Spiritual Timeout: Why We're Hitting the Cosmic Pause Button

Have you ever received the same message from the universe over and over until you finally realized it wasn't just a gentle nudge but a cosmic intervention? That's exactly what happened to us at Awakening Souls.

For weeks, our card pulls, channeling sessions, and intuitive hits kept pointing to the same theme: REST. Initially, we thought Spirit was guiding us toward creating content about rest and restoration. But as the message persisted, clarity emerged—we weren't supposed to talk about rest; we needed to actually rest by taking a break from the podcast. 

This unexpected guidance brought mixed emotions. Despite feeling a surprising grief about pausing our beloved podcast, each of us individually confirmed through our intuition that this was the right path forward. There's a palpable sense that something new awaits us on the other side of this break—perhaps an expansion, a shift, or a growth opportunity we can't yet see. As one host shared, "Sometimes spirit will jump in and give you the message and it's a big old surprise."

What we're experiencing exemplifies true co-creation with Spirit—not blindly following directives but partnering with divine guidance while honoring our own intuitive knowing. Through personal experiences, we've learned that surrendering to these spiritual nudges, even when we don't fully understand them, typically leads to outcomes "ten times better than we could imagine." The resistance we feel is part of the growth process, teaching us to trust that breadcrumbs are leading somewhere meaningful.

We invite you to reflect on times when you've received persistent messages from the universe. Did you listen or resist? What happened when you surrendered? As we take this summer break to rest and prepare for whatever lies ahead, we encourage you to notice where in your own life Spirit might be inviting you to pause, reflect, and create space for new possibilities. Subscribe to stay connected—we'll be back when the time is right with fresh insights from our journey!

Let's Stay Connected!
Email: Ourawakeningsouls@gmail.com
Watch us on YouTube: Awakening Souls
Website: Awakenings Souls
Instagram: AwakeningSoulsPodcast

Submit a question or share your stories with us at Ourawakeningsouls@gmail.com
___

✨Book A Reading✨

Candace:
🔮BOOK Mediumship Reading & Energy Healings with Candace
Website: www.awakeningswithcandace.com
Instagram: @Awakenings_with_Candace

Rose:
🌹BOOK with Rose
Website: www.rose-marielowe.com

Chapters

• 0:00 Welcome to Awakening Souls

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:03

Welcome to Awakening Souls, a spiritual podcast for the mystics, magical thinkers, sensitives and spiritual seekers. We are here to explore all things spiritual, from navigating your awakening, developing your psychic gifts and so much more. Together with our combined experiences, we hope to help guide you on your path to reconnecting with your soul and the beautiful life that comes after. So come join us on the magical journey of exploring your Awakening Souls.

Speaker 2: 0:34

Hey everybody, welcome back to Awakening Souls podcast. So I have a short story to share with you to start with, just about behind the scenes with our podcast. So we are like about a week ahead, we record a week ahead just so that we can stay on top of things, and so, like two episodes ago, we were really trying to figure out what the next episode was. And what we do for our brainstorming sessions is we pull cards, we might do a little channeling. We also look at what things are happening in our lives that could potentially be good information to share with our listeners that can help them on their journey. And we all were pulling cards individually and the theme that we kept getting was rest, rest, going inward refuge it was all the same theme. And so we thought, oh, we should talk about rest. Maybe that's what we need to talk about. So, come the next week need to talk about. So, come the next week, we come in and we're not really feeling it and we pull more cards and guess what? The theme again is rest. And so we realized at that moment that it really wasn't a topic to talk about. At that moment we realized, oh, spirit is trying to tell us that we actually need to take a break.

Speaker 2: 2:10

We've been working on this podcast nonstop, week after week after week, and we love it. We get momentum going, we have wonderful conversations and it's just, it's a labor of love for all of us to do this. But we kind of get in that groove sometimes and don't realize that maybe we're pushing ourselves so hard that we don't have time for reflection, we don't have time to actually experience things in a calmer, more relaxed manner. So, all that being said, we're coming today to tell you that we are going to take a break from recording the podcast for just a little while. I'm kind of thinking of it as like a little summer vacation for us, of it as like a little summer vacation for us, and we can all feel that there's like something new around the corner for us.

Speaker 2: 3:13

Each one of us individually are feeling that that there's something, some change coming, an expansion, a shift, some type of growth. But but and we have tried to get spirit to give us the what's going to happen, and we're not getting any information. This is one of those trust and surrender moments where spirit is just like okay, guys, we need you to rest, we need you to find some quiet time and then the magic's going to happen and you just need to trust us that this is the right thing for you. And the other thing that's interesting is we really weren't expecting this rest. We weren't expecting to take a break. We had no plans for that at all, and sometimes spirit will jump in and give you the message and it's a big old surprise. But that's where we're at right now.

Speaker 1: 4:10

And I just want to say we're not taking spirit's message as the holy truth. We have each tapped in individually to what we felt was correct for us and the truth came out in the conversation. The truth came out when the cards came out was we were actually all kind of feeling on a deeper level that rest is what we needed, that it was time to take a break, that it was time to pull away for a short while, and none of us understand why, why we're feeling this way, what's really behind driving this and what's on the other side of it. And I think we are letting the cards, letting spirit, tell us their opinion and then we're choosing for ourselves, based off of our own intuition, what we feel is correct.

Speaker 1: 4:54

If those cards came out and we were like hell, no, like we feel so driven by this and we're gonna keep going, it would be a different story. But yeah, we're tuning into our intuition and our intuition is telling us that this feels correct right now. But there's so much grief that is coming with this pause and we don't understand exactly why that is. We just know that there's something on the other side of this, a shift, a change that we need to be ready for, maybe individually, maybe collectively, we don't know. So I feel a lot of sadness around taking a break and pausing. That it feels like the right thing to do right now.

Speaker 2: 5:37

I think that's one of the hardest things when you partner with spirit and you really ask for their help, when they give you a recommendation and you have resistance learning to trust that and trust that there is a reason and trust that you're going to understand the reason in hindsight. That is a hard thing to learn to do but at least in my experience, whenever I've trusted my intuition, trusted the work that I do with my guides, it always works out for my best. I can't think of a time when I wasn't happy that I listened to their recommendation. I can think of lots of times where I didn't listen and then I wish I would have. I got all kinds of stories about that, from the little things to the big things. But yeah, but usually I almost always when I trust and surrender and say, okay, that's what, what you're guiding me to do, I'm going to trust that. And I also and I think what you said was really smart, candice I also tap into my feelings about it.

Speaker 2: 7:04

So I don't want to like blindly follow. But once they're like, hey, maybe you should do this, and then I tap into my feelings and my feelings confirm that, then I'm like, oh, okay, then I really listened to that. So it's a decision that's made with spirit. It's not a directive that you're following. I think that's an important distinction.

Speaker 1: 7:27

Yeah, this is co-creation with spirit. This is what it looks like.

Speaker 1: 7:32

This is what it looks like. And I just I had such a weekend last weekend where everything seemed to fall apart and I had to learn how to problem solve and every time I problem solved and I surrendered, I was gifted with something 10 times better than I could imagine. And I feel like that theme of that weekend is just, it was just the precursor, it was just like the breadcrumbs leading up to the bigger things that are coming, and having to really trust spirit and trust my own intuition and know that if I can, if I can problem solve this, if I can surrender here, there is something even better waiting on the other side of it.

Speaker 2: 8:12

I'm hopeful. So, with all of that being said, we're going to say just a goodbye for now. We're going to take our pause, we're going to enjoy our summer, and we really hope that you enjoy this season of your life as well. Thank you.