Spiritual Hangover Symptoms
Sometimes called ascension symptoms
Although the Spiritual Hangover is not an illness in the usual sense, the physical effects of it are quite real. Your body is having to cope with very different energies. And these are triggering round after round of readjustment. Rather like the aftershocks of an earthquake, as things settle back into place.
A Spiritual Hangover comes from whipsawing back and forth between the familiar, "normal" and another state that is still coming into focus. These shifts are happening on the conscious and unconscious levels for almost everyone. But some people are better equipped to grow with the experience than others.
They result from a surge of fresh, high-vibration energy—which keeps getting ever faster and more intense. This site exists to help you to grow with the process. The more completely you correspond with the New Energy the less your suffering (which is made worse by resisting it).
Such shifts are disorienting. And it is nearly impossible to tell what to believe, anymore. What we've trusted without reservation has proven to be unreliable and short of answers. Try as we might, getting one's bearings seems tricky and temporary. There's small comfort in knowing this apparent craziness is evidence of growth. But it's true.
One event after another leaves us reeling. There's a lot at stake. Nothing less than one's identity, the sense of self, is being redefined. And our values and priorities must be similarly re-asessed.
Sane diagnosis is half of the cure
To recognize there's a malady (spiritual hangover) takes you a long way toward figuring out a "treatment." Suddenly, many unrelated happenings that didn't "feel right" form a picture. They're seen as related to each other—as well as something bigger than isolated events.
You're not losing your mind—or imagining things—or fussing over nothing. There really is something amiss! (Not amiss, exactly, but definitely unfamiliar and uncomfortable.)
Once you recognize these "disturbing" signs as evidence of growth, you'll respond very differently to them.
You're undergoing the time-tested process leading toward spiritual maturity. A process with its own stages and signs. What you're dealing with is not random. Others have gone through it. This admittedly uncomfortable stage is not optional or a setback. However, the speed and intensity that's happening now make the experience trickier. It's certainly more urgent!
Understand the physical and emotional symptoms, as well as what they represent in your life. You've been learning to read those unfamiliar signals. Everyone must constantly re-assess what's working and what isn't for them. To notice what's stuck and what's growing stronger. The old "givens" no longer apply. Because it's time for each of us to move beyond them. But to what?
But there are plenty of mental, emotional, and physical habits that need to be adjusted (heck, thrown overboard). And that's not easily done. Progress… setback… progress… setback… That lurching sensation is the very essence of the Spiritual Hangover.
Relief from hangover symptoms
That will come in time. Start by realizing that this disruption is a sign of progress. You're getting unstuck. More capable of responding to what life sends your way. You're gaining new powers and clarity. But those are still kind of fuzzy.
People are feeling the unfamilar influences in all sorts of different ways. And their responses to them are just as unique. What has worked in the past will cease to. What to do instead? Ah, that's the challenge that will call forth your own wisdom and creativity.