Comments on: The Shadow and Dispelling the Darkness Phase https://spiritualawakeningprocess.com/2013/12/the-shadow-and-dispelling-the-darkness-phase.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-shadow-and-dispelling-the-darkness-phase Stay as awareness Sun, 09 Jul 2023 16:58:49 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: Jim Tolles https://spiritualawakeningprocess.com/2013/12/the-shadow-and-dispelling-the-darkness-phase.html#comment-281 Tue, 06 Oct 2020 17:37:05 +0000 https://spiritualawakeningprocess.com/2013/12/09/the-shadow-and-dispelling-the-darkness-phase/#comment-281 Thanks for your comment, former scientist. 😉 Although as we go along, the analytical part of us thrives in spiritual self-inquiry. This is not a path to be believed in–it's a path that we realize. And reality is essentially what true scientists investigate.

]]> By: Unknown https://spiritualawakeningprocess.com/2013/12/the-shadow-and-dispelling-the-darkness-phase.html#comment-282 Tue, 06 Oct 2020 17:35:41 +0000 https://spiritualawakeningprocess.com/2013/12/09/the-shadow-and-dispelling-the-darkness-phase/#comment-282 S Piqu – I feel you quite literally. My own awakening process was quite similar to aspects of yours. It was a spontaneous awakening, triggered by deathly illness and a prayer of surrender (God, I will do anything to get better.). In short I call my process a reverse "Job" – story from the Bible, god and the devil take everything away from Job to test his faith. In my case, I lost nearly everything (health, home, job, bankruptcy) to find my faith. It was like being completely melted down and reformed into something completely different and unimagined, for months on end. And to top it off every pyschic gift you've ever heard of came on line. So to say that this former scientist was struggling to deal was an understatement. Every awakening has it's unique features and unfolding. You are not alone. It does eventually get better.

]]> By: Jim Tolles https://spiritualawakeningprocess.com/2013/12/the-shadow-and-dispelling-the-darkness-phase.html#comment-581 Sun, 19 Jan 2020 18:38:41 +0000 https://spiritualawakeningprocess.com/2013/12/09/the-shadow-and-dispelling-the-darkness-phase/#comment-581 Thanks for your comment. I appreciate where you are in the process of realizing your true nature, and I have no illusions about the rudeness of a spontaneous awakening. No. It isn't all love and light. It is the start of embracing all of life as it is.

I hope you've found some of my other blog posts about inner work such as "What Is Inner Work?", "The Process of Releasing Pain from the Energy Body," and "Identify, Accept, Embrace, and Let Go."

I'd also encourage you to check out Adyashanti's "The End of Your World" if you haven't heard of him and found that book yet.

]]> By: S. PIQU https://spiritualawakeningprocess.com/2013/12/the-shadow-and-dispelling-the-darkness-phase.html#comment-582 Sun, 19 Jan 2020 18:36:05 +0000 https://spiritualawakeningprocess.com/2013/12/09/the-shadow-and-dispelling-the-darkness-phase/#comment-582 I don't typically comment on blogs, but I'm a little disappointed in the tone of this article. Perhaps it's the way I'm reading it, but I felt a little judged regarding my current experience and we've never even met. I had a 'spontaneous awakening'. It has been excruciating. I lost 'my mind', my health, had zero control over my emotions, lost my family, my home, my friends, and my job — all in the span of a few months. I spoke to doctors who had no idea what what wrong with me (except to say it wasn't psychosis. But I did end up with diabetes — which I ended up recovering from with a lot of work, despite the exhaustion and other weird illnesses that kept showing up that had no definitive diagnosis. Yay.) Four months later I finally found enough information to piece together what was going on with me. Then there are the bizarre events, like touching lights and killing breakers. Or the awesome electrical jolts I have no control over. I'm still hesitant to pet my cat. I won't even start with the toxic relationships that wouldn't let me leave their sphere when I did. That was a nightmare on its own.
I'm not saying I don't appreciate the wake up call. I actually do (most of the time). But it's been really hard. I've done a lot of work on myself over the years and thought I had a lot of stuff handled. It was physically painful to discover the worst parts of me hadn't even been close enough to the surface to even to know they were there, until I started acting in ways I'd never knew I could. I was terrible, especially to the one I love most. I eventually had to (almost cruelly) end the relationship because I was too afraid of hurting him anymore. He was the last person I wanted to see the parts of me I'd only known in nightmares. So yeah. It's been exhausting. No certainty. None. Just hope that I'll get through this. And faith that God/ The Universe wouldn't put me through something I was incapable of eventually succeeding at. Despite the numerous articles/blogs/vlogs/books/etc.., in psychology they call it a 'rapid personality shift', spiritual practitioners call it 'awakening', others call it a 'hero's journey', there really isn't a handbook. Everyone's journey is different. I just ask that you be mindful of this. I have faith. I do. But not every awakening is all 'love and light' (though it is there, of course). Not everyone's exhaustion is entirely (or even primarily) self-inflicted (directly anyway. There's, of course, the tyranny of small decisions.).
I'm sure you meant well. I understand comfort isn't always kindness. But sometimes, especially if someone is looking up 'exhaustion during spiritual awakening', comfort is what is needed. Thanks for reading this far.

]]> By: Jim Tolles https://spiritualawakeningprocess.com/2013/12/the-shadow-and-dispelling-the-darkness-phase.html#comment-643 Sun, 17 Nov 2019 16:51:50 +0000 https://spiritualawakeningprocess.com/2013/12/09/the-shadow-and-dispelling-the-darkness-phase/#comment-643 It is never the fault of the child when they are abused. This is why raising children is such a sacred trust.

The issue of choosing and then getting stuck in our emotional choices as adults is different. We get used to telling ourselves how we feel all the time. These unconscious emotional choices seem to just happen to us, and one of the points here is that in realizing that you are the chooser, you can change those emotional choices. This is deeply empowering.

So no, the child is not at fault. As an adult and if you are a survivor of childhood abuse, the encouragement is to know that you can face these unconscious choices and release them. I recommend finding a support network of healers to help you heal the traumas you've endured.

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