The 5 Life-Changing Stages of Spiritual Awakening

Which One Are You In?

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These are the five stages a person goes through to realize the enduring awakening or enlightenment from non-enduring awakening:

1. Shift to Awakening:

Your first shift to awakening-which separates thinking from awareness, happens by grace. People sometimes lose all their possessions, family members, social position, reputation, and physical ability. In some cases, the loss can also happen through disaster or war. Whatever you identify with, it's no longer there, so your mind identification breaks with it. Consciousness gets free from its identification with forms, and you get more conscious. Hence the Breaking of Ego Shell Due to disaster or tragedy is a turning point of your life.

Shift from Mind to Being

The grace of god has already been given to you. This inner calling from your being can happen anytime due to grace. You might forget this moment of grace for years or even decades because your mind will take over. Many people may not initially realize or fully experience the beauty and wonder of calling from the being until a particular event or experience allows them to see it. Whether it's a grand moment or a small one, when you realize there's more to life and yourself than you previously felt from the limited perspective of thinking, your journey truly begins. From that moment forward, your path in life takes a new direction and opens up possibilities you may have never imagined before.

Awakening cannot be earned or achieved

The beginning of the awakening process cannot be forced or earned, but rather, it happens by grace. There is no clear set of steps that can be taken to reach it. The first awakening occurs without any doing on your part and cannot be reversed, though the ego can delay it. The purpose of this post is to help people recognize that they have begun to awaken and to help them intensify and accelerate the process.

Relationship between awareness and thinking

Awareness is the space in which thoughts exist when that space has become aware of itself. Once you have experienced awareness, you can choose to be present and rest in your being rather than getting lost in useless thinking. With awakening comes responsibility, and it's up to you to recognize its significance and bring its light into the world.

2. The End of Your Mind's World:

Due to this profound shift in consciousness, Whatever resonated with you before is not resonating with you anymore. Your career, habits, relationships, inclinations, and likings all fell apart. You fluctuate between awakened and egoic states of mind. You feel "out of place." It might feel like the End of your world with its known habits and conditionings. You are going through physical and emotional pain after the spiritual awakening.

A significant reorientation occurred in your life, and you pondered,

what do I do with my life?
What's my role?
What's my relationship with my family, friends, husband, wife, and children?

Why awakening is so painful?

You are confused, wondering why awakening is so painful instead of blissful and free from negative states. It is the start of the dark night of the Soul. Your mind makes you feel like an impostor when you don't feel the blissful state like those contemporary spiritual teachers whom you follow. But why do you fluctuate between awakened and unconscious states? Why do you oscillate between inner fulfillment and anxiety? That brings us to the next stage of Spiritual Awakening.

3. The Dark Night of the Soul - We can also call it Trials and Tribulations.. (Plus, watch the video too)..