“Become an alchemist. Transmute base metal into gold, suffering into consciousness, disaster into Enlightenment.”
- ECKHART TOLLE

The Ascension Process is a natural, bio-spiritual and universal evolutionary process. During this process, radical shifts are happening at all levels of our being. As the vibrational frequency of our system increases and our awareness expands, we might experience an array of mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual symptoms. Our system is being upgraded, rebooted, recalibrated and fine-tuned to higher dimensional frequencies and realities. Old beliefs, habits, patterns, ways of being, and modes of operation, fall away as we start to embody more light and develop a more expanded awareness of who/what we are, what being human is about, and what our evolutionary function is at this time.

Since the absorption-integration-embodiment of higher light frequencies happens in waves, symptoms may come and go, and may also be experienced with extreme intensity for brief periods and then cease altogether. The ascension experience is different for everyone and symptoms may vary according to our individual degree of awareness, personal vibration, spiritual practice, individual lifestyle habits, and especially according to our soul’s unique purpose on the planet during this time of humanity’s and Earth’s Great Awakening.

There can be initial fear regarding many of these symptoms and a self-preservation urge to “make them stop”, “fix them”, and “do something/anything” to not experience them altogether, assuming we are ill or something bad is happening to us. WE ARE MUTATING. Nothing bad or wrong is happening in or to us; we are undergoing a massive bio-spiritual shift and adjusting to higher frequencies. Consciously feeling and neutrally witnessing these symptoms is a key part in developing “inner-body awareness” and a direct experiential connection with the energy flowing in and through our bodies.

The mental attitude that best supports this process is to BE NEUTRALLY PRESENT with what is happening, TRUST that your mind-body-spirit system knows what it is doing, and SURRENDER to the higher wisdom orchestrating your evolutionary transmutation. If you feel that it’s too much to handle, you can always pray and communicate with your higher guides and tell them to ease the symptoms and lessen the download intensity. Holistic healing alternatives and natural remedies are always encouraged. Being in nature, going for a walk, sleeping, taking a hot bath, and swimming in the ocean, can be very soothing, especially when symptoms are at their intensity peak.

Below is a list of common ascension symptoms. It is meant to be used as a reference point and is by no means exhaustive. PLEASE REMEMBER that these symptoms may not necessarily be due to the ascension process. Please follow your inner guidance and consult a health care professional if you feel called to do so. Ruling out medical conditions might help you ease into the different symptoms and meet them with less fear or resistance.

GENERAL SYMPTOMS

You “just feel different”. You just ‘know’ or sense intuitively that something unusual is happening to you that you just can’t seem to explain. You experience unusual thoughts, feelings, and physical sensations that can’t be described in a logical, rational way. You notice your body doesn’t respond as it did previously to physical, sexual, emotional, mental, and spiritual patterns or stimuli. You might have recurring thoughts that something is wrong with you; you feel deep inside that there has to be more to life than is immediately available; you have inner questions about life, love, sexuality, god, the universe, your life purpose, and/or what human existence is all about.

PHYSICAL SYMPTOMS

As the energy starts clearing each chakra of psychic debris, misaligned beliefs, repressed emotions, and miasmic energy, you might experience several of the following:

The physical symptoms listed below will usually occur even after any medical condition has been ruled out, and may persist even despite attempts to treat the symptoms with conventional medicine approaches.

• Sharp aches and pains in different parts of body, especially muscles, bones, joints or a specific organ; stiffness;

• muscular weakness and sagginess regardless of exercising;

• feeling “electric”, like high voltage electricity is pulsating and/or coursing through your body;

• extreme exhaustion even after good night’s sleep;

• general fatigue and tiredness, needing to take naps frequently to be able to function; periods of insomnia that can last for days;

• sharp pain in ovaries or testes; intense knot in solar plexus that feels like a rock;

• unexplained nausea;

• frequent sneezing, yawning or coughing; pressure, energy pulsations or other strange sensations in or around heart area, front and back body;

• spontaneous heart palpitations or heart “flutters”, fast heart rate or ‘racing heart’ that come and go;

• feelings similar to urinary infection without having one; heightened sensitivity to sound;

• hearing unusual sounds or strange auditory sensations;

• high pitch ringing in the ears, hearing beeps, pings, tones, frequencies, ‘whooshing’ or pulsating sounds;

• ear infections; weight fluctuations;

• periods of water retention and difficulty going to the bathroom;

• fluctuation between periods of constipation and diarrhea;

• sleep irregularities, waking up frequently between 2am and 4am;

• spotting out of menstrual cycle;

• periods of hair loss and/or thinning followed by periods of hair thickening;

• random skin itchiness;

• scalp issues such as dandruff and itching, or experiencing inflammation or a ‘heating up’ of the head or scalp;

• stomach and digestive issues, bloating, IBS, gastrointestinal problems;

• bloating or feelings of ‘heaviness’ in the stomach region, swelling in lower abdomen; pressure in the lower stomach area, or a feeling of being ‘full’ even if you haven’t eaten;

• loss of appetite;

• fluctuations from extreme thirst/hunger to no thirst/hunger and actual difficulty “taking anything in” from food to information;

