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Welcome to Claim Your Power podcast, your all-inclusive roadmap to self-love, mindset, spirituality, and personal growth. I'm your host, Kim Peretz, and you are at the right place if you're ready to tap into the knowledge, advice, and inspiration you need to become your higher self. It's time to claim your power, baby.
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I cannot wait to get into today's episode because it's honestly one of the most important episodes I will ever film. Today we are talking about divine timing. Divine timing, trusting the timing of your life, trusting the coincidences, trusting the synchronicities. I truly can't wait to get into it and I'm also setting the intention that
the person on the other side listening to this, you are listening to this exactly when it is most divinely aligned for you. So whether you're listening to this episode right when it came out or three months into the future, whatever it may be, this is exactly the right time that you need to hear it. That is my intention and I'm so excited to get into this episode.
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And I think that's all the housekeeping I can do for today's episode. Let's talk about divine timing, baby. Also, I have to warn you guys that I just drank a full matcha and this is my second matcha of the day. So I'm feeling a little hyper, a little hyper on caffeine. But I think it's a fun way for you guys to even see more of my silly, goofy personality because...
When I talk about these deep, wise topics, the spiritual, high-value goddess comes out of me. But an amazing other side to me is that I'm very, very goofy, very silly, very lighthearted. So I hope that in today's episode, I can incorporate some of that energy today too so that you guys can get to know that side of me as well.
But let's talk about divine timing because there is so much that I want to say about this. But if you've never heard about the concept of divine timing, it exists practically in every single religion, every single philosophy, spiritual notions. It's this idea that everything in your life occurs according to order.
When things do not work out for you, when you experience a closed door, a rejection, a redirection, a heartbreak, a breakup, whatever it may be, trust me that divine timing is in order.
Divine timing is one of the most potent concepts that will change your life. Do you want to know why? It's because it pushes you to constantly let go of your need to control and to know everything and to lean more into your tenacity and your ability to trust yourself.
And trust is one of the most important themes I will share about my life recently. Like that's the word of the month. I constantly say this word to myself all the time when I feel worried, when I feel fear, when I feel anxious, when I feel doubt. That's like the one word I have in my mind. And the reason I say the word trust a lot is because it's short and a lot of the time when you're in fight or flight or you're in your sympathetic nervous system, then
Your mind can't come up with a lot of the logical things in that moment because you're operating from a very emotionally charged place. So having a word, a short word like trust,
That you know when I'm feeling anxious, when I'm feeling worried, when I'm feeling doubtful, I can say this word to myself to come back into this divine timing idea. It's really, really helpful and one of my biggest tips. So if you find yourself throughout the week feeling worried about something, overthinking how it's going to turn out, I really encourage you to start telling yourself trust. Kim trusts, I trust, I trust, I trust, I trust.
Divine timing is all about trusting that there is a higher power, a higher source, God, the universe conspiring in your favor, working all the strings behind the scenes to make sure that what's meant for you will arrive into your life in divine timing.
And I know as humans, we always want to know, and I'm so guilty of this. We always want to know, when is this going to happen? When am I going to meet this person? When is this opportunity going to come into my life? How is this going to work out? What is the outcome of this? But the truth is, the more that we try to know, the less that we know. And the more that we can surrender into the knowing that, you know what? What's meant for me will find me. I don't need to force. I don't need to chase.
I don't need to constantly control the outside sources and my outside environments. And instead, I'm responsible for myself, for my faith, for my trust, for my knowing that what's meant for me will find me. And I magnetize what's meant for me into my life by trusting in the divine timing of my life.
