The truth about Spiritual Journey: You Ascend. Then You Descend.
- Osmarie Pico
- Jul 9
- 3 min read
Everyone talks about the awakening. The moment you realize you've been living on autopilot — checklist life, checklist love, checklist success. What nobody prepares you for is what comes after.
You undergo spiritual journey to ascend, only to descend.
Let me explain.
The Awakening Starts With a Question
It always starts the same way. You start questioning. Who am I? Why am I here? What's the point of any of this?
And then you fall into the void. You lose your identity — the one you built to survive, to fit in, to be liked. And in that void, you go looking for a new one.
That's the healing journey. And it happens on four levels at once.
Mentally — you start examining every belief you inherited since childhood. The ones you never chose. The ones that were just... there.
Emotionally — you finally let yourself feel what you've been trying to avoid. The anxiety. The sadness. The anger. The fear. All the heavy stuff you learned to swallow.
Physically — your body starts asking for change. You want movement. You want to be healthy. You look up one day and realize you've been sitting at a desk, disconnected from your own body, for years.
Spiritually — you start searching for the actual purpose of your soul. And this one doesn't move fast. It's a process.
The Pain Was Never a Punishment
The struggle. The toxic relationship. The environment that drained you. None of it was punishment. It was curriculum.
Your soul came back here for correction. For evolution. That relationship, that pain — it was placed there so you'd learn something you couldn't learn any other way.
The One Question That Changes Everything
Most people get stuck asking why is this happening to me?

That question keeps you small. It keeps you a victim of your own life.
The question that actually moves you forward is: what is this trying to teach me?
The second you shift into that mindset, everything accelerates. You start noticing your patterns. Your thought loops. Your triggers.
And once you see them, you can't unsee them — that's when the real integration begins. That's when your outside world starts rearranging itself to match what your soul actually came here for.
That's the ascension. You rise. You purify yourself of the pain, the lessons, the old identity. You become.
Then Comes the Descent
Here's what nobody talks about: the ascension isn't the finish line.
After you ascend, you descend. You come back down to earth still wanting the same things you always wanted — love, good relationships, abundance, impact. That doesn't go away. We're human. We're allowed to want.
The difference is how you want it now.
You've let go of the control.
You've let go of the grip.
You surrender.
You trust the timing — even when things fall apart, even when the door closes, you know there's a lesson in it, and something better is already moving toward you.
You stop managing every outcome. You stop getting anxious when it doesn't show up on your timeline.
You just trust that what's meant for you is already coming.
The Whole Point
At the end of the day, we didn't come here to figure everything out. We came here to experience it — the human experience, in all its mess and magic.
Ascend. Descend. Ascend again. That's not failure. That's the rhythm of the whole thing.





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