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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? We’re all divinely guided, but sometimes we just don’t know how to tune into it.
After all, other people can certainly help point us in the right direction, but the best guidance you can receive… is from yourself.
Some of us have this idea that being divinely guided is a really big deal, reserved for prophets and sages, as if god itself was speaking directly to them. Moses might come to mind when you think of the term, but in truth, we’re all divinely guided, many of us just don’t pay attention.
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.
Divinely guided meaning
Being divinely guided refers to tapping into a deeper part of your soul that has all the answers. Imagine divine guidance as a spiritual compass that directs you toward your highest timeline. In other words, it means you’re following the calling of your soul and following the path in life that deeply resonates with you.
You may seek divine guidance to help you discover the best road to take during difficult periods of your life, when you’re feeling lost, or you have a big decision to make. When you’re divinely guided, you’re paying attention to all the signs and messages pointing you in the right direction, and pursuing it.
Think of divine guidance as a deeper knowing. By tapping into a deeper part of your soul (or consciousness), the answers will appear. With that said, divine guidance can manifest externally in what we understand as signs – indicators that we are on the right track, or to change course.
I’ve taken some big leaps of faith in my life because I’ve felt a pull towards a life that may have been daunting, but I intuitively knew that taking this path was in my best interest.
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 my divine guidance, the more my life unfolds the way it’s supposed to.
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, and what we’re experiencing as humans is just a tiny slither of an endless sea of information.
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, we have this thing called free will that 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. It’s sort of like taking a very roundabout way with a lot of difficult lessons that may delay your evolution, 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 easier…
Divine guidance manifests in different forms. It may come on 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 there are synchronicities, or a sudden intuitive spike telling you to follow path B rather than path A.
Honestly, it doesn’t matter how the information manifests. We all have a spiritual path to walk, and as long as we pay attention to the countless messages arising from spirit, we will be divinely guided.
The paradox of destiny and free will
I believe that our life journeys are based on blueprints. These blueprints were crafted by our karma and determine the lessons we’re supposed to learn in this lifetime.
You can’t change the blueprint, as the major experiences will happen in one form or another, but free will allows you to navigate within the blueprint. Even though you’re destined to learn particular lessons, how you learn those lessons is based on free will.
Imagine you came to Earth this time round to learn forgiveness. Free will determines if you organically come around by cultivating compassion, or if you experience something awful, which pushes you to a point where you need to forgive or it’s going to destroy you.
Either way, you learned the lesson to pay your karmic debt, but the form in which it happened is up to you.
The universe is rooting for you! It wants you to take the best course of action, and fulfill your potential. Of course, it can’t make you do it, it can’t just tell you because that’s not how the laws of physics work. So it works through spirit – through signs, symbols, synchronicities, intuition, opportunities, energies, and anything it can really…
So how do you know if you’re divinely guided and following your highest path? Let’s take a look!
Signs you are divinely guided
Divine guidance presents itself in many different forms. Often it’s quite subtle, but the more you pay attention to the signs, the more receptive you will become to your divine guidance, and learn to trust it more.
Naturally, when you’re following the right path, all lights will be green as if the universe is encouraging you to pursue it. This will manifest in your intuition, your feelings, attitudes, and thoughts.
God might not light a bush on fire or part the sea for you, but opportunities will spontaneously show up, the right people will enter your life, doors will fly open, and things will tend to work in your favor when you’re divinely guided.
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.
Some signs that 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, spontaneous thoughts or ideas, intuitive impulses, or via the voices of others.
- 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.
- 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 and purpose.
- 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
If you’re looking for divine guidance, ask for it.
Who you’re asking doesn’t matter. Speak to god, your higher self, great spirit, your spirit guides. Putting the message out there that you’re ready to receive makes you more receptive to an answer.
Some people pray, others meditate. 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 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.
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 missed an email from a big publication telling me they want 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. Don’t forget to say thanks!
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, 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.
Follow your intuition
You might hear me harp on intuition a lot within my teachings, and that’s because trusting intuition is incredibly important. Your intuition is your internal compass. It will always point you toward your highest path because your intuition is much more connected with spirit than your mind.
Your mind is the dumbest of the bunch. There have been a few times where 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.
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 to not 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 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.ย 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.
Why you should strive to be divinely guided
Now you know that divine guidance is always there, it’s just a matter of tapping into it. The more you tap into your spiritual guidance, the more divinely guided you will become. We all have this internal spiritual compass because we all have a soul. We are all connected to God, who has all the answers to every question you could imagine.
So step into it. Look for the signs and keep your eyes open because spirit is always trying to communicate with you, in one way or another.