And I think there's a really interesting notion when it comes to divine timing and a big debate that I see in the spiritual community of like, okay, so if you have divine timing all the time, do you even have free will? And my opinion on this, I will just share my perspective, is you have both. Your soul came into this earth with free will. You constantly always have a choice. You always have a choice in your life on how you are responding. But I also believe that there's a higher power and order
pulling the strings behind the scenes, making sure that you are always on path.
that you are protected, that you are going down the path that your soul wanted to. Because I truly believe that our souls come to earth with a purpose. We come to fulfill something, we come to love, to heal, to learn lessons. And it is really important for our soul to stay on that path. And sometimes we feel like we're going off path when we're feeling negative emotions, but that doesn't mean you're necessarily off path. It means you're still learning and growing.
And that's where divine timing comes in is sometimes we really want something really badly and we try to manifest them. We try to put a lot of force to it. We try to really, really make it happen. But it's like a closed door. No matter how much time you knock on it, no matter how much time you try to cling it open, it does not budge. And this is because sometimes in life, there is a reason why things don't work out. Sometimes in life, there's a reason why something didn't happen when you wanted it to happen.
And what I truly believe is that the universe never says no to you. It either says yes, not yet, or I have something better. And you have to trust that every single rejection in your life, every single thing that didn't work out or the outcome that didn't end up aligning the moment that you wanted it, your soul, your higher self, God, the higher power might have a different plan for you in mind that is so good that you haven't even thought of. And I cannot begin to tell you
How many situations in my life, just in the past probably two years, have happened where I thought I wanted something, I wanted a certain outcome, I wanted a certain person, I wanted to end up at a certain place, I wanted to do something, and it didn't work out, and I didn't realize it until something better aligned for me in the far off future or in the near future, and then I realized, you know what? This is exactly why this didn't work out for me. This is exactly why this didn't align for me back in the past because this was actually divinely orchestrated for me.
So the more that you can trust that when things don't work out for you, they're actually really working out for you. Because maybe you don't know, you never truly know what you're being protected from. And I actually have a really good story to tell you guys about this that I'll share. But you truly never, ever, ever know what you're being protected from. You don't know what you're being redirected
from. You don't know why something didn't work out for you. Maybe something didn't work out for you because you're supposed to grow. You're supposed to learn something from that experience so that you can become the version of yourself that receives something even better than what you've asked for. So I want to share a story about my own life, about how divine timing and trusting the universe in a moment actually helped me receive the solutions that I needed in a moment where I was stuck.
So a couple years ago, I had flown to Costa Rica. This was my first ever solo travel trip to get my yoga license. And I was on the plane. I had flown from LA to Texas and then from Texas to Costa Rica. So I was on my flight from Texas to Costa Rica. And I'm by myself, completely on this plane, the first time ever, flying alone. I was really nervous. And...
was on the plane and then I hear in the announcement that there's a lot of weather issues and that we have to make an emergency landing in a completely different airport. So, oh, let me mention the part where I was supposed to land at a very specific time because I had a car that was waiting for me at the airport with other people that were going to the yoga retreat because it's a four hour drive from the airport to the yoga retreat. So I was supposed to arrive by a certain time so that we could all get in the car together and leave to the retreat.
And so I'm getting this announcement that there's an emergency landing in a completely different airport. I don't have any Wi-Fi or any cell phone data. I don't know where I am. We land at this other airport. We make an emergency landing because there was like hurricane warnings and a lot of winds. Don't even ask me how I found myself in this situation. But I'm in this airport. We're stuck on the plane.
I have no way to contact the driver or any other people in the retreats that I'm going to be late. And I just, I don't know what to do in that moment. I was so stuck. And all I had in that moment was the power of surrender.
And because this was my first time traveling alone, this was one of the most amazing experiences that I needed to have because it has brought me such a sense of independence. Ever since this experience, I feel like everything is a piece of cake when it comes to, you know, detours, any roadblocks along the way on traveling. But in that moment, I just... Guys, by the way, I go so off topic when I tell stories. It's so bad. So I hope you guys are keeping up with me. But...
At that moment, all I had was to surrender. I just, this is all I could do. So I remember I looked out the window, I'm in this airport that I'm not supposed to be in.
