Are you unknowingly making one of these spiritual awakening mistakes? If you’ve been feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or like your growth has hit a wall….this is for you. In this post, I’m sharing the five biggest mistakes I see people make during their spiritual awakening journey… and yes, I’ve made every single one of them myself.
This isn’t about judgment — it’s about awareness, growth, and recognizing that your awakening path doesn’t have to be so hard. Am I right?
First, Let’s Be Real: We All Make Mistakes on the Awakening Path
Here’s the truth — spiritual awakening is messy. It’s full of learning curves, ego flare-ups, healing triggers, and a whole lot of trial and error. I’m not here to preach from a pedestal. I’m here to share what I’ve lived and witnessed so you can course-correct faster.
Because let’s be honest, part of awakening is unlearning old patterns, breaking free from programming, and remembering who you truly are.
And that means… you’re going to trip up sometimes. We all do. You’re human.
So let’s get into it. Here are five of the most common spiritual awakening mistakes that might be secretly blocking your growth (and how to shift them right now).
Tune in to this week’s episode on the Podcast: Awaken & Manifest Your Best Life or follow along below.
1. Being Afraid of Your Ego
One of the most common spiritual awakening mistakes on the journey? Fearing your ego.
When we first wake up spiritually, there’s a whirlwind of emotions. Between the ascension symptoms, identity unraveling, and emotional intensity — it’s no surprise many of us start labeling the ego as “bad” or “wrong.”
We hear things like:
- “Don’t be negative.”
- “Be High Vibe Only to Ascend.”
- “The ego is the enemy and not you.”
But this kind of thinking is actually keeping you stuck.
👉 Your ego is not the enemy. Your ego is a messenger and an emotional signal. It’s here to show you where you need to heal, shift, and grow.
Instead of fearing the ego or trying to silence it, try getting curious. Ask yourself: What is this emotion trying to teach me? What is this trigger revealing?
The ego is part of your humanness. You don’t need to shame it — you need to listen to it and work with it.
💬 “Your ego is your amigo showing you what needs to shift and change.”
Related | Your Ego is Your Greatest Teacher
2. Getting Stuck in Spiritual Rules and Dogma
Another common trap? Spiritual Awakening Mistake #2 – Falling into spiritual rigidity.
I know — we wake up and start to expand beyond the old structures, only to accidentally create new ones. We go from “religion says do this” to “spirituality says only eat high-vibe food, meditate at 5 AM, and never feel low vibe.”
Here’s the thing: your spiritual practice is meant to be freeing, not restrictive.
We often crave structure at the beginning because awakening feels chaotic, but when we cling to spiritual “rules” too tightly, we’re just creating a new spiritual ego that limits you (in disguise)
Some signs you might be stuck in spiritual dogma:
- Feeling like you have to follow certain rituals “or else”
- Believing there’s only one right way to awaken
- Shaming yourself when you’re “not doing enough” spiritually
The truth? There are no rules. Spiritual awakening is an infinite exploration of self, energy, and soul. If someone tells you there’s only one right way — run.
🌀 “Never box in your spiritual practice. Your alignment is your truth — and no one can dictate that but you.”
3. Separating our Spiritual Self from Reality
The third spiritual awakening mistake that so many of us make is this deep disconnection between our spiritual self and our physical self. This one is incredibly common, and I’ve experienced it myself. You probably have too. One of the main reasons this happens is due to religious conditioning. Many of us grew up being taught that God/Source/Divinity is “out there”—somewhere distant, unreachable, separate from our everyday lives.
This belief creates a disconnect. We start our spiritual awakening journey still carrying that old paradigm, still feeling like spiritual truth exists somewhere “out there” in the higher realms, rather than within ourselves.
But the truth is: your spiritual self is not separate from your physical self.
In fact, the core of spiritual awakening is about learning to merge the two—to embody your spirituality in your everyday, human experience. Your spiritual essence lives and breathes through your daily choices, relationships, healing, and self-awareness. That’s how you create lasting transformation.
There’s a Beautiful Saying in yoga “Be Willing to take your yoga off the mat.”
We must bridge the gap between the physical self and the spiritual self to create lasting transformation. That’s what I love teaching inside The Awakened State—how to fully integrate the mystical with the practical so we’re not just chasing light, but actually living aligned.
And here’s the real gem: spiritual truth is all around you. It’s not just on your meditation pillow or in the pages of a sacred book. You can find spiritual lessons in a grocery store interaction with a random stranger, in the lyrics of a song, or heck, even in a My Little Pony episode about friendship that you watch with your toddler. That’s the magic of being conscious. When you start to see with awakened eyes, everything becomes your teacher. and I mean…everything 🤣
4. Not Doing the Inner Work
Spiritual Awakening Mistake number four is this: not doing the inner work.
