The Symptoms of Spiritual Awakening

The advice given for many of the symptoms of ascension has been collected from various sources (from books on traditional spiritual practices as well as information received through higher communications) and may not reflect my personal experience.

As with anything, use discernment. If it serves you, fine; otherwise, ignore it. We all experience spiritual growth in our own unique way. For some of us, changes happen slowly. For others, a series of events can bring about a sudden maturation.

We do not all share the same symptoms or changes. And of course, we hold our own individual spiritual beliefs. We are as different as snowflakes, yet we share a common essence and a general form.

Some perceptions may make you uncomfortable. Each of us should examine new information and discern what does not serve us and what is true for us.

So, as you read the list, I ask you to do this for yourself. You are responsible for the interpretation you give.

NOTE: The following text is from Paschalis Kazakopoulos's Book "The Return Of The Goddess" which you can find in our online store!

The Symptoms of Spiritual Awakening!

• 1. Change in Sleep Habits: Restlessness, warm feet, waking up two to three times a night. Feeling tired when you wake up and sleepy during the day. There's something called the Triadic Sleep Pattern that many experience: you sleep for 2-3 hours, wake up, go back to sleep for a few hours, wake up again, and then go back to sleep. For others, their sleep needs have changed. You might feel fine with much less sleep. Lately, I've experienced huge waves of energy flowing into my body from the crown chakra. It makes me feel very good, but keeps me awake for a long time, and then subsides.

Advice: Get used to it. Stay calm with it and don't worry about whether you're sleeping enough (which often causes more insomnia). You'll manage your day well if you simply keep in mind what you need. You can also ask your higher self to give you a break now and then and sleep well at night. If you can't fall asleep immediately, use your waking hours to meditate, read poetry, journal, or look at the moon. Your body will adjust to the new pattern.

• 2. Activity in the Crown of the Head: Tingling, itching, a sensation that something is crawling on it and/or on your spine. A feeling of energetic vibration on the top of the head, like something breaking out, like a shower falling on the head. Also, an energetic sensation that feels like a sprinkling. You may also experience some pressure on the crown, as if someone is pressing with their finger on the top of your head. As I mentioned, I have experienced huge energy charges through the crown. In the past, I felt a more generalized pressure, as if my head was gently pressed against something. A man told me that his hair stood on end and his body felt like goosebumps.

Advice: It's nothing to worry about and panic over. What you are experiencing is the opening of the Crown Chakra. What you feel means that you are opening up to receive Divine energy.

• 3. Sudden Emotional Waves: Feeling the need to cry for no reason. Suddenly feeling angry or sad at the slightest annoyance. Or inexplicably melancholic. Then, very happy. An emotional roller coaster. Very often there is a feeling of suppressed emotions that cause a blockage in the Heart Chakra (in the middle of the chest). This should not be confused with the heart, which is to the left of the Heart Chakra.

Advice: Accept your emotions as they come and let them go. Go directly to the Heart Chakra and feel the emotion. Expand it into all your fields, and breathe deeply from the belly to the top of the chest. Simply, feel the emotion and let it dissipate on its own. If you need help at this stage, just shout out loud that you intend to free yourself from all old issues and ask your Higher Power for help.

You can also ask for the Divine Grace of the Elohim to help you feel comfortable and lighter. Be grateful that your body is releasing these emotions and not holding them inside to harm you. One source states that deep melancholy is associated with the release of relationships, work, etc., that no longer align with our own frequencies. When we feel guilty for releasing these relationships, melancholy helps us heal that pain.

• 4. Whatever is "old" seems to surface: As described above, the people you need to work with (or their clones) appear in your life. Completion is circulating. You may also need to work through self-esteem issues, abundance, creativity, addictions, etc. The resources, or people you need to help you move through these issues begin to appear.

Advice: (as with 3). Also, don't get too involved in analyzing these issues. Examining them too much will simply bring you back again and again to deeper and deeper levels. But if you want to move there, it would be good to consult an expert. Don't try to avoid them or separate yourself from them. Embrace whatever comes to the surface and thank it for helping you move forward. Thank your Higher Power for giving you the opportunity to release these issues. Remember, you don't want these issues to remain stuck in your body.

• 5. Weight Changes: The increase in weight in the population is astonishing. Some other people may lose weight. Often, we gain weight because many of our suppressed fears are now coming to the surface to be healed. We react by building a kind of self-defense. We also try to ground ourselves or give our body some volume against the increasing frequencies.

