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Read the Signs Life Gives Us
by: Keith Varnum
To look is one thing.
To see what you look at is another.
To understand what you see is a third.
To learn from what you understand is still something else.
But to act on what you learn is all that really matters!
- Native American Wisdom
Your spirit has great plans for you this lifetime! Want to know what they are?
Our souls are enjoying a fun adventure, while most egos are enduring a
frustrating nightmare. Our souls are creating exactly what they dream. Most
personalities fall short in satisfying their desires. The vibrant success of the
soul is little known only because most of us aren’t taught how to connect with
the exciting scenario of the soul.
Spirit Rules!
The soul is in charge of our lives! Our souls have been running the show from
behind the scenes since the beginning of time. And you can easily tap into your
soul’s point of view and find out what your soul’s been up to since the moment
you were born.
The most direct route the soul takes to connect with us is by speaking with a
silent inner voice or urging. It tries to reach us through intuition. But often
we don't, or can't, receive this direct inner communication. Spirit then resorts
to using our outer world to get our attention to deliver its guidance. The
ever-inventive soul tries to get through to us by way of noticeable,
distinctive, strategically-timed signs in the form of events in our daily life.
Constant Guidance
Reading outer signs is a way to intuitively and gracefully open your personality
to the wonders, wisdom, support and guidance of your own brilliant soul plan.
Our soul is always trying to guide us. Spirit uses these outer signposts to
steer us toward our goals. We live in an interactive, responsive Universe that
is designed to fulfill our deepest dreams—if we would only play along!
The Deck is Stacked in Our Favor
There is a science, as well as an art, to reading signs and signals. Our beliefs
and intentions go out from us and have an impact not only on other people, but
also on what happens to us.
Signs and synchronicity are pure physics. All outer signs are a mirror
reflection of our inner consciousness. The quantum mechanics of meaningful
coincidences is constantly working for us. Our magnetic field of energy is
always attracting exactly what we need to create our hearts’ desires. We’re
destined to enjoy an abundant life—and the Universe is designed to help us find
it.
You can successfully navigate through the myriad of your life choices by using
the precise guidance system that the outer world constantly presents. You can
increase the number of fulfilling life opportunities by increasing the accuracy
of your interpretations of signs. And you can open the door to more magic,
meaning and money in your world by learning to suspend skepticism and
conditioned responses.
All our emotions and dreams are encoded messages from Spirit. The soul also
talks to us through inner and outer coded symbols, sounds and unusual lights, or
intermediaries like angels and spirit guides. Often the soul has to resort to
dramatic, external events to grab our attention, like body symptoms or car and
computer trouble. When has your soul had to resort to strong medicine to get
your attention? (for example, sickness, accident, divorce)
Cloaked in Mystery
The traditional path of outer sign reading is one of mystery and mysticism. It
has been an intrigue full of secrecy and sacred rites. But this ancient divining
path can also be walked with practical feet! The mystical approach once
simplified and clarified, can be a very easy, dynamic, productive and rewarding
way to live your everyday life—and to create the realities you want for your
enjoyment and growth.
Reconnect with an Ancient Approach to Life
For thousands of years human civilization has used the outer world for guidance.
Only in the last few hundred years have we lost touch with this ancient and
effective way to follow the divine destiny of our lives. The successful
civilizations of Babylon, Egypt and Greece followed oracles who divined omens
and messages from beyond. Even up to the time of Shakespeare, folks were guided
by reading the signs of the outer world. The Bard’s plays are full of references
to omens and signs.
You can employ this ancient approach to create miracles in your everyday modern
world—and attract abundance in your bank account, vitality in your body and
satisfaction in your bedroom. Reading signs is a very practical ways to make
room in your personal Universe for daily magic.
A Helpful Early Warning System
Life offers us a practical Early Warning System—if we pay attention! Life gives
us messages. When we fail to get the message, life gives us a lesson. If we
don’t learn the lesson, life gives us a problem. If we don’t deal with the
problem, life gives us a crisis. If we don’t handle the crisis, life quits
giving!
What early warning signals from your universe have you been disregarding?
Action Means You Got the Message
In many Native American languages, the word for “getting the message” is the
same word used for “my life has changed.” In other words, in their culture, if
you don’t act on the guiding signs presented by the Great Spirit, you didn’t
really get the message. If you don’t make the necessary changes in your behavior
and attitude to alter the course of your destiny, you never really understood
the true import of the message.
Being in intimate touch with the ebb and flow of the interconnectedness of life,
indigenous peoples recognize life’s outer signals as useful Early Warning Signs.
These outer signs are reflecting the inevitable outer course of our inner river
of consciousness. Native peoples know the only way to have their life unfold
harmoniously is to respond immediately to the accurate feedback life gives them.
For indigenous people, there is no middle ground as there is for most modern,
intellectual Westerners.
Modern folks often respond differently to divine assistance. Instead of
responding immediately as would native peoples, contemporary Americans typically
“think” about the signs being given by Spirit. Even after recognizing the wisdom
of the message, most people still don’t make the indicated changes in their
life. In allowing the thinking mind to enter into the equation, we invite
misinterpretation, discounting, invalidation and even denial of the message. And
most often, the result of this mental intervention is inaction. We always have
our “good reasons” not to make the changes suggested by Spirit!
The Road to Magic
I happened upon this invaluable, built-in divination system in my youth. I found
when I acted from the outer signals Spirit sent me, my life unfolded in wondrous
and magical ways. And I noticed that when I hesitated and questioned my external
guidance, I often ended up not taking the suggested actions, which usually led
to unfavorable and even disastrous outcomes.
After years of painful personal experimentation with ignoring and denying the
Early Warning Signs life constantly gives me, I now heed Spirit’s
messages—without hesitation or analysis!
Drawing from the wisdom of native and ancient spiritual traditions, Keith Varnum
shares his 30 years of practical success as an author, personal coach,
acupuncturist, filmmaker, radio host, restaurateur, vision quest guide and
international seminar leader with “The Dream Workshops”. Keith helps people get
the love, money, and health they want with his F-r-e-e Prosperity Ezine, F-r-e-e
Abundance Tape and F-r-e-e Coaching at
www.TheDream.com.
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