The 3 ingredients we need to navigate our awakening or spiritual growth safely
The 3 ingredients we need to navigate our awakening or spiritual growth safely
When we go through a spiritual awakening or are on a spiritual growth journey, we cultivate or awaken essences or qualities of our Being. Qualities of Being or our soul are really aspects of our real nature, who we really are.
Some experience it as Oneness or enlightenment, others may awaken to spiritual powers such as psychic abilities, or it could be awakening love or purpose in a bigger way than we could have imagined. This is not inclusive as our Being and our souls may have cultivated various aspects or essences.
Initially on the spiritual journey, it can feel like something big has opened up and we seek out teachers and guidance to continue to develop our practices to cultivate access to specific quality or qualities of our Being. It can feel exciting and/or disorienting. And often seekers find a path and practices that feel resonant for them.
At the same time, there are some essential qualities or capacities that one needs to develop and maintain in their spiritual growth journey or awakening, whether one is cultivating specific skillset for example psychic abilities or if they are seeking to awaken in this lifetime.
These “ingredients” may or may not be resonant for each one of us, but are actually crucial to navigate our spiritual journeys in a safe way.
Here is the thing — when we were born, we actually embodied our real selves even if not consciously. Babies are often “yummy” and we enjoy embracing them and kissing them. As we experience different wounds, traumas in life, our essence starts to shut down.
Sometimes the wounds/traumas can be big ones that we remember such as loss of a parent which can disconnect us from different aspects of our real selves, such as our warmth, love, access to our spirits, peace.
Other times, our traumas can be moments that build up such as when we can have specific qualities not met and we lose access to them slowly over time. For example, if we don’t receive mirroring, attunement in early childhood, we can lose access to our ability to make authentic contact with others.
Instead of our real selves, our egos develop to protect us from our pain and replaces our real selves with a “copy” that’s an image, not the real thing.
So, when we are on our awakening or spiritual growth journey, we are often reintegrating aspects of our real selves that were lost through wounds and traumas we experienced. As we do, we traverse the wounds and traumas that were experienced and stored in our bodies even if we don’t have specific memories of them.
Some of them especially early in our awakening process are easy to navigate and release. However, as our awakening journey deepens, our deeper wounds and traumas arise, some that may be as early as being in the womb. This is why we need some foundational ingredients to navigate our spiritual growth in a safe way.
3 foundational ingredients to navigate spiritual growth or awakening in a safe and integrative way:
- Embodiment — When we embody, we get to experience our awakening on the levels of body, heart, and mind. If we stay on the level of mind or heart, we miss all that is stored in our bodies.
The body also becomes the container to stay present with as the inner wounds/traumas that arise on the spiritual journey, which can be difficult to navigate on the emotional and mental levels.
It is also helpful to be aware of the such-ness of our experience in the body. It helps us to stay grounded and to navigate different energies and experiences we open ourselves up to as we become more open to feeling and sensing the energies within and around us.
- Cultivating the inner teacher and guide — The inner teacher and guide helps us to differentiate our experiences.
Though many of us enjoy and relish the mysterious and occult, we need differentiating wisdom so that we can follow or inquire about our openings, the blockages we may be experiencing, and bridging the flow between qualities of our Beings and the issues/wounds that arise on the path.
Each of us have unique pathways to our awakening, and this inner teacher and guide can help us when we feel lost or don’t know the unfolding. I often refer to this as the “supervisor” of our awakening process.
Please note, this inner teacher and guide has different ways of knowing/intelligence — body, mind, and heart.
- Good Intentions — We can certainly enter our spiritual journey from a place where we consciously have goals based on our egos. Many enter the journey to have better experiences in life on this planet. That’s not what I’m talking about. I’m talking about an inherently good and loving intention from our hearts and souls.
You see, if we cultivate from the intention of harming others or evil, we can use all that we cultivate on the spiritual journey such as power to increase our impact of doing harm and evil.
So, having good intentions and heart/soul, whether it is to love more, give or share blessings with others is a necessary ingredient to help us stay in integrity as we cultivate different resources and powers. This is often an ongoing process throughout our spiritual awakening to create an inner temple of good intentions and ethical code.
As we awaken, we become multifaceted with the different essences we cultivate to support us on our journey. We cultivate groundedness, the energy and courage to face the unbearable, peacefulness to rest into, etc. In fact, each one of us has a unique set of essences that we may already have access to as our soul may have cultivated them already and can really be assets on our journeys of awakening. Let me know what have been your biggest strengths on this path.
If this resonates and you feel ready to explore the deeper work of reclaiming what was lost — not just healing what happened — I offer a free 20-minute consultation. Psychospiritual integration mentorship is available worldwide.
If this article resonated, you may also find support in these reflections on spiritual awakening, embodiment, and psychospiritual integration:
- Is It My Mental Health or a Spiritual Awakening? — when spiritual openings trigger anxiety, depression, or chronic fatigue
- The Pendulum of Awakening: Navigating the Sacred Swing Between Bliss and Contraction — what happens after the spiritual high
- The Missing Instructions: Why Being High-Functioning Still Feels Like a Struggle — on the soul parenting we never received
- Whispers of the Soul — listening to what the soul is trying to say