Signs of Spiritual Awakening – 9 Essential Symptoms of Awakening

Recently on the Internet I discovered a few lists of the signs of spiritual awakening (sometimes also referred to as symptoms of spiritual awakening).  The lists I’ve come across so far are vague and unclear (for example: headaches and body aches, feeling as though you’re on an emotional rollercoaster “for no reason,” changes in energy levels, sleep patterns, jobs, and/or relationships, gaining or losing weight, even an itchy scalp–all apparently for no reason), so I decided to come up with my own list of what I understand to be the most essential and relevant signs and symptoms of spiritual awakening. The following is a list of nine things I experienced during the process of awakening: 

1. Synchronicities that are meaningful to you. (These help point you in the right direction or help spark an important new insight.)
2. Intensely painful life “changes” that you can’t explain or know how you’ll get through. (This assures that you look within for the answers.  Note that “change” is often a polite way of saying “loss.”)
3. All-consuming inner contemplation followed by possible reassessment of beliefs, especially at 3 or 4 in the morning (often triggered by happenings or things you can’t explain using your current belief systems or knowledge).
4. Receiving “secret messages” from people who aren’t aware they’re relaying special messages to you. (If they had known, they may have hesitated, and sometimes spirit just doesn’t want to take chances.)
5. Having the same thing (especially something that’s unusual) happen to you two or three times in a relatively short period of time, like, say, 24 hours. (This assures that you actually notice what your higher self wants you to notice.)
6. Waking up in the middle of the night feeling intense confusion. (This means your beliefs are being re-evaluated. Before you become clear and solid in your new awakened state, you will no doubt find yourself mucking through a period of deep confusion.)
7. Favorable synchronicities that happen regularly. (You can expect these to occur after you regularly follow through with your inner guidance.)
8. Intense, vivid dreams that seem to point you in a certain direction. (The further along in the process you are, the clearer your dreams will be and the more your dreams will help guide you in your daily life. The dreams will be in metaphor form, often in metaphors that make sense to you.)
9. Finding yourself laughing more often. (Sometimes you will wake up in the middle of the night, think something profound that’s also funny, and then laugh your head off. This is not a joke. Your higher self is playful and wants you to have fun while you’re awakening.)

Experiencing any (or all) of these signs means that spirit (your higher self) is trying to get your attention! Also, spirit is playful and wants you to enjoy the awakening process (it’s not all about pain and drama but about enlightenment, about becoming light-hearted). You will also be amazed at the creativity of your higher self.

Remember, the fast track to spiritual awakening does not depend on how much fame or fortune you’re born with (or currently possess), or on how many advanced degrees you have, but on how much you’re willing to (temporarily) forgo your comfort zones for the noble purpose of personal and spiritual growth. This is important because it is your individual growth that is of utmost importance at this crossroad in humanity’s collective evolution.  Remember also that the signs and symptoms you experience aren’t just signs or symptoms; they are designed to assist you in the spiritual awakening process.

How To Awaken – An Example of Spiritual Awakening

I have recently written about the two types of awakening experiences and saw the need to delve deer into how to awaken by sharing an example of spiritual awakening, one that is applicable to daily, real life. I have also shared that the second, less common type of awakening experience (awakening to your inner power) incorporating the more common form of awakening (becoming more aware). This means that when you awakened to your inner power, you will also become more aware, almost automatically.

How Do You Awaken to Your Inner Power?

Awakening to your inner power requires that you first reconnect with your higher self (your "real" self, your inner self) and once you recognize that part of yourself, to follow through with your inner guidance. As you do this over time and experience some amazing results, you will become so confident in your connection with your higher self and with the Divine that you would follow your inner guidance rather than those whom even you would consider the experts in their field. (By the way, this is what is required of you if you are to "ascend" or "graduate" from this realm.) I can not stress this enough.) The following is my experience.

A Real Life Example of Awakening

In 2006 when I submitted a draft of my memoir (about my awakening experiences) to a top-rate editor, she suggested I write a "how-to" book on how to awaken rather than a memoir. Her reason was that how-to books are easier to write and, from examining my draft, she did not think I would be able to pull off a memoir. (I did not have a background in writing but in science and engineering and this was my first book.)

I knew I could not follow her advice. I explained that this was a book on intuition and I needed to follow my intuition (which was to write a memoir). She looked at me as if I were naïve and insisted I change my objective.

However, what I knew that she did not know was that my writing flowed when I followed my inner guidance and all kinds of truly amazing synchronicities and insights happened that forward my book daily and if I went against my intuition, the flow would stop and nothing would come. I had tested this a few times (and I share in my memoir the things that stopped the flow).

Well, I went ahead and continued to follow my inner guidance even though that did not please my editor. She told me that in her 38 years of being a book editor, I'm the first person who ignored her advice. (Well, I too was upset, besides being apprehensive about being able to pull off a memoir.)

But this is what's amazing when you get to the point where you follow your inner guidance even when you're scared: I did not know back then that I was actually recording the details of my awakening process by writing my memoir in real time and by doing so, I would be able to help others get through the challenges of thecoming 2012 changes by offering accurate information and advice. (Not my recollection years later of what I thought made things work.)

Also, following my inner guidance my writing style improved and two years later, my memoir became a finalist in the memoir category in a national, independent book award contest.

Furthermore, I could not have written an accurate and complete book on how to awaken your inner power and intuition back then anyway. But I was able to write a how-to book in 2009 – and quickly, too!

This is the power of reconnecting and integrating with your higher self through your inner guidance. Reconnecting and integrating with your higher self is what you must strive for if your world is to be transformed. It's also how you become an "awakened master," the "master of your life," and how you contribute to the manifestation of the Golden Age. There's no better way to raise your consciousness and to create the life you want.