if you can see this, your second awakening is happening now

In this YouTube monologue, Aaron Doughty explains the concept of a "second awakening," a deeper shift in consciousness that follows the initial realization that thoughts create reality (the first awakening). He outlines how the first awakening often leads to a desire for control, creation, and ego‑driven manifestation, which can become limiting and cause resistance. The second awakening, he argues, involves observing thoughts, questioning the ego’s need for control, and allowing the divine or universal flow to guide actions, resulting in a relaxed nervous system, trust in the unknown, and a new energetic state. Doughty shares his personal journey—from watching The Secret and building a YouTube career, to running live events worldwide—and describes how his own patterns (self‑reliance, people‑pleasing) created pressure and resistance. He introduces core concepts such as shadow integration, the S.H.I.F.T. process, and "repatterning" the mother‑father‑child dynamic to release suppressed emotions and transform subconscious patterns. Practical examples include identity‑stretch exercises at live events and the importance of heart‑coherence. He frames the second awakening as a collective planetary shift, urging viewers to align with this emerging consciousness. The video concludes with a call to action: a free two‑week beta coaching program for coaches and healers, live hot‑seat coaching, meditations, and breathwork, plus links to further esoteric content.
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you could see this video, your second awakening has begun. The second awakening is a shift in consciousness when you go from the remnants of the first awakening where you became aware that your thoughts create and influence reality. It's a very empowering level to be in, but it also has its limitations. Many people stay trapped in their old patterns. They wonder, why have I been doing the work for a while but still feel like I get dragged back into the old? And no matter how hard I try to make things happen, I feel resistance. I feel stuck. When you begin to shift into your second awakening, that's when everything will really begin to change. And in this video, I'm going to show you why this is happening now for you, why you're actually here, how you forgot this at deeper levels, and how as you begin to allow the divine to flow through you, you are able to relax your nervous system You're able to trust the unknown more, and you're able to be in an energy unlike anything you've experienced before. So the first thing to understand is, let's go back for a moment to your first awakening. You became aware of— somehow you became aware of you being connected to something greater than you. You became aware that, um, you're an eternal spiritual being living a temporary human experience. And there's a part of you that as you became aware that in a certain way you might create your own reality, you may be able to manifest things in your life, there's a shadow to this. And the shadow is something that once you become aware of begins to shift your life. So for me, I can see that back in the day, my first awakening, right when you become awakened, there's a certain stage you might go through. Where you might become aware that you're an eternal spiritual being. You might become kind of ungrounded. You can really feel other people's energy. And what can happen at that level is there's a certain desire that you have to gain more stability in your life, a certain desire where you're almost moving out of the hap— world happening to you, and then you start to create your own reality. I remember when I first saw the movie The Secret. My mom, uh, kind of made me watch it. I was with some friends. She's like, you have to watch this. It's back in like 2009. And I remember watching it and there was something about it that just resonated. And of course, The Secret kind of is like, you know, thoughts and stuff, and it's, it's like kind of surface level, but it sparked something inside of me. And I remember years even later having a 9-to-5 sales job. I remember being able to kind I kind of put my intention and energy into my commission job and see a correlation. You fast forward that to my spiritual awakening in 2012, and then in— which is the first awakening— and in 2017, even still within the first awakening, I then started to make daily YouTube videos. I started to put myself out there. I started to become successful. I started to travel the world doing what I love. And there was a visceral shift in my energy because I had become resourceful and put my energy into something I'm passionate about. And that level is where eventually it has its shadow. Recently, I have felt such a calling to run more and more live events, and I've been doing it for the last 2 years. I've been doing live events all over the world. 3 days, 2 days, sometimes 4 days, and it's like my— it lights me up. It's my passion. Something greater flows through me when I do it. There's another aspect of me though that is like figuring out and wiring in the business side of things. And in the business side of things, because I've been in YouTube so long and I've been online for so long, I have a lot of other friends and a lot of their people I could tap into. That tell me, "You should do this type of program. You should do this. You're leaving so much money on the table by not doing it." And what's interesting is the more I listen to that and the more I try to make that happen, it's like I can tell I'm immersed into trying to get the end result, trying to create it from almost an egoic perspective because it's what I believe I need. And it creates a lot of resistance. And what my second awakening has been about, it's been about becoming aware of the thinker, becoming aware that you think thoughts. And when you begin to question your thoughts, you begin to create space. So what's interesting is this was the big insight back that actually sparked my first awakening. It's what allowed me to realize that there was a correlation between what I think and what I experience. However, it was like eventually I started putting the energy and the direction that I want. But what's interesting now is now it's almost the same mechanism— observing