What Does Awakening Mean?

Today we will discuss the different types of awakening. It can be spontaneous or gradual. Kensho awakenings are the most common. It is the process of developing awareness and increasing consciousness. A painful experience is the main factor that causes this shift. There are many signs that you are having an awakening experience. We will go through some signs of awakening. It can begin with a dark night of the soul, where you have a period of darkness.

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Welcome to the Queen of Awakening podcast where you can learn how to leverage your energy for thriving relationships,

Better vitality,

And more prosperity.

Hosted by Jesse Cole.

Greetings love.

This is episode six already.

I can hardly believe it.

It's moving along so quick.

And today we're going to cover the topic,

What does awakening mean?

If you have just started your awakening process,

There's like a chance you're freaking out because everything is so different.

So I really want to give you a roadmap on what you can expect as you're moving through this whole awakening process.

For starters,

There's two different kinds of awakening.

There's Kensho awakening and there's Satori awakening.

One is a painful type of awakening and the other one is where you're actively pursuing awakening.

And so I guess you just need to decide which one you want to do because it's going to happen either way.

Maybe if it happens for you in this life.

Satori awakening.

This is one that unfortunately doesn't happen for most of us.

This is the kind of awakening that Eckhart Tolle had where sometimes your suffering is so intense,

You are automatically aware of how things are.

It is a liberating form of awakening and you're able to see things as they are.

And there is a deep,

Deep truth that you are privy to.

A lot of times you have the mind chatter quiet.

You are able to have access to higher truths,

Higher understandings.

The rest of us poor saps.

We are stuck in Satori awakenings.

The rest of us poor saps though,

We have to learn from experience.

Kensho awakening is like the wheel of karma where you learn from mistakes,

Where you see the truth of reality but you keep stepping back and you have conflicts and the conflicts help you learn and we grow through pain.

You know you might have an argument with a family member and at first you're like you're wrong,

You're wrong and I'm right and then you are able to step back and observe it mindfully and you're like oh I guess I had a part to play in this too.

And as you continue to evolve you grow and you become better and better and better.

But a lot of times you're taking three steps forward and two steps back.

But it's a process and there's a lot of us that are on this Kensho path of awakening right now at this time on earth.

The definition of spiritual awakening is when a person can step back and see things from a higher perspective.

You see the truth in life.

It's when you realize that you are more than just this physical body.

It's when you realize that you are God consciousness manifested into this physical reality and it really helps you to connect to see a bigger picture and it's really powerful and beautiful.

It helps you realize that there's more to life than just chasing and acquiring and doing it allows you to be hopefully what can cause an awakening.

Well unfortunately here on this earth realm pain is what causes a lot of times there can be a big life changing events you can start to see things from a different perspective.

My personal awakening experience started I was having trouble with my relationship so I moved away and I was introduced to a new way of looking at things.

I moved to Wisconsin and was introduced to energy work and that put me on a completely different path.

I just split off from where I was going and it took a long time but then when my dad died that caused me to just dive deep down this rabbit hole and just really embrace my differences and my weirdness but there was a lot of pain and suffering and that might be the case for you too.

A lot of times when we turn 40,

30 midlife that's when we start to question is there more of this life?

Why am I here?

What am I doing with my life?

So that's where the midlife crisis comes in and it forces us to make a change.

Sometimes you can feel disconnected and attached.

It's a really common feeling for me I just feel really floaty a lot of times you'll be driving along and you look around you and you're like this is even real.

It's all it's all a creation to help me realize that I'm God consciousness and help me come back to source.

It's so it's so fascinating yet everything has its own consciousness and everything is evolving in its own way.

So it's real and yet it's unreal.

Life is but a dream.

When you go through your awakening process you can start to reevaluate your beliefs.

Perhaps you come from a really Christian background.

You start to see the chinks within the teachings there can be times that you start to question things and maybe your friends or your superiors don't really support these new beliefs.

Maybe you didn't grow up with a religious background.

Perhaps your parents were atheists.

That's okay.

Perhaps just when you start to question things where you start to look a little deeper where you start to explore outside of your more familiar realms of thinking.

Another thing that can happen when you start awakening is your dreams can become more vivid or perhaps you don't dream very often.

One thing that you can do is set an intention before you go to bed to remember your dreams and then as soon as you wake up write that down.

Make the conscious effort to recall them and then see how it how it fits with you.

