Spiritual awakenings are something that is very commonly misunderstood. They aren't something that just magically happens out of nowhere or with no causation. Nor does a person become completely spiritually aware after one. What does happen is a leap (most comparable to a growth spurt) in spiritual abilities, knowledge, or both. Many times this is accompanied by headaches and great spiritual perceptions for a short time afterwards. There is a variety of reasons this could happen, but let's go through the more common ones.
-Someone has been practicing for a bit and all of the sudden some of the naturally occurring barriers around them get weakened, cracked, or broken to where energy starts having an easier time affecting them.
-Either sought or unsought help comes from some spirit. this could be anything from a higher self the person calls for help to a random spirit that thinks the person will be a good aide in the future.
-Intentionally creating circumstances which empower yourself in some way. Some people use runes to increase certain perceptions and that in itself is a spiritual awakening; others practice chakra openings which can cause spiritual awakenings.
I have yet to give a detailed explanation about how to do energy work so I will be doing that today. First off pick one of these three that resonates with you better than the others:
Smoke
Light
Water
Now imagine that whichever you picked fills your body completely. This is the energy inside of you and to move it imagine that thing moving. If you want to shoot energy out of your hand then you should imagine that object shooting or flowing out of your hand. If you want to clear out stagnant energy in an area then imagine that object moving around in that area. Note that this is purely to help with visualization and you can use any other material that you can visualize well.
Now this one is pretty beginner. If you are able to sense energy but want a quick boost to what you are sensing right then, then what you can do is imagine the energy of your body going up to your head and then to your third eye and then shooting out of it and hitting everything else. This sends energy out from your third eye which then gets reflected back so you are able to see with your third eye better. Doing this for too long can drain you though. Alternatively if you want to quickly get your senses better then you can do the similar thing but instead of it shooting out of your third eye it goes into it, making it more sensitive. Basically sending energy into your third eye to power it up.
Cleansing your energy is an important part of life when doing energy work. WHenever you feel like your energy is dirty then find a source of energy you associate with (the sun, the moon, the earth, plants, water, fire) and begin taking in energy from it at one part of your body and have it push out all the energy that feels dirty or nasty in some way out through the other side of your body. Not doing this after working with any sorts of entities can make you corrupted (full of) that energy which makes your normal energy work harder since you can't produce other energy types as well. (Don't think about how many times I said energy in this post)