Episode 7: Recognizing Divine Messages - How to Hear God Speak Directly to You
Your windshield wipers start cycling on their own. A feather falls in your path when no birds are around. The exact thing you've been praying for shows up synchronistically. Coincidence?
In this episode, I teach you how to recognize when the Divine, the Universe, or your Higher Self is speaking directly to you—and how absolutely everyone can develop this skill, even if your stories are quiet or ordinary.
What You'll Learn:
- Why divine communication happens in showers, car rides, and ordinary moments (not burning bushes)
- The "You Are Protected" pattern: How repetition, timing, and body knowing reveal divine guidance
- Paramahansa Yogananda's 9 core practices for developing intuition as a spiritual muscle
- How to distinguish between anxious thoughts, trauma responses, and true divine guidance
- Why attachment, fear, and noise block your ability to hear your higher self
- The common sense test: How to evaluate whether guidance is truly divine
- A guided meditation practice for asking and receiving divine messages
Key Topics:
- Spiritual but not religious (SBNR) practices
- Post-Mormon spiritual healing and intuition development
- Religious trauma recovery through direct divine connection
- Yogananda's teachings on spiritual intimacy and intuition
- Learning to trust your higher self after leaving organized religion
- Body-based spiritual practices for recognizing divine communication
Personal Stories Shared:
- BRCA gene testing: When "You Are Protected" came as medical confirmation
- HRT bleeding scare and trusting "Give your body time to heal"
- My sister's death and learning that divine protection doesn't always look the way we expect
- Dropping the corporate empire-building out of fear and returning to spiritual teaching
This episode is for you if:
- You feel like your spiritual experiences are too quiet or ordinary to matter
- You've left organized religion and are learning to hear the divine without institutional gatekeepers
- You struggle to distinguish between fear-based decisions and true divine guidance
- You want to develop spiritual intuition as a practical, trainable skill
- You're healing from religious trauma and need to rebuild trust in direct divine connection
Next Week: Episode 8 - "Living as the Beloved: Spiritual Intimacy Integration & Embodied Practices" - We complete our month-long journey through spiritual intimacy with practical tools for living as beloved of the Divine.
Resources Mentioned:
Get your Guided Meditation for Reclaiming Yourself after High-Control religion here
Click Here to learn more about the Inner Light Longevity Reset
🌿 The Inner Light Companion is hosted by Tamara Ridge, LMFT — guiding spiritually curious souls into deeper connection, intuitive healing, and divine remembrance.
💌 Connect with me:
Website & Guest Submissions: www.innerlightcompanion.com
Spiritual Counseling: www.guidinglightspiritualcounseling.com
Instagram: @innerlightcompanion
🎧 Subscribe for weekly stories, tools & reflections to help you reconnect with your inner light.
However you show up on this path, your story is sacred.
Let’s walk it together. 💫
Popular Podcasts
Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang
Ding dong! Join your culture consultants, Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang, on an unforgettable journey into the beating heart of CULTURE. Alongside sizzling special guests, they GET INTO the hottest pop-culture moments of the day and the formative cultural experiences that turned them into Culturistas. Produced by the Big Money Players Network and iHeartRadio.
Crime Junkie
Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by Audiochuck Media Company.
The Brothers Ortiz
The Brothers Ortiz is the story of two brothers–both successful, but in very different ways. Gabe Ortiz becomes a third-highest ranking officer in all of Texas while his younger brother Larry climbs the ranks in Puro Tango Blast, a notorious Texas Prison gang. Gabe doesn’t know all the details of his brother’s nefarious dealings, and he’s made a point not to ask, to protect their relationship. But when Larry is murdered during a home invasion in a rented beach house, Gabe has no choice but to look into what happened that night. To solve Larry’s murder, Gabe, and the whole Ortiz family, must ask each other tough questions.