Receiving Signs from the Universe | The Path to Embody Trust
Following your soul path and creating consciousness in your life through healing and expanding truly requires you to be in connection with the Universe. The Universe has a Divine Plan for you and your life, and needing control often blocks you from flowing gracefully towards your desires. How do you follow your soul path? You ask for signs from the Universe and decipher the meaning of each message to know where your energy is needed.
As a Spiritual Mentor and Intuitive Guide I work with sensitive souls, empaths and intuitive-beings who desire to strengthen their connection with the Universe in order to trust their intuition, pursue their soul purpose and more easily receive signs from the Universe. My Spirit of Air Group Program is a deep dive into all things spirituality, energy, and intuition and my goal with this 12 month program is to simplify spiritual connection for you.
In this blog I will share the life lesson of embodying trust and how that can be done by receiving signs from the Universe. This is a spiritual lesson I have moved through in my own journey, so I will share an example that will help you better understand the process of receiving a sign from the Universe and what that means for you.
The Path to Embody Trust. How is this a life lesson?
As a society we have been taught the illusion that we must stay in control in order to achieve any of our desires and gain a sense of power in our lives.
You have been raised off this fear-based mindset that life will always be difficult unless you have a good sense of control. At the same time, you were taught not to trust yourself and to only trust the people in power.
Fear, worry, self-doubt, and stress all come from the deeply embedded unconscious belief of being in control. You are afraid when you feel out of control. You worry about the future because you can’t control it. You carry self-doubt because the little control you makes you feel like you aren’t enough and you aren’t doing enough. You are always stressed out as you tightly grip onto control over your life.
Whether this is your current reality or not, you most likely have experienced some aspect of this and you have definitely seen it in people around you.
The path to embody trust is a life lesson for all of us because with trust we more easily flow through life with ease and grace. When you are able to flow with ease, you are able to carry peace of mind, you hold more self-love, and you shift your belief system to an uplifting purpose based mindset versus the fear based mindset.
The path to embody trust is something many of us are here to learn and master. It’s not about trusting other people. It’s about trusting yourself and trusting the Universe’s Divine Path for you.
Now that you understand how the path to embody trust is a life lesson, let’s dive into the true reason you came to read this blog… receiving signs from the Universe.
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The Process of Receiving a Sign
As I share this 5 step process of receiving a sign from the Universe I want you to remember that there is no perfect way to receive a sign, and these steps are only meant to guide you to determine what works best for you and your journey. These steps are what I have learned in my own practice of embodying trust, connecting with the Universe and asking for signs.
1 Confused, Uncertain or Worried - ask for the sign
The moment you feel confused, uncertain or worried and you feel the energy in your body become tense, heavy or overwhelming, it’s a sign that you are shifting into a state of fear. Confusion, uncertainty and worry are directly connected to the illusion of control, and whatever has come forward in your life to trigger these feelings, your unconscious mind will take over and hold you hostage in fear, doubt, and stress.
This is the moment you ask the Universe for a sign in order to walk the path of embodying trust.
My example
I had been noticing how my mind over a couple of days, kept leading me into the thoughts of uncertainty. I didn’t know if I was taking action in the right way and I didn’t know if I was missing something that I was supposed to be focusing on. I could tell that I was beginning to worry about the future because of this uncertainty. I knew it was the moment to ask for a sign in order to trust my journey.
2 Hand it Over to the Universe - speak with my divine team
How do you ask for a sign? How do you know you are saying the right thing? It’s in this step that you might overcomplicate it for yourself, and it’s also when you may feel self-doubt wondering if you asked for a sign in the right way. It doesn’t need to be as complicated as you think it does. It’s actually quite simple. State that you desire to receive a sign for clarity.
This is the moment you hand it over to the Universe by speaking with your Divine Team.
My example
I called in my Divine Team of angels, Spirit Guides and ancestors and I said, “I am confused on how to move forward. I know I am moving through an energetic shift, I know I am being called to do things differently. I am uncertain and worried I will take the wrong step or I’m missing something. Please send me a clear sign. Please show me the way. Please guide me on my path so I can understand how to focus my energy moving forward.”
