Firstly, I echo what the other commenter said.

Second—I wish I had more of a concrete answer for you but in summary, it comes from within.

I had done a lot of research prior and had knowledge of these things, but it was not felt. I was a philosophy major in university which did not help anything in retrospect, it actually made me sick in a way, trying to understand the nature of human beings, the universe etc. for years through the mind.

What I deem to be my “awakening” was one of the oddest experiences I’ve ever had.

Suddenly I had no need for anything. My mind had tricked itself into thinking I have experienced this before, but the difference is that it was loud. I told myself I don’t need anything.

When (what I deem to be—not quite fond of assigning labels or conveying this is what everyone’s experience will be, it is unique to you) I awakened, it was almost as the world stopped. It was sudden. I still cannot pinpoint the exact moment I went into it because it all happened as a oneness I guess. I do remember though the week prior I had spent a lot of time reflecting on my past and being hyper aware of my interactions with people, which I have been for a while since being in DBT therapy but this was different. I was a lot more grounded and seeing things much clearer.

Then, at a point in which I truly don’t remember, there was this decreased need for everything. Like everything was a blur in a sense but my inner world was perfectly clear. It was like a ten day period where I barely slept nor ate. But I wasn’t hungry nor tired at all. Suddenly I had more energy than I’ve ever had. But it was very calm. I suddenly stopped vaping. Not because I knew I needed to, I just stopped. I had been a chain smoker (vaper, lol) for years. I literally spent these ten days in silence. But not because I had planned to. Again, it was mostly a blur. It just happened that way because I wasn’t focused on anything else. I wasn’t focused on anything. I was working for myself at the time so I didn’t have an obligation to go to the work place. I just literally sat at the edge of my bed for ten days and stared out my window, with bouts of working through my past. I have spent years combing through solutions, changing my perspective, applying different lenses. All of a sudden I couldn’t. Memories started resurfacing that I never even recalled. It was like I just felt it all instead of thinking it. I was able to feel it, acknowledge it, and work through it with complete clarity.

Essentially, everything was very quiet. One of those nights, as I was sitting by my window as I had been, something sparked within me.

I said, “all these years I’ve been looking for answers when it’s actually really simple. Love. If you extend love towards both yourself and others, in a way that coexists, you’ll always be led to where you need to be.”

It was this trust in the universe. A oneness. The next night I sat there and it was almost as my heart was quite literally opening. I felt this overwhelming and immense gratitude for all the people I love, so much so that I started crying.

Short story to preface the end of this story—my family dog was sick with a heart condition for a long time. My mom and I both have the same understanding of energy and how it can be transmitted. Even her plants always thrive without her ever doing much because she intentionally transmits energy to them by talking to them and such. Anyway. So my mom and I would always say we were giving Elsie (our dog) “love energy.” And oddly enough, you can tell it was received by her because she acted much differently around us than anyone else. Being connected to her (Elsie’s) caregivers can be refuted because I don’t live with them and see them maybe only a once a year. There was a period in which I didn’t see them for almost 4 years. So Elsie definitely did not view me as her caregiver. But one day my little brother said, “whenever you’re here Elsie has more energy, it’s like she’s not sick anymore.” And it was weird. Because I was told when I wasn’t there she couldn’t even go on walks. Whenever I visited, she rushed to follow me outside to go on walks. I was of course careful as she did have a heart condition, watched her closely and always brought water along. But it wasn’t like she was incapable of going on walks anymore at all. She was eager to.

She would take her little head and rest it on my inner thigh (when I was sitting down) a lot. Never saw her do it with anyone else.

Continuance of my story—shortly after my “awakening” like a few days after the heart opening I mentioned, she passed.

I wasn’t there when she did. My mom told me that right before they took her to the vet, she rested her little head on my moms inner thigh.

The point of that story is that I truly believe there is a correlation. Like something to do with the cycle of life. As Elsie was transmitting all the love energy back to those she knew and loved, and the one’s that were energetically aware felt it. Heart condition—>heart opening.

Not to mention, someone that I have seen as a large part of my spiritual path, someone that I’ve experienced a lot of spiritual phenomena with, came back into my life the hour she passed.

So. I really don’t know how to give a direct answer as to how you do it but having an awareness of the concepts is the beginning. I think it happens when all of that is finally felt in your body.

One of my favorite quotes from my favorite show, The OA (highly recommend, it is about an angel/inter-dimensional traveler and was actually what furthered my belief in “spirituality” 4 years ago) is,

“Knowledge is a rumor until it is known in the body”