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Understanding The Spiritual Growth Cycle

3 min readApr 29, 2025

In the pursuit of spiritual growth, you’re not always going to go up. Just as nature undergoes cycles of change, your spiritual development has different phases, each with its unique challenges.

You will have highs where you reach new levels of your spiritual development, and then you will cycle back down into a growth phase. The growth phases can be challenging, but they are necessary because that’s where many important insights are discovered.

Learning from a growth phase allows you to expand even further along your spiritual development. Moving through a growth cycle leads to a deeper sense of self, a stronger alignment with your purpose, and more faith than you had before.

But it’s just a matter of time before you’re back to square 1… seemingly. Spiritual growth is not a one-time event but a series of cycles. You may revisit similar challenges multiple times, each time from a higher level of awareness (look at spiritual growth as an upward spiral).

Have no idea what I’m talking about? Here we’re going to look at the 3 phases of spiritual growth, which together create an endless cycle.

Phase 1: Expansion and Clarity

In the initial phases of your journey, you may experience a sense of expansion. Everything feels fresh, you’re…

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Daniel Hannah
Daniel Hannah

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