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Do you ever wish you could get a clear sign from the Universe to know that you’re on the right track?

I believe the Universe is always communicating with us, offering guidance, support, and love. But so often, we’re too caught up in fear and the noise of daily life to hear the messages. We miss the signs that are right in front of us!

That’s why I’m so excited to share this episode with you. I’m teaching you my Sign Seeker Habit—a simple, 3-step method I use every day to ask for signs and actually get them.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

  • How to get clear on your request for a sign.
  • The fun part—how to choose a personal sign that is specific to you!
  • The most important step: letting go so the Universe can do her thing.
  • The #1 mistake people make when asking for a sign.

If you’re ready to stop forcing and start receiving, press play now!

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This podcast is intended to educate, inspire, and support you on your personal journey towards inner peace. I am not a psychologist or a medical doctor and do not offer any professional health or medical advice. If you are suffering from any psychological or medical conditions, please seek help from a qualified health professional.

dear gabby #273 Aug 04, 2025 spiritual connection

the sign seeker habit: get messages from the universe (plus bonus guided meditation)

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Hey there. Welcome to Dear Gabby. I'm your host Gabby Bernstein, and if you landed here, it is absolutely no accident. It means that you're ready to feel good and manifest a life beyond your wildest dreams. Let's get started.

Hello my friends. Welcome back to Dear Gabby. Welcome back. It is a beautiful season here, this summer season where I am in the world. I just got back from my long trip. I was gone for a few weeks speaking in Dublin and London, and I'm so psyched. I'm coming to Toronto soon and I've got Thailand. I'm going all over the place, but things have been great.

Busy, busy, busy, and I've got a really cool episode for you guys today. But before I start, I actually wanted to pull a card for you from my Gabby coaching [00:01:00] app. It's really cool feature and you open up the app and there's like a card deck in front of you and you can scroll and tap and you can pull a card from the universe every single day.

So I'm gonna open the show with a card for you. It's got affirmations from my books and from my world and from my talks, just all kinds of Gabby affirmations. And I wanna just have you take a moment before I pull this card to just gently close your eyes if you're not driving. And I want you to just tune into what's in your heart right now.

And maybe there's something that you've been. Thinking about, or something you've been overthinking. Maybe you have a question that you've been holding onto. Maybe you have a desire that you've been strangling. Let's just hold that in our heart right now and we're gonna turn it over to see what this card reveals.

And I'm gonna open the app and scroll. Now I'm scrolling. Scrolling. Here we go. Tap. And the card is perfect. This is my, one of my favorite ones. Okay, here it is. I always trust the direction of the universe and I know I'm being guided. So good. So good. So, so [00:02:00] good. Okay, so take that in right now and just take a intentional moment to witness that desire that you have in this moment and offer it up to the universe.

Just give it over. Let this card, I always trust the direction of the universe and I know I'm being guided. Let this card, this is such a good pull from my Gabby app, so good. Just let that message sink in for you. And if there's anything that you've been questioning right now, I just want you to let it go.

That thing that you've been wondering, why is it taking so long or is this the right relationship? Is this the right direction? Just trust the direction of the universe right now. This is a card that's gonna be a direct message to you that even when it feels really messy or things feel uncertain, or you don't know what's going on, you are exactly where you are meant to be.

Right here, right now. That's actually kind of the perfect card pull leading us into exactly what we're talking about today, which is signs from the universe and how to develop what I call the sign seeker habit. [00:03:00] And so if you've ever wished for that sign, if you've ever wanted to get clear direction from the universe.

That direction, that you're on the right path, the direction that you are being guided, that the universe is directing you, and that that sign that can say, keep going, you're doing great. That message from the universe, well, guess what I, I'm gonna tell you today. You absolutely can. And the universe is already giving you those signs every single day.

Even listening to this episode is a sign, but most of us are often too busy and we're too distracted or too caught up to actually notice the guidance that we're receiving from the universe. So the universe is always giving us these messages in this direction, and that's what I want for you. I want you to feel that us suspicious energy of just being guided at all times.

