Going through a spiritual awakening will take years and truly when you are on the path it won’t stop. You keep going, so there’s no rushing in this and you can’t force a spiritual awakening. This is a gradual process, you will switch through different stages throughout the years. You can’t jump from one stage to the other but it will start to blend over time. Even though the human ego likes to think about it as better or worse, these stages are equal to each other. They are all necessary stages to go through and so they are equally important.
Ground Zero – Being Asleep
Ground zero is the stage most people on the planet are at. It’s not really a stage, but let’s call this stage 0. This where you are mostly living from the program you have learnt through social conditioning a.k.a. your upbringing. This is where you live on automatic pilot, doing what everybody else is doing and not really thinking for yourself. You do what you have been taught to do and don’t really question your reality, you are asleep. This is a state of being where you are not aware that you are thinking thoughts neither you are aware of your emotions. Life feels set in stone and you can’t change something about your life. At ground zero you are not aware that you can change anything about your circumstances and you are living from a state of powerless.
The Path of Realization
After you go through ground zero we enter into what we can call spirituality 1.0. During this stage you realize you can actually create your own reality. That life isn’t set up for you as it is, but you can create something that you want. This is a stage where you slowly get out of powerlessness. In this stage you are going after your joy and after what makes you happy. This is where people go after their passion, goals and just anything to get what they want no matter what. You want what you want and you won’t let anything stop you. This is where you also get into manifestation practices.
When a desire is attained it gives you a high and it makes you feel good for some time but then that high goes away…You go after another desire or goal and you reach that goal and then after the high, that feeling goes away again…Overtime reaching those desires seem to not be satisfying enough. You get to a point of what’s next? You try but you still don’t feel better or truly happy. These things you were going after were supposed to make you happy right? And you still don’t feel good about your life. Now what?!
Then we enter into the next stage…
The Path of Healing
The next stage is the path of healing which we can call spirituality 2.0. This is the stage where you get into shadow work and other healing practices. You only find shadow work when you have tried everything else and it didn’t work to make you feel better. Truly shadow work is important for every single human being. It’s a way of going about your life. Instead of feeling like a victim to what’s happening in your life, you see the hidden lessons. Shadow work is about becoming aware of what you don’t see. You are bringing what’s in the subconscious mind to the conscious mind. So, at this stage you are finally going within instead of looking outside of yourself and trying to change the external. You can use shadow work to understand why you are going through what you are going through. This is the stage where the most healing takes place and it can take a long time.
This is a difficult stage because you have to feel what you haven’t been wanting to feel. You have to release resistance towards what you are feeling and you have to release resistance to what IS. Being in resistance to what is creates most of our stress in life.
So, during this stage you are not trying to feel better than where you are or try to change where you are. And this brings about a feeling of peace, which you might have been looking for the entire time! No more rushing, no more ‘I have to do this’, no more waiting for the end of the tunnel to get somewhere. You are experiencing life in the present moment.
And then you get to awakening stage 3…
The Path of Choice
At this stage you will get to have more fun and it arises naturally after stage 2. It arises after you have done a lot of shadow work and have gained a lot of awareness. Spirituality 3.0 is the stage where you are free within yourself to choose whatever you want to do and create with focus. It’s the path of choice.
At this stage you choose what you want to do with your life and how you want to spend your time out of choice and freedom. Not out of craving, not out of powerlessness and not out of feeling ‘I need X,Y,Z or else I don’t feel okay.’
When you are on the path of choice, you are not choosing because you are resisting where you are, neither you are resisting the negative in your life. And doesn’t mean there won’t be negative things happening anymore (because contrast serves our expansion on an individual and collective level), instead you aren’t in resistance anymore to what is happening and you don’t feel powerless over the things that are happening. You are not judging the experience which brings that inner state of peace. You are not judging life as if it is good or bad, you stay neutral and you observe your life from a higher point of view. And with that you feel the freedom to consciously choose what you want to do in your day-to-day life.
Having a desire is not something to fear, it’s not the root to all suffering. We only feel bad about a desire if we belief we can’t have that desire. That belief causes our suffering. But truly desire will never go away. When we fulfill a desire, there will be another one and another one and so on. Desire serves our expansion in life. Having desires is natural and going into the direction of attaining those desires is part of what you are here to do on earth. You powerfully choose what you want to experience.
Awakened Life
Again, you can’t rush these steps. If you do try to rush it then you are in resistance to what is and that’s only slowing down your process. People may spend years on spirituality 2.0 (if they even get to this). In order to shift from stage 2 to 3 we need to be with ourselves completely as we are in the here and now, instead of changing how we feel so that we feel better. This is where positive focus is often used, to get away from where we are and how we truly feel. We want to do the opposite.
If the reason for doing shadow work is to get to stage 3 in your awakening, then you are not getting the lesson and it will only take longer to get there. It’s not something you can experience by using the mind, but through life experience and doing the inner work.
Again, these awakening stages are equal to each other. It’s very normal to switch through all three stages again and again. Spirituality 3.0 is a fusion of 1.0 and 2.0. You first learn how to create your reality by focusing on what you want, then you heal by doing shadow work and other healing practices. And when the subconscious shadows are healed and integrated (a lot of them) and there is no internal conflict, then you are free to choose and create what you want.
You are free to create without resistance to what is and this is called your awakening.
The caterpillar becomes the butterfly.
Until next time.
With Love, Naomi
P.s. you may also like to read my other blogs ‘How Does Your Life Look Like After A Spiritual Awakening?’ and ’10 Ways To Fast Track Your Spiritual Awakening’.
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