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If there’s one thing you’ve probably learned by now, it’s that life is not as straightforward as our parents made it out to be. It’s natural to go in circles and get lost at times, but is there a higher path we’re supposed to follow?
After all, other people can certainly help point us in the right direction, but the best guidance you can receive… is from yourself – from a deeper part of your consciousness that has all the answers.
So how does divine guidance work? Do we all have the ability to access it? Here I’ll break down this concept from my understanding so that you can gain more clarity moving forward in life – when everything becomes a little too confusing.
What It Means to Be Divinely Guided
Some of us have this idea that being divinely guided is a really big deal – something reserved for prophets and sages, as if god itself was speaking directly to them. Divine guidance doesn’t necessarily mean that god himself parts the sea for you or shouts directions in your ear to do his bidding.
I mean… if this is how divine guidance manifests for you, then I would take it! But generally, it’s a little more subtle, a whisper that you learn to listen to which points you in the direction your soul is yearning for.
I’ve taken some big leaps of faith in my life because I felt a pull towards a certain decision or choice that may not have made a whole lot of sense at the time, but I intuitively knew that it was something I had to do for my growth and happiness.
Following my divine guidance led me to leave everything behind and travel for years on end. It led me to work with shamanic traditions and delve deeper into spirituality. I’ve learned that the more I trust this internal guidance system, the more on track I feel.
I urge you not to see divine guidance as something outside of yourself, but rather the subtle pull of your soul leading you towards the right path for you.
There’s a part of you that knows all the answers. This part of you is infinitely old and infinitely wise. That’s because we are all the same infinite consciousness experiencing oneself in endless ways.
We all have a soul blueprint you could say, and even though I do believe everything eventuates how it’s supposed in the grand scheme of things, free will can throw a spanner in the works. If it wasn’t for that pesky free will, everything would fall into place seamlessly.
Regardless, I believe that the major events that are supposed to happen due to your karma will happen, but you can veer off track from the main soul trajectory. It’s sort of like taking a roundabout way that may lead to a lot of difficult lessons to finally find calibration, but you’ll still get there in the end.
But you don’t want to go the long roundabout way, you want to follow the path laid out for you because it’s just so much smoother. However, doing so requires you to pay close attention to the internal guidance of your soul, and make decisions that set you on that road.
So, let’s break it down:
- Divinely guided: You’re paying attention to the signals that you’re following your soul’s calling and using those signals to recalibrate if you’re not.
- Not divinely guided: You’re not connected to spirit and, therefore, unaware of what the right path for you spiritually is.
So… What Is Divine Guidance?
Divine guidance is a deeper knowing that you’re taking a life path that’s calibrated with your soul. In other words, it means you’re following the calling of your soul and paying attention to the signals it gives you.
Imagine divine guidance as a spiritual navigational system that we all have within ourselves, which points us down the path that the soul wants to go rather than the mind.
Everyone has a spiritual compass that points them in the right direction. For people who are deeply in touch with spirituality, this compass is often clear and easy to follow. For others, it’s buried deep underneath layers of programming, influencing, and spiritual disconnect where you may not be aware of its existence.
Whatever the case, we all have this compass, it’s just a matter of excavating it and learning how to read it. Naturally:
- The more connected we are to spirit = the clearer the divine guidance is
- The more disconnected we are from spirit = the vaguer the divine guidance is
Signs You Are Divinely Guided
With that said, your divine guidance presents itself in many different forms, as indicators that you are on the right track or signals that you need to change course.
For example, your divine guidance may manifest as a particularly vivid dream that inspires you to take action. It might be a conversation with a new face who unlocked a missing piece of the puzzle. Maybe you experience synchronicities, a sudden intuitive spike to take path A instead of path B, or a doorway that opens up for you, inviting you to pursue a particular path.
Honestly, it doesn’t matter how the information manifests. One way or another, spirit is trying to communicate the path to take. The signs can be quite subtle, but the more receptive you become to your divine guidance, the more you will learn to trust.
Naturally, when you’re following the right path, all lights will be green as if the universe is encouraging you to pursue it. When you’re on the right path, opportunities will spontaneously show up, the right people will enter your life, doors will fly open, and things will tend to work out for you.
The pieces will fall into place if you’re truly following the path you were destined to, but you need to know what those pieces are. Let’s look at how divine guidance may manifest for you.
