Here are 5 signs you are going through a dark night of the soul and some of the things and practices you can do to make sure you go through it successfully and more easily.

I went through it and it was dark dark. I came close to suicide a few times. Thank God a counselor told me I was experiencing this. I started researching it and it saved my life. I'm still on my trauma healing journey and in hermit mode. 🙏✨

Thank goodness for KZfaq as I’m going through this now but so glad I’m understanding why. It’s so intense… anxiety, grieving, anger, body shaking, vomiting air, weird body pains that come & go, intense headaches, head pressure & debilitating fatigue. I know it’s a lot of childhood trauma that I’ve repressed for decades & has been contributing to the chronic fatigue & autoimmune issues.

31. Left heavy substance abuse over a year ago and spent the last 9 months weight lifting, bringing my life back. Now I'm going through a deep dark night. I prefer solitude the last few weeks and just like to sit in the stillness alone and release pain. Fighting my demons. Praying within that I make it through. I will.

Painful things hurt less after this. Pain itself changes

This is one of the channels that gave me the courage to start my KZfaq channel 11 months ago about self development. Now I have 2,094 subs and > 2k hours of watch time. I know it’s not comparable with others but I’m still proud I started because I’ve been learning so many lessons that I could haven’t learned without getting started in the 1st place.

I feel like I’m in this darkness. I feel extremely emotionally exhausted and drained. I’m really want to delete myself and my life feels like it is not worth living anymore. The different thing that stands out to me is I still see all the synchronicities!

Just. WOW. First, kudos to those in the comments who say they’ve been going through this for years. I was unconscious until about three months ago. EVERYTHING you said in this video was dead on. I finally feel understood and like I understand. Blessings to all on the journey.

My skin actually shed during the one last summer after losing my mom. I came out of it able to channel source so worth it!

Was definitely guided to this video right now at 2:38am. Been going through this 100% and needed to hear these gentle reminders of hope. Thank you! Love and Light to you🙏

This absolutely sounds like me right now. Such a turbulent time.

Suffering, specifically suffering one cannot avoid or endure without real effort has many good and positive traits. One of them is that it increases the value your integrity. I congratulate anyone who has been on this painful but peaceful journey. Because I know the leadership that God instilled in you makes you passionately repel all attempts for you to sell your soul. That kind of leadership, that kind of creative wisdom is desperately needed by our world. I know. I know. 8 years for me. But I am happy for you.

Thank you. Life aka the Universe removed my jack ass boss lol. I was called to leave my 18 yr career as an educator. While it felt like i was getting a divorce, i knew it had to happen. All the worries had to be faced. So far, im still alive lol. So many lessons, blessings, obvious redirections not just for me , but for my husband too! I realized that i am supposed to be doing less and focusing on my passions and creativity.

Thank you for going into detail about the process of the dark night of the soul. Ever since I was young, I felt like I didn't fit in, and for whatever reason, I had great difficulty not only connecting with others but also maintaining those connections throughout life. It led to a strong state of depression that lingers in me as an undercurrent resulting in glimmers of the great things I can do in my mind, but are extremely challenging to execute in real life outside of my mind, even if they appear simple to do. Even though I feel pretty crummy now as I'm searching for a bare bones job just to survive, something inside tells me to keep going deeper with topics like this because there's something magnificent on the other side meant for me that I don't fully see yet, but feel. Hopefully I'm not just delusional, and life will get better from here because frankly, feeling down on myself for more than a decade now makes it hard to justify my existence. Hopefully I'm not alone in this and there are others out there who are struggling but also sense better things for their lives further down the road.

Thank you Dave. Loved the video. Been going through this recently

Thank you so much. It was so helpful and gave me a new perspective on what I'm going through. Really appreciate it. 🙏🥰🌟

I’m going through this

Thank you for this video. Thank God for the many resources anyone can read or watch for the really great and sometimes uncomfortable period. I have been going through the dark night of the soul for 8 years. It has been tough sometimes. But I aware that good things, by the Grace of God are on their way. Good things are already happening to me. I would say this period is a compliment to anyone who either made the choice not to sell out or sell their soul to systems of the world. Or whose soul made the choice for them. It is a really really really good sign. I cannot stress that enough. Very few things equal happiness and joy more than knowing your world won't completely fall apart if you don't conform or sell your soul to the world. God upholds you. And that is just a wonderful experience despite what you go through. Also I would say that, and just googled it just now, that when life appears hallow and meaningless, it is not necessarily true but the purpose is hidden from us. Because God is kind and wise, the hiding of the purpose I think is not done to make us hurt but simply to develop our trust and to be refined well enough to be humble and free from egoic pride. Once again, thank you for this video.

I needed to watch this! It popped up in my feed. This is what I’m going through!!!

so because, I am going through a moment in christ, I am going through number five, this hit home as I notice things started falling apart I became alot more ready to smart mouth someone and even when I am genuinely trying not too, it feels as though I cannot help it, like my ego is trying to hold onto that cliff.

