I’ve been there—standing at the edge of my conscious spiritual awakening, knowing something bigger was calling me but unsure how to begin. I longed to connect with my Spirit Guides but felt lost, unworthy, and incapable. Meanwhile, everyone around me looked so ‘enlightened.’

There seemed to be no clear stepping stone, and I wanted to get there fast.

After decades on my spiritual path, I often look back and remember when my first shaman (recommended to me by my doctor for toxically high stress levels) mentioned that I would be living a very deep spiritual adult life, perhaps even teaching and healing others. I was supported by the wise warrior Athena, my spirit animal was the unicorn, and I was to start talking to Spirit (God/Universe/Source.)

Sitting on the healing table and listening to her report, the information was almost like a ping-pong ball bouncing off my head instead of sinking in. I was immediately engulfed in a sense of dizzying unworthiness. My thoughts ricocheted from:

• Who is in charge here, trusting me to be a healer or teacher?
• How do I get there?
• What do I need to learn or practice?
• Who is going to teach me?
• How can I even access Spirit?
• There’s no way I’m as good as (insert spiritual influencer here).

All this mental chaos was swimming in my mind’s ocean of “YES! I feel this truth in my bones!” But where do I begin?

Let’s begin here. Because here is where I am, and here is where you are, in all our perfection.

Hard Truths About the Spiritual Journey & Awakening

Let’s get these out of the way, first and foremost.  

• No one is going to hand you a spiritual initiation—not even an archangel. If you’re waiting for a divine invitation, you might be waiting forever.
• You don’t “graduate” from spirituality. There’s no course that makes you a guru or healer overnight – in fact, it’s the opposite. The more you learn, the more you realize you don’t know.
• Books, courses, and rituals—like looking up angel numbers, burning sage, or using crystals—won’t take you further unless you integrate what you learn into real, intentional practice.
• When you open to learning with Spirit, you will be face to face with the things you’ve been hiding from yourself your whole life. You’ll be peeling back layers of pain, wounding, suffering, and even delving into ancestral or generational agony that you’re here to heal so your kids and grandchildren won’t have to deal with it.
• You don’t get to begin. The fact that you are here means your Spiritual Journey has already begun.

It’s that easy. It’s already done. Congratulations!

Your Conscious Spiritual Awakening Has Already Begun

If you’re like the younger version of me, waiting for some kind of validation or spiritual ceremony to feel worthy—consider this your initiation: you are already anointed, blessed, appointed, and ordained.

You are exactly where you’re supposed to be. My friendL YOU are a Spiritual Being.

Have you accepted this? Good. Now on to the fun stuff! (Oh, did I not mention that this path means work? Hard work? You can’t just wear new-age gear or watch a pre-recorded spiritual class for change… you actually have to read spiritual signs and for reals implement these tools to dig into self-healing? Emotionally draining, mentally taxing, confusing, painful, scream-into-your-pillow, rip-open-your-traumatic-wounds-to-recognize-the-pestilance-and-let-it-seep-out-so-you-can-truly-transform-and-experience-bliss healing? And with nobody but yourself to really commiserate with the bizarre changes happening to your poor body, mind, and emotions?)

Yeah. All this. Still in? Good. It truly becomes easier. Read on.

After recognizing that you’re on the path (and again, you are), you’re now in the choppy ocean of wanting to become. Perhaps you’ve already taken courses or read enough self-help books to want specific things spiritual gurus are touting: abundance, wealth, magical healing hands, the ability to channel high beings, become a seer, a mystic, and become more than you are right now.

These attributes may or may not fold into your life path, and please recognize that if you make these types of things your immediate goal, I lovingly say, your spiritual journey is already quite misguided. 

Just by wanting these (yes, very cool) things, you’re setting into motion energies and frequencies that will push you farther away from the thing that will bring you more spiritual freedom: knowing the true you. Buzzword incoming: authenticity.

3 Ways to Step Into Your Spiritual Awakening With Authenticity

Authenticity is the core of your spiritual awakening. It means being an unconditional, loving, and fearless warrior for your Soul.

But let’s be honest—this isn’t easy. Society teaches us to conform. Parents have expectations. Social media is full of influencers selling an idealized version of life. Cultural conditioning, past traumas, and even the echoes of high school mean girls still shape how we show up in the world.

