The biggest plus to a spiritual awakening journey is the opportunity for more, well, awakening, say experts. What are the benefits of a spiritual awakening? “It may feel like you forced it, but something got you to this point of awakening.” Essentially, if you are trying to be spiritually awakened, you’re already on that journey. “You can’t force a spiritual awakening because if you are forcing it to happen, then you are already answering some higher call to wake up,” says Agro. But, sometimes a spiritual awakening can have important reasons, like getting you out of a dangerous relationship, lead you to fulfilling work, the start of a new partnership, or even the introduction of a child into your life. Janiecbros // Getty Images What causes a spiritual awakening?Īccording to Agro, one can’t cause a spiritual awakening. In a grand awakening, you will feel the demand to change your life suddenly. “The grand awakening is the moment when everything is floating above the table, and nothing has settled into its place yet.” “The suddenness of a grand awakening can feel like the carpet has been pulled out from under you or like the magic trick when a tablecloth is yanked and everything on top flies up off the table,” Agro explains. Gentle nudges can also show up as signs, Agro claims, like seeing the same numbers or a certain animal, or hearing similar stories from different people.Īnd the other - what Agro calls a “grand awakening” - is like when you suddenly wake up from a dream state (or like you’ve been sleepwalking through life) and now you aren’t. These gentle nudges can be things like: small health issues, reoccurring challenges or disappointments, repeating a pattern over and over again, any general state to do something different really.
Those who go through a spiritual awakening will typically pursue a purpose or their “calling.”Īgro says there are two types of spiritual awakenings: One that’s more gradual, like a gentle nudge to live your life differently. “When we have a spiritual awakening, we have an awareness - oftentimes seemingly sudden - that there is more to being here than the life we were living.” Agro says that this occurrence can often come with an internal call to action to change your life or to course-correct. “I liken it to the difference between being asleep and being awake or being on auto-pilot versus being in control of your course,” Agro adds. Spiritual teacher, metaphysical authority and author of Awaken & Grow: A Practical Guide for Your Spiritual Journey, Christine Agro, defines a spiritual awakening as when your view and experience of your life shifts dramatically. So how do you know if you’re having one? First, what is a spiritual awakening? Spiritual awakenings can look different for everyone. “I could stay stuck in that pain and agony or I could have posttraumatic growth instead of posttraumatic stress,” she explains. “When I got to the horse there was a woman on it and I told her I was lost and she said, follow the horse sh*t.” In that moment, Joye had an epiphany that manure is what we make fertilizer from. It was so intense my nose started bleeding.” At some point, Joye heard a horse and followed the clopping of the hooves. “I was sobbing and crying and wanted the grief to stop. I had an epiphany in Sedona, Arizona when I went to get over the tragedy and got lost on a 7-mile red dirt trail marked with red rocks surrounded by red mountains and the sun going down,” she recounts. “His tragic and early death brought me back to life. “It was almost like the Matrix where I entered into an altered reality, but the altered reality was the real one.” In that moment, Hnatiuk had complete peace, love, joy, and insight into the working of the universe and how we’re limitless.įor Mary Joye, a licensed mental health counselor, a spiritual awakening occurred after her brother’s death. While Tina Hnatiuk was on a retreat about a decade ago, her “ brain broke.” “The mental construct I had of myself and the world around me fell away and it was pure awareness,” describes the life coach and yoga teacher. I was able to see through the trauma and past issues, taking responsibility for my reactions and myself, at some point we all have to take responsibility to heal." That's how soul consultant and tarot reader Tamara Gabbard describes her spiritual awakening. It was like a vibrational switch, like an electric switch turned a light on in my brain. "The world started to change, like a shift.
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