On my spiritual journey, I have heard so many stories of people finding faith in the most random things.
Well, you’d never guessed it as one of those places – the scene following a nasty car accident.
These seem purely to be physical events, but many times have strong spiritual connotations as well.
So, Why Do I Keep Getting Into Car Accidents – Spiritual Meaning:
It is about waking up
Life has its ways of presenting us with messages that we could never anticipate and often in the most shocking circumstances.
When we experience a car accident, for example, it can be an important wake-up call that can disrupt our typical routine to allow us to see parts of ourselves or our lives we have been ignoring.
These things are powerful spiritual clues, a universal language message sent that is meant to be noticed.
I have witnessed the fact how events like this can trigger a reflective story of where you are and what changes need to be made.
These moments often catch us at a time when we are most chilling and busy with the trivial matters of our lives.
It is a car accident that awakens us from autopilot mode and smacks the reality of our mortality.
Car accidents are pivotal moments for many people. It’s like the powers that be are giving these people a chance to truly know themselves.
The ramifications can be physical as well as metaphorical, not only damaging our cars but also the things we thought of and cherished.
This can be a wake-up call that changes their lives in many ways.
It requires us to think about our inner reality differently, drawing into focus the spiritual aspects of who and what we are.
Somewhere, someone threatened with death in a highway close-call decided it was time to re-evaluate their life.
They started to look at their accident as a wake-up call that things needed to change, and they made healthier decisions about what was most important in order for them to have the life they wanted moving forward.
These are experiences that ultimately bring us closer to our higher selves.
They call us inward-deep within our landscapes-to see what indicators we may have missed.
When it comes to car accidents, they remove the thin top layers of our existence and reveal the soul itself with a bang.
They force us to face our fears and purpose in regard to existence.
It is about facing mortality
When I think about the real risk of a car wreck, it makes me face my immortality in such an undeniable fashion.
For an instant, I see the banality of life juxtaposed with its fragile edge between being and nothingness.
In this face-off with mortality, I may learn some things about the deep spiritual questions of what life is and why anyone would care.
Mortality is like that – it filters out the everyday background noise. It pushes me to make my life more true and find deeper spiritual truths.
The moment I remember the fact this life is temporal, all those stupid little worries and distractions somehow fade off.
This has made me more aware of my priorities — the relationships I want to nurture, the activities that have a place in our family life and may point to passion or purpose for one of us, and the spiritual milestones on which we can mark progress together.
This harsh kickback to reality is a powerful turning point in your life.
It makes me ask myself how I am living my life and whether that has anything to do with what really matters in the world.
At times like those, I find myself questioning my decisions and what really matters to me.
However, I learned in my spiritual practice that there is a possibility for a deeper sense of gratitude when confronted with mortality.
If I’m present in the moment and know that life is fast, this awareness helps me to appreciate everything that donates value to my existence. A consciousness that I am alive and living.
An awareness of the mundane moments in life that one might just pass by.
Confronting mortality has lit a fire under my desire to embrace spiritual teachings that illuminate what life is and how we can add meaning therein.
I have sought answers in different philosophies and practices – meditation, mindfulness, ancient texts and modern spiritual writings.
These voyages have helped me develop a sense of this vast universe and my place in it and given me tools to heal the discomforts that come along with navigating life.
The realization of the limited time on this planet has helped me to fortify my belief in living a life filled with meaning.
It is the reminder that time is limited and it tells me to chase what I love doing and deliver my best self once left.
I am inspired to use my time well; be it in work or relationships, within myself.
It is about karma
Spiritually, I perceive car accidents as karma.
At a basic level, karma is the law of cause and effect – what I do in this life, as well as in previous lives, influences my current circumstances.
That a car accident is simply an expression of karmic energy gaining form as road experience, providing me the privileged opportunity to learn my life lessons.
I think one of my biggest epiphanies is that car accidents are a mirror of our internal climate.
They can point out areas of my life that could be out of balance or where past actions have led to a current problem.
If, for example, I have been holding onto unexpressed anger or guilt, a car crash may serve to raise that back up in me so it doesn’t keep rotting away under the carpets of my subconscious.
Karma’s law tells me that for every action, there is a consequence, and sometimes even the consequences come against us.
From a higher perspective, even something seemingly random can be seen as part of my soul journey.
It is a call to re-evaluate various aspects of my life in relation to the spiritual path.
This way, I can start taking action to create good karma.
Lessons from such experiences require the courage to face uncomfortable truths.
It means assessing my life as a whole, taking into account how I behave influences the way I think and vice versa.
The more I heal my previous wounds, the better able to release the karma that could be preventing me from moving forward and making room for new love in any form.
It is about listening to the inner guidance
Intuition has had a major impact on my life. It pushes me in the direction of little hints that change everything if I listen to them.
Thinking back on my own life, I can remember those times when a gut feeling correctly ”asked” me to take another way. However, I disregarded these hints at my peril. It is in reflecting on such insights that I realize the significance of listening to my inner guidance.
Another effect of trusting my instincts is the capacity to navigate the world more safely.
When I follow my gut and trust that this is as much a message from the universe as any other sign out there, it no longer feels like me against the world.
I seem to make faster decisions and feel more at peace and in control. Intuition is one of the most valuable things we have to prevent us from falling directly into harm and onto our true path.
Part of listening to our intuition also requires us to know how to separate ourselves from the doubts, fears and worries that overlay on top of it.
These feelings are easy to question, especially when they sound utterly mad.
The only problem with that is the more you find yourself following your gut, the sharper and more dependable it is again. It’s like a muscle. The more you use it, the bigger it grows.
Trust and practice are the answer to strengthening this intuitive connection.
It is about synchronicity
Synchronicities are those “meaningful coincidences” in which it appears that the world conspires to connect events, things and people not by chance alone.
To me, they are the guideposts that show a sudden shift in my life path and often an agreement to decisions I have made.
I have noticed that the more conscious I am and present in my interactions with everything in life, the more synchronicities happen around me.
Like the universe speaking to me louder and telling me which way my path really lies.
There is a higher power guiding us through the ups and downs of life.
It is about being alive to the fact that there may be more to reality than meets the eye.
Synchronicity reminds me to trust the process in life (even when it looks like a car accident) and that I should continue leaning into signs and messages as they reveal themselves to me.
I’m Bulgarea Candin Stefan and I have started Spiritual Whirlwinds to pass my learnings from my spiritual journey. Spiritualwhirlwinds.com provides a space of spiritual awakening with guided meditations, e-books, mantras, and pendulum readings.