Advice: Don't panic, just accept it as a symptom of the stage you are in now. You will lose or gain weight when all your fears are assimilated. Get rid of the stress about it. And then you will find that it will be easier to lose or gain weight in the end. Exercise. Before you sit down to eat, try this: Sit at the table after you have set it in an attractive and beautiful way. Light a candle. Enjoy the presentation of the food. Place your dominant hand over your heart and bless the food. Tell your body that you are going to use the food for nourishing reasons and not to fill your emotional hunger.

Then pass your hand from left to right over the food and bless it. You may feel that the food seems warm to your hand even if it is cold. I like to think that when food seems warm to me, it is good and nutritious for me. I have also noticed that when I bless food, I don't eat much. It is important to control yourself when you forget to bless food before eating. When I have forgotten and have almost finished my meal, I bless the food anyway. So I don't break the habit. Another thing you can do is to remain present while eating - don't watch TV. Enjoy with your heart the blessings before you.

• 6. Changes in eating habits: Strange hunger cravings, and paradoxical food preferences. Some find that they are no longer as hungry as before. Or they are hungrier.

Advice: Don't deny what your body wants to tell you. If you are unsure, you can try muscle testing before choosing a type of food your body asks for. Also try blessing the food as described in 5.

• 7. Food intolerances, allergies you never had before: As you become more spiritual, you will be more sensitive to everything around you. Your body will tell you by itself what it can no longer tolerate, and what does not serve it. You may need to cleanse yourself of toxins. Some people find that they have a white residue in their mouths, like that of sprinters when they reach the finish line.

Advice: An acupuncturist told me that this residue can subside if you swish 2 teaspoons of iced olive oil in your mouth for 10-15 minutes (and whatever you do, don't swallow it), and then spit it out in the toilet and not in the sink, because toxins will have just come out of your body. Brush your teeth, and then do the same. Then, clean your toothbrush (sorry if this makes you feel bad, but it works).

• 8/A. Increase in senses. Increased sensitivity. Vision: Blurred vision, flickering objects, seeing bright particles, auras of people, plants, animals, and objects. Some report seeing opaque objects as transparent. When you close your eyes you no longer see darkness, but something reddish. You may also see geometric shapes or bright colors and images with your eyes closed. Colors appear more vivid - the sky the color of a small white duck and the grass a wonderful green.

Very often, I happen to see something like networks or grids crossing the ground. As you become more sensitive you may see geometric shapes or outlines in the air, especially when the room is almost dark. When your eyes are open or closed, you may see shapes in your peripheral vision (these are your guides).

Advice: Your vision is changing in many ways - you are experiencing new ways of seeing. Be patient. Whatever you do, don't be afraid. Blurred vision can be relieved by yawning.

• 8/B. Hearing. Increased or decreased hearing: Once while driving, I felt an intense need to stop and get off the road, due to the painfully loud sound of my tires on the highway. Some other symptoms are hearing a slight noise in the head, beeping, sounds, music or electronic tracks. Some hear running water, the hum of bees, something passing like a bullet, a ringing bell or a roar. Others have what is called "auditory dyslexia", meaning they cannot distinguish what other people are saying, as if they cannot interpret their own language. Some also hear strange voices in their dreams, as if someone is hovering near them. You can either ask the presences to leave or ask Archangel Michael to take over the whole situation. Again, there is nothing to fear here.

Advice: Surrender to it. Let it come. Listen. Your ears are adjusting to the new frequencies.

• 8/C. Enriched senses of smell, touch and taste: I notice that I can now smell and taste chemical additives with displeasure in some foods. Another food, however, may have a wonderful taste.

Advice: For some people these enrichments are pleasant but also cause them trouble. Now and then you may experience the scent of flowers. Many mystics experience this. Enjoy it.

• 9. Skin Irritations: Rashes, small swellings (or pimples), acne, hives, and herpes. Anger produces breakouts around the mouth and chin.

Advice: You may be shedding toxins and bringing emotions to the surface. When an issue is about to be released and you try to re-suppress it, your skin expresses the issue for you, until you process the emotions. Work with what you carry within you.

• 10. Episodes of intense energy: Which make you want to jump out of bed and take action, followed by periods of lethargy and fatigue. Fatigue usually accompanies major shifts. This is the integration period, so surrender to it.

Advice: Become more fluid and follow the nature of the energy. Don't fight it. Be gentle with yourself. If you feel tired, take a nap. If you feel you have enough energy and can't sleep, write your own novel. Take advantage of the type of energy.

• 11. Changes in prayer or meditation: You don't feel the same impressions as before. You don't have the same experience of contact with the Divine Spirit. You find it difficult to focus.

