Spiritual Awakening

Experiences & Teachings

Spiritual awakening could be said to be realizing what you are beyond the body and mind.  And in that realization, there is freedom from the sole identification with the body and mind.   You exist in this moment beyond your idea of yourself, and that experience is of unconditional peace and bliss.

It is easy to realize this to a certain degree.  Simply close your eyes and feel the sensation or sensations that you exist.  The mind wants to define it.  To say "I am the body.  I am John, I am a musician."  But for now,  let go of all thinking and directly feel what is here, without trying to define it or describe it with words.

Notice the feeling that "you are."  Not that you are a something or a someone, but actually feel yourself existing in this moment, without trying to change it in any way.  Beyond all thinking, there is the sensation that you exist.

If this is difficult, try this exercise: with your eyes closed, notice the sensation of your right hand.   Without moving your hand, bring your attention to the area of your right hand and feel the sensations that are there.  

If you do this, you will notice that your hand does not feel like a solid object.  You do not feel the border of where your hand stops and space begins.  Rather, the sensation of your hand is more like a cloud, without borders, without heaviness.

Now do this same exercise with your whole body.  With your eyes closed, notice the sensation of your entire body.  It feels like a vibration and it feels peaceful, blissful even.  This is the beginning of spiritual awakening.  

Try keeping your attention on this feeling of being for as long as you can. 

You will notice that it is easy to get caught up in thinking again; in the experience that you are your thoughts.  And when this happens, the experience is that you contract back into a dense, physical body that feels very separate from everything else and there is stress.

There are many techniques and paths to move you out of being identified with your thinking and into resting into your natural state of consciousness.  What I just mentioned is one of them: to allow your attention to rest on the feeling of existing in this moment beyond your thinking.  And when thoughts arise, allow them to arise and let them go, keeping your attention resting in the sensation of being.

And if you keep practicing, you will come to the point where you see thoughts arising by themselves.  You will experience everything arising and disappearing back into consciousness.  You will experience yourself completely free of the confines of the mind and body, as consciousness itself.  This is spiritual awakening.

How to Have a Spiritual Awakening

Below are some articles and teachings on meditation techniques on spiritual awakening.

But for thousands of years in the East, if you were interested in Spiritual Awakening, you would visit a fully enlightened Guru and sit with them for as much as time allowed you. 

The reason for this is not only for their teaching, but for the grace that they radiate.  Just by being close to such an enlightened master, you feel their bliss.  You feel their palpable enlightened presence, also called Kundalini Shakti, Shaktipat or Deeksha.  And being in this enlightened presence transforms you, awakening you into deeper and deeper states of meditation and self realization.  

After a profound spiritual awakening that changed my life, I found a way to turn this enlightened presence into sound.  So that by listening to some unique meditation music, this same bliss is awakened in you.  And simply by resting your attention on this bliss, your awareness expands and spiritual awakening happens naturally, without force.

Listening to these CDs makes the process to spiritual awakening much faster and more efficient than trying to do it on your own.  Trying to do it on your own can be incredibly frustrating.

If you are new to meditation, I usually suggest you start with Ocean Euphoric as it comes with a book that teaches you very clearly and simply how to meditate correctly.  You can read more about it and listen to samples by clicking here.

If you are already meditating, have a listen to the free samples of The Calling or Infinite Sky and see which one you like best.  

Click Here to Listen to Samples of Infinite Sky

Or Click Here to Listen to Samples of The Calling

Below are some articles and teachings on meditation and spiritual awakening for your to enjoy.