I want you to feel the benevolent vibration of the universe just coming through. Every single sign that you receive. But the secret is to tap in and start to ask for these signs, but also know how to receive them and know that you [00:04:00] may be blocking them. And so your job is to get quiet enough to listen and bold enough to ask for that sign.

And in today's episode, I'm gonna teach you how to ask for that sign from the universe in a way that feels really fun and really playful and really supportive. I'm gonna walk you through the method I personally use to ask for my signs. This is really good. And you can start co-creating with the universe instead of feeling like you're forcing everything and feeling like you're pushing through life.

And what's gonna be beautiful is you're gonna have a lot that you can expect from this episode because by the end of the episode, you're gonna know exactly how to get a clear sign with your intention. You're gonna get to choose a sign that's unique to you and let go and receive without pushing and controlling.

And I'm gonna promise you right now, once you start playing with your signs in the universe and having these kinds of conversations, you're gonna be blown away by the direction that you receive. It's one of those things you like realize you can't make it up. It's so beautiful when you start to witness all the energy.

And so this episode by pressing play, by listening to this episode, you're sending a message to the universe that you're ready to listen and that you're ready to receive [00:05:00] guidance. So let's dive in and if you wanna check out your own little signs from the universe with my app, with my Gabby coaching app, you can go to dear gabby.com/app and you can go pull your own cards.

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What if you could get clear signs from the universe and know that you're always being guided every single day. Today we're talking about the sign seeker habit. How to ask for a sign from the universe and actually get one. The universe is [00:09:00] always communicating with us. This is important for us to recognize, but most of the time we're just not listening to that guidance.

We're just not listening. We're not hearing it, and we're too caught up in the noise of the world and the voice of our own fear. It blocks us. It blocks our desires, it blocks our manifesting. But asking for a sign is one of the most powerful ways to get quiet and release that noise of the outside world.

And we do this very simply. By saying, I'm ready to listen, and we begin by opening our hearts to this playful, beautiful way to co-create your life. I have countless examples of when I asked for a sign from the universe and when I received it. Most recently actually, I was in Sydney, Australia, and I was very overwhelmed.

I was on a tour going from Sydney to Melbourne to Brisbane, and I was feeling super tired and overwhelmed and kind of disconnected from my purpose and disconnected from my light, and I just said universe. I need my sign, which is a blue butterfly. I need a sign [00:10:00] that I am absolutely on the right track and I need a sign that I'm absolutely living my highest purpose.

About three hours later, I visited my best friend Mikayla, who lived in Sydney, and she looked at me and she said, Gabby, I've got these papers I need to give you. Somebody left them with me last year when you were in Sydney and you forgot them. I just never gave them to you. So she hands me these papers and it was almost like a letter from someone.

The first page was covered in blue butterflies that this woman had drawn onto the page. Blue butterflies everywhere, blue butterflies everywhere. And then the next page was this beautiful devotional letter where she shared how much my work had meant to her and how meaningful it was that she had a teacher that she trusted, and how she encouraged me to keep going, that this was my life's purpose and I was here to be in the service of others, and that this was exactly what I must be doing.

She writes at the end of this as I read this passage, and it was the exact message that I needed. Beautiful Gabby, I [00:11:00] wanna finish with this each and every day when you walk this earth, remember, please remember that you were put here on this earth for a reason to be a beacon of light and to help others navigate their way through their journey, by leading, by example.

Your true inspiration, and this world is extremely lucky to have you in it. So this is just one example of how the universe will give you the exact message that you need delivered to you with the sign that is reminding you that you are indeed being guided and protected and supported. This was just one of many, many, many examples of spiritual signs I've received from the universe.

I loved this so much and it was so beautiful. It was recent, and I just felt that energy of this beautiful blue butterfly coming in and then the letter, the exact message I needed. Am I on the right track? Am I living my highest purpose? And boom, this message exactly as I needed it came right through right on time.

