Episode 10 - A Deep Dive Into Spiritual Awakenings: What Are They & How to Better Navigate the Perceived Chaos

You, the listeners, voted, and this week's episode is all about Spiritual Awakenings:

- Intro to the concept of spiritual awakenings and its personal nature
- My first spiritual awakening and how I used the Akashic Records to navigate it
- What are the Akashic Records, and why they're one of my favorite tools of healing & empowerment

- Navigating relationships, sensory experiences, and physical symptoms during awakening
- Practices to use to ease the perceived chaos of your awakening journey

Read the full transcript here:

Speaker A [00:00:02]:

Welcome to Flip the Script with Vic, your weekly pep talk to expand and shift your perspective. I'm your host, Victoria Nielsen. Together, we'll unwind all the things you thought you knew and awaken to what's possible when you flip the script and take control of your own life. Are you ready? Let's jump on in. Hi, guys. Welcome to another episode of Flip the script with Vic. I'm your host, Victoria Nielsen. This week, we are diving into all things spiritual awakening.

Speaker A [00:00:30]:

So if you're listening to this podcast, you may or may not have experienced a spiritual awakening. And that's okay. We're going to talk about it today. Because you will experience many spiritual awakenings in your lifetime. It doesn't just happen once and then it's done. It happens over and over and over again. As you meet a new level of yourself, as you unlock and unravel a new version of your being, you are most likely going to go through a spiritual awakening, or some call it a dark night of the soul, to get to that place. And so I also want everyone to realize that they are intuitive and that your intuition really comes back online once you've experienced a spiritual awakening.

Speaker A [00:01:15]:

And in this day and age, it can be really hard to be in touch with our intuition. Our intuition is just that innate inner knowing within us, that guiding force that is putting us on the path towards our soul's highest evolvement, that is calling us to step up and step into the person that we asked to be in this incarnation. Because I truly believe that before we come and incarnate, we sign contracts to say we want to experience this. We want to learn that, we want to release the karma from this previous lifetime. And the universe is going to keep you to those contracts. And so you're going to have multiple spiritual awakenings as you align with these things that are truly meant for you. And when I say spiritual awakening, I also want to be clear that it doesn't mean that all of a sudden you start seeing ghosts. I mean, maybe you will, but most likely you won't.

Speaker A [00:02:14]:

It just means that you are going to be more in tune with the subtle energies of the universe and the subtle energies that are again guiding your life forward. Because whatever you want to call this higher power, whether you name it God, source, universe, universe, universe, there is something that is higher than us, that is guiding our life. But what I want people to understand is that it's not separate than us. It is not separate. We are made of that exact same energy. And when we're tapping into our intuition and we've had a spiritual awakening, we start to realize that. We start to realize that there is no separation between us and others, that we're all connected, we're all made of this same energy. And it's a current through our life that we can either flow with or come up against and really struggle when we're allowing the magic to unfold.

Speaker A [00:03:14]:

We're in flow with the universe, things come easily to us. Synchronicities abound you may be thinking about a person and all of a sudden they call you. You may think that, wow, you would really love to have x amount of money and then a check appears. It is like modern day magic because the universe is responding to your energy and the give and take of what you're putting out. And if you're resisting the universe or resisting the spiritual awakening, this calling within you, you're going to come up against a lot. And I have found in my experience and in talking to many of my clients who have spiritual awakenings, that sometimes it does take a big life catalyst to put you back on the path. Because life is distracting and life can be hard and we can be numbing ourselves like I was for a really long time to all of these signs and things around us. And the universe is going to make sure you get back on track.

