At present, much is read or commented on spiritual rebirth or spiritual awakening, however, it is not always a clear concept. There are many who yearn to experience the awakening of spiritual consciousness automatically. The truth is that this situation is experienced just at the right time for that person.
What is Spiritual Awakening?
Spiritual awakening is that change that the person makes before life, they begin to question the way in which they have lived. He questions his habits, his beliefs, the way he behaves in society. He begins to observe that there is much more to life than he thinks or has believed during his existence.
It is understood that we are old souls who come into the world with a life plan whose objective is to help us ascend. This plan is not simple, it is made up of a series of tests that we have voluntarily chosen before coming.
However, not all of us stay on that path and we get sidetracked, we do not pass the tests. What brings as a consequence, the generation of karmas that accumulate and are charged in the following reincarnations.
We experience the awakening of spiritual consciousness when we begin to remember that this world of forms is not what is important. Sometimes, many of us feel affinity with certain tools and knowledge that help us find our way again. Some of these knowledge and tools are tarot, runes, meditation, dowsing, among others.
What causes spiritual awakening?
Anything can cause spiritual rebirth, this trigger can come from something «mundane» or from some event that profoundly disrupts life. Experts indicate that the most common causes that cause this awakening are those events or situations that change life.
Some of these events can be traffic accidents, job or housing changes, family problems, health problems, among others. Also, there are people who get their «soul mate» (not necessarily in the love field) that makes them see life from another perspective.
The truth is that, just as there are people who experience spiritual awakening spontaneously, there are also as a consequence of a transcendental event. For example, serious illnesses, car accidents, complicated divorces, depressive states, near-death experiences, wars, pandemics, age crises (40, 50…) among others.
Some people experience some kind of magical encounter, they feel the call or begin to feel the need to know themselves very intensely. There are even those who hit rock bottom and experience spiritual awakening, because they understand that the path they are on is not the right one.
Stages of Spiritual Awakening
Spiritual rebirth is very different for each person, however, certain stages have been generally identified that everyone experiences. What makes it easier to understand and understand what is being experienced at that specific moment or phase.
Keep in mind that these stages are not static or linear, so it is normal to experience them in a different order. That is to say, that a certain coming and going between them can be appreciated, each person experiences «a disorder» within their order. Because, each one experiences awakening in a particular and personal way. The stages of spiritual awakening are:
1. Unhappiness, discouragement and feeling lost
At this stage the person feels in the dark, full of confusion, depressed, unhappy, experiences a great disconnection with his surroundings. He has the need to find something, but he doesn’t know for sure what it is.
The person feels empty, something is missing that they do not know very well what it is. This stage is generated spontaneously or because some kind of life crisis has been experienced. For example, some trauma, divorce, violent separation, illness, radical change in style or way of life, among others.
2. Searching for answers and meaning
You begin to ask various questions regarding your life, you want to discover the depths of your being. You need to figure out your life purpose, what your spiritual destiny is, and what life means.
He experiments with various metaphysical, esoteric and self-help areas to answer his questions and achieve the various truths that are longed for. The person focuses on starting his spiritual search that will allow him to go through his spiritual rebirth.
3. Disappointment and feeling lost again
In life in general, people experience twists and turns, feel like they go back and forth, go the right way, and then get lost. In the same way, it happens with spiritual awakening, there is a coming and going.
So, it is normal that you are very comfortable and enthusiastic about your teachers or spiritual practices and suddenly feel bored or tired. It is normal to feel disillusioned by the various spiritual issues, it is even normal to feel cheated by so many nonsense or spiritual falsehoods that are «sold». This only shows that you are learning to differentiate what is real from what is «convenient» or «false», therefore, you need something more reliable and profound.
Also, it is normal in the process for a person to feel connected to the divine and spiritual and then disconnect again. Likewise, it is normal that you dislike feeling disconnected, that you feel that you have wasted your time, because the truth is not like that.
You have simply begun to require a greater depth of knowledge, a greater authenticity. You want your life to reach a greater spirituality that transforms every part of your being. So it is important that you take this unhappiness and delay as inspiration to search deeper.
4. Find answers and experience breakthroughs
As the person searches and finds teachers and practices to satisfy their spiritual or existential needs, they may experience unfavorable situations. These situations can lead her to spiritual deviations that will not allow her to grow or consolidate her true being. However, the same process leads back to the right path for that person.
