Spiritual Awakening Tips and Recommendations (20 Areas that are Vital for Our Transformation)

The video, Spiritual Awakening Tips and Recommendations is the short version. Inside the blog, below is a Compassion and Kindness exercise, additional content, and references for you as resources.

There are specific methods and areas to attend to in our spiritual awakening journey and other areas to avoid that you will find surprising for integrating, expanding, and gaining the most out of our spiritual awakening journey. This is an ongoing process through this life and beyond, not a finality or a one-time event. The continuation occurs in layers and one experience can be profound as an extreme experience, while other experiences are often moderate or mild. People can get frozen in the process which means they can stop growing or even regress based on their choices and the methods they are using or not using. I have known two people who had powerful and profound, life changing and altering experiences that resulted in them having healing gifts, understanding different dimensions, and predictive insights who lost their abilities. There were two reasons for their regression. One was they had early life trauma that was significant that they did not heal and as a result their trauma responses negatively influenced decisions. This resulted in a loss of abilities and worse, in my opinion, they had semi-willingness to acknowledge they had lost their abilities. (In mental health, this is called anosognosia). They also were fooling themselves and deceiving others. This was a great learning lesson for me.

Roadmap

Having a reliable road map and methods in place during the journey of spiritual awakening is not only an on-going process through life, but calls upon us to do specific things, engage in our life in specific ways to get the most benefits so we are able to embody the experiences wholly for our transformation. The following content shares the different areas that serve integration, centering, expansion, and progress based on years of working with people and my own spiritual awakening journey.

Journal

1.Keep a journal about your experiences. Often when we write we remember more information and as we write. Writing also helps to document experiences for re-reading to notice patterns, and what you may have forgotten over time which is sometimes surprising. Record the date, the kind of experience as visiting a sacred location, in a meditation, out of body experience, after death communication, communication with other species, intuitive or psychic experience, a dream and was the dream a lucid dream or dream walking experience? To learn more about dream walking go to the blog, Spiritual Awakening Dreams on YouTube or 3Melete.com blogs. A longer version of this method is called a TimeLine map. The map is chronological from the youngest age you can remember. Write the dates and times going horizonal or vertical depending on the paper size you have, or this could be done in Word with multiple landscape pages. The idea is to record dates, times, occurrences. When you have them written down, notice the ages and remember what else was going on around that time. This creates a timeline that helps to identify influences, other occurrences, and can give you a view of your abilities and experiences over time and gives you a comprehensive overview. You may also record people who’ve you met that were meaningful around that time.

Sensory

2. Identify the different sensory systems that were involved in your experiences. Was the experience auditory, an Intense Musical Experience (IME), with a spiritual teacher and thought transference or telepathy, knowings, touch, visual, odors, ‘seeing,’ remote viewing, predictive, or another type of experience. Adding this information to your Timeline Map and making a notation when you have an experience is helpful. Ask the following questions

What were the feelings associated with the experience? (there is an emphasis on feelings as sometimes people avoid this area).

Was the experience generated from a stressful experience? Sometimes people have an experience that catapults them out of their ordinary reality that changes their perspective. In mental health this is called dissociation as a protective trauma response. In spiritual awakening experiences this is a way to access a greater knowing.

Bill’s Out Of Body Experience (OBE) Saved Lives

The following spiritual awakening experience occurred to a veteran, ‘Bill,’ that was in combat during his OBE. The OBE saved his life and the life of his combat partner. Bill and his partner were surrounded by people with weapons and had no knowledge of how to get out of the situation because the area was in a foreign landscape. Bill and his partner had evaluated the situation mentally determining they would lose their lives as they knew no way out with gunfire all around them. But just when all was thought to be lost, in a flash, Bill had an OBE. Bill’s grandmother showed up and gave him an overhead view of where they were showing the only passage out that led to safety. Since there were no other options they took that route and survived to tell me the story.

Sleep

3. Getting enough sleep each night helps to stabilize our system as a whole and each different organ in our body. Sleep is restorative to our physical body as well as our mental and emotional states. Getting good sleep which means deep enough that allows our psyche and spirit to process our life content and astral travel. Missing sleep is also not recommended as we cannot recapture lost sleep. A routine for getting to sleep is helpful with an aim for the same time each night to get to sleep for most of the time so there isn’t lost sleep.

Dreams

4. Another aspect of sleep that is a reliable and vital component of our spiritual development is through our dreams. Some people have spiritual awakening dreams which you can learn more about in the video and blog, Spiritual Awakening Dreams and the ability to use our dream state for specific practices that we can learn to develop for insight, creativity, problem-solving, knowing, and deeper connection to our inner spiritual wisdom.

