Awakening!

Awakening.

This is a tricky word that is sometimes misunderstood in spiritual context. It brings to mind (and many will have you believe) it's waking up in a field full of daisieswith the Dalai llama serving breakfast. Then, you are enlightened to the mysteries of the universe, wrapped in a warm and fuzzy cosmic blanket of Love.
Yea...not so much...

I feel that is why so many feel that 'awakening', in that context, is unattainable for them.Throughout the course of your life, you will be constantly Awakening. The universe and our spirit helpers are always assisting us in that process. They are our invisible stage crew. It is not a destination however.

I'm here to share with you, that from the moment you were born, you were Awakening. Awakening to out truth. Discovering our soul's reasons for choosing this life. Every experience, lesser and greater has been an opportunity to awaken and evolve. Not just as a human being but as a soul on a Divine mission.

Every experience, every person, has been designed to teach and to shift our perspective to a new and better way.

The challenge to our awakening however, has a lot to do with our stubbornness, ego and free will as humans. In addition to the conditioning that we received by Society, family and culture.Some of the most profound Awakenings occur when we experience cataclysmic events in our lives that dramatically and harshly shift our perspective. These events force us out of our ability to control the outcome and the Truth of our reality. In spiritual context, we refer to that as a Death. Whether that's a death of a person or

death of our limited perspective, understanding or ignorance. It's the death of the illusion and the awakening to the truth minus the illusion.

Regardless, it's not always pleasant. Not many people have been taught how to navigate this. That is why it is so painful; we have not been properly prepared from a young age to have that understanding.

That unpreparedness as adults has us feeling blindsided without tools for the grief that follows. It's like someone turning on a light, jarring you out of a sound sleep.

These awakenings, should be much gentler as children and adolescents. But for many it was not. If we have not been sufficiently prepared or taught, these lessons continue to repeat into adulthood when the lessons are more severe and traumatic.

These are the most painful Awakenings, because it shatters your entire belief structure or understanding. It forces us into the lesson and ownership with a few tools (and people) to rely on. You come to see, no one gave us those tools earlier on. Usually because they were not properly prepared either. That awareness creates a grief of its own. This is partially why the anger phase is the hardest part of the grief of awakening; We were not adequately prepared for life and it's myriad experiences.It makes us feel insecure, deceived and foolish. We are Works in progress. The road of life is filled with twists and turns and manyopportunities to awaken. Some awaken in this lifetime and some do not. And when we eventually make that Journey to the Blue Road of Spirit, we will have an opportunity to see the life and its entirety. We will see all of the opportunities we were offered to evolve and awaken while we had an opportunity to change it in this lifetime. That awareness will be inescapable and is the ultimate Awakening.

The journey as we awaken, allows us to become closer to our authentic spiritual self and purpose.

As we awaken,it connects us to the Beauty that is this life and to all the other Travelers along the road.

Awakening does not have to be painful. However there is always destruction before construction and all of our experiences are helping us build a better life for ourselves and those who come after.

And hopefully, we will be leaving this world a Legacy and a little better than we found it.

Marianne Goldweber A Village

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