Even if you go to a dream book it or there's tons and tons of websites that you can go to you can get some idea of it but dreams are personalized to you.

A lot of it has to do with what you have in your background and things that are personalized to you.

Maybe a cat means something different to you than it does in that dream book.

This is a time where synchronicities become very prevalent in your life.

Maybe you didn't notice it before but this is where your guides are leading you on.

They're leaving a little breadcrumb trail here.

Come this way.

Come this way.

Come over here.

Because we expect some big thing to happen and to have this big knowing but that's not really how it works.

Every now and then you'll have this flash of insight but typically you'll see repeating numbers you'll see 4 4 4 or 12 12 or 10 10 or 11 11.

You'll run into the same people or you'll have a thought of somebody and they'll call you and it can be really magical.

It can be really fulfilling and fun if you allow it but if you try pushing it if you try to control things then it can just block the flow of life.

So try to be open try to relax meditate.

Always meditate.

And that'll help you just chill the fuck out.

Another really magical thing about spirituality is you can become more intuitive.

You can play games with it.

You can think of a song and start humming it.

If there's somebody that's really connected to you like your child or your best friend play games.

See if they can guess what you're thinking and see if they can guess a song.

I've been having a lot of fun with my son over I'll start humming something he's like oh my god I was thinking the same thing.

I'm like hey that's your psychic ability kicking in buddy good job.

So we've been enjoying it just playing little games I'm trying to teach them well.

Another aspect of spiritual awakening is you might find that spirituality becomes so important to you.

It may become an obsession.

It may become something that you're really really focused on and because of this your relationships will shift.

And this is normal.

It can be really painful.

Maybe you will have relationships that fall away and it's okay.

It's natural.

It can really be heartbreaking at first because you find that you're outgrowing people because they're not connecting with you on that same level.

Perhaps you are not seeing eye to eye with your family anymore because they don't understand you.

Maybe you've never really felt like you were accepted by your family.

I kind of felt like a changeling growing up because I just didn't feel like I had the same values as my family.

I didn't fit in.

They were content to sit around and watch TV and I was looking for something bigger.

So I was pretty unhappy as a kid and maybe this resonates.

And you know my family we loved each other.

We loved each other a lot and we did a lot of things together.

There were some really great times that we spent outdoors and getting together with family.

But I was always looking for the bigger picture and trying to learn about God.

I read conversations with God when I was 16.

Funny story,

I stole it from the library so that I could read it and then I was like,

What are you doing?

You stole a book about God.

So I ended up returning it and just sticking it in a shelf.

But just to find some deeper meaning.

That's a really good book to check out.

By the way,

It'll really help grow you.

There's a really good chance that you'll become more intuitive at sensing inauthentic people.

Just be aware that a lot of times what people say and what they mean do not jive.

And that's okay.

Remember that everybody is doing the best that they can and everything that everybody does comes from a place of love.

Even if they hurt you,

Even if it seems wrong,

We're all on different spiritual paths,

Which is another thing.

You become more compassionate and kind towards people because you realize that they can't help it.

Everybody's just doing what they know from their old programming,

From their belief system,

From what they learned from their parents and everybody's wounded.

We all come into this life and our parents are operating from limiting beliefs and they've hurt us and we all have wounded in our child that we have to heal and not everybody has advanced as far as you.

So give them grace.

Be compassionate.

There's a really good chance that you'll want to be of service.

Get quiet.

Go then find what that service means to you.

It might take a while.

It might take years.

Learn,

Read,

Develop yourself,

Become an expert in something that really lights you up.

Don't listen to people when they tell you that your dreams are foolish and that they're too big.

Light the world on fire.

Be a flame.

Burn so bright that you burn away the people that don't believe in you.

Once you start on the spiritual path,

You will find your teachers somehow,

Some way they will just appear.

You will run into somebody that will know somebody and you will start slowly but surely being led to the people that are going to help you grow.

It's really magical because maybe you can teach your teacher,

But you will find people that will help you whether it be emotionally or spiritually.

It's a really beautiful process.

You might crave more alone time.

Maybe when you start to realize that your relationships fall away,

You want to be alone more.

Spend time and revel in it.

Go outside,

Get some nature and nature will help give you that serotonin,

Boost your immune system and help you feel more peaceful.

Try to spend time meditating.

This is really,

Really powerful.

Meditation.

Go within.

Find meditations that resonate with you.

There's thousands of them out there.

Try them out.

See what floats your boat.

