Spiritual Awakening: The Biggest Shift in Identity You'll Ever Have

Aaron Doughty explains spiritual awakening as a fundamental shift in identity, where you release limiting stories about yourself and recognize your true nature as unconditional love. He shares how he overcame an ADHD diagnosis, quit his job to become a YouTuber, and rewrote his sense of unworthiness by changing the stories he believed about himself.
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This video, I'm going to show you spiritual awakening, which is the number one shift in identity you will ever have in your life. I'm going to show you how to go about this process in an easier way and exactly what to do to expand yourself to a new level of reality. Welcome back to another video. My name is Aaron Miguel and I help people expand their consciousness, and on this video I am going to be sharing with you, that of understanding identity, the shift in identity. I would say anything from my life that has transformed my life has been not a shift in just the action I'm taking, not a shift just in a couple of thoughts that I think, it's a shift in who I believe that I am. And when I look at all the shifts in my life, okay, let's talk about like back in the day, you probably know my story because I've talked about it a lot on YouTube because I got over 1,000 videos on YouTube and therefore there's some repetition. You know what? I mean, first one, ADHD, okay? I believed I did. I went to a doctor, they said, yo, this is what you got. I said, okay. So then I went about it and I had a lot of energy and I told myself that story and that was my reality on autopilot. Then I learned meditation. I learned how to observe those thoughts. I then started to redefine myself and within a couple of weeks I no longer needed Adderall, which had the harsh side effects. If you can't eat very much, you can't sleep very much. And what I ended up doing is getting rid of that, just let it go. And I started to meditate. Then I started to observe that belief. I started to observe who I thought I was. I would then went through a spiritual awakening and changed my whole entire life. So that was one level, a part of my identity that was shifted. I reframed it. A lot of these identity shifts will be reframes as well. Then I thought I wasn't worthy because of my past. Well, I changed the way that I relate to it. I realized that my past pain led me to a spiritual awakening. So in a weird way, I was actually very grateful for it. When I talk about me going daily on YouTube, and you've probably heard me tell the story, same thing. I had a job I didn't care about. I saw myself as a 9-to-5 employee, and then I changed my identity, said no matter what, I'm going to make videos every single day on YouTube, no matter what, until I'm a full-time YouTuber. And I did that for 5 or 6 months. I was working full-time and making videos full-time, but I became a full-time YouTuber. So it's a shift in identity. I wasn't also making videos because then I could finally not have a job I didn't care about. I was making daily videos because I realized it's who I really am. I make videos, I share content. That's my level of identity. So identity shifting and shifting your identity in general is all about letting go of what doesn't serve and then being the vibration that you prefer to be in, being who you really are meant to be. But letting go of certain parts of your, your identity that don't serve is the way of getting out of that limitation. Now I made this handy dandy chart here to show why and what I think the biggest shift you will ever have in your life. And guess what? It's happening in mass amount of levels on the planet. I was at the sauna earlier today talking to somebody that was telling me he was at first, he was kind of, you know, he kind of started to share about I'm going through a metaphysical transformation, all this stuff. And you can always tell too, because people are normally, they don't want to get too in, say too much because they're used to people kind of being like, whoa, that's weird. But then he saw that I was totally for it. I was like, yeah, I was like, blah, blah, blah, of course. And then he was like opening up about, yeah, I used to be around a lot of people that weren't awake. And this buddy of mine said there's a consciousness shift happening in the world. And I didn't believe him, but now look, like I meet all these people and I feel like it's actually happening. And it's crazy because, We were talking about how we were talking about this and back 5, 10 years ago, probably wouldn't be having that kind of conversation. There is a consciousness shift happening on the world. People are waking up and part of this is a shift in who we are. You see, prior to spiritual awakening, we think we are these little physical egos and that's all that we are. We identify reality through the 5 senses. If we can't touch it, taste it, smell it, see it, then guess what? It ain't real. So it's about going, knowing that we go beyond our senses. And in meditation, you'll start to get there and you'll start to become aware of those barriers. For me, those barriers were certain parts of my identity. First off, part of our identity is we think we are the results of our past. And because we think we are the results of our past, guess what? We continue to live in the story of our past. And then what happens is we then go through a spiritual awakening where we realize we're much more than we priorly thought. And a lot of this happens, that scale of consciousness I always share. The truth is you are unconditional love, joy, and bliss. And the key to this is becoming aware and remembering this is who you are. It's remembering, not about attaining a level of enlightenment. It's about undoing everything that's not you. You see, so the actual shift, the irony of this whole shifting identity