Your host, Maureen Spielman, joins you today to talk about how you can shift the idea of a wake up call into an everyday practice. What if you didn’t wait for the big, seismic event to create change in your life? What if you took the signs and information coming from your intuition and knowings AND from the Universe as data for your growth and transformation? You are supported and let’s join together in looking for the magic in our everyday life in order to create the change we are wanting to put into place!

EPISODE TAKEAWAYS (what you’ll learn):

• Traditional versus spiritual meanings of a wake up call
• What forms the wake up calls can take in your life
• What whispers of the Universe mean for you
• New invitations to wake up every day of your life
• Questions to ask yourself in response to life changes

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Maureen Spielman is the Founder of Mystical Sisterhood, a podcast dedicated to bringing more joy, healing and expansion to the world. She is a seasoned life coach who supports individuals through one-on-one coaching, groups and workshops.

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Hello and welcome back to mystical

sisterhood. This is your host, Maureen Spielman. I'm excited to

be with you here today with a solo episode called every day as

your wake up call. So I talk a little bit about how often in

life, we have the big wake up calls. But what if we took an

invitation in our daily lives to wake up, and to treat it as our

Awakener sort of celebrating what's right in front of us and

leaning into the whispers of the universe more and more. So I'm

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in the episode.

Welcome back to mystical sisterhood. This is your host,

Maureen Spielman. And today I come to you with a solo episode

about Wake Up Calls. So I wanted to talk about how we think about

them, what they can mean for your life. And this idea or

question that do we need to wait for them to practice connection

to ourselves in alignment with our souls journey? Or do we take

ownership of our experience today, and treat every day as a

wake up call. So a traditional literal meaning, which I think

is sort of funny and nostalgic, of a wake up call is when we're

in a hotel, or a motel, and we would tell the front desk, I

need a wake up call. And you would get if you remember it,

maybe you were on a trip, and you needed to hit the road

early. And you'd say I need the wake up call at 5am or 6am. I

remember it more from my parents in that generation of growing

up, that I do my own experience, although it was part of mine,

too. But now we use cell phones, right? So what is that wake up

call, it's coming from somewhere else, it's coming from the

outside. And we'll talk about that, like how Wake Up Calls are

from the universe when we think of them in the non literal sense

of something that is here for us more for our awakening, perhaps

on a spiritual level. So the way that in kind of common kind of

language we think about Wake Up Calls is that it's something

jarring or shocking, that happens to you in your life, in

order to spiritually wake you up, or lead you to changes in

your life. I think that most people would agree about the

concept. Even if you don't feel like you've experienced a wake

up call in your own life, something big that's happened.

But if I kind of think about people in my own life, I know so

many people who have this, this big cosmic two by fours,

sometimes they refer to it as the Awakener. And also, when big

things happen in our lives, that we we the eye of the beholder,

get to say what they mean to us and derive our own lessons from

them. So I was thinking like the eye of the beholder or the

recipient that's getting the call. They get to say what it

means. And it might just mean it's something that they need to

get through because it's so hard to get through. And insight

about that event might not come till later, or it might unfold

over time. Because I think when wakeup calls come in, we're

going to talk about what they can come in the form of they are

very difficult to get through and require a lot of our

resources like all hands on deck to kind of meet that Awakener in

our lives. So wake up calls can come in the form of a diagnosis

death of someone close to you death of a parent, loss of a

job, someone leaving you, breakup or a divorce. It's

basically when I think about these kinds of different things

that happen to us, it's the loss of something very precious to

you something that you knew to be true as your reality, that

something on the outside occurs, that rocks your world. And so

when these come in my life, they feel bigger than me, bigger than

what I know what to do or have learned to do up to that moment.

And here's one thing about them. In the moments, you might also

have intuition about what needs to change in your life. And you

may have that realization right away with a wake up call that

you've experienced. But that might not change that quickly.

So I always think that you know, even if we do have these

awakened errs and the wakeups and, and these things that are

calling us to attend to ourselves, on perhaps a new and

deeper level, things that are here for our growth and

transformation, it's always with a very compassionate hand that

we're holding with ourselves. And so if you have something on

the outside, and you know, like, oh, my gosh, this needs to

change in my life, that that might not occur in short order.

