Metaphysical Global Shifts in Spiritual Energy: Gateways to Enlightenment
Learn from (and Learn to Recognize) Your Energy Shifts, By Heather Leah
This past Tuesday, October the 17th the world experienced a global shift in energy. I'm pretty unconnected in the spiritual community, so I wasn't aware that this shift was going to happen. All I knew was that Tuesday evening I began to feel very sick.
It wasn't a normal sickness. I felt dizzy, like my mind was swirling. I felt nauseous. I tried doing healthy things, like drinking lots of water and eating a healthy meal with lots of veggies. I meditated and went to bed, satisfied that whatever bug I had would be gone in the morning.
The next morning I still felt sick. I rested a lot, ate light, and drank more water. I have a feeling, in retrospect, that many other people began feeling a bit dizzy on Tuesday night due to the energy shift; however, I still was not aware that any such shift had occurred. My friend informed me, when I complained of my illness, that Tuesday had indeed been a large global change. He suggested that perhaps my body was reacting to the massive energy surge. Ah, well perhaps that explained it.
Wednesday evening I was downright hostile. Everything felt wrong. I was emotional and sensitive, everything still felt swirly and dizzy, and I was developing a fairly negative perspective on everything. I couldn't feel the Oneness, I couldn't feel the love. All I could feel was lots and lots of fear and anger and sorrow-and I had no idea why. I went to bed feeling very bad and had strange, negative dreams.
It's important to stop now, and recognize all of the symptoms of my energy change because perhaps you have experienced something similar. While my first energy change, the really big one, was so large and unexpected that I couldn't possibly retrace the steps of achieving it, Tuesday night's surge took me through tiny, agonizingly tedious steps: Physical illness, emotional illness, and then strange dreams, indicating illness in my subconscious.
After the negativity of Tuesday and Wednesday, I didn't expect Thursday to be much brighter. I was wrong. After a small amount of sleep, I woke suddenly and could not rest anymore. I wasn't sure what to do with my time, and, as I was still very tired, I made myself some breakfast and read a book, rather hoping I'd be able to fall back asleep.
A happy thought popped into my head, opening a floodgate. Suddenly, all the negativity I'd been feeling the past few days was gone. I thought of my friends, my mom, my loved ones, my life goals, and all the love that connected the world. I thought thoughts that were so happy and positive that I normally don't allow myself to think them, because I doubt they will ever happen and thinking them makes me sad. But I couldn't stop; my thoughts controlled me, but they were all happy. I knew love.
Then, the physical sensations began. My skin tingled. My nerves felt like they were buzzing. At first, I was overwhelmed by the abundance of positive energy. It felt like my body couldn't hold the love. Feeling like I'd overdosed on some amazing drug, I curled up, tossed and turned, and tried to contain the incredible vibrations going through my body.
Finally, I sat up and began to meditate. I held a butterfly charm I use for my practices, and it made my fingertips prickle with energy. Still tingling all through out my body, I slipped into meditation, finding it much easier to focus than usual. When I stopped, all of my emotions were potent. I could feel the chemicals of emotion surging inside me. I was aware-more aware than normal-of the workings of my body.
And, best of all, I became intensely creative. All of the love inside me starting leaping out, in the forms of art and writing and poetry-and, soon enough, actions of kindness towards my community and fellow man. Actions of kindness are always creative.
Now, this is a happy, sappy story and all that, but the importance isn't in what happened to me. The importance is in what can be learned from it. I didn't recognize the energy shift when it began. I only noticed the changes when the positive things began. Imagine, though, how much more I could have learned about myself, about my mind, and about how to open gateways, if I had recognized this energy shift in the earliest stages. Imagine how much suffering I could have skipped if I had only known that it was a positive change in disguise.
I wonder how many of you felt this energy shift as well. I've heard stories of other people going through similar changes, and feeling similar negative emotions, even to the extent of being cruel to people they love. Someone going through an energy change can seem like a different person-negative, angry, and sometimes hateful.
So to those of you who know someone who is going through this change and acting a little harsher than usual: Be compassionate to them and take heart-they merely don't know how to handle the new energy coursing through them.
And to everyone: Learn to recognize your energy shifts. Not all energy shifts will be exactly like my experience; everyone experiences them differently. The important thing is to memorize every step you take-from the negative beginning to the intense rush at the end. If you learn which meditations led you to the new gateway, which changes in global energy flow guided you, you can learn about yourself and how to take even more steps towards being closer to the goal of Oneness, Enlightenment, Nirvana, whatever.
In a way, it's a good metaphor for life. If you see something negative in the world and begin to focus on it as something that is truly bad, it will make your life less joyous. However, if you see something negative and realize that it's not truly a bad thing, but rather a challenge that, once overcome, will lead to many blessings, you will understand the peace and harmony of the universe.
So next time you start to feel sick, smile. Your life is filled with love, and you're about to become more aware of it.