I look out the window and I just start breathing and I start telling the universe, universe, I trust you. I know that there is a reason that this is happening for me and I trust that this is in my highest good. I trust that you're with me right now, that I'm not alone and I trust that I'm going to arrive. And I asked for divine timing. I asked for support and I asked for protection in that moment. And I just breathe and I close my eyes and
and I just surrendered. I surrendered to that moment. It was out of my control. I couldn't change the timing. I couldn't get on another plane. I couldn't contact anyone. This is where I'm at. And after a couple moments of really connecting to my parasympathetic nervous system, coming back into my body, into my trust, I look around the plane. Then I make eye contact with this woman.
And we recognize each other. And she looks at me and she tells me, wait, you're also from the retreat. She recognized me from the group chat, the WhatsApp group chat for the retreat.
And in that moment, I felt a weight lifted off my shoulder because I realized I'm no longer alone on this plane. I was never alone. And when I disconnected from the chaos and for the need to control and force for a moment, and I reconnected to my soul and my spirit and the divine timing, I was able to see solutions and I was able to get more clarity. I'm Victoria Cash, and I want to invite you to a place called Lucky Land.
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And so we realized that we're together in this. So worst case, we miss the car. We miss the other flight. We're in this together. We're not two females alone in a foreign country in the wrong airport. We have each other. So we ended up talking on the plane. Then they announced a couple, probably like 30 minutes later that the plane was able to take off again. It was doing a detour. It went back to the original airport that we were supposed to. We had arrived and one of the people in the retreats actually figured out that that happened with our flights and he ended up making the car wait for us.
us so and I didn't even know how to contact them during this but it was just all divinely timed so even though it felt like I missed the car and I missed the flight and everything was chaotic and I was all by myself when I connected to my trust and I connected to my divine timing I actually realized you know what I was never alone I was always divinely guided and I arrived in divine timing we ended up getting in the car and the whole group was there and we went off to the retreat everything was okay
So what does the story tell you? And I always come back to this story to remember the power of trusting and the power of surrendering. And I think surrendering and divine timing go really hand in hand because a lot of time we try to control certain outcomes and we try to control the how, but when we're stuck,
in moments of pain or fight or flight moments of fear even, or moments of doubt or anxiety, we can't control the how in the moment. We can't control the outcome. And the only thing that we can control is our response, is our ability to trust and surrender. And I think that's such a powerful way to move along life.
is realizing that you are always at the right time at the right place. And even if it doesn't seem like it, the universe is orchestrating all the things that you need to do in order to bring you to where you're supposed to go. So trust. This is your reminder to let go of the control and to ease your grip a little and to start trusting that life has a plan for you, that you're always at the right place at the right time, that you're meeting the right people all the time, that you're on the right path, even if it doesn't seem like it.
even if it doesn't seem like it. Usually in moments where you feel like, oh my God, this is not where I'm supposed to be. This is not what I'm supposed to be doing. Usually those moments are actually preparation for something massive, a powerful breakthrough and a shift in your life.
The more that you can surrender to the divine timing of your life, the better that your life will get and you will notice more synchronicities and more flow and more clarity and you feeling more intuitive because you're not trying to control and get a grip on the steering wheel all the time and you're a little beautiful passenger princess allowing the universe to take you where you're meant to go.
And another beautiful concept that connects to this that I want to share with you, this is just an amazing tool, is the idea of asking the universe for no resistance. So before you head on to a work meeting or to an interview or to a date or to anything that brings you any sense of anxiety or you wanting to control the outcome, what I highly recommend you to do in that moment is instead of focusing on the external all the time, come back to divine timing and ask for no resistance.
Meaning, let's say you have a job interview that you're nervous about. Instead of thinking, oh my God, what are they going to think of me? How is this going to turn out? Am I going to get this job? Am I going to get the pay? Am I going to get the raise? And la, la, la, la, and all the chaos. Come back into your body in that moment and tell yourself, you know what?
