3 Things Most Spiritual People Will Struggle With But Eventually Get Used to

They’ll really bother you at first but you’ll learn to accept it

1. People Worrying About You

Nobody will understand you when you have a spiritual awakening. You’ll do things you wouldn’t otherwise do. Where you’d stay, you’ll go. Where you’d say something, you’ll stay quiet. Where you’ll go out, you’ll stay in.

You’ll quit anything that doesn’t serve you, including relationships, friendships, and jobs.

You won’t look back.

Your friends will think that you have either finally lost your mind or you’re on drugs. They’ll look at you funny as if you’ve gone crazy. They will tell you to snap out of it already.

They’ll worry about you.

Your family also won’t understand why you’ve suddenly changed. They’ll look at you as if someone else is inhabiting your body. They will wonder what in the world happened to you for you to change so much.

They’ll also worry about you.

It may have bothered you at first that everyone seems to be worried about who you’ve changed to become, but after a while, it won’t bother you at all. You will understand why they are worried and get used to it. They are worried because you evolved. You evolved and changed right before their eyes and hard for them to understand.

Deep down you know nothing is wrong with you and you are the best and sanest you've ever been.

It may have bothered you at first but you’ll stop sweating the small stuff, let people think what they want about you and you’ll focus on your own journey.

It may have bothered you at first that everyone seems to be worried about you when you are perfectly fine but after a while, it won’t bother you at all.

2. Frequent Existential Crisis

There is always a stage on a spiritual journey dedicated to existential crisis or the dark night of the soul. It isn’t something that can be avoided.

Before you ascend, you will descend into the earth to grow roots so your branches can go high up into the heavens.

The existential crisis will help with that. It’ll push you to ask more questions to find the truth. It’ll push you to grow and it will strengthen your character when you suffer through it.

But still, it’ll take some getting used to.

The things you used to tolerate will no longer resonate. Old destructive habits won’t resonate with you anymore. You’ll wonder why. Certain people, places, and things will fall off and out of your life. You’ll lose friends who can’t understand or support your new lifestyle. You’ll lose those who judge, criticize and shame you for changing. You’ll lose lovers who bring you down and you’ll find a way to move on.

You’ll get used to it as part of the process of the dark night.

If life appears meaningless and you’re going through some type of inner pain and turmoil, you are at the darkest parts of your soul’s journey to the higher dimension.

This is a time that can render much fruit in your life if only you get used to it and allow the lesson to transform you from the inside out.

3. An Endless Journey

The spiritual journey is an ongoing process and you never actually stop or arrive anywhere. You keep going. You don’t stop learning. You learn until the second you take your very last breath and if you don’t like learning very much, this will be such a struggle.

You may have thought that there was a destination and that you arrived somewhere. You may have thought you become enlightened or a master or something along those lines after some time. But you’ll learn that there is no destination and you don't arrive anywhere.

You don’t stop growing, and you don’t stop becoming better. There will always be improvements to do on yourself. There’ll be always new things to learn, new places to travel to, and new interests to explore.

You will also find that you don’t become a master or enlightened, either. You’ll learn that we’re not truly enlightened until we’re dead, and the feeling of enlightenment you sometimes feel is a state of consciousness — one that you move in and out of.

You’ll see that all of life is a journey and you’ll get used to the ups and the downs. Though it’s a struggle, you’ll learn to see it as part of the process.

You will get used to the fact that the spiritual awakening journey doesn’t have an end or destination and that it will only truly end when you are dead and even then, a new spiritual journey will begin.

Then you will accept all of it and make your peace with them. You’ll get used to it and trust the process.

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