Symptoms of Spiritual Acceleration

Please note: This is a spiritual wellness article covering symptoms of spiritual awakening, and while also offering helpful, practical information for those who may be dealing with hypersensitivity, it is not meant to be construed as replacement for any medical treatment a person might need for mental health issues.

Hypersensitivity can also be a symptom of ADD and ADHD (Symptoms of Adult ADD) and may also be associated with certain mood disorders such as schizophrenia, OCD, anxiety disorders, bipolar disorder and as part of the cycle whenever someone experiences panic attacks.

If you are experiencing hypersensitivity to the extent that is a health threat, see the appropriate mental health professional.

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spiritual acceleration and spiritual development

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Are you feeling overwhelmed by your environment?
Do sounds seem too loud?
Are you feeling the feelings of others around you?
If so, you are certainly not alone.

Many in the spiritual community have been dealing with these feelings of energetic overwhelm for years and years but, as we approach greater and greater levels of interconnectedness on a planetary level, the symptoms of spiritual awakening are getting worse for many.

There may be spiritual components to the way you are feeling if you experience the following symptoms apart from any medical condition:

Symptoms of Spiritual Acceleration

1. Hypersensitivity to sounds
2. Increased third eye pressure
3. Unexplained tingling sensations
4. Pronounced over-sensitivity to others

....these can all be symptoms of spiritual acceleration that is occurring faster than your third-dimensional form can easily assimilate, or that is attempting to occur while you still have resistance or cellular memory that is blocking integration. Related: Where did everybody go? * More symptoms of spiritual awakening

In fact, over-sensitivity to noise and other people's energies is very common reaction to accelerated energies.

Due to increased connectedness, you may go through intense periods of acute sensitivity as you reach new levels of spiritual development on your path of awakening. Just as being on the Internet suddenly and instantly opens you to trillions of avenues of information, so does spiritual acceleration. It can feel, at times, as if you are a radio receiver and are simultaneously picking up a thousand channels at once.

As your spiritual vibration shifts, your intuitive senses and empathic channels open, causing you to be more and more aware of the feelings and thoughts of those around you. If the body system gets overwhelmed by increased sensitivities, a common physical reaction can be intense and sudden dizziness in the third eye area and hypersensitivity to noises, light, odors and energies around you. Empathic abilities increase as well. These symptoms of spiritual awakening are very, very common at certain levels of the process of developing consciousness at a higher level.

How to deal with spiritually-based hypersensitivity:

Breathe deeply, center yourself, and ask Spirit for balance. When the body is stressed, from either physical, mental or emotional challenge, very often the breathing becomes shallow. This is part of the fight or flight syndrome. Avoid it if you want to integrate the sensations faster and with more completeness.

If needed, retreat from whatever is over-stimulating you until you can integrate what is being felt. Even in situations where you feel you can't retreat, it is almost always possible to go to the bathroom, or just be silent and breathe deeply for a few minutes. Ask for what you need if others are involved. Take whatever break you can from the energies and do something to renew yourself.

Use spiritual healing tools such as crystals, aromatherapy blends of essential oils and flower essences. A dab of flower essence over the third eye can restore balance and calm as can essential oils if used with intent. Calming essential oils include chamomile and lavendar but really, any oil you find particularly soothing can provide assistance.

Muscle-test or have a kinestheologist muscle-test you if you are like me and have trouble testing yourself. If your system responds better to crystals than flower essences or oils, find someone knowledgeable in the use of specific crystals and ask for one to help with your symptoms.

The Balancing Power of Water:

Regardless of the spiritual awakening symptoms you might be experiencing, water is one of your strongest allies. Use water for balance and healing during times of hyper-sensitivity. In fact, water should be the first thing you reach for because of the inner alignment it can provide if sipped with consciousness. Applying a drop of water to your third eye area can help balance incoming energies. Hot showers are also wonderful for cleansing the aura and restoring energetic balance.

Address Anxiety, the result of fear of the unknown: One hidden cause of hypersensitivity is anxiety. If we consciously or unconsciously resist vibrational shifts, or we go into fear about them, we become anxious and causes what could have just been a very intense integration to become a hypersensitive nightmare.

Check in to see if anxiety may be a factor and, if it is, consider a natural anxiety remedy to help calm the senses until you can walk in a more grounded way with whatever new information is coming into your field. Being hyper-sensitive almost always has a component of anxiety to it, especially if we find ourselves going into fear about what is happening or about the unknown. Related article: Controlling Anxiety Through Herbs and Diet.

How intense can hypersensitivity get?

Well, sometimes I hear people talking two rooms away from me, and it feels like they are yelling in my ear. Sometimes, I can hear a Spider walking on the wall. There have been heart connections so strongly with someone in pain that I have lost all sense of my own body and felt only theirs.

When hypersensitivity response is primarily anger
there are anger management techniques that can help

So I'm not losing my mind then?

I get that question a lot from folks who are on an active spiritual path. I can't say for sure whether you are losing your mind or not (sometimes, I've pondered my own sanity) but I can say with certainty that all these symptoms can be part of a very sane but very intense spiritual acceleration and awakening process. In time, you will learn to function in this new awareness although the more you accelerate, the more intense these "hyper-sensitive" periods may temporarily become.

Spiritual Health Disclaimer: The information on symptoms of hypersensitivity that are often associated with the process of spiritual acceleration is for spiritual guidance ONLY and is not suggested as replacement for any needed mental health or physical health evaluation. Hypersensitivity can signal medical conditions including ADHD, autism, neurological disorders and other health conditions, so please consult with your chosen healthcare professional matters relating to your health and well-being. If you are experiencing the symptoms of spiritual awakening that are described here, and you know them to be of a non-physical origin, then seek whatever balancing help you need from a qualified healing facilitator.