the awakening journey
WEEK 2: A brief overview of how it all begins
In week 2 - The Moment of Your Awakening - Entering the Mist, you take the next step on your journey of remembrance to discover who you are.
At this stage of the awakening process, these feelings or sensations increase in frequency and intensity—they creep into your conscious mind, causing further discomfort, moodiness, and being "out of sync." They are a part of your preawakening experiences. To one degree or another, we all go through this stage of the awakening process. You are not alone.
The moment of awakening will vary for each one of you. Some may take months, years, or decades to arrive at the moment when your perception and understanding of who you are and life as experienced within and around you changes. You begin to look at yourself through the eyes of Spirit rather than exclusively through the physical perceptions and understanding of the world around you and the identifier known as ego. It is at this stage that you receive your first glimpse of what being in separation truly means. You begin to take stock of your life, to discover the sources of your internal discomfort and dis-ease - seeking answers to your many questions and all that troubles you. It is a time of discovery, expanding your consciousness to comprehend a "reality" you may not have previously thought possible.
The beginning stages of spiritual awakening - pre-awakening experiences.
When you long to know yourself it’s time to awaken from your sleep.
The awakening experience/s - the moment your perception of life forever changes.
Awakening to be One with Spirit
Awakening can be a slow process over months or years. Yet it can be a shocking realization or epiphany due to an event that recently occurred. Flashes or glimpses thoughts or un intangible feelings that resonate deep within your gut. Messages received or wondering was that just in my head? But here’s the thing…. I knew intuitively that there was more out there, more to me. So I began seeking answers to my questions.
I love crystals and the energy that I feel. Receiving messages to follow Hedge Witchery to learn about growing of herbs and creating blends for health. The pull of the ocean and moon cycles and how they are my happy place.
To finding those who wish to guide me, and helping me understand my path to being One with Spirit. Our path has twists n turns n challenges, but you can see and feel as you move forward to your full awakening.
Baby steps. Enjoy your Path!🩵🩵🩵
How do we return to a natural state of peace & harmony?
When living in a world of chaos and uncertainty, what can we do to ground & calm our mind and body? How do we relax our nervous system? How can we release the uneasiness and feeling of being overwhelmed or in fear?
Trust yourself to the water. When you swim, you don't grab hold of the water or try and control it, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, float and go with the ebb and flow. Whatever may come, accept it, learn from it and let go of what doesn't serve you, embrace what does. Let it all flow, no grasping, trust where it's taking you and that you are being guided with so much love. Remember that we are apart of something much greater than ourselves.
Releasing & Restoring Exercise: We can immerse ourselves in water and envision anything that is not our burden to carry or ours to control, washing away, whether it's down the drain, out with the tide or down the river. Connect with the cleansing energy of water, feel its it's temperture, it's flow, feel, see & hear it moving through you. Now that you have released what no longer serves, feel the energizing charge of water surging through every cell in your body as it restores and revitalizes you. Repeat as many times as you like. Remember that we are water and can harness this essence & energy anytime we like.
Remember that we create our experiences with intention.
The first glimpses of being in separation.
I remember when I was young, maybe kindergarten age, how much I loved people. Maybe even younger. Life felt as magical as Christmas morning when Santa arrived with his blessings. I loved people and was probably very open about my feelings of “love.” I recall crying when visitors left after staying the weekend, feeling a profound loss of excitement and experiencing love exiting the building.
And then, I learned it wasn’t acceptable to cry, and to love so intensely. Children should only be seen and definitely not heard. I wasn’t allowed to listen to the voice inside saying there was something more, more love. I can still feel how I wasnt allowed to love so big, so very big. In a flash, my love was squashed, and I was quickly taught the socially acceptable thing to do was to be silent and hide. The message I heard was to be SMALL. Hide the longing for more, hide the longing for more understanding. Hide the belief that love is the answer.
The beautiful gift within all this smallness is when you keep longing for a pure heart, the universe answers. I couldn’t stop the longing. Growing up my Granny who showed me the way of love and kindness. Then it was Bruce and his family, showing me the way of inclusivity, love, and kindness within their family dynamics. I found people every day teaching me something different than being small. I was drawn to the humans who were unabashedly outspoken, and they quickly became my heroes.
The journey to unfold, to awaken to the place where the world needs all of us to embrace our brightness with hearts full of love and kindness, was a long one. I experienced decades of mentors showing me their paths, helping me to see that I too, one day, could make a mighty difference for good on this planet. The calling to do more made it impossible to continue with the smallness mentality. The days of blurriness, anxiousness, dread, fear, and lack of within the collective thinking or bowing to the idea that thinking smaller was better, were finally coming to an end. Whewwww!!
The knowledge that choosing love was the answer which brought clarity. When I said YES to my personal calling, the misty, blurry, foggy vision of the world lifted, and the path to Oneness became brighter.
I’m still a work in progress, with a love and strength of the mountains and an outlook of blue skies ahead.
Deb
Taking stock - discovering the sources of your internal discomfort and dis-ease.
You are beginning to awaken to remember who you are. Spiritual awakening creates an awareness of the sources and reasons you feel discomfort within. You are prompted to examine all aspects of your life - to conduct a life review. As you take stock of each one, write them down. The more aware you are of those things that no longer serve you, the more open you become to making a change. The initial feelings of separation, of being detached from the knowledge of your infinite and eternal nature, Spirit, often create a strong desire to make transformational changes in all aspects of your life.
Seeking answers to your many questions and all that troubles you.
Looking deep within oneself and asking the hard questions…Why am I here? How do I become the person whom I feel I should be?
First we need to find honesty within ourselves…are you fighting with anger, or doubts about yourself or others? We as humans spend so much in our time in our heads, and not living life in with our hearts.
For myself finding the root cause of negative feelings and when they arise is the first step in healing oneself, and letting go of triggers. Breathing in positive energy, by taking short deep breathes. Pulling energy from earth helps to change our focus from negative to positive. And can be done anytime: ie. breathe focus on calm when you experience road rage or anger surfacing from a comment made. This is the first step on awakening as you follow your Path of letting go of all that does not serve you.
Time, persistence and patience as we humans allow ourselves to ignore the voice of Ego, and listen within…a knowing and learning of who we truly are.
It is our choice to the Path we choose…it is without judgement. Know we are here to support you as you endevour to live a lifetime of calm and peace. Blessings
Summary. The moment of awakening can, in many ways, feel like entering the mist. It can be equated to the first stirrings of waking from a deep sleep.
You are beginning to become aware that you are in separation—within yourself and with the One Spirit. At first light, this rudimentary awareness is unclear, much like being in a fog.
The early stages of spiritual awakening are often noticeable by feelings of disharmony, emptiness, disconnection, or other internal discomfort or unrest. This inner dis-ease prompts you to survey your life and discover why you feel out of "sync" or uneasy about what your life has become. You are experiencing the first glimpses of what being in separation truly means.
Within this second stage of the awakening process, you are prompted to think about every aspect of your life. Are you happy? If not, why not? You may feel there is so much more to your life, but you have no idea where or what to search for answers that will enable you to find peace and joy in all aspects of your life.
This is often a time of confusion as you are vulnerable to the opinions of others, and you may go down many roads in search of answers to your many questions. You get through this stage by remaining focused and consistent in your desire to move forward along your path and will overcome any influence that would prevent you from advancing. Looking back at those moments, you will see they produced your most significant spiritual growth and advancement. Once you have chosen to awaken, the One Spirit will inspire and guide you because this is your desire, your intention, the heartfelt expression of your freedom to create at will.
