Signs, the universe, manifesting, oh my!

I grew up very Catholic, but maybe that doesn’t matter here. How can I untangle from the thought that every coincidence is a “sign” from god or the universe? This has latched onto so many different areas of my life and now it’s on my daughters health/safety. Reading a story and there is a dead kid in it—must be a sign!! Getting a random name in my head and it’s someone who died—a sign of the worst to come!! Signs, jinxing, manifesting, etc. were always reinforced when I was growing up (and today in some cases too)—“it must be a sign!” Any ideas on how I can untangle from this?

Username: 777Q777Q

Date posted: 18w ago

Personally I am moderately religious, celebrate Christmas, Easter and so on . I believe that to a reasonable degree everything is connected to everything else within reason as far as signs go and no coincidences I feel it is a matter of degree and balance though . Gentle reminder when mentioning God the G is always a capital letter . I can go into all this further if you’d like regarding signs , messages and so on ?

Username: MeredithMeredith

Date posted: 18w ago

@777Q Apologies for the lowercase g. Thank you for the reminder. I like how you said “reason” twice. My “signs/coincidences” are so random that I don’t know why it WOULDNT be something freaky.

Username: 777Q777Q

Date posted: 18w ago

@Meredith Some things of this world I really believe cannot ever be fully understood or explained. Even to a large degree any religion is largely based on faith . To this day I really believe that sometimes there is a lot more to something under the surface. This can be a good thing at times like an intuitive feeling that is very sound and real that perhaps does prevent a person from making a more serious mistake. I remember many many years ago as a child seeing 3 ravens together and my parents commenting on it . Later that day, two young relatives died in an accidental house fire . To this day I believe the birds were some type of advance warning of this horrible event at least on some upper cosmic level . On a little less dramatic side it can be let’s say you are in a unfamiliar city and you have a choice of 3 different streets to walk down and your instinct and intuition guide you down a particular street or path and then you deal with the consequences and outcome whether good , bad or indifferent. This subject can go very deep.

Username: AnonymousAnonymous

Date posted: 18w ago

When I started looking into mindfulness practices, so much of the literature started incorporating elements of spirituality, the universe, signs etc. Before that, I felt pretty benign about coincidences and just thought hm, that's neat/odd/whatever. Anyway, I had a bout of existential OCD and what I ultimately concluded is that I do not and cannot comprehend God or the universe. And while I experience so many odd coincidences, they don't really make any sense and it's not my job to try and force a meaning. Things are only have meaning if you want them to, so I decided they don't, because that's what makes me most comfortable. I know God as a kind, compassionate, and peaceful spirit and nothing from him will leave me feeling anxious and confused. God brings peace and wisdom. Anything I am meant to know, he will reveal to me when I am supposed to. In the meantime, I trust my inner guidance system and don't try to use signs and synchronicities as some sort of puzzle that I have to get right to make the right move. That's what has helped me, anyhow.

Username: MeredithMeredith

Date posted: 17w ago

@Anonymous Hey, thanks so much for this. I really like what you said.

Username: clmcstl

Date posted: 23w ago

Signs…

Coincidences, signs, omens, jinxing, what do I do when I’m convinced that the universe is warning me that something is going to happen?

Username: Sparklefly

Date posted: 22w ago

Signs From God

Recently I’ve come back to God, specially Christianity. I prayed and wrote to God for a sign concerning a mistake I made, and put within this letter for him to show me a yellow car if everything is going to be ok. Kid you not, same day I see a yellow truck parked while driving. I believe I was answered but my mind keeps nagging me I wasn’t. Do you think this is the devil and ocd trying to downplay what I prayed and wrote to God for? I know you shouldn’t ask for signs and wonders, but I desperately needed one.

Religion & Spirituality OCD

Username: mnkos

Date posted: 21w ago

is this a concern? or am i not in the right place?

TW for mental health issues, death, ptsd, ED i guess ill just start off by saying that i have struggled since i was young with severe anxiety and panic attacks since i was about five but an onslaught of CPTSD worsened a lot of things for me. i developed an eating disorder in my teens and was hospitalized for it. i’ve been in and out of therapy since i was ten and while i do my best without medication to live my life to the fullest, i often feel like i don’t deserve the successes and support i’ve received in the last few years b/c i feel like i don’t deserve to be happy at all. i saw a video recently of a girl talking about her obsessive hypochondriac thoughts that i resonated with and when i read the comments, a lot of people pointed out that it might be ocd. it hasn’t ever been a thought that crossed my mind and now im wondering if im twisting that video into some sort of self diagnosis for myself. im wondering if it’s just my high anxiety that’s causing these severely intrusive thoughts. for example, i have had a really hard time sleeping recently because the thought that i or my partner might die in my sleep keeps me up. if i have an aneurysm or a heart attack in the middle of the night and die, or worse, if my partner has an aneurysm or heart attack, is it because i don’t deserve to be happy with him? i don’t deserve a wonderful relationship? another thought i have is when i drive with us both in the car, im going to crash and severely injure both of us or kill us both. i have never once crashed my car or gotten into an accident btw, but for some reason i just get this extremely morbid thought that im going to crash and it’ll be the end. i had a weirdly spiritual experience/revelation in 2020/21 about the multiverse and i keep thinking that every night i actually die or that i get into accidents or something morbid happens and im somehow timeline jumping and going to a different multiverse and that’s been my odd way of coping with these thoughts. i guess im just trying to figure out if this is even remotely similar to OCD or if im just over analyzing it bc of my anxiety/hypochondria i guess?? i dont know i just want help. if this isn’t OCD, please tell me and i will delete this post and app and ill sincerely apologize to everyone who actually suffers. 🙏

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