How do I navigate the dark night of the soul | spiritual awakening
By Polly Green
What really helped me navigate when I was in the dark night of the soul was imagining that I was a caterpillar. It felt for me as if I was in a gooey transformation cocoon. It was dark and it felt unknown, and I kept imagining that soon I will break out of here and fly, but right now this process I am in is helping me to transform.
If you are wanting to know how to navigate when you are in the dark night of the soul phase of the spiritual awakening process then this post is for you.
In this video I share my top three dark night of the soul navigation takeaways. These tools helped me and my clients to navigate through the dark night of the soul and come out the other side feeling light and free.
My dark night of the soul was triggered in a stage of my journey when I hit an all time bottom with codependency. Codependency was an addiction that helped me to escape from the deeply repressed emotions that I had been carrying.
I needed help, and asked my guidance team what to do.
These three steps are what helped me to get through the dark night process.
Step number 1 was solitude.
I needed to be alone.
So I did what I needed to do to create as much space for myself as possible.
I stopped seeing clients, I disengaged from people and conversation.
I went off line for long periods of time, and I went into long periods silence.
Step 2 was breathwork.
I knew I needed deeper help on a soul level. I knew that talking and the mind were not the solution. I asked my inner guidance for direction and loud and clear heard the words breath work.
I found teachers, and started my conscious connected breathwork journey.
Conscious connected breathing is done by:
Breathing in and out of the mouth with no pause and no gap between the inhale and the exhale. This allows our bodies to release repressed emotion and return to presence.
We drop the drama, the story, the victim/victor mentality, and surrender to the felt presence of what is ready to be released from our cellular memory.
We lie down and breath. We allow ourselves the space to feel our way through the discomfort and emotions that are being triggered.
We feel sensations in our body and allow them to pass through.
When we feel triggered instead of trying to numb the feeling or run away from it we lie down and breathe.
We welcome it with open arms and give it space to express itself.
At times the pain may be really painful and that is ok. We feel it and it passes like a thunderstorm.
Breath work is the only thing that I have tried that actually works and is long lasting, because it deals with the root cause of the energy.
Step 3 in my navigating the dark night of the soul tool kit is art.
When I was deep in the dark night a voice told me to start drawing mandalas. I had never drawn a mandala before, so I Googled mandalas and became obsessed with drawing them.
Art became my anchor. I went within as I drew and became totally absorbed in the process. I connected with my highest self and my team as I drew. I listened to mantras as I drew. It became a compulsion, and I could not stop drawing.
Art was my savior, my best friend, and my trusted companion through the dark night of the soul.
Solitude, breathwork, and art along with my other spiritual practices were the tools that helped me to navigate the dark night of the soul, spiritual awakening process.
It was intense and indeed it was dark, but I can see now how it is a necessary part of our growth. When we face the dark with courage it loses its power.
When we surrender to the emotion it loses its charge.
When we stop running, numbing, and avoiding and dive in with both feet we come out the other side with the emotional resilience to know we can go through anything.
Emotion is simply energy in motion. Allowing emotion to move through us by conscious connected breathing was for me a life changing process and a gift of the dark night of the soul transformational process.
Are you a female empath who is struggling with your sensitivity to energy?
Are you experiencing the dark night of the soul?
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Polly Green is a spiritual medium, channeler, coach, and founder of OtherSide Channelling Academy.
Other Side Channelling Academy is a signature spiritual coaching program that guides awakening female empaths to go from feeling overwhelmed by their sensitivity to energy to feeling confident clearing and alchemizing energy so that they can feel empowered navigating the spirit world.
