Hi. My name is Sandra and I have experienced an amazing spiritual awakening and I aim to share some hints and guidance for the ones who are finding they are starting to open up spiritually.
Also where to look for information and some ideas of what to look for in teachers and classes.
I say awaken because that is what is happening. You are finding that life doesn’t feel the same for you any more. The stress of everyday life is getting you down. You start to question; there must be more to life than this? What about me?
More people are driven by security these days and the keeping of their jobs; You have to work 110% to keep on top of the high powered job and that still is not a guarantee that your job is safe. All the time keeping this job or getting a job takes the fun out of life, so you start to look for more. The things that were fun when you were young are no longer the same.
From your mid to late thirties the questioning and the quest for something better for me starts to take over. The ‘Self’ takes over. Much has happened in your life up until then usually the normal things, jobs, children, mortgage. The stress starts to pile up.
But something is not right, you feel there is something missing, you start to go on a search, you start to think is this the mid-life crisis people talk about? You feel you want to break out. Women especially I find are the ones awakening a lot earlier than men.
It may be because of the ingrained man thing where men have to be the role model, steady and dependent, the provider. There are a lot of women as well today in both dual and single parent families who are in the same position as the men providing for their families. These women still find time to expand their horizons. Some people turn to others whether it is as friends, lovers, teachers or maybe to religion.
Lets look at these relationships:
Friends - you may find yourself making friends with people you normally wouldn’t, someone who is in a different social circle. Someone with a special interest that relates to something you have just found as well. This may be the only time that you speak to each other. Getting a different point of view and an insight into a different type of life.
Lovers - Well this sort of speaks for its self, this type of new relationship brings with it some major changes, and this can lead to family or relationship break-up, a midlife crisis? Looking for something different. But in the long run was it all really worth it. Do you really feel better, Sometimes this can be for the best, but very rarely, it usually hurts a lot of people, some people you don’t even realise have been hurt as well. Lovers are usually temporary.
Teachers - A lot of people are turning to Education, and not just the normal education type learning, but a lot of alternative things as well. Yoga, computers, spiritual, craft, expanding the mind and learning a new skill, to get a different type of job or for fun, to be a more interesting person or to get out of the house, learn business skills. Natural Healing is having a resurgence now.
Religion - looking more into religion, looking into spiritual guidance or a new-found faith. Wait, did I say religion, spiritual guidance, and a new faith? I know it is not exactly the same as Spiritual Awakening but it certainly looks at the belief system.
You can worship god, Buddha, Divine Spirit, The one above, what ever, you know what you believe in. It is believing in something and knowing someone cares about you without having to do something specific for the attention. A knowing of not being alone.
Did you know that a lot of people are awakening all over the world, some of them think they are losing their mind? Some people keep everything to themselves for fear of ridicule with how they feel. Some speak out and are persecuted by certain religious people trying to “save” them. And others seek out other like-minded people and talk…the relief of not being alone is immense. Being able to say it out loud is very hard at the beginning. When you realise that the other people there are in the same position, you make contact with a group of people who will support you. You can grow together.
Everyone awakens at a different rate, some very fast and some at a moderate pace. Did you know at some stage of your life awakening is presented in some form or another, for example, retrenchment, a near death experience for you or a loved one, a break up of a relationship, a deeply spiritual happening, a spiritual course offered to you. What about a visit from a passed over loved one. Sometimes none of this happens, you are just searching for something, a need to try a different method of something that may make you feel better. It can’t hurt. Go and have a look.
Like for instance, going and having a reading done, tarot, palm, clairvoyant, tea leaves, wanting to know that something is going to change for the better in the future, knowing you are going to be in a relationship, get that job, have a child, buy a house, travel, how your business is going to go. Reassurance is what we all need whoever we are and wherever we get it from.
Did you know that a lot of people suffer in silence because of being afraid of being labelled mentally unstable?
Some very powerful spiritual humans will never be awakened to help others with there journey because they keep themselves too controlled and fight all the signs.
Have you noticed the amount of High Profile people, who consult psychics, clairvoyants, they are talking more openly about it because it is an everyday occurrence. They meditate, practise yoga, and believe in an Eastern Religion. These are ways of alignment, relaxation, release and reassurance.
They seem very open and stable, film stars who see alternative doctors, write books on their beliefs and spiritual lives.
A lot of ‘normal’ people are spiritual they are just careful about who they tell. They say like attracts like, I have found this, so you will find some one to talk to. Maybe in the most unusual places.
I was born in New Zealand and over there practices of alternative healing, tarot etc is not advertised, all word of mouth. I thought it may have changed but, a friend who has just been over, thought she would look up some of the people who have written articles in a Spiritual Magazine, she couldn’t find them, still a word of mouth, knowing someone who knows someone to find them.
Luckily it is coming out into the open with a lot more people turning to Crystals, Reiki, Meditation, Herbs, Aromatherapy. An alternative to medications. Some medications are necessary, I’m not saying they aren’t. When you decide to seek alternatives to medications you are taking, consult you Doctor first.
Right lets get started.