Spiritual awakening is a process of connecting with your inner self, reflecting deeply on your beliefs, discovering your purpose, and seeing life’s bigger picture beyond everyday activities. Along the way, you may begin to challenge your old way of thinking and acting, develop greater awareness, and become more conscious of who you are and who you are becoming.
In today’s article, you’re going to learn 7 signs and symptoms that you may be experiencing during your spiritual awakening. So no, you aren’t going crazy; no, the world isn’t ending; and yes, everything will be OK. What you are currently going through, if you are experiencing any of these seven things, is your spiritual awakening.
You are dismantling the false reality, and you are opening yourself up to consciousness, awareness, and recognising the oneness that exists in this world. I also want to explain how the higher self works with the ego, the shadow self, and the self, and how that plays a big role in your spiritual awakening and in understanding the journey between 3D and 4D.
So, the truth is that sometimes when you experience a spiritual awakening, it can feel like you are going crazy; it can feel like you are dying; it can feel like you are experiencing some sort of depression and anxiety at the same time. It’s a world of different emotions that can leave you feeling extremely uncomfortable.
And the reason for this is that the false reality, the illusion that has been created within your life, whether it’s because of societal constructs, your environment, growing up, your parents, society, social media, etcetera, all of that starts to fall apart. All of that starts to crumble as you see beyond your eyes, using your consciousness, your awareness, your psychic abilities, and recognising the oneness that exists in this world.
A spiritual awakening occurs when your ego transcends the 3D reality you’re currently experiencing. Your ego filters a false sense of reality, and all of this begins to be dismantled during your spiritual awakening. It means that you start recognising what this 3D World actually is. You start observing, acknowledging, and becoming aware that there is much more to the 3D World.
It’s a very chaotic time. It’s a very uncertain time. And there are these feelings of knowing that there is something more in this world, but not necessarily knowing what that something more is. How to obtain it? That knowing that there is something more in this world, something more that you’re destined to do, and that there’s more than just the current reality that you’re experiencing.
Is your higher self tuning into and connecting with your 3D self, or this physical vessel that we have? So the higher self is you from a cellular level. OK, this is consciousness. This is oneness; this is not tangible. You can’t physically see this; the higher self is something that lives within the mind’s eye, within your intuition, within your consciousness, within the energetic vibration, within your frequency.
OK, and the self is a physical 3D vessel that we have. You have it, I have it. Now, while I do consider that the ego and the shadow are two branches of the same tree, I also believe that they work independently and in tandem at times. The idea that there is an ego death or a dissolution of the ego, in my opinion, isn’t necessarily accurate.
As the ego, as I am and I am me and you are you, so to turn around and say that we would be dissolving the ego would mean that you would cease to exist. I prefer to use language around the ego, like understanding how to integrate the ego and understanding how to integrate the shadow self, because the ego and the shadow are parts of you. It will never go away. They make up who you are when you integrate and connect with your light body.
This is when you understand how the ego and the shadow play a role in your life, how you’re meant to learn from them, and how to integrate them into your current experience without allowing them to take over.
The shadow is connected to a victim mindset. Why is this happening to me? I don’t deserve this. Nothing ever goes my way; the world is against me; I don’t have luck on my side, and so on and so forth. Whereas the ego likes to blame absolutely everybody else for the problems that show up in life. Then taking accountability or responsibility for oneself.
So the ego sounds like I am right; you are wrong. The ego can also sound like it’s everybody else’s fault. I can do no wrong. I am perfect. You’re clearly the problem. Obviously, everyone else has an issue or a problem with the world, but I am perfect. Depending on how the ego and the shadow play out in your life, you can start to see when a spiritual awakening comes into your life.
And if you’re experiencing a spiritual awakening right now, you can start to see how these two start to feel like they’re no longer in control anymore because the cell, your physical vessel, is connecting to the higher self and the higher self knows that one must take accountability and responsibility for their life and that one is the creator of their life.
And therefore, everything that you are experiencing in your life, whether it’s good, bad, ugly, difficult, challenging, happy, or uplifting, is a creation that has been designed by the self, and so you are the creator of your life. Experience the reality that you are creating in your life right now.