Foods

5. Consuming nourishing food and beverages is a significant contribution to staying balanced and centered. Foods and good water are stabilizing medicine all of our systems and contribute to good sleep, stay balanced, stabilizes our mental and emotional systems and energy for making good decisions. Often people who are having difficulty are not aware their nutritional intake and lack of nutrition contribute to anxiety, depression, not being able to get good sleep, feeling cranky and out of balance. The opposite of healthy nutrition is fast food, junk food, highly processed foods, foods with high sugar, salt, saturated fat content, and too much food. Being a vegetarian or vegan is not beneficial if the person does not know how to get protein from non-meat sources or eats processed foods.

Healing

6.When we have trauma and many people have different kinds of trauma in their life or from their families that is inherited from their family member’s responses, or generational trauma that is passed as secrets and behaviors that are not spoken about, and sometimes forgotten there are changes in what is said, and what is not said, emotional content, expectations, created social norms, and other influencing and restrictive patterns. Sometimes these behaviors manifest in being overly controlling and not even realizing it, feeling lack of courage, resistance, or personal sabotage.

Working with someone who is trusted, who does not judge spiritual awakening experiences as fantasy, or a mental health disorder is important as an ally and guide to navigate through these experiences and engage practices that continue to release the trauma. Specific sound healing practices that facilitate accessing restorative states of consciousness are beneficial for releasing trauma from the neurological system.

Blind Side/ Shadow

7.Working with our blind side also called shadow is often an aspect of releasing distortion is helpful for our spiritual awakening journey. Although we are all on our spiritual awakening journey we are in different stages of the process. Our blind sides are distortions from our ego and can be released that assists with our spiritual development, personal growth, and advancement. Growing through these distortions allows us to take ownership and release tied up energy that is then available to us in other ways. Because someone has experienced one or many spiritual awakening experiences whether mild, moderate, or extreme does not mean their issues are resolved, they do not have lessons, a blind side or shadow.

Asking to be shown how we are holding onto patterns of our own ego that keep us in a negative cycle. Sometimes this is painfully rewarding to notice how we need to change and grow and make an effort to become more conscious of our words and behaviors.

Grounding

8.Grounding has different meanings in different circles and there are different kinds of grounding practices. Specific grounding practices that do not connect to any physical organs or chakras are beneficial for this but there are other benefits as well. Often people who have spiritual awakening experiences and those who have experienced trauma are unwilling to be in their physical body or connect to their feelings. Anchoring our energy every day is a commitment to be fully present on Earth each day as an affirmation of presence. Another benefit is grounding integrates higher level experiences into the physical body and neurological system, so they are applicable, accessible, and useful instead of remaining as an etheric experience only. There are other more advanced purposes for using grounding beyond this as well.

Nature

9. Being in Nature is a key element to our inner connection because it connects us deeply to being fully present in the moment. Practice being in nature and noticing the colors in the sky, the movement of clouds, the wind or lack of wind, the slight temperature changes, the sounds of wildlife around you, movements of plants and wildlife. Notice your feet on the ground in your movements. Notice the odors. Where I live when it rains there is a profuse smell of chaparral which is exhilarating. Where there is a forest you can get the benefits of forest bathing where you are taking in the essential oils of the trees that are restorative when you walk near them. If you live or are near water, notice the sounds, odors, movements, colors, and temperatures. Go outside in the night and look up at the stars. Watch the stars as they go across the sky. If you live where there is light pollution see if you can go beyond the light pollution to notice the vastness and grandeur of the skies. You can also fulfill moving by being in nature and connecting with what fills your soul by being in nature.

Exercise and Movement

10.Having a regular daily practice of movement helps to keep balance in the physical body, mind, emotions, and spirit. Yoga, swimming, walking, dancing contributes processing and integration of experiences and getting good sleep. Often walking can overlap with being in nature that is also a spiritual connection. An exercise practice also contributes to mind and emotional regulation.

Community and Connection

11.As social beings it is helpful for us to have people around us who do not negatively judge our experiences. While some people might think we are crazy others will understand experiences. Now there are different social media groups, and podcasts where people share their different experiences where we can listen and share if we wish. An example that comes to mind is the film Ariel Phenomena with John Mack interviewing the children in Rowanda, Africa in 1994. A group of children while at school were witness to a UFO that landed and then saw two beings who were humanoid but not human. Some of them remembered the humanoids speaking to them through thought transference. The children had different responses from adults when they shared their experience. Some were told they were lying while others said nothing at all. Although they all went on to lead their lives they were profoundly influenced by their experience. These responses show how finding people and a community is supportive.

Another recommendation is the work of Phil Borgess. His documentary, Crazywise shows how different cultures respond to people who are having experiences identified in Western culture as a mental illness. He is contributing to up-ending the Western perspective on spiritual awakening and mental health. You can find the link to Crazywise in the References below.