my thoughts, letting them be there, allowing myself to, uh, question, is this Even though everyone else says it, and even though you think also you need to figure it out, that's the level of the ego that we stay trapped in. Just yesterday, I was— I had two nights, it was hard for me to sleep because I was trying to figure things out in my business in a certain way, trying to figure out what's this funnel, what's this thing do. And one of my insights was that it was, it was somehow I felt unresolved. Couldn't figure it out. I found myself trying to figure it out, working on— working with Claude, trying to like reach out to friends, looking outside of myself. And then yesterday I decided to drive. I had an appointment and I drove to this amazing retreat center here in Sedona. Can hold up to like 180 people. It includes like the rooms, all these event spaces. And I went there and it felt so aligned. The lady that helped me was incredible. This guy named Lester Levinson, who used to be a consciousness teacher on letting go, founded the place and his grave was there. So it was a really cool experience where what happened is I realized like, you can figure out and look at all of these business things, and it's kind of irrelevant. It like, it doesn't, it's not what really lights you up. And it was like a recognition that's like, I felt resolve and I felt some calmness in just thinking of that vision, even though it didn't make sense in the moment. But that spaciousness then allowed me to tap into something greater than myself. So beginning to trust more and align to the divine more is where your second awakening really is, even if it doesn't make logical sense. So when you look at this scale of consciousness right here and you look at the one level into creating your own reality, it's very powerful until you realize a few things. One is that it stems from wanting to create your reality stems from a desire of control, of wanting to think about what you want, feel the emotions of what you want, then to experience what you want and to take action as it— it's almost like, I think it, I feel it, it happens, I had something to do with it. That pressure though is exhausting. A greater way to go about this is to allow the divine God to flow through you. And to trust that energy. So if you're seeing this right now, your soul wants you to move more from believing you need to control and make it happen into allowing the divine to flow through, allowing yourself to trust a flow state, to have fun with the process. And the more you can embrace the unknown is the more that the magic will happen. Your second awakening is also when you begin to transcend your core pattern. Here's the thing not a lot of people understand about the second awakening, and you might just be coming into this awareness now. Many people try to create their own reality from the level of the trauma of the, the pattern that's subconscious. So for example, if somebody is in a self-reliant pattern, which is one of the core patterns, the self-reliant pattern says, I must do everything myself. I don't need anybody else. I'm hyper-independent. If this is a core pattern from childhood, you will then be in the creation level of creating your reality, focused, trying to get the end result, feeling a lot of pressure, feeling like you have to do it alone. And as a result, you believe that the doing is what gets the results, so you overwork and overwhelm yourself. You see, so the second awakening is when you begin to actually get into the unknown of trusting, of doing less, of making it more about energy, of doing it with other people. That's when you begin to integrate this, and that's when you begin to move into allow and pre— in the presence. In the process. You think of another core pattern, there's a core pattern of people pleasing. People pleasers might find themselves in the creation phase of their life trying to create a reality that reflects back a certain level of subconscious validation and approval, because that's the core wound from childhood. I know for me, being on YouTube, one of the things that really drove me subconsciously was that if I could allow, if I could add value to lots and lots and lots of people, I would then be enough. And that pattern was driving me. And yes, there was a, a, a good, a pattern in there of wanting to add value to people, but it was also rooted in a certain level of unprocessed emotion and a subconscious pattern. There was also the fear of leaning into tension, letting other people deal with what they have instead of feeling like I need to manage it. And what I learned is the more that I did this work of what I call S.H.I.F.T., that's when reality really began to change. And what really changed everything with this idea called repatterning. Repatterning, which has to do with the mother-father-child energy, which is the biggest trap of this that keeps you from moving into flow, alignment, and trust in something greater than you. It's also a lot more fun. Like when I go to a live event, I don't have to plan everything and figure it out. I show up and it's like it flows through and it's way more fun. So if you want more videos on this type of esoteric concepts, go ahead and like this video and comment below and let me know because I recently also have re-owned kind of integrated my own shadow where for years I kind of stopped talking about the esoteric stuff. I started to judge it. I started to think that like I wanted to— I want to just teach grounded emotional stuff, which was cool, and I'll still teach that. But also there's this esoteric side of myself I could tell that I kind of like rejected, and now I'm embracing it again. And it's partially because I believe there's a second awakening that's happening on the planet right now And the people that feel called to this kind of information are people that are at the leading edge, that impact other people in their lives, that allow us to begin to raise our energy together. Because as a collective, we are going through a shift in consciousness. The chaos happening in the world right now is not chaos that like it wasn't here before and now it's here and what's happening. It was always here. It was just under the surface. The stuff that's been happening on the planet has been happening for a long