# Awakening > Awakening is the recognition that you can still function in physical reality in a less limited way. It is the process of releasing the beliefs and definitions that do not reflect who you truly are returning toward the natural state that is felt as harmony love and joy. It is not a status to be reached once and for all but a widening of awareness that continues to occur within ordinary life. - Canonical: https://sassani.app/topic/awakening # Awakening *An ordinary waterside path broadens into a clear overlook while continuing onward* In Bashar's framing, awakening is not a departure from physical life but a recognition that physical reality can be lived with less limitation. It is the process of releasing the beliefs and definitions that do not reflect who one truly is, returning toward the natural state that is felt as harmony, love, and joy. It is not a status to be reached once and for all; it is a widening of awareness that continues to occur within ordinary life. ## Waking up from the sleep of limitation Bashar frames the human condition as a "sleep of limitation" — a state in which one has pretended to be disconnected from the self and from the broader consciousness, even though the disconnection is only pretended. Awakening, then, is the recognition that "you can still function in physical reality in a less limited way." > — Classes Of Awakening On A New Earth Ii (qa-1), [Source](https://sassani.app/source-transmissions/classes-of-awakening-on-a-new-earth-ii) The shift is not away from physical life; it is a shift in how physical life is experienced — with the limitations released and the natural self more present. ## Releasing what is not you becomes the natural response The process is not about fighting the unwanted but releasing it. When long-suppressed beliefs, anxieties, or pains arise as one moves toward the true self, Bashar frames them as evidence of readiness to let them go: "that means you're ready to let go of all of that now. […] All those belief systems and concepts that are not reflecting who you truly are, you can really let them go." > — Classes Of Awakening On A New Earth I (qa-1), [Source](https://sassani.app/source-transmissions/classes-of-awakening-on-a-new-earth-i) Pure excitement is treated as the signal of one's truth, while the doubt that pulls one back can also be released. > — Classes Of Awakening On A New Earth I (qa-2), [Source](https://sassani.app/source-transmissions/classes-of-awakening-on-a-new-earth-i) Over time this release becomes the first natural response, and one becomes "a more specific or precise antenna for a particular frequency of your preference" — able to receive the vibration of the true self without being pulled into the old channels. > — Classes Of Awakening On A New Earth I (text), [Source](https://sassani.app/source-transmissions/classes-of-awakening-on-a-new-earth-i) ## The natural state is felt as harmony, love, and joy Awakening is not measured by special status or outer markers; it is recognized by feel. "When you feel harmony, when you feel love, when you feel joy, you are feeling your true natural self. You are feeling your true natural energy." > — Classes Of Awakening On A New Earth Ii (qa-12), [Source](https://sassani.app/source-transmissions/classes-of-awakening-on-a-new-earth-ii) This reframes the process: one does not awaken by achieving a distant goal; one awakens by matching — and learning to trust — a vibration that is already the natural self. ## Awakening as ordinary, embodied, and shared Awakening shows up inside ordinary life. A brief exchange connects waking up with living one's dreams rather than only thinking about the life one prefers. > — Boom Noises And Earthquakes Wake up Call (qa-2), [Source](https://sassani.app/source-transmissions/boom-noises-and-earthquakes-wake-up-call) The "Classes of Awakening" sessions add that awakening is meant to be lived in the body — "let your senses fully [be] involved in the exercises that you imagine […] Don't just leave it a mental exercise. Get a little bit dirty. Get into the mud." > — Classes Of Awakening On A New Earth I (qa-4), [Source](https://sassani.app/source-transmissions/classes-of-awakening-on-a-new-earth-i) And it spreads by reflection: when one person is willing to live at a higher vibration, that acts as a trigger or invitation for others who are ready to match it. > — Classes Of Awakening On A New Earth Ii (qa-1), [Source](https://sassani.app/source-transmissions/classes-of-awakening-on-a-new-earth-ii) ## Practical implications Notice that the unwanted material surfacing as you move toward your truth is evidence you are ready to release it, not evidence you are on the wrong path. > — Classes Of Awakening On A New Earth I (qa-1), [Source](https://sassani.app/source-transmissions/classes-of-awakening-on-a-new-earth-i) Treat pure excitement as the signal of your truth; doubt is something you can also let go of, not a counter-evidence. > — Classes Of Awakening On A New Earth I (qa-2), [Source](https://sassani.app/source-transmissions/classes-of-awakening-on-a-new-earth-i) Use harmony, love, and joy as the felt reference for being on the natural self; their absence is information about vibration, not a verdict on your worth. > — Classes Of Awakening On A New Earth Ii (qa-12), [Source](https://sassani.app/source-transmissions/classes-of-awakening-on-a-new-earth-ii) Bring the process into the body and ordinary action rather than keeping it purely mental. > — Classes Of Awakening On A New Earth I (qa-4), [Source](https://sassani.app/source-transmissions/classes-of-awakening-on-a-new-earth-i) Awakening is something one lives, including by living one's dreams rather than only thinking about them. > — Boom Noises And Earthquakes Wake up Call (qa-2), [Source](https://sassani.app/source-transmissions/boom-noises-and-earthquakes-wake-up-call) ## Representative passages You are all waking up from your sleep of limitation. And now you are waking up to the fact that you can still function in physical reality in a less limited way.— Bashar, Congratulations, that's wonderful. That's wonderful. Because that means you're ready to let go of all of that now. All of the things that are not you, all those beliefs are not you, all those belief systems and concepts that are not reflecting who you truly are, you can really let them go.— Bashar, When you feel harmony, when you feel love, when you feel joy, you are feeling your true natural self. You are feeling your true natural energy.— Bashar, ## Related - [Life Purpose & Destiny](https://sassani.app/topic/life-purpose) - [Excitement](https://sassani.app/topic/excitement) - [Definitions & Beliefs](https://sassani.app/topic/definitions-and-beliefs) - [Parallel Realities](https://sassani.app/topic/parallel-realities) - [Higher Self](https://sassani.app/topic/higher-self) Markdown twin of https://sassani.app/topic/awakening. The HTML page is the source of truth.