9 Symptoms That Your Awakening Is Making You Hyper Sensitive

#6. Cities overwhelm you

One of the highly misunderstood topics of a spiritual awakening is how profoundly it changes you. Not only does your whole outlook on life change, but also many sensations in your body become different from what you’ve been used to.

A spiritual awakening changes who you are. Or better said — who you never were. It has the power to get your real Soul out of you. Your authentic Soul that has been with you from the start but got hidden underneath all the layers.

These could be layers that have grown upon you through societal conditioning. It most likely already started when you first went to school. You quickly figured out a way how to fit in the most, because you didn’t want to be the target of bullying.

That trying-to-fit-in attitude probably stuck with you throughout your adult years as well. After all, our modern society is built upon fitting in. When you don’t follow the common path, you will most likely have a very hard time.

Society works best when people can be put into boxes.

Is this it?

Our lives are being controlled in many different ways — no wonder you feel like an outsider a lot of the time. Even if you do fit in perfectly, there is often this nagging question of “Is this it?”.

That question stops when you get into a spiritual awakening though. Because, no, this is far from ‘it’. There is an incredible Universe of mystical experiences and ancient knowledge waiting for you out there.

A spiritual awakening is a remarkable time in your life. Your eyes suddenly open and a new world presents itself to you. It’s not easy, and typically comes during or after a depression, or what I now know is a Dark Night of The Soul:

It’s a kind of re-birth. The dark night of the soul is a kind of death that you die. What dies is the egoic sense of self. Of course, death is always painful, but nothing real has actually died there — only an illusory identity. — Eckhart Tolle

There are common stages you normally go through during an awakening, and although this is different for everybody — people tend to generally follow a similar journey.

One of the spiritual awakening symptoms for me personally was that it made me hypersensitive. I think this is a very common aspect of an awakening, but not often talked about.

Hypersensitivity is regularly seen as being too sensitive. It is perceived as overreacting, something that you should not be doing. I tried to push this new part of myself away for a long time, trying to get back to the extroverted person I once was.

But when I linked it to my spiritual awakening, I knew I had to accept these sensitive traits that I had developed.

What are the symptoms of high sensitivity after a spiritual awakening?

Some people have always been sensitive, and an awakening probably stimulates it even more. But many ‘awakened’ people are completely new to being hyper-sensitive, so it can be confusing to recognize it.

For me, these are the most common symptoms:

1. Being around people drains you

People are draining me nowadays. It’s hard to accept that I used to love being in crowds and going to parties, but now I am super sensitive to all of the energies that people emit.

It doesn’t matter whether they are good or bad energies — so much is going on around me that it completely drains me. I feel everything, and it often makes me sad to see how far removed most people are from living their authentic lives.

It’s mostly all just a show.

And we are all puppets trying to be like the others. But the truth is, that the others are trying the same thing, thus making it a vicious cycle.

Now, when I have to spend time in groups, I need at least a day to decompress myself afterward. It sounds crazy, but being highly sensitive makes you take on all these energies, and you feel like you need to protect yourself from that.

2. You instantly recognize bad vibes

Have you ever walked into an event and suddenly feel a dark shadow coming over you?

This often happened to me when I was a kid, but I always pushed it away. I thought my mood had just shifted for no reason and I shouldn’t pay attention to it.

For example, I would come home from school happy as a clam, but as soon as I set foot into my house, I got grumpy. My parents blamed it on me having a bad temper, but now I know that I instantly felt the lack of love my parents had for each other.

After my spiritual awakening, I honor these mood shifts.

Your body often knows what’s going on before your mind does.

It could be that dark matters are being discussed there, or a general fear mentality is active in the room. Whatever bad vibe hangs around the place, your sensitivity will make you feel it.

3. You feel it when somebody is not doing well

When you entered into a spiritual awakening, the first part of the journey is typically focused on yourself. You get to meet your shadows and demons and are given tools to help heal them.

So when you’ve done most of that work (which can take years!), your vision turns outwards again at some point. You see the fake smile people have on their faces, but their empty eyes don’t lie to you.

You get very sensitive to what is going on with somebody. You see through their conditioning as well, and it hurts. It hurts because you know they don’t even see it themselves.

Your instinct is to want to help them, but there is no point trying to wake somebody up before their time. You will only drive them further away from you.

Being hyper-sensitive means you see this constantly around you, and there is not much you can do about it, unfortunately.

4. You prefer to be alone

There is so much you want to do with your free time after a spiritual awakening, that you prefer to be alone.

You want to learn more about everything — how does the Universe work? How can I utilize my breath to achieve different states of consciousness? Is telepathy real? What can deep meditation teach me? How can I re-assess everything that I’ve been skeptical about before? How does science integrate with spirituality?

A spiritual awakening opens up a new part of your brain that just wants to learn things. So you prefer to be alone — to give yourself all the time you need to absorb all these new lessons.

So when people invite you to an event, you just think about missing out on all the valuable information you’re not going to get that time. You often end up saying no, because your sensitivity made you want to be alone.

