How To Identify The Signs From The Universe
By: Shreya Badonia
Tags: Spirituality, Consciousness, Spiritual, Telenovela, Universe

How To Identify The Signs From The Universe

I Received Signs Watching A Telenovela

CREDIT: LISA ROSE/THE CW

I started watching Jane the Virgin last month. I needed to watch something breezy to distract myself from the work. The show made me laugh and it also made me cry. The questions I had for God were answered by Jane’s religious Abuela (grandmother in Spanish), who kept throwing wisdom bombs throughout the course of the show.

Time was trying and I was in a bad shape when I started the series. My faith was trembling due to the conflict between reality and my faith. Abuela’s lessons to Jane felt like the lessons I needed to grasp.

Firstly, I didn’t believe it when it happened but then it happened again and just like a flowing river most of the doubts were cleared by simply watching a telenovela on Netflix. She reminded me that what was going on in my life was temporary and I needed to keep my faith and endure this pain to come out happier and wiser. This the time I wrote this story mentioned below

I may have stopped liking the show after a certain point, but I am sure that it served its purpose. It got me thinking about how signs from the universe reach us and how can we place these signs. Gabby Bernstein in her book The Universe Has Your Back talks about how

“We are not responsible for what our eyes are seeing. We are responsible for how we perceive what we are seeing.”

How we perceive a situation depends on a lot of factors but there are three ways I have found myself identifying signs over the years. They are listed below

Strong Desires

Last year, while I was searching for jobs, I stumbled upon a hiring post shared by a private firm on Instagram. I immediately emailed my CV to the designated person and eagerly waited to hear from them. I didn’t receive any reply for a couple of days and I kept appearing for other interviews.

I appeared for multiple interviews and finally got two lucrative opportunities including one from the private firm I was eyeing. However, I couldn’t make my mind about which offer to go ahead with. The company I wanted to join had 6 days working. I was skeptical about how I was going to handle my side business with so little time in hand.

I needed that extra one day.

The dilemma kept me up for nights. I had no idea what was best for me. In order to get rid of the indecisiveness, I asked the universe to guide me. Nothing happened immediately, but I felt a strong desire to work for the first company even though it had 6 working days. I couldn’t ignore the strong desire I had to join the private firm and I did.

Working Saturdays sucked in the beginning but the environment was so peaceful that I was able to make videos for YouTube channel and record podcasts during the weekend without feeling overwhelmed.

Our desires often show us which path we need to lead. Everything starts with a desire and then the conviction to pursue it.

“The intensity of your desire governs the power with which the force is directed.”

— John McDonald

2. Intuition and feelings

Our feelings and intuition are powerful. Researches have shown that we feel uneasy and uncomfortable around certain people for no reason, it’s often our intuition telling us something and our brain trying to save us from danger.

It’s our intuition preparing us when we feel apprehensive way before something bad happens. All these emotions and gut feeling is our intuition trying to beware us. Having been experienced it multiple times, I know things are going to fall apart if I don’t follow my instincts.

When your gut is telling you to take a certain step, take it seriously — it’s the universe guiding you towards the right path.

“If you let it, the noise of the world will drown out the voice of God, which is your intuition.”

— Oprah Winfrey

When you find yourself in a debate on whether it’s a sign from the universe or not, take a deep breath and think about how does it make you feel. If you’re feeling strongly about it then it’s a sign.

3. Consciousness

This one is a cliched example but it serves the purpose, let me ask you again — why do we see the newly bought car on the road more often than we did before? The answer is simple because we’re more conscious about it.

Consciousness is defined as the state of being aware of our thoughts, attention, and our own existence. Awareness for what it is; internal knowledge, and the gut feeling that guides us.

Photo by Austin Chan on Unsplash

The consciousness that got you thinking about that sign is the Universe driving your focus on the sign. If you have a slight notion of an incident, or a person and or a situation to be a sign then it is a sign. As Shaman Raven Kaldera says “There’s no such thing as coincidence. I say it’s synchronicity.” Our consciousness is a great tool to experience coincidences and it’s the ground of our being.

“Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.”

— M. Esther Harding

Lastly…

My fellow spiritual folks, how God/Universe send signs have also evolved with technology and the information we’re open to. That rom-com you’re intending to watch or that post that your friend shared on Instagram could be waiting for you to see it. It could be a sign :)

If it feels like a sign then it indeed is one!