• changes in eating habits and preferences;

• feeling aversion to processed foods and inclination towards natural foods;

• massive surges of sexual energy that feel orgasmic without any physical or mental stimulation;

• fluctuations in body temperature, from extreme heat and night sweats to extreme cold especially in extremities, regardless of weather;

• intense tension, pressure and/or pain in lower back, behind the heart, and/or upper back and neck;

• burning sensations along the spine;

• flu-like symptoms, especially coughing, congestion and phlegm releases;

• soreness and fatigue in the eyes, dry or itchy eyes, hazy vision;

• high visual sensitivity to light;

• changes in vision and visual perception: seeing glimpses of sparkles, flashes of light, or colors in your peripheral vision, noticing strange shadows out of the corner of your eye;

• seeing auras around people, animals or objects;

• You might notice objects or people’s faces “shapeshifting” (they seem to take on a strange appearance, change shape, and then return to normal);

• headaches and/or sharp pains and pressure in different parts of the head or entire skull area, including forehead, jaw, TBJ joint, teeth, gums, ears, eyes, sinuses;

• feeling like your head is full of air or water;

• sudden jitters, chills, tingles, or jolts;

• nervousness and hyper-sensitive nervous system with no apparent cause;

• physical clumsiness: bumping into things, lack of coordination control, dropping things more often;

• overall sense of physical heaviness and density;

• occasional bursts of physical hyperactivity and frantic “doing-doing mode”;

• physical exhaustion when talking to others.

EMOTIONAL SYMPTOMS

• Generalized extreme sensitivity and heightened emotional states; pendulum-like emotional experiences: moving from extreme dread, unworthiness, utter despair and the desire to die, to joy, lightheartedness and gratitude for being alive; intense and overwhelming fear of death;

• feeling extreme and intensified emotional reactions disproportionate to the “trigger-event”;

• frequent anxiety or panic attacks;

• uncontrollable fear and inability to “be functional” as you were before;

• oscillating from fear, to anger, to guilt, to shame in short periods of time;

• periods of feeling irritable, impatient, short-tempered, and frustrated, at self or others; feeling more empathic or sensitive to moods, mental or emotional states of people around you;

• high emotional sensitivity to evocative music or movies;

• episodes of hysterical laughter or extreme sadness and crying for no apparent reason;

• small random and meaningless events trigger an overwhelming emotional outpour;

• everything and anything seems to evoke an emotional reaction in you;

• feeling overwhelmed by the excess and intensity of emotions that don’t seem to stop;

• “emotional regression”, feeling like you’re a helpless wounded child instead of a functional adult;

• feelings of anger, disappointment and justified indignation at the world and how things are;

• sudden feelings of impersonal non-objectified cosmic love and awe towards the perfection and beauty of all creation;

• relational difficulties due to excessive and uncontrollable emotions;

• feeling excessively vulnerable and unprotected, almost as naked; constant feelings of “heartbreak” and loss;

• waves of emotional pain and grief; periods of fear and anxiety triggered by activities that used to be “normal” for you;

• feelings of sexual anxiety or extreme emotions of anger or sadness during sexual intercourse;

• aversion to crowded places, concerts, malls, games, because they feel psychically overwhelming and energetically and emotionally draining.

MENTAL SYMPTOMS

• You might feel and think that you’re going crazy, literally “loosing your mind” and these thoughts can create panic attacks and an overwhelming sense of disempowerment, as if you are loosing control over your life, body and mind;

• feeling your whole life is crumbling down and you can’t do anything to stop it;

• what used to be “fun” or “exciting” no longer holds its appeal;

• feeling withdrawn from “the world”, nothing seems exciting, fulfilling or nurturing as it used to;

• feeling the need to be alone for extended periods of time;

• becoming a hermit, wanting more time spent in self reflection and introspection;

• strong need to be in your own space, “nest”, or “sanctuary”;

• finding comfort in your inner world; feeling “socially clumsy”, like you are no longer socially savvy as you used to be and suddenly feel extremely self-conscious and relationally impaired;

• your general outlook on life, or the ‘reality’ you’re accustomed to experiencing might start to change abruptly or drastically: you might feel the need to leave jobs, relationships, housing situations, domicile;

• You may begin perceiving things in a profoundly different way than you have in the past;

• “mental depression”, a mental space of not feeling inspired, motivated or passionate about absolutely anything of this world;

• scattered thinking; racing or scattered thoughts;

• lots of thoughts simultaneously and not knowing which one to follow;

• mind feels a room full of people shouting at you at the same time, giving you different instructions about what to do; moving from mental hyper-activity and accelerated mental energy to mental freeze and mental paralysis;

• frantic mental energy that moves your body into different actions simultaneously;

• being easily distracted when listening to audio speech, or when someone is talking, often because your mind is racing with other associated thoughts or visuals;

• periods where words seem to lose their meaning or don’t make sense in the same way they used to;

• jumbled thoughts or trouble comprehending things;

• difficulty processing what other people are saying, you hear their words but can’t process them in your mind;

• periods of excessive talking, or over-explaining details;

