Universe has your back |Gabrielle Bernstein #universehasyourback #lawofattraction #manifest

the New York Times calls gabrielle bernstein a role model for a new generation of spiritual seekers she once told me she believes her purpose is to help others tune in to their own inner voice an honor blog Gaby tackles everything from spiritual tips on how to quit sugar to handling negative comments to meditations for preventing a freakout moment Gabrielle's session is called the universe has your back Gabrielle Bernstein New Year's Day of 2015 I had a plan my plan was to get pregnant I had it down it was perfect I was gonna get pregnant right

away in February I was gonna take the entire nine months to write my book the universe has her back and I was gonna give birth in the fall and then have the baby give birth submit the book then take three months off with my baby and go on a book tour perfect plan right perfect plan the only problem was I wasn't getting pregnant month after month I wouldn't get pregnant and I'd start counting nine months ahead I start looking at what I had ahead of me I'd start thinking okay I've got this speaking engagement I've

got this contract I've got to deal with and I started canceling those contracts and canceling those speaking engagements I started driving my publishers crazy because I was trying to change the publication date of the book I was driving my husband crazy because there's absolutely nothing sexy about trying to make a baby happen on your timeline and I'm driving myself crazy because I'm trying to control something that I absolutely cannot control but all the while I'm telling my friends and my family members that I'm consciously conceiving I was consciously controlling every detail and six months go

by and I'm still not pregnant at this point I start to worry I'm getting older my body isn't working there's something wrong with me I start to feel this sense of shame but I'm not gonna talk about it I'm not telling anybody how I'm feeling every time I go on Instagram or Facebook I see more bumps and more babies and I feel separate and I feel alone and I begin to compare myself to everyone around me to make matters worse I had prematurely announced my pregnancy to my friends and my family members I even went

as far as to get on my stages publicly and tell my students that I was planning to conceive and this got really bad it got so bad that I was at a book signing and this young woman grabs my hands and she walks up to me as she asked me to sign her book and she says you know Gabi I've been channeling your spirit baby and she has a message for you this really pushed me over the edge six more months go by it's New Years Eve I'm at a dinner with all of my college

friends and they all have at least one child maybe a second on the way another couple had adopted a child and I'm sitting around this dinner table and I'm looking at everybody prepare their kids for dinner and get them ready for bed and I'm feeling like I'm behind I'm missing out on this stage of life and I'm not feeling good enough I wake up the next day New Year's Day a full year later and I got my period I spent a year trying to make this thing happen I spent a year trying to make my

body do something that it's not going to do I'm feeling that shame I'm feeling that inadequacy that separation I'm not good enough I can't make this happen thankfully I had a friend staying with me my friend Jordan a very great spiritual running buddy of mine and Jordan looked at me he noticed my depression and my sadness and and he looked at me and said honey what is wrong with you and I said well you know Jordan I couldn't make it happen my body isn't working I can't make it happen in my timeline I tried to

change everything around it wasn't working honey stop this is not how we do things ask the universe for help was one of those divine spiritual encounters when I was ready to listen and I said thank you thank you Jordan I'm ready to hear that I'm ready to receive that and I excused myself and I walked upstairs to my meditation pillow and I sat down in my Zen den and I got really grounded and I asked the universe for help I went into my meditation and I began to feel my extremities tingle and my arms go

numb and I started to connect to that presence of a higher power of my own understanding that reliable presence that is so familiar the presence of love and magnitude that is within me and I started to connect and get grounded and aligned and in that alignment I heard this voice come forward this voice of my intuition this voice of my inner wisdom and that voice said to me your plans are in the way of God's plans it's time to surrender at which point I feel this energy begin to move me and lift me up and

bring me to my desk and I sit down on my desk and involuntarily I place my hands on the keyboard of my computer and my fingers just start typing and they're moving and they're moving and all of a sudden at the top of the page the words that we're not mine came onto the page these are the steps for spiritual surrender okay so I just let my fingertips continue to go for thirty minutes my fingers just glide it across that computer screen and I just let the words come on to the page and words that

were not mine ideas that were not mine belief systems guidance wisdom that was not mine came on to this page and within that half-hour period of time I channeled the five steps for spiritual surrender the exact steps that I needed the exact messages that I was looking for the guidance the wisdom the connection I channeled the steps but now I had to become brave enough to wonder what would happen if I step back and let the universe take the lead we all have to become brave enough to wonder every single one of us in this

room today is trying to control something you know what I'm talking about you all know what it is maybe you're trying to control that ring that you're trying to get on your finger or maybe you're trying to control when you're going to get that cash in the bank or maybe you're trying to control the outcome of a physical diagnosis but all that control and all that manipulation all that trying to make something happen is creating resistance resistance from the alignment resistance from that into voice that is beckoning you all the time resistance from your connection

to a power far greater than yourself a magnitude that is within you that you have forgot to listen to because you've been too busy focused on what you need to get but it's in the absence of that resistance that we realign it's in the absence of that resistance that we remember the truth of who we are it's in the absence of that resistance that we get connected to the universe and the universe is an ever-present energy of love that is within us and around us and always guiding us and it's through these steps of spiritual

surrender that we are realign that we reconnect with that magnitude and that presence and we let go of what we think we need and we remember that the truth of who we are so I have a question for you all are you ready to surrender great I am here today to give you these five steps that I have been using over the past year these steps have grounded me they've realigned me thank you for getting your notebooks out people get ready I have been using these steps to get reconnected realigned and and and rebooted in