Speaker A [00:04:13]:

So whether it's with a big event, for me personally it was a miscarriage and I'll share more about that. But for you it may be the loss of a job or a dear friend or having something happen in your life that feels like it's uprooting you. That at its core is a spiritual awakening. It's an uprooting of old ideals, old programming, old constructs that constructs that are no longer serving you, that you need to get out of your life, to get out of your own way, essentially. And so a spiritual awakening can also feel very confusing. You feel like there's a lot of chaos in your life and there probably is because again, things are upending and moving for your highest good and in the moment it may not feel like that because hindsight's 2020, right? But these shifts are happening for a reason. And when you can lean into that perspective, instead things are happening for you and not to you. And so back to the thought of everyone being intuitive.

Speaker A [00:05:16]:

Every single person on this planet has intuition and is intuitive. It's been programmed out of us, it's been really taken out of the constructs of society. And so I love that we're leaning back into it and we're learning to trust that inner knowing again. Because for so long again, myself included, I looked outside of myself for all the answers. I wanted everyone around me to tell me how things should go instead of turning inward and deciding this is how I want them to be for me. And that's your intuition telling you that you want to live or be a certain way in the world. And intuition comes to you through your five senses so you can feel things within the body. Like that gut check, right? When you walk into a room and you just know that the energy is off or, you know that that thing that you're about to do, you shouldn't go do that's your intuition speaking to you, it can speak to you in signs through nature.

Speaker A [00:06:14]:

So seeing cardinals or bees or any animal really, cardinals and bees are just two of mine. That when they show up to me, it means that I'm on the right path. You can hear your intuition. I am not as Claire Audient as some others, but I've learned, like, a muscle to work with that because now I know you're not hearing things like you may hear. For me, it's like a bell or a really high pitched wine in my ear, like, almost like there's a fly nearby. And that's my reminder that I need to be listening to what's happening around me because a message is going to come through. You can be very visual. I'm a visual person, so people like my mother can have dreams that come true.

Speaker A [00:06:58]:

You can also taste and smell and use all of your senses to know. Like, for example, when my I guess he's my great grandfather yeah. Is around and is visiting. I smell cigarette smoke, and we don't smoke in my family. And I'll just smell it in the house, like in a random place, and I'll be like, okay, Poppy, hi. What message do you have for me? But it's a relationship, right? And it's a muscle that you have to learn to flex and better understand. So growing up, my mom is a very intuitive person. And I ran away from it because I actually used to have night terrors when I was little.

Speaker A [00:07:37]:

And I know they're pretty common for little kids, and it's because they're still so connected to the ethers and they don't understand what's happening and it can feel really scary. And so I started telling myself at night that I didn't want dreams anymore. And it really cut off that intuitive part of myself because the universe listens. So when you say to the universe, I don't want to hear, see, feel these things, it'll stop or it'll lessen. Because you have free will and you have a choice. No one can make you do anything you don't want to do. You have to choose to be open to these things. And the more open you are, the more that you will see them.

Speaker A [00:08:15]:

And so I really turned off my intuition and I really thought that if it didn't look the same way that it did for my mom, that I wasn't intuitive, I didn't have dreams that came true. So I was like, no, that's not me. And it wasn't until I met certain people. So my business partner in spirit, Mama's Tiffany, was a beautiful catalyst for me for diving deeper into my spiritual awakening. And the universe sends messengers like that to you. Maybe I'm that messenger for you that is sparking something inside of you to want to go find out more. And so she was really good at interpreting dreams, and she kept telling me like, yes, you're intuitive, yes, there's more there, and I didn't want to hear it. I kept saying, no, that's not me, until I had a miscarriage in 2018.

Speaker A [00:09:00]:

And after the miscarriage, I really wanted to just dive deeper into myself. I wanted to use it as a catalyst for change. I stopped smoking weed every day. I started meditating. I found books to read, poems to read, to really start healing myself from the inside out. And that's when I found the Akashic records. So for those that don't know, the Akashic records are just an energetic frequency that absolutely anybody can tap into at any time. And it is the energy of the ascended masters, teachers, and any of your loved ones that want to come through.

