a woman going through spiritual inner healing

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

However, what I learned over the years of going through inner healing myself is that everything is spiritual. Everything about us is a reflection of our soul, including the psychological and emotional side of ourselves. Anxiety and depression are signs that our soul wants us to look within and give attention to the wounds that need healing and restoration.

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 conscious, deep inner digging: from what frightened and hurt you in the past to how you coped with it, which eventually molded your beliefs and personality, and how they blocked you from living your highest desire and joy. Its purpose is to heal and transform the 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 pursuing an earthly goal. You cannot plan how healing is going to happen for you or plot a schedule when traumas should disappear. Healing is a way of life rather than a holiday on a calendar. Its essence is to take us from one season to another so that the soul will continue to evolve.

Signs Of Spiritual Inner Healing

When our inner life is shaken, it is hard to tell when the actual healing starts, and whether we are moving towards becoming the person we are meant to be. 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 acknowledge that there is more to life than physical appearance, work, and material possessions.

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

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. They will help you hear more of what your soul has to say about who you are and the mission you need to fulfill.

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 identity. You are gravitated to experiences or things that you feel like connected to your questions and curiosity. 

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, like energies, crystals, higher power, chakras, and awakening. It was as if I had entered into a different world I never knew existed, but I knew I belonged.

Seeking is personal, and initiative is a must. You have to follow your instinct when it comes to finding answers that only you can sense the connection and relevance to 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 small and big decisions. When you look at yourself in the mirror, you see beyond the physical and feel more of the soul that you are.

You become interested in things and activities that help you understand your inner self. Reflecting in a quiet place, journaling, or meditating with eyes closed and legs crossed can become part of your lifestyle because they help you create the bridge between the mind, body, and spirit.

4. Seeking may lead to exploration of God outside 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 ideas of your authentic 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 your learned 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 you are meant to experience towards healing.

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

As new knowledge and realizations get into you, you gradually lose anchor from your old self, which can make you feel lost, down, and depressed. This is the messy part. Finding your true self is a never-ending cycle of inner changes. Changes that shake truths and beliefs you’ve been carrying for many years and call you to question their credibility.

You cannot 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 it seems you’re not getting any better. Healing is never a comfortable process, but it can be more bearable if you avoid being hard on yourself and stop resisting the process.

6. Old wounds resurface, and you may feel anger toward people who gave you trauma

As your awareness grows, you will learn 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 distorted 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. It wasn’t a big deal for me before, but as I went through healing, it was like I had a tour of the mental and emotional suffering I had to endure for constantly proving my worth and begging for love and attention. I got so angry at the person who planted that lie in my head and blamed her for the miserable life I had because of my destroyed self-worth.

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 the proper way instead of hiding the pain under the rug.

7. You gradually forgive and love yourself

The heart of inner healing is to forgive and love yourself. Forgiveness is an act of releasing stored negative energies inside you that have been blocking you from understanding and accepting the real you. And loving yourself is letting in the positive ones to rebuild broken parts of yourself.

Forgiving and loving yourself makes you feel lighter and freer to act real without thinking about what others think about you. Your sense of purpose becomes clearer and stronger, and you embrace who you are wholeheartedly and intentionally. 

Forgiving ourselves allows us to forgive those who hurt us in the past. The process, however, isn’t a one-time forgiveness but comes in waves. The pain revisits over and over until the hole in its core is properly and fully served. My anger towards the person I mentioned was on and off. There were days I didn’t mind what she did to me, and there were days that I got easily triggered. There were also times that I thought I’d forgiven her, but every time she did something similar in the past, I’d burst in anger again.

It took me a few years to completely forgive that person. And I was only able to do it once I finally understood that the ugly things said about me weren’t my fault, and I forgave myself for holding up all the blame for many years. It is so true that we can only fully forgive others once we forgive ourselves.

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 to anymore; or (3) both of you have completed serving its purpose for each other.

I never knew there was a thing called a 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 learned to accept 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 make yourself your own best friend.

9. You become more 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 cope with pain and shame. 

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

  • You embrace the things you used to dislike 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 at all times, know that you’re capable of changing how you think and feel about any situation to make the 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 the present 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 your soul is 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 the person who does not easily give in to the constraints of the world.

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

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

So, keep going.

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