a woman going through spiritual inner healing

What comes to your mind when you hear of ‘inner healing’? If I were asked this question years ago, I’d probably say something about the emotional or psychological issues a person needs to deal with to achieve peace and joy in life.

However, what I learned over the years of going through inner healing myself is — everything is spiritual. Everything about us is a reflection of our soul including the psychological and emotional aspects of life. Anxiety, depression, and other similar issues are signs that our soul is calling our attention to look within to see how wounded it is and give the healing it needs.

What Is Spiritual Inner Healing

Spiritual inner healing is the journey of the soul on earth where it confronts its pain, traumas, and inner demons to heal and reclaim its true identity and purpose.

The process involves a lot of inner digging: from what frightened and hurt you in the past to how you coped which molded your beliefs and personality. You will also learn to identify your pains, traumas, and limiting beliefs that have been blocking you from becoming your authentic self. Its purpose is to heal and transform our soul until it reaches its true nature which is love, not ego and fear.

Inner healing doesn’t have a specific start and end point unlike when pursuing a goal. You cannot plan how healing is going to happen for you or plot a schedule when you can erase your traumas. Healing is a way of life rather than a ritual we perform only at a specific time. The point of it is to take us from one season to another so that our souls will continue to evolve through time.

Signs Of Spiritual Inner Healing

When our inner life is shaken it is difficult to tell when the actual healing starts, and whether we’re moving towards transformation. As a guide, here are 10 signs your soul is healing.

1. You are in constant search for a deeper meaning of your existence

Do you often ask the questions ‘Who am I?’ and ‘What am I here for’? Inner healing begins when you know there’s more about your life than physical appearance, work, and material possessions.

Seeking can be both messy and beautiful. You ask yourself questions you’re not even sure if they’re more important than getting a job that pays well. It disturbs your normal life, and yet it makes you feel you’re doing yourself a favor. There is an ‘invisible force’ that constantly prompts you to go beyond what other people have told you what life is about.

Try journaling, walking alone in the park, or simply taking time alone to reflect to become more familiar with the presence of your inner voice. You’ll hear more of what your soul has to say about who you are and the mission you need to fulfill in this lifetime.

2. You explore different ways of finding answers

Whether it be traveling alone, reading books, or attending mindfulness retreats and yoga sessions, your hunger for clarity and profound inner knowing fuels you to discover the other facets of your identities.

My earliest go-to gurus were books. I dove into sorts of titles under self-help, spirituality, ancient history, and even quantum physics. I also joined a Kundalini yoga group where, for the first time, I met people who talked about things I was told weren’t real — energies, crystals, higher power, chakras, awakening, and more. It was as if I entered into a different world I never knew existed, but I knew I belonged.

Seeking is personal and proactiveness is a must. You have to follow your instinct when it comes to finding answers only you can interpret for yourself.  

3. You become aware of your inner self

Spiritual inner healing at this stage starts to look more like it’s happening. You use your intuition more often when making big and small decisions. When you look at yourself in the mirror, you see and feel the true you living inside your body.

You become interested in things that will help you understand your inner self. Reflecting in a quiet place, journaling, or meditating eyes closed and crossed-legged can be some of your ‘normal things’ because they help you create bridges between the mind, body, and spirit.

4. Seeking may lead to exploration of God outside any religion

Not everyone who goes through spiritual inner healing gets to experience this but it is common and natural.

As you go deeper in search of your authentic self and purpose, your soul gives more clues about your true nature —  that you were sacred even before the world gave birth to religions. You may develop a strong curiosity about knowing God in a non-traditional way or outside any religion.

As your soul heals you become more connected with the Source, and you realize that spirituality isn’t the same as religion. Read books and utilize the internet to educate yourself about the difference between spirituality and religion. Be open as you learn but you must find the balance between truths and deceptions. Follow your instinct. It knows all things that are right and good for you.

5. Feeling lost, questioning your worth, and depression appear on-and-off

As new knowledge and realizations start to kick in, you may lose anchor from your old self and make you feel lost, down, and depressed. Finding your true self is a never-ending cycle of inner changes. These changes shake the truths and beliefs you’ve been carrying for many years and provoke you to question their credibility.

Do not rush healing. You don’t have to force yourself into something you’re not ready to understand yet. Focus on small positive shifts instead of putting yourself down because you’re not feeling any better. Healing is never a comfortable process but it can be more bearable if you avoid being hard on yourself and swim along with the process.

