A Spiritual Awakening is an awakening or remembering that we are spiritual beings. We feel connected to and in communication and relationship with our higher power - whatever your preferred term is - Source, the Universe, God, our soul, or higher self. We live in alignment with and co-create in accordance with Universal Laws and our higher purpose (soul contract, destiny, life plan) because life is a beautiful expression of the soul. We feed energy to that which we want more of, and we stop feeding negative and complaining thoughts. We operate out of and allow life to flow from unconditional love. Life flows from the heart, spirituality, unity consciousness, energy awareness, synchronicities, and divine timing. The more we allow life to flow without needing to control it, the more we trust this power is always bringing things for our highest benefit, the higher frequency emotions we maintain, the faster and "better" our manifestations flow as a natural expansion of our feelings of joy, abundance, gratitude, and love in each moment. I like to make sure there is a "what's in it for the Universe" piece of my manifestation, which tends to be helping me so I can help others. We live in flow, in the moment, in harmony to manifest the next moment of joy, peace, and harmony. We trust that everything is unfolding in perfect time for our benefit. This new view and experience of life is called 5D because the higher spiritual consciousness and awareness is integrated into our 3D physical earth life experience. 

Spiritual Awakenings can be brought about by life-changing events such as death of loved ones, near death experiences, dark night of the soul, or twin flame journeys just to name a few. For others it is a gradual and subtle shift or a combination thereof.  

In contrast, our default 3D living features our ego asleep to the bigger spiritual picture. We experiencing separation from God, our soul, our higher self, and other humans so we believe that death is real for us and our loved ones.  We operate out of fear, survival and control. We fixate on duality where everything is judged as good or bad, right or wrong, etc. We live in anxiety of the past and future which creates resistance and energy blocks. The mind-centered ego struggles to manifest desires shallowly based in control, power, and fear, which require much toil and effort, and may be disappointing when they do manifest.  

Even when we are in 5D, 3D challenges feel very real with lower frequency emotions that can take a little bit to process them into the higher 5D level of awareness. Therefore, we can experience moving back and forth between the two realms, more or less in one then the other until we can have access to the 5D awareness at all times, even when feeling 3D reactions. It just takes practice like creating a new habit.