Spiritual awakening can be pretty lonely.

A lot of times you feel like people don't get you find a community.

There's communities on Facebook.

There's YouTube videos that you can plug into.

There's podcasts.

You're not alone.

There might even be local groups,

But just realize that feeling lonely is part of the process because not everybody is going to get you and that's okay.

You're helping to raise the vibration of this planet just by being here,

Just by existing.

Even if you're having a bad day and you feel like I'm not doing enough,

That's something that I struggle with a lot because I'm a generator in human design.

You'll have to check out some of those episodes.

They're very powerful to learn what your type is,

Whether it's astrology or human design.

It helps you connect with the truth of who you are so that you can be a better service.

Once you connect with your energy and start your awakening process,

There's a good chance you're going to have more bodily sensations.

This is powerful.

Your body is always trying to tell you stuff.

A lot of times we numb ourselves so that we don't feel it.

When I had my second Reiki Attunement,

I had a healing crisis,

Which doesn't normally happen until the third one,

So I had no idea what was going on.

I had my energy raised to the point that I was not comfortable with.

I felt like I had snakes just rolling through my stomach.

Fortunately,

I reached out to my Reiki master and she let me know what was happening,

But it was really uncomfortable.

It wasn't painful.

It just felt weird for a couple of days while I attuned to the higher vibration.

Sometimes you can have aches and pains.

Sometimes you can feel a shift in your energy.

You can have headaches.

You can feel tired.

You can feel really energetic.

There's all kinds of ways that this higher vibe energy can manifest,

But as you're ascending and attuning to a higher vibration,

It can be a little uncomfortable,

But it can also be really powerful.

You can like the feeling that tingles in your body.

That's feeling the love from the universe.

That's feeling the God consciousness within.

If you do different types of yoga,

There is Kriya Yoga and that can enable you to feel the energy flowing up and coming down.

It's a guided visualization.

You might start to crave different habits and routines.

Maybe you used to numb yourself with alcohol.

Maybe you're a smoker.

Maybe you would go out and party with your friends.

Maybe he would watch TV.

You'll find that stuff isn't very satisfying anymore.

Maybe you drink less.

Maybe you want to have more alone time.

It's very possible that your routines and habits are going to start to shift.

This is natural.

It's normal.

You'll want to spend more time with like-minded people.

You'll want to go outside.

Hopefully you'll crave more time in nature.

You'll crave more time alone.

This is natural.

This is a normal part of the awakening journey,

So embrace it.

Listen to your body.

Listen to yourself.

Understand what feels good to you.

One really fabulous aspect is more compassion.

You start to realize that everybody is interconnected and not just everybody,

Everything.

There's an awakening experience that you can have where you actually merge with something else like a tree,

An animal.

We are all one.

We are all God.

The trees,

The cats,

The dogs,

The tables,

Everything has energy.

Everything has consciousness.

This is a big paradigm shift.

Have compassion for those bugs you're going to squish.

Have compassion for those animals.

You'll have more compassion for people.

You'll have more compassion for the environment.

There's been some incredible studies done on water and the effects of water.

If you say kind things to water,

If you play heavy metal around water and freeze it,

The water crystals actually change their shapes.

It's really,

Really interesting.

You should check it out.

You can speak words of kindness to your water and imbibe it.

You can say blessings over your food and that will help raise your energy.

Fun facts.

And last but not the least,

In this capitalistic society,

We drive ourselves.

We want to achieve.

We want to find success.

We want to find that house.

We want to find that lover.

We want to get married.

And these things can really tire us out trying to achieve all the time.

And life loses its sparkle.

And with an awakening process,

It can be painful.

Yes,

I won't lie.

There's a dark night of the soul.

I'll cover that.

And there's also some really,

Really incredible beauty on the other side.

Sometimes in meditation,

You'll just cry because you're so fucking grateful to be alive.

You'll be driving along and it's just a perfect day.

And there's so much joy.

You actually get this childlike wander back.

You start to see the beauty in things and the interconnectedness in everything.

And you feel so grateful for this life.

It's a joy and a wonder at being alive and having this gift,

This beautiful gift that's been given to you.

And it makes everything worthwhile.

The pain,

The pleasure,

The joy,

The sorrow,

The heartache.

It's all helping you grow.

I really hope that this episode helped you in your awakening journey and hang in there.

It just gets better and better.

I hope you have a beautiful day and I will see you in the next episode.

Thanks.

Bye.