Through the answers found, he will connect with the immemorial wisdom that his soul possesses, which allows his true «I» to flow. Within this process, the person can recognize moments full of great mysticism or spiritual enlightenment. What makes it easier for you to dazzle the essence and substance of reality, bringing, as a consequence, pleasant moments of trust, conjunction and fascination.
5. changing perspectives
The acquisition of knowledge and experiences, are making the perception of reality is another. They begin to discover the «lies» in which society is led, the double standard that is applied in the various social strata.
The person feels cheated, unhappy, when he really sees the sufferings and sufferings of the world. It is normal for you to feel hopeless, because you do not conceive that humanity acts in this or that way. She notes that she no longer wants to continue living in that state of complacency and absolute submission to the imposed patterns.
6. deeper inner work
An internal process begins in the person that requires greater and better knowledge. Already superficial practices or knowledge are not satisfactory. It seeks to carry out a deeper and more complete work at an interior level. Start more formal and intense studies in areas such as meditation, inner child healing, rituals or other mystical-spiritual philosophies.
7. Integration, expansion, joy
After being educated spiritually, the person begins to apply what he has learned to his daily life, he does it naturally. Because, the spiritual practice has been internalized and entrenched in his being.
In this phase of the process, people begin to deepen the changes and make them indelible in their soul. Likewise, great spiritual, mystical and divine experiences are experienced.
It is very important to keep in mind that spiritual awakening and enlightenment will occur when it should be and if we are determined to experience it. Spiritual rebirth is not something that can be forced, nor is it guaranteed to happen how and when we want.
Because, ultimately, it is a gift that life gives us. However, when this stage is experienced, the person feels full, happy, full of love, enthusiasm, positivity, among others.
At times, he becomes a spiritual mentor, a person admired by others, which makes others see him as a role model. She leaves the vision of individual life and learns that she acts in a general way. You will feel a deep inner peace, you will connect with the simplest and most complex details alike, you will feel totally in tune with life.
How to enhance our spiritual awakening?
Spiritual awakening can be enhanced every day by performing some very simple practices, but with great energetic power. One of them is Clean your energy daily , this can be achieved by performing angelic healing, Reiki, making decrees and positive affirmations, reciting sacred codes, among others.
Also, if you can, use some divine tool that will help you better understand the flow of energies and have a better understanding of the divine and cosmic. Some of these tools are the pendulum, the tarot, the runes, among others.
Likewise, connect your body, soul and mind through activities that promote energy and vibrational balance. The most important and effective are meditation and yoga. There are even those who use dance and/or laughter to release stress, which makes this connection more easily achieved.
Benefits of spiritual awakening
The benefits of spiritual rebirth are very varied and profound, each person can perceive particular benefits that stem from their style / way of life. Although it seems redundant, awakening is the main benefit. That is, discover new aspects of your inner being, your life, your way of being and your relationship with everything around you. Begin to see what you did not see before, with such clarity that every detail will surprise you.
In addition, the person begins to live more fully, because things become easier for them. It does not mean that he does not have problems or obstacles to jump over, he simply knows more about himself and recognizes his virtues and knowledge. This makes it easier for you to solve any situation that comes your way.
Also, the person can get rid of vices or negative behaviors that hinder or limit their life. What will allow you in the future, help others to solve theirs to lead a clearer life. Making a perfect conjunction between the body and the soul.
Similarly, spiritual awakening gives the person a wonderful state of mind, makes him happier, wiser. He has a greater ability to understand who he is and each of the phases he experiences. Your awareness generates new acceptances or helps bring other positive situations into reality, such as abundance, prosperity, and success.
15 signs or symptoms of spiritual awakening
People experience various signs, clues, or characteristics on their way to spiritual awakening. Each one according to their attitudes and aptitudes can have a spiritual rebirth different from that of an acquaintance.
Although it is true that everyone will reach the same path, each one travels it in their own way and at their own pace. However, some common signals can be defined, but they do not necessarily occur in the same order for everyone. The 15 most experienced signs or symptoms of spiritual awakening are:
1. You begin to see life with different eyes, there is detachment and discontent
The person begins to realize that he lives surrounded by certain falsehoods, within a series of imposed patterns. You experience a feeling of restlessness, feeling that you are living another life and not your own. There are situations that were pleasant at the time and now do not provide any kind of satisfaction.
2. Reassessing beliefs, searching for the meaning of life
Life begins to be seen with different eyes, one searches with greater intensity why one came to this life. A deep need is felt to know what is the purpose of life that must be fulfilled, for what they were sent in this reincarnation.