Speaker A [00:09:40]:

And when you're connecting with the records, you're essentially channeling information, whether it's past life, future life, current life, but it's the guidance that you need to hear right now in the moment. And so I love that for my clients and even for myself, no two sessions are alike. I could ask the exact same questions to the records that I ask today, I can ask them tomorrow and receive completely different answers because I need different guidance in the moment, and because the records are mutable, so they change based on your energy work, your free will, your choices, all of those things. And I really resonated with the records because I felt in my body that this was an energy that was true. And when I learned to open my own records and the records of others, I found such profound healing because it allowed me the reassurance that I needed after my miscarriage. It really allowed me to see that there was something higher leading the way and that there was a bigger picture at play. And I was able to ask the records to confirm when I actually did get pregnant, and asked a lot about my now son, who is Earth side and really connected with different spirit babies that are current and past. And it just opened this whole new realm to me, this whole new world.

Speaker A [00:11:04]:

And so I started noticing also that I was seeing angel numbers all the time, so seeing repeating numbers on the clock like 1111 or 33355, and they all have different meanings based on their numerology, and they're very nuanced. But what I have come to find is that all of these signs and symbols and nudges from the universe are really personal to you. So 1111 may mean something different to you than it does to me, and that's okay. The entire spiritual awakening experience, although a lot of the symptoms can be the same for many people, it's a deeply personal experience and is going to be completely different in each awakening that you're going through. So for that first awakening, for me, I saw 1111 everywhere. And actually our house at the time was 1111. And to me, that was just a reminder that I was supported, that I was guided, that I had the trust of the universe if I was willing to give it and willing to surrender, that things were going to work out and be okay. And I still find that to be true.

Speaker A [00:12:06]:

That when I can lean into that surrender and that trust, especially during moments of chaos and of rebirth, I find that I'm always supported. And the deeper that you go with this and the more that you open yourself up, you are allowing the universe to speak to you in so many ways. So, as I said, it can be signs in nature, it can be numbers, it can be lyrics and a song. There is no right or wrong way to connect with your intuition and to experience a spiritual awakening. And I feel like I had separate awakenings after each of my children were born, so after Sebastian was born and after Rocky was born. And I truly believe that with each child you are reborn into another version of yourself. You are going deeper down the rabbit hole to figuring out who you are. And that's really all a spiritual awakening is, is coming back to your core essence of who you were before the world told you to be.

Speaker A [00:13:02]:

Who this avatar Victoria decided she wanted to be in this incarnation and coming back to that pure soul essence of love that is connected to every living thing. And it's really special to find other women on this path and on this journey because I think there are so many women that have gone through these awakenings alone, and they feel a little bit crazy because you can have physical symptoms in the body, right, that feel like you're coming down with the flu or you just really don't feel well. And it's because energetically, you are shifting things. And I find that wherever the Ailment is within the body is correlated to a chakra or a thing. So when I'm having a big up level in my throat chakra, I'll get a sore throat. If I have a stomachache, I'm working on my solar plexus, my power center, my energy center. And a lot of us have things from our past lives that come up in our root and are around safety and security. And it is really like lifting the veil to realize that there is so much more out there.

Speaker A [00:14:12]:

And you may find yourself I don't even want to say shifting your personality, because that's not true. But the Victoria that's talking to you now is so different than the Victoria of 2020, of 2018, of 2016. And that, of course, is due to growth, but that's also due to my deepening, my spiritual practice and my connection with the universe. And change is part of what we're here for. And so embracing that and allowing it to move you in the way that it's meant to can be so powerful. And I feel like the big thing that pops up a lot when you start this awakening process is the big question of who I am and why am I here and what is my purpose in life. And I think it's really important to share with everyone that everyone has a purpose, but no one's particular purpose is better or worse than anybody else's. Your purpose may just be to be a mom.

