12: Trusting Divine Guidance: Why We Should Always Pause, Ask, and Align with the Divine

Are you feeling uncertain about your next steps? In this episode, Cassie Dalton shares how pausing to ask for divine guidance can help you align with your higher self and trust your path. She discusses the importance of surrendering to divine timing and how this practice can empower your journey.

Key takeaways:

• Why pausing for clarity is essential for spiritual alignment.
• How to trust yourself and divine guidance in moments of uncertainty.
• Practical tips for navigating fear and staying authentic to your path.

Transcript

S1:E12 Trusting Divine Guidance: Why We Should Always Pause, Ask, and Align with the Divine

You didn't come here to simply survive. You came here to thrive. To reconnect and to remember who you truly are. 

Welcome to the Return to Her podcast, where we uncover the knowledge that empowers us and discover the wisdom that's always been inside! Here, we blend spiritual insights modern psychology, and embodied wellness practices to help us realign all aspects of our being, body, mind, and soul. This is where science meets spirituality and true wellness becomes our way of life. 

I'm Cassie Dalton, yoga teacher, energy worker, holistic coach, and intuitive guide. While I'm still walking my own wellness and spiritual path, my mission now is to walk beside you as you return home to your most authentic and empowered self. Now is the time to return to her. 

The content shared in this podcast is for informational purposes only. It is not a substitute for professional advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Please consult a qualified professional for any personal health or wellness concerns. 

All right, now let's dive in to today's episode. 

 Hello, everybody. Welcome back in to this little moment that we are allowing ourself- the space that we're giving ourself- to reconnect, to realign, to remember who we are and what we came here to do. I am sitting in my... I'm gonna call it a studio. I don't know that that's the right word, really. About a year ago, actually, my husband built a, gosh, when I say it, it's gonna sound so cliche- Uh, a meditation. I'm calling it my medita-shed. It's basically a she-shed, even though I hate that, that implication there. Down, a little bit away from my house, more into the woods. Not too far away though that I don't have internet reception, thank goodness. 

So he built me this space because I saw it in my vision. I knew that I had to, I had to take myself outside of my physical home in order to have a little bit better, maybe communion with the energy, with, with my intuition, with the divine. So I wanted a sacred space that I could physically move my body into that would help me to detach a little bit from the house that I live in, from the people that live there, even though I love them so very much.

When you're a mother, it's very hard to separate. To allow yourself the space to kind of detach from the role of being a mother, when you know your kids are in the house, and they're walking around, and they're looking for you, trying to get your attention, or even not trying to get your attention, but you know as a mom every single thing that's going on in your house.

It's almost like you're sitting there - the spider in the web and any little tug on the web no matter how far out from the center it is you know, something's going on. You can feel that and it does get in the way, for those of us that are really trying to dedicate time and space to meditation and the kind of meditation I do is trance meditation, it's hard to allow yourself to get into that when you keep feeling all these little tugs at the spiderwebs.

So anyway, long story short there, my husband was so amazing when I presented this idea to him and I said I want to put our time and energy, our money into creating a sacred little space that I can use. My original intention was to just use it as a place that I came out to to meditate and to do yoga and just the way that things work out beautifully, once I gave myself that space it kind of developed into a space that I used for my sound healing for myself so that I can concentrate on the vibrations of my crystal bowls and it has become a space where I sit with you guys every week and record these podcasts so that we can really tap into the divine together.

So all of that to say, I'm sitting out in my medita-shed, and I've got the French doors open, got the curtains down to keep any bugs or birds from flying in, but it's just this beautiful breeze that keeps wafting through, I'm seeing the curtains just kind of sway in the wind. I'm hearing the birds, and oh my gosh, this is my favorite time of year- the spring equinox- because the birds come out in full force. You hear all the little sounds of the nature and I have no idea if that's coming through my microphone for you guys, and I kind of hope it is because it's the most beautiful the most uplifting sound. If you can go out anywhere wherever you are if there are birds around just tune in to them for a little while, listen, and it does amazing things for yourself- nature is our best biggest number one healer. Don't forget that. 

All right, so i'm sitting out here. I'm really enjoying it and I wanted to share a message with you guys that came from a conversation. I just had a couple of hours ago, earlier this morning. I was working with one of my most precious beloved reiki clients. And by the way, I love every single reiki client that I have- you guys are so amazing , but this particular woman, she's one of my biggest fans on the podcast as well, so I know that she's going to hear this, so I'm not going to say names, but you know who you are. Uh, we are sitting in your living room and just kind of talking a little bit, before our Reiki session started. And I was, first of all, talking to her about how, and I'm, I allow myself to be a human by the way, I know that we are all divine, we are all embodied souls, but , we do have our humanity that we constantly get to work with- we have our bodies. We have our minds. We have our egos. We have our nervous systems. We have different challenges. It's just part of the gig. So I allow myself to be a human and I allowed myself because this was before the session had started I allowed myself to be a human in front of her so that I could just mention something to her and I was telling her that I know that the work that I'm doing is divinely guided 100%.

I know this podcast is, it's because God is, is asking me to do this. It's because the divine is moving through this in some way for the people that are called to it. And I totally trust that and I accept it, but I told her my humanness, my ego part of me keeps holding back a little bit. It, it's telling me don't put yourself out there too far.

