Phantom Habits: a sign of spiritual healing & awakening

As you start to spiritually awaken and as you start to heal your emotional and energetic body, your fears and bad habits will start to slip away.

As they begin to disappear, you may start wondering where they've gone. You'll find yourself contemplating why you aren't reacting the way you used to.

Your mind searches for the familiar neuro-pathways yet finds nothing. The path has been erased.

This is what I call a phantom habit.

Phantom habit is a term I coined to describe the experience of sensing a familiar fear or habit while simultaneously sensing that this fear or habit no longer exists.

The term was inspired by the chronic condition known as phantom limb syndrome. People who experience phantom limb syndrome report feeling painful or uncomfortable sensations from a limb they no longer have.

The term was also born out of what I experienced when I was healing from high-functioning anxiety. I talk about my experience briefly in this 60-second video.

This is also something I often explore with my Intuition Ignition (DNA Activation) and Cord-Cutting (Soul Realignment) clients.

Below is a channelled message that came through for one of my clients from their higher self that speaks directly about phantom habits related to their ability to receive love.

You are free to let go. You are free to receive. You are clear. Your energy has been cleared of all obligations. Lean into the discomfort.

The discomfort you feel toward receiving love comes from habit. That is all. Your fear of receiving is dissolved. You are now in the habit stage.

These are phantom habits… this rejection of love. You are going to have more and more opportunities to receive gifts of love, appreciation, and gratitude from your community. Your habits will kick in and you will feel the common urge to deny or dismiss these gifts.

But things will be different now. You will catch yourself in mid-dismissal. You will observe yourself. This is the fruit of all the work you’ve been doing to focus and find stillness.

Instead of dismissing the gift, you will simply say, “thank you.” That is all.

You will want to say things like, “I don’t deserve this,” or “you don’t need to do that” but you will stop yourself. You must stop yourself. Your soul requires it. I require it.

As you allow these small gifts to enter your heart, you will make space for more love to enter. You will discover more and more light. Great mysteries will unfold before you. You will be amazed and in awe at the magnitude of magic there is out there.

It is not too late. You are right on time. 

Phantom habits are part of the integration process. The integration process usually happens after you’ve received some form of healing treatment such as energy work.

As you heal, your body and mind are trying to make space for your new reality. The phantom habit is residual energy from the old habit. It's trying to find a way to exit your system.

The phantom habit shows up in scenarios you used to be triggered by and at this moment you become aware that you have another option: to choose a way that wasn't available to you before.

Think of the phantom habit as a well-beaten path.

You're on a hike and you come to a fork in the road.

To your right is a well-beaten path. There's a clear path. The tall grass has been beaten out of the way. It would be so easy to take this path.

Then to your left is another path. The path is faint. If you walked here, you'd have to struggle to get through the tall grass and unruly weeds. But it's still a path.

From an unhealed perspective, you'd probably take the beaten path. It's so easy and familiar.

Even though you know what you'll find down that path isn't healthy, the familiarity makes it an easy choice.

From a healed perspective, however, you understand that the unbeaten path leads to a more aligned destination.

As you walk down the unbeaten path the tall grass, which represents past habits, keeps brushing up against your legs. You feel the familiar sensations. You remember what it was like to walk down the other path.

You recall the encounters you had on that path,  but strangely, you're no longer emotionally invested in those stories anymore. You recall them, but you don't get entangled in them.

You keep moving smoothly through the path.

Day by day, moment by moment, this path becomes more defined and the other one begins to disappear.

Eventually, the old path is just a story. It becomes a tale you tell... the story of how you healed.