time. It's just now we are aware of it and it's very uncomfortable to look at. And as time goes on, it is up to us to come together and mind and heart coherence to do the inner work. And then as you do it and as you are calm and regulated in your own nervous system and in your own frame, people will gravitate to that energy. You become a subconscious anchor for people in your life. So this is what's happening right now on the planet. So when we look at this pattern, the thing that happens is most people in their first awakening aren't aware of it, but they are creating and driven by the pattern. There's also suppressed emotion that are underneath the surface. So the process of repatterning is where you begin to look at the mother-father-child dynamic. The mother-father-child dynamic affects every area of your life because it relates back to your sense of self and the way you relate to reality in general. So when you begin to look at that dynamic, you may see the pattern. The pattern is not who you are, but then you allow yourself to feel the emotion underneath the surface. Let it be there. Sometimes we see patterns and we want to change the pattern and we feel shameful of the pattern. You actually want to see the pattern, the self-reliant part of you, the overgiver part of you, the invisible part of you, the part of you that, uh, is perfectionist. Whatever patterns these are that is your core pattern, you don't want to try to change it, you want to accept it. For me, that meant like accepting the old people pleaser part of myself, having compassion for it. At the same time, there was suppressed anger underneath the surface. And that's what I had to feel, heal, and release between the mother, father, child dynamic. And what happens is as I did, my whole entire life transformed. From there, you then integrate your shadow. Integrating your shadow means there's a part of yourself that you've been denying subconsciously that as you express, frees you. That's also part of the second awakening. It is a whole new world when you've been a people pleaser or an over-giver, and all of a sudden, you're able to say the word no. You're able to stand in your power and not absorb someone else's energy. You're able to express yourself in a vulnerable way. It's a whole new world. Just like it's a whole new world when you start trusting God or the divine to flow through you. You realize that the mind, this is the level of the mind, This is the level of the heart. And you could trust the level of the heart even if it doesn't make sense in the moment because it's something greater than you. So as you embrace, so for example, something at this recent live event that we did is everyone went out and did this scavenger hunt around what is called an identity stretch experience. Basically going out into the world and doing something that your old identity would never do. For some people, that might be somebody that has trouble receiving, also probably has trouble asking. So that person might go up to a stranger and say, "Will you buy me lunch?" What comes up in your body even as you hear that? Somebody that's afraid to share their emotions might call their dad or parent and talk to them about something deep or say, "Dad, are you proud of me?" You can have big breakthroughs on the other side of these uncomfortable things because then you realize it was just fear keeping you trapped. So integrating the shadow creates a whole new reality wherein your relationships change, the relationship or purpose changes, etc. And that's when then you begin to feel the frequency and the heart coherence of what you want to experience. That's the alignment to the divine. That's when you follow your passion, you don't put things on a pedestal, and you allow yourself to let it be natural. This process right here then levels into transformation, which is realizing that in the level of consciousness you're in right now— are you ready? It's about to happen. In this consciousness right now, in this moment right now, if you can accept it 100%, and let it be, that's where all the awareness, all the insights, all the answers are. It's only in the mind trying to figure things out that keeps you in the second level, keeps you from getting into the, the second awakening, keeps you in the, the level where you're about to make the shift into your second awakening going into the third. Trying to figure it out, trying to control trying to manage. Bring it back to the present moment. In the present moment right now is where all the power and the presence is. This is the second awakening. This is allowing. This is realizing that things in life have no built-in meaning other than the meaning you give it. But even that's a concept of the mind. When you allow yourself to instead Recognize that your ability to feel the emotions on the inside and to accept them and to allow them to be there, and the moment you can observe your thoughts and let them be there, not need to control them, you create more space inside of yourself. You allow more of the God, God and divine, God energy and the divine to come into your, into your body. So something I'm going to be doing soon is for people that really feel called to be a part of the second awakening in a powerful way. Also comes— have to do with coming into your purpose and allowing something greater than you to flow through. Something I'm going to be doing starting on June 22nd is a 2-week free beta course for coaches and aspiring coaches, healers and aspiring healers, people that want to somehow be going full-time with their purpose. It's a $2,000 program for free in exchange for feedback. If you want to check that out, you can apply below. My audience gets approval for it. And what we're gonna be doing is live hot seat coaching, live meditations, breathwork to remove the blocks that you could finally start to go full-time with your purpose. When you do that, that's really when you're in alignment to something greater than you. So if you want to check that out, go and click the link below. And then also, if you want to go deeper on the more esoteric side of the second awakening, I have a video that we've seen went viral on this concept, and I'll go and leave this video right here. Watch this video next.
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