Are There Different Kinds Of Spiritual Awakenings?

I wanted to make this  blog and podcast episode because people often have one experience, and that becomes what they identify with for the rest of their life.

I have been "searching" most of my adult life for my "thing", only to learn that identifying with the thing keeps you in that thing. And then there's no space to explore something else.

I find it really difficult to define myself by anything. I've tried. I've tried so hard. But when I'm done with something, I'm done with it.

I had depression. I don't anymore. That left me in my early twenties. I had chronic anxiety and panic attacks. I don't anymore. That left me in my twenties too.

I've been through divorce. I worked out how to get through something really painful. And then I was done with that. I've been a mom to four kids. I've done a fairly good job. But by no means am I defined by being a mom. I could have made so many of my life experiences a thing to fit into a niche. But my journey has shown me that I am a jack of all trades to become a master of myself. Therefore there is ALOT to experience, yet...

Nothing defines me.

I've had a spiritual awakening. I've had a kundalini awakening. I've had what I'll call a twin flame awakening, for lack of a better way to describe it—though I don't believe we need someone else to be whole. But the experience of an energetic entanglement? The healing it gives you? Massive.

I've had a  starseed awakening. It started expanding my memory of my soul's experiences beyond just this life. And then there's something I call a Gnostic awakening. I didn't know about Gnosticism. I just had my own experiences, and then information would cross my path that confirmed what I was shown and then I understood the experience.

I've also had what I want to call a unity consciousness awakening. And a soul awakening—the soul remembering all of its origins, its whole story, its essence.

The point of all of this is to say that we can get lost on the idea of something to the point of defining us and then it doesn't allow us to grow beyond it.

Take twin flames. People are desperate for love, for connection, for that ultimate romance. And they can get lost in that narrative and never come out of it.

To me, everything should be empowering us. Everything should be bringing us back to oneness. Bringing the soul back home. Bringing the soul back online so we can know the self.

And isn't it funny? The word "self" when we're in a human body—we're totally individuated, separate. All we see is this body. But when we start understanding all the different layers and complexities? We return to the self. And the self is everything. Everyone. Everywhere. That unity. That oneness. Not about ourself at all. 

If we define ourselves by one experience we can box ourselves in. We can stop our next step. There's always going to be another step. Always more of yourself to know.

Don't put a cap on it. 

If you would like to dive deeper you can listen to this episode of The Sovereign Soul Podcast Episode here. 

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