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…