And that's okay. Because it's here to alert you to something.

So you can tend to your needs more deeply. Thoughts might come

to you feelings definitely will. And I believe that it's about

sitting back and becoming curious about how you respond

that allows you to see possibly more clearly what is happening

for you. And in the moment, it absolutely feels like it's

happening to you. Because when they come in the form of a wake

up call, I they can absolutely slay you knock you down, knock

you out cold. And they can humble you beyond belief. I

always used to think of when I was healing from my, you know,

medical journey, and I went back to exercise, like, even the

exercise alone, that I had been strong enough for in the past, I

would always have this image of like, broke me down like I was

on my knees. And that's kind of when a wake up call comes.

That's what it feels like, so often. How do you feel about

that? What have you felt in your life when these times have come?

A lot of people I think feel like totally just they go back

to ground zero, they begin again, it's it's something that

calls to us, we get to begin again. Because everything that

you knew, whether it's for your health or real relationship, and

the loss of someone dear to you, everything that you knew in that

form falls away. So you might not realize it in the moment.

But it becomes an invitation to recreate some aspect of your

life experience itself often said that people awaken because

of that major life event. Or they awaken on their own terms.

So my teacher, Dr. Shefali, always used to talk about that

in conscious parenting, like, When we awaken to new truths

about ourselves, they can come in the form of something really

big and that Aha, like, oh my gosh, like my world did fall

apart in order to learn these lessons. But for some, and maybe

more than ever, I'm not sure. People are just Awakening on

their own terms, like just starting to go inward. There's

so much information out there now, asking us deeper questions

about ourselves than we've ever been asked. And it's such a

beautiful thing. So that right there can lead to sort of a

cracking open or a breaking open to wake up to a new reality and

new revelations about our lives. Because we're all here to sort

of live this fully expressed, engaged, aligned life. What are

the things in our outside world that are coming to us to open up

those possibilities? I was thinking, as I was writing this

episode of the famous Rumi poem called Don't go back to sleep.

I'm sure so many of you heard heard it, but I'm gonna just

read it because it's short and sweet. And it's to the point and

it says, The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you Don't go

back to sleep, you must ask for what you really want. Don't go

back to sleep, people are going back and forth across the door

cell, where the two worlds touch, the door is round and

open. Don't go back to sleep.

I love that. I'm often reminded of the don't go back to sleep. I

think that oftentimes in our lives, I want to talk about the

whispers that we get. But we get the whispers, and we go, Bill,

go back to sleep. Because it's comfortable, it's so

understandable that we'd go back to sleep, because we don't know

what we don't know on the other side. And so we would rather

stay in the comfort or we think we would then venture out into

that the unknown on the other side. So I wanted to say before,

I talked about universal whispers, that I see it

happening before my eyes. And I'm wondering if you are too,

I'm thinking about women's awakening, and taking the

invitation to not go back to sleep for what is true and right

for their lives. I recently put a shout out on my mystical

sisterhood Facebook page. And if you're not a part of that,

please seek it and request and join it. We have fun in there.

But I said I was looking for women to talk to me about their

experiences at midlife. And I was really doing it largely to

inform me about podcast topics and what women are going on. But

what I realized, and I think it's part of my reason for being

in doing the podcast is that I love love, love, love, love the

conversations, I just love the conversations, that's part of my

life's purpose and mission, to sit with people and hear their

life stories. But I also was in awe. And I'll just say blown

away by the conversations I've had so far. Because women are

awakening in so many ways. These are the sharings of recounting

something big happening in in their outer life. That is

allowing them to rethink where they find themselves, how they

spend the time, who they want to hang out with new careers, what

they want to create new conversations, they want to have

new boundaries, you name it, it's happening. I have to

believe that it's happening for men too. I'm in conversation

with fewer men's. I don't I don't have the pulse on that.

But I believe it. And I believe it's happening for all of us.

