Are you waking up or in a psychosis?

To someone who hasn’t experienced any differing state of consciousness aside from daily routines and life, waking up and psychosis may appear the same. 

Waking up is a process of returning to presence in your natural form. The general steps that are involved don’t play out in the way your analytical mind thinks it will. Every person experiences it in their own way, it’s a deep and personal reflection of the way they were raised, their environment, culture, schooling, friends and family habits, social norms and governing systems. 

There are so many different aspects that we don’t recognise as programming. Things we do out of expectation and habit. So when we begin to expand our perspectives and go through a very natural process of self discovery and evolution, we begin to notice ourselves and what has made us. 

Psychosis is when someone gets lost along the way and becomes fixated on one form of reality. Getting lost in an illusion. Dictionary definition of psychosis is ‘a severe mental disorder in which thought and emotions are so impaired that contact is lost with external reality.’

This doesn’t have to be permanent and you can make the connection back to yourself. Some may say we are all in a form of psychosis until we pull ourselves out. Getting stuck in one aspect or way of thinking and being. Experiencing lack of perspective and honing in on one reality. 

Psychosis can appear fanatical, with the person fixated on one idea. Unable to see any other perspectives, experiencing a limited view.

This is someone missing the forest for the trees. This means you’re so focused on the trees in front of you, that you miss the far bigger picture of the forest itself. And all the experiences and alternative perspectives it represents. Sometimes a friend will be there to reveal that you’ve been limiting your awareness to the trees.

Waking up can be hard because of the programming and whatever beginning state we’re in. We are presented with the way it appears to be without any concept that it is man made and not in natural form of this world. Lack of observation and awareness has resulted in us thinking we are the Gods and Goddess of this world and we own it, therefore can act however we want without any consequences. 

Maybe we are the children and as we appear to grow old we are still children. It’s not necessarily about finding your inner child, its acknowledging that we are children. Learning how to be and how to grow with ourselves and each other. Remembering our potential to create and the power that resides in each one of us. Growing into it and stepping up to acknowledge the responsibility that comes with it. 

Psychosis happens when we lack the willingness for an idea, concept, or reality to die. 

Awakening happens when we find the grace within ourselves to give up everything we believe to be true. Letting it float away. Allowing for new truths to emerge naturally.

We are all falling back into ourselves, even if it doesn’t appear to be like that from the outside. 

Each person is working with themselves and the Earth. This is a period when each person is fleshing out all parts of themselves that are keeping them in separation.

So it may look like the world is in a terrible state but that’s what is playing out behind the scenes in most of the collective consciousness. The separation of the self is what is being addressed and explored. And we are doing it with a planet of unconditional love. We are safe and supported in our journey of self discovery.