17 Clear Signs You Are Undergoing a Powerful Spiritual Awakening
When your soul awakens, your quest begins, and you cannot go back. From there, you are animated by a powerful flame that will never let you fall back into the illusion. — John O’Donohue
Spiritual awakening is a messy process.
One may imagine awakening as a special moment when everything becomes heavenly.
But in reality, it is a frustrating process. Tears, emotional bursts, and loneliness consume you. And also moments of bliss and oneness bathe you.
I started practicing meditation two decades back to feel peaceful. But it pulled me to the unknown journey of spirituality. It felt extremely lonely, frustrating, and lost till I met my spiritual mentor a few years back.
Spiritual awakening is an intense process. Sometimes it feels like flowing in the air. Other times, you are drowning in the pool of tears.
Everybody has their lessons. But the roller coaster ride soon passes away once you understand your signs. And accept them wholeheartedly.
1. You Seek the Deeper Meaning In Life
Relations, money, and possessions have lost their meaning. You have reached a point where you ask more profound questions about life and your purpose.
Why am I here on Earth? What is the purpose of living? How can I make this place a better place for everyone?
These questions may echo and force you to look to find the deeper meaning of life. Your intense thirst may seem like suffering. But it accelerates your journey.
I remember I used to cry alone on the terrace, begging the universe to share its secret. My long and lonely journey baffled me. After those intense periods of seeking, the universe magically placed me under the shelter of a living, enlightened master.
2. You Prefer Alone Time
A sudden urge to be lonely and reflect upon life has become your new routine.
People overwhelm you. You avoided going to crowded places. Solitude recharges you.
Your room becomes your refuge. You feel instant calm when you enter your room.
3. Nature Refills Your Fuel
You can sense a change in your vibration when you are in nature. You seek refuge in trees, walk on grass and feel the breeze. It balms your anxiety and soothes your mood.
You may have hugged your favorite tree and talked to animals or birds.
I still connect with mother Earth regularly. It grounds and calms you.
4. Healthy Food Habits Attract You
Being in sync with high energy means the body and emotions get aligned to a high energetic frequency. You are naturally drawn to healthy eating habits. Your body may not tolerate processed, sugary, and fried foods.
You see drastic changes in your eating habits and the food consumed within a short span.
While undergoing the awakening process, my body rejected sugary and spicy foods. Earlier, I loved spices, chilies, and sugar-loaded drinks. But within a short time, my preferences shifted drastically. Recently I noticed that my body shuns the extra food fast. An overeat episode means frequent trips to the washroom. Shh!
5. Your Body Gets in Sync With the Circadian Rhythm
Human bodies have a biological clock that is synced perfectly with nature. The busy and stressful life has created a massive turmoil on this clock.
When undergoing a spiritual awakening, your body aligns to the natural rhythm.
The sleep cycle, working habits, and eating time get coordinated effortlessly. Early morning with birds chirping, welcome you to the new day.
6. You Have Experienced a State of Deep Calmness
You have endured much chaos in life. But now, you experience utter serenity. It feels like coming home.
The new experiences opened the doors of intense silence within you. The chances are high that you may have experienced silence for days or weeks together.
6. Periods of Confusion and Peace Come And Go
After peace comes a brief period of everyday life and utter confusion. Your questioning deepens about the life intensifies. Your heart may convulse in the absence of that immense harmony that it felt once.
Why does life have to be so tough? When will I find my ultimate peace? What the hell I’m doing?
The questions flood your mind.
You may try techniques to replicate tranquility. But nothing works until peace dawns automatically all by itself suddenly.
7. You’re Awake to the Energies Surrounding You
You could feel other people’s emotions. Your ability to sense makes you understand things that can’t be said. You might have many deja vus.
Your heart becomes sensitive to the energy around you.
You can name it intuition, sixth sense, or anything. But when you awaken, your ego dissolves, and you get close to the universe.