• a sudden sometimes disorienting and confusing massive influx of thoughts, feelings, visuals or words that seem to flow out of you unexpectedly in response to something or someone, sometimes at an extremely rapid pace;

• sometimes you have little or nothing to say and your mind goes completely ‘blank’;

• feeling tongue-tied or at a loss for words; catastrophic thinking, feeling something really bad is going to happen and you must prevent it or prepare yourself by anticipating the negative event;

• mental hypervigilance;

• mind racing from past to future incessantly;

• nervous breakdowns;

• feeling like too many “negative” events happening all at once and you can’t handle it;

• feeling like everything is spiraling out of control and your life is falling apart; experiencing the ‘Dark Night of the Soul’: long periods of mental, emotional and spiritual darkness, feeling disconnected from god-source and the luminous part of existence;

• feeling you’re trapped in the underworld and others are living life fully and you’re stuck in darkness;

• unusual, intense or wild dreams or visions that can be pleasant or frightening; vivid dreams, lucid dreaming, astral projections and out-of-body experiences; reoccurring dream themes; precognitive dreams, dreams about time travel or ‘other worlds’ or being “out in the universe”;

• increased psychic awareness and sensitivity;

• increase in clairvoyance, clairaudience, clairsentience and other extra-sensory abilities;

• flashes of insight and inspiration with difficulty to translate into action; frequent daydreams, visualizing or fantasizing;

• empty-mind fixed gaze for brief periods;

• experiencing time differently, sometimes faster, sometimes slower, sometimes deeper, sometimes shallower;

• rushed and urged sense that ‘time is running out’ and ‘I didn’t accomplish what I should have’;

• experiencing a sense of urgency, inner rush and constant pressure “to do something”;

• wanting to withdraw from family, friends, or the world in general;

• not being able to relate to certain things, people, activities the same way as before; constantly living in “the pendular mind”: moving from spiritual and intellectual superiority to inferiority, from worthiness to unworthiness, from being useful to being useless, from being above others to being below, etc.

SPIRITUAL SYMPTOMS

• Experiencing life with greater detachment, as if “watching a movie”;

• looking out at your environment and feeling as if you are experiencing a dream world or alternate reality;

• experiencing the external world as being ‘unreal’;

• things seem ‘fake’, out of place, distorted or unusual;

• feeling like you are in a daze or a trance;

• feeling, disoriented, confused, spacey or ungrounded;

• feeling detached, withdrawn or isolated;

• feeling as if you’re invisible to others;

• feeling you don’t belong to your family, to your groups of friends, to your city, or to this planet;

• feeling you are a total stranger, that you’re not from planet Earth but from some other place in the Universe;

• feeling like you speak a different language than those around you and they cannot understand what you say;

• strong deep urge to “go back home” that can sometimes be experienced as a desire to commit suicide, but it is not coming out from a place of pain, defensive escapism, desperate emotions-driven impulse, but rather from a deep and quiet longing to “leave this place” (home, family, planet) and/or to “return to where I’m from”;

• a strong feeling that you are lost and “don’t know who you are”;

• a strange feeling of being someone different than who you thought and felt you were before, and a strong desire to “find your true self”;

• experiencing the ongoing dissolution of ego (personal mental concepts, identities, and images of self, old belief systems and programs);

• feeling disassociated, scattered or fragmented and desiring to feel complete;

• experiencing yourself as “not free” and feeling a deep thirst for freedom and authenticity;

• feeling a deep urge for self-expression, like if something is stuck inside of you that wants to come out to the world but can’t;

• feeling connected to nature and animals like never before;

• an increased sensitivity to plants, trees, flowers;

• a deep understanding and appreciation of nature and animals, and more natural or serene environments;

• an overwhelming desire to be in nature or live around more natural and serene environments;

• feeling charged and energized by Nature, it brings you peace of mind, expands your heart and makes you feel “at home”;

• sudden changes in job/career, friends, passions, interests, or living environments, and/or feelings of wanting to relocate;

• being drawn to a particular geographical location;

• desire to travel, adventure and pilgrimage;

• desire for a profound change in your life;

• a thirst for deeper meaning; chance encounters with unusual people;

• people entering your life in synchronistic ways who may change your life in meaningful ways;

• awareness of increased synchronicities;

• noticing numeric, geometric or other patters randomly popping up repeatedly (such as 11:11, 222, 333, 444, 555);

• sporadic waves of divine and unconditional love;

• moments of deep gratitude and appreciation for life;

• increased peace, clarity, understanding and compassion;

• profound revelations and insights;

• deep awareness of the interconnected nature of everything; experiencing greater connectedness, especially with nature, animals, the Universe, God/Spirit/Source, Totality;

• encounters with angelic and cosmic beings;

• awareness of the presence of non-physical entities or energies;

• having ongoing intuitive downloads and an almost-physiological need to write them down;

• naturally drawn to journaling and writing;

• intensified interest in spiritual, shamanic, metaphysical, alchemical, astrological, astrophysical, numerological, geomantic, or other energy-related subjects and information;

• feeling greater connection to the stars and the universe;

• greater interest in the journey of self-discovery and reconnection to Source;

• longing to find your purpose of life within the greater cosmic unfoldment.