Advice: You may be in more instantaneous and constant communication with Spirit now and therefore the impression is changing. You will adjust to this new feeling. In essence, most of the time, you think and act in cooperation with Spirit. Also, you may now find that your meditation periods are shorter.

• 12. Waves of Power: Completely suddenly you get hot from head to toe. It's a very short-lived sensation, but it's uncomfortable. Conversely, some people have felt unexplained chills. I have experienced both. More recently, I have felt waves or energy currents flowing through me. Sometimes the energy seems so intense when it first enters my body that it causes me slight nausea. But, if I think of the energy as Divine and banish fear, I feel wonderful and enjoy the sensation. If you work with energy, you may have noticed that the warmth emanating from your hands has increased tremendously. It's very good.

Advice: If you feel uncomfortable, ask your Higher Power - if it is for your highest good - to lower or raise the temperature a little.

• 13. A series of physical manifestations: Headaches, back and neck pain, flu-like symptoms (called vibrational flu), digestive problems, muscle spasms or cramps, increased heart rate, chest pains, changes in sexual desire, numbness or pain in body parts, and involuntary utterances or body movements. Some of us had old childhood conditions that reappeared for a little healing.

Advice: Remember what I said about seeking medical help, if you need it! If you determine that this is not a medical condition, relax with the awareness that it is only temporary.

• 14. Youthful appearance: Yippee!!! As you clear emotional issues and free yourself from limiting beliefs and the heavy burden of the past, you will essentially become brighter. Your frequency becomes higher. You love life and yourself more. You begin to look like the perfection you truly are.

• 15. Vivid dreams: Sometimes your dreams are so vivid that you wake up confused. You may also have very lucid dreams in which you are in control. Many of them may also be mystical or bring messages to you. And in some dreams you simply know that you are not "dreaming" – that what is happening is real.

Advice: You will remember what is important for you to remember. Don't rush anything. And above all, stay out of all fear.

• 16. Life-altering events: Death, divorce, job status changes, loss of home, illness, and/or other disasters - sometimes several at once! Forces that make you slow down, become simpler, change, reassess Who you are and what life means to you. Forces you cannot ignore. Forces that make you let go of your attachments. Forces that awaken the sense of love and compassion for all.

• 17. A desire to break free from limiting patterns: From disempowering jobs, consumerist lifestyles, and toxic people or situations. You feel pushed by the need to "find yourself" and your life's purpose - now! You want to be creative and free to become who you truly are. You may find yourself drawn to the arts and nature. Also, you may want to free yourself from things and people that no longer "serve" you.

Advice: Do it!

• 18. Emotional and mental confusion: A feeling that you need to align your life, which creates confusion while at the same time you feel chaotic and unable to focus. (See 45)

Advice: Put your ear to your heart and your discernment will follow.

• 19. Introspection, loneliness, and loss of interest in more external activities: This stage surprised many extroverted people who found themselves formlessly involved in external social events. And they usually say: "I don't know why, but I no longer like going out as much as before."

• 20. Bursts of creativity: Receiving images, ideas, music, and other creative inspirations with staggering frequency.

Advice: At least write down your inspirations, because Spirit is speaking to you about how you could fulfill your purpose and contribute to the healing of the planet.

• 21. You have the perception that time is accelerating: It seems so because you have been exposed to many changes in your life, which came to you with unprecedented frequency. The number of changes seems to be increasing.

Advice: Breaking your day into time slots and appointments increases the feeling of acceleration. You can slow down time by relaxing into the present moment and paying attention to what is happening rather than what is ahead. Slow down and tell yourself that you have enough time. Ask your Higher Power to help you. Stay focused on the present. Try to have some flow from one activity to another. Stay tuned to your inner guidance. You can also hold time by asking it to. The next time you feel rushed, say: "Time, please hold. I need more time to....". Then relax.

1. A feeling that something is about to happen. There is a feeling that something is about to happen. This can create anxiety.

Advice: There is nothing that should make you worry. Things undoubtedly happen, but anxiety can only create problems for you. All your thoughts, Positive or Negative, are co-prayers. There is nothing to fear.

1. Impatience. You know better, but sometimes you don't succeed. You want to move forward and find out what's coming your way. Uncertainty makes you uncomfortable.

Advice: Learn to live with uncertainty, knowing that nothing will come to you if you are not ready. Impatience is actually a lack of trust, especially a lack of trust in your Higher Power. When you focus on the present, you will experience miracles - yes, even in traffic!

1. A deep longing for meaning, purpose, spiritual connection, and revelation. Perhaps some interest in spiritual matters for the first time in your life. "A steady burning desire," as k.d. Lang says. The material world cannot fill this longing.

