4 Personal Troubles Revealing Spiritual Wake-Up Calls
By: La Dolce Vita Diary
Tags: Self, Life Lessons, Spirituality, Personal Growth, Spiritual Growth

4 Personal Troubles Revealing Spiritual Wake-Up Calls

You can reset and find your authentic self within life’s miracles

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When trouble or unexpected change comes that blind sides or changes your life’s trajectory, you may feel like you’re the only one experiencing such a predicament.

You’re not.

Be comforted you’re not alone, as others are going through similar life uncertainties.

Keep telling yourself that for reassurance. Your self-talk is important so self-pity doesn’t take over.

Troubles will come, but your misery is optional.

You will only get confused if you ask why. Because more often than not, you won’t get answers. Life for you (and anyone) will just keep moving on with all the mysterious elements, like an unfinished novel.

You’ll get the chance to improve your life.

You’re best to roll with the punches. The easier you can let things go, the more productive you’ll be.

Trying to learn from others who have gone through similar difficulties. We need each other as we have different gifts and ways to be. We can help each other connect the dots in our own lives and past situations.

In my own life, I’ve found these 4 troubles are life’s spiritual wake up calls.

Trouble #1: Accidents

At the time you may not know why a specific accident occurred. And you may even be (and feel) lucky to have survived. It’s a miracle.

You get to re-examine your life in an accident.

I had screwed up my back with a condition called subluxation (by deforming a spine disc) from carelessly sledding backwards down a snow mogul. I made bad decisions caused by a reckless relationship.

Then later down the road that year, my car caught on fire. I was in the middle of nowhere and happened to run into a small supermarket where there happened to be a mechanic who lifted under my car hood, and told me that had I poured water on the fire, then the car would have blown up.

In hindsight, I should’ve drove in the opposite direction to where I was headed. But I didn’t catch on until years later when the relationship I was in should have ended years ago, or (in hindsight) never began. It was a wake up call from reckless young love. I thought I was invincible.

Accidents reveal several lessons:

A warning. You could be headed down the wrong path (like I was).

A second chance. To appreciate what you have.

An opportunity to reflect on what’s important in life.

You could make needed changes and transform your life. You could grow spiritual roots with goals to become a better, kinder, or more giving human being.

While accidents happen to you unexpectedly (that’s why they’re accidents), self-sabotage can be as destructively impactful.

Trouble #2: Personal Destruction

When you have personal destruction or self-sabotage in your life, such as an addiction or major flaw (pointed out to you), that could be a sign to turn your life around.

The good news is, since you’re in control of your conduct, you can choose to transform yourself.

You may have other option but you’ll be missing out on what life has to fully offer like deeper relationships and real love.

Or blowing all your money away on stuff you regret.

I remember regularly going on a buying spree and then coming home with bags and hiding them. Meaning I was doing something I shouldn’t. Luckily I grew out of that stage. And then realized I had more than enough stuff. I was being convicted that I didn’t need stuff to make me happy. So I decided I had everything I needed and stopped taking out the credit cards.

Choose to do something radically different (like hide the credit cards).

Before you can hit rock bottom.

It may have been a miracle you didn’t fall hard. You saw the err of your ways before it was too late.

Or you learned a deeper lesson that was needed for your change.

Life will meet you where you are.

There’s always an opportunity to learn from your mistakes (and personally grow inside).

You can become more whole in prayer and meditation. You could see and develop deeper meaning or a relationship with God or the Universe for protecting you from falling deeper. Keeping you from binge-spending or drinking.

When you see the destructive side of situations (alcoholism, hatred, conceit, etc.), you get the chance to never want that life again.

And lift the fog.

Living an authentic life marked by wisdom, integrity, and greater clarity.

Trouble #3: Miracles and Supernatural Occurrences

You may have seen or heard bizarre, but true life miracle stories.

Such as:

Re-directing people to the direction of their life that was planned for them all along. Nothing is impossible. If you believe.

People that got connected halfway around the world with siblings they didn’t know existed before.

Couples who reconnected from decades ago when they could have moved on like two separate ships sailing.

A change of heart all of the sudden.

Miraculously surviving a crash that should have ended fatally. I have my own story with this…

One Saturday evening when I was a teenager, my parents’ car was sideswiped by an 18 wheeler truck driving highway speed. From their description, they should’ve been killed but they miraculously didn’t even have to go to the emergency room. Their car never came back, but they did without a scratch.

In an instant, my sister and I could’ve been without parents, living as orphans, and that would’ve changed the course of our lives. Back then, we were too young to grasp the potential severity of what happened. But I believe the Universe was wise enough to know and protected us.

Or supernaturally an angel shows up in your life revealing prophecy.

Another time a few years ago, towards the end of a job that I burned out from, I ran over a traffic light median where 3 of my tires were slashed and the metal rims were slightly impacted. I was a couple miles down from home, had a strange knowing I would make it home driving, and miraculously found a parking spot that wasn’t usually easy to find on my street on a Saturday night.

You get to count your blessings.

And when Notre Dame Cathedral caught on fire a few years ago, that was a worldwide wake up call and spiritual revival. Miraculously people flocked from far and wide leaving flowers and donations for the beloved Paris cathedral, a symbol of human connection.

People showed up in love, the highest spiritual calling. World healing is touching as is individual healing stories.

Trouble #4: Hospital and emergency room situations

Hospitals are places of healing and awakenings. Many people come out better off as their body is treated, and disease is cared for. During hospitalization, conscious patients have time to think about their lives.

And unconscious coma patients can sometimes still have profound thoughts that leave impact after they go home.

I’ve been in a hospital twice in my life.

When I was a 13 year old, I had my appendix removed (about 7% of the population goes through this). That was my first surgery. The surgeon afterwards calmly told me that I was lucky to be alive, as I was days away from a potential deadly infection. This came after I had been sharing a hospital room with a classmate who had a brain tumor. For several days, I watched her suffer in her partial coma.

She was lucky to be alive. What I went through was mild in my hospital bed as my body was healing. She was fighting for her life and miraculously survived. She had a chance to see life differently.

The next time I was in the hospital I was in my late 30’s.

I had been laid off from work just a few months prior. I ended up in the hospital. And the incident was so bizarre. Nothing happened as I had nothing wrong with me. I was diagnosed with a mental breakdown. In the hospital I saw visions about prophecies on my life.

How could I ignore something so profound? I had missed a life’s calling that I believed in. So I was being re-routed from my then-life. The calling never died in my heart. Then after a week, I was released from the hospital and all of the sudden packing to move back to where I came from. Unreal. And then my destiny started playing out. That was a spiritual intervention. And now in my patient 40’s, still realizing the destiny. You have to roll with life’s bizarre situations.

You may come across your own life’s spiritual awakening or intervention. Or choose to pay attention to the whispers in your life.

By believing, you unleash powers to your life you may not have known you had. In life’s abundance and love for you, a miracle in this world.

Never forget that.

Final point: Confusion is not necessarily a trouble sign.

Not knowing next steps is par for the course. It’s not always easy.

Life is complicated.

Uncertainties are inevitable. Don’t worry so much. Just believe.

Even if you enter a new job or season, you don’t know what’s behind the door until you fully immerse.

Then you can gradually see behind any fog and mirrors.

And get to keep working on yourself. While life’s miracles can mysteriously happen when you least expect, adding twists and turns that will help you grow…

If you choose to believe life is wired in your favor, like I do.