Spiritual practices are not an end in themselves.
People turn to spiritual practices after a series of painful lessons, when an inner impulse and a need to radically change their life, once and for all, arises.
Or as a natural stage of personal development, when you are searching for an answer to the question about the meaning of life and your purpose.
But few people are informed about the consequences of spiritual development and where it will ultimately lead.
Today we will focus on two components — the physiological and energetic changes in life resulting from the application of spiritual practices.
Spiritual Practices Consequences: Physiological Changes
Changes in Sleep and Wakefulness Rhythms
The more time you dedicate to your spiritual development, the more important the periods and quality of your rest become to you.
During rest, you not only restore your strength, but also synchronize with the new skills and abilities that are being revealed to you (we will elaborate on this in the 2nd part of this series of materials).
You transition to a new sleep system, which Steve Rother called the “sleep triad”: you sleep for 3 hours, then wake up, can spend about 2 hours in a waking state, and then fall asleep again.
At the same time, you do not feel tired or sleep-deprived.
Notably, during this period of nighttime wakefulness, you are in a state of expanded consciousness, at the so-called alpha frequency, characteristic of meditative practices and deep relaxation.
This means your right and left hemispheres work synchronously, opening you up to new realizations and creating a field of expanded creation, where all your ideas manifest in material form more quickly.
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Restructuring of the Nervous System
One of the most common symptoms practitioners encounter.
The perception of energies, willful concentration on chakras, the inner world, and subconscious images re-engages the nervous system and changes habitual brain frequencies.
At the same time, new neural connections are built, and previously dormant areas of the brain are activated. This places additional strain on the body.
This manifests as the appearance of certain strange symptoms, for example, unexpected tactile sensations, “heating” or “cooling” in specific parts of the body, goosebumps, and mild trembling.
Sometimes your perception of body weight or volume will change, sometimes your spatial orientation coordinates will be off, and strange muscle tension or relaxation will appear.
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You are here to transmit the vibration of a new frequency — to people (through spoken words) and into the earth (through your feet). Side symptoms may appear as dizziness, high/low blood pressure, physical fatigue of the body (from an excess of energy).
You may notice that your emotional reactions to previous stimuli have changed. The perception of colors, sounds, and smells usually becomes brighter. Dreams, as a rule, become more colorful and rich in sensation.
Recommendations: Help your nervous system by taking vitamins.
Magnesium and B vitamins are especially important (for nerve impulse transmission, relieving tension, and stress resistance).
Also, iron, calcium, potassium, iodine, and vitamin A have a beneficial effect on nerve cells. You can look for foods containing these substances or take optimized vitamin complexes.
Changing Your Diet
1) Increasing Your Daily Intake of Pure Water
Shortly after starting regular spiritual practices, you will find that you begin to consume much more pure drinking water: from a few glasses a day to 3-6 liters per day.
Benefits: Pure water helps conduct energy in the body, improves metabolism, flushes out harmful substances and toxins, and also supports the proper functioning of the nervous system.
Tea, coffee, juices, and any other liquids are not an equivalent substitute for drinking water. So don’t be surprised if, after a glass of freshly squeezed juice, you feel the urge to drink some pure water as well…
Recommendations:
- Drink a glass of water immediately after waking up to eliminate the body’s dehydration during sleep.
- Be sure to take a bottle of water with you on a walk; a 2-3 hour break from drinking water will cause increased discomfort in the body and dry mouth, as if you had spent that time in a hot desert.
- Drink water not during/after meals, but about 30-10 minutes before eating.
- Charge your water with positive energy.
To do this, you can place a corresponding Masaru Emoto crystal under the container of water, or put shungite or a silver spoon directly into the water.
2) Giving Up “Heavy” Food in Favor of Vegetables and Fruits
Your body has a bodily intelligence that tells you which food will serve your highest good at any given moment. You just need to listen to your body’s cues.
Instead of “forcing” your body with yet another diet or fast, ask your body what it wants right now.
There will be periods when you voluntarily give up heavy meat-based food in favor of fresh vegetables and fruits.
This doesn’t mean that everyone who engages in spiritual practices must become a vegetarian or raw foodist… No.
But you will learn to HEAR your body’s needs, sensitively responding to signals about whether you need to ground yourself and eat something more substantial, or conversely, switch to a lighter, vitamin-rich diet.
3) Intolerance to Dyes, Food Additives, and Preservatives
Many people are familiar with well-known publications about the harm of food additives and preservatives, so before buying products, they carefully read what is written on the labels and use this as their guide when choosing food.
A moment will come when there will be no need for this. Because your body itself will react to the composition of a product and will tell you how beneficial it will be for you personally.
A simple example: you start eating ice cream and feel as if you’ve taken a mouthful of sand, because the ice cream is powdered with flavorings and colorings.
In my time, from a huge selection of cakes and pastries, I had to keep only honey cakes and those with cream made from natural sour cream. Everything else literally squeaked on my teeth.