3 Receive the sign from the Universe - appreciation & gratitude
Once you’ve asked for a sign, you need to let it go. People often say this is the moment you surrender, when really that means that you remind yourself that you’ve asked for the sign and the Universe will make sure you don’t miss it. It’s not about frantically looking everywhere and wondering, “is that the sign, is that the sign, is that the sign?” For myself, I’ve made it clear with my Divine Team that I understand Universal Signs and Messages through animals the most. Some people receive signs through Angel Numbers, whereas other people might have a very specific sign they always go towards and it means something for them. To learn more about asking for signs and how to do this to create a practice that works for you, check out my Spirit of Air Group Program.
This is the moment that you receive the sign because the Universe will give you a message when you ask for one.
My example
Four hours after I asked for a sign I got into my car to drive to a friends. I noticed that a mouse had decided to start living in my car. I didn’t physically see the mouse, I only saw the very clear tell-tale signs that one was around. As I was driving to my friend's house, about 5 minutes after I got in my car, I saw a coyote standing on the side of the road.
This was my sign. Mouse and coyote.
4 Decipher the sign from the Universe - understand the message with clarity
The part of receiving a sign that everyone struggles with the most is deciphering the meaning of the sign you’ve received. This is when people tend to question whether or not it was indeed a sign they received. My reminder for you, if something grabbed your attention and immediately you felt a light spark inside your body, you know it was a sign. You can search online for a spiritual meaning, you can grab any sort of spiritual book to decipher the meaning or you can even ask someone else their perception of the spiritual meaning. The most empowering way to decipher a sign from the Universe is by trusting your own intuition. The more often you look outside of you for the answer (i.e. the internet, books or someone else) the more you create a disconnect between you and your Spirit. I still use the internet and books, but in the process I always tap into my intuition and the voice of my soul to know how to be guided through the interpretation process.
My example
The moment I saw the coyote I knew that both animal messages were a sign and more specifically, the sign that I asked for. Because I have been strengthening my intuition for years I can usually decipher a message from the Universe quite quickly. I had had a breakthrough the day before and the coyote was telling me to be the Wise Fool. Coyote says, “laugh at yourself and your past mistakes, and find the teaching in them”. Coyote is a reminder that life isn’t meant to be too serious and you can become wise through the laughter. Mouse was telling me to be vigilant for all that you cannot see because some things can squeeze into the tiniest places. Mouse was telling me, “you are on the right path, and pay attention to the smallest nudges”. Mouse was a reminder that fear always creeps in when you least expect it, and I need to pay attention to the tiniest feelings in my body through staying vigilant and conscious in order to not fall back into old patterns.
5 Fear, doubt, and ego creep in - guide myself back into trust
Now that you’ve received the message, you will find that as the days pass and you get further away from having received the sign, fear, doubt and ego will creep back in. This is your job to acknowledge this moments and come back to remembering your sign. Remembering the message you received and ask yourself if you are embodying that message. If it’s been more than a days, or even weeks, maybe you shift into asking for another sign. You can never ask for too many signs. However, if the Universe sends you the same sign over and over and over again, it’s because you aren’t taking action on that sign. It may feel redundant to you, but the Universe is clearly saying you need to step out of your comfort zone and trust the Universe has your back moving forward.
I too experience the fear creeping back in, it’s all about guiding myself back into trust. Having the strategies, practices and tools to acknowledge your energy and emotions and lead yourself into trust again is vitally important. This is exactly what I cover in my Spirit of Air group program.
Practice Practice Practice
Lastly, I want to remind you that the most important part of all of this is to practice. The more you practice and recognize the feeling of your intuition over time the more you trust it. Remember, it's the path to embody trust. Trust doesn’t happen immediately.
When you know that you want to take your connection to the Universe to the next level I’ll be here ready to guide you.
When you know that you feel your intuition and you want to better understand how to decipher the messages you receive, I’ll be here ready to guide you.
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Until next time, sending love & light on your spiritual journey,
Sydney Smith
Spiritual Mentor
Founder of Adventuring with Poseidon Wellness