Speaker A [00:15:10]:

Your purpose may be to birth the next great novel. Your purpose may be to just enjoy every single moment of life. And that's beautiful, but that's what you're here to create and bring to Earth. Everyone was seeded with things of beauty that you are meant to bring forth in this lifetime. And so by not connecting with the spiritual part of yourself, this omnipresent part of yourself, you're missing out on that magic. You're missing out on what you're really here for, which is not to go to work and watch TV until you die. It's to bring beauty to the Earth. It's to connect with everyone and everything around you.

Speaker A [00:15:52]:

And I think some of the other side effects, if you will, of a spiritual awakening can be that you don't relate to some of the people that you used to relate to anymore. I know when I started down this path, I wanted to talk about things that were weird to other people. My human design, my astrology, what happened in meditation. And I also found that alcohol didn't agree with me as much as it used to anymore and I didn't want it. And I go through phases with that. Sometimes I still want to drink, sometimes I don't. But you will find that the things that used to resonate with you change, and that's okay. And you have to be willing to let that old version of you go to step into this new version.

Speaker A [00:16:35]:

And that may mean people in your life that are no longer aligned because sometimes they're just not meant to continue on the journey with you. They only got you to a certain destination and then they don't continue on anymore. You also may find that you potentially want to be alone more often because you're a little bit overwhelmed by the sensory experiences that you're experiencing or the realizations that you're having or what have you. And I really highly recommend journaling during this time and writing everything down and not just for posterity to remember the process, but to get out the things that are moving up and out and through you because they're going to again, things are shifting on an energetic level, a physical level and a spiritual level for you when you're having a spiritual awakening. And so you've got to support yourself the best way that you can. And journaling is a really easy way to do that. And moving your body and dancing and getting it out and allowing yourself to cry and move through the big emotions that are happening and you are not going to understand it all. You're never meant to.

Speaker A [00:17:42]:

And that's okay. And realizing that you don't have to have all of the answers right now because it feels like you have the spiritual awakening and you're like, okay, I'm supposed to be this whole new person already. What's happening? You will be in time, but it takes time. And it's a process and it's a dance and it's a co creation with the universe. And again, it's a relationship that you're building. You may have had this intuition, I was going to say this connection and cord to the universe cut off for a really long time. It may have been cut off for 25 years, the whole time that you've been alive on this Earth and you're reviving it, it's not going to come in all at once, most likely. And you've got to be open for how the experience is going to go for you because again, it's going to be completely different for you than it is for anybody else.

Speaker A [00:18:33]:

And that's okay. So I'm wondering, those of you that have had a spiritual awakening, what am I missing? Let me know on Instagram at Victoria Margot Nielsen or at Flipthescript with Vic. And let's have a discussion. Are you currently in the midst of your spiritual awakening? What does that feel like for you? Are you really confused and lost? Do you feel like you're coming home to yourself? Do you feel like you're searching for answers? Any of those things are totally okay. I know I was searching for answers and I found them in the Akashic records and I found them in my Kundalini community and I found them in other women when I began talking about the fact that I was experiencing this. And it's okay if you're still in the spiritual closet, if just listening to this podcast feels like an act of rebellion and awakening for you, that's beautiful. You will one day get to a point when you want to talk about it and when you're more open with it because you'll start to realize that you're not the only one. When you start to surround yourself with communities and people that are going through these same experiences, you will come to realize that you're not alone.

Speaker A [00:19:44]:

And there are so many of us that are awakening on the planet right now and asking ourselves what we're truly here for and how we want to take care of ourselves and one another. And even just asking these questions is enough, if that feels like enough to you. Because you don't have to completely flip your life upside down and shift who you are overnight. It happens little by little, day by day, choice by choice, and I'm right here with you. So let me know how that awakening is going, how you're feeling. I am launching my on demand kundalini yoga and Breath Work Community, the portal collective which is here to support you with Kundalini meditations every single month that are themed around the energy of the collective, but also to help you find your path and step into your purpose and navigate the spiritual awakening potentially a little bit easier. I love you guys so much. Thanks for tuning in.

Speaker A [00:20:44]:

Be good to one another. I'll see you next week.