6. Old wounds resurface and may feel anger toward people who hurt you

As your awareness grows you will learn more about the pain and traumas you’ve been carrying since you were a child you didn’t know you had. You may feel anger towards people who judged, compared, rejected, neglected, and abused you which distorts the way you see your worth.

Growing up I always felt unwanted because I was told I wasn’t as beautiful as other girls. Being undeserved of love became the narrative of my life for many years. Healing showed me how much I suffered for constantly proving my worth and begging for love and attention. I felt so much anger towards the person who planted that lie in my head and blamed her for the miserable life I went through since I was a little girl.

Old wounds in childhood resurface to show us they were never healed, we only learned to cover them up. Inner healing lets us go back to moments we were left broken so we can process them without resorting to covering up our pains.

7. You forgive and love yourself

The heart of inner healing is to forgive and love yourself. Forgiveness is an act of releasing stored negative energies in your entire psyche that had been blocking you from seeing and being the real you; and loving yourself is letting the positive ones in to rebuild broken parts of yourself.

Forgiving and loving yourself makes you feel lighter and freer to be yourself without thinking about what others think about you. Your sense of purpose becomes clear and strong and you become more empowered to embrace it with intention. 

Forgiving ourselves allows us to forgive those who hurt us in the past. My anger towards that person was on and off. There were days I didn’t mind what she did to me and other days I was extremely triggered. There were also times when I thought I’d forgiven her but whenever she did something similar in the past, I’d burst again in anger.

It took me a while to completely forgive her. I learned that before I could forgive others, I had to forgive myself first.

8. You lose important friendships you thought would last

Losing friends as you heal happens for three possible reasons: (1) when the friendship is toxic and unhealthy, your healing soul recognizes it isn’t a safe space anymore; (2) you are changing at a rate and frequency your friends could not relate anymore; or (3) both of you have completed serving its purpose for each other.

I never knew there was a thing called friendship breakup until I had one almost a year ago. It took me a while to understand why it happened, but as I went through grief I came to a point where I accepted that not all important friendships are meant to last.

Losing friends can be sad and painful because we cling to the idea that important friendships should last forever. Instead of staying too long in grief, use your time and energy to strengthen your relationship with yourself and make yourself your best friend.

9. You feel authentic, grateful and peaceful

The peak of spiritual inner healing is when you realize that you are a soul and not the personalities you put on to hide pain and shame. 

Your soul self is the gateway to authenticity, gratitude, love, peace, and all other similar beautiful energies in the universe. As you become more in touch with your soul, your ego weakens, and the masks you wear to hide shame and fears dissolve gradually. Some of the signs your soul self has become more powerful than your ego-self are:

  • You embrace the things you used to hate and feel ashamed about yourself.
  • You’re not afraid of what others think of you anymore. You are confident with your truths and live them out without imposing them on others.
  • It is easier to see good things rather than lament over the bad things you cannot control.
  • You are grateful and at peace even if you don’t have everything you want.

While it is not possible to be authentic, grateful, and at peace all the time, you know you’re capable of changing how you think and feel to make necessary shifts. 

10. You discover and embrace your ultimate life purpose

I mentioned in an article that a person’s ultimate life purpose (or personal legend) is the one thing he/she is called to fulfill in this lifetime. It could be writing, farming, cleaning, dancing, making art, or anything your soul loves to do. However, somewhere in the past, someone made us feel that passion doesn’t make a real job and won’t make us successful. As a response, we hid and buried the dreams that would make us authentic and happy.

When you are healing the dream you tried to kill many years ago comes back to life with clarity, passion, and determination. You are willing to act on it even without the assurance of security and success. Spiritual inner healing enables you to take part in the role you need to play by transforming you into a new person who does not easily give up to the constraints of the world.

Spiritual inner healing signs are not limited to the list I cited above. It could go endless for as long as there are people who choose to heal.

Remember that whatever you encounter in your healing, everything is valid. There is no right or wrong way of going through it as long as you do not give up until you reach a point where you can say to yourself, ‘Everything I went through is all worth it.’

Keep going.

Do you like this post? If you want to get updates on topics like this, join my E-Letters For The Soul newsletter, where I give a monthly update on new content, soulful letters, and life-nurturing tips and advice.