Why is spiritual awakening so painful?

Below are two excellent answers to the guestion posed by two diffferent authors Auorora Clawson and Nuno Desa, on the question "Why is spiritual awakening so painful?"

Aurora Clawson

We are energetic beings.  When we begin to transition to a different frequency of thought and being, we must undergo a cleansing of beliefs, and long held perceptions of reality within us that contradict more expansive perception and our true nature.  However, this is a cleansing, healing pain.  When you own the pain, you have the authority to release it.  The irony of pain is that when you resist it, you empower it.  When you let it be, and accept it, you disempower it.  It then can move through you.
Therefore, see the pain as passing through you.  Release the pain into the light, and claim that you freely let go of old paradigms of thinking, believing and perceiving.  This is the fire of transformation.  It is the energetic, alchemical process that is referred to by the phrase: turning lead to gold.  We are refining ourselves....forever.  What we gain is not a temporary thing.  The pain is passing.  We are stronger than the pain.  It is moving through It is moving through the pain that activates our higher mind/frequency/expansion of identity.

So spiritual growth is a rhythmic dance of joy and pain.  We never go backwards.  Sometimes it seems like we are suddenly where we were before, but we never go back to where we were before.  It is a continual process forward.  Don't identify with the pain.  Just allow the sensations to pass through. 

Relax, try to find things that make you laugh.  Laughter and tears are both healing.  Do what you love to do.  Breathe deeply, as oxygen contains Prana, which is life force.  Life force is stored in the body as a healing agent and life giving energetic.  Be grateful for your truth beyond the pain, and the pain that allows the journey forward.   Gratitude is powerful.  Also remember that you have many beings in light that attend to your journey and assist you.  You may not see them, but they hold you always in their presence.   Also remember that as you heal yourself, you heal the world.  We are all connected.

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 Aurora Clawson

Nuno Desa, 

Spiritual awakening can be painful emotionally, because we shed away many of the constructs, beliefs, patterns - inner and outer - that we had surrounded ourselves with, and accumulated over the course of many lifetimes.

Many of these constructs are not aligned with our true spiritual nature and do us more harm than good. But we were convinced otherwise. We were absolutely positively sure we needed them to survive, to thrive, and to feel good. We identified with them. They deal with anything and everything in our lives, big and small, and are often things we hold very dear. 

You may not be completely aware of what and how they work. Yet spiritual awakening is precisely about becoming aware of such constructs, and liberating you from them. They are like leeches attached to your skin, draining your blood, yet you believe you need them there. 

Therefore, as these constructs are challenged - and sometimes ripped off - the process can be painful. Particularly so when we resist it.

Yet the process needs to move forward, because your own spiritual desire for it, for freedom, for peace, for healing, surpassed your clinginess to the constructs that hold you prisoner.

Spiritual awakening can at times be painful physically, because it's not just an abstract thing. It's not a fantasy that exists solely in books and tales and Quora questions, that doesn't actually translate to a tangible thing. Spiritual awakening is an actual, complex, process, that is triggered, planned, staged, carried out and monitored, with much spiritual support, that envisions your transmutation of your energy. So there's actual energy work being done, on your energy and your body, beyond what you know an control from your human perspective.

We cannot generalize too much about this, because what happens exactly completely depends on the person and the person's energy. We can only point out general symptoms, pains, and challenges, that usually surround this - such as back and head pains, waking up at night, and all those things.

As with the emotional side of spiritual awakening, the physical aspect of the challenge can be diminished to some degree, by acceptance, and by surrendering yourself to the process without resistance, as much as possible.

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 Nuno Desa, 



Kathy Mitro

Why would it not be painful when you think about it.
Everything you were 100% certain was true has been found to be false.
Everything you have grown up thinking is right, is wrong.
It can be analogized by likening it to an extension cord that is tied into a tight knot and then plugged into an electrical outlet.
 The electricity is blocked at that point  of the knot, it does not flow freely just as the knowledge of what out true nature is does not flow freely when our conscious mind is trying to block it and deny it as we grapple with awakening.
 In the electrical cord the blocked electricity (since energy cannot be destroyed) will either start a fire at the point of blockage as it has no free flow and cannot dissipate, or it will blow out the entire system in what is called a short.
Our own body when faced with this blockage of the tremendous energy of awakening by our conscious  thinking mind, will either dissipate the energy by redirecting it's flow into pain or illness or create it's own short, by the energy being so overwhelming we throw up our hands saying too much and revert  back to small life without awakening.
This would certainly give anyone a head and stomachache as it did me while I was grappling with it.
On the other hand when instead of giving into the discomfort, and saying I can't take the pain I want to remain small, instead of doing that and persevering though the pain  and breaking through to awakening, you are able to reach total euphoria with no pain ever again. (or very light whaps as you make little backtracts)
Your vibration level has ascended and there  is no longer any discomfort of large thoughts in a small vibration.
To prevent this blockage you must let the energy flow, you must not let your conscious mind block it.
This is the discomfort this is the pain, your own thoughts resisting
reality, wanting to hold onto  erroneous thought as truth.
When we are able to let go and not block the flow of truth through us then the pain ceases. 

