“A spiritual awakening isn’t becoming religious.  It’s when you start questioning everything you’ve been taught. The beliefs you were handed, the systems you were raised in, the masks you had to wear to survive, the rules you had to follow just to be accepted,” Ross Lara.  The one good thing about everyone having a platform is that we are exposed to so many different viewpoints, talents, beliefs, ideas, and creative outlets.  We learn different ways of life.  We see that there may be cracks in what we were taught and there are other ways to not only survive, but thrive.  We learn to make the connections that really matter.  The connection to source and self.  That isn’t something religion can even teach us regardless.  Connecting to spirit means being willing to give up familiarity and comfort. 

Humans were designed to question.  We were given creativity and connection and thought and we are most definitely meant to use it.  The truth is there are no rules beyond what we make and sometimes we are the ones keeping ourselves in the cage.  We are given the spiritual awakening so we can unearth something new within us, something new to believe, something new to share.  Religion has nothing to do with it—religion is just another structure designed to keep people in line.  Spirituality—now that is where the meat is.  When we connect to spirit, that’s when we know real truth.  We don’t have to survive in truth, we simply are.  Welcome what we know and watch the entire game change.  It may feel a lot like falling apart, but it is the beginning of creation and the opening of the world.

To be fair, there doesn’t NEED to be a spiritual component to it, that’s just the context I’m most familiar with because my own awakening/epiphanies did have a lot to do with connection and spirituality.  But it doesn’t have to play out like that for anyone.  It can be a realization that we need to break a bad habit, an understanding of a long held concept, creating a new belief.  Awakening is anything that brings us out of our shell and into something new, something greater.  It’s the shifting from what we knew to what we WILL know through shedding what we carried.  That isn’t to say we let it all go, but it is saying that we let go of what no longer works in favor of something that fits better.  If we know there is something greater for us, the awakening will bring us right to it.  We just have to let it happen and then we move from survive to thrive in an entirely new way, with eyes wide open.  Ready.