One of the common signs of spiritual awakening or the opening to a new level, is the feeling of electricity in the hair, or the feeling that spirits are gently touching or moving your hair.

Lately, I’ve been having this sensation for about a month, along with some other big sleep changes (waking up every night in the Amrit Vela, and writing and meditating for several hours while the house sleeps).

There are others signs too, in addition to the crown chakra, and the waking every night. There is a kind of manic creativity, not just an urge to write and create, but a new sustained energy and clarity that allows or permits or even demands that the information come through me.

I have been through these passages before; I recognize the signs. When we are opening, we always open bigger than the last time; we walk through bigger doors of understanding.

It gets harder to be in the regular world, after walking through a few of these doors!

If you are experiencing these signs of spiritual awakening, relax, breathe and don’t worry. You’re fully supported by the Universe.

After all, this is your life destiny as soul: awakening to further conciousness. 

There’s a lot of talk about going the distance: setting your own personal records, being your best self, making the grade, and so forth.

I think this is all very important, with one distinction: you want to make sure you’re pushing your own edge, not an edge that someone else chose for you.

Someone else’s edge might be starting a company, or writing a book, or running a marathon, or traveling the world. Your edge might be any of those, but it also might be entirely, completely different.

Maybe for you, these aren’t edges.

Maybe your edge is needing to learn a language fluently, or do a photography project, or volunteer at a charity.

It’s not important that you do what every one else is doing.

What’s important, is seeing what fascinates you in this world: the strange, the unusual, the geeky, the unpopular, the odd, the fascinating.

If there’s something that you find so fascinating and interesting that you can’t imagine not doing it, or you can’t imagine being bored with it, that’s your edge.

Push that. 

A false positive is something that looks positive at first glance, but later turns out to be not positive at all.

For example, you might know someone who’s always talking about Love & Light, or who is always speaking positively, even when things are going very badly. Or maybe you know someone who’s always using positive affirmations, or using positivity as a method of manifesting.

It’s not that positivity is bad.
It’s just that being real is better.

When we allow our feelings to be what they are, even when we’d really prefer to not look at that yucky, swirling mess of chaos and confusion... Well, allowing of discomfort as a real response, is much better than showing up as false positive.

Our real feelings, that feels that are hidden under false positives, will always lead us in the right direction.

Learning to show up to what's real is a hard task; it's hard to look at our true feelings, because they often show us a view that we’d rather not see. For example: maybe we're positive about our work in public, but underneath it we’re angry at how little we're being paid. Maybe we're positive about our relationship in public, but our stomach hurts whenever we're with our partner. Maybe we're positive about a health condition, but underneath we're really afraid. 

We all have our stuff, underneath it all. 

If you can resist the urge to be positive, and instead walk the hero's path of looking at what is, you will begin to uncover what is really going on. In this way, you can do your inner work more quickly and more completely. 

There are many practices that use sound therapy to raise vibration and create resonance and healing in the body. Different frequencies from instruments such as crystal bowls, singing bowls and so forth, are very effective.

However, all music shifts vibration, and this can be up... or down. 

When we understand the power of music to raise us up or take us down, open us to Light or send us to dark, we begin to listen more carefully.

Any kind of music that creates chaos, a sense of violence or a sense of fear, whether this is rap, heavy metal, angry rock, classical music that is imperialistic, military or propaganda based; all of this is designed to have our minds attach to the music, and not be able to leave it. 

In this way, low vibration music can be used for mind control: it is a way of taking the looping mind, and having the mind attach to the music. This of course is why this kind of music: loud pounding beats at sports arenas or military parades or shopping malls or clubs, is so effective at controlling group thought.

However, we can also choose music that allows the mind to relax, that creates a spaciousness in the body, that creates states of high holy, bliss, Flow, euphoria. 

The dark, or the light. Choose carefully, what you listen to. 

There is more to music that we can yet understand. Its power to shift us is clear. 

We often think that meditation or trance or breathing techniques are what lift vibration fastest, but these aren’t the only ways.

Whenever we move rhythmically, or through space, or against gravity, we quickly shift into Nowness. 

You can be fully in Now and not awake, such as running while thinking thoughts of self loathing or listening to angry rock anthems, for example. But if you have compassion for yourself, when you enter into high vibration through movement, you experience Nowness in your body.

This is pure delight for the soul!

Not just to use the body, but to delight in it, to enjoy it! Your vibration both soars and grounds, and you experience euphoria as an embodied state.

When we move rhymthcially, such as walking, running, rowing, dancing, our bodies entrain to that rhythm and this takes us into trance.

When we move through space, such as skiing, surfing, hiking, our bodies orient to no orientation, and this takes us into trance.

When we push against gravity, such as weight lifting or Cross Fit, our body says "Here I am!" and this gives the mind a break for a while; our body exists in Nowness, and we enter a high vibration state that is also trance.

If you are having trouble with a sitting mediation, try exercise: anything vigorous will do. Better yet, do both, as part of your daily practice: moving meditation, and sitting meditation. Say "Here I am" in all ways.

A lot of empaths are addicts.

By addicts, I don’t necessarily mean alcohol, recreational drugs and prescription drugs, although these are of course common. It could be anything: running, yoga, exercise, porn, sex, shopping, food, the need to be busy, the need for drama.

As an empath, you feel everything, and there’s no way to stop this sensitivity: it’s just who you are. All the feelings and emotions of other people and all other Universes of energy, plants, objects, places and so forth, are always arriving to you. And so, one of the ways to temporarily stop this information from permeating your Self, is to distract yourself with an addiction.

Alcohol or drugs or food, for example, shift your vibration higher or lower, depending on the substance. This takes you out of empath mode, into a mode where you’re not as aware. With addictions that are exercise based, as another example, exertion releases endorphins that bring euphoria, which again takes us away from feeling all the world’s pain.

Now, exercise is a great tool for empaths, but when we start to use it too much, it becomes a distraction, just like anything else. For many empaths, meditation can also be a distraction: we go into bliss state, and we never want to come back out!

If you are an empath using habits as distraction, or as a way to lift you from the pain of everything, consider that there is another way. 

Instead of numbing, you can open. 
Instead of blocking, you can surrender.

In other words, you can use your empathic nature to open to everything. It is a different approach, and it is scary at first. 

But when you open to love, Oneness and yourself as soul, your experience changes.