Whether you’re re-evaluating your life, your current belief system, or on a journey to find the greater meaning of life, a spiritual awakening could be just the refreshing encounter you need to set you on a different path. Whether that path leads to untold greatness or a newfound peace within yourself, a spiritual awakening will not only direct you, but will also guide you.
There is a wide array of mechanisms that one can use to achieve a spiritual awakening; each holds a unique sense of purpose. First, you need to acknowledge the undeniable void that is unfulfilled by the earthly realm. You can then expand your mind and use meditation to achieve an awakening.
If you are hoping to experience a spiritual awakening, or if you are already on your spiritual journey to enlightenment and you need some guidance, or even if you have just begun considering the void in your life that you wish to fulfill, we will delve into the things you need to do to successfully experience a spiritual awakening.
Why is a spiritual awakening important?
Getting caught up in the essence of everyday life is enough to make our experiences and outlook seem covered by the filter of monotony. We can often get so consumed by what we do every day and fall into the false belief that this is as good as it gets. However, there are instances and experiences that may occur that cause you to become immediately dissatisfied and uncomfortable with the normality that you have been experiencing.
You may find yourself seeking a greater meaning to life, searching for more beyond the depths of everyday life and beyond the reaches of the physical world. A spiritual awakening, or enlightenment, can establish a relationship between you and a higher power.
Whether it is within your existing belief system, exploring a belief system that is entirely different to yours or journeying into a belief when you never thought spirituality was a possibility, an enlightening experience can change your way of viewing the world and can re-establish the trajectory you previously assumed your life to be on.
How to have a spiritual awakening?
Before experiencing a spiritual awakening, there are some active elements that you may evoke to enhance or bring on the experience. While each encounter may be vastly different for each person, a combination of the below steps may aid in bringing you to enlightenment faster.
While a spiritual awakening does often come after a life-changing event or a major experience in one’s life, there are ways for you to welcome enlightenment without venturing too far off from the comfort of your home. Here is how:
Declutter
Whether it’s your physical space or your mental space, you need to clear out all the things you are holding on to that no longer adds value to your life. Open and free up space within your mind and within your environment to welcome the awakening you so ardently seek.
Make your beliefs intentional
The only thing that goes with the flow is a dead fish. Be intentional about what you believe and try to make your own personal connection with your belief system. Understand what it means to you and create your own relationship with your beliefs.
Relinquish control
The harder you pursue a spiritual awakening, the more you may find it slipping out of your grasp. Don’t try to control every element of the enlightenment you are trying to experience. You may find it happening as soon as you let go.
Expand your beliefs
Don’t shut yourself out from exploring the belief systems of others. It may implore you to take on different approaches, such as different forms of meditation, to your spirituality which may lead you one step closer to your awakening.
Step into the outdoors
Being in nature is a terrific way to reconnect to a higher spiritual power because you’re actively basking in the beauty that could only be created by something greater than us mere mortals. It also allows you to entirely disconnect from the constraints of everyday life, be it work, technology, or anything that has become mundane to you.
What do you experience when going through a spiritual awakening?
When you are nearing or in the midst of experiencing a spiritual awakening, it can be an instantaneous experience, or it can be a slower process whereby you vividly experience each and every stage of the awakening.
It can be viewed as a journey, and the stages you go through may very closely resemble a physical journey. The first stage of the spiritual journey that you will experience is the call to enlightenment. This is where you experience the yearning for something greater, for something deeper, and you will find the need to fulfill a spiritual void.
The next stage will be deciding exactly what your soul is yearning for. Are you seeking the fulfillment of love, are you hoping to become closer to your spiritual higher power, are you seeking selflessness, or are you hoping to find the best method of bringing yourself closer to your higher self?
Next, you will venture on your path. You will seek and explore, and you will step into a different version of yourself. But it is after this point that your attempts may seem futile. You may become frustrated with yourself, things can become harder before you reach your ultimate desired state, and right in the midst of the difficulties, you will find yourself at the threshold of your spiritual awakening.
And lastly, you will find yourself wonderfully and appreciatively entering nirvana. You become one with your path, you embody your spirituality, and you are filled with the life-altering experience of enlightenment for which you were so deeply yearning.
Conclusion
As you journey on the pursuit of your ultimate spirituality, be sure to go in with an open mind. The journey may not be at all as you expected and may be nothing like the journey’s others have ventured on. It is unique to you and will uniquely transform your outlook on life.
