Have you ever had a mystical encounter? Perhaps something that made you look at the world a little different, or made you feel part of something much bigger or greater than yourself? 

I’ve had a number of such encounters, and in today’s episode, I share a story about one that has forever changed the way I look at and interact in the world around me.

Key Takeaways:

Ask the universe for what you want - such as a mystical encounter.

Be open to receiving it - see the extraordinary in the ordinary.

Be in childlike wonder about the world around you.

Thanks for listening!

If you want to learn more about what I teach around finding clarity and creating a life you love full of purpose, passion, and joy, I encourage you to join our community at Joyful Inspired Living. Here’s the link: http://www.joyfuljourney.ca/

About your host:

I’m your host, Anita Adams, an award-winning leader and the founder of Joyful Inspired Living, an organization dedicated to teaching people how to access their highest most authentic selves so they can find clarity and create a life of purpose, passion, and joy. In addition to hosting the Joyful Journey Podcast, I offer retreats, both live and online, and private coaching programs to further guide my clients on their journey to their highest selves.

Leave us a review

We truly appreciate your ratings and reviews, which help others find us so we can reach more people with our message and ultimately bring more joy into the world. If you have a minute, an honest review on iTunes goes a long way! Thank You!!

Subscribe to the podcast

If you would like to get automatic updates of new podcast episodes, you can subscribe to the podcast app on your mobile device.

Other ways to connect with me: 

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/anitaadams604/?hl=en

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/joyfulinspiredLiving

Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/anitaadamsyvr/

Email - anita@joyfulinspiredliving.com

 

Leave us a review

We appreciate every bit of feedback to make this a value-adding part of your day. Ratings and reviews from our listeners not only help us improve, but also help others find us in their podcast app. If you have a minute, an honest review on iTunes goes a long way! Thank You!!