thing, because we shift out of our old identity, let go of what doesn't serve. The irony of it is that in order to really become who you really are, it's about shifting out of all identity and becoming nothing, becoming an infinite spiritual being that's not confined by labels and interpretation. So that's a level of presentness. That's a level of beingness. That's a level that we're all on the path of, whether we're aware of it or not. We're on the path of becoming more of who we are, which is spirit. Yes, we're having life, physical experience through our bodies, but it's about becoming aware of who we really are and understanding that a lot of who we are is simply false barriers, false levels of identity and things that we've, in a way, things that have happened in the past that got within our energetic field. We think this is who I am, this is who I am. We carry that around and then we meet other people who reflect that negativity back to us. But you see, when we become aware of it, this is where everything then begins to change. So spiritual awakening is about really shifting your identity out of being the little, the little physical ego to understanding that there is something that guides you in your life. You could call this the universe, you could call this source energy, you could call this your higher self. But regardless of whatever it is, it's about becoming aware of that and allowing yourself to go through this shift in consciousness that is happening right now in the world. So a shift in identity is about understanding, one, becoming aware of the stories we tell ourselves. What are the stories you tell yourself? Because those stories are on autopilot. And I know I talk about this a lot because it's so powerful and so many people aren't aware of the agreements they've made in the past. When you make agreements, someone says something to you, you think, this is who I am. You have something that happens, you give it a certain meaning, and based on that meaning, it stays on autopilot over and over and over again until you become aware of it. Once you become aware of it, guess what? You can change it. But you don't become aware of it, guess what? Can't change it. So this is about becoming aware of the stories that you tell yourself. And even now there's just layers and layers and layers of these stories because as far as I have my ego as think that it's gotten with this spiritual awakening journey, there's still levels. There's still part of myself, like something I'm going through right now is I'm learning how to let go of control. Control. The ego likes to do everything. As I grow my business and go start doing live events, guess what? There's a little ego that wants to control it all. Haha. But what happens is then I feel resistance if the ego can't control everything and I start to get in this little box. But then I become aware and I say, you know what, maybe there's a story going that I have to do everything. Maybe there's a story that says that Aaron can't just be and allow things to happen. He's gotta have his hands in every little thing he does. But you see, that's a story I become aware of. So you see, the reason I say this is the process of spiritual awakening. It's not like boom, awakening, done, pack it up. I'm ascended, 5-dimensional, 5th-dimensional level of consciousness. That's it. All those other people, they're asleep. That's not the way it goes. There's layers and layers and layers to spiritual awakening and those layers. It's about just letting go. I become aware of this belief. Aaron, you think you have to do everything. You feel stressed because you started to control stuff. Just be aware of it and then let it go and allow and realize your higher self is there to help you. You see, this is the difference. It's the way you go about things. But identity— there's still an identity there. That's also another side of this coin. Sometimes people say, well, when you become spiritually awakened, you let go of identity altogether. Well, we are still having a physical experience. The physical experience still needs the ego. The ego's job is to keep it to survive. The ego's job is to keep it to survive in its identity for the way it sees itself. So in a way, the ego is kind of like an avatar in this game we call life. And basically what happens is once we become aware of the avatar, we don't react as much to things. Imagine you're watching a game of Sims right now and you are thinking you're actually in the game. You're going through— you have to go pick up the kids from school, you have to go eat your Wheaties, you have to do everything that you would do in the game of Sims. I don't really know the game of Sims. Sims. I played it a long time ago, but I'm assuming that's what you do in the game. Well, imagine that you're in this game of Sims and somebody comes up to you and tells you you're a doodoo head, or tells you something, or gets into an argument with you. Well, guess what? When you feel like the ego thing is the only thing that's real and you don't— and you just react to everything, you're like, oh my goodness, all of this is really, really painful and I don't know what to do with it. But then you get to a level where we call spiritual awakening, where you can observe what is happening from a neutral place. You don't have to completely react to it. You can realize it's an experience, it's something you're learning about. You're learning more about yourself, you're learning more about your relationship to others. You can observe what happens rather than react with such a negative rigidity. And by just observing it, guess what happens? You then emotionally react differently. You don't emotionally react, you instead swerve. You put your hair back like this, you go, yes, I realize that, but this is just a game of Sims, it's not that serious. Well, In the same way, we're in the game of life. And