What is Spiritual Awakening?

According to Wilkepedia, it is: A realization or inspiration about the connection with an entity or entities beyond the immediate and physical world, of "God" or other intangible, sacred spirit.

As more and more individuals become interested in spiritual practice, they seek out psychotherapists who offer spiritually oriented psychotherapy, yoga teachers, and yoga therapists for support and guidance. Given the rapidly growing number of individuals looking for spiritual understanding, the interpersonal dynamics of spiritual development becomes important to understand. The power inherent in the spiritual world makes this important because it is so easy to become confused, conflicted and sidetracked during the initial phase of spiritual awakening. The more we can understand about the nature of consciousness, the easier it is to ride with the powerful currents that are designed to transform our lives.

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Techniques to Reach Spiritual Awakening

FIRST... Think and meditate about the mind.  Think about how it involves you in all kinds of schemes and desires. Try to watch how the mind works, and how thoughts arise. For a while, become an observer of your mind and its thoughts. Follow the way they arise, move and make way to other thoughts. Pay attention to how they entice you to think them.

Now you have done something you may have never done before. You have thought about your thoughts.  You have viewed the mind from the outside, as if you were watching someone else's mind. Without realizing it, you have watched the mind as if you were separate from it. This is the first step of reaching the final Spiritual Realization.

Now think about the question, who are you;  the mind and its thoughts, or the one watching the mind? Soon you will make a great discovery: You are not the mind. You are the one who is watching it.

It is possible to develop the habit of looking at the mind as if from the outside, as if it is not yours. Try not to be involved in the thoughts and desires that arise.  At least in theory, separate yourself from the mind. Just convince yourself that it is not you. Do it often, until you really start to see that you are separate from the mind, which is a power you can later use.

Each day, devote some time watching how thoughts enter your mind. Don't try to think, just follow their movement dispassionately. Watch how they come, try to claim your attention, grow, and then wither, and new thoughts arise.

With experience, you will come to appreciate how great and useful this way of treating the mind is. If your concentration ability is strong enough, it will be easier and faster for you to realize that you are not the mind.

If you treat your thoughts with indifference, you will experience inner silence. In this silence there is happiness, power, content and the certainty that nothing can harm or disturb you anymore. By "you", I do not mean your body, I mean you, your consciousness, that at this moment of inner silence, you consider as yourself. You now know without the slightest doubt that you are not your thoughts or mind, but something bigger and vaster.

When there are no thoughts, there is no vacuum. There is a feeling of only consciousness and awareness. Not awareness of something, but just awareness. An example of this is being in a completely dark and quiet room. You see and hear nothing, yet you are conscious. You have full consciousness and awareness of yourself.

This consciousness is not something new. It is not something strange, peculiar, unnatural or supernatural. It the substratum of our life, but we never pay it attention. We let the mind rule and create our life. There may be some debate, but many claim that what we call life, is actually an illusion;  a sort of a movie weaved by the mind. We never stop to think and examine the mind and its thoughts. We have gotten accustomed to living in our mind.  We rely on it and accept whatever it presents us as true.

From the standpoint of the Indian philosophy Advaita- There is only One Great Universal Consciousness that exists.  When we stop our thoughts and quieten the mind, we find out who we are and always were. When the smokescreens of our mind are cleared, we see reality as it really is.

Now let’s go a step further. Try to watch the watcher of the mind, “the witness”. Try to find out who it is that is looking at the mind. You are watching your thoughts. You see them pass by. Every now and then, you may find yourself immersed in your thoughts, just bring yourself back to watching the thoughts. Try to find out who this watcher is. Do not think or use words, just try in an intuitive way to find the watcher.

The next step will be to transfer your awareness into the watcher of the witness of the mind. Experience and intuition will show you the way. If you take it one step at a time, you will realize how disconnected you can become from your mind.

Stop even witnessing the mind. It is a step that may come naturally, because of what you have been doing. You may naturally feel that you are the silence. Not you, as a definite, limited personality, but 'you', as an endless consciousness. You experience, or rather become, happiness, joy, power, calmness, and great inner silence.

This experience can come suddenly or gradually, but to make it permanent, you have to train yourself each day, not only when you are alone in your room, but in all situations. The rewards are great. Peace of mind, happiness, great inner power, a taste of eternity and great real freedom.

In this state you experience your "Inner Consciousness" constantly. At this point, you do not even need to watch the mind. It will be naturally supervised by a higher awareness.

In enlightenment, which is “Spiritual Awakening”, the mind is not even a part of this experience.

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Spiritual awakening and the realization that you are not the mind becomes clear, as you disentangle yourself from the mind. When you know first-hand that you are not the mind, you realize who you are. You lift the veil from the mind and see Reality as it is.

This is a state of real freedom.  When events, circumstances, habits and thoughts do not disturb or affect you on the inner level, and you come to understand that your life (your true essence) is actually beyond the world of thoughts. You may continue your daily life as it is, living and acting in this world, but yet being out of this world.

Give this subject some thought and time, and consider what it can do for your life if taken seriously. You can start walking on the spiritual path right from the point where you are now, because the Spirit has no particular place, it is everywhere.

Spiritual Awakening has long been shrouded in mystery and misunderstanding. This is because the mind tries to understand and describe a state in which it has never experienced. Each experience one has is interpreted in accordance with previous experiences. The mind always tries to compare. However, the mind has never experienced enlightenment, so all its theories are just mental concepts, which have nothing to do with the real meaning.

Enlightenment is not something to be reached, not something to be gained; it is just the removal of erroneous concepts, attitudes and thoughts. It is making the mind silent. That is all.

The way is open to anyone who is willing to step on this path. Anyone can engage in a spiritual quest, no matter where you live or who you are. It does not matter if you are rich or poor, single or married with children, working or retired. All you need is a strong desire, and some time to be alone for the inner work.

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