Are you feeling lately like you’ve been going through the hardest time of your life – battling depression and dealing with very painful life events?
If this is the case, you may want to read this article on signs of going through a Dark Night of the Soul because this could be exactly what is happening to you right now.
The Dark Night of the Soul is a spiritual and existential crisis that people go through at the beginning of their spiritual journey.
It can happen before or after your spiritual awakening – as your spiritual awakening is the moment when you begin to realize the deeper and spiritual meanings of life.
As the vibration of planet Earth is rising, people are called to wake up spiritually and begin their healing journey.
Unfortunately, spiritual awakening and emotional healing are almost all the time triggered by suffering and hardship – as the sufist poet Rumi explained, “The wound is the place where the light enters our being.”
Thus, we need to experience emotional wounds for real spiritual healing to occur because only through these wounds can we come to see what pains and dysfunctional patterns we still need to heal from this life or from past lives.
To understand if you’re going through the Dark Night of the Soul (or have been in the past), have a look at the following 20 Dark Night of the Soul Signs.
20 Signs of a Dark Night of The Soul
#1. You discovered a new truth about the world
For almost all people, the Dark Night of the Soul starts with an epiphany – discovering that life, as they knew it before, is a complete lie.
Until a certain age, almost all of us believe that life is just what meets the eye – a physical world made of matter, which works according to perfectly established scientific principles.
Basically, it’s all about attaining material gains – a good job, social status, a nice house, an impressive car, stable marriage to “thick the box,” and so on.
Then, the Spiritual Awakening happens, and your whole world and upside-down. You start feeling and understanding things you did not know were possible.
You start understanding that life is energy, that we are all interconnected, and that we have a bigger purpose here on Earth.
You begin to feel deeper, have intuitions, and are sensitive to energy.
You may even discover some sort of spiritual path that will help you deepen your knowledge.
For example, my Spiritual Awakening was marked by discovering Reiki and adopting it as a life path.
The bottom line is that your view of life changes massively during a DNS (Dark Night of the Soul), and you will not be able to return to your limited view of life.
#2. You go through emotional shock and pain
I mentioned before that the Dark Night of the Soul is triggered by a spiritual awakening for most people.
For others, it’s triggered directly by a painful event that turns their world upside down.
This is called “the triggering event,” and I described it in my previous article on Dark Night of the Soul Stages.
It’s an event that causes you a lot of emotional pain, anger, and depression.
It’s usually about losing something – a loved person, a job, an identity, your health, your wealth – whatever triggers you the most.
This happens because, like this, your deepest wounds and karmic patterns from this life or from your previous lives are brought to the surface to be seen, acknowledged, and healed – and this takes us to the next point.
#3. Your deepest wounds are brought to the surface
After the triggering event, your deepest wounds and insecurities will be brought to the surface to be acknowledged, seen, and healed.
This means that whatever you haven’t had the chance to heal from this life or previous lives will come back to the surface now to be addressed and healed.
This can be a very painful process; some people end up feeling like they are living in hell on earth or that the whole Universe is against them.
The key to overcoming this difficult time is to keep having faith even when times seem really difficult and to keep your focus on the bigger picture.
#4. You feel lost and depressed
After the triggering event, which most of the time is a traumatic one, it’s normal to feel lost and depressed.
The traumatic event that starts the Dark Night of the Soul will shake the very first foundation of your life to challenge your every belief.
This is a difficult and tough process. Thus, losing your sense of direction is normal, and so are hopelessness and depression.
However, while I advise you to don’t blame yourself for feeling like this and acknowledge these feelings as normal, I also advise you to seek help and don’t give up in your pursuit of healing.
What you do and how you deal with how you feel can help…
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