while the game of life feels much more real, and we've forgotten who we are when we're— actuality, we're our higher selves projecting ourselves into this reality. And then what we do is we come across a time when we realize, hey, I'm not just little avatar, I'm not just this physical sense perception where I feel, taste, touch, smell, and do all these senses. I'm beyond that. But you see, then it becomes a little bit more more of also an ego trip. Because you say, I'm so much more than an ego. All these other peeps think that they're just egos. They're way below me. I'm really spiritually advanced. I know all this stuff. They don't know it, but I do. I'm special. I'm here to enlighten the world. I'm here to help people and become lightworkers. But you see, the thing, the thing about this though is there's, there's these layers that you have to become aware of. Because even the identity of being a spiritually awake person is a limitation in of itself. And it a lot of times will perpetuate a negative ego. And many times, especially when it comes to this process, there is this ego of separation because of spiritual awakening and separation. Because then we say, well, I'm so different than everyone else. Everyone else doesn't understand me. And guess what happens because of that? People don't understand me. Well, they haven't got it yet. They will eventually get it. But guess what? The more you have— see, this is why I say there's layers, because then you become aware of that layer and then you say, well, people aren't awake. No one understands me. You go out into the world, you project out a self-image and a belief that says no one gets me, no one understands me. Everyone in this coffee shop is just drinking their $40 latte and on their computer looking at Instagram and a whole bunch of stuff on social media. I'm going to go read the Law of One books and I'm going to understand more about the universe. They are asleep. I am woke. Well, guess what? Then there could be people around that actually think similarly, but you won't actually perceive of them because there's that belief there that clouds in that limitation. So this is why I say no matter how high up our ego thinks it is, there's always more to let go. There's always more to let go of. And the more you let go of it, the more you raise your frequency and the more you can then be who you really are. At the core of enlightenment, it's about knowing that you are nothing and you are everything. And here's the thing, here's something that I talk a lot about that I believe. If you want to be free, you have to become nothing. Nothing. Nothing. I can express this stuff right to you. I'm doing it through, you know, my interpretation, but you become free where there's no rules, there's no rigidity. Now, it doesn't mean you don't have morality, but what I mean by this is is you realize that everything is a form of illusion. So even though the sense perceptions and the things you do, not to say that there's no repercussions for your actions because there are, or the consequences for what you do, but what I'm saying is you become nothing because everything that you think you are has been a level of identity or something that happened to you that many times caused stuff to happen in your energetic field. So once you become nothing, you let go of all of that. You can then become anything. You can then become anything. So it's about undoing all of the things and then you become no thing. No thing, not nothing. No thing. Not one thing. Not some, not even like me say I'm a YouTuber. That's a thing. I have to become nothing to become everything. These limitations, even a human being, still limitation. You're a spiritual being. Even a spiritual being, maybe that's a limitation. Source energy. Maybe it's a limitation. Who knows how far down this macrocosm goes? But what I'm saying is that when you become no thing, no thing from your past, no identification with these things that have happened to you and all your limitations, you will then be in the highest sense of vibration you can be in, and then you can be anything. So spiritual awakening is a process of letting go of layers. And if you want to know where you are on this process of spiritual awakening right now, I have a quiz. Called whatsmyvibration.com. Whatsmyvibration.com. You go, you calibrate your vibration by answering 15 to 16— I forget how many questions there are. You answer these questions, takes about a minute, minute and a half. You get your vibration, which is represented in an archetype, and then you get a game plan for raising your vibration to the next level, plus a meditation personally for you at your level of consciousness. So whatsmyvibration.com. You could check that out. Other than that, if you like this video and its erratic, crazy energy, could you smash that like button and let me know? And maybe I'll do more that are a little more expressive like this. If you would prefer the other way of videos where I talk here a little bit more seriously, I move this back a little bit, could you do me a favor and comment below and let me know? Say, I like the older videos where you're just A very serious and less expressive, but it's more relatable. You let me know. Smash the like button, comment which one you like. WhatsMyVibration.com. Understand there's layers to this, and you are letting go of what doesn't serve so you can be who you really are. Anyways, I got to be up early in the morning. I was just filming this video so I could feel good about myself because I still tell myself a story that I got to make videos every single day in order to be on top of stuff. But guess what? I'm aware of it, and awareness is what matters. So with that being said, I'm finally gonna end this video. I love you. Peace, much love, and namaste. Okay, thank you for watching.
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