Now, having said all of that, the first symptom or sign that you could experience when going through a spiritual awakening is:
1. You will be facing a steady unhappiness or unfulfillment.
This looks like you are recognising that you don’t like your job anymore, or that you don’t like your partner anymore, or that you’re unhappy where you’re living. Or that you realise that there’s something more to this world, but you don’t know what it is. There’s a feeling of unease, there’s a feeling of dissatisfaction in your life, and you’re searching for what that happiness is.
2. Awareness
It’s almost like an inner knowing, an inner rumbling that starts happening in your body. The second sign is the awareness. This is all about you recognising that there is something more out in this world. You start paying attention to things and looking at things from a different way. Maybe you start realising how people talk to each other and that it’s not very kind.
Or maybe you start realising that there are a lot of really hurt people in this world. You start becoming more hyper-aware of your surroundings. People that you associate with, the people at your work, and when you go on walks, you start becoming more aware of nature on Earth.
There is a new sense of awareness, like a baby who’s brand new to this world and is just discovering everything and taking it all in. You start feeling that way too. You start getting this whole new sense of awareness and going, ” Whoa, there is more to this world than I ever realised before.
3. The 3rd sign of a spiritual awakening is aversion.
It is aversion to certain energies, foods, or things. So, for example, your body might start repelling or telling you that it doesn’t want to eat certain foods that are filled with chemicals, or you don’t want to eat processed foods anymore. You may want to go on some sort of cleanse. You may want to shift your diet around.
You may even be experiencing aversion to certain people you’re hanging out with maybe a group of friends or individuals you’ve known for a very long time and all of a sudden, you’re feeling really drained around them, and you’re like, why am I sitting here? Why? Why am I here right now?
In those moments, not only is your body experiencing the aversion to their energies because they’re no longer in the same frequency as you, but you’re already practising that awareness and recognising that. This is not right for me anymore.
And this aversion to certain energies, foods, or experiences can be a lot of different things. It could show up from a mental, emotional, spiritual, or physical way. You’ll have to pay attention to how it’s showing up in your life.
The key thing to remember with the sign Number 3, the aversion to energies, is that you will feel. Held by things, you no longer will want them in your life. You almost want to remove them from your life.
OK, like for me, I sort of realised the food I was eating; I was like, I don’t want to drink anymore. I don’t want to eat certain foods anymore because my frequency was already changing through my spiritual awakening, and so my body was no longer in alignment. More vibrational frequencies- the soul body, the higher self- are already transforming at a cellular, energetic vibrational level, and it’s pulling the physical body, the self, to transform as well.
And so that’s why you’ll feel that interesting disconnect or that uncomfortable disconnect between the two before the spiritual awakening symptom. That you will experience is your increased intuition. For many of my students, this is one of the first things they start experiencing as they go through a spiritual awakening.
They’ll start recognising that their intuition is getting really, really loud. They may not always listen, but they start acknowledging it and paying attention. It’s getting how much it’s trying to get their attention. Your increased intuition is your higher self talking with your physical 3D self. It’s trying to get you to pay attention to any warning signs that your higher self is wanting to give to you because they are not serving you for your highest good anymore.
They’re no longer serving your highest good. And if you want to know more about the three major ways that the universe gives you warning signs, you’re going to want to read this article after this one to find out what they are.
Because of societal conditioning, we’re not taught how to lean in and surrender to our intuition. It’s considered very holistic to listen to your intuition. However, your higher self knows that listening to your intuition is in your best interest because the universe is always wanting to conspire in your favour.
The universe is always wanting to show you how good it gets. So listening to your intuition, leaning in and surrendering to it will help you experience spiritual awakening and transform from that 3D reality into that 5D reality.
4. The 4th spiritual awakening sign is the catalyst.
2020 was a massive global catalyst, and I’m not going to drop what it was, but you know what happened during 2020. And this is because a lot of the world needed to wake up during that time to the false reality, to the false illusions that were created in this 3D World that were keeping much of humanity stuck, limited, looped, bound in suffering and fear and in unhappiness.
And so this is why in 2020, we experienced what is. A global awakening, where many people started awakening and seeing things for what they were. They started going through spiritual awakening symptoms, questioning the false reality, listening to their intuition rather than consuming propaganda, and developing an aversion to certain things, and they started practising.
More awareness of the reality of what it was versus what they wished it could be, and where they started. Recognising how unhappy and unfulfilled they were in their lives. The countless moments in everyone’s life, whether it happened to you during 2020, whether it’s happening right now or whether it happened in the past, are major moments.