The wake ups and the whispers that don't have to come in

something big. And I think it's happening for the kids too. And

so the invitation for them to be in the conversation with us like

let's not wait, let's not wait. So in the context of these

bigger wake up calls, and even in in smaller ones that might

come through, is there an opportunity to create an aligned

life now. All right, this may not be true for everybody. But I

think it might be that we all have places in our lives, where

we're more in alignment than others. So maybe you have this

amazing career, but struggle with your partner, perhaps you

have a great relationship with your intimate inner circle. But

you have a not so great relationship relating to your

body, and struggling with self image and being enough with your

body. So it can look a lot of different ways or where most of

our areas are aligned. But there's that one thing. And so I

bring that up because the things that come into our live lives

are here to help us grow and transform and become more

aligned. So if we have that place in our life that feels out

of reach that feels like it will never be solved or you'll never

figure it out or it plagues you or there's no way out. That's

far from the truth. And there's invitations to look deeper in

it. So I was thinking like, Can we agree that it's sort of

universal that we might have some parts of our lives but then

others that aren't as aligned? And if not, then it falls on me.

It's just me. But I'm hoping that that resonates in some way.

So while we might not first know why something is happening, even

if it's like consistently happening in our outer world, it

might be called calling us to ask what in my life may need

care love and my attention? needs that compassionate ear

that compassionate witness? Or what support do I desire to

guide me now? So these are like awakening questions that that

that that outer can help us ask ourselves, How can I become my

biggest advocate and nurture? How can I let go of the outside

world being this for me? So knowing that I'm 100%

responsibility for answering these calls, the Wake Up Calls,

answering kind of getting curious about what's in them for

me, and taking responsibility. Hiring that therapist hiring

that coach, getting that book, creating the conversation,

joining the conversation, whatever it is, how can I let go

of anything on the outside having to do that for myself?

Asking yourself if you're open to new guidance and sources of

information. I'm a big believer that anytime we put any of these

questions out to the universe, it's echoing it's reverberating,

it's vibrating out there. And the answer is, we'll be on the

way to you. What practices continue to work for me, and

what what practices need to go or what am I doing in my life,

that's not serving me any longer. And that might be a

habit that, that could be not getting enough sleep, it could

be hanging under smoking, it could be gossiping too much,

whatever it is, we all know, I mean, wake up calls do come in

different forms. But I think sometimes we just know our

intuition is like, jeez, like I, I knew for a long time that that

was there for me to, to kind of get curious about and not have

it part of my experience anymore. And wake up calls can

make us look at areas of our life where you may be reaching

Completion can be for a job or a relationship. Those are bigger,

and those that's that leads me to that, you know, earlier when

I was saying, you know, I might not know the answer now. But I'm

willing to be with myself on this journey with compassion

and, and as much present moment awareness as I can to come to

the answer. But where this whole conversation leads me is this

truth that the universe universe is here to support you and send

you support constantly. And it's something that most of us were

not conditioned to know or believe. So it can be a bit out

there, this idea that the universe is here to support us

as both a concept and a practice. But if we are, and

this is where I come from, if we were on a souls journey, in this

lifetime, that you are not just this human body, that you have a

soul a spirit. And if you're on that souls journey in this

lifetime, then we know that we're here to grow and learn as

humans in this human form. And everything is here for our

growth and transformation. A lot of people say that they have

gotten whispers from the universe before that bigger wake

up call. And I feel like I had some of those in my health

journey, for sure. And they've been coming to me a lot this

summer. As I created. I was calling the summer, my sacred

summer, and I really cleared more space for myself. And when

I cleared more space for myself more, more answers, not answers,

like, Oh, here's the answer for you. But more information, I

should say came to me. So I call those whispers. I've heard them

called different names. But they're there. They're more

subtle than that big wake up call. And

I think that we're they're here for us, in order for us to grow

and learn every day. And so the more we wake up to this truth

that the universe is here to support us. And we were given

the gift of intuition. That's coming from within us, coupled

with I always say coupled with doing the emotional integration

of past experiences. But these whispers are here. So we don't

have to wait for the big big thing to come in order to begin

to awaken. And the more awake we become to the whispers in our

life. And that wow, you know that that's happening? Oh, I see

that sign. Oh, this book was dropped in my lap. Oh, I chose

that movie. Oh, this person called me for this conversation.

