This spiritual blog post offers a list of my most popular blog posts. Mostly, these top 10 posts over the years have had to do with whatever Google has found to be most important, and therefore, it’s what most people have found of the many blog posts I have (which is more than 900).
I’ve recently added in my recommended blog posts as another top 10 list within the most recent years.
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10 Most Popular Spirituality Blog Posts of 2019
Well, the year isn’t over year at the time of this update (October 2019), but down below are the current leaders. Before that, I’ve got my own list of recommended blog posts that I’ve written in 2019.
Jim’s 2019 Recommended Posts
#10 How to Go Spiritually Deeper
#9 5 Misunderstandings About Humility
#8 6 Reasons People Succeed Spiritually
#7 Laughing at Your Ego’s Absurdities
#5 Spiritual Awakening Help and Tips Guide
#4 Flowing When Your Life Is Hard
#3 Laziness and a Wasted Spiritual Awakening
#2 Engaging Your Baseline Emotional State
#1 Spiritual Liberation and the End of Ego Suffering
Most Popular Posts of 2019 (so far)
#10 Spiritual Awakening and Pain: The Torment of Internal Resistance
#9 What Is a Spiritual Awakening?
#8 How to Save Your Relationship During Awakening
#7 The Process of Releasing Pain from Your Energy Body
#6 Energy Sickness and Feeling Drained Energetically
#5 Spiritual Awakening 2020, 2021, 2022, and So on
#4 Phantom Physical Pains and Spiritual Awakening
#3 Energy-caused Involuntary Muscle Spasms or Kriyas
#2 Chronic Fatigue and Spiritual Awakening
#1 5 Types of Spiritual Awakening Sleep Problems and Insomnia
10 Most Popular Spirituality Blog Posts of 2018
#10 How Long Does a Spiritual Awakening Take?
#9 The Process of Releasing Pain from Your Energy Body
#8 Spiritual Awakening 2020, 2021, 2022, and So on
#7 Energy Sickness and Feeling Drained Energetically
#6 How to Save Your Relationship During Awakening
#5 Phantom Physical Pains and Spiritual Awakening
#4 What Is a Spiritual Awakening?
#3 Energy-caused Involuntary Muscle Spasms or Kriyas
#2 Chronic Fatigue and Spiritual Awakening
#1 5 Types of Spiritual Awakening Sleep Problems and Insomnia
10 Most Popular Spirituality Blogs of 2017
#10 Understanding How to Hold Space
It’s a beautiful thing to give people a non-judgmental space to just be themselves. A lot of people realize that, and as such, this is one of my readers’ long-time spiritual blog post favorites.
#9 How to Make a Spiritual Awakening Happen
It is with great caution and care that anyone should intentionally try to awaken. Most people who want a spiritual awakening do not fully understand the repercussions of it. Awakening changes a person deeply if not entirely, and that will radically alter a person’s life.
#8 9 Spiritual Truths to Live by
This blog post aims to make spiritual truths practical for everyday living. However, the more you dissolve into the present moment, the more clearly you see the natural practicality of all spiritual truths.
#7 Phantom Physical Pains and Spiritual Awakening
The transformation that arises after awakening can draw up all kinds of pain even when the body is completely healthy. However, it is always a good idea to check in with a trained doctor to ensure your body is healthy before jumping to the conclusion that a physical pain is arising because of a spiritual transformation.
#6 Energy Sickness and Feeling Drained Energetically
There are lots of reasons people feel drained energetically. This blog post goes into some of the reasons why.
#5 How to Save Your Relationship During Awakening
This blog post has cracked the top 10 for the first time ever. It’s not surprising why it would get popular. People are very attached to relationships, and interestingly enough, this attachment can drive people to the spiritual path. If the person can learn to let go of the relationship, they and their partner have the possibility for deeper transformation. But the original form of the relationship typically needs to be released for anything new to be born.
#4 Spiritual Awakening 2018, 2019, 2020, and So On
This post gets updated with the upcoming/latest year each year because its message is timeless. The awakened space is within. It’s always within regardless of the year. So go within to find the truth, to find love, and to find spiritual freedom.
#3 What Is a Spiritual Awakening?
There continues to be lots of curiosity about spiritual awakening as well as lots of people who wonder if they are going through one. Hence, this spiritual awakening blog post continues to be one of my most popular posts.
#2 Chronic Fatigue and Spiritual Awakening
This is a perennially popular blog post. People like having energy to do stuff, and when they don’t have energy, that sends people seeking answers.
#1 5 Types of Spiritual Awakening Sleep Problems and Insomnia
The 10 Most Popular Spirituality Blogs has finally been unseated from its perch atop the list of most popular blog posts. It seems that having sleep problems and needing to solve them has become far more important to readers (and of course to Google’s algorithm).
