Signs From The Universe

In this talk, I chat about my experience with asking the universe for signs. I talk about how there is a misconception about how communicating with the universe works and I explain what I have learned over the past 8 years with my own experimenting. I hope this talk gives clarity on the topic and provides helpful info for anyone interested in communicating with the universe, angels, or guides.

Transcript

So I have experimented with signs for many years.

I started asking the universe for signs probably like eight years ago.

I started playing around with this and I've always believed that we have angels or guides or that the universe is somehow communicating with us.

I've always believed in these things that there was something bigger going on and what if I could communicate with it?

How cool would that be if I could get answers to things outside of myself?

If just somebody else could tell me what I should do?

Because I think a lot of us struggle in trusting ourselves.

We want to ask other people for advice.

We want to know that we're making the right choice and as much as we want to believe that that's true,

What we really need to do is learn how to trust ourselves because there actually isn't a right or wrong way to live our lives.

We can't actually mess it up.

We just have this fear that we will and so we look outside of ourselves for answers.

I spent a lot of my life in childhood and early adulthood asking other people for advice and then I found spirituality and I got more confident in trusting myself and I started asking the universe for signs and for the longest time I thought that the universe was sending me answers.

I really thought that these answers were coming from outside of me and there's a lot of spiritual teachers that teach this about asking the universe for signs but what I haven't heard any of them say is the truth about where the answer is coming from which is from inside of us.

We ask an answer,

I'm sorry,

We ask a question to receive an answer from outside of us,

Right?

That would be like what you assume is happening.

Oh,

I'm asking the universe.

The universe is going to tell me yes I should do this thing or no I shouldn't do this thing,

Right?

But what we don't understand is the way reality works and the way reality works is that your world,

Your reality is just a reflection of whatever is inside of you.

So whatever you believe to be true about what you're asking is what will be reflected back to you and I invite you to play around with this and you'll see that these answers that you get from the universe,

These signs that are given back to us,

They are just coming from inside of us.

That's it.

It's a reflection of inside of us.

That is the answer that we're receiving.

It's like the universe is just putting it up on a big screen,

Right?

We feel like we can't trust ourselves,

We have to feel like we're seeing an answer from outside of us and for a while that worked for me but then I realized what was actually happening is that the universe was just reflecting back to me whatever I'm leaning into.

Whatever I feel like the answer is is what the universe will show me.

It's completely subjective.

We are creating it.

So if you're really looking for an answer outside of you,

It's not a reliable source because it's just reflecting to you what's inside of you.

Now with that being said,

The learning here is that we need to trust ourselves.

That's the learning.

It's understanding that it's just you.

It's just you.

You're creating it.

You're creating whatever answer you want to see We are creating whatever answer we want to see.

That's what we'll see.

So it goes back to trusting ourselves and knowing that there is no right or wrong answer.

There is no right or wrong way.

We'll always figure it out.

We try one thing,

Maybe it doesn't work out.

We try something else and maybe that does.

The big learning here is self-trust.

Self-trust.

Okay,

But the other cool thing I've noticed is that there is communication that comes from outside of me.

And that is what I believe and that is what I have seen.

So I get what I call unsolicited signs when I have not asked anything because I don't really do that anymore because I know it's just within me.

So unless I want to see my own answer reflected back to me in my reality,

I don't really ask anymore.

I just trust myself.

But what I've noticed is that these unsolicited signs appear at the most wonderful moments.

I haven't asked any questions.

I'm not going that route.

I'm just living my life and it seems to appear.

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.

Well,

Let me back up a second.

So when I started asking questions to the universe,

When I started asking questions to the universe,

I had a very specific sign that I would ask to see.

My sign has always been an American flag because it reminded me of my granddad and it reminded me of a relationship I had in high school that felt very important to me.

So that is a sign I chose.

And so now I get these unsolicited American flags and it feels so magical when they show up because I haven't asked for them.

So I know it's coming from outside of me.

Somebody is showing up for me,

Whether it's an angel or a guide or the universe talking to me.

I don't know what it is.

I don't need to know what it is.

I just know how it feels when it shows up.

And they show up at the most perfectly wonderful magical moments.

They'll show up just in time for me to see them when I've done something that feels really special to me.

And it lets me know that I'm on the right track.

It could come when I've just done something that feels really fulfilling or I've done something that has been a dream of mine for so long or I've just had a really important like soul growing conversation with someone or I've just shared a truth that I've been wanting to share or I've just made a self-discovery that I've been wanting to have.

And so these signs are what feel like they're from outside of me.

These are the signs that feel really special and really magical and powerful.

And to me,

That feels like I'm not creating that.

I am creating it because I'm having an experience,

But then the sign shows up as like a confirmation or is like a wink or is like a,

Yeah,

Girl,

We see you.

You're doing the thing.

You're doing the thing.

We see you.

You're doing the things.

Yay.

So that has been my experience with signs.

And I think it's helpful to understand the way reality works,

The way that we create,

And maybe when things are coming from outside of us.

And I don't know,

Maybe I'm creating the unsolicited signs too.

I have no idea.

I haven't gotten that far.

I'll let you know if I do.

But the other thing I know is that whatever I believe to be true is what will be true for me.

And it goes back to spending a lot of my life not trusting myself or believing that other people had the answers,

Right?

Thinking that like somebody else must know more than I do.

And somebody else must be able to tell me what is right,

What is wrong,

What is true,

What is false.

But I've learned that there is no right,

Wrong,

True,

False.

This reality is completely subjective.

So what we get to do is we get to decide what world do I want to live in?

And I create it from inside of me,

From in my mind,

From my thoughts,

From my beliefs,

From my feelings.

I'm creating all of this.

You're creating all of it for yourself.

So that is the other thing that I know to be true.

So whatever is happening in my life,

I get to decide what it's all about.

Whatever I believe is what will be true.

I get to create that.

I get to experience those things.

There is no right or wrong.

It's just what we decide to believe because nobody has the answers here.

I've been looking,

Trust me.

I've been trying to figure it out.

My brain is so tired.

And the conclusion that I've come to after all my searching for the answers and to what this place is,

This great mystery,

Trying to figure it all out,

It is the most complex,

Convoluted,

Confusing,

Amazing,

Beautiful,

Intricate design.

And there's just,

I can't wrap my brain around it.

I don't believe that we are supposed to understand it all.

I don't know.

Maybe as we continue to evolve,

We will understand more of it.

But what I have been able to figure out is that my reality is created by my thoughts and beliefs.

Whatever I believe is what will be true.

And that actually brings me a lot of comfort.

It brings me a lot of comfort because I can stop trying to figure it out.

I can stop trying to get it right all the time.

I've set up a system of beliefs that work for me that are what I want to believe.

And in wanting to believe them,

It makes it true for me.

I get to decide the world I want to live in by choosing these things from inside of me.

Hmm.

Okay,

Friend.

Thanks for listening.

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Okay.

Thank you.

Namaste.

Reviews

This is really interesting and thought provoking, thank you 🙏

Thank you so much, this resonates with me, when I do not listen to my judgement & inner voice, things more often tend to go wrong. Lessons learnt and still learning.