I thought to start this blog it would be beneficial to
discuss the difference between a Spiritual Awakening and a Soul Awakening. In
the last 6 months, I have read so much about "awakening" but I feel
there is one common misconception. "awakening" isn't just about spiritual
awakening. There is also a soul awakening!
No matter where you look currently on the internet you can
find article after article on Spiritual Awakening. This particular awakening is
when one starts to question their religion or spirituality and seek answers.
These answers could lead to a change in beliefs, religions or rituals
associated with a religion or belief system. This mostly affects only a part of
our life with very little bleed over into other parts of our lives such as
relationships, jobs and so on.
However, a Soul Awakening can affect every part of one’s
life. Relationships, Job, Religion and Spirituality, EVERY aspect of your life.
This can happen one of two ways. The first is that we come gently into our
awakening on our own. We start to realize that we are not happy in our current
lives that something feels like it is missing. We start searching for what it
is that we are missing, why we aren’t happy in our current lives. We look to
change things, embrace change and expand. We quit jobs that drain us, end relationships
that are toxic and don’t make us happy, we move to a new place that offers more
of what our soul needs, we search out answers to our spirituality. One or all
of these things can happen.
Sometimes our darkest nights can be
the beginning to our brightest days.
Then there is the not so gentle way to a soul awakening. The
universe, God, Goddess, whatever your beliefs, are no longer allowing us to be
stuck. To live in our familiar routines that make us unhappy. To no longer say
"I made my bed and now I have to lie in it". To no longer believe we
are who we have convinced ourselves we are.
So many of us are being forced to wake up (or as I like to
say "pushed out of a plane without a parachute") and see that there
is more! More than toxic jobs, toxic relationships, depression, hating
ourselves.
We are asked (not so gently) or TOLD to find our truth and
above all to find our happiness! To see that even though we have made choices
that we have other choices we can make and be better for it. To be free, to let
our true selves shine! This can come in the form of being fired from that toxic
job, a partner deciding they cannot be in the relationship anymore, crisis in
faith and beliefs, trouble with family.
You now find yourself on this path that you didn’t see
coming and you are asked to step up and step out and find you.
I say these words having gone the harder path. I was pushed
out of that plane without a parachute. Told to fly or die. I lost a toxic job
and a toxic relationship all within a month of each other. I was asked to step
up and find myself. To stop staying in situations that were bad for me because
I have the need to take care of others. I was stopping myself from learning
lessons that I needed as well as stopping those I stayed with to learn the
lessons they need to learn. Martyr syndrome (a blog for another day lol). In
the last 9 months, I have come far in my journey and it definitely has not been
an easy one. But every day I see change and growth and, believe it or not,
happiness. Though I still struggle with some things, I am the happiest I have
ever been in my life. No life is not perfect, nor am I and never will be as we
are human after all, but I strive now to live and not just be. I strive to work
on my past, learn the lessons that I was and am meant to learn and to move
forward. To find and do the things that make me happy. To never again live with
what if’s. I am pursuing a career that I love and allows me to help others
without falling into Martyr syndrome and will help me to reach my life goals. I
am growing as a person, a mother, a partner, a friend and an artist. Had I had
the courage and insight I would have chosen this path for myself instead of
being thrown out of the plane. For it is the best thing that has happened to
me. For once in my life I know who I am.
While this is not an easy journey for anyone to experience
there is light and love on the other side. Be brave! Don't let fear, your past
or who you have convinced yourself you are hold you back from making hard
decisions that will only make your life better in the end.