Anita Adams: 00:00:05

Welcome to the joyful journey podcast. If

Anita Adams: 00:00:08

you're uncertain about what you really want or unsure how to be

Anita Adams: 00:00:12

a force or good you know this world craves, then this is the

Anita Adams: 00:00:16

show for you. I'm Anita Adams, your host and guide to finding

Anita Adams: 00:00:21

clarity and creating a life you love. Let's tap into our inner

Anita Adams: 00:00:26

wisdom, access our highest self and unleash joy. As we raise our

Anita Adams: 00:00:32

vibration we heighten the collective consciousness and

Anita Adams: 00:00:35

that my friends, is the joyful journey. Let's dive in. Hey,

Anita Adams: 00:00:43

joyful journey errs I need to Adams here your host of the

Anita Adams: 00:00:46

joyful journey podcast. Before we get into the theme of today's

Anita Adams: 00:00:49

show, I want to shout out to TM mentee for the iTunes review who

Anita Adams: 00:00:56

says I need a thank you for sharing your personal stories

Anita Adams: 00:00:59

and for encouraging others to find a joyful life. Your insight

Anita Adams: 00:01:03

and wisdom is inspirational and motivating for others trying to

Anita Adams: 00:01:07

find their authentic self passion and purpose in life. TM

Anita Adams: 00:01:11

mentee, thank you for taking the time to listen to the show, and

Anita Adams: 00:01:15

to leave your review and to all the others who are doing the

Anita Adams: 00:01:18

same. It truly truly means a lot to me. And with that, on this

Anita Adams: 00:01:24

episode, I want to share another personal story. And this time,

Anita Adams: 00:01:28

it's about a mystical encounter. Have you ever had a mystical

Anita Adams: 00:01:33

encounter, perhaps something that made you look at the world

Anita Adams: 00:01:38

a little different, or made you feel part of something much

Anita Adams: 00:01:42

bigger or greater than yourself? I've had a number of such

Anita Adams: 00:01:46

encounters. And the one I want to share with you today has

Anita Adams: 00:01:50

forever changed the way I look at and interact in the world

Anita Adams: 00:01:54

around me. In the summer of 2016 My family went on a week long

Anita Adams: 00:02:00

kayaking trip into Clicquot sound, which is just outside of

Anita Adams: 00:02:04

Tofino on the west coast of Vancouver Island. This trip was

Anita Adams: 00:02:09

full of the most wonderful wildlife sightings, not 20

Anita Adams: 00:02:15

minutes after leaving the beach in Tofino, we found ourselves

Anita Adams: 00:02:18

paddling next to a giant humpback whale bigger than a

Anita Adams: 00:02:22

school bus. We were a bit too close for comfort. So we quickly

Anita Adams: 00:02:26

put our backs into the paddle to put some distance between us and

Anita Adams: 00:02:30

this creatures feeding zone. Throughout the trip, whale

Anita Adams: 00:02:35

sightings were frequent. Orcas graze humpbacks. We also saw sea

Anita Adams: 00:02:42

lions, sea otters, seals and a variety of bird life too

Anita Adams: 00:02:47

numerous to count. The most magical wildlife sighting of all

Anita Adams: 00:02:53

though, was on day five, and I remember it like it was

Anita Adams: 00:02:57

yesterday. We are count on a white sand beach on the southern

Anita Adams: 00:03:02

tip of Flores Island. And we are the only humans to be seen. It's

Anita Adams: 00:03:09

a chilly morning with the fog sitting heavily all around our

Anita Adams: 00:03:13

camp. My husband and son are building a small fire and I'm

Anita Adams: 00:03:18

huddling over the stove, preparing our coffee when my

Anita Adams: 00:03:22

daughter pokes her head out of the tent and breathlessly

Anita Adams: 00:03:27

whispers Wolf, look up just as a massive canine steps out of the

Anita Adams: 00:03:33

mist barely 50 feet from us. This magnificent creatures stops

Anita Adams: 00:03:38

and our eyes lock. Then another wolf emerges from the fog, then

Anita Adams: 00:03:45

another and another.

Anita Adams: 00:03:49

We are all transfixed my little family of four staring at what

Anita Adams: 00:03:55

appears to be another family of four looking back at us with

Anita Adams: 00:03:59

curious interest, one family to another together as one sharing

Anita Adams: 00:04:05

a moment. Time stands still in our tiny bubble that is engulfed

Anita Adams: 00:04:10

in a blanket of fog blocking out all sounds and sights beyond.

Anita Adams: 00:04:16

Then as one, the wolves turn and silently disappear behind the

Anita Adams: 00:04:21

white curtain. And we are left feeling as if we were touched by

Anita Adams: 00:04:25

the Divine. There are signposts around the island that tell you

Anita Adams: 00:04:30

what to do if you come across a wolf accordingly. You're

Anita Adams: 00:04:34

supposed to throw your arms up, make yourself big and scream.

Anita Adams: 00:04:38

Fortunately, just the day before this encounter, we met a woman

Anita Adams: 00:04:42

on the trail from the indigenous community of a Hoosac. She was

Anita Adams: 00:04:47

the village school principal who had much to say about the wolves

Anita Adams: 00:04:51

of the island and the ridiculousness of those signs.