They're all there and if we can stop being so busy And pause, we

start to collect the data that's coming to us. That's here for

our souls awakening. And I, that's I have gone through a big

Awakener. And that did lead me to even sitting in this chair

today recording this podcast, which is great. But it's there

for us. And, you know, let's let's talk about them. Let's

let's get curious about them, and bring it home, bring it to

your home, you're inside, you're, you're deciphering,

you're pulling in the information as to where you're

going. So yeah, these whispers can look like synchronicities

and messages. And I have to take a little, little step and say, I

had a neat one come to me the other day. And I read about this

Buddhist practice called the Buddha, sorry, the bodhichitta.

I almost said bodhichitta, it was called the bodhichitta. And

I'm just gonna say it in its simplest form of how I

understood it. So it was Friday afternoon. And I was having a

nice day of more relaxing than usual. And I was reading a book,

and I believe it was Pema sjogrens, when things fall

apart, and a friend had recently given it to me for my birthday.

And so I was sort of luxuriating reading the text and the book

and this work of art. And she talks about the bodhichitta,

which I understood as not walling ourselves off from the

suffering and struggling in the world. And breathing, having a

practice of breathing in the suffering, and then breathing

out compassion to whatever group or individual so it's a way to,

I feel like process and have a process to take in the suffering

and breathe out the compassion for the world that we want to

both create experience and see. So I just learned about this, I

was sort of excited about it. And it was late afternoon, and I

had my air conditioning, whole thing being replaced on Friday.

And my daughter said, Mom, there's a little boy in the

front yard. And he had run into my yard and collapsed in my

yard, which is so crazy. And he had he had been running from

somewhere in the community and he collapsed on my front porch

and, or my front yard and the air conditioning guys. were

tending to them. And they were calling the police. And my

daughter said, Mom Come out and see this. And, you know or be

with this and the little boy was distraught. And it turned out he

had run away. He was saying that he had experienced someone

trying to kidnap them. And a lot of things were coming from the

little boy. But it turned out that he had run away from our

local foster home and was landed, I will just leave it at

that on my front porch in in like a very heightened state.

And he was taken and taken care of and it was quickly deduce

that he had to run away. But I couldn't help but think like, oh

my gosh, Maureen, you just read this bodhichitta. And then this

boy, this young boy, you know, in need of so much compassion

and understanding shows up on your front porch. I mean, it was

like, wow, so the universe, though, an old version of me

would be like, Oh, that's a cool book, you know, put it down what

a concept. But I could see that the universe gave it to me right

there to awaken something in me, and then actually use this for

this young soul. And so that kind of blew me away. But I

think the more that we're awake and someone said it on, on that

mystical sisterhood page, I had said something like, oh my gosh,

like, I can't believe this happen. And she said, And if

she's listening, she knows who she is. She said, Oh, I expect

those synchronous synchronicities more than I

don't. And when we start to lean in, and, you know, treat every

day as this wake up call, and we're listening deeply and

intently and with intention, we begin to see that so much is

here for us. And, you know, I want to say that for me, that I

at one point was partly asleep to the signs. But now I know

that these are all occurring in my daily life and right in front

of my eyes to guide me to my answers in my truth. So I want

to say to that I think that the whisperings I think we do know,

but so much in our lives we we suppress or we numb out, or we

don't fully allow ourselves to come into the conversation. And

so this is an invitation to remind each other of this magic,

the truth, the information is plentiful, and abundant, and

that you are invited to tune into it as much as you can take

nothing for granted. And it's all here for you to plant the

seeds, seeds, nourish your soul, and grow. And, you know, the

conversations are here for you. I tried to bring these

conversations forth in the podcast, I am realizing that

part of what I like to do here is bring in conversations that

feel innovative, that feel like you have one walk away of one

question that touched your soul, that it helps you be in closer

conversation with yourself, with your community, with your

intimate partners and with the universe. And so I see that all

happening. And I will put out the invitation for you that

these are the kinds of conversations that we're having

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the daily whispers and information that it's right

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