The Awakening Shift: Why Spiritual Ascension Intensifies Stress Levels (and how to ground it)
Since your awakening has started, have you been unusually nervous or anxious? Perhaps your thoughts are racing, your emotions are overwhelming or you’re completely exhausted.
If you’re resonating with this, I want you to know that it’s not that you’re doing awakening ‘wrong’.
You’re going through a deeply spiritual, yet completely exhausting Awakening Shift.
What Is An Awakening Shift?
In spiritual awakening, huge levels of high vibrational energy flood the soul, and while the incoming upgrades are a good thing that offer us meaningful connection with the universe, they force our systems to process more than the body can reasonably handle, leaving the human body buckling under the pressure.
Understanding & Integrating Your Awakening Shift
The spiritual awakening process isn’t just a mindset thing; its an expansion of consciousness, a raising of your vibration and the maturation of your soul. This causes dense layers of suppressed emotion, negative beliefs and illusions to urgently rise to the surface to be cleared and healed (and it doesn’t feel good!).
This is, without a doubt, an incredibly sacred process, but it really is tough on the mind and body, and it can take the system a while to catch up as it integrates these higher frequency energies.
It is during this integration phase when the body starts to show signs of strain, such as:
Very high sensitivity: feeling overwhelmed or highly irritable around bright lights, loud noises or big, busy crowds.
Emotional fluctuations: your emotions will change wildly and erratically – for example crying at the drop of a hat or becoming disproportionately angry without any seeming cause.
Sleep issues: you might be unable to sleep due to a rapidly cycling mind, or find you frequently wake at the same time on the clock every night.
Spiritual exhaustion: you might feel so burnt out that you desperately want to run away or hide from the world.
The Next Step (The Importance Of Anchoring This Upgrade)
When the kundalini is thrust so powerfully up through the major chakras in this awakening shift, often our chakras become blocked, misaligned, congested or even blown wide open. This helps heavy blocking energy to rise up and be cleared out, and allows the upper chakras to be super sensitive receivers of these higher vibrational frequencies.
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Sounds like a good thing, doesn’t it? Well, it is, but this shift has a pretty nasty after effect, in that it can cause us to become completely, utterly and chronically ungrounded.
This is a big problem for those of us going through spiritual awakening because becoming severely ungrounded often triggers the body to go into survival mode, keeping the nervous system in a perpetual state of fight or flight. This makes us even more sensitive, super hyper vigilant, and puts those anxiety and stress levels through the roof. To make things worse, it also disables any energetic shield or protective boundaries, making you a sponge for the emotions, moods and energies of those around you.
How To Ground Your Energies During An Awakening Shift
I’m going to let you in on a secret – not all grounding methods are created equal, especially in spiritual awakening.
In fact, when your energies are in this very sensitive and volatile state, anything that affects energy in any way is likely to have an adverse affect on you, aggravating your energies, intensifying awakening symptoms and will rarely ground you at all.
That means that crystals, incense, traditional meditation and spiritual practices are out – just for a little while.
Taking a break for at least two weeks will give your system the break from energy stimulus that it needs to be capable of anchoring.
Instead, here are some effective grounding methods perfectly suited for awakening and its challenges:
Ground The Root Chakra First: Most people don’t realise that many upper chakra blocks come from the lower chakras creating a kink in the hose. Spend time in nature, walk outside, place your feet on grass or the earth and eat heavy healthy meals for added density.
Ground The Earth Star Chakra: Often, grounding the Root chakra is enough to do the trick, but if no noticeable shift occurs, switch to grounding the Earth Star chakra (this is the chakra located about a foot blow the soles of your feet, which extends down into the earth itself, and is the key to super-rooting).
Try sitting on the earth directly, spend time around large trees, or use low frequency sounds like Tibetan singing bowls, deep tone tuning forks or gongs.
Somatic Movements: Shake your hands out regularly, stamp your feet, press your toes into the floor or simply stretch. Gentle movement helps release the congested energy that your system is trying to clear.
A Sacred Invitation Is Coming Soon…
Spiritual awakening is an intense process, but it doesn’t have to exhaust you or stress you to your limits. With the right type of spiritual support tools, you can continue your awakening upgrades while also bolstering your system, clearing your energies and healing your soul.
To support you through these unprecedented awakening shifts we are all individually and collectively facing right now, I’m putting together something very special to nurture your soul! Next week we’re opening up a rare, site-wide event across our entire library of spiritual awakening resources, energy healing meditations, activations and more.
Whether you need regular energy clearing, protective energy shields, deep soul level healing or nervous system regulation, you’ll be able to access all of these at a special reduced rate price!
Keep a close eye on your email inbox over the next wee while because I’ll be sending an early access link to our entire mailing list so you can select the spiritual supports that resonate with you, and start grounding your energy before the sale even begins!
Until then, please be very gentle with yourself, sip water regularly to hydrate and ground, and don’t forget to breathe. Everything is going to be ok – this is simply your higher spiritual self coming to the fore – support it in doing so.