I'm asking the universe for no resistance. I'm asking that what's meant for me will find me and that this job interview goes as well as it's supposed to go. And I ask for divine timing. I ask for support. And I ask to be exactly the version of myself that I need to be to align with what's meant for me and my highest good.
Always ask for things in your highest good. That's what I learned. Sometimes our ego wants something. We want that person. We want that accomplishment. We want that thing. We think that we want it, but actually our soul wants something else. And the thing is, our egos are very loud people.
And our soul whispers. And we can only hear the messages of our soul if we connect to ourselves and we trust more. Divine timing is truly about finding acceptance for where you are now. It's finding and making peace with where you are exactly right now in your life. Because if you want to align with a higher version of yourself, if you want new things in your life, new experiences, new goals, new people in your life, you can't hate where you are now. You can't resist where you are now.
You can only allow good things to come into your life by flowing, by trusting, by surrendering. Divine timing meets you with where you are today. So one of the best things about life is the element of surprise. Like honestly, I think so many of us are constantly trying to control how we're going to meet the love of our life. How is this going to happen for us? How is this opportunity going to come into our life? And it's like,
Let go a little, like have some grace. And sometimes I need to tell this to myself as well. When I find myself constantly holding the grip in moments in my life, let the universe surprise you. Let life surprise you. Let divine timing meet you where you're at and do the work. All you have to do is be yourself and have pure intentions and continue to grow and continue to be committed to your expansion and divine timing will meet you there.
Also, divine timing is about being patient. It's about realizing that sometimes slow is the fastest way that you get to where you're at. It's also about realizing that we sometimes want things right away. We want things to come like this right into our lap. But sometimes we need to grow. We need to become a certain versions of ourselves in order to receive what we truly desire. And sometimes we need to have that moment of growth in order not only to receive what we truly desire, to receive something better than what we originally asked for.
Anything that you desire for yourself, a relationship, an accomplishment, money, success, a career, a home, traveling, whatever it may be, anything that you desire for yourself will meet you and will manifest when you are the version of yourself and when you are aligned with the soul and the divine timing of your life. Trust in the divine timing. Trust that the universe has your back. You have to start thinking about the universe as your manager, as your best friend, as your
as your protector all in one, your bodyguard, everything. That's what the universe is. And it's constantly doing everything in its power to make sure that you are receiving all the lessons, all the people, all the experiences, all the situations that you need in order for you to become who you are meant to become.
So stop trying to control everything so much and start trusting. Start surrendering. Start allowing. Allow life to flow and allow things to find you because what's meant for you will always find its way to you. You don't need to force. You don't need to chase. You don't need to control. You just need to be yourself because the things that are truly meant for you cannot find you if you are not yourself. So what I want to leave you with this podcast episode is to tell you that you cannot rush magic.
You cannot rush magic. And let me promise you that the universe has an amazing plan for you in store that you haven't even thought of. Yes, my friend, you haven't even thought of it. I haven't even thought of it. None of us have even thought of how good life is about to get.
Because magic cannot be rushed. Trust in the divine timing of your life. I know a lot of us want instantaneous gratification and I'm completely guilty of this. We want that thing to come into our life right away, whatever it is that you desire. But trust that if there's a roadblock, if something isn't manifesting in your life, if something isn't working out for you right now, there's a reason for it.
And hindsight, you're going to realize exactly why you had to become the version of yourself or why you had to go through that experience to receive that thing in that moment. And so trust in your life. Stop rushing. Stop trying to control everything and start being present because presence is the present of life.
When you are present, the universe can gift you with more gifts and with more blessings and with more presents. If we're constantly trying to control, we're actually going to overpower the plan that life has for us.
And let me tell you something, divine timing is the most powerful force in the universe. So no matter how much you try to control everything, if something is not meant for you, no amount of force or willpower will leave it in your life or will make it happen. But if something is truly meant for you, if the universe has this thing in store for you, the way that you think you have it as well, all you have to do is be yourself and it will effortlessly come into your life.