Early Thursday morning I was feeling tired, irritable and generally not awesome.
Fortunately, I didn't have much to do at work so I listened to my body and went home early. I usually have fun at work but the relief I felt as I was walked out of the building was visceral.
My body temperature felt unusually high and I was so drained that I almost fell asleep during the ride home. I ordered lunch, bathed and prepared for a deliciously long sleep.
What's interesting is that I only fell asleep for about an hour or less. Normally I loathe the way I feel after a nap but after this super nap I felt incredible. I felt awake and healthy. I stayed in bed and I had a huge emotional breakthrough. I stopped blaming myself for something that happened in my past. This new me began to literally laugh out loud that past me was silly enough to feel guilt about that situation. This was a significant shift. I was carrying that heavy negative feeling around and it was hurting me.
That night I finally found the book I've been waiting for. This book is giving me the information I've been needing to help shift to the next level of my spiritual development and guide me to the next turn on my life path.
I was thinking about this experience for the rest of my week. Feeling really tired and ill and then completely rebooting and purging mental junk in one afternoon??
What really happened there?
I started journaling today and I paused writing to type, "feeling sick right before a spiritual breakthrough" into my search engine. And as always, I'm not the only one who's experienced this and there are names for it.
The purge.
The spiritual flu.
Ascension symptoms.
Do any of these names resonate with you?
Since I'm just finding out about this, I will let another blogger explain:
Spiritual flu, ascension symptoms, the purge, are names for the same thing, our body’s reaction to deep energy releasing. In my experience, it typically happens when we have completed inner work and are removing old energy and releasing it from our body.
When we release a lot of that old dense energy, it can feel like flu symptoms as the energy uproots itself from our body and makes its way out. I won’t go into all the symptoms of the flu. You know your body, and you know what the flu feels like to you.
Throughout my spiritual awakening, I have experienced spiritual flu when I’m doing deep inner work. Part of doing the work is identifying our triggers, experiencing the emotions, finding a new perspective, and releasing the old energy. It’s that old, toxic energy that has been stuck in our bodies that we are releasing. And when a lot of it releases, it can sometimes feel like flu-like symptoms.
- Nikki DeForest
Fascinating. When I began seriously practicing yoga I experienced something people call a healing crisis. I became very sick for no apparent reason and felt my body healing seemingly unrelated injuries from my recent past. My intuition told me I would have more experiences like this in the future.
If you're going through something similar, you're not alone. And if you're doing a lot of inner, emotional or spiritual work, don't be surprised if something like this happens.
Relax, rest, allow it to pass. Keep nourishing yourself and your soul.
<3
Ara
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