The Dark Nights Of The Soul

What are dark nights of the soul?

Why are so many experiencing it during these times?

Why do they continue to occur?

A dark night of the soul is a time where we undergo a tremendous personal turmoil.

When we experience a dark night of the soul,

It isn't literally one day,

As we may hope.

It can last days,

Months,

Years even.

There are many factors contributing to the length and intensity.

How do you differentiate what a dark night of the soul is?

Is it a stressful time in your life?

Or is it something more?

A dark night of the soul refers to an intensified challenge in your life.

One that consumes your mind,

Time and emotions.

There is often a feeling of drowning in that particular issue.

It may be a relationship challenge,

Or one with money or career.

It could be a health issue.

Whatever the experience,

The inner experience is usually the same.

A feeling of powerlessness.

The purpose of a dark night of the soul is to meet your inner night.

Your inner darkness.

Your inner darkness is that which has not been blessed by the light of your awareness.

It isn't a bad or negative part of you.

It is out of reach of your conscious awareness.

It is essentially the parts of you that need healing.

As you do this,

You bring more light into your being.

Your dark transforms into more light.

Here compassion is a natural by-product of this process.

As you feel it inward and outward towards others,

You spiritually grow.

Perhaps the key here is that you are empowering yourself.

Powerlessness into empowerment.

Every experience offers transformation,

Insight,

Awareness.

Difficult challenges in life offer unparalleled growth opportunities.

A dark night of the soul's purpose is to destabilise your reality.

To rock it to its very core.

At the base level of your reality is your belief system.

And this is what is being targeted.

Most people will hold onto their most rigid core beliefs religiously.

This is what causes us the most pain.

Surrendering what is not working or examining what is being challenged in an open way allows for growth.

New ideas,

New beliefs and a new reality.

How we meet our challenges defines our experiences.

If we see the hurdles in life as unbeatable obstacles,

They will always be that.

It is easier to drop into an idea we cannot handle things in life than to believe we can overcome them.

This idea of being powerless generates more powerlessness.

It is a catch-22 scenario.

The more we believe we cannot handle things,

The more we will not be able to handle it.

What is happening beneath the surface is we are perpetuating a state of victim consciousness.

Understanding victim consciousness is crucial to manoeuvring through the dark night of the soul.

My own journey with 15 years of depression gave me a deep insight into how easy it is to be seduced by victim consciousness.

When we view the obstacles in our life through the lens of why me,

We turn towards blame.

Blame of self,

Of others,

Of the world,

Of God,

Of the universe.

Essentially we fall deeper down the well of our own darkness.

It is a never-ending spiral downwards in a seemingly impossible situation.

With no hope,

No solution and no way out.

The way out is the way through.

Meeting our obstacles as well as seeing them as challenges is one of the first tenets to healing.

It says,

This is here because it is here to teach me something.

It doesn't mean I need to like it.

It does however mean that I need to face it.

Here I own my reality.

Owning our reality puts us back in the driving seat of our own healing and transformation.

It is also the antithesis of victim consciousness.

To own your reality is a sacred statement.

It says,

I understand that everything in my life is a creation,

A manifestation,

An experience that is of higher design,

Of my design.

I may not understand why I am experiencing it,

Yet I will take ownership and responsibility for dealing with it,

For transforming it,

For changing who I am in order to change the experience.

This is the alchemy.

It transforms lead into gold,

Density into higher vibratory wisdom and love.

You may feel the empowerment swell within you as you hear those words,

Because it is reclaiming your sovereign power.

The greater the dark knight of the soul,

The greater the potential for transformation.

Think of an elastic band.

The more you pull back,

The further it goes.

The deeper you go into your dark,

The more potential you will have to fill this with light,

The more powerful the alchemy.

This doesn't mean we need dark knights of the soul to grow.

There are many ways to grow.

Yet many souls are choosing dark knights of the soul to grow because they are accelerants.

They provide great initiations.

It is the initiation that provides the fertile ground for rapid spiritual transformation.

Once we are through it,

Is it over?

Why are there more dark knights of the soul during these times?

There are indeed more challengers that are presenting themselves to individuals during these times,

Because change itself is accelerating.

It is accelerating in part because more souls are choosing change.

This shifts the motion in mass consciousness,

Which everyone is interconnected with.

It is also reflective of these times,

The prophesied times of the great awakening.

I have had many,

Many dark knights of the soul.

Some so intense,

I never thought I'd find a way out.

And this is even after my depression.

In fact,

Along the spiritual path,

The dark knights seem relentless.

Yet on some level,

I know I have chosen this path to grow.

This means the universe has listened and is offering me this way to do so.

The deeper challenges that are presented to you are done so because you are expanding and growing at deeper levels.

You can handle more,

Therefore you will be presented with more.

They may feel even more intense and difficult to handle.

You are in fact training yourself to awaken more power,

More light,

More love,

More compassion.

This is also referred to as a purification process,

Purifying the mind,

Body,

Heart and soul with light and loving awareness.

Or it is referred to as the ascension process.

Many external elements will intensify this further.

Social issues,

Interpersonal themes,

Astrological alignments.

From one perspective it may seem like chaos.

From another perspective,

It is a carefully constructed higher design.

It is love birthing through the soil,

Or the soul.

So how do we face our dark knight of the soul?

We live in times where there are many,

Many ways to do this.

Above all,

What is key is consistency,

As this creates a snowball effect.

It is unlikely you will see the effect immediately,

Or even shortly after.

It happens along the journey as you keep committing to your development and growth,

And I always suggest absorbing as much positive healing work as possible.

There is a cumulative effect here of reprogramming your subconscious and belief system,

As well as energetically raising your vibration.

It is also important to understand what you are experiencing,

To be able to move through the themes,

To understand why you even need to face them,

To understand your own resistances and to challenge your own thinking.

I have many prayers,

Meditations and courses to help you raise your vibration,

Reprogram your subconscious and belief systems and take you into deep healing experiences.

Please explore the library on my Insight Timer profile,

Linked in this description.

Above all,

We are asked to take action in our lives to anchor the change.

This is action to change ourselves,

Our environment,

Our beliefs,

Whatever is being asked to be changed.

Taking action to change embodies the notion we are owning our reality and reaching for this new reality.

Dark nights of the soul can happen at key points in our journey.

They represent a shift upwards.

They rock our world,

Shaking the very foundations of what we have built.

Our reality is built by our belief systems.

To shift our reality,

We need to shift our belief systems.

Dark nights of the soul challenge us to challenge ourselves,

So we can release an old identity,

No longer working for us,

And open up to a new one.

Following dark nights,

We often have epiphanies.

We see the world very differently.

We upgrade our sense of well-being,

Worth,

Nature and reality.

And this takes us into a higher and higher playground of experience.

Blessings on your journey.

Namaste.