For as long as I could remember I lived life based on logic and reason. My decisions and choices were well thought out, sensible, practical and responsible. However, this strategy wasn’t working for me. I found that my intentions rarely unfolded the way I’d hoped even when I’d actioned backup plans B, C and D.
After years of trial and error, I still couldn’t understand what I was doing wrong. What I found most baffling was that some things just seemed to fall into place easily, but others didn’t, regardless of how much planning, effort and strategising I did. I felt confused, frustrated and disheartened. It got to the point that I was terrified of making a decision on my own.
Then, in 2001, I was recommended Denise Linn’s book, Signposts: How to interpret the coincidences and symbols in your life. Reading Signposts was the breakthrough I needed to provide me with answers to questions I had about why certain aspects of my life were so difficult and why unwanted circumstances kept showing up.
Denise Linn introduced me to the notion that there is a higher intelligence that governs life. It’s constantly communicating with us, lovingly guiding and directing us through the use of personal messages sent to us in the form of ‘signs’.
According to Denise, we are surrounded by these messages in both our waking lives and our dreams, whether we are conscious of it or not. She explains that fundamentally there are two types of signs - messenger and reflection signs.
Messenger signs, she says, are direct messages from spirit about our spiritual development. Their purpose is to give us insight and understanding about relationships and situations in our lives. Denise says that messenger signs usually come in the form of gentle nudges. Learning to hear these messages can bring more balance and harmony to your life.
Reflection signs, on the other hand, reflect our consciousness, Denise explains. Everything around us, every situation we encounter, every experience we have provides us with clues as to what our subconscious mind believes to be true about life.
Our beliefs, Denise says, act as magnets, pulling us to situations and people that are congruous with our subconscious beliefs. In other words, our personal world is created or manifested as a result of the core beliefs we hold in our subconscious mind. Denise helps us understand that if we consciously change our subconscious beliefs the way we feel about ourselves and our experience of life improves.
I’d been oblivious to the messages that life, the universe, spirit and my guides (or whatever you’d like to call this higher intelligence) were sending me. Denise’s work helped me begin to see that I was in the habit of ploughing right over any of life's warning signs telling me not to go in a particular direction or that the timing wasn’t quite right.
Signposts contains a ‘sign dictionary’ which assists in deciphering the messages we receive so that we can then begin a dialogue with the universe. It also includes powerful tools which allow us to become more aware of our subconscious beliefs and ways to create a new energy template to help shift these beliefs.
Personally, the sign dictionary helped me see and relate to my environment in new ways. As a result, I was able to move out of my head and become more conscious of what was going on around me.
For example, all of the hot water taps began to drip immediately following a relationship breakup. I had all the washers replaced by a plumber but within three months the hot water taps began dripping again.
Next, a hot water pipe in my bathroom began to leak resulting in the bathroom floor being jackhammered up.
Not long afterwards the hose to my washing machine blew off the wall mid wash and I couldn’t turn the running water off. In essence, there was water everywhere.
Signposts’ sign dictionary pointed these occurrences in the direction of my emotions. Once I properly grieved the relationship breakup and dealt with childhood issues surrounding the death of my father, the water leaks disappeared. I haven’t had so much as a dripping tap since.