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How to Understand What the Universe Wants to Tell You

Part of learning about the Law of Attraction is learning just how connected we all are to Source. You may have been taught that communicating directly with God/Source is only for the most spiritually advanced among us. But the truth is we all have a direct line.

And it goes both ways.

We ask, we request, we intend. And, Source responds. But Source doesn’t respond only by delivering the goods—the new Mercedes, the new boyfriend, the new job—it also responds by talking to us. It can tell us which fork in the road to take, which self development book to pick up, that everything will be ok.

And, Source is always talking, talking, talking, to us all the time. Wanna know how you can hear what Source is trying to say to you?

Just start paying attention to the following:

Feelings/Emotions

Feelings are your “dedicated connection” from Source. They act as a gauge, letting you know how vibrationally attuned with Source you are. When you feel good, you are aligned, when you feel bad you are less aligned.

When we study the LOA, we learn that what-we-think-about we bring into our lives. But a lot of our thoughts/beliefs happen undetected by us (unconsciously), so it can be impossible to control, or manage, all those thoughts. And, this is where your feelings come in: if you watch your feelings, you will know precisely how aligned with Source (i.e. your true desires) your thoughts are.

If you consider something you’d like to manifest, there are really two subjects: having-it, and not-having-it. When you think about something you want and you feel a “negative” emotion—worried, anxious, fearful—that is your tap on the shoulder, straight from Source, that you are focusing your attention on not-having-it.

And if you are focused on not-having-it, you’re gonna get what? That’s right, more of not-having-it.

Feelings are your Source’s clearest, most direct, way of letting you know when you are entertaining thoughts that do not serve Who You Really Are.

Intuition

Intuition has typically been the provenance of “intuitives” or psychics, but anybody can learn to use it (I’ll save how to do that for another article). Intuition is a communication to you from Source.

The four most common kinds of intuition are:

Clairvoyance—“Clear Seeing”, you receive visions, symbolic images, dream imagery, often these messages require a bit of decoding.

Clairaudience—“Clear Hearing”, you receive messages as words. You might hear an “inner voice”.

Clairsentience—“Clear Feeling”, you receive information as sensations in your body. Tingling, “thrill bumps”, chills, shivering, are examples of this.

Knowingness—“direct knowing”, you know something to be true, often without an explanation as to how you know.

Do you notice that these all relate to the either physical senses or to perception?

This is important, because, though we do often get messages from Source through these channels, we also use these sensory/perception “vehicles”—hearing, sight, physical sensation, and thought—for many other purposes.

As an example let’s take Knowingness. Knowingness is when you just know something. There are no visions, no words, no chills running down your spine, you just know. It’s pure thought direct from Source.

But, on the other hand, you have thoughts—all kinds of thoughts—all the time. And the vast majority of the time, those thoughts are just you thinking about whatever it is you think about. So when a thought pops in from Source, it can be less obvious than, say, a feeling (which serves no other purpose other than as a communication tool between you and Source, remember it’s your “dedicated connection”). Not impossible to detect, just less obvious.

Intuition is great, don’t get me wrong (trust me, I’m not knocking it, most of the writing I do for OL is a clairaudient experience, I just start hearing words, phrases, paragraphs, and then type as fast as I can to keep up). But if you want quick, direct access, pay attention to your feelings.

Feelings are unmistakable. And they happen no matter how you vibrate. But, when you’re in a more resistant state, intuitive reception can easily get blocked. I see this in my own life. For example, when I’m in a more resistant place the words come through less clearly, or not at all.

Dreams

Your dreams are your Source’s way of letting you know what you are most likely to manifest in the near future. They tell you what vibrations you have been dealing in, and what you are currently drawing not your world.

The most telling aspect of any dream is the feeling-experience you have while dreaming. This feeling-expereince will be a direct match to the kinds of experiences you are drawing to you.

In fact, dreams are highly symbolic in terms of imagery, but they are completely literal in terms of feeling. The dream-feelings you have will always match the feelings/vibrations that are at work in your life, though the imagery may not.

In this sense, dreams are the great reality check—intuition can be less than obvious, you can be out of tune with, or even in denial about, about your feelings. But your dreams, because they are not controlled by your conscious mind, get through.

I think that’s why nightmares are so scary, so intense—they happen when Source really, really, wants to get your attention about something, so it uses the “dedicated connection” of feelings, in this case fear or panic, to get your attention.

What to do if you don’t like what you feel in your dreams? The most productive thing you can do is to simply start paying attention to your feelings when you are awake. Work on choosing thoughts that feel more aligned with your True Self, i.e. thoughts that feel good. As you do that, clarity about any needed action will come too.

And, if you enjoy analyzing the imagery in your dreams, then by all means. I’m fascinated by dream imagery myself; I find it enriches my understanding of my world to “translate” the stuff I encounter while dreaming.

But, you absolutely don’t have to do that, it’s kind of like extra credit. You can still get all the meaning you need from your dreams by simply paying attention to your dream-feelings.

Babies, Butterflies, and Ballads

Source loves us, adores us, and wants to be of assistance to us. So much so, that if you’re eyes are open, you’ll find evidence of this all over the place.

Sometimes we call these events “small miracles”.

I’m talking about the fortune cookie, the penny on the sidewalk, the random stranger who shows up at just the right time, the song on the radio.

Remember, the Universe has at its disposal the means to manifest anything you direct your attention towards. So why wouldn’t it have the ability to speak to you through a butterfly, a kitty?

If you’re not inclined to this sort of thing, you don’t have to pay attention (it’s not required for a wonderful, happy life). But if you are, you will find Source talking to you in all sorts of surprising and wonderful ways.

This is a quote, from Abraham (I’m paraphrasing): “We are constantly babbling through babies, animals, through anything that will allow us. We are always wanting to speak to you.”

By the way, I got thrill bumps when I wrote that, and I heard a big, affirming, clairaudient “YES!”, too.

One more thing, our loved ones who’ve crossed over can speak to us through these “little miracles” as well. Think about it, Abraham says they are no different from us, except that we are physically focused and they are not. So, when one of us becomes un-physically focused, wouldn’t that person have the same ability to communicate with us as Abraham?

I don’t know about you, but I love knowing how deeply available to us Source really is. I love knowing that all the guidance I need is always available to me.

All you have to do is listen!

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Filed under: Law of Attraction, Well Being, Emotions/Feelings
April 25th, 2007

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