10 Most Popular Spirituality Blogs of 2016
10 5 Signs of a Spiritual Awakening
This blog post managed to sneak its way into the top 10 for 2016, edging out a blog post called, “How to Make a Spiritual Awakening Happen.” I try to keep the signs of a spiritual awakening very simple. The most important one is the way that the energy abides and moves on its own. This aspect is how I distinguish between the many spiritual openings and glimpses people have, but which don’t last compared to a spiritual awakening which takes over people’s lives.
9 How Long Does a Spiritual Awakening Take?
People are always thinking in terms of time, and so I try to help people understand that time is kind of irrelevant to a spiritual awakening. This is also an ego question. The ego wants to know how long before it can go back to business as usual, but that business is ending. It’s really important to not worry so much about how long your inner changes will last as to what kind of space you need to embrace these changes.
8. 9 Spiritual Truths to Live By
I try to make spiritual truths as practical as I can in this spiritual blog post. Too often, “spiritual truth” gets presented in arcane and esoteric ways, and that’s just straight up confusing for people. It is difficult for people to live by a spiritual truth if they do not understand it. Hopefully, this spiritual blog post makes things easier.
7 Facing Your Ego’s Death
This little post is getting pretty old. I think I wrote it in 2011, but it is still just as popular and useful. In essence, it’s about the importance of letting go and realizing that you are not your ego. You are much, much more!
6 Spiritual Awakening 2017, 2018, 2019 and So On
As always, my predictions for spiritual awakening remain the same. The main point is that the awakened state is always with us. We may have vastly different experiences that we call spiritual from year to year, but the awakened space is always here. That divine presence within us gets called a lot of things like presence, consciousness, the true Self, love, and other things. But what’s most important to remember is that it is always here and now.
5 5 Types of Spiritual Awakening Sleep Problems and Insomnia
This topic goes hand-in-hand with the chronic fatigue spiritual blog post. Energy is one big reason people can feel wired up all day and all night. If you can’t calm down enough, your sleep gets disrupted. When people are working through issues for the first time, they can have their fear of the unknown triggered, which causes further inner upset. Helping yourself sleep better requires you to accept the inner changes you’re going through. The more you resist, the more disturbed your inner space will be. That makes it hard for a lot of people to get any kind of decent sleep.
4 Chronic Fatigue and Spiritual Awakening
There are lots of reasons people get tired after awakening, including what I mentioned above. Lots of inner changes and healing are can be part of the reason. Everyone’s bodies respond differently to stress too. I recommend meditation and other calming spiritual tools to help people take better care of themselves and to put less demands on themselves in what can be an already demanding time of life.
3 What Is a Spiritual Awakening?
The title says it all for this blog post. But in a time when there are so many definitions of spiritual awakening, it’s a good one to take a peak at so you understand how I’m talking about spiritual awakening on this website.
2 Understanding How to Hold Space
I’ve recently updated this blog post a little, so hopefully, it’s even more useful to you in understanding how to hold space for others. A lot of holding space boils down to being okay with your own discomfort so that you can be okay with another who may be upset. Holding space is also a practice in open-hearted listening.
1 10 Most Popular Spirituality Blogs
This is perpetually popular as are most of the above blog posts, so I hope you take some time to dig around this website for some of the other posts that aren’t as popular.
10 Most Popular Spirituality Blogs of 2015
Here’s a run down of the most popular posts on my spiritual awakening website.
10 How Long Does a Spiritual Awakening Take?
As always, this is a popular topic, and I expect that it’ll continue to be in 2016, 2017, and so on. There’s nothing wrong with that, and I hope this post helps you understand how to look at “time” on your spiritual journey.
9 5 Types of Spiritual Awakening Sleep Problems and Insomnia
This is a newer blog post that got popular on the StumbleUpon website. There are all kinds of ways deep inner work and energy can disrupt our sleep patterns. Of course, not all sleep disruption has to do with inner work, so I always like to advise people to check in with doctors. It’s good to get as much information from multiple sources as possible as well as listening to your own body and your intuition about what is going on.
8 Facing Your Ego’s Death
This is one of my oldest blog posts and another long-time favorite. As our original ego sloughs off, we go through a phase of not knowing who we are. This is actually a great freedom. Click on the link above to read more about this transitional point.
7 5 Signs of a Spiritual Awakening
There are long lists of “signs” and “symptoms” of spiritual awakening out there. But most of those are what I call secondary signs. If you are having sleep problems, that may not have anything to do with awakening if the primary signs aren’t there. Click above to find out what I consider to be the 5 primary signs of a spiritual awakening.