Anita Adams: 00:04:57

The wolves aren't going to harm anyone. She explained, they are

Anita Adams: 00:05:01

smart, curious spiritual creatures that are revered by my

Anita Adams: 00:05:07

people. I'm so grateful we met this woman, just the day before

Anita Adams: 00:05:13

the wolves paid us a visit. For when they appeared, none of us

Anita Adams: 00:05:17

were frightened or felt compelled to stand up and

Anita Adams: 00:05:20

scream. I recognize that there are times when the advice given

Anita Adams: 00:05:26

on those signs would be wise to heed. This just wasn't one of

Anita Adams: 00:05:31

those times instead, it was a time to be one with the

Anita Adams: 00:05:35

environment, one with the universe and in harmony with all

Anita Adams: 00:05:39

things. This was a mystical experience for me. And through

Anita Adams: 00:05:47

it, I felt a loss of self and found a connection to the whole

Anita Adams: 00:05:53

of life, even if only for the briefest moment as I sat

Anita Adams: 00:05:57

transfixed, looking at those beautiful animals that were

Anita Adams: 00:06:01

looking back at us with such curiosity. In that still moment

Anita Adams: 00:06:07

of time, I felt a deep connection to something much

Anita Adams: 00:06:11

bigger. And ever since my spirit has longed to recreate the

Anita Adams: 00:06:17

experience to feel that mystical energy wrap its arms around me

Anita Adams: 00:06:22

like a warm embrace. For a long time, I believed you had to wait

Anita Adams: 00:06:28

for these rare mystical experiences to find you. What

Anita Adams: 00:06:33

I've discovered though, is the more you look for them, the more

Anita Adams: 00:06:38

they begin to appear. About two years ago, I started asking the

Anita Adams: 00:06:43

universe to bring me more mystical encounters. Why not ask

Anita Adams: 00:06:47

for what you want, right? And I wanted to feel that connection

Anita Adams: 00:06:51

and that magic that comes with it. Much to my delight, the

Anita Adams: 00:06:57

universe answered, and those mystical encounters, or what I

Anita Adams: 00:07:01

interpreted as mystical encounters, begin began to show

Anita Adams: 00:07:07

up in the tiniest of form, the hummingbird. Hummingbirds were

Anita Adams: 00:07:13

showing up everywhere I went, sitting on a rocky beat as I ate

Anita Adams: 00:07:18

my lunch dancing in front of me as I walked through the forest,

Anita Adams: 00:07:22

hovering by my window as I worked at my desk, following me

Anita Adams: 00:07:26

as I zipped down the road on my bicycle, for a year, and

Anita Adams: 00:07:31

throughout the year, hummingbirds were constantly

Anita Adams: 00:07:35

showing up. And in those visits, I could hear God in the universe

Anita Adams: 00:07:39

saying hello, and here I am I right in front of you. I see

Anita Adams: 00:07:44

you. Do you see me?

Anita Adams: 00:07:49

Oh, each visit of those hummingbirds have been as

Anita Adams: 00:07:55

mystical as the wolf showing up on that beach, on that cold,

Anita Adams: 00:07:59

foggy morning. Maybe you think it's just a bird. I choose to

Anita Adams: 00:08:05

see the divine. I choose to make the ordinary extraordinary. My

Anita Adams: 00:08:13

forest walks have become another mystical experience for me.

Anita Adams: 00:08:18

Although I don't feel touched by the Divine every time I step

Anita Adams: 00:08:22

into the woods, when I go into nature with the intention to

Anita Adams: 00:08:26

have a mystical experience, though, I usually find it. I

Anita Adams: 00:08:31

believe it's this intention to experience a connection with the

Anita Adams: 00:08:36

Divine that actually makes it possible to have those mystical

Anita Adams: 00:08:41

experiences. Intention alone is not enough though. You must slow

Anita Adams: 00:08:47

down and take notice. When you slow down to listen to the

Anita Adams: 00:08:51

birds, to touch the moss on a tree. To see the clouds move

Anita Adams: 00:08:57

through the sky, to smell the air to notice really notice

Anita Adams: 00:09:05

everything around you. You will begin to feel a greater

Anita Adams: 00:09:10

connection to the divine, to the universe and to the whole of

Anita Adams: 00:09:15

life. A beautiful way of being that enables that connection to

Anita Adams: 00:09:20

the universe and the whole of life is to be in wonder. Be in

Anita Adams: 00:09:26

wonder about the trees and how they've grown and how they are

Anita Adams: 00:09:30

so interconnected to everything in the forest. Be in wonder

Anita Adams: 00:09:35

about the clouds and how they cling to the mountains, how they

Anita Adams: 00:09:39

hold and release the rain that feeds the forest. Be in wonder

Anita Adams: 00:09:44

about the wind and how it makes the trees dance. Be in wonder

Anita Adams: 00:09:51

with everything around you like a child discovering the world

Anita Adams: 00:09:55

and those mystical encounters will show up and you'll feel

Anita Adams: 00:09:59

that connection to something powerful, something that will

Anita Adams: 00:10:02

move your soul and you'll understand at your core that you

Anita Adams: 00:10:06

are not alone, that the universe and you are together as one. I

Anita Adams: 00:10:13

hope you've enjoyed this story. And that it inspires you to step

Anita Adams: 00:10:17

out into nature more, and to embrace that childlike wonder

Anita Adams: 00:10:22

that's within you. When you do, you'll find a deeper connection

Anita Adams: 00:10:28

to the universe and you'll experience a lightness of being

Anita Adams: 00:10:32

because you'll understand that you are not alone. And there

Anita Adams: 00:10:36

there is something so much bigger out there that also wants

Anita Adams: 00:10:41

to embrace you. May your life be filled with many mystical

Anita Adams: 00:10:48

encounters. Until next time, joyful journeyer Have an awesome

Anita Adams: 00:10:54

day. Thank you for joining us today on the joyful journey

Anita Adams: 00:10:58

podcast. If anything resonated with you, please visit our

Anita Adams: 00:11:01

website at joyful inspired living.com Sign up to receive a

Anita Adams: 00:11:07

free download of our three guiding principles to inner

Anita Adams: 00:11:10

wisdom and become a member of the joyful inspired living

Anita Adams: 00:11:14

community. For a deeper spiritual dive, check out our

Anita Adams: 00:11:18

retreats we offer both in person retreats on beautiful Bowen

Anita Adams: 00:11:21

Island in British Columbia, as well as online retreats that you

Anita Adams: 00:11:26

can do from the comfort of your own home. And finally, if you

Anita Adams: 00:11:29

liked our show, please leave a review so more people can find

Anita Adams: 00:11:32

it and learn how to access their highest self and together will

Anita Adams: 00:11:36

raise the collective consciousness