This one’s huge. One of the biggest traps in the awakening journey is staying stuck in the symptoms…staying stuck in the discomfort, the pain, or the emotional heaviness without actually doing anything about it.
We resist the resistance. And then what happens? That resistance builds. It compounds. It festers until it turns into a full-blown crisis—spiritual illness, a rock bottom, a relationship breakdown, or an emotional burnout kinda situation. And suddenly, the Universe is yelling at us: “Hey! Pay attention or else! Let’s shift this.”
But you don’t have to wait until it gets that bad.
A huge mistake people make is thinking that awakening is just about riding the wave of the high vibes, but not digging into the why behind the emotional patterns, limiting beliefs, or stuck energy. But real growth comes from doing the inner work—chipping away at what’s no longer serving you so that your higher self can emerge.
That might look like chakra healing, energy clearing, shadow work, journaling, mindset shifts, or tuning into the limited beliefs that are running your life on autopilot. Inner work is how you get unstuck. It’s how you move from victim mode into empowered alignment in your life.
When something comes up—anger, fear, anxiety—it’s not there to ruin your day. It’s showing up for you. As a messenger. To teach you something. And when we start looking at those “negative” emotions as invitations instead of obstacles, that’s when everything changes.
Don’t wait for that moment. Start doing the work now. Meet your discomfort with awareness and curiosity, not judgment. That’s how you shift your energy and start to feel lighter, freer, more empowered.
5. Neglecting Your Intuition
This is one I’m never going to stop talking about. Spiritual Awakening Mistake #5 = Neglecting your Intuition.
Your intuition is your inner compass—and yet, so many spiritual seekers completely overlook it. It’s easy to get caught up in crystals, synchronicities, numerology, and sound baths (all beautiful tools!), but without tuning into your intuition, you’re missing the heart of your spiritual power.
Developing your intuition is an essential self-discovery Tool.
It helps you:
- Understand yourself on a deeper level
- Navigate aligned action
- Manifest more clearly
- Tap into your soul purpose
- Heal more efficiently
- Access your gifts
And the best part? Your intuition is always with you. It’s often the first response, the thought before the thought. Like when you just know where your keys are without even thinking about it. That’s your intuition talking.
As I’ve learned over the years, I think when it comes to knowing how to develop your intuition, it is an ever- evolving journey that gets better and better over time. But for most of us, when we first have a spiritual awakening, that’s not even on the radar when it should be at the top of the list.
Instead, it’s about crystals, synchronicity, angel numbers and sound frequency healing. However, in terms of the practical side, when we make the mistake of not working on intuition development, we hold ourselves back.
For Example:
Here’s some truths I learned since working on my intuition:
1. I’m a very visual learner = My Intuition often comes through Visions I receive as a “intuitive download”
2. I’m an energy reader & intuitive empath = I’m clairsentient. I pick up on energy, chakra imbalances, body language, auric colors, etc.
3. I’m a verbal Learner = intuitive channeler via writing
I understand my intuition better through this, by now knowing my clairvoyance works with claircognizance often coming in the form of visions, channeling and energy reading someone through clairsentience.
When I get an intuitive “download,” it shows up like a flash of an idea, illustration or colorful visual scene. Learning that has helped me develop self-trust and understand how my intuition uniquely speaks to me. Had I not spent time developing and strengthening my intuition, I probably wouldn’t have known that.
Here’s a little snapshot into what I would call my strongest intuitive gifts:
🌈 Intuitive Blueprint
Clairvoyant – Visual downloads, colors, energy imagery
Clairsentient – Empathic energy reader, body language, chakra sensing
Claircognizant – Knowings that drop in out of nowhere
Channeler – Especially strong via writing
Clairaudient – notice verbal/mental word downloads
Highly Energetic/Spiritual Empath – Able to read environments, people, intentions
Boundary-aware – I notice and honor energetic shifts (ex. black aura = warning/emotional blocks)
Do you know your Intuitive blueprint? I’d love to hear about it! Drop a comment, and Let me know.
So those are the five common spiritual awakening mistakes that I’ve seen repeatedly in the spiritual community.
I hope you can take away from this episode valuable lessons and tips on how you can start to navigate spiritual awakening in an easier way to bring you more peace of mind.
I’d love to know which one of these spiritual awakening mistakes have you been making? Maybe you made in the past, maybe you didn’t. I’d love to know which one really resonates with you. Drop me a comment and let me know!
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