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The Align Your Purpose Program

STEP EIGHT: SIGNSHOW TO FOLLOW THE CLUES ALONG YOUR PATH

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IN THIS LESSON:

• A Simple State of Being For Seeing Signs• Tips For Living in a State of Amusement

Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filedaway just below the consciouslevel.

“

”Dr. Joyce Brothers

Welcome to Step 8! In this lesson, we are going to

deepen your ability to see Signs, particularly the

more subtle signs that hint at the future and all that

is about to unfold.

In our very first lesson we touched on how to see

Signs using the body’s intelligence. This is particularly

useful when identifying signs in relation to

conversations, particular desires and your

interactions with other people.

In this lesson, we’re going to expand that into larger

realms so that as we continue into the final half of

this program, you can begin to notice social and

planetary patterns and identify where they’re

headed.

This way of seeing signs is closely related to your

intuition and following your heart—opening you up

to wonderful experiences of serendipity, epiphanies

and answers sparked by random encounters, a

chance lyric in a song, or the shape of a cloud in

the sky.

Yes, these are the subtle yet no less accurate signs

that exist all around us, but which many around us

are afraid to believe. However it is through

accepting their existence and tapping into their

vast stores of information that you continue to

evolve as the co-creator you are. It also prepares

you for aligning your purpose with the larger

patterns and cycles that serve you: because now

you’ll be able to see them.

If you’ve watched The Secret or heard of the Law

of Attraction, they talk at great lengths about these

kinds of signs. Creating your reality requires asking

questions, receiving the answers, and then acting

on them. However for most people, those answers

come in the oddest ways and are easily dismissible.

They come in dreams, or in serendipitous or random

encounters. They arrive as sudden odd inspirations

to do something out of the ordinary or out of char-

acter.

The majority of people ignore these signs. But it’s not

for lack of a desire to act. Rather it’s like the dial on

the volume is turned too low... the signs are so subtle

they barely get noticed. So in this lesson we’re going

to focus on honing your awareness and to get that

volume turned way up. You’ll be seeing signs all

around you!

So why do most people miss these signs?

How did the volume get turned down so low in the

first place? Well it’s simply a function of socialization.

Noticing signs requires a state of being that many of

us have been trained out of. It was an unfortunate

byproduct of learning how to participate in society

as adults. Though we developed many wonderful

skills in that socialization process, we also acciden-

tally shut ourselves down from receiving this partic-

ular kind of information.

Luckily, nearly all of us existed naturally in this state

of being as children. And so it can easily be re-acti-

vated and... frankly... it’s a lot of fun. ☺

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Where we tapped the body’s intelligence to see

signs in our immediate communications and

interactions with people and for ways to navigate

present circumstances... now we’re going to

continue developing the heart’s intelligence and

our intuition to help us see the more subtle, grander

signs that point to social and global patterns and to

the direction of our futures.

Often we miss these signs because we

overcomplicate the process. We also tend to take

it all too seriously, blocking the most powerful state

of being we can adopt for seeing these higher signs.

What is that powerful and simple state of being?

The State of Amusement.

This is why children notice signs everywhere. They

view the world with awe and wonder and curiosity.

They exist in a natural state of amusement.

They are light hearted. Even the phrase itself is

telling: the heart is the key, and it is light, which

makes us think of buoyancy and little weight... it is

not heavy or weighed down. We might also think of

light in terms of energy—bright, enlightened, shining

a light on what we might see.

Context is so powerful and when we see how much

information our minds can derive from simple

phrases like ‘light hearted,’ we begin to see how

subtle signs that are easily dismissible might actually

be brimming with useful information.

Amusement also means that we are in a neutral

state of awareness, yet there is also a joy and

playfulness. We are reminded of the iconic grand

Fool evoked by the Enquirer in Step 1. With

amusement, we are not lost to overwhelming need

or desire, nor gripped by fear. We are not tossed on

the seas of powerful emotions nor shrouded by

confusion or doubt.

Any one or more of those things may be present for

us, yet they have not overpowered us. Because if

they had, we would not experience a state of

amusement. To be amused is to be neutrally happy.

Just because.

So if being in a state of amusement helps us see

higher signs, how can we create more amusement

in our lives?

