So I’ve been chatting with a lot of people in my circle lately about how the universe communicates with me constantly. I’ll be listening to music and a song I’ve never heard before will play at just the right moment and the lyrics will answer a question I’ve been pondering. I’ll be driving down the road on my weekly Saturday morning leisure drive and a license plate on the car in front of me will confirm my exact thoughts at that moment. I’ll be walking through the woods and thinking of my late grandmother and out of nowhere a red-winged blackbird will fly right by me. (We used to birdwatch together in my youth, and those were her absolute favorite.) I’ll discover a music artist whose music really speaks to me and not soon after will get a call from a friend telling me they’ve got tickets and we’re going. The list goes on and on.

Is it all a coincidence?? Or is there more to it?

The more I began to think about it I came to realize that the universe has been speaking to me my entire life. I was just blinded by the conditional programming our society uses to keep us all obedient for too long. I was paying attention to all the wrong things. Things that would inevitably lead me astray from the path I was destined to walk. Things that would silence the gifts I was given in this lifetime and meant to share with the world. But one day, as it were, I woke up. Finally, I started seeing the signs.

As I started to understand how the universe operates I began telling everyone I could about it so that they could start to see the signs in their life, too. I was nervous at first. “Surely,” I thought, “everyone is going to think I’ve gone insane.” Much to my surprise, however, opening up about what I had discovered changed my life in the most wonderful ways.

All the wrong people fled my life. All the right ones appeared in my life. People started sharing their own experiences with me. There were unbelievable parallels that brought us closer together. Magic. Enlightenment. Confirmation. Oneness. Peace. Harmony. Love.

My focus shifted from the material world to the world we cannot detect with the “five senses” we are taught to believe we are limited to. I began meditating regularly. I began practicing gratitude instead of doubt. I began to tune in to my own mindfulness and self-awareness. And the signs became more apparent and accessible to me.

In time I realized that the veil was being lifted. I was shedding everything I had been taught and learning on my own everything that was truly real about existence. And I realized that art in all forms has been trying to express the same lesson over and over and over again throughout all of time. I learned that ANYTHING is possible and we all have the power inside of us to make our lives whatever we want them to be. There is ALWAYS a way, no matter how impossible it may seem. The only true limits are the ones we put on ourselves. The only tools we need are the signs the universe gives us.

Today I challenge you to open yourself up to the signs around you. When you see one, you won’t even have to second-guess. It’s a feeling. A knowing. The universe, your higher self, intuition, God….whatever you believe in or want to name it…is ALWAYS communicating with you and guiding you. Are you paying attention??? If not, maybe THIS is the sign you’ve been looking for.