Don’t Shame It—Name It: Normalizing Ascension Symptoms

If you’ve ever felt like you were losing your mind during a spiritual awakening—overwhelmed by synchronicities, flooded with emotions, or slammed by physical symptoms that doctors can’t explain—this blog is for you. Don’t Shame It—Name It is a deep dive into the misunderstood world of Ascension Symptoms: what they are, why they happen, and how to navigate them without being dismissed, drugged, or spiritually gaslit. This is your quick guide to reclaiming power, grounding in your body, and discovering that you’re not broken—you’re evolving.

You’re not broken. You’re birthing a new consciousness.

There’s a reason why your body is reacting like it’s on fire. Why you’re seeing signs everywhere. Why time feels like a mess of déjà vu and your emotions are swinging wildly between bliss and dread. And yet, when you try to explain it to anyone else, their face tightens with confusion—or worse, concern.

Welcome to Ascension Symptoms.

Not the kind of “symptoms” a doctor will validate. Not the kind of experience a psychiatrist will recognize as sacred. But real, visceral, and world-shaking nonetheless.

This blog is a reclamation. A naming. A spiritual anchor for the ones who've been quietly spiraling, wondering: Am I going crazy?

You’re not.

You’re just waking up.

What Are Ascension Symptoms?

Ascension Symptoms are physical, emotional, psychological, and energetic experiences that occur as your consciousness shifts into higher frequencies. In other words: your body and psyche are trying to catch up with your spirit.

As Starlite explains:

“When you’re going through ascension symptoms, there’s a wide range of them, and if you don’t know what’s happening, it can be even scarier… You’re just experiencing the transformation in your awareness, but the things that you’re perceiving aren’t reflective of the physical reality, so they’re happening in your head…”

Ascension doesn’t feel like enlightenment. It feels like pressure. Like chaos. Like disorientation, grief, and even pain.

Symptoms can include:

• Intense fatigue or insomnia

• Anxiety, paranoia, or intrusive thoughts

• Sensitivity to light, sound, people, or even food

• Mood swings, weeping spells, or emotional purging

• Physical issues like inflammation, body aches, fever, or hormonal changes

• Dissociation from time, space, or “reality”

• Psychic phenomena or overwhelming synchronicities

• Sudden existential awareness or identity dissolution

“For me, there were synchronicities that were compounding so quickly that I couldn’t tell whether I was creating them or if I was predicting them. It bent the linearity of time so much… causality kind of is lost.”

In spiritual terms, your kundalini is rising—that snake-like energy of awakening that wraps around the spine and activates each chakra, each layer of selfhood, burning through illusions as it goes.

Why Modern Culture Can't Handle This

The dominant medical and psychological institutions aren’t built to hold spiritual phenomenon. They pathologize it. And worse—they shame it.

“If you go to an American modern psychologist, they’re just going to think you’re bat-shit. They’re going to go, ‘Yeah, you need to go to a mental ward’… And ninety-nine out of a hundred times, that’s not going to be what helps heal you.” -Vesuvius the Dreamweaver

Most professionals weren’t trained to differentiate between a spiritual emergency and a mental breakdown. There’s no space for the initiate in Western mental health models. No language for the body-spirit feedback loop. No framework for gnosis, shadow integration, or psycho-spiritual thresholds.

So you get sedated. Misdiagnosed. Told to “calm down” or “take a break.” But that won’t help when your soul is trying to erupt through centuries of conditioning and karmic contracts.

The Real Cause: You’re Expanding

Ascension Symptoms are not a flaw in your system. They’re the system rebooting. They occur when your energetic body is recalibrating to a higher frequency—breaking down old constructs of identity, trauma, perception, and time.

“As you’re awakening your consciousness and expanding it, you’re also beginning to integrate the shadow. And as you integrate the shadow, you’re going to come through resistance… The ego is going to bunker down and try and stop you.”

That resistance—when not guided properly—becomes suffering. The harder you fight the integration process, the more inflamed your body and psyche become. What looks like anxiety or dissociation might actually be your soul trying to liberate itself from psychic density.

The Role of the Nervous System

Here’s where embodiment becomes non-negotiable.

“The nervous system—that’s the thing that’s creating your experience of bliss or depression. It’s all there. The neurochemistry, all that stuff. So there’s already stuff happening to you.”

Ascension symptoms pass through the nervous system like electricity looking for a conductor. If your system isn’t prepared, the voltage can fry your circuits—emotionally and physically.

This is why people end up abandoning their bodies:

• They dissociate.

• They can’t regulate.

• They become addicted to “escape” in the form of spiritual bypassing.
  

But here’s the hard truth: You can’t bypass embodiment. The body is where spirit speaks. The nervous system is the interface between your higher self and the human experience.

“If you’re escaping the body, you’re not awakening—you’re dissociating.”

From Shame to Sovereignty: Name It

Naming the phenomenon is the first act of power. Because when you name it, it stops being a monster under the bed—and becomes a rite of passage.

“If I give you this name for it, then you will make friends with it… Years ago, I didn’t have a name for intrusive thoughts. I suffered silently… I didn’t know it was an intrusive thought. So it was just this fear loop happening in my head.”

By identifying it—intrusive thought, energetic purge, shadow emergence—we make it workable. We realize we’re not broken, just transforming.

This is where shamans, oracles, and spiritual guides come in. They carry the maps. They hold space. They name the energies, and they normalize them.

“This is where the shaman excels. He goes, ‘This is normal. You’re not going crazy… I need to see where your gifts are. I need to see where your demons are.’”

Without a guide, you spiral. With one, you start integrating. You start reclaiming power.

Anchoring the Wild Ride

Ascension doesn’t mean floating off into a dimensionless void. It means learning how to descend just as much as you ascend.

“Ram Dass became a big advocate of this… that ascension and descension are happening simultaneously… You’re transcending your suffering, but you still need to chop wood, carry water.”

Stay in the body. Talk to your guides. Tend to your nervous system. Build anchors into your life—ritual, connection, values, purpose. You don’t get to skip the human. You get to alchemize the human.

Final Word: You're Not Alone

If you’re experiencing symptoms that don’t make sense in the old paradigm, it’s because you’re not meant to live by the old paradigm.

You’re the bridge. You’re the carrier of new codes. And yes, it’s lonely. It’s terrifying. But it’s also holy.

“You gain power… The container to understand that this is normal—that takes off a lot of the initial stress… Now you feel like you are capable of doing something about it.”

That’s the beginning of sovereignty.

That’s the essence of #YES2U.

💬 Reflection Prompt

Have you experienced what you now realize were ascension symptoms? What helped you stabilize through the process—or what would have helped? ✦ This Is Your Awakening. Own It. ✦

The path of awakening isn’t always gentle—but it is yours. When the world doesn’t have the language for your transformation, don’t shrink—speak louder. When your body burns with symptoms no one understands, don’t numb—listen deeper. You weren’t meant to fit into a system built to suppress the sacred.

You were born to remember yourself.

To walk with vision. To alchemize the shadows. To reclaim your power from every label that tried to pathologize your light.

Because healing isn’t just personal—it’s revolutionary.

This is what it means to say YES2U.Yes to your gifts. Yes to your process. Yes to a life built on truth.

Your symptoms aren’t your downfall. They’re the signal. That your spirit is waking up—and it won’t go back to sleep.

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