6 Chronic Fatigue and Spiritual Awakening
Fatigue, tiredness, and even exhaustion often arise after awakening. Here are some of my thoughts about why this is and how to engage with it.
5 What Is a Spiritual Awakening?
This is one of my oldest blog posts, although I have updated it from time to time. It’s a funny thing that I’ve written a bunch on that topic because it’s such a simple and under-stated thing. Spiritual awakening is the seeing and realizing of what Is. Often, we have all kinds of pent-up energy burst forth that can feel quite euphoric initially and offer some people blissful feelings. But as we rest more deeply in our inner space, a natural human maturing arises. For thoughts on spiritual maturation, you might check out this blog post that didn’t make the list: Signs of a Maturing Soul.
4 9 Spiritual Truths to Live By
In this newer blog post, I wrote about some spiritual truths and offered some practical thoughts about what they mean to everyday living. Obviously at the number 4 slot on this list, it got more than a little popular.
3 Spiritual Awakening 2016, 2017, 2018 and So On
This post is popular every year, and I update the year in the title every year. Spiritual awakening is a timeless event, and so this post is meant to help people looking for future predictions understand the power of the present moment, which is with us in any year and every moment.
2 Understanding How to Hold Space
This long-time favorite helps people understand how to lovingly support others.
1 10 Most Popular Spirituality Blogs
This is just a super popular post. So I’m hoping that you continue to enjoy these annual lists for this year and many years to come!
10 Most Popular Spirituality Blogs of 2014
Let’s start off with some honorary mentions. At number 12 is a newbie: Energy Sickness and Feeling Drained Energetically. This was written in 2014, and it grabbed lots of people’s attentions. Perhaps it’ll crack the top 10 in 2015. At number 11, Chronic Fatigue and Spiritual Awakening couldn’t quite catch “The Dark Night,” but obviously, this is a really common issue people can have when going through spiritual shifts.
10 The Dark Night of the Soul
This is a popular phrase that people use a lot when things aren’t going their way in a fairly significant manner. In this spiritual awakening blog post, I help people understand what is really going on here and how to let go of ego preferences that are misconstruing the change happening in your life or which are creating extremely challenging and/or unhealthy situations.
9 The Process of Releasing Pain From Your Energy Body
This is a regular on the top ten list. I still highly recommend it to help people have a better sense of how healing and spiritual growth work in everyday terms.
8 Opening a Closed Heart
Here’s another long-timer, but then again, most of the top 10 are long-timers. Opening a closed heart is so important. It’s how we can feel ourselves, enjoy love, and figure out things that don’t feel good to us. When our hearts are closed, we feel nothing and can subsequently get caught up in a lot of unhealthy situations because we can’t feel how bad they are for us.
7 5 Signs of a Spiritual Awakening
People want to know what’s going on with them, so this post helps people understand what awakening is really about. These signs are what I call primary signs, the fatigue and other things are secondary signs. If you aren’t melting into love and clarity, then being really tired could easily be something not related to awakening.
6 Understanding How to Hold Space
Holding space is a beautiful gift to offer ourselves and others. This post continues to help thousands of people each year appreciate and cultivate this important practice.
5 What Is a Spiritual Awakening?
Moving up from number 8 to number five makes this blog one of the big movers and shakers on the list from earlier in the year. But, of course, it’s not that surprising given the context of this Website. In 2012, it held down the number 2 spot.
4 Facing Your Ego’s Death
To be clear, ego death is the death of the unconscious ego. We’ll always have an ego, but the conscious ego is simply a clear lens to help us filter through billions of stimuli and external and internal data we encounter so that we can make sense of living our lives.
3 How Long Does a Spiritual Awakening Take?
Ah! When do I get off this bus? I get this question a lot. It’s no wonder why this is the third most popular topic on my blog.
2 Spiritual Awakening 2015, 2016, 2017 and So On
This post gets its title updated yearly. Next year it’ll start with 2016 and 2015 will be removed. Ultimately, there is no grand new meaning to each year (the new year is an arbitrary date after all). But we can choose any year and any moment to be the one to embrace our spirituality more deeply.
1 10 Most Popular Spirituality Blogs
What can I say? This is a popular blog. It beat out the runner up more than twice over, so thanks to everyone for enjoying it!
I encourage you to read on to past years to see other blogs that didn’t make the list this year.
10 Most Popular Spirituality Blogs of 2013
10 Understanding Spiritual Sexuality
This post has dropped a few places since last year. It is actually a compilation of spiritual sexuality posts. I tend to disappoint people because they still think of sexuality solely in terms of relationship with another. While sex with another is stupendous fun, it is even more so when you truly know your own sexual energy and space. This blog helps people get started in that space of inner knowing.