Often, these moments are filled with grief, suffering, and sometimes loss. It is a moment of great suffering, unrest, and unease. And the reason for this is that the countless moments, like the tower card in the tarot, are crumbling.
So all these things, the farce, the lies. Have to crumble; we have to start at the bottom again so that we can rebuild unstable solid ground, and so this catalyst comes in to awaken people; this catalyst comes in to help people pay attention to the things that are no longer serving them in their life and how the current path that you are living in is not serving you for your highest good.
I’m a firm believer that the universe will attempt to get your attention through other spiritual awakening signs and symptoms before it sends out the catalyst moment. However, as humans, as 3D sentient beings, as these physical beings that we are, we have free will, and so many times. Many people experience some of these other spiritual awakening symptoms, but they won’t lean into awakening, do the work, and become conscious and aware.
And because they don’t lean into this, the universe sends a catalyst moment into their life to force them to awaken, see what is happening around them, and see what’s happening to them. Now, as you experience your spiritual awakening and you journey through all the different symptoms and signs, you’ll reach a moment of surrender, and that is number six here on the list.
5. You’ll reach a moment of surrende
As you go through your spiritual awakening, you’ll reach this point of surrender and recognise that the only thing you control is yourself. When you reach this point of surrender in your spiritual awakening journey, you begin to recognise that you create your life and that you surrender to your power, creator energy, and source energy to support you during this journey.
You’re no longer going to try and hold on to that relationship that is just not working out. You’re no longer going to try and stay at that job that you hate. You’re no longer going to try and make it work with a certain person even though it’s falling apart.
You accept in the moments of surrender that everything that is falling apart, everything that is breaking, everything that is crumbling is happening for you, not to you. And then the universe and yourself, your higher self, are releasing absolutely everything that is no longer at a matching energetic frequency that you are.
If your vibrational frequency is rising, you will start attracting things that vibrate at the same frequency; anything that doesn’t will start to be removed from your life. And it can feel very isolating, it can feel very chaotic, and it can feel very difficult. A lot of people, because there is this moment of great surrender that has to happen when you understand that it is in these moments of isolation, these moments of being alone, where you start to really come together and connect with your higher self.
6. Now, the last sign of a spiritual awakening is authenticity.
When you reach this point of authenticity, you’re aligned with your 3D self and your higher self. What happens here is integration in these moments of authenticity. You’re no longer wearing masks. You’re no longer needing to pretend that you’re something you’re not. You’re no longer insecure or unaware.
You are completely conscious, you are completely aware, and you know with every fibre of your being who you are. You are confident in who you are, and you are not afraid to be yourself. And that you radically accept yourself for who you are and show up authentically in this world regardless of what anybody else says, right?
Because what ends up happening when You’re experiencing your spiritual awakening is that you’re met with a lot of people who will criticise you, who will judge you, who will insult you. And these weak souls, or these souls that haven’t yet integrated with consciousness and awareness, they just can’t conceptualise or understand what you are going through and when 1 cannot conceptualise or understand.
And one is in ignorance, and therefore one is operating out of fear. And this is how these people end up being very insulting, very degrading. They’ll be jealous, they’ll be hateful, they’ll be unkind. And you have to understand, as you’re experiencing your spiritual awakening, that they are humans.
Let there be a certain level of compassion, understanding, gentleness, and forgiveness when you have conversations with them or have to interact with them, because they have not yet integrated. So it’s not that there is something wrong with them, or it’s not that they’re bad people per se. It’s simply that their souls are weaker or that they’re still on their way.
And because they haven’t integrated yet, they don’t yet understand the vastness and depth of consciousness and awareness that comes through a spiritual awakening journey. And when you’re living in your authenticity, what you are doing is demonstrating to the rest of the world that when. Aligned with your 3D vessel, your physical vessel, with your highest self.
You operate from light energy. You are embodying your light body in this physical reality. And so your energy is going to be different. Your vibration will be different. Your experiences will be on a much higher vibration. You’ll feel powerful and valued, and there’ll be a lot of really good things happening in your life.
And by continuing to show up and be the light for others, you will help inspire and support others through their journey. So let me know in the comments below if you are currently going through a spiritual awakening, and where do you think you’re at in the spiritual awakening world?
I know that many people have had a spiritual awakening over the past couple of years, and I’m here to support you along the way. Till then, keep winning.
