How to Follow Guidance
How to Follow Guidance
Self-care or selfless service? Hold someone accountable (set boundaries,
talk it out etc.) or “live and let live”? Fight for a relationship or let it go? Take
action or wait? Follow your dream or get real and pay your bills? Say “it’s in my chart” (or you child’s chart) or figure out you are
making mistakes and it is “not meant to be”? If only there was one formula.
There is! And I have it, online for only $3500. One course you can do in a
weekend and you will know what to do and when and in what order so you can get
what you want with the least amount of work and stress, just kidding, of
course. For those of you who just got a rush reading that intro, you might have
a long trail to travel. In reality, there is no one way and there is no life
that is stress free which leads one to wonder why stress now has such a bad rap. Perhaps selling stress as “bad” was created
on purpose by the pharmaceutical industry (and now cannabis industry) to increase
sales of their products.
Following Guidance is not about getting
it “right” and typically there is little confirmation at the exact time of the
event or situation. It is not a reward system where you follow guidance and get
a reward for doing so. Nor is Guidance a straight line, or logical, and it is
not always for you, sometimes it is for you to do something for someone else
with no reward or even thanks given to you. Wow. So why do it? What is the
point of Guidance (if not for my own benefit) you might be asking. Guidance is
for your benefit, always. Just not always what your ego has in mind, and not
always for “earth plane” benefit, but always for your Soul Evolution which is
the reason you chose to come back to Earth and have yet another human life. Learning to follow Guidance is a process. It
typically starts with the use of tools such as oracle cards and/or
conversations with the Guides you can handle which in the beginning are the
ones that talk to you in English (or your native language) about concepts you
can understand and handle as a newbie on the Path of Awakening. Guidance will
start off staying within the boundaries of the paradigms you currently can
handle with few anomalies (look up the words you don’t understand here). Past
life regressions, Life between Lives regressions, card readings, psychic
readings, will all have to match your level of development and what you can
currently handle. Spirit is kind and will pave the way for you to get “hooked”
on the idea of “awakening”. You will often get what you want and will receive
much validation that you are “right” and “amazing” and that you have a “gift”
and a “purpose”, all the ego desires of the new age industry. Spirit is building a relationship with you
and to build trust you have be “validated” which means you need proof you are “right”
(because you have a “gift” and you are “amazing”) and you will need some
evidence that you will “get what you want” because that is all you know in the
beginning. For most people, trust and faith is built on “successes” and “wins”.
That is the nature of humans and Spirit is the ultimate awesome Teacher that
understands what it takes to win a human over to a Path of Awakening.
Some people stay at this phase of
following Guidance for the rest of their life. Perhaps it is their life path to
do so. They will talk to their Guides in the shower, and they will continue to
have a great deal of “evidence” given to them that they are “right” and “knew”
either what was coming or what to do. Everyone will be working at the level
that is appropriate for them in their lifetime. There is no right way or better
way. Just like some people need to go to college in order to get through this
life and others do not, one is not better than the other (although I am sure
each person thinks his/her way is better, and it is, for that person). For
those of you destined to work energetically, with Source as you mature on
your Path you will begin to trust your connection with Spirit and you will
(hopefully) get bored and frustrated by simply “getting what you want” and you
will have discovered that having a “gift” or being “amazing” has not changed
how you feel about yourself and it does not automatically make you happy, or
save your marriage or give you money, or if it does give you money you are
still not happy and you still have problems and challenges. Now you are finally
really ready to begin to live an awakened life cultivating the “language” of
Source, which is energy (for which there are no words).This is not for everyone
in every life and like all paths, the blessings are mixed.
How does one work with Guidance from
Source? Because there is no language to
describe the energies of Source it is difficult to describe. It is like trying
to describe “making love” to a 12 year old who can only think in terms of sex.
The difference between sex and making love is energy. How do you describe that to someone who has
never experienced it and cannot even conceive the differences? First off, with
few exceptions one needs to be able to meditate in Silence. I actually don’t
know of any exceptions but they may be out there. The few people I have met who
are blown open energetically are that way due to childhood abuse and are not
grounded or balanced. I do not encourage that as a Path. Meditating in Silence you are “listening”. This
is not necessarily “better” than any other kind of meditation, just different.
Working with a Teacher (Shaman, mentor, Medicine Person, bruja/bruja etc) who
is an Energy Master is a great benefit but very hard to find these days. An
Energy Master means someone who can call up Energy without the use of drugs.
Drugs are a tool, not a practice. Well at least in this author’s experience,
expertise, and opinion. The same with using sex, Tantric energies are amazing,
but again they are a tool not an everyday practice.
Second, you have to have arrived
(usually through hard work) to a place in your life where you are no longer “invested”
in receiving recognition for your “amazing spirituality”. You also need to have
healed your obsessive need to help others (raging co-dependency) with little or
no boundaries for your Self. You will need to be comfortable with detachment.
Detachment does not mean you do not have feelings or emotional reactions, it
means emotions and feelings no longer own you. You feel deeply feel, but
without losing your center or your Connection. You feel but because you are
able to maintain a connected balance you can also choose rather than react. And
of course, like all things on Earth, this will never be “perfect”. Third, you need to be comfortable with being
uncomfortable, with “not knowing” and
receiving “Guidance” step by step without knowing where exactly you are going
or when. This is a level of trust of
Source that has to be developed although I have met perhaps two people in my
life who seem to live with this level of trust as a natural element of their
lives, so I find it to be quite rare. And finally you need to not be invested
in “getting ahead” in other words while all Guidance will definitely be to help
you Evolve, you may not see or experience much personal “benefit” on the Earth
plane or in this life. You will never be quite sure if the Guidance was for you
or for you to help others and you should be in the place where that doesn’t
matter to you.
Using words to describe “how” to work
with the energetic language of Source is impossible but I will try to give some
insights that might be useful for those of you using silent (listening)
meditation as a way to “hear” and “receive teachings” not as a way to “stay
calm”. Let go of any speculations on
outcome. That would be like trying to predict the colors of a sunset. Not only
is that impossible, it ruins the whole experience. Instead allow yourself to
focus on the next small step. Like walking on a forest trail in the dark, all
your senses alert, with no fear, but rather an excited curiosity. Feel each
footfall, each action. Feel yourself taking each action. This is a kind of
heightened mindfulness, self-awareness. Even if you don’t like something, as
sometimes you might smell a dead animal in the forest, check in and see if you
feel okay, centered. If so, keep going. If not, wait a bit to figure it out,
especially if you are being Guided to help someone rather than help yourself to
something. Allow yourself to make mistakes. You can always correct and adjust
as you go along and “mistakes” are an inevitable part of learning even though
the ego doesn’t like it. This is like making love, no formula, just a
heightened awareness of, well, everything, and it is a dance. When making love
you feel yourself, your partner, smells come to you, sounds, touch, sweat,
soft, hard, all pour in like a symphony. With each moment you make a move and
you can instantly feel the repercussions; and you adjust the dance again,
responding, playing, acting and receiving.
How can you start to do this? Start small. Even for example, taking a walk
on a trail you have never been. Go slow and try to dance your way through your
walk, using all your senses and rhythms. Try cooking as a dance, with no
recipe, just your wandering through the experience tasting, smelling, back
tracking, adding, subtracting. Sit in front of your pet and start talking or
looking and see what happens and enable the unfolding. You can only learn this
through experience and that means trying, practice, and enjoying the wonder of
what you are learning. And continue to meditate, in the silence, asking Source
to teach you and in the silence accept whatever comes, and surrender. Surrender
the ego. Let go of your fear and allow yourself to be led, in the Silence.
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