Spiritual Awakening Paralysis (and how to get out of it)
So you’re in the throes of a spiritual awakening.
Life has crumbled, everything has changed and instead of feeling better for the experience, you’re stuck in some sort of strange spiritual awakening limbo; a place where you’re caught between who you used to be, and who you are spiritually becoming. In this weird, unfamiliar space, your self trust has disintegrated, and has taken your decision making ability with it too – you’ve become paralysed by an invisible block and everything has come to a complete halt.
If this sounds familiar, please know that it’s not you. You haven’t done anything wrong and you’re not failing at the awakening process. Your system has gone into the Freeze survival mode to protect you from the perceived ‘threat’ of awakening, and if you stick with me to the end, I’ll cover you exact energetic roadmap out of it to kickstart your own recovery.
What Is Spiritual Awakening Paralysis?
Spiritual awakening paralysis is where the body perceives the ego death of awakening as a direct threat to survival, and activates the Freeze response for protection.
To better understand it, let’s break down how Spiritual Awakening Paralysis gets activated:
- Spiritual awakening begins and causes everything in life that isn’t in alignment with your true authentic self to fall away.
- The ego becomes terrified as things that represent ‘who you think you are’ get stripped away, including your ‘band aid’ defence mechanisms. Without the familiar attachments and crutches, the ego feels completely exposed and vulnerable.
- The intensity of the fear, coupled with the sense of powerlessness this process catalyses, disempowers the solar plexus chakra and causes the body to enter the Freeze response. This is where the body literally slows movement to a standstill in order to prevent detection from danger. It’s like a temporary pause that kicks in when you can’t fight the threat, or run from it either (and when spiritual awakening is the threat, neither of those will work!).
- Before you know it, your body has shut down and procrastination seems to have become your new identity – you might be frequently disassociating, feeling crippled by any form of even simple decision making (taking 45 minutes to choose which socks to wear? That’s a true story my friend!) or feeling completely directionless, lethargic and exhausted with no motivation in sight.
Signs You’re In Spiritual Awakening Freeze Response
While the spiritual awakening freeze response can show up uniquely for each individual, there are some symptoms that are commonly reported:
- Feeling numb to emotions (lack of reactivity) or feeling life is pointless
- Avoiding feelings, people, places or tasks
- Feeling shutdown (withdrawing or hermitting, needing to hide from the world)
- Procrastination that doesn’t respond to positive attitude or even structure
- Feeling dizzy or disoriented
- Exhaustion that isn’t refreshed by any amount of sleep
- Dissociating (switching between life feeling real or unreal) or blank staring
- Giving up easily (or wanting to give up before you’ve even begun)
- Stiff, heavy or laden feeling in the arms and legs
- Dread or anxiety that constantly lingers, even when there is nothing wrong
- Having no idea what to do, what step to take or how to move forward
ARE YOU READING THIS AND FEELING LIKE YOU’RE IN SPIRITUAL AWAKENING PARALYSIS?
You don’t have to continue struggling with this on your own. I offer private 1:1 Spiritual Breakthough Sessions full of healing, clearing and personalised guidance to help you ditch those Freeze response symptoms, reground your energies and regain your power, motivation and action taking ability! 👉 Click here to learn more about the session or claim your spot today.
If you’re nodding your head yes, and seeing even some of the signs above that this is happening to you, don’t worry. You don’t have to remain stuck in this state, and there is something you can do to get out of it.
3 Steps To Shifting Out Of The Freeze Response In Awakening
Ok, so now that we know for sure that this is what you’re going through, let’s talk about what we can do to get you out of it.
Step 1: Give your mind a rest
Seriously, you’ve been through enough. Stop pressuring your mind to come up with a solution or pathway out of this because, and I say this gently, you cannot think your way out of a spiritual process that is causing a physical reaction. If positive thoughts or ‘pulling your socks up’ was going to work, it would have done so by now. I know you’ve already tried everything. Ease the tension and let your mind (and yourself) rest.
Step 2: Locate the root cause
So we all know that awakening is the trigger for your system’s current reaction – but – that is nowhere near the end of the story. In truth, the Freeze response is occurring due to the uniquely personal blocks that are arising for you, and since they are specific to your own journey, only you can find them (but, if you’d like a bit of help with that, you can download my free Solar Plexus Block Discovery Workbook, full of expert level question prompts designed to unearth the very answers you’re looking for, effortlessly – plus – it includes a guided video where I lead you through the entire process. Get the free Workbook here.)
Step 3: Shift from Frozen Body to Empowered Soul
This is where we actively heal the roots we’ve uncovered in Step 2, and when it comes to awakening, you really need a powerful approach that won’t waste any more of your precious time or energy to get you out of this mode, fast. Since we have this response playing out in both the body and the energy, our healing approach needs to do this too! This means using energy healing to address the energetic aspect (especially forms that can release emotion and remove the roots we discovered, like EFT Tapping for example) and Somatic practices to ground the body and make it feel safe enough to shift out of Freeze. Do those two key things, and you’ll wake from ‘standby mode’ and come alive again!
Spiritual awakening paralysis is a challenging aspect of our ascension journey, but one that we can absolutely overcome by shifting from trying to solve it with our minds or willpower, to permanently resolving it for a full recovery by addressing the right aspects with the most appropriate and effective tools. If you’re right in the thick of it right now, I’m sending energies of encouragement to see you through this – if I can do it, you for sure can too!
Sending light and positivity, with gratitude and respect,
Kelly