The awakening self

Story by: Julia Griffin

It’s been a perfect weekend with hot sun during the mid-day, blue skies, and white cumulus clouds. Blue dusk brings gentle rain with cool nights. Cicadas sing the night into pulses of song. Lakes brim with water and trees cast full, dark shadows on the lawn. Our world in the Deep South is marvelously alive; it’s lovely as a dream.

Perhaps, we dreamed it through our collective consciousness. It’s been the subject of discussion for months – how we love our summers and the weather we like best. It makes me wonder what we could dream up through spiritual-focused consciousness if we focused on beauty, love, grace, and happiness.

Awakening is far more than manifestation, an ability to see subtle energies, or the illumination of spiritual gifts, involving the glimpsing and perception of light. It involves a constant connection to the light, which is amplified and developed by practices, actions, and response to life.
Undoubtedly, the world is awakening. There’s a tremendous amount of energy focused on spiritual development through teleseminars, books, websites and other information, but transformation is needed to engage awakening. The transformation involves using our gifts, listening to our intuition, and living life in a totally different way.

Modern, metaphysical writings suggest the following: focusing on desires, clearing and deleting patterns, forgiving the past, creating/rewriting sensory information and daily life and a meditation practice. All of the processes have their merits. Intent teaches focus and visualization, the substitution of a higher state for a lower state of perceiving life.

Clearing and deleting erases the impact of karmic energy, opening the self to the possibility to higher, more positive energy. Forgiving the past means forgiving ourselves, and it’s a valuable practice – as is gratitude.  Holding a positive vision or rewriting the events of the day does teach us about greater possibility and helps with the inner dialog.

Meditation connects us with the Divine. If we listen, we learn to choose the words and feelings of the soul over those of the ego. We learn to identify the desires of the soul. In time, we learn to move toward them, raising our internal frequency and the vibratory rate of life around us.

All of the practices, listed above, teach awakening. At the same time, none of the practices brings an instant solution to all of the aspects of life.  Immersed in the conscious of many people – who are awakening at once – is confusing, challenging, and exciting. Recurring circumstances point to our karmic patterns, the places where we haven’t yet awakened. (Wherever we’re awake, we have boundaries and can usually find the answer or can find clarity through meditation.) Astrological aspects and earth changes deepen reactions, and, sometimes, it’s like search and find.

We separate ourselves from mass consciousness, sift through memories, and create a new montage of actions, perspective and response. By observing the inner dialog, we begin to understand the interplay of personal emotions and thoughts in life. By meditating and substituting new images, we begin to form a new future. Through forgiveness and gratitude, we salvage the lost part of the self (involved in the creation.) The process of co-creation does lead to moments of awakening.

The most interesting part of awakening is how it happens. It comes instantly as a gestalt realization. One minute, you’re doing the laundry – and the next moment, you’re awake. Sometimes awakening comes in brief glimpses or lasts for days or weeks, but it always brings love and light.
Awakening brings special signals of its own. They’re easy to miss because “internal noise” typically becomes louder before you learn to hold a higher vibration. Acknowledging yourself for small improvements helps with self-growth. Growing in love, kindness, compassion, or self-observation equals positive change. Until you experience a big “shift”, it’s important to stay aware of the process.

Here are few signs of success:

1. Occasionally, you have a flash of everything working out well. It’s like seeing through the illusion into a more beautiful world. The flash comes and goes from time to time. You’re catching the wave of a higher (frequency) reality.
2. You begin to think more positive thoughts about other people. (You notice the negative images, feelings, or thoughts you have about others. You want to shift them. You feel compassion for other people’s efforts.) You realize positive visualizations for other people help you and the world.
3. You want better boundaries. This thought runs opposite to the first one. You don’t want to give away your energy inappropriately. You realize enabling anyone means losing energy and creating bad karma on both sides of the equation. Your awareness of the energy equation with you and other people increases. (Losing energy can make you feel briefly energized like caffeine or totally exhausted.)
4. You notice how your mood is always the same when you’re upset.  Regardless of the event or upset, you have three or four feelings of a certain mood. In metaphysics, this is how you color your life. If the mood is always the same, you have something to do with it – at least 1%.
5. You realize unresolved issues come up periodically. They revolve around the same issues.  With the acceleration in daily life, they come up more quickly than in the past. The realization indicates awakening. Think about it — you can’t see the pattern unless you’re awakening.
6. You want to meditate and practice spiritual work. You realize the happiness of the Path is unlike anything else in life. It gives lasting satisfaction and joy that nothing can take away.
7. You crave balance. You want to have balance in relationships, moods, work and life. You notice how and when you use your energy. You rest when you’re tired and work when you’re energized.
8. You are tired of the cycles. You want something besides the old patterns of blaming, becoming angry, sad or saving the situation. This means you are moving beyond drama (at least the present drama), and you want different, exciting and more in alignment with your “light.”
9. Everyone is becoming more intuitive, particularly light workers. You’ve probably noticed how bad moods feel exaggerated, and lightness brings more joy. This comes from a greater connection between ourselves and others. Everyone holds light, and the light connects our fields. As we grow in light, we feel others more succinctly. The connection to everyone can be positive or negative, but you’re developing new skills to deal with it. (It’s helpful to delete the weight of mass consciousness and ask for the good of any creation to be amplified and shared throughout the world.
10. You know the process of manifestation, prayer and persistence works. You don’t care how hard you have to work or what you want to do. You know that you came here at a special time to change the world, and your efforts count.

Any or all of these shifts are indications of change – the deep process of soul work – leading to awakening. Be patient with glimpses of the outer self. It’s time of big change, and we’re all learning how to find our True Self.