Self, others, and enlightenment
3 Things to Avoid Doing During Your Spiritual Awakening
“Before awakening, chop wood and carry water. After awakening, chop wood and carry water”
1. Being too Hard on Yourself and Others
A spiritual awakening means one thing — transformation. The kind of transformation that changes and makes you a different person. Like a butterfly, of sorts. It makes you a better version of yourself. When you're patient enough, you gain wings and you fly.
Spreading your wings and flying can be exciting, unusual, depressing, scary, confusing and yet you can agree that it’s the most beautiful, powerful and profound thing you will ever experience.
No matter how you feel when you come out of the void and take off flying, you can’t be too hard on yourself. You must embrace every emotion. Enjoy the thrills. Prepare for turbulence. Be ready to comfort and be there for yourself when you’re scared of the height.
Don’t be too hard on yourself when it gets too overwhelming for you.
When you start to go through a spiritual awakening, you will become conscious and begin to think deep and hard about everything, including yourself and the fact that you’re changing. Consciousness is a necessary part of a spiritual awakening, but you need to see yourself as an observer of the universe and many things will start to make sense.
Become attached to nothing and you'll have an easier time letting things go.
You must learn to observe first before coming to any conclusions about yourself and others. It's good advice not to judge things you see or hear during a spiritual awakening.
One of the main points of spirituality is to release human judgments and take on the eyes of spirit. You'll see that nothing is as it seems.
Being spiritual doesn’t equal perfection. You must release any opinions and expectations you have about yourself and others.
Become attached to nothing and you’ll have an easier time letting things go.
2. Comparing Your Journey to Others
Comparison is really the thief of joy. Do it one or two times and it zaps all the joy right out of your heart. You start to feel bad, sad, or mad comparing your life to others.
If you really want your spiritual awakening to be a success, you must never compare your journey to that of others. You will make yourself disappointed playing the comparison game because there will always be someone better, more advanced on their journey than you are.
Comparing your journey to others will not help your journey, but it will hold you back from growing. It will keep you stuck in some low vibration.
The universe knows who you are and made your spiritual awakening journey unique to you. It’s so unique to you that others might not even comprehend or understand it.
It is important to focus on your own path and avoid worrying about the life of others.
This is your own journey and you know exactly where you must go.
You will make yourself disappointed playing the comparison game because there will always be someone better, more advanced on their journey than you are.
3. Rejecting Your Spiritual Awakening
A true spiritual awakening will transform you. It will turn you into someone completely different. It will make you the best version of yourself. But not everybody around you will think that.
Most will think you finally lost it.
Your friends and family may not understand it. Some will think that you’ve gone crazy because you’ve changed so much.
Don’t let that make you reject the transformation and try to go back to your old self. You can’t.
The universe has handpicked you to transform you into a vessel to be used for the betterment of humanity, so don’t try to go back to the old ways that weren’t serving you.
Don’t try to go back into your shell.
Your awakening is the best thing that will happen to you.
Accept your new life and live it from the heart. When you can live from the heart, it means one thing — your soul is happy and free.
The universe has handpicked you to transform you into a vessel to be used for the betterment of humanity.
One More Thing — Hurrying to Reach the next level
Hurrying to reach the next level is something the ego would do so it can say it's getting somewhere, but ego has no idea.
When you awaken, you don’t arrive anywhere.
As one very wise spiritual teacher once said, “Before enlightenment, chop wood and carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood and carry water.”
Everything changes, but nothing changes. You’ve entered a new dimension, but you're still living a human life.
The higher self or soul isn't concerned about reaching the next level of enlightenment. It is concerned about the here and now. It's where the power lies.
You shouldn’t rush to reach a destination instead, you must learn to enjoy where you’re at. A big part of spirituality is becoming patient. It's a test you will go through before your breakthrough.
You must live your life relaxed with all of your trust in the universe to give you what you need and lead you where you need to go.
Enlightenment isn’t a destination. It’s not something you attain. It’s a state of being, and you must work every day to reach that heightened state of being, and stay there.
Enlightenment happens in the most mundane of moments.
It happens when you hold back the urge to judge something you’d normally judge. It happens when you see someone more advanced than you are and you say you’re right where you need to be. It happens when you’ve become an observer of the universe instead of someone who is blown by the wind going where the wind takes you. It happens when you keep a tight rein on your tongue when you’d normally fly off the handle and say unwise things.
It happens when you can accept yourself and your life as it is.
Enlightenment is knowing how to manage and master the life you currently live before reaching for the next level.
Note: This article is only meant to provide spiritual guidance and light-hearted content.
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