‘Lightworker’ is a term often used in the spiritual community.
If you feel as though you’re called to have a deeper purpose in this world, you might be able to relate to this special role.
In this article, we’ll explore the main signs of being a lightworker.
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What is a Lightworker?
A lightworker is a term that refers to a person who has undergone a spiritual awakening and feels called to illuminate the dark places of life.
Lightworkers are often empaths, old souls, and highly sensitive people, with a strong connection to their soul’s voice.
A Lightworker Illuminates the Darkness
While ‘lightworker’ sounds like an exclusively new age term that focuses only on love and light and the ‘feel good,’ it’s not. Or at least, it doesn’t have to be.
The light and darkness are intrinsically connected – one cannot exist without the other.
It’s for this reason that authentic lightworkers often focus a lot on the darkness or the shadow side of humanity.
Many lightworkers focus on:
- healing trauma,
- undoing toxic core beliefs,
- healing the inner child, and
- shining a light on the buried shadow self
After all, what use is the light if it cannot illuminate the darkness?
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21 Signs of the Lightworker
Are you a lightworker? Do you feel a higher calling in this life?
See how many signs you can relate to:
- You’ve undergone some kind of spiritual awakening and dark night of the soul.
- You’re a highly sensitive and empathic person who is aware of the nuances and subtleties of life.
- You have a strong connection to your intuition.
- At heart, you’re a counselor and you love to help others.
- Since childhood you’ve felt older than your age reflects – deep down you’re an old soul.
- You experience a lot of uncanny synchronicity as if Life is trying to speak to you and guide you.
- You’re prone to having many deep thoughts about existence such as “what is the meaning of life?”
- While the darkness intimidates others, you’re drawn to exploring and illuminating it within yourself. You’re a shadow worker who seeks to live a more awakened life.
- Past trauma has created deep suffering within you that you’ve tried to face, embrace, and heal. You’re a wounded healer.
- At heart, you’re a mystic who focuses on ways to live a more ensouled life.
- You possess a high level of self-awareness – which can often feel painful!
- Deep down, you believe that life is a spiritual journey of learning, growing, and transforming.
- Because you’re energy-sensitive, it’s easy for you to feel overwhelmed in daily life and struggle with anxiety.
- You thrive in nature and feel drawn to an eco-conscious lifestyle that honors the planet.
- You’ve experienced brief moments of ego death that have turned your life inside-out.
- Living a life that is authentic to you is your utmost priority – you value walking your own unique path.
- You’re prone to experiencing bouts of depression.
- Other people tend to use you as a ‘dumping ground’ for their emotions and problems (and you struggle to set personal boundaries!)
- You feel called to reconnect with your Soul. In reality, your life is one big journey of soul searching!
- You have a visionary nature and you feel destined to make some kind of positive change on this planet.
- You have deep love and compassion for this planet and believe that Oneness and Wholeness are everyone’s birthright.
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I’ve been born into a broken world and my purpose is to make sure when I leave it, know I have left my mark of kindness on it somewhere.
– N. Rowe
How many of the above signs could you relate to?
I hope you know that if you’re a lightworker, you’re in good company. This website is about helping you to walk the path less traveled and embrace your spiritual calling.
As a light/dark-worker myself, I know that this road can feel isolating.
But keep connecting to that source of love within you.
Keep reaching out to your Authentic Self.
The light within you will always help you through any dark tunnels that come your way.
What is your mission as a lightworker? What soul gift do you feel called to offer to the world?
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couldn’t agree more.
I enjoyed this article!! Thank you for a refreshing view. :)
Hello Aletheia, thanks for the article, it has good insight on duality. Towards the beggining of your article you mention how everything we perceive is because of thought. This reminds me of a theory I have recently read up on: consciousness only theory. Are you familair with it? How did you come across this idea and do you have any book recommendations? I am highly interested in it!
Getting out of the head and into the heart is key for me. We need language, in all its woahful inadequacy; we need the brain and ego as manifold to help us navigate this reality, but our culture spends way to much time there parsing over minutia that distracts us from really diving into the deep of what life has to offer. Balance, balance, balance. Let the mind inform you, let the heart guide you.
I believe there are just lost and found souls but we are all still the same in a way. And balance is most certainly the key!!
The predicament is that the whole is multi-faceted and multi-dimensional and no matter what you think, there is nothing wrong with what seems to be occurring. Even the notion of being non-dual so to speak is essentially misleading. The term “non-dual” unfortunately is fast becoming a buzzword in the same way the term “authentic self” became a fashionable term many years ago. Once a term becomes part of the lexicon of currently accepted memes it loses much of it’s usefulness as a teaching tool. The same holds true for such labels as “Shaman”. The current group of self proclaimed izod wearing, circuit speaking , pay per view shamans has marginalised the term shaman so much that it has very little meaning anymore. The key to unlocking the mystery of the illusion that is no illusion is letting go of the habitual thought program – in the form of the inner dialog – that constantly seeks to define what is seen from the standpoint of “how does that effect me? How do I feel about that. I like this. I don’t like that” etc. While there is nothing wrong with that type of thinking, it is not very helpful when you… Read more »
The relativistic nature of perception and reality is pointing to “something”. The question is do we want to see what it is saying? Do you ever feel that great current running below everything? I had a dream when I was child, and staying at camp in the mountains, and it will always stay with me. I found myself looking at a man and woman, they were in the form of my aunt and uncle, and initially I felt very comfortable about them. They stood at the entrance to their house just inside the doorway, somewhat glued to the spot it seemed. The air seemed different around them though, as if it was sharper and yet there was a type of unreality about them. They asked me if I would go with them, I hesitated, there was something peculiar about them and their smiles and eyes and yet I could not place it and the thought became confused in my mind after a moment, mind you i was around 10 at this time. So they asked me again and I said “yes”. With no break in the continuity I found myself in a cartoonishly strange version of a hot air balloon,… Read more »
THis is a very complicated subject. But in my experience, duality is a construct to keep people divided and always worshipping outside themselves (Ascended masters, God, Archangels, etc.). In reality we all stem from the same source and there is no higher or lower. We are all the same on this path toward enlightenment. We are just in different places on the path. But in these very dark times, I understand the desire to be a lightworker as the darkness has taken over to such a drastic point that a need exists to push back and reclaim our light, our freedom, and our divinity. I see the value in both sides. Strip away the false duality and we will have won! But there is a fight to be had in stripping the false duality away and the dark ones do not want to relinquish this control mechanism, even though it is inevitable. They will fight to the end. So there is a need for lightworkers at this time to fight them and help to raise the frequency of the planet. We were never meant to be in the 3rd dimension. We were manipulated down and it is time to rise… Read more »
Perhaps, murderers, rapists, etc, were blind-sided by their dark side-not to excuse their behavior. To use an old cliché, “the devil you know is better than the one you don’t.” One can’t rectify what is not recognized. In our society, who could I trust to help me, if I had those kinds of thoughts and feelings? We are taught to “eshew the very presence of evil.”. Meanwhile, the world and its people never change or heal.
Labels are training wheels. We use them while they serve a purpose, and we need to be able/willing to let them go as we move on in life.
There a a lot said about lightworkers–I’m happily oblivious of most of it. :)
If we go to basics, a lightworker is someone who works with light. And light for me is that energy that flows from heart chakra and connects to Source, anything else is recycled energy.
So a lightworker is just someone who keeps the hose to Source clean enough for IT to use it as IT see fits. Can we, as mere mortals, keep that hose clean at all times? Nah. We can try though. :)