When you’re experiencing a large transition in your life, it can be a struggle. You feel stuck, dull, slow, and bored, as though your life isn’t accomplishing anything. It feels like nothing is happening. You can’t seem to break free, and it drags on and on. What is happening?
You may be cocooning, much like the caterpillar experiences as it’s in the cocoon, waiting to become a butterfly.
Here’s a paraphrase of what I wrote about it in my new book, Soul Evolution, Extraordinary Stories of Past Lives.
I sensed that my client’s soul was in a stage of emergence on Earth and she was in a phase of becoming far more of her higher self. It felt big. This was the beginning. As part of her process of becoming, for now, she was cocooning.
A cocoon state is a deep state of transformation. There are two ways of entering.
One way is that you enter the cocoon as a result of a tragedy or a trauma, which occurred either suddenly or over time. Being overwhelmed, you need time to catch up with what has happened. Whether or not it’s convenient, a pause is required. You cannot move yourself forward. It’s just too much.
A second way, is a result of your spiritual efforts to grow. You enter the cocoon as a result of outgrowing your old self, much like I write about in my book. It comes about from your repeated attempts to work through things that have been difficult for you. You’ve prayed, contemplated, self-examined, changed, and improved. You want to live a more awakened life and you’ve done this a lot!
Somewhere in all of your efforts and struggles, you outgrew your old self. You may not have noticed, but now you need to be in a paused state so you can catch up with who you are becoming. Going into the cocoon state happens automatically. A deep change is occurring within you.
The change is bigger than your current self. You need time to integrate your growth with who you are becoming.
Cocooning is like a divine pause and it’s almost impossible to push out of it. That’s okay because you will find that when you re-emerge, you won’t have lost anything. In fact, you will have gained far more than you now realize.
Once you re-emerge from your slow cocoon state, your new self will be evident. It’s a good time to pause and recognize that you are undergoing an important process, allowing you to advance.
Here’s what happens in a cocoon stage of spiritual transition or transformation. It:
- Allows your life (all of it) to catch up with your consciousness which has outgrown its old self
- Is part of the preparation for your new, higher self to manifest
- Indicates an energetic shift that is happening to you
- Is an entirely internal process. Life feels slow. This is appropriate. It’s a time when being quiet & contemplative are in divine order and will help to facilitate your process
- Indicates a major shift, one that carries bigger rewards from the former level of consciousness that you outgrew
- Acts as a period of integration with your Higher Self
- Indicates moving into greater spiritual power
- Brings in more of the higher self to become activated and manifest
- Is a time of great openings, provided by the stillness and pause, where you can invite the infinite to enter your consciousness. During this process, let yourself rise to new heights so that you can eventually expand & soar.
From the outside, it looks like you aren’t doing much. There’s a tendency to say, “Nothing is happening! I feel stagnate. Am I all right? This doesn’t feel like my life!” There’s a tendency to feel antsy, frustrated, and bored. Just realize you are in a cocoon stage and it’s good news. You will re-emerge, renewed and integrated, more aligned with your higher self. Try to relax and go with it.
Cocooning is a wonderful time to marinate in your essence as it organizes itself to create new and higher forms in your life. This is the spiritual way of living. It’s where your consciousness creates your future.
