What Does it Mean to be “Awakening”?

The process of “awakening” is an individual and unique experience for each soul.  That being said, many people have reported astonishingly similar experiences.  It is those similarities that we explore here together. 

Please do not mistake “awakening” for being “woke”.  There has been a horribly negative connotation associated with the term “woke”.  One’s “awakening” could not be further from this negative energy!  Awakening for many begins with a close look at the “self” and our mortality.  Often times people experience a close encounter with death, either through their own experience, or that of a close loved one.  Sometimes it is not a physical death, but a spiritual one, for example an addict during recovery where the old them dies, and the new one is reborn.  It is this experience that truly triggers a soul to start asking questions about “Why am I here?” “What am I meant to do?” and the ultimate question “What happens after this life?”  Some of us came into this life already asking these questions, but may have forgotten them, or pushed them aside as we were conditioned by the society we grew up in.  Some of you reading this already identify as Indigos, Crystals, Rainbow children, or Starseeds.  Some of you have experiences that you cannot explain, and you are searching for others to understand, and to feel you are not alone in your experiences.

The essence of awakening to me, is the realization, or often time remembrance, that we are souls having a human experience.  That we are part of the whole, and that we incarnated here, in this time, for a purpose.

If that statement gave you chills and makes you yell out inside “YASSSSSS!”, then you are most likely on the journey to awakening. 

It may help if I start with my own story of awakening, and what it has meant to me.  I was always an odd child.  Highly intuitive, extremely sensitive, connected closely with nature (as many children are), and often being told I was an “old soul”.  I also always had an incredibly deep sadness that I wasn’t meant to be here.  That I belonged somewhere else.  As a child I would receive psychic impressions and information, without understanding what was happening.  I would hear “patterns” in the way people spoke.  Sometimes it would become very upsetting for me as I didn’t understand what was happening, and if I tried to articulate it, no one understood what I was saying.  As an adult, knowing what I now know, I can look back and immediately see that what I was experiencing was what many Indigos experience.  (I won’t go into the ideology behind Indigos, Starseeds, etc. in this blog but there is an ABUNDANCE of information out there about it if you are unfamiliar.  I may write about it in a future blog).

I remember fearing a lot of my abilities, because I didn’t understand them.  Being brought up Roman Catholic in many ways compounded that fear, as I was taught that many of my abilities were to be feared!  As a result, I shut a lot of them down, ignoring them, not exploring them.  When I hit High School a lot of my abilities intensified, as they do for many people.  Since I hadn’t explored them, or shared them with anyone, I still had no understanding of them.  I often think how much easier it would have been if I had had a mentor.  Although I am a generational psychic, both my mother and my nana (grandmother) had also shut down any exploration of their abilities.  As an adult in my explorations, I have read stories about other psychic mediums that were blessed to have mentors as children, and I often think “wow, how lucky they were, I wish I had had that!”  When I was 16 my nana, who I was incredibly close with, and who I had lived with for most of my life, passed away.  It was a complete shock to my system, and I was not at all prepared for death.  I began receiving communications from my nana not long after her passing.  I became more and more interested in esoteric studies, the occult, and later metaphysics.  I wanted to understand, I wanted to KNOW!  Skipping ahead quite a bit for the sake of brevity, my mother passed away in 2015.  Her passing was truly my trigger to awakening.  I had a single thought after that which shook the entire foundations of my life, “life is too short”.  It sounds clichéd, but I truly understood what it meant now.  Funny how we often have to be almost literally hit over the head to figure something out.  I understood then that I needed to begin on my path to awakening to why I was here, and it was time to leave fear behind.

There is so much truth out there for you to find, and it is amazing that once you start researching spiritual awakening, how much of it is so similar if not exactly the same!!!!  I knew that I needed to create a place where I could share my knowledge of awakening with others.  Part of my purpose here is to be a teacher, a nurturer, and to share my light with others.  I hope that reading this gives you some understanding of awakening, and also some reassurance if you are awakening yourself, that you are not alone!  I hope this page can be a resource for you, and a place you can feel at home.