9 Healing Desires: The Differences Between Urges and the Need for Fulfillment
This post has been hugely popular in the past, and while it didn’t make the list last year, it’s back in the saddle again. In this post, I help people to understand the difference between the natural arising of an urge (like wanting to eat) and the need for a specific kind of fulfillment (like I need to eat a hamburger to feel good).
8 The Process of Releasing Pain From Your Energy Body
I’m really glad that you’ve made this a popular post. I put a lot of time, energy, and focus in it to do my best to distill what it can feel like to release pain from our energy bodies. Since this isn’t exactly common knowledge, I’m glad to see it growing in popularity to help many of you better understand the subtle levels of your own nature.
7 Opening a Closed Heart
This is another oldie, but goodie that seems to come around and pick up in popularity every so often. It is pretty much what it says it is. There’s also a video at the bottom of the post about the topic that you can check out.
6 Spiritual Awakening 2014, 2015, 2016, and So On
This was originally “Spiritual Awakening 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, and So On.” But clearly, those first two years are long gone. Nonetheless, the point remains the same: awakening is here and now.
5 What Is a Spiritual Awakening?
Dropping down from number 2 is “What Is a Spiritual Awakening?” Personally, I’m glad that people are trying to understand my definition as well as creating their own. When you start to look at your definitions, then you start to understand your world and how you create meaning in it.
4 Letting Go of Resistance
I love this line, “Awakening comes because at some point in time, you fully let go.” When we let go of our stories and all the resistance we have to how life is, we naturally drop into ourselves. The more deeply we release, the more profoundly connected we may become to ourselves and to all of consciousness.
3 Understanding How to Hold Space
Jumping way up from number 10 in 2012 is this post. I’m really happy that this spirituality blog post has been so popular. I think learning how to hold space for each other is an essential tool for all relationships because we learn how to respect others and look and listen with non-judgment and love.
2 Facing Your Ego’s Death
Moving up from number 3 is “Facing Your Ego’s Death.” For many of you shifting in awakening, you will be watching aspects of your old ego self dissolve. At times, it can feel like you are dying, but this is why it is important to dis-identify with the ego self. The more you can see that an old way of acting and seeing the world is dying, the more at peace you will be during the process.
1 How Long Does a Spiritual Awakening Take?
Holding strong at number 1 once again for 2013 is the question, “How much longer do I have to stay on this bus?!”
Indefinitely. You chose it. But the initial shift will come to a resting rhythm. You will find that life still shifts and changes, and you will change with it. But the initial part does come to a completion. Click on the above link to find out more about that.
10 Most Popular Spirituality Blogs of 2012
Read on to see what posts used to be popular, and maybe you’ll bring them back around for 2014.
10 Understanding How to Hold Space
Well, you already know what I have to say about this one. For the posts already mentioned above, I’ve left the link, but without additional commentary.
9 Spiritual Awakening Signs Subside: You Come Fully to Life
This post was written for those who want to know if the inner shifting ever will end. During the initial shift to embody your light, you may never feel stable or safe. Everything is being churned up and cleared out so that you can be a clear vessel for your own light. But as with all transitions, this too will pass.
8 5 Signs of a Spiritual Awakening
I’m careful about talking about “signs” of a spiritual awakening, so whenever I do, I try to distill it down to the essential signs, which typically are deep senses of love and service to yourself and others.
7 Understanding Spiritual Sexuality
6 Soulmates and Other Myths that Bind Our Love
Ah, soulmates. This is one of the ideas of perfect love, although lately the term “twin flames” is trying to replace it. Relationships are beautiful. However, true beauty in love comes with complete and total self-love. From that space, having a soulmate isn’t quite so important. Click on the above link to see what else I talk about with that one.
5 Awakening the Mind: The Intellect Knows Its Place, The Internal Waters Still
I think this one got popular partially because of StumbleUpon traffic and partially because people just want to know that its possible for their minds to finally quiet down. So, yes. It is possible, and you don’t have to wait around for an awakening if you want this. You simply start to go within and pay attention to your thoughts instead of getting lost in their stories or fighting them.
4 2012, the Global Awakening, and the Apocalypse
Egad! Are we all still here? Did we survive the Apocalypse? When you read this spiritual post, you’ll see that how I view these “events” is very different than the commonly accepted ideas.
3 Facing Your Ego’s Death
2 What Is a Spiritual Awakening?
1 How Long Does a Spiritual Awakening Take?
I hope you enjoy these posts, and I look forward to serving you all in 2014 with more interesting spirituality topics. Much love to everyone!
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