What is a dark night of the soul?
HOW TO GENTLY EASE THROUGH a period of struggle FOR GREATER JOY & CONNECTION
At some point in your life, you will have experienced a Dark night of the Soul, also known as a shift or shadow aspects rising.
These are pivotal times in your life that can result in a complete change of direction or shift within you. These moments can feel very intense and for some it can take a while to move through them. For others, moving through these periods takes less time although they feel as intense.
During these times, you may have mystical or spiritual experiences where you are reunited with Soul as you awaken to your soul journey.
You come into the world with a Soul plan or Soul contract. From a very early age you have probably been taught roles or taught to suppress parts of who you are so that you can ‘fit in’ with what society dictates. Often you are not programmed to listen to your intuition and so you become disconnected from your higher self and are not living in alignment with who you are truly meant to be. You can often feel deeply unfulfilled searching for outward things to fill the aching void.
Perhaps you are so busy working, parenting, socialising, exercising, holidaying, that you don’t come up for air. You are always on the go, often ignoring the subtle warning signs.
Maybe your push your body to the limits and you are unkind to yourself unknowingly. You might overdo the diets; establish punishing exercise routines; have imbalances in your work and personal life, etc. Or you overindulge on food, alcohol and other stimulants.
This is a pivotal time for soul alignment, rapid change and transformation. Anything that is of a denser more negative nature simply cannot exist any longer. A lot of people will be faced with relationship breakdowns, job losses and health crises, etc. These are orchestrated by the Universe so that you can get back on track and on the right path of alignment & growth.
Things start to build to a crescendo as you enter what is known as the ‘Dark night of the soul’ phase.
The concept and term ‘dark night of the soul’ – was coined in the 16th century by St john Of The Cross (a mystic & priest). He wrote a very powerful poem entitled: ‘la noce oscura del alma’.
‘If a man wishes to be sure of the road he travels on, he must first close his eyes and travel in the dark’. St John Of The Cross
This period feels very chaotic, intense and you don’t always recognise when you are in it. You can feel alone, isolated and separate from loved ones. Even though you could be surrounded by loving and supportive people – you feel this from within you.
You can feel vulnerable and exposed. You may even lack self-compassion and judge yourself too harshly because you lack the understanding of this process.
The gap between what your life plan is and where you actually are, begins to widen. You start to question the aspects of your life that may feel dark at this time – and you are forced to go within & look deeply at yourself – asking why you are unhappy or why you are struggling.
This is like an existential crisis where you feel unhappy and disconnected from source and loved ones. It can be darker and harder to come out of it for some and maybe even feel like a deep depression. Sometimes you may need help from different healing modalities, therapists and coaches.
It can be a lengthy period of darkness lasting a long time - months or even years. Mother Theresa referred in her letters to her dark night of the soul which lasted over 40 years with brief periods of remission. She traversed this dark period during which she questioned her divinity and the existence of a God.
This dark night of the soul or shadow rising is a process that we all go through that strips us down, lays us bare and potentially reconnects us to our divinity and soul self, if we learn to surrender and trust in the process.
If you want soul growth and alignment, you have to go through this dark night of the soul period and you have to traverse it. It is the return of your divinity and light.
Faced with the pandemic, we have all experienced a collective dark night of the soul. We have all had the opportunity to wake up to our divinity. It has a time of reckoning for humanity – the abuse of power, outdated structures, racism, inequality, etc, are all being shown. Nothing can remain hidden with this new Aquarian energy.
SOME SELF-LOVING TIPS TO HELP WHEN YOU ARE IN A SHIFT:
· Remember this is a beautiful transitional process that we all go through from caterpillar to butterfly. This darkness is the cocoon phase.
· Find space & time for you during a transformation.
· Find your tribe where you can be your authentic self.
· Find a mentor/coach/therapist – someone who you trust if you need more help to get on track.
· Practice lots of self-care as you assimilate these powerful periods and the changes they bring.
· Practice daily stillness to gain clarity on your way forwards.
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