Thank you, thank you, thank you and thank you again for sharing this with me. I'm constantly battling fear and keep reminding myself that I don't need to be afraid because it will get better. Have I thanked you yet?

Here is my experience: i did not know i was going through the dark night of the soul. I thought i suffered from depression and burnout, only deeper than what i had experienced before. The darkest phase of this dark night does indeed have many similarities: ultra-tired, not motivated, hating the stress, not wanting to go back to the job. But what makes it different (at least, made for me) is that within me grew the awareness that a) my identity was much determined by my job (so now i hate my job - who am I?) and b) a conviction that this was not an ordinary difficult period - I knew i needed to make fundamental changes in order to survive *as a person*, not just as *as employee*.

Omgosh thank you for this.

I didn't have words for it...but once I came to a realization that I was going through 'something' deep...early on in the process...I knew there could be growth from it. I was very down...not quite suicidal, and yet, I don't know...almost ready for death. I had grown increasingly lonesome and I had stopped working towards anything meaningful. I was lost. And yet I somehow knew it was okay to be in this spot. I didn't have words for it...I felt like I was a small growing plant stuck in some filthy steaming mud. It was gross there and it didn't feel good. I started to lose hope. And yet...the stinky thick muck was full of nutrients that my roots were soaking in even if I didn't realize it. And I knew that eventually the rain would come and the mud would wash away in time and things would be okay. I wanted to stay safe, so I did open up to a doctor and am seeing a therapist. And I'm not out of the mud quite yet, but I do feel it starting to clear up now. My therapist just introduced me to the term 'Dark Night Of The Soul' yesterday, and it's been quite enlightening. It puts words to what I knew but couldn't explain.

I'm now in the middle of it. Or maybe at the start - darkness doesn't give answers

I worked really hard to create a school of my dream. I worked in this area with so much passion for more than 20 yrs abd now all of a sudden I feel like nothing of what I am doing interests me and I want to work closer to soil ...permaculture stuff and yoga and meditation..Things I have no experience or knowledge . This feels crazy ..I have no interest in something I always felt was my primary life purpose..Am I going crazy ? or should I trust this new interest arising in me..

So grateful for this resource. Being still in the storm when everything falls apart isa challenge. Down time a great idea. 6 months already……

5 decades of it with No end in sight

100% on point.

THe Dark Night of the Soul happens when one is experience the purgation and integration of the shadow, following Spiritual Awakening or Kundalini Awakening. They are both the same thing. My initial awakening was a direct encounter with the Divine. Following this, all of my repressed instincts, emotions, feelings, and complexes began coming up from the deep unconscious and flooding the sphere of my consciousness. This happens over and over again. Layer after layer of intense suffering is experienced and purged. The Dark Night of the Soul is the first phase of purgation. If one is successful at making it through the Dark Night of the Soul, then the even more difficult Dark Night of the Spirit begins. This is the Soul's karma and wounds from previous lifetimes. With me, the Dark Night of the Soul lasted 12 years and the Dark Night of the Spirit lasted 10 years. Then the ego "strikes gold". Underneath the layers and layers of suffering is one's True Self or True Nature, which is a spark of the Divine. The ego surrenders to and is integrated with the Self or Soul, whose energies are completely positive...love, compassion, empathy, strength, power, joy, bliss, ecstacy, etc. It is a long and arduous process. It requires a very strong and grounded ego to make it to the other side. There are no guarantees.

Thanks dude ❤

I’m going through it again and it’s dark 🙏🏻🙏🏻

Thank u so much

I have to tell my landlord, but im still going to get evicted

I’m going through this right now as I’m on a journey to alleviate pornography addiction from my life (25 years). It’s not so much the pornography but the need to synthetically manipulate my dopamine… In my past I’ve overcome prescription pills, nicotine, alcohol, and now my last journey is porn. I’m on day 81, and have had a few slips to images not porn (which is fantastic). It’s a metamorphosis, it’s challenging and beautiful at the same time. I’ve been experiencing many different physical and psychological symptoms… A lot to unpack there. However, I do feel positive change. I don’t have guilt and shame from hiding porn use. I don’t want to watch people have sex like a simp anymore. I do feel terrible for the people trapped in the porn industry. These are some of the mental changes that have occurred, and I’m sure there’s more to come… But it is very challenging and dark. Good luck on your journey.

I have had sleepless nights & think of ending it all. It’s rough & I’m going through it now. Will it go away or what do I do? Any suggestions?

BRO, where did u learn this stuff. scary dude.

You mean God is removing certain things?

lmao answer this mister spiritual master, what is the "universe" or "god" trying to teach the homeless and crackheads? since "everybody" goes through this which makes it part of lifes purpose, go ahead explain it away to me