Symptoms of a Spiritual Awakening...

When I first had my Spiritual Awakening, it lasted about four months, and then I entered a Dark Night of the Soul. Those four months resulted in a significant transformation that I went through, and had many life-changing experiences and symptoms. In my blog 'Awakening to my Spiritual Journey,' I spoke about what having a Spiritual Awakening was and how it’s a rewarding and beautiful path of transformation to one’s authentic self. Throughout the process, there were many symptoms that I had. These symptoms came and went, increased or decreased, but most importantly, the symptoms caused significant shifts and changes in my life. Although there is much information about all the symptoms one can have during a spiritual awakening, everyone is different. What one person may experience, another person may not. However, I believe there are many common symptoms that almost everyone will experience. I decided to list below (in no particular order) the spiritual awakening symptoms I've experienced and some I'm still experiencing along my journey to resonate with others experiencing these symptoms and do not quite understand why.

• I started to experience happiness and joy like never before.

• I started to embrace and love my life for what it was even when days were full of chaos.

• I began to have unconditional love for who I was, flaws and all.

• My eating habits changed, I began to eat more and even gained some weight.

• I stopped eating or cut down on foods that no longer made me feel good like meat, milk, and candy.

• I started having an overwhelming love for my children and our home life and found myself being a little extra nice during times I usually wouldn’t.

• I no longer wanted to watch the news or hear or see any violence...anywhere!

• I began to deeply love and connect with sunsets, flowers, and nature.

• I began to have compassion and empathy for animals and less fortunate people.

• I started seeing repeating numbers but at the beginning of my spiritual awakening, they were two-digit numbers like 11, 22, 33, and 44. These numbers began appearing after seeing 11/11.

• Everywhere I went my surroundings began to look very bright and all colors stood out to me. Everything was clear-looking and beautiful.

• My sleep pattern changed; I started waking up several times in the early morning. Sometimes exactly at 3:33 or 4:44.

• I started having vivid dreams.

• I started having frequent headaches, and neck and back pains.

• I started doing a lot of research online about my symptoms and spirituality in general.

• I felt constant peace, happiness, and overall love and bliss. Although there were many days in between when I was emotional, crying, and needed alone time.

• I felt the urge to share and talk to a few people about my experience, but as I continued on my journey, I came to understand that this journey is one of much solitude, and normally, the people around me wouldn’t understand what I was going through.

• I felt connected to the spiritual world and knew that I was on a journey and that there was so much more to life than the usual routine that I was living.

• I was happy, grateful, and overwhelmingly blessed to have awakened from my slumber.

2/7/17