Don't reveal really what you think about things. Don't put your heart out there for people to hear because it'll be misunderstood. It'll be misinterpreted. And I told her the thing that worries me the most when I am listening to this part of myself is, um, I think several of you guys that are listening, you know this because you are in my yoga classes- I teach at primarily two different 55 plus active senior living communities. that's where I do the majority of my yoga teaching just because the style of yoga that I practice and the style that I teach is really, really perfect for this demographic in particular and for beginners as well. It's great for everybody, I think, which is why I practice it this way, but it is especially accessible for, people that might have more limited mobility or just whatever, you know, as, as we get a little bit older, the body doesn't. It doesn't do the same things it did when it was 20. So I teach at these communities and probably for every one student I have that is very very spiritually open and, receptive, and really loves when I go off on the deep end as far as talking about energy and, and things like that, but for every one of them I know that I have a handful of students that either have never heard of Reiki or energy work sound healing, they don't really think about spirituality, they're just focused on getting a good stretch or improving their balance in a physical way, and I don't want to alienate or isolate anyone, I want to be able to be a teacher that meets every single person where they are and holds space for that. That is my goal every time I step into any space where I'm about to teach. 

So I told my beautiful Reiki client that this makes me actually really nervous, when I put my thoughts out on the podcast because I know a lot of these students of mine have also signed up for my mailing list and they are having an opportunity every week if they want to, to click into my podcast and listen to what I have to say.

And I'm afraid that if they listen they are going to start making judgments about me based on the fact that maybe I'm just way too out there. You know, and it's, I know, I know that anytime we are worried about somebody else judging us, it is because we are judging ourself and we're using them to judge ourself. Because really, nobody thinks about you as much as you think about you, nobody is spending time really worrying about me or what I have to say other than me, other than my ego self. So I know this from one side of it. Like I know that this is not the case and even if they don't like what they hear, they can show themselves the door, they can leave, they don't have to listen, and then they still continue to come to my class.

But the thing that I'm worried about is that they are going to hear and think that I'm a little bit too extreme. And then that is going to make them not see me as a yoga teacher that they want to attend the class of anymore. And then I'm going to lose my students. I'm going to lose my job there. Because I really, oh my gosh, I love teaching at these two locations. I've been there for quite a while, at one of them, I feel like I'm part of the community. Honestly, so I guess that is my underlying fear is that I'm going to do something that's going to mess that up because I'm putting myself out there in a way that many of them don't know about, they don't know me for.

So I was just telling her this, we were just talking because this is a wise woman that I'm talking to and she said, first of all, you don't have to worry about that, I don't think any of that's going to happen. You can, you can be who you are and you hold space really beautifully for people and you meet them where they are. You are doing those things. So, I don't think you have to worry about alienating or isolating or pushing people away just because you're being yourself. Because they kind of expect you to be at this vibration. Most people that come to yoga do have an expectation that the teacher is really working on herself , or himself, and pulling that vibration up for themselves so that other people can join them there. So don't worry about that. 

And then the other thing she said, and it was really beautiful, and it's like, well yeah, of course, that makes so much sense. Why didn't I think about it like this? And it's so funny because we have all the answers, but we need other people to reflect those answers to us. She said something to the point of: Just before you do anything, ask for direction from the divine, from your higher self. I don't remember exactly how she worded it. She might not have said that at all. I think she just said, just ask for direction first. And then she went on to say, and remind God that I'm sensitive. So please be kind. And, this is something that I just keep feeling also, it's like when we do get guidance, when we get direction, sometimes it's so cryptic. So the thing that I added in was please, please make it very clear. I don't really want to dedicate the time and energy to try to puzzle it all out. 

So I just, I loved her answer. It was just an answer of pure faith and trust and surrender which are the things that I am working, I'm working on, we're all working on them. I'm making really, of course, this is an ego way of thinking about it, I am making progress in that trust, in that surrender. Because God keeps giving me opportunities to practice it. And sometimes I, sometimes I do it well, sometimes maybe not as well. But it's all part of the practice. 

So, just remember, anytime that you're going to do anything, just pause for a moment. It doesn't have to be some big thing, but just pause and ask for a little bit of direction. And if you take a few deep breaths and you're asking, whether it's God, whether it's Jesus, whether it's your higher self, Mother Mary, whoever it is that you feel connected to, if you have a divine connection, or just again, higher self, that might be the way you're thinking about it or your intuition, just pausing and asking for the clarity, for the direction, and then trusting the answer that you receive. 

And knowing that when you do that, your next steps are... not only are they directed, but they are protected. Because you're doing things in alignment with the divine. And that's what we all want to do anyway.

So, just giving yourself that moment of pause. And I love the way that she worded it. It was just such a great reminder to me. And I already know this, like I said, but we forget. And we need, we need each other to remind ourselves. 

So, I hope that this message lands just perfectly for you. If there's something that you're thinking about doing, maybe you're afraid to be too much of something, too much of yourself, how could you possibly be too much of yourself? But that's what the ego will tell us... Just remember, everything is going to be okay if you are really being yourself and authentic. It is going to work out for you. And then, if you have a doubt about what it is that you need to do next, don't just rush in with your ego. Take a pause, ask for direction, for clarification. and trust that your next steps are going to be divinely guided. 

Alright everybody, that was all I wanted to say. I hope you are having a beautiful day whenever, wherever this message connects with you and I can't wait to see you guys next time when we return to her. Until then, Namaste.

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