Knowing there are people with whom you will not share your spiritual awakening experiences is significant as there are those people who will not understand, will judge you as possibly crazy resulting in changing their ability to relate to you (and you to them). Trust that intuition and find people who will listen. Now there are several groups where you can share your spiritual awakening experience including, Spiritual Awakening International, and also Internal Association for Near-death Studies. Links are available in the references below. Sharing our experiences helps us to put words to them and consider them differently as does recording the experience.

Isolation, Connecting, and Creative Projects

12.The oppositive of finding community is isolation, excessive inward focus, and detachment. People isolate when there is no one to speak with about an experience which can be a form of intuitive perception. However finding ways to connect by caring for animals, creatures, and plants is beneficial as is volunteering, being in nature, and having creative projects helps to stay connected within, integrate, and not isolate.

Permission

13.When we give ourselves permission to remember it sometimes opens memories we have put far away because we were too busy, or it wasn’t time. It is now time to remember. This is the time of transformation, expanding our consciousness through methods that simultaneously benefit our physical body mind, emotions, and spirit.

Thoughts and Words

14. Becoming aware of our words in our head and what is spoken is part of the spiritual awakening journey. Observing the energy of our conversations, how we connect with people, noticing if the content is uplifting, supportive, creative positive energy or complaining, gossiping, snarky, or generally negative. The negative voice is the critic. And the inner critic also criticizes ourselves relentlessly and can run rampant unless we start to notice. I had a friend who we had gone through an experience over 15 years that bonded us together. In the beginning and middle of the experience was positive and exciting but towards the end it downgraded because there were significant changes in what we shared. The connection became only commiseration in how we had been deceived, and misguided. Redirection didn’t work because that is all we had in common, so the friendship drifted away.

Compassion and Kindness

15.Practicing compassion and kindness towards ourselves in the process of our spiritual awakening journey is sometimes difficult when we have an inner critical voice, we were brought up to not identify our needs, and we are unfamiliar with the process. Practicing kindness towards ourselves means we notice the critic and give it an override, we keep goals, set intentions, and participate in daily practices. Kindness and compassion recognizes when we are going through a challenging time, listening to our needs, and trusting ourselves, knowing it is unfolding.

Practices that help develop compassion and kindness are shifting out of waking consciousness into alpha or deeper states often the easiest done through listening to curated sound healing patterns. Even finding 10 minutes several times a day is a start when there access alpha brain waves which is a state of meditation or deeper allows you to develop resilience and bridge the connection to inner spiritual development to continue the process on a daily basis. This process also builds self-compassion, assists in awareness of knowing your intuition and attunes to feeling awareness.

The Practice of Kindness Exercise

A delightful practice is about giving a kindness to strangers in our actions and words. Starting a conversation with someone you don’t know and saying something very kind is a huge energy change. There are opportunities around us to say something very kind to someone that is like a blessing or an enthusiastic compliment that is life changing for the moment, hour, day or even a memory that person will hold in their life. This daily spiritual practice in making a difference allows us to look at the world as an opportunity to see who will show up and what opening will present itself to bring something meaningful to another person.

Honoring Sensitives

18.When people have a spiritual awakening experiences or experiences there are often changes in sensitivity levels. What once was something that was accepted and part of life needs to be adjusted or is no longer desirable at all. These changes can be from colors of clothing, people we want to be around, places, music, odors, and changes of relationships, careers, and life direction.

Dark Night of the Soul

This blog/video is not about spiritual awakening emergencies which can occur as a feeling of separation and inability to cope with what is happening in your life. This is often called a Dark Night of the Soul. Going through a dark night of the soul can be arduous and difficult and the following information is for people who are experiencing an emergency with resources and people to contact.

Spiritual Emergence Network

Spiritual Crisis Network

Spiritual Emergence Resources

Extreme and Peak Experiences

19. When people have an extreme or peak experience it is life changing in with shifts in the neurological system, sensory system, and the amount of energy the person experiences which interface with insight, problem-solving, creativity, and intuition. Having time to integrate the experience is vital to stabilization, integration, sustaining the insights, and laying the foundation for further development. To sustain this connection and continue learning methods to connect from waking consciousness to alpha brain waves or deeper benefits the systems mentioned above because they do not shut but gently change into more receptivity and growth. When people do not have a roadmap and practices for continuing their process of growth it is a missed opportunity, and benefits of the experience and content can have temporary integration or benefits can be lost.

Daily Practices

20. Daily practices that continue training our body, mind, emotions, and spirit to accept and trust experiences and also to expand our consciousness assist in many different ways. Releasing ordinary consciousness and regularly accessing alpha brain waves that are not only healing, but also develop our connection to intuition, insight, problem-solving and creativity create neuropathways that build a reliable bridge. These same practices release trauma depression and anxiety, boost the immune system, and create balance and calm. Using specific sound patterns and rhythms are beneficial as a daily practice because they are easy to follow and use anywhere, deepen over time with continued use.