So you can't make it up, guys. You just can't make it up. And this is your chance today to start to [00:12:00] ask the universe for science to start to feel divinely guided and connected, and to know how to interpret these signs and to know what the universe is trying to tell you. And this is what I'm gonna teach you.

The simple path to asking the universe for a sign and getting into co-creation with the universe so that you don't feel like you're playing games with the universe, but you actually feel like you're having a conversation and you can feel the spiritual presence of the energy of the universe guiding you every step of the way.

Once you clarify your sign and put it out there, I call this the Universal Sign Method, and it has three simple steps. The first step is to get clear and ask when you wake up, before you check your phone, or before you start to get into your day, I want you to just take a moment to close your eyes and state your intention.

You can say something like, thank you universe for your clear guidance today. I'm ready and willing to receive it. Then ask for a sign related to that specific issue. For example, universe, if [00:13:00] I should take this job, please show me a sign of X. Okay? And you would be very clear about that sign. Step two, choose your sign.

This is the really fun part. You wanna choose something very specific that you wouldn't necessarily see anywhere in the world, and this is gonna help you know that this is a true sign that is yours. So don't pick a cloud or a tree. Pick something like a pink butterfly or a feather in an unusual place, or a specific number in sequence, like 1, 1, 1 or 2, 2, 2, or maybe something that you wanna see on a license plate, like the name of someone on a license plate today.

Let's all just start here right now. Decide your sign. Right now, say it out loud, universe. Show me my sign if I'm on the right path. Step three, let it go. This is the most important step. You have to release control, and you have to just let the universe do her thing. You can't control this. Just don't go out desperately searching and trying to find your sign everywhere.

I want you to just [00:14:00] live in your day with an attitude of faithful expectation, because this sign might appear on a billboard or it might appear at a magazine, or it might be on the back of a mug, or it might show up on the license plate. Just be open and willing to receive. Don't try to force it. Don't try to push it.

Don't try to control it, just. Be in a relaxed state, trusting that the universe is guiding you and welcoming in your heart the sign that you're ready to receive. Another important part here is that if you don't see your sign, that's a sign too. So give it a few days, but if you don't see your sign, that's a guidance as well.

May mean that this isn't the right choice, or that you may not be on the right path right now. Don't worry about that. Just trust that. Remember, we're getting into a conversation with the universe and when you see your sign, just smile. Say thank you. Thank you. Now, there are two common ways people get tripped up here, and I wanna help you avoid them.

Don't go sign shopping, don't ask for a yellow butterfly, and then two hours later you ask for something different because you haven't seen one and just asking for a [00:15:00] rainbow instead. That's just your ego trying to control the outcome. Again, just stick with your original sign for at least 24 hours and trust that the universe heard.

You the first time. Okay. Trust that the universe heard you the first time. Second. What if I don't see my sign? Okay. This is important. This is a great question. Sometimes the absence of a sign is a sign itself can just be a gentle no or a not right now. But more often than not, it means we just aren't being present enough to notice.

And this energy, the universe, it's subtle. So if you don't see your sign right away, I want you to just take it as a loving reminder to be present and be in your life, and to get off your phone, and to look around at the world around you with wonder, and the guidance is always around you. And just to be in that light and that wonder of the universe and just be open and willing to receive it.

So here's your homework, is to just try this for one day, and I promise you're gonna be so blown away and amazed by [00:16:00] this. This is just one simple, powerful tool I use every single day to co-create with the universe, and I find that it's just magnetizing. It always brings into my life exactly what I know I need, the direction and the guidance that I need.

It's this incredible mystical dance. Between what we see in our world, but what we know is spiritual guidance. And it starts to feel like this incredible movement around us and guidance and wisdom beyond our physical sight. And when you get that sign, it's like this beautiful blessing bestowed upon you where you say, thank you universe. I know I'm being guided.

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Now that you understand how to ask for a sign, let's close this episode with a meditation designed to help you release control and rest in the knowing that you're always being divinely guided If you're tired of pushing, forcing. Worrying about the future, I want you to know you don't have to do it all alone.