8. Purging Cycles Happen
Sometimes, intense emotions overpower you. It can get triggered by a significant event or any small happening. You cry, weep, or just stare in the sky blankly.
After purging, you feel the oneness again.
The purging period varies each time. Sometimes they last for weeks. For some, it can last for months or years.
9. Compassion Fills Your Heart
We all are one. The awakening period echoes that. Even when you are in pain, you are ever ready to help someone.
You suddenly recognize the value of every life, whether insect or human. Gratefulness and compassion for every living being expand your heart.
10. You Don’t Get Sucked Into the Drama Anymore
People manipulate others emotionally or psychologically. It creates mental pressure and disturbs the peace.
While awakening, you wake from the fake manipulations and step into your authenticity. This makes you clear-headed and avoids any drama.
Gossiping no more interests you. You are attracted to genuine people and nature. The hunger for intense knowledge and oneness pull you.
11. Meditation and Silence Appeal To You
The urge to sit in silence is a significant sign that you are entering the awakening phase.
The outer world is too noisy to appreciate the jewels hidden inside you.
Silence helps you to connect with your core. It is the first step to recognizing your actual state of divinity.
12. You See the Bigger Picture Of Life
Minor incidents are enough to pull today’s humans into chaos. You have also undergone multiple failures. But now you appreciate the bigger picture of life.
You fully understand why you went through suffering. Your heart now appreciates lessons it learned the hard way.
13. Judgments Are Falling Apart
The earlier version of you could have been more judgemental and critical of people.
But now, you embrace people as they are. When you meet them, your heart is open with no past judgments. Even the past mental image of people and situations are dissolving.
You understand there is never a perfect human being but a unique one.
14. Your Memory Seems to Be Fading Away
As you step forward in every new moment, the memory that holds past events dear to your chest is falling apart. No past event defines you as you live in this present moment fully.
The mansion of cards your memory created crashes when you live in the moment.
It seems hilarious when I don’t remember anything. Not the past day, or month or even year. But when the need arises mind flashes the vital points at lightning speed. The sudden opening or closing of the memory portal surprises me many times because I remember nothing literally!
15. Old Patterns and Relations That Do Not Serve You Anymore Are Dissolving Themselves
Heavy emotions and toxic relationships fall apart when you move towards higher consciousness. Shallow connections collapse. Fake friendships crumble.
You prefer your company instead of wasting time on futile conversations. If people around you don’t evolve further, they get dropped from your life.
I hardly talk to my once best friend. We don't have a common ground to talk to. It is not love that is not there. But I don’t feel the need to validate love from anywhere else.
16. Your Reactions Have Changed Considerably
You live many lifetimes in a single life. This holds true when you transform significantly. Your past short-tempered, critical, and anxious self may have revolutionized into a wiser.
You handle every argument and crisis calmly.
I was a feisty person. Ever ready to knock someone down with my word punches. But as I moved further in my journey, I became humble and recognized the battles everybody is facing. It made me more compassionate towards everybody.
17. Your Environment Has Drastically Changed
Right things and guidance come to you at the right time. While you are busy working inside, the universe silently guides you to a new environment that nourishes your soul.
You might get shifted to a new place or job that you love. Genuine, loving people surround you.
The spiritual journey is a lonely one. But the universe always has your back.
After being on a lonely spiritual journey for 2 decades, the universe mysteriously guided me to a spiritual Sangha, where I met some fantastic people. Tears and love overwhelmed me. I experienced immense love and support. It felt like coming back home.
Takeaways
Spiritual awakening can be the most confusing journey. Sometimes it feels blissful. But when old patterns arise again, it feels horrible.
The path does not lead you straight to bliss. It is full of ups and many crash landings. Be steady and awake enough to see your old patterns slipping in again.
Universe has not forsaken you. It is readily helping you constantly to be on the right path.
© Copyright Ruchi Thalwal, 2022
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