What also generates the rethinking of beliefs, because it is felt that the current ones do not fully satisfy. The individual perceives that his belief system does not allow him to achieve his true life mission.
3. More vivid dreams and higher number of synchronicities
Not only will you experience a more real, clearer, sharper “waking” life, but your dreams will be more vivid. The dream world begins to be so real, dreams begin to have a greater meaning and show a greater series of signs or signs. Which will allow you to improve your conscious life, change patterns, discover truths or lies and make transcendental changes in your life.
It is also common for people to experience more synchronicities or déjá vú, it will become very common for you to think of someone and in a short time you get it. In the same way, you will experience a lot of déjá vú, feeling that certain situations have already been lived or experienced.
4. Deeper questions are asked, many lies are uncovered
Deeper questions begin to emerge about his being, about everything that surrounds him. They want to know why they are here, what lies beyond death, why we suffer, they have a more philosophical position.
Looking for the answers to these questions, the person discovers that his life is surrounded by many lies. For example, the beliefs adopted are not by one’s own conviction, but by another’s; many values, prejudices and feelings are socially imposed, among others.
5. Feelings of loneliness and loss, changes in relationships
Somehow or another, he feels that his life has no meaning, he isolates himself from those around him and begins to feel like a homeless person. He does not perceive relationships with others in the same way, he feels a certain disconnection with his concepts, values and way of life.
His loved ones (family and friends), see him with different eyes and do not always understand him, they can even call him crazy. The truth is that you are going through important spiritual changes, which are not always easily understood by others.
6. Appreciates society differently, clearly sees the unhappiness in people
He begins to understand that society is a whole, he no longer gives importance to materialism, profits, success and individual fame. It is being understood that we are all part of society and that each one fulfills a function, it is a gear of that great machine.
Also, you begin to see clearly the suffering and unhappiness in others, in each of the people around you. You become interested in social causes and begin to read in greater depth about the human condition. It is normal that you feel overwhelmed with the injustices, the pain and the adversities that humanity suffers.
7. You do a “deep cleaning” in your life
You get to that point where you feel overwhelmed, you feel like you’re stuck and not moving forward, which makes you feel depressed and hopeless. One day you wake up with the idea of simplifying and ordering your life, you seek to eliminate from your life everything that keeps you stagnant.
This «elimination» can include breaking ties with «toxic» people, giving away or throwing away objects that are not used, changing homes or jobs, or simply reevaluating oneself. To somehow or another make a radical change in life and start a new journey with positive vibrations and energies.
8. You are more intuitive, empathetic and compassionate
You become more aware of your intuition, you begin to trust it more, you no longer fall so easily into manipulations or lies. Therefore, many begin to see yourself with different eyes, which can sometimes be admired by some, hated by others.
In the same way, thanks to that activated intuition, you begin to be more compassionate and empathetic, sometimes you discover hidden pains and failures in others. What makes you change certain attitudes and lead life more calmly, but safely, without letting yourself get involved in unbeneficial situations.
9. You seek solitude, conversations seem superficial
Perhaps you have been a very outgoing person, surrounded by people for long periods, but you start to spend more time alone. You understand that it is good to spend time alone, getting to know yourself and enjoying nature more, surrounded by good energies.
Sometimes, the conversations will seem superficial to you, you are at a different level in spirituality, you no longer give the same importance to things. What is important to some may not be so important to you and it seems superfluous to spend so much time on something trivial.
10. Greater connection with the senses and nature
By having a greater connection with the senses, the person is in tune with their present, becoming more sensitive to the various stimuli they may receive. Similarly, this heightening of the senses and your state of consciousness can generate certain bodily sensitivities.
Also, there is a predilection for nature, open spaces. Places where natural light, the breeze and the sounds of the animal kingdom can be perceived. Each of them allows you to achieve a greater state of relaxation and balance, so that your mind and spirit are harmonized.
11. You want to make big changes, find the truth and authenticity
It is very normal that you want to leave your job, because all that effort that was made to get a degree, consolidate your career and move up in rank, does not give you much pleasure. You feel empty, you no longer have that powerful sense of accomplishment that all that recognition gave you.
From the depths of his being, he needs to know what lies beyond, discover the «true» truth of things and not what society has imposed. Feel the need to discover the different theories or postulates that exist on a subject; this will allow you to create your own concept or idea.