To quote Charles Hanel in his fabulous book The Master Key System which gives you step by step instructions on how to awaken yourself  

  "Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither hath it entered into the heart of man," the splendors which exist for those who find themselves in the Promised Land. They have crossed the river of judgment and have arrived at the point of discrimination between the true and the false, and have found that all they ever willed or dreamed was but a faint concept of the dazzling reality."

This is the prize we receive for persevering through the pain.
For not going with the erroneous notion that a small life is more comfortable and easier.
For knowing awakening in all the splendor it is.
The splendor of a Heaven on Earth.
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Kathy Mitro


By Rahul Bhatia
Rahul Bhatia

For some individuals, spiritual awakening brings huge euphoria and pleasure. It's similar to gliding in this other world that you never knew could exist. You see the truth of life. You see the excellence in life. You may see the excellence in torment as in joy, and you comprehend these truths.
Five Reasons For Spiritual Awakening Being Challenging - Life And People
Be that as it may, as these truths dive into you to flourish, they frequently hit resistance. The minute you oppose this vitality - this stream of progress and love- - is the minute the delight state starts to blur, conceivably to stay away for the indefinite future.
What's more, obviously, how would it be able to return? This is an exceptionally uncommon time span, and you must be in a sure space to experience rapture along these lines. In numerous regards, a great many people experience delight in an exceptionally gullible manner since they've never touched it. The more incorporated encounters of joy are very different. They aren't coasting and dreamlike. Rather, they convey an extreme clarity and adoration to your life in an entire other manner. What's more, these minutes may show up, yet resistance must be discharged. Internal space must be made for a greater amount of the stirred you. In any case, you're in all probability must do some internal work to make that space.

The Pain Grows and Intensifies
Individuals affection to accuse things, circumstances, and other individuals. The same goes for profound awakening. Granted, it was all silly buffoonery until something needed to get somewhat more profound and more genuine. Abruptly, the light switch that went off in your inward world is demonstrating to you the spilling sewage in your storm cellar, yet you would not like to see that. You simply needed to feel great all the time like a never-ending sugar surge. Goodness, humanity...we have turned out to be so silly.
Thus numerous individuals dodge this circumstance. They hurried to a profound instructor, retreat focus, contemplation gathering, collective, or something else. They attempt to always do kind represents others believing that they can over make up for the issue or something. Yet at the same time, the sewage break proceeds in the storm cellar. This issue may be undealt with agony with relatives, apprehension of being distant from everyone else, trepidation of taking after your heart, outrage at a past mate, thus numerous more things that I won't even endeavor to proceed with this rundown. It's all there. All the torment that you've encountered or delivered on others arrives. It's the reason I invest so much energy discussing the significance of recuperating on this web journal in light of the fact that on the off chance that you don't do it before an enlivening arrives, you unquestionably will need to after it comes.
Horrifying Pressures on Parts of the Body
Be that as it may, individuals proceed with the evasion of the issues, thus the torment increases. Presently, this doesn't mean you're a terrible individual either. That is not how this circumstance functions. You aren't being rebuffed for your wrongdoings or compelled to persevere through a shocking difficulty. You're being requested that open up to cherish and to discharge old agony. You aren't intended to endure on this way, and you aren't being requested that do anything super-human. You are only facing yourself, and with that can come a huge measure of force.

One of the least demanding to bring up and most basic sorts I've caught wind of are weights on the highest point of the head and brow. Tolerating that you have been looked at with the nearby MD group, those weights are generally cases of where your psyche is impeding the vitality. It's typically clutching its thoughts regarding what it ought to be encountering or how it needs to have this enlivening or not have this enlivening. That is similar to fabricating a dam before the stream, and the weight is building. It will fabricate until it blasts or until after some drawn out stretch of time, the vitality gets all dammed up once more. Furthermore, awakening is an idea in retrospect, in spite of the fact that you never truly backtrack totally to rest. You just will realize that you missed something, and there may be this dismal, agonizing aching and lament that cleans up inside you occasionally that chills you and that you can't appear to overlook.

Furthermore, the Pain Grows Further: Movement Becomes Difficult
I'm going to continue going here in light of the fact that individuals have such a great amount of resistance inside that they can for all intents and purposes incapacitate themselves. It has a tendency to be much more terrible when somebody has profound injury or torment, and in the event that you blend in a super un-yielding inner self with possibly some past-life issues, then you have the formula for somebody who may get secured languishing over some time. This individual will detest the enlivening, and s/he will probably reprimand it for demolishing her/his life. Occupations and doing essentially anything get to be unimaginable. This individual may not even have the capacity to move all that much without feeling agony. It's not as a matter of course on the grounds that you shouldn't be working; it's more in light of the fact that all your vitality is redirected to this internal war.
The misery is massive and unwavering in this circumstance. It can achieve serious sadness, and soon thereafter it is high past the ideal opportunity for getting outside help and backing. In any case, these consciences that get to this point are so soiled and dove in that the individual regularly won't go for help. Also, in the event that you are one of these individuals, I emphatically urge you to search out help if agony has become so extreme and all the Western specialists continue saying, "We can't discover anything physically amiss with you." There are those of us who do see, yet it will dependably need to originate from you to request offer and after that some assistance with doing the work of giving up inside.
Rahul Bhatia
By Rahul Bhatia