles that are created will instead be teacher experiences.
Overall, the notes on the journey of spiritual awakening encourage the individual to live honestly, as a way of being present, and trusting the wisdom within.
As the individual continues to maintain a level of awareness and honesty in the process of becoming one with the self and others, he/she will be able to continue to deepen his/her connection to both his/her inner and outer reality.