a sense and these are the steps to spiritual surrender so that you can know that the universe has your back even when things are not working out the way that you expected you ready step one step one take your hands off the wheel through prayer many of you are praying for that cash you're praying for that relationship or praying for that outcome to be exactly as you want it to be in the time that you want it to happen but the secret to prayer is to forget what you think you need when we begin to

stop praying for what we think we need but instead begin to pray for what is of the highest good for all that's when we get lit up that's when invisible doors begin to open for us that's when we align with the truth and the magnitude of the presence of our authentic power so take that in doesn't that just feel awesome just to say that I want to pray for what is of the highest good for all this doesn't that feel awesome to even think about that thing you've been controlling and holding on to and simply

say to yourself right now you know what I'm just gonna pray for what's of the highest good for all takes the pressure off right yeah the second step is to start to focus on what's thriving we focus so much on what's not working Lee so focus on the absence of something why don't we focus on what's already thriving in our lives when I started to take the focus off of this baby that I thought I needed to manifest in this exact amount of time and started focusing on the beauty in my marriage focusing on my

physical well-being focusing on the spiritual journey that I needed to go on I began to uncover things about myself I didn't even know and I started to let myself off the hook and realign and get connected and I started to feel that pressure of needing that thing just dissipate so when you begin to take your focus off of that thing you need and start to focus on what is already thriving let me just say something's you all you are thriving because you are at supersoul sessions today okay you are thriving right now you were playing

the drums this morning with Oprah okay you are good let's focus on that the third step obstacles are detours in the right direction so what I realized was that this obstacle of not getting pregnant right away was actually a detour in the right direction it was a detour towards my spiritual connection it was a detour towards hitting another bottom in my life so that I could have another awakening Rumi says that the wound is the place where the light enters you in that wound I was awakened and I was given these steps that I was

blessed with and this journey of developing my spiritual condition in a way that I needed to really badly and that obstacle of not getting pregnant was exactly as it needed to be my baby was up there going not now and we had a plan and I needed to go through this journey so maybe you can begin to look at your obstacles of maybe that divorce is a opportunity a detour in the right direction and opportunity to start to love yourself some more maybe that loss of that job is an opportunity to begin to do that

thing you've been dreaming of maybe that diagnosis is an opportunity to get closer to God take that in let's reorganize your obstacles right now what are the opportunities what is the detour in the right direction in what way can you begin to turn it upside down and see it as an opportunity to thrive and an opportunity to get more connected to the truth the fourth step ask for a sign we are always in communication with the universe the universe is always giving us messages it's just that we're not listening but when we ask we will

always receive it's the law we will receive so asking for a sign that you're in the right direction that you're on the right path just last month I had to ask for a sign I took 2016 off from trying to make a baby III was just needing that break I wanted to get back into my alignment with my truth and then last month I decided it's time let's make a baby so is getting into it does get ready and I saw myself like clockwork go right back to that old story right back into my next

books coming out at this time and what's going on with my calendar and can my team handle this and is everybody on board with my idea and my vision but thankfully I'd been spending the year in my five steps of spiritual surrender so I had a little bit more information and I was able to stop myself in my tracks so I stopped myself and I just I just said Thank You universe for showing me a sign that I'm in the right direction later that day I'm looking out the window of my office and I see

these five fat wild turkeys just hanging out outside my office they're just chilling outside my office and I'm just in awe of these wild turkeys they're so beautiful it sat there for like a half an hour just staring at them two hours later I'm in my meditation and I'm just doing my thing in my meditation and I hear my intuition say Google the spiritual meaning of turkeys okay so I come out of my meditation I go to my computer and I type in what is the spiritual meaning of turkeys the spiritual meaning of turkeys is

fertility that was the exact message that I needed to hear and when we allow ourselves to get into the Wonder and the magnificence of the guidance that is around us and within us that's when we truly start living the universe once again was guiding me so ask for a sign and you will receive and it is your job to listen people because you all may be asking for your signs and you may be getting your messages but you're not listening so ask and listen give yourself a chance to truly listen and take that spiritually aligned

action from that place of that wisdom and the final step the fifth step is when you think you've surrendered surrender more my favorite line from A Course in Miracles is those who are certain of the outcome can afford to wait and wait without anxiety that presence of certainty is available to all of us when we get aligned when we truly surrender when we ask and listen and let the universe show us where to go and what to do let's say prayer let's offer it up let's surrender some more are you willing to pray with me

okay so let's uncross our legs place your palms facing upward close your eyes take a deep breath in and release we call on the guidance of the highest truth and compassion to enter into this space today Thank You universe for taking from us what we are now willing to give away think of that thing that you've been holding on to that's the Jewish in that area of your life that you were willing to offer up and we pray where would you have me go what would you have me do what would you have me say

and to whom Thank You universe for taking this reorganizing this and showing us where to go take a deep breath in and release and when you're ready open your eyes this is my daily prayer where would you have me go what would you have me do what would you have me say and to whom this beautiful message from A Course in Miracles take that home with you use that prayer offer it up surrender it fully and completely as it turns out the universe had a plan far greater than I did the plan wasn't that I

was going to get pregnant in the exact moment in time that I expected the plan was that I was going to learn how to mother myself before I could be a mother we are living in times where it is required of us to have a spiritual foundation an anchor a sense of alignment if we don't have that foundation we will be flailing we need that connection now and it is through the steps of spiritual surrender that you realign with that connection to the universe to a higher power of your own understanding we need it to

survive and to thrive and these are the messages that I will leave my child when my child is ready to come I will bestow upon her that her true power lies in her connection to the universe and in that connection when she surrenders to that connection she can know that she will be certain no matter what but in the midst of uncertainty she can find safety and that in that connection and in that alignment she can always know that the universe has her back thank you hi youtubers I'm excited to give you an update about

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