Spirituality is about cutting through all of that. It means throwing off the expectations, the false masks, and the survival strategies that no longer serve you. It’s about showing up as the real, raw, unapologetic you.

It means checking in moment-to-moment to ensure that what was true to us is still true as we grow, expand, and change. Checking to see if your decisions are of light, and facing your purpose. We must heal and remove old learnings, survival skills, and any false masks we’ve adopted and shine our unique selves in this world boldly and fearlessly. 

Boy, does Spirit love that! Can you feel the confetti? So, how do we do this?

1) Accept Personal, Radical Responsibility

When you start focusing on yourself with love, gratitude, and empathy, spiritual miracles begin to unfold.

Here’s what happens when you take full responsibility for your journey:

• You realize that you alone shape your reality.
• Every decision—from who you spend time with to how much you earn—has led you here.
• Instead of blaming circumstances, you reclaim your power to create change.
• Self-compassion allows you to see past “mistakes” as lessons and stepping stones.
• Your awareness expands, opening doors to opportunities you never noticed before.

Taking responsibility doesn’t mean judging yourself for past choices—it means recognizing that your future is entirely in your hands.

Once you understand that you have gotten you here, something magical happens. Like the Yin: Yang (balance of good and evil, light and dark, negative and positive in everything everywhere), you realize you are also responsible for the magic of your future, for your change, and for how to move through your life in a productive and joyful way.  

The Benefits of Radical Responsibility

You automatically assume accountability for past decisions and fallouts from them. If you couple this accountability with empathy (knowing that you did your best with the skills and knowledge you had at the time), you gain immense wisdom, as well as many other magical unfolding:

• “Mistakes” become interesting ways to learn more about yourself, and practice self-love
• Your awareness opens
• You become conscious of new opportunities and ways things can appear in your life
• You invite honesty and integrity
• You experience your life from a new perspective
• You become empathetic, not sympathetic, towards yourself
• You become empathetic towards others and release your expectations of them and the conditions you’ve put on your relationships
• You begin living with unconditional love towards others, obliterating your stress, anxiety, and depression, leaving simple inner peace and outer joy and bliss.

Fun note: your thoughts and beliefs actually shape your reality. Here’s how neuroscience supports this idea.

One last reminder: please don’t get down on yourself for past decisions that may have led you into trouble. The past was also your spiritual path, and the lessons you’ve learned are more valuable than you can imagine. One of the reasons I specifically call this the “conscious spiritual awakening” is because we’re softening into our authentic consciousness.

The wounds you’ve endured are pure gold and the key to your future healing.

They factor into your divine purpose in life. Acknowledge that you did the best you could with the skills and knowledge you had at the time. Give yourself the deepest grace and gratitude, and use your newly found wisdom as you step into your power.

2) Immerse yourself with positive vibrations – hear me out!

I’m not talking about ignoring your “negative” thoughts and feelings. Most definitely not, as these are the keys to your healing. I’m talking about recognizing where you are on a “feelings vibrational scale” and having tools to bump yourself up. Here are some suggestions, and I invite you to invoke your creativity and make your own.

Raise Your Vibe Immediately

• If you’re out and about and feeling low, give five complete strangers genuine, heartfelt compliments. If at home or at work, give them to your family members or co-workers. Notice how they change. Notice how you change.

Know Your Gifts

• Start understanding the gifts you have in life. A home, running water, air. A human body, complete with a heart, lungs, and brain, and probably some appendages. Wow! Expand to the external things that make your life easier.
• Next, find gratitude for the people in your life, then the animals and nature (whether found in your city or country neighborhood). Keep going. Some people keep a gratitude journal, but you can think it through a few times daily. Make this a habit.

“Love” – The Simplest Mantra

• If you’re really in the depths of pain, depression, or anxiety, this trick helped me more than anything when I had almost zero energy: repeat the word “LOVE.” Out loud or in your head.
• Love is one of the highest vibrating states our human bodies can experience, only surpassed by serenity, bliss, and enlightenment.
• If you repeat the word love as a crazy-easy mantra, you’re automatically bathing yourself in a higher vibration and consciousness. You may not feel it, but you’re changing the energy within and outside you. Keep doing it. All day long.
• I used baby feeding times to repeat the word in my head. Dishwashing, driving, going to sleep. I said it to myself as much as possible when I had no energy or joy. It works. It will build your life energy from the purest dimension.

Pretend. Really.