Some signs you are divinely guided include:
- Alignment: You feel aligned with the path, and it feels good to pursue. You know that this path is meant for you when you’re on the right one.
- Intuitive spikes: You may have powerful intuitive impulses and instinctively know what big decisions are good for you, and what aren’t.
- Louder messages: Your inner voice will get louder as you pay attention to it, which gives you direction and clarity. This voice may manifest as your thoughts, sharp feelings, or spontaneous thoughts and ideas.
- Messages from spirit: You may begin tapping into divine information from your spirit guides or perceiving spiritual phenomena that encourage you to pursue your path.
- Synchronicities: When you’re following your divine guidance, you may experience synchronicities, which can be indicators that you’re on the right path. For example, you constantly see words or numbers that signal your path.
- Inspiration: You may feel more inspired and motivated to take a particular course of action as ideas seem to flow into you. Sometimes, this inspiration will kick in hard and out of the blue.
- Inner peace and stability: You may find that you feel a deeper sense of peace and calm when you’re on the right path. The feelings of being lost or disillusioned seem to disappear as you pursue this path.
- Deeper fulfillment: When you’re following your divine guidance, you generally feel deeper fulfillment because you’re following a path that you deeply resonate with – giving your life deeper meaning.
- Ease of access: Things start falling into place, helpful coincidences happen, and it can seem as if the universe is helping you step forward on your path, like the gates are wide open for you.
- Opportunities show up more regularly: You will often manifest opportunities that will help you follow your divine guidance. These opportunities can manifest in many different forms, from work-related occurrences to invitations or ideas.
- You feel recharged: Even if you’re working your way through a lot of battles, you may find that, naturally, you feel good. You have more endurance and zest because your purpose fuels you.
How to Tap Into Your Divine Guidance
Now you know that divine guidance is always there, it’s just a matter of tapping into it. As we’ve discussed, your divine guidance is the result of your connection with spirit.
Ultimately, to become more receptive to your soul’s guidance, you need to cultivate a deeper connection with it. As divine guidance comes from your soul, the clearer the window to the soul, the easier it will be to receive clear messages from it.
Now, cultivating a deeper connection to the soul is a different story, and that’s ultimately what the spiritual journey is all about, stepping deeper into oneself and connecting more deeply with god. I can’t give you advice here before everyone’s way of connecting with spirit is different.
Some people pray, meditate, and worship. Some people seek the wisdom of plant medicines, others use divination tools. Some people isolate themselves in nature, pondering questions until an answer arises. There is no right way to seek spiritual guidance as long as you are open to listening.
I encourage you to continuously explore yourself, different cultures, religions, traditions, modalities, and seek a deeper understanding of who you are. Explore different modalities and seek a deeper connection to god. This is the most important thing because your receptivity to divine guidance depends on your connection with spirit.
With that said, let’s look at some different things you can do to tap into divine guidance.
Ask for It
First off, ask for divine guidance and set your intentions. Make it clear that you’re seeking it out and are receptive to the messages that will ensue.
I like to pray when I feel lost, and I always feel like those prayers are answered. Nowadays, it seems to happen almost immediately when I receive an email, an opportunity pops up, or I get a wave of inspiration or a new idea. The thing is, you need to really feel it from the heart when you’re praying because that’s the energy that will work wonders.
This happened today. I was sitting in a park thinking about how nice it would be if a big opportunity came my way. I wasn’t expecting anything or even really asking, I was sorta just thinking about my life, and what sort of opportunities will come into it.
Later that evening, I was checking my phone and realized I had missed an email from a big publication telling me they wanted to publish an article of mine. How did I miss this email? I check my emails daily. Why did an opportunity manifest in my inbox when I was pondering about it the same day?
Synchronicity – divine guidance moving me along a higher path. On the other hand, when anything goes right, I express my gratitude towards whatever is out there pulling the strings. So when you need divine guidance, ask for it from the heart humbly, and keep your eyes open for how the answer will manifest in your life.
Follow Your Intuition
Generally, divine guidance manifests as intuition. Your intuition is generally a spiritual guidance mechanism anyway and knows a whole lot more than your mind does. Therefore, if you get certain feelings about something that either feel right or wrong, I suggest that you pay close attention to those feelings.
Your intuition will always point you toward your highest path because your intuition is much more connected to your soul than your mind is.