Advice: Follow your heart and the path will open up for you.

1. A feeling that you are somewhat different. A disturbing feeling that everything in your life seems new and different, that you have left your old self behind. Indeed, you have. You are something much bigger than you can possibly imagine. And there is much more to come.

1. "Teachers" appear everywhere at the right time to help you on your spiritual journey: people, books, movies, events, Mother Nature, etc. Teachers may seem negative or positive when you are stuck in a kind of polarized thinking, but, from an insurmountable point of view, they are always perfect. Exactly what you need to learn and move forward. By the way, we never accept more than we are ready to bear and cope with. Every challenge presents us with the opportunity, by going through it, to show our mastery.

1. You discover a spiritual path that gives you meaning and "speaks" to you at the deepest levels. Suddenly, you gain a perspective you never imagined before. You get hungry to learn more. You read, share opinions and ideas with others, ask questions, and turn inward to discover more about who you are and why you are here.

1. Moving through learning and personal issues very quickly. And you have the feeling that you "get" what you need very easily.

Advice: Keep remembering that things will come to you - when they are ready - to be healed. Not sooner. Anything that starts to come out, face it with courage and you will move through the issues quickly.

1. Invisible presences. Here we have the "cajoling" of invisible beings. Some people report feeling surrounded by beings at night or having the sensation of being touched or spoken to. Very often they wake up with a fright. Some also feel their bodies shaking from celestial spheres. The vibrations, however, are caused by energetic changes following some emotional clearing.

Advice: It's a very sensitive issue, but you'll feel better if you bless your bed and create some clear space around it before you sleep. I rest assured that I am surrounded only by the most wonderful spiritual entities and that I am safe in God's care. Sometimes, however, I call on Archangel Michael and/or Archangel Uriel. And I forgive myself for not always being masterful at 3 in the morning.

1. Omens, Signs, visions, "hallucinations", numbers and symbols: You see things that have spiritual significance for you. Notice how numbers appear synchronistically in your awareness. If you devote even a little time, you will see that everything has a message for you. I personally enjoy the experience of "receiving messages", it's a lot of fun!

1. Increased moral integrity and dignity: You realize that the time has come for you to seek and speak your truth. Suddenly, it seems very important to you to become more authentic, more yourself. You may need to say "no" to people you tried to please in the past. You may find it unbearable to remain in a marriage, a job or a place that does not support who you truly are. You may also discover that there is nowhere to hide, that you no longer want to keep secrets. Honesty plays a big role in all your relationships.

Advice: Listen to your heart. If your guidance tells you not to do something, not to speak or take action, say "no". Similarly, you should also say "yes" to what attracts you. You should risk displeasing others without guilt, if you aim to achieve spiritual mastery.

1. Harmony with seasons and cycles: You become more attuned to the seasons, the phases of the Moon and the cycles of nature. You gain greater awareness of the natural world. A stronger connection with the earth.

1. Electrical and mechanical malfunctions: When you are around, light bulbs flicker, the computer locks up or the radio gets disorganized.

Advice: Call your angels, guides, or the Elohim of Divine Grace to correct the situation or place a protective field of light around the machine. Circle your car with blue light. Laugh.

1. Increased Synchronicity and many small miracles. Look for more of these.

Advice: Synchronistic events tell you if you are moving in the right direction or making the right choices. Honor these intelligent ideas and you will not lose. Spirit uses synchronicity to communicate with you. And this happens when you begin to embrace the experience of everyday miracles. (See 30)

1. Increased intuitive abilities and altered states of consciousness. You think of someone and immediately hear from them or them directly. More synchronicity. You have sudden insights about patterns or events from the past. Divination, out-of-body experiences, and other psychic phenomena. Intense sensitivity and knowing. Awareness of someone's essence and others. You communicate with energies of practical consciousness and angelic ones.

1. Communication with the Divine Spirit. You come into contact with angels, spirit guides, and other divine entities. Higher Communication. This opportunity seems to be given to more and more people. You feel inspired and download information in the form of writing, painting, ideas, communications, dance, etc.

1. A sense of Unity with all. You have a direct experience of Wholeness. Unsurpassable awareness. You are filled with compassion and love for all life. You show compassion or selfless love for all that elevates us to higher levels of consciousness and joy.

1. Moments of Joy and blessing. A deep, indestructible feeling of peace and knowing that you are never alone.

1. Integration: You become emotionally, psychologically, physically, and spiritually stronger and clearer. You feel as if you are aligning with your Higher Self.

