Hello Bright Light,

 

What's "Spiritual" Awakening really like?

I define Awakening as an ongoing transformative process through

which we ultimately wake up from our personal, ancestral, and collective

imprinted beliefs in limitation, lack, and separation. We awaken into the

realization and embodiment of “Higher Self”, and the experience of

increased freedom from emotional reactivity, peace of mind, and happiness

in daily living. 

What ever is happening in your life today IS your spiritual path and

opportunity to awaken into more fully into the truth of who you are.  

Awakening is a path and a process which can be experienced in so many

ways! For some, everything changes in a single moment when 

inner silence and unfiltered beauty of Life remains primary, even in the

midst of day to day joys and challenges. For other, it may be that they

have Awakened in certain parts of their lives, but still struggle in others,

and perhaps don't even recognize the Awakened parts of themselves. 

 

There was a moment on my path of Awakening, when my sense

of self transformed suddenly and dramatically into what I

experienced as “unity consciousness”. Though I have no words

to adequately describe it, in a single moment, my perception of

identity and reality itself, shifted and irrevocably changed.

At first, I felt profoundly disoriented because the “me” I had always

believed myself to be, and many cherished beliefs, simply vanished in

an instant. I remember waking up in the middle of the night having no

sense of a location. It felt more like being everywhere all at once and

the unfamiliarity of this unleashed an overwhelming rush of adrenaline

through my body.  It took weeks and consistent grounding practices for my

system to adjust to this and other effects of that shift.

Many of the realizations and joys, and especially challenging effects

(such as the initial disorientation I mentioned), of the Awakening process

can be easier to accept and integrate when understood as evidence of

a much larger and ultimately desirable process.

To stabilize and integrate big shifts in consciousness, it can

help to have resources, support, and assistance along the

way, especially through uncomfortable or difficult places.

For a period of time after that pivotal shift in my Awakening process, I

continued to feel disoriented and ungrounded. I knew I needed more

support to integrate that change in perception. Gratefully this support

showed up in the form of a private Facebook group of folks who identified

as living “post-awakening”.

 

Some phases of Awakening can feel like stepping into another world.

During such times we can benefit greatly from mirroring, sharing, and

guidance that others who have had similar experiences can provide. During

that time, it was stabilizing to have that group to go to ask questions and

share experiences!

 

In time, the group host, Marianne, inspired by fascinating conversations

happening in the comment threads decided to invite group participants to

contribute to a book project to talk about our experiences.

 

I’m thrilled to be a contributing author to her book, What is

Awakening Really Like: Twenty Ordinary People Talk about Life

Beyond the Spiritual Search by Marianne Broug, a compilation of

how others have described their Awakening experiences and what’s

life is like on the other side of a significant Awakening.

To check it out,  click HERE . 

Below you can read the book dedication describing who it’s for, maybe you or someone you know, and some quotes. 

Best wishes for gentleness on your path of Awakening today, 

Georgette Star MA, D.Min