‘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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Thank you for a deep and inspiring article.
I’ve always disliked the term “Lightworker” for much the same reason mentioned in this article. Coming from a Shamanic training background it never made sense accept as a way for someone to feel superior to another. Thanks for the Article.
Wonderful article. It solidifies what I have come to in my awakening journey. I too, am shedding the term, lightworker, for myself. It no longer serves me on my spiritual journey anymore. There’s so much implications/expectations based on performance . My self-worth is irrespective of my performance. I came to the realization that there is something wrong whereby it’s the lightworkers that are charged with a divine mission to help humanity. What about those younger in their spiritual journey, do they get exempt from that charge and do not carry the title..by no means. A lightworker is not the only ‘water carrier’ for humanity. As we grow in consciousness, and realize the divine interconnectiveness of it all, we all want to help and love humanity, not because of a title and expectations, but because it’s an expresssion of God(source) living in & through us.
Hi, I love your articles and I am learning so much from them, but there is one thing I am struggling with. I am a motivated vegan for a lot of Reasons, and for example I can label factory framing only as bad and immoral, people bring Harm to other living sentient creatures for their own good. But this js duality, should I let this go as well? I think I Will not be able to though, but Maybe this is an exception or Something? I usally try to look at opinions and such from a lot of different pespectives but these things are just cruel and inhumane to me. I would love to hear what you think I should do!
Robin. Coming from an animist (shamanic training) background where everything has a sentient including the plants that vegans eat and the stones we sit on, etc. All things are sentient, therefore eating plants is not ‘better’ that eating animals, in my world view. Not trying to knock vegans here, just pointing out a different way to look at it.
In the end, gratitude for the food we eat is important, regardless of its source.
The slaughter of an animal is a far cry from eating a cabbage. I understand that all animate and inanimate beings are conscious and sentient. However, slaughtering an animal and/or supporting the killing of animals by buying meat, in which animals suffer and do not want to die, is not the same as eating beans, digging up carrots or eating an orange. The source of your food matters.
This ^^^
It is a far cry. Unfortunately, economic disparity forces one to eat preservatives and animals because (1) not enough money to eat right as it costs a lot to eat correctly and (2) not enough education so a lot of vegans are malnourished.
I’ve been reading Delores Cannon’s book, The Three Waves of Volunteers, and something poignant stuck out for me in recent pages…
I believe she was speaking with what she calls the subconscious (source) in one of the Quantum Healing Hypnosis Sessions in the book when it explains how there isn’t any negative beings, there are some that are just further from the light. Kind of goes along with your post, we all just are.
Oh my God, THANK YOU, I know the VOICE is speaking through you… I use the Generator at the bottom and WHAM! Here I am. You channel it well. Blessings.
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Loved this article, totally identify with the “labels” helping for a time. For me personally, they became uncomfortable. At first I thought I was seeking out like-minded people/groups etc but after a while I started to avoid interacting with these groups finding it all too much repetitive ideas and phrases that I found unrealistic and unfulfilling. I have learned much from this site and love the honest way you are encouraged to explore all aspects of who you are no matter how uncomfortable. Although I. still have much work to do in my own understanding of myself at least l now have a better understanding of how! Thank you xxx
I have labelled myself my entire life, hard not to, when you were raised by an extremely emotionally and physically abusive and violent parent, who called you more harmful names than the dictionary can hold and hearing them all the time, until you believe them.
However I find on days that I am not ripping myself to shreds, that I have always been a duality. I am kind, generous, funny, friendly, helpful, empathetic, patient and supportive on Monday, only to find on Tuesday that I am snotty, impatient, vicious, brutal, nasty, eye rolling, fed up, worn out, isolating, teary eyed and bitter. How can one 61 inch body be all these things ? How can 1 61 inch be such a mass of contradictions ??
Thankyou for this article. it’s quite alot to take in at once, & I look forward to exploring it often. As Someone who has been FAR on the otherside of things. I would like to point out that caring about Terms,& Identifiers is not something those who Break,Tear down ,and Destroy concern themselves with.
Selfishness leaves No room for doubt. there is enlightenment in acknowledging the Duality of All things. even atoms contain “Positive” & “Negative” charged elements.those properties are not in balance in each and every individual. thus some are more “Light” ,or “Dark”.
I feel this way too about “ soul types”. It is helpful for seeing a purpose but it gets weird. People being competitive to have the most enlightened advanced and trendy one. It wasn’t supposed to be that way.