Coaching practices for Signs You Under Spiritual Attack
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- I can’t tell if what I’m in is a spiritual passage I’m meant to wait out or whether I’m actually unwell and need real help
- The people I’ve tried to talk to about this just want to cheer me up or fix it with a Bible verse, and it makes me feel more alone
- Since I started sitting in silence, old buried feelings and memories keep welling up during and after, and it unnerves me
- Now that the warm feelings have drained out of my practice, I’m forced to see how much I was in it for that glow
- Some parts of my day leave me feeling alive and like myself and others leave me weirdly drained and small, and I usually just push past both
Practices that may help
- Recognizing the dark night versus depression or failure
Learn to distinguish a genuine spiritual dark night from clinical depression or burnout.
The Dark Night of the Soul: John of the Cross - Seeking a guide who knows this territory
Find a spiritual director who can tell the difference between a night that needs patience and one that needs help.
The Dark Night of the Soul: John of the Cross - Allowing the "divine therapy" — psychological healing through practice
Expect that regular centering prayer surfaces buried emotional material, and allow it.
Centering Prayer: The Method of Thomas Keating - Working with attachments in the night of the senses
Use the night of the senses to examine what you have been clinging to for identity and security.
The Dark Night of the Soul: John of the Cross - Notice the feelings (consolation and desolation)
Pay attention to where you felt energized and connected versus drained and pulled away.
The Daily Examen: Reviewing the Day - Work the affirmations and blurts
Surface the negative beliefs about your creativity ("blurts"), then counter them deliberately.
The Artist’s Way, Made Practical - Working with shadow material in dreams
Treat recurring dream figures or disturbing images as shadow characters and ask what they represent.
Shadow Work - Don’t make gods into demons
Don’t let spiritual practice become a source of pride, judgment, or superiority over others.
Lojong: Tibetan Mind Training - Understanding the night as purgative rather than punitive
Reframe the dark night from abandonment or failure to a process working toward greater freedom.
The Dark Night of the Soul: John of the Cross - Choosing and using a sacred word
Select one simple word as your symbol of consent to God’s presence and action within.
Centering Prayer: The Method of Thomas Keating
Related concerns
- Dark Night Of The Soul Meaning
The "dark night of the soul" is a phrase from the 16th-century Spanish mystic John of the Cross, describing a stage of the spiritual journey in which ordinary supports — felt consolation, clarity, and spiritual experience — are withdrawn, leaving the person in an apparent void that John saw as purifying rather than destructive. The phrase has entered popular culture to describe any profound crisis of meaning, faith, or identity. John’s framework is theological; its phenomenological descriptions overlap with studied experiences of meaning-making, post-traumatic growth, and psychological transformation.
- How To Survive Dark Night Of Soul
The "dark night of the soul" is a phrase from the 16th-century Spanish mystic John of the Cross, describing a stage of the spiritual journey in which ordinary supports — felt consolation, clarity, and spiritual experience — are withdrawn, leaving the person in an apparent void that John saw as purifying rather than destructive. The phrase has entered popular culture to describe any profound crisis of meaning, faith, or identity. John’s framework is theological; its phenomenological descriptions overlap with studied experiences of meaning-making, post-traumatic growth, and psychological transformation.
- Spiritual Desolation Signs
Learn to distinguish a genuine spiritual dark night from clinical depression or burnout.
Recognizing the dark night versus depression or failure
- The Dark Night Of The Soul John Of The Cross As A Caregiver
The "dark night of the soul" is a phrase from the 16th-century Spanish mystic John of the Cross, describing a stage of the spiritual journey in which ordinary supports — felt consolation, clarity, and spiritual experience — are withdrawn, leaving the person in an apparent void that John saw as purifying rather than destructive. The phrase has entered popular culture to describe any profound crisis of meaning, faith, or identity. John’s framework is theological; its phenomenological descriptions overlap with studied experiences of meaning-making, post-traumatic growth, and psychological transformation.
- The Dark Night Of The Soul John Of The Cross When Burned Out
The "dark night of the soul" is a phrase from the 16th-century Spanish mystic John of the Cross, describing a stage of the spiritual journey in which ordinary supports — felt consolation, clarity, and spiritual experience — are withdrawn, leaving the person in an apparent void that John saw as purifying rather than destructive. The phrase has entered popular culture to describe any profound crisis of meaning, faith, or identity. John’s framework is theological; its phenomenological descriptions overlap with studied experiences of meaning-making, post-traumatic growth, and psychological transformation.
- What Are Spiritual Enemies
Find a spiritual director who can tell the difference between a night that needs patience and one that needs help.
Seeking a guide who knows this territory
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