The Moment After the Leap

Everyone’s experience during their spiritual awakening is vastly unique, however, in most cases there are clear patterns that we can identify. Ashley Melillo so beautifully highlights 19 of these stages of awakening on her blog as well as many others.

During our awakening our consciousness and our awareness about ourselves, our environment and how we choose to live out our existence naturally becomes a pressure point that we eventually can no longer ignore. The call to step into alignment becomes so strong that we suffer through the mendacity of our everyday lives and at some point there is nothing left to do but simply LEAP! Sometimes we plan out that leap as we start to consider the many other ways that we may be of service to not only others but also ourselves.

“What would better serve me? How would I step into alignment and still manage to sustain myself? What service to others would feed my soul? What am I called to? What is my purpose”

These questions trigger our souls response and for some, a deep sense of knowing arises. The path begins to seem clearer. We circle through our healing and our love and appreciation for ourselves begins to deepen. It becomes easier to map out our great escape from the matrix. For others, the path beyond what we can see is still very much unclear but with our intuition growing and the intense sense of knowing that there is more waiting behind this closed door, we take a deep breath and simply step forward into our new reality. The words spiritual alignment and soul purpose seem to take on a new tangible meaning as we watch and slowly begin to create our new reality. THE GREAT SHIFT unfolds and all the shadow work and ego deaths start to pay off.

At this juncture we may begin to feel a sense of urgency to start outlining our new path. You may sign up for 10 courses that’s always seemed appealing to you, we join classes of yoga and meditation and broaden our soul tribe as we align with this said purpose. We fill our time binge reading or watching esoteric material, you finally start that blog, create that website and promote the new you and silently sit back in ever expectance of the Universe’s response! It answers ALWAYS… but maybe not in a way you’d expect.

If you're one of the fortunate and courageous souls, perhaps you've managed to resign from your job or found other ways of repurposing your time. This naturally leads to doors opening in places that usually wouldnt be available to you as you begin to attract and create the existence you were always meant to have. However, as growth is not linear and rather something we circle by and chip away at over the course of our evolution; we begin to hit snag points and more often than not reach what can only be described as A GIANT PAUSE.

This can leave one feeling lost and helpless and we may even begin to question the validity of our recent decisions and the re-arrangement of our lives. We feel a sense of waiting and watching for a sign from the universe in our fear of abandonment. As our shift becomes real we may even find ourselves annoyed at the options the universe now presents us with as our higherself & ego battle it out and wrestle through our new found truth.

Fear not... All is well.

As we shift out of the matrix and allow ourselves to receive these new energies, downloads and spiritual upgrades we enter into the process of the recalibration of ourselves, our identity and the lingering areas of ourselves that were purposed for healing at this juncture in our alignment.

It is at this stage that we must focus our attention inward, deepening our relationship to self, indulging in mammoth amounts of self care, introspection and forgivingly issue self acceptance and surrender to our state of being. Find the humour in it all, accept that it ALL is a reflection of you and in that, a giant opportunity to heal and reach your trueself. Surrender to what resonates during this time. Perhaps your avid ritual of meditation is not feeling as deep as it once did or maybe you've lost interest in an astological point you were following. Trust the process and focus on allowing yourself to receive what is meant for you during this time. Believe in yourself, in your abilities and know that you are precisely where you need to be in your NOW!

Keep moving forward.........The only way out is through!