You are Receiving Activations, Even When You Don't Realize It

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You know when you hear something in just the right way, at just the right time, and suddenly everything clicks? Maybe you read a sentence, listened to a conversation, or came across an idea that seemed to awaken something inside you. This is an example of a spiritual activation.

In episode 623 of Soul Elevation, I explore what spiritual activations are, how they can happen in ways we don't necessarily recognize, and why you may already be receiving activations regularly without consciously seeking them out.

I think of activations as receiving something that wakes something up within us. From an energetic perspective, an activation can awaken something that was already within you but had been dormant. It can happen through spoken words, written words, energy healing, a conversation, or an intentional "activation" from a practitioner along the lines of a light language or starseed activation.

Sometimes you notice an activation immediately, and other times the effects show up gradually. You might suddenly understand something that you couldn't understand before, or you understand it in a new depth. You may find that an old trigger no longer affects you in the same way. Or you may notice a shift in your awareness, perspective, or experience of yourself. The activation doesn't necessarily have to produce an obvious experience in the moment.

You Receive Activations Without Realizing It

Something interesting about activations is that they don't always happen through an experience specifically labeled as an "activation." We are constantly interacting with other people with an energetic environment (even though it appears physical). Because of this, we are affected by the energy, words, and consciousness of the people and information we encounter.

For example, you might be reading a book or an article and suddenly have a profound realization. You may have heard the same concept before, but this time something about the way it was expressed causes it to click into place.

I've experienced this many times myself. There have been times when I've read something and suddenly understood the universal truth of something I hadn't quite connected the dots on before.. Sometimes I don't even immediately know exactly what has been activated; I just notice that something inside me has shifted.

This can also happen through a podcast, livestream, conversation, or spiritual teaching. Information can carry an energetic component that makes something within us come online.

Sometimes an Activation Can Feel Physical

One of the ways I've experienced activations consistently is through a sudden physical tiredness.

When I was first getting to know my former mentor, Michael Massey, we would have long spiritual talks about concepts that were completely new to me. I found that I would often become incredibly tired afterward, to the point that I needed to go to sleep as soon as I hung up. Part of that experience made sense intellectually. I was taking in a tremendous amount of new information. But there was also an energetic component. These were concepts that, in a sense, I already knew at a deeper level, but they weren't yet awake within me and accessibly to my conscious mind. They were asleep within my subconscious. 

That tiredness was a consistent element of our spiritual conversations for a while, and as my energy shifted I found myself less and less tired from our discourses.

I've experienced something similar in conversations with other people as well. Sometimes a person isn't consciously trying to activate you. There can simply be an energetic resonance between two people that creates a response and stimulates new energy.

So if you ever found yourself yawning or becoming tired during or after a spiritual conversation, pay attention to what is happening within you. You might be experiencing an energetic activation, and your tiredness is a byproduct.

Activations Can Unfold Over Time

Activations aren't always immediate. Sometimes you encounter an idea and it doesn't seem particularly significant at first. Then days, weeks, or even months later, something happens in your own life that suddenly connects you back to that original information in a new and significant way.

I've experienced this in connection with energetic, psychic, and astral experiences. Something that didn't mean much to me when I first encountered it can suddenly become meaningful after I've had my own experience. It's kind of like the original information was waiting for the right experience to illuminate it.

This is why it's valuable to remain curious and pay attention to the connections that emerge in your life over time.

Use Discernment With Spiritual Activations

Discernment is incredibly important in the topic of activations. Not every influence that activates something within you is necessarily serving your highest good. Because we are constantly affecting one another, we can encounter people who activate us intentionally or unintentionally. Some of those experiences can be expansive and supportive, but others can bring up fear or encourage us to act from fear.

Pay particular attention to messages or people that activate fear within you. If someone is trying to get you to take an action because you're afraid of what will happen if you don't, that's something worth examining carefully.

Fear can be a powerful motivator, and it can be used to influence people. Someone may present an offering as being "for your highest good" while simultaneously activating fear within you. That doesn't mean that everything spiritual must always be about love and light or that difficult aspects of reality should be ignored. Discernment means being willing to acknowledge the full breadth of reality while also paying attention to what is actually driving your choices.

Are you moving toward something because it feels aligned and expansive? Or are you being driven by fear? It's important to stay tuned into your motivation.

We are all participating in one another's awakening in different ways. When we become more conscious of that, we can be more intentional about how we show up for ourselves and for one another. My hope is that we can continue to activate one another in the highest light and for the highest good.