• After using the love mantra for a while, begin attaching that feeling of love to the word. If you can’t access the feeling just yet, just pretend to feel it and simply attach it to the mantra.
• After a week or so of doing this multiple times a day, extend the feeling of love to yourself. 
• Allow yourself to love yourself.
• Make this your go-to exercise until you feel love inside and out. It could take a while. It took me a year or so. Always thank yourself after this work.

These are actually the beginnings of a beautiful self-love practice. Instead of focusing on self-love as an external activity (spa days, reading, shopping, etc.), feel actual love for yourself. This is radical healing. Deeply immerse yourself in unconditional love for YOU. If you feel you’re being selfish, think about the airplane rule… the one where you need to put your mask on first so you have the oxygen to help others. If you don’t love yourself first, you have no pure, unconditional love to give others. You’re trying to give from an empty cup. Fill that cup first. Being genuinely in love with yourself is foundational to your spirituality and overall health.

3) Become Aware

Bring your attention to what’s happening around you. What’s happening for you, what’s being offered to you. Your awareness, coupled with your willingness to play with Spirit, will bring a flood of opportunities and, well, assignments. Again – Conscious spiritual awakening.

You’ll start getting feelings that Spirit is offering as an invitation to play the game. Begin recognizing your feelings as signs. Yes, spiritual signs.

It’s that simple. When you feel something, pay attention and comply. For example:

• I feel like I shouldn’t talk to him/her anymore. 
• I feel like I need to stay home tonight.
• I feel like I need a break.
• I feel like crap when xyz happens.
• I feel so happy when xyz happens!

The awareness happens when you consciously turn these feelings into red or green flags. Toxic versus healthy. A Hell Yes versus a Hell No.

Gut instinct is a very powerful way Spirit talks directly to you.

How to Become Conscious

Now, at the beginning, finding our feelings through daily life may feel too slow. To get your energetic flow up to speed with Spirit (and Spirit likes it if you move fast, with confidence!), you must show up and answer The Call. We’re calling it the Conscious Spiritual Awakening after all.

Get to work doing what you need to feel better: Stop talking to him/her. Stay home. Take a break or a nap, for goodness sake. Steep yourself in happiness for a moment! Stop feeling guilty when you’re taking time for yourself.

Take this as a game and answer as many calls from Spirit as you can. The faster, the better. If Spirit is calling you to do something, you have support from the spiritual dimension.

This is called trust or faith, and it’s a practice, as many of the illogical to-do items Spirit will ask of you will be going against everything that society has taught you. However, the more you play the game, the stronger your relationship and communication with Spirit will become, and you will know you have a safety net below you at all times.

At this juncture, I would like to interject one key topic: expect Spirit to teach you lessons on your journey.

Experiencing human discomfort (loss of money, pain, sickness, career demotions or firings, problems in family life, severe trauma… anything really) is your path, given by Spirit. What you do with this discomfort and how you take responsibility will shape your path.

Pain is just as important as pleasure. They both hold keys to unlock more of our secret doors.

Final Thoughts: The Conscious Spiritual Awakening Bootcamp

During the beginning of your work with Spirit, it’s much like Boot Camp. It can be uncomfortable, and you’re learning divine lessons to fulfill your purpose and potential in life.

Instead of escapism by turning to medicines such as booze, drugs, gambling, sex, etc., continue on the path, repeating, “Yes, Spirit, can I have another!”

When you get really brave? Ask for more as fast as your human-ness can handle. The key is to do your time, learn your lessons, and gain wisdom to break through into magical flow and unconditional bliss with Spirit.  

If you don’t spend the time and integrate every step on your journey, any fleeting bliss you find may spit you out like those folks who win the lottery in those Netflix documentaries. Prepare for the bliss – exercise filling and expanding your cup. If you don’t feel bliss now, holding that frequency or vibration for more than a sliver of time will be impossible until you do the work.

Once you feel the love for yourself flowing, opportunities will arise, and you will be attracting people into your life who will become your teachers, or you’ll find the perfect book to crack open for the next stage. Trust in the process.

And hey, go grab that pretty crystal that’s calling your name. After all, that’s a sign too.

So there you have it. The beginning stages of your Conscious Spiritual Awakening. Your path will differ from everyone else’s, so relax and dig into self-love, self-compassion, gratitude, and getting to know yourself again. 

With love, Analiesa

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