The universe has your back. In this meditation, I'm going to guide you to release control and feel what it's like to be truly supported. Take a deep breath and let's begin. Find a comfortable seated position and rest your hands in your lap with your palms [00:23:00] facing upward, this is a sign that you're willing to receive all the energy of the love of the universe.

Gently close your eyes.

Take a deep breath in.

And on the exhale, just let out a sigh of relief.

Just let go of the day.

Take another deep breath in and release and let go.

Continue this cycle of breath. Just relaxing and allowing.[00:24:00]  Bringing your awareness into your body now, beginning with the gentle scan of your body starting at your feet. Notice the feeling of your feet on the floor. And allow your feet to relax. Bring that awareness up your legs, your hip. Just let go of any tension. Notice your stomach. This [00:25:00] is where we hold so much anxiety. See if you can soften your belly and just take a deep breath into that stomach area and on the exhale, let it go.

Now bringing your awareness to your heart and your chest shoulders. Feel them dropping away from your ears. Relax your jaw. Relax that space between your eyebrows just letting go.[00:26:00] 
Now, in your mind's eye, I want you to call to mind a situation you've been trying to control or problem you've been trying to solve.

Give yourself permission to fully see it now. See the people involved, the circumstances. See the desired outcome that you've been fighting for. Feel into the weight of it, the pressure, the worry. Just notice how much you've been holding onto.[00:27:00]  Now imagine that you're standing in front of a beautiful ancient door. This is the door of a universal care and the love of the universe. See yourself just gently taking that problem, that worry. That fear and all of the emotions that are wrapped up with it, the outcomes that are attached to it, and placing it now into a beautiful, luminous box place every last.

Detail into the box now. See yourself close the lid. And lock the box.[00:28:00]  With this box in your hands, you push open the ancient door, and on the other side is this infinite space of sparkling golden light. This is the energy of pure love the universe. It feels warm, safe, and peaceful. You walk into this space and you hold out the box.

In your heart, you say these words, universe, I surrender this to you. I've done all that I can do. I release my need to [00:29:00] control. I release my fear. I'm willing to see this differently. I welcome your guidance and miracles. Now, as you say these words, watch the box dematerialize. It's shifting from your hands. Into beautiful particles of light, joining the infinite space of light around you. It's gone. Not your problem anymore.

Take a deep breath in and feel that relief in your body and in your mind. The weight [00:30:00] is lifted from your shoulders now.

A sense of profound peace washes over you. You are supported, you are safe. There is a plan for your highest good. You can trust it. Rest in this feeling for a few moments. Now, just allowing it to pass over
the feeling of being held, the feeling of not having to figure it all out. The feeling of trust.[00:31:00] [00:32:00] [00:33:00] [00:34:00] [00:35:00] 

Now gently bring your awareness back to the room, back to the feeling of the chair beneath you.
[00:36:00] Wiggle your fingers and your toes. Roll your shoulders back. And take one more final deep cleansing breath in and on the exhale it go, and when you feel complete and open your eyes. If you loved this episode and you wanna connect more deeply to the universe, I strongly recommend that you check out my 21 Day Trust the Universe Challenge. This challenge is extraordinary. It is 21 days of meditations and guided practices that help you deepen your connection to the universe and strengthen your faith.

And know with an unwavering unshakeable faith that you are indeed being guided and protected and that there is a divine wisdom beyond your physical site leading you every step of the way. So click the link in the description [00:37:00] and find out more about the 21 Day Trust the universe Challenge. You can go to dear gabby.com/universe challenge to get all the details.

I promise you this is gonna rock your world. If you made it to the end of this episode, that means you're truly committed to miracles. I'm really proud of you. If you wanna get more Gabby, tune in every Monday for a new episode. Make sure to subscribe so you don't miss any of the guidance or special bonus episodes. Your experience of this show means a lot to me, so I really wanna welcome you to leave an honest review and you can follow me on social media at Gabby Bernstein.

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