There have been times when I said, ‘You know what, this time I’m going to follow my mind and see where this leads me’
I still learned some good lessons. Had some good experiences. But never has following my mind over my heart led me down my highest path. Usually, it was a drag. Not necessarily times of my life I would want to reenact, but those lessons reinforced the belief that the heart wins over the mind.
The heart on the other hand, always seems to lead me in the direction of fulfillment, joy, and happiness. It may lead you into the unknown while your mind is unsure. Sometimes you might be faced with a crossroads where your heart will be saying one thing and your mind another.
Your mind will try to convince you by saying, ‘But this is the logical option! it would be silly to decide on a whim.’
I’m not saying that you should make bad decisions because you didn’t calculate anything, but prioritize the wisdom of your heart and use your mind as a tool to support it. Learn to follow the wisdom of your heart, and you’re on the right path.
Be Generally Receptive to People
People are a major source of information and inspiration, and great spirit certainly works through people too. This is why it’s so important to be receptive to people (generally speaking) and hear what they have to say.
I’m not talking about someone just giving you advice (although divine guidance may manifest in this way too). But in my experience, sometimes people randomly say something that strikes a resonating chord, and I get an epiphany of sorts.
To me, that’s divine guidance.
In my life, the great spirit has worked through some interesting characters. From a person sitting next to me on the train and blabbering on about having a spiritual episode that spoke to my soul. Another time, a woman walked up to me and asked ‘Do you know ayahuasca?’ when I was sitting by myself, coincidently days before starting work at an ayahuasca center, leading to an interesting conversation.
Another time, I had a ‘crazy guy’ stopping me in the street as I was walking past and ranting on about some pretty heavy spiritual stuff. But it made sense, and it gave me some foresight because I listened.
I could have ignored these people, but I’m glad I didn’t because great spirit spoke to me through them, and this altered my decisions and the following courses of action in some form. Therefore, if someone has something to say, I suggest listening to it and seeing where it takes you.
Hold Your Vision of the Future
Your ability to hold a vision of the future anchors you to your highest timeline and is a big part of the manifestation process.
I had a vision of sitting in front of a sacred fire talking to a shaman about the red road (and feeling supported in the decision to walk it). That exact scene came to fruition because I held such a strong vision of it happening.
If you hold a vision and feel it with your heart and soul like you’re constantly playing out your biggest fantasy, it borders on the line of becoming a premonition. But it has to be genuine! You can’t force the vision. Even though I believe that your path is laid out, you still need to do everything you can to ensure that you take the highest timeline.
And you just don’t know.
Perhaps your destiny is to never find the motivation and to learn the painful sting of never living up to your potential. Maybe that is your destiny, I don’t know. But you want to do everything in your power, regardless, to manifest the life you dream of.
And if you are supposed to actualize and have a great life, that’s how you get there. If you are meant to burn out, at least you tried your absolute hardest and can more easily accept the path your soul chose for this lifetime.
Accept What’s Outside of Your Control
Were you supposed to meet up with people, and there was a sudden change of plans? You weren’t meant to meet up with them that day. Did something unexpected happen? It was meant to be. Did things go well? Perfect, you’re on the right track. Did things go wrong? Perfect, you’re being shown the right track.
Learn to perceive every occurrence in your life in a frame of nonresistance. No matter what happens, look at it in a way that it was ultimately in your highest interest. This way of looking at life has brought me so much closure. Even if something does not go as planned, there is always a silver lining.
Look at life through a frame where everything that happens, happens for you. There’s a higher meaning to everything, even if it doesn’t seem like it at the time.
Of course, this isn’t an excuse not to try, because you absolutely should. Of course, you want to do what is within your control, but if it’s not, then life is pushing you in that direction for a reason. Why is this happening?
Have Trust in Your Path
The thing about divine guidance is that you need to trust in it when things aren’t going to plan. Have faith that your path is the perfect path for your soul’s journey and what it needs to experience at this time.
There will be times when you feel discouraged. Sometimes you will feel like you’re failing or spiritually regressing. But I can guarantee you that whatever you’re going through is part of the process. Your life is taking you through the hoops it needs to go through.
These are the moments that matter because it’s easy to trust in the grand plan when things are working out the way you expect. Remember, unexpected turns are just the beginnings of new chapters. So trust that you’re on the right path as long as you’re looking for the answers.