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TIP 1. Get out of your comfort zone on adaily or weekly basis.

Find a new way home from the office that you don’t

usually take. Or visit a new part of town. Hang out in

a restaurant, coffee shop or park that you’ve never

been to.

When you do... practice being aware of your

awareness. What do you find yourself noticing?

Are you out of your head and your own thoughts

more... perhaps noticing more of your environment

and what’s happening around you? Do any

epiphanies come then or later on?

By training yourself to be more spontaneous, you

create a new comfort zone that is playful and much

larger. You build that muscle for adventure and so

the next time you get an intuitive hit or odd unex-

plainable urge to do something or go somewhere...

you’ll do it! Because that hit or urge is likely a sign

pointing you to your next step for creating what you

want.

This tip also develops your awareness. We tend to

see more when we’re in new environments or out of

our routine. And it’s far easier to see signs when

we’re actually looking for them. ☺

Also, this takes repetition and consistency. Don’t just

do it once! Consider actually scheduling time into

your calendar. Call it “Adventure Hour.” Even if you

have too much work to do or too many errands to

run... bring your work with you to a new environ-

ment, or run your errands in a different town and in

different stores. And do it at least once every week.

TIP 2. Expand your awareness beforemaking decisions.

Here’s a great tip for inviting light heartedness into

real life: such as when you’re faced with key

decisions or difficult choices.

What tends to happen when we face a hard

decision is constriction. The stress closes us down to

our available information. Also, oftentimes other

people want us to make certain choices and so,

whether they mean to or not, their energy will often

invade our space.

If you’ve ever felt terribly confused about which

choice to make, 9 times out of 10, it’s because

someone else’s information and energy is in your

space. So it feels like your own. And suddenly you

can’t decide what you really want. Your own

information is clouded and covered by someone

else’s (or by multiple other people!).

They are not necessarily doing it on purpose. We all

accidentally affect each other when we strongly

desire something for another person, or when we

think we know what’s best for them.

So how do you regain clarity to make your decision?

You use your heart’s intelligence, and the

amusement that creates light heartedness.

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The following exercise will help you expand your

awareness beyond your physical body. Though it

does not deal directly with amusement as we often

consider it, we are expanding your sense of self

much the same way we expanded your comfort

zone in the previous tip. Expansion and amusement

are closely linked. So have fun with this exercise, and

feel free to massage or shift it to whatever works

best for you. The goal is to experience a light

hearted expansion that creates calm and clarity in

a space of neutrality...

To begin, find a quiet space and close your eyes.

Follow your breath and quiet your mind until you

reach a basic meditative state. Once you’ve

reached a space of relative stillness, go ahead and

bring your focus to your body. Feel your awareness

expand to fill up your entire physical self from the

crown of your head... down into your chest and

belly... all the way down into your knees and your

toes.

You may feel a slight sense of movement or energy

coursing through you or you might not. Just hold the

intention that you are filling your entire body up with

your own awareness.

You may see as you do this that your awareness

focuses on a specific part of your body, such as your

right hand. Then it will leap to another part of your

body like your forehead or your feet.

As this happens, continue expanding your

awareness to include both your hands and your

feet. Your head and your torso. Continue to expand

and include until you feel a balanced awareness

holding the totality of your body all at once. This

may take practice, so don’t worry if you still find your

awareness leaping around.

Eventually you will be able to hold your entire body

within your awareness. When this happens and

becomes comfortable and natural, next I want you

to further expand that awareness outside of you –

from within you.

This may happen the first time you try this, or perhaps

not for a few weeks or months as you practice.

Either way is perfectly fine. Expansion is always hap-

pening and never done (at least not in this lifetime!).

So when you are ready, you will be holding your

awareness of your own being... and also an

awareness of your immediate surroundings...

You may find when you do this that a physical sense

of expansion happens. You feel larger... vaster. As

John Meyer says, you may experience that “I’m

bigger than my body gives me credit for.”

The only thing I know the universe is doing for sure, is it’s expanding, and we know that from physics. And so I said [toa friend] “I think the purpose of the universe is to expand”,and he said, “that’s right, and anything that supports expansion; the expansion of freedom, the expansion of consciousness, the expansion of abundance, the expansionof love, that’s going to get supported, because it’s in line withwhat the universe is doing.