Sometimes, by freeing himself from the shackles that gave him success and prestige, he begins to lead a more authentic life. He leaves aside the most expensive ones that society or culture imposed on him, he begins to really be who he is. When you are faced with a position that is not the one you really defend, you feel uncomfortable and do not continue on that path.
12. The vision of the world becomes different, habits and routine are changed
The discovery and spiritual rebirth makes you see the world differently. Well, you begin to perceive the lies and attitudes that people take to satisfy a social imposition. The ego is dissolved, it no longer governs your life, which causes a new reality to be experienced.
Likewise, habits and way of living are changed, those practices that do not produce any type of real well-being are left behind. There is a greater approach to natural life, there is a greater contact with nature, a connection with pure energies.
13. Sensitivity is increased, we seek to have a better world
You become more sensitive, you feel more strongly, the pain and difficulties of life experienced by your loved ones. All those difficult situations impact you in a deeper way, which makes you feel some anguish or overwhelm. But understanding that everything is the result of living a veiled life of lies and conditioning of the ego.
In addition, it seeks to do activities that improve the world, it is possible that you make changes in your life in favor of environmental improvement. It is also common for people to become part of an association or foundation that helps improve the world in some way. A greater effort is made to preserve nature in its purest state, as well as to protect fauna with greater zeal.
14. You overcome the traumas and begin to use affirmations more
When you begin to have a greater knowledge of your true self, you become stronger and that connection with the universe becomes powerful. What allows you to transform a traumatic event into a teaching, because you know better how the physical world works.
Similarly, you begin to use more affirmations, since you want your desires to manifest in your life. These changes are emerging gradually and at the right time. What makes you flourish and be in tune with the vibrations of love and happiness.
15. You stop fearing death, you find inner peace
This step no longer causes fear, by living life fully through your true self, the idea of death stops frightening you. What makes you detach yourself from this panic and begin to live life as it should be, without apprehensions or fears.
When you are spiritually reborn, you feel much lighter. Your inner peace will be reflected in you, you will radiate a very powerful energy and vibration that others will perceive and want to enjoy. Making you a more beautiful and striking person, so it is common for many people to approach you to seek your wisdom.
Some myths that revolve around spiritual awakening
Spiritual awakening can happen to anyone, you don’t need to have special characteristics to experience it. However, there is so much information available today (true or not) that it can generate many myths around spiritual rebirth. Next, we are going to share with you the myths that most revolve around spiritual awakening:
Myth 1 – Only a select group of people experience spiritual awakening
The truth is that there are many people who experience this rebirth, you do not need to be special in any aspect. This experience is not exclusive to people with great financial resources, scholars, «elevated» or «special». This experience can be experienced by anyone at any time in their life.
Myth 2 – when you awaken spiritually, you are immediately enlightened
Enlightenment is a process that occurs step by step, going through various stages to get rid of the past. Spiritual awakening happens slowly, progressively, constantly, in each one of the people. There are very few cases where the person passes from one state to another so quickly (spiritual awakening and becoming enlightened).
Myth 3 – being spiritually awake is synonymous with always living under love, light and full happiness
The person can experience moments of great love, light and happiness, but not in an eternal way. Well, it is something that is experienced temporarily, those moments come and go and it is normal, it is fine. Because human beings are multifaceted individuals, which will cause us to experience different moods.
Spiritual Awakening FAQ
People often ask many questions regarding spiritual rebirth, many of them are related. So we have decided to place the most frequent questions that people usually ask about spiritual awakening :
What should be done after spiritual awakening?
After experiencing a spiritual rebirth, the person must continue exploring the different spiritual paths that are presented to him. The important thing is that you let yourself be guided by your heart and instinct, follow the path that most attracts your attention or attracts you.
Also, it is essential that you continue to do some kind of internal work, while continuing to walk your path. In such a way that you can continue to evolve, maintaining the connection with the earth and healing the old wounds that can sabotage your spiritual development.
How long does spiritual awakening last?
There is no set period of time, what is known is that once it starts, it accompanies the person for the rest of their life. However, what varies is the intensity with which this awakening occurs, there are very intense periods, others quieter.
It is a transformation that occurs with its various changes, it is a very busy journey, but with a constant flow of energies. It is not a static, simple and unique process.
Why did I experience spiritual awakening?
The reasons can be infinite, but among the possible strongest causes for which these awakenings are experienced are important changes in style or way of life, breakups or losses, traumatic situations. But if what you want to know is why you experienced a spiritual awakening, the answer is much simpler, because life knows that you are ready to be reborn, to wake up.