1. Living your purpose: You finally know how you are doing what you came to earth for. New talents and gifts emerge, especially of a healing nature. Your life's work experiences now transform and begin to make sense. Finally you can use them all.

Advice: Listen to your heart. Your passion leads you where you need to go. Go within and ask your Higher Power: "What would you have me do?" Pay attention to synchronicity. Listen.

1. Feeling closer to plants and animals. To some people, animals now seem more "human" in their behavior. Wild animals are less afraid. Plants respond to your love and attention more than ever. Some may even have messages for you.

1. Seeing beings of other dimensions. The veil between dimensions is thinner, so this is not surprising. Just stay in your sovereignty. You are much more powerful than you can imagine, so do not harbor fear. If you slip into fear, ask your guides to help you.

1. You see the true form of a person or your loved ones with a different face - past or parallel life.

1. You manifest your thoughts naturally and your desires more quickly and effectively.

Advice: Control your thoughts. All thoughts are prayers. Be careful what you ask for.

1. Left Brain Fogginess. Psychic abilities, inner knowing, intuition, what you feel and compassion, your ability to experience your body, visualization, your way of expressing yourself, all stem from the right brain. For this side of the brain to develop more fully, the left brain must be somewhat subdued. Normally, the left hemisphere's capacity for order, organization, structure, linear continuity, analysis, evaluation, precision, focus, problem solving, and mathematics, dominates over the (often) less-valued right brain.

The result is some small memory lapses, placing words in the wrong order, inability or no desire to read much, inability to focus. You forget what you wanted to say, impatience with linear forms of communication (written or auditory), a feeling of emptiness, of being somewhat scattered, missing some interesting research or complex information, feeling bombarded by words - conversations and information, and having an unwillingness to write.

Sometimes you feel bored and have no interest in analysis, lively intellectual discussion, or conducting research. On the other hand, you may find yourself immersed in sensory perception: videos, magazines with pictures, beautiful artwork, movies, music, sculpture, painting, meeting people, dancing, gardening, walking, and other kinesthetic forms of expression. You may be looking for spiritual content, or even science fiction.

Advice: You may discover that if you let your heart and right brain lead you, then the left will be appropriately activated to support you. Someday we will be well balanced, using both hemispheres with full mastery.

1. Dizziness. This happens when you are not grounded. Perhaps you have just cleared a major emotional issue and your body is adjusting to your "lighter" state.

Advice: Ground yourself by eating protein. Sometimes "the right food" is the best. Don't label any food as right or wrong for you. Use your guidance to know what you need at any given moment. Take off your shoes and step barefoot on grass for a few minutes.

1. Falls, accidents, bone fractures. Your body is not grounded or perhaps your life is unbalanced. Or your body may be telling you to slow down to examine certain aspects of your life, or to heal specific issues. There is always a message.

Advice: Stay grounded by taking off your shoes and stepping barefoot on the grass. Even better, lie on the grass without a blanket underneath you. Feel the earth below. Get out into nature. Slow down and pay attention. Be focused on what you are doing. Feel your emotions as they begin to emerge. Stay in the present. Circle yourself with blue light when you feel unsteady.

1. Heart Palpitations: A fast-beating heart, like running in a race, usually accompanies the opening of the heart chakra. It lasts only for a few minutes and means that it is balancing itself after some emotional release.

Advice: Remember what I told you about getting a medical check-up when needed. Consult your doctor for any conditions you cannot easily handle.

1. Faster hair and nail growth. More protein is consumed by the body. And unfortunately, we cannot tell it when to lengthen or not to lengthen the hair (or can we?).

1. You have an intense desire to find your soulmate or twin flame: More than ever, the idea that we can have a relationship that aligns with who we are becomes desirable.

Advice: The truth is that we must be what we want to attract. We must love ourselves and where we are now, before attracting a more "perfect" partner. This work begins at home.

Listen to how I believe it works here: Hold the desire for this person in your heart, but without attachment. Trust that someday you will meet someone who suits you better, but dismiss from your thoughts who it might be or how it will happen. Focus more on clearing your own life by becoming the person you want to be. Be happy and enjoy life. Then suddenly you might see...

1. Memories coming to the surface. Body memories, repressed memories, images from past or parallel lives. All of us assimilate and heal our "selves," so expect to have such experiences.

Advice: Keep in mind that it is best to recall only what comes to your mind, leave the rest alone, don't analyze everything to the bottom (because you will get stuck in the tape loop of infinite issues and assumptions), and be sure to feel your emotions exactly as they come to the surface. Ask your guides for help.