Hello, and welcome to our first section. What is the title of this section? The title of this section is what is a spiritual awakening? So what is the spiritual? Well, that's funny you should ask because I just happen to have a definition right here. The definition of a spiritual awakening as I pulled off the internet is a shifting consciousness or an awakening to an awareness of reality, which has been previously unrealized.

So what that means is that we're waking up to something that we didn't know before, that shifts our perception of reality. And for most of us, most of us, it's an experience of what we would call a god or our higher self, the CI, the collective consciousness, the universe, whatever you want to call it. There's been names for throughout all cultures and throughout all history, and it's a historic presence. So it's been there as long as people Been around. So it's quite dynamic is first awakening a belief. Spiritual Awakening is not a belief.

It's an event, or it's an experience. And for some people, it's a very big change, all of a sudden they experience something. And now they view the world in a completely different ways. So their shift of their perception of how the world works and what the world is has completely changed. And now they see the world through new eyes. And it opens the doors to vast new possibilities that they didn't even think of before, that go way beyond the three dimensional world.

So it can be very dynamic. It can be very exciting. For some people, it can be a little disorienting in the beginning. But it's it can be very miraculous. And when I have gone through spiritual awakenings, I've gone through two in my life, they've just been incredible experiences. And for some people, they can have visions, so so these can be of the mind You know, like psychic vision.

Or people can have sensory perceptions like, they'll be able to feel senses, or motion or energies beyond their physical body. So it's kind of unusual when you start to experience and go out like, Wow, what's going on. And it can also last over a period of time. So for instance, the first spiritual awakening that I went through was in my 30s, as in my early 30s. And what happened is that I went through some meditations. And then these meditations, I had some incredible mystical experiences.

And in those experiences, my life changed dramatically afterwards. So not only did my perception of life change, but the the circumstances of my life changed dramatically. And what happened in the end, that I had this incredible opening to creativity, and that spiritual awakening, I kind of went in and out of it, but it lasted for like three years. That's pretty amazing period of time. So but the main thing is that you're getting rewired On the inside, you're actually going through a biochemical shift in your brain through your, your energy field and your nervous system. And you will not be the same person after it happens, you will have changed and, and the change that you're making is that you're stepping into the better version of who you are as a human being.

Not better that's kind of judgmental, but a higher version, let's say who you're meant to be. Well, my spiritual awakening be like anyone elses, probably not. So, because this spiritual awakening is being designed and engineered from a higher power, a higher intelligence, your spiritual awakening is going to be unique for you. So it's different for everybody. What you experience will be unique for you. For me, my experiences were very cathartic.

They were very mind blowing. But for other people can be very gentle, like a you know, just like a blooming of a flower or something like that. So, so it's different for everyone. And that's kind of what throws a little disorienting into it because you may not be sure what's going on. On while you're experiencing, you might not recognize it completely till after you're through it. So your experience will be unique for you it will be divinely tailored by a higher intelligence for your greatest good.

So it's actually a very loving experience in life. Can I make a spiritual awakening happen? Unfortunately, you cannot. And so why am I teaching a class called guided meditations for spiritual awakening if I can't make them happen? Well, that's a good question. By the way, you can't really make them happen.

But what you can do is that you can prepare for them. So spiritual awakenings are on a divine time clock from a higher intelligence so they're going to happen when they happen. And they're going to happen under the set of circumstances that are best suited for you. So you cannot really make them happen. The only thing you can do is prepare for them. And so this course is designed to help you prepare for a spiritual awakening.

What how we do that is by raising our vibration. So one of the ways we'll be doing that is through deep relaxation or meditation. And then the angle I'm using with this class to help raise our vibration is by meditating on living virtues. And so we're going to be focusing on four virtues, specifically, first one is going to be compassion. Next one's going to be self acceptance and forgiveness, and then gratitude. And so experiencing those four qualities or virtues of life takes your vibration which will more easily resonate to the powers that be that are the force behind creating this spiritual awakening.

What is the results after spiritual awakening? Well, the results can be many and varied. So there is a summary attached to this course. So are tied to this section. So please read the summary. There's a very long list of things that you can experience after a spiritual awakening.

But a couple of them I like to mention right now is that The first one is that you're going to be very aware that something has happened or changed inside of you, it's going to be a very defining experience that you won't forget, it could change your life completely, where this this awakening of energy has gone on inside of you. So you may also begin to be aware of subtle energies, you may spirit, you know, for instance, I, when I first went through my first spiritual awakening, although I became aware of these sensations that felt like tingling, or like wispy clouds that moved in a circular pattern, and I could feel them inside of my body, and I could feel them moving inside and out of my body. And I later grew to realize that that was like a form of healing energy that I could use in my sessions when I was working with people.

So it took me a long time to figure that out. But I could feel them all the time after those awakenings. So once you go through the spiritual awakening, the shifts tend to be permanent. You don't go backwards, you continue to go forwards. And then the last thing you can that I like to mention in a spiritual wake is that your level of awareness increases. So you're now aware of more than just the three dimensional physical world, there's something beyond that's bigger and greater.

And it's actually much more vast because once you get into the imagination and the energies of the non physical world, there are no limits that it's, it's infinite. So we're not limited, like we are in a body and three dimensional earth plane. So those are a few things you can look for something's happening inside of you that you notice, you may be aware of subtle energies, and there's going to be an increase in your personal awareness. Meditation. So the meditation for this section, because this is an intermediate course, and I'm going to take for granted that everyone's done a little bit of meditating. So what I did for this first meditation is that essentially, I'm borrowing one from one of my first courses, so it's just a deep relaxation exercise.

If you want to skip it as an intermediate meditator, you're, you're welcome to do so. But what this first meditation is going to do, it's going to kind of exercise your relaxation and your meditation muscles can take you into a deeply relaxed state. And more importantly, probably that's going to tune you into the sound of my voice, because that is going to set the foundation for the meditations to come. So feel free to join the meditation. You know, I'd love to have you there for this first one, if you want to, if you want to skip, that's fine. So please read the summaries and do the homework, because that will get us in tune for the living of virtues which is coming next.

So thank you very much and I'll see if the meditation