Be careful not to isolate yourself too much though — being around people can also teach you invaluable things.

5. You feel the pain of Mother Earth

Another thing that happened during my spiritual awakening is that I feel the pain of Mother Earth deep in my Soul. I could literally burst into tears seeing a video of trees being cut down, or animals being forced out of their (natural) homes.

I am so sensitive to what is happening to our nature, that it hurts my inner being. It’s like parts of me are personally being cut. Trees and plants and animals have Souls too and when you realize that, you start to feel their pain inside of you as well.

This seems to be a common side effect of drinking ayahuasca as well — after your initial self-healing, the plant medicine shows you what is going on with herself and that she needs help.

You can’t just close your eyes anymore to all the destruction humans bring to our planet. After all, we are all One, so hurting something or someone outside of you also hurts you directly.

6. Cities overwhelm you

I hear many stories from others who got into a spiritual awakening that they can’t stand being in cities anymore. There is just too much going on.

The lights, the cars, the sounds, the commercials screaming at you to buy stuff — it all feels very overwhelming.

Cities are a direct product of our society.

They are buzzing and brimming with life, which can be cool but also removes you from taking time for yourself.

Cities have endless possibilities, and you can always find something to distract yourself there. You probably even feel guilty if you don’t distract yourself. I used to love that about cities.

But when I have to go to a city now, all I see is the never-ending expansion of buildings and shopping malls, ripping away more pieces of valuable nature. Even beautiful, ancient buildings in old cities just reflect power and greed in them.

I see so clearly how most cities have been built upon the backs of the low-income society, often even with the hands of slaves. And even though cities can tell a lot of history and house valuable lessons about humanity, they just feel really overwhelming to me after my spiritual awakening.

7. You feel exactly what is going on in your body

Another crazy thing that happened to me after waking up is that my body tells me when there is a problem. And it not just tells me, it gives me tools to heal as well.

Our bodies are incredible machines doing all these amazing processes 24/7. When we live on auto-pilot, we most likely don’t recognize when our bodies need a break. We keep going and going, and when we have no energy left, we just drink another coffee or pop another Ritalin.

But our bodies speak to us in ways we shouldn’t ignore.

And when you do ignore it, be sure it will turn into something more serious.

After a spiritual awakening, you might get highly sensitive to your bodily sensations. You start to understand that some diseases come from the mind, and no pharmaceutical drug will be able to help you.

What you need is yoga, meditation, and mindfulness, and you will notice that some weird inexplicable diseases you had before, will fade away.

You get more sensitive to how it feels when you lack a certain vitamin, or you instantly react to what you eat. You feel it when certain chakras are blocked and your body has a curious way to show you how to unblock them.

The whole point of being spiritually awakened is that your body-mind-soul work as one, which is an incredible side effect actually!

8. You can’t eat bad foods anymore

When you are sensitive to what your body needs, you automatically become sensitive to what you put inside of it as well. Fast foods, processed meats, and sugary artificial drinks suddenly don’t appeal to you anymore.

You know that these foods harm your body, and you want to work together with it — not poison it.

After my spiritual awakening, an immense gratitude for my body developed itself. This pure creation of art is my life force — I can run, dance, swim, climb, surf, bike, and even fly with it.

Putting bad foods into my body does not interest me one bit anymore. Yes, it does cost more time and effort to cook something healthy, but after you become sensitive to all the things your body does for you, there is no way you will punish it with these bad products.

Bye-bye greasy tacos, hello quinoa salad!

9. Alcohol seems like poison to you

Finally, the thing that bonds us all —drinking alcohol — seems like poisoning yourself after you’ve spiritually awakened.

It took me a long time to accept this because I have many funny memories of being drunk, and alcohol tends to connect you with others more easily. But the truth is, is that alcohol is actually a super-destructor.

There is a reason why you feel so bad the day after — your body hates this stuff. It gets worse with age too; the older you get, the bigger your hangover.

Alcohol causes many homes to fall apart and kills thousands of people yearly. And still, it is the most widely accepted substance in the world. In fact, a massive part of how we perceive ‘fun’ is based on alcohol.

I feel boring when I don’t drink with my friends anymore, but to be honest I do not like the effect it has on me. Yes, it makes me loosen up, but it also makes me reckless and sluggish. I do things I would never do when I would be sober.

My spiritual awakening made me hyper-sensitive to alcohol as well. And even though I do still enjoy a glass of wine with dinner, I won’t drink to get drunk anymore.

Spiritual awakening and high sensitivity

A lot of people become hyper-sensitive after a spiritual awakening. This probably means that you were sensitive all along, but it never got the chance to fully develop.

If you feel more attuned to energies and vibrations, see it as a blessing. It’s a sign you are becoming your authentic Self and that is the whole purpose of an awakening.

The world needs more sensitive people, as that is the only way we can help others and the planet. After all, when you don’t feel anything, would you feel called to change something?

I hope this article helped you to recognize some symptoms, please let me know if there is anything I missed!

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