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5 Steps of a Spiritual Awakening
A quick guide to something that can barely be navigated
Let’s assume for a moment that you could actually control spiritual awakenings. What would that be like? What’s the recipe for a spiritual awakening, if someone asks you how to do it? They always seem to happen when it’s least expected or least convenient, but that’s the miracle of them. Despite the nonsensical nature of them, I decided to outline the process of spiritual awakenings— maybe it will make it a little easier for someone out there who is seeking answers.
Spiritual awakenings undermine every part of your existence. They break you down. It’s both amazing and ugly at the same time. But it’s only ugly because it’s hard to shed the parts of you that were attached to your surface-level life for many years — things you don’t want to let go of so easily. Your relationships, your career, and your identity will all be called into question as the universe reveals to you that they aren’t really aligned with your higher self. That shedding process is painful.
Once you have an awakening, it’s just the beginning. There are endless awakenings that can come your way. Every time you realize something about your life that is a pattern — something you’ve been doing mindlessly as if you’re programmed to do it — you graduate from that pattern and find yourself amid another awakening. It gets a little easier along the way, but you never know what the universe will throw at you. You just have to assume that it’s an adventure you’re meant to be on.
1. Let All Parts of Your Life Self-Destruct
In a spiritual awakening, you are faced with the things in your life that aren’t working. Letting go of these things is the goal, and that can be awful at times. Sometimes the parts of your life that you’re being called to shed are small projects or daily habits. Sometimes the things you’re looking at seem to be important parts of your basic existence, like a marriage or a job. People don’t like to let go of their familiar relationships and comfortable salaries.
The universe will call on you to shed these things. Light a metaphysical match and let them metaphorically burn to the…