“

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From this space of expanded awareness, next

visualize your expanded space and choose to take

ownership of it. See your own energy, perhaps a

bright golden energy (but it can be any color you

see or want it to be), and watch it fill up your entire

body and space around you. See any foreign

energy from others in your life calmly leaving your

space and returning to the people that energy

belongs to. Know that this expanded space is yours

and belongs to you. Continue the visualization until

you feel a sense of clarity and neutrality, and

perhaps even a bit of amusement (because... “can

this really be this easy?!” ☺).

Now, when you are ready, from this place of

expanded awareness and clarity, ask the question

you seek your answer to.

Rather than constrict your awareness back to the

chambers of your brain and logic, maintain that

expansion you’ve just gained and simply hold your

inquiry from within that space. Let it move around

and just see where it goes.

Instead of searching for answers, let them come to

you. And trust the information you receive, even if

at first it doesn’t make sense. This type of inquiry

often leads to epiphanies!

TIP 3. Go on a Scavenger Hunt

This is my particular favorite for inviting amusement

and it always leads to fabulous and often surprising

results.

Pick a day when you have several hours of free

time. Book it in your calendar and don’t let yourself

cancel it. This is your date with your own destiny!!

When the time arrives, you can choose to drive,

walk, take public transportation or ride a bike. Just

be sure to have some basics with you like a jacket

or anything necessary for weather, a water bottle,

maybe even a snack. The idea is you don’t want

any excuse to stop your adventure once it’s began.

It’s hard to maintain amusement if you’re stuck in

the pouring rain or you’re freezing cold as soon as

the sun sets!

Once you’re ready to go, just go! Get in your car

and drive, or begin your walk, or pick a random bus

stop and get on. The idea is you don’t know where

you’re going or where you’ll end up.

Once you’re moving, you’re officially on your

scavenger hunt. So the name of the game is to

make as many decisions as you can and to trust

that higher guidance or intuition is guiding your

choices, even if you don’t understand them. So as

soon as you come to a cross street, ask yourself,

“Left or Right?” Go in the first direction you hear in

your head... or, like me, you may feel a slight tug in

your body to go in that direction. Go with your first

instinct and don’t take more than a split second to

decide.

In the case of public transportation, instead of

choosing which way to go, follow your gut instinct

for which stop to get off at, and then where to go

from there...

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Keep doing this until you get a really strong hit or

desire or image. It might be a sudden urge to visit

that new coffee shop or to stop by a friend’s place.

Maybe you see an image of you sitting on a bench

at a park and a dog racing up for a pet... whatever

it is that pops into your awareness, follow THAT! It

becomes your first “Clue.”

Once you’ve reached that destination, or sought

out that park you saw in your mind, hang out or

meander around the location until you get your

next hit.

Also imagine that every thought, idea and feeling

exists forever in a field of information. Sometimes

what is to occur in a particular location isn’t a

chance meeting with a person so much as a

chance meeting with an idea.

That’s why we often get epiphanies when we’re

walking or somewhere new. We picked it up or

encountered it in the field. When you want fresh

ideas, the best thing you can do is go to fresh places

you’ve never been before!

Other reasons for the clue may be that you’re there

to buy something, or to run into someone, or to

notice your next clue that you would have

otherwise missed. Either way, don’t search too hard.

Have fun with it and trust that the clues will come to

you.

In this way, continue through your day, expecting

to see a new sign or clue anywhere you might look,

open to adventure and serendipity and surprises at

every turn and corner.

This doesn’t mean that you think everything is a

sign... rather you’re playing at the possibility that

anything might be a sign—and you trust yourself to

know the difference. Keep practicing, and

eventually you’ll get exceptionally good at not only

seeing the signs, but knowing which are important

and what they mean.

It’s a native skill you already possess as a human

being. The tips we just covered will help you step

back into remembering it. Because as children we

did this naturally and all of the time (as long as it

wasn’t suppressed by others). And so most of us un-

derstood that we lived in a magical world full of

wonder and new experiences.

We expected it. And it’s time to expect it again.


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