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Should You Talk About Your Spiritual Awakening With Others?
Sometimes it's a good idea, other times it's not
A Spiritual Awakening Is an Odd Experience
A spiritual awakening is one of the most confusing and loneliest experiences of a lifetime, and when it happens to you it’s easy to feel alienated and misunderstood.
You are losing a sense of who you used to be. You are becoming someone totally different. You are living, talking, and eating differently. You don't enjoy the same old things and your friends don’t know who you are anymore. Your family is worried about you; they think you are so depressed going through an existential crisis.
If you have no one around who understands what you are going through and why you are going through it and the ones you open up to tell you to snap out of it or get help, it can feel very lonely and confusing.
Your life has just begun, but everyone thinks you finally lost your mind.
Should You Talk About It With Others?
Society these days doesn't hold space for spiritual awakenings as older shamanic traditions did. Western cultures don’t provide support or a community to a person who is awakening because they aren’t used to seeing it.
When I first had my spiritual awakening, I was changing rapidly and taking in so much information. I thought the things I was learning were really cool, and I wanted my family and friends to learn about it too.
I desperately wanted someone to talk to, but people didn’t get it. To them I was weird and now becoming even weirder. A friend who meant well said, “Kim, you are talking crazy. Please don’t become one of those crazy people.” I was hurt by that, so I wanted it all to go away. I tried to make it stop. I wanted my old life back. I didn’t want to be so different going through something so strange.
My best friend assumed I was just so sad and depressed from the breakup I had just gone through. She thought I was just having a hard time. I mean yea sure; I was having the hardest time of my life, and that was why I was going through an awakening.
I reached out to people, but I wasn’t met with open arms. I shared too soon and almost felt crushed by the hurtful things people said to me.
Before sharing your spiritual awakening experience, first answer these three questions:
1. Are the People Around You Spiritually Aware?
If you are going through a spiritual awakening and the people around you aren’t spiritually aware, conscious, or have no sensitivity at all, they may project their strong beliefs about what is happening to you and that may throw you off.
A spiritual awakening is already an intense phase of your life where you may feel a little lost and confused.
If you tell your partner, your friends, or family who has no spiritual understanding that you are waking up, connecting to the universe, the angels, spirit guides, and all the spiritual stuff, they may think you are depressed or going through an existential crisis.
They may even tell you to see a psychiatrist or therapist because the things you are saying sound crazy!
You are going to be pushed back and you can't blame them because they just don't know.
If the person you are talking to isn't even mildly aware, they may project their fears unto you, which may end up harming and hindering your progress, especially if you are in the sensitive beginning stages of your awakening.
If the people around you are spiritually aware, then that's amazing! Have fun talking about it. The issue is most people who go through a spiritual awakening, unfortunately, don't have people around them that are spiritually aware. That was the case for me.
If that is the case for you too, then I will put off talking about it until your spiritual awakening process has gone on for a while and you are at the point where you are less likely to be manipulated or influenced and less likely to accept the projections of others unto you.
2. Can You Stand Strong in Your Power?
This is a continuation of the first question and it pertains to your power, your confidence, and how you feel within yourself while you’re going through the spiritual awakening.
If you are not in your power — if you feel you are extremely fragile and sensitive — you can be strongly influenced by the opinions of others.
Our society and culture are just coming into this level of mass consciousness and are not yet prepared to hold the space for the person who is going through a spiritual awakening.
There will come a time where plenty of people will wake up and can understand and support one another, but unfortunately, we are not there yet.
Most people on the planet aren’t aware yet and if you share these kinds of supernatural experiences while you’re not in your power, people may project what our society has programmed us to believe, and that is that spiritual awakening is something that is weird, crazy and insane.
Western cultures fear anything with the word spirit in it because of what is often portrayed in horror films. Spirits are labeled as bad and scary, and there are a few instances where TV shows a good and friendly spiritual encounter.
Older shamanic traditions are known for being cultures that understand what a spiritual awakening is and therefore provided this kind of support and community to a person that is awakening, but modern cultures don’t know how to do this yet.
In the modern world, spiritual awakening is very frequently mistaken for mental illness, a nervous breakdown, or a midlife crisis.
People may assume you need to get on some antidepressants and this only ends up extending your spiritual awakening process longer than necessary.
If you feel a bit fragile, hold off on sharing unless the other person is awake too or until you are in your power.
3. What Stage of the Spiritual Awakening Journey Are You In?
A spiritual awakening can be a lonely and solitary road for however long the process may take, and that’s okay. It is a highly individual and private inner transformation that’s occurring within you.
Most of it is supposed to happen to you and you alone, so it's going to be lonely. You have to go through this phase of your life alone, meaning that you and only you can go within yourself to find and discover more about yourself.
This third question is asking is for you to pinpoint what stage of your spiritual awakening you’re in now.
In the initial phases of a spiritual awakening, it can be a bit frightening and disorienting when you don’t know what’s going on with you. You feel completely lost, your life may be a complete chaos and things may be changing around you.
You may be becoming a different person, you may feel a little bit off-center, jittery, and fragile, and you are probably going through a dark night of the soul.
Talking about it with your mom who isn't aware and tells you to seek help may throw you off your path and make things too dramatic for you.
In the early stages of the spiritual awakening, it's wise to go inward and spend a lot of time in meditation to listen to your inner guidance and do some soul searching.
As you progress and move forward with your spiritual awakening and you begin to feel balanced, blissful, more confident, and in your power and you've made it through the tumultuous phase of the process — then yes talk about your spiritual awakening with others and explore spirituality.
Final Thoughts
When you focus on yourself, learn what you came to learn, and can stand in your power no matter what, then it's okay to talk about your experiences.
I’m not advocating that you hide away in the closet during the loneliest time of your life. The timing in which you share makes a big difference in helping you move forward in your spiritual awakening faster and not hinder or pull you back.
If you have conscious family and friends, or a spiritually aware partner, you are quite fortunate, so have fun talking about it.
But if you don't have people around you who can really understand you, there are many places online where you can seek the right people who will understand what you are going through. You can reach out to me or become a patron in one of my spiritual communities.
Eventually, you will talk about your spiritual awakening experience with the people around you, whether they are awake or asleep.
