One of my graduate students wrote to me recently and asked if it was necessary to suffer so much. She finished her study with me in 2008 (I believe it was) and since then she has been working at raising her vibration. She mentioned that since doing so she has been depressed, tired, and lethargic at times, has highs and lows in energy, and has done a great deal of crying. I remembered back to my early days of opening to Spirit and what I went through then. I honestly thought that, once I had done some training, I would then be so high in vibration that I would be able to do anything. How wrong I was. From day one of beginning the path of metaphysics, it was hard going all the way. I learned about suffering very much because there are many ways to suffer when one opens the door metaphysically.
When I began my path, I really had nobody to communicate with after my teachers went back to England from Australia. It took some time before new teachers came in and, during that time, it was quite scary because I had no reference point, nobody to talk to regarding what I was experiencing at the time. What I was experiencing were panic attacks so severe that I am surprised I got to work every day. As my chakras opened up it affected my whole glandular system which, in effect, unbalanced my whole hormone system. Each of the seven major chakras connects to a gland in the physical body which, in turn, produces the hormones in the body. As the high spiritual energy came in, it worked at releasing past-life energy which had been trapped for many lifetimes in the etheric body in the chakras. This, in turn, really upset the hormones in the physical gland system, making them very unbalanced.