Fortunately, the period of heightened pickiness doesn’t last long: as soon as you learn to identify harmful and beneficial foods for yourself, the negative manifestations gradually disappear… you simply aren’t drawn to buy what your body can’t handle on its own.
And yes, the list of food products attractive to you will shrink to a minimum. Even with today’s variety?!
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Increasing Sensitivity and Sensibility
In the process of spiritual development, heightened sensitivity will affect not only food and water.
Your skin, like litmus paper, will begin to react more sharply to any changes in the environment.
The principle remains the same — away with unnatural components and additives.
Here are a few examples:
Water procedures. When the hardness of the water changes or chemical additives are used to purify it, your skin will immediately react with increased dryness and irritation, and will start to peel and itch.
A special area of attention — swimming pools and bathhouses that use chlorination for water purification. You swim once, and then you’ll spend a long time restoring your body’s usual skin softness.
Synthetic materials in clothing. For me, it all started with tights — you put on tights and feel as if your legs are squeezed as if in a vice. Following this, I had to give up trendy synthetic materials (including lace) for underwear.
If you want to feel comfortable in your clothes, you’d better take care of 100% cotton or wool.
Everything that directly touches your skin must be NATURAL!
Face and body care products. A whole other story… which will require maximum attention and time to select high-quality moisturizing and nourishing substances that YOUR SKIN will ACCEPT.
How much this will cost your wallet — we’ll keep quiet about that )). However, you can learn to make eco-friendly cosmetics based on natural oils and fats, plant petals, coffee, etc.
Weight Changes
The spiritual energy entering your body can cause weight fluctuations, most often — a sharp gain in mass. Regular physical exercise in sufficient amounts is necessary.
Read more about this here: How Spiritual Practices and Excess Weight Are Connected.
Human bodies tend to try to cope with the descent of spirit energy by becoming larger, to accommodate the spiritual mass entering them.
Spiritual Practices Consequences: Changes at the Level of the Energy System
In the process of spiritual development, the functioning of a person’s entire energy system changes.
As a result of working through energy blocks and eliminating “leaks” of energy into negative experiences, feelings of separation, fears, and doubts, a huge amount of energy is released.
Moreover, you build the vertical axis of Cosmos — Heart — Center of the Earth, becoming a pure conductor of cosmic energy through your body into the earth.
Most Common Manifestations of an Energy Surge
1) Insomnia
Such an amount of free energy is unusual for your body, and it needs time to adapt to the new level of energetic fullness.
If you sleep only 5-6 hours and then feel full of strength and energy, stop thinking something is wrong with you.
Give yourself time for integration and balancing.
2) Memory Disruption
A restructuring of brain function is taking place; new sympathetic pathways are being built that transmit impulses to nerve cells and synchronize the left (analytical) and right (creative) hemispheres of the brain.
At times, you may feel like you’ve lost your memory, there’s fog in your head, and the simplest mental activity causes headaches and irritation.
In the end, you will gain greater clarity and precision. You will begin to see the bigger picture as a whole. The mind will become calmer, and the inner dialogue will fall silent without any effort on your part.
The main thing is to trust the process happening and not exhaust yourself with excessive doubt and worry.
3) Cell Mutation
You are all familiar with the manifestations of “spiritual” flu:
- elevated body temperature, although the thermometer shows everything is normal,
- painful sensations when something is drawn across bare skin,
- the body feels like it’s melting and aching, including in the joints,
- increased heart rate and general weakness,
- pressure on the temples or sharp, pulsing pain in them.
Everything listed above resembles symptoms of a very high fever…
But from a medical point of view, you are completely healthy — your spiritual transformation is changing your cellular structure so that your cells can hold more light and energy.
I call this “cell mutation”. A very accurate metaphor, in my opinion.
4) Energy Sensitivity
A side effect of spiritual practices is increased sensitivity to various energies.
Just by looking at a person, you can determine their mood, whether they are trustworthy, and whether you want to deal with them.
You can immediately see a person’s type of thinking — whether they have a positive or negative outlook on the world.
Whether they are sick or healthy, full of energy and strength, or drained. This is undoubtedly one of the benefits of spiritual practices.
- On the other hand, heightened sensitivity creates difficulties in distinguishing where your thoughts and emotions end and someone else’s begin.
- You easily read a person’s energy, but you often mistake someone else’s state for your own.
- You find it difficult to be in crowded places (large supermarkets, concerts, public festivals) because you get tired quickly and feel drained.
In such cases, it is necessary to remember energy protection techniques.
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Let’s summarize what has been said above:
If you have started noticing strange changes in your body and behavior, unusual physical sensations, dizziness, changes in sleep or eating patterns, don’t worry.
Everything that is happening to you is a symptom accompanying spiritual growth. Or — it arises as a kind of spiritual resistance in response to the raising of your vibrations.
You shouldn’t be afraid of them — you just need to study them, and know how you can help yourself in each specific case. These are natural processes.
In the next article, we will take a detailed look at the spiritual gifts and abilities that come to you as a result of focused spiritual development.