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 ...