4 Advantages to connecting with your spirit guides

Many people like the idea that Higher Forces in some form are present to guide and protect them.  Yet, the same sorts of people may wonder if they would get anything worthwhile out of learning to connect and more actively work with their spirit guides. 

Before you decide to research this subject further, seek psychic advice or, investigate devoting time to a course, you may ask what incentives you have to decide to exert any effort in this direction.  As you contemplate, consider these four ideas:

1) Discern what you really want.  This process isn't as cryptic as you might think.  To connect with your spirit guides, you must learn to quiet your mind.  This is often achieved through meditation.  Experiencing serenity or "mindfulness" enables you to listen more closely to your inner voice, to develop new faith in yourself.  You grow to more readily distinguish between what feels good or not and what seems important or not.  You will grow to instinctively attract only experiences that reinforce good feelings.

2) Better appreciate all that you are.   Rather than criticize or judge what you think is wrong with you, you will evolve to focus energy on loving and valuing all of you.  You will recognize talents or gifts you overlooked.  This mindset empowers you to more actively uncover the innate qualities within yourself and to develop into who you wish to be.

3) Get to the truth of your fears.  Working with spirit guides is like an exercise of working through your emotional defenses.  This is about learning to be more honest and open about feelings. It isn't like reviewing painful situations in your mind and constructing barriers at the level of ego and unconscious.  Its about discovering how it feels to be humble, to uncover and discard your ego motives and, to move on. 

4) Realize you have power to change.  Spirit guides reinforce your self-confidence.  They offer a compassionate ear like a supportive friend that guides you to recognize answers within.  You will begin to detect skills you had forgotten you had.  You will sense a profound inner evolution.  You will instinctively ask your guides questions, such as "what could I do to nurture faith in myself? or, to move beyond obstacles that stand in my way? You will intuit what to do differently to create a more fulfilling existence.

What if your success is measured by pure joy?

Some people believe a sense of success is directly proportional to the joy you feel at a given time. That is, to develop conscious, deliberate awareness of what contributes to your joy shapes your perception of success.  You are free to choose your thoughts.  Discern whether your thoughts and beliefs are compatible and complimentary. 

Let's say its not physical objects or experiences that define your success.  Rather, its emotions evoked by the process and your visions of the way you would like things to be.  Your mind and physical body emit signals with intent.  You either adapt to align or do not align.  You either accept lulls and also temporary periods of satisfaction or, you take steps to better understand  what you want, why and how to generate good vibes more often.  If the latter would be your personal preference, where would you begin?

1) Raise awareness of your energy vibration. You may not yet really sense who you are, or where you're going.  You may not yet realize you are a vibrational being that attracts a vibrational reality.  Everything around you is energy.  Your focus determines what you attract.  To reconnect with who you are and understand the reasons that evoke joy within, you need to evolve to consciously perceive and align your vibrations. 

2) Connect with your non-physical, inner being. To connect with your soul will enable you to recognize your unconditional love, value and worthiness.  Your emotions are your guidance system.  How well you know yourself relates to how attuned you are to your emotions and the reasons that evoke them.  The intensity and frequency of your joy are vibrationally-related.  Nothing is more life-transforming than realizing where you are and how you feel differ from where you want to be and how you imagine feeling.  Choