How to distinguish between Divine Guidance
Divine
Guidance will always come from a place of Love.
Ego/Fear/Imagination
breeds fear and confusion.
Divine Guidance will always lift you up, and leave you feeling empowered.
Ego/Fear/Imagination
Divine Guidance lets you know YOU
Ego tries to
convince you you’re a helpless victim or that you’re not good enough.
Divine Guidance helps you manifest your heart’s truest desires and abundance
in every realm.
Ego blocks you or
tells you that you’ll never get what you want. It works from a reference
point of lack.
Divine Guidance helps you work with your strengths and apply them in meaningful
ways.
Ego plays upon
your weaknesses & darkest fears, discounts your strengths &
accomplishments.
Divine Guidance gives you positive feedback, yet lovingly helps you in specific
areas if needed.
Ego lashes out
criticism (and can do so either in-your-face or so subtle it’s hard to
recognize, you just know you feel like you’ve been deflated). Ego also
makes generic and pointless criticisms you can do nothing about.
Divine Guidance will help you improve areas which will bring you peace and take
you closer to your purpose by giving you doable step by step instructions, one
piece at a time.
Ego causes discord
and wreaks havoc on your thoughts and emotions. Instead of helping you
take proactive steps, it paralyzes you in fear with an all or nothing
approach. Instead of baby steps, Ego says you have to jump off the cliff
to make it happen.
Divine Guidance is often very simple.
Ego tries to make
things seem complex.
Divine Guidance is repetitive and straight forward.
Ego throws things
at you out of the blue and tries to derail you from your original divinely
inspired goals and purpose.
Divine Guidance
works within the realm of what you know you can do.
Ego throws the
seemingly impossible at you and sets conditions you know you cannot meet.
Divine Guidance
has its own time. It may set gentle guidelines but the focus is on taking
step after step. If you don’t meet the goal time, Divine Guidance helps
you keep going in that direction anyway.
Ego sets
artificial timelines and says you’ve failed if you don’t meet them, tries to
convince you to give up.
Divine Guidance may assign specific goals to work for, such as “sell 1,000
books,” but won’t use that number as a way to assess judgment or failure.
It merely keeps you moving in the direction or your goal.
Ego assigns
numbers as a way to control, manipulate and judge you and others. These
numbers are often difficult or impossible to achieve.
Divine Guidance has a peaceful or positively charged energy or feel to it.
Ego drains you,
fills you with fear and negativity.
Divine Guidance will give you a feeling of “Yes, that’s it. I knew that’s what I should do.”
Ego throws out
nondescript suggestions that leave you feeling fearful and/or confused.
Divine Guidance often comes from a place of love, peace, and service, and
prompts you to act in service to others.
Ego says, “It’s
all about ME!” and doesn’t care how your actions affect others.
Divine Guidance wants you to revel in your accomplishments and take joy in your
abundance.
Ego tries to make
you feel guilty and undeserving.
Divine Guidance prompts you to share and help others, and you do so gladly.
Ego again says, “all or nothing,” or tries to make you believe there isn’t
enough to share. When you find something or someone that needs help, ego
tries to convince you that you can’t help.
Divine Guidance sees people as divine beings, equals and counterparts, there
to learn, grow and teach with you.
Ego sees people as
competition, better or worse than you.
Divine Guidance is always respectful, even when dealing with a truthful
situation that may need your attention to change.
Ego is
disrespectful… to yourself, others and even to God but tries to convince you
otherwise.
Divine Guidance doesn’t judge or compare… yourself, others or God. It
shows you people as inspiration.
Ego is always
judging, always comparing.
Divine
Guidance opens up your heart, flows through your chakras, expands or calms your
energy.
Ego will open your
fears, drain or block your chakras and suck your energy. It has a very
nervous, toxic, negative feel to it.
Divine Guidance brings you closer to truth, love, healing and your life
purpose. It lifts you up and gives you peace or enthusiasm about yourself
and the truth, love, healing or life purpose you are working toward.
Ego tries to block
you from your truth, love, healing and life
purpose. It may try to disguise these blocks as “necessary” or “logical”
even though they appear out of the blue and have a fear based feeling to
them. Ego drains you, discredits you and makes you feel like “what’s the
use?” The closer you get to your goal, the more ego
will object!
Divine Guidance works with you and accepts you where you are. It gives
you step by step directions it knows you can handle from where you are
comfortable, even if it makes you reach or stretch a little.
Ego knows your
fears and weaknesses and tells you that you must overcome these in order to
fulfill your purpose. It tries to trick you into thinking you’re not good
enough, or your not ready because what you want is out of reach.
Divine Guidance helps you see beyond your circumstances. It gives you a
vision you know in your heart of hearts is attainable even if you’re not sure
how or why yet. Divine Guidance credits you for the small things you do
as well as the medium and large.
Ego tries to block
you from seeing beyond your circumstances or gives you an unattainable
grandiose goal. It tries to either discredit you and your goals or use
them in a way to put yourself or others down.
Divine Guidance builds things one on top of the other; everything you learn,
everything you do, begins to compliment each other and work toward the benefit
of yourself, others and your life purpose.
Ego expects you to
leap from here to there without any in between preparations. It tries to
jump from start to finish and when you feel that it is impossible, it tells you
everything you’ve done is in vain. It makes you believe everything is
unrelated and a waste of time.
Divine Guidance will NEVER harm you or another.
Ego goes for the
jugular, even in subtle ways that might not seem “that bad” at first.
Divine Guidance embraces forgiveness and truth.
Ego wants to be
right, convinces you you’re justified in toxic anger, negativity or
non-forgiveness.
Divine Guidance is soothing, expansive… in body, mind and energy.
Ego is fearful,
constrictive… in body, mind and energy.
Divine Guidance is like a good friend or wise elder. It is often calm,
gentle, firm and consistent.
Ego loves to throw
temper-tantrums like a child, tirades like an out-of-control teenager, or
controls and manipulates like dictator or control-freak. It can feel
bipolar, schizophrenic, unpredictable and inconsistent, extreme, and very
critical.
Divine Guidance makes you feel calm and confident in who
you are.
Ego makes you
wonder, “Am I crazy?”
Divine Guidance comes to you when you’re open to receiving, when you’re
peaceful and calm, or when you’ve asked for Heaven’s help. Divine
Guidance will reduce problems into doable solutions. Divine Guidance
often comes in with gratitude or a sense of reassurance.
Ego comes charging
in when you’re confused or slightly fearful and snowballs the confusion and
fear into something much bigger than it is. It may also come in like a
bull as soon as you’ve said, “I feel great!” Or have stated some other truth
in confidence so that it can challenge your confidence and make you feel small.
Divine Guidance accepts compliments, knowing they are the light of God
showing through you.
Ego rejects the
compliments as untrue or seeks an ulterior motive. It may also try to
convince you that you are undeserving or unworthy, or even too good!
Divine Guidance praises you for accepting your call. When others
compliment you, Divine Guidance says “That’s the way! WE did it!”
Ego says, “I did
it all by myself! Nobody was there for me. Nobody helped me.”
Divine Guidance lets you know you’re never alone.
Ego tries to make
you feel like you’re the only one.
Divine Guidance says, “Shine Your Light. It’s the Light of God and
you’re here to be Who YOU Are in God.”
Ego says, “Be
careful. What if they find out you’re a fraud?!”
Bottom line, Divine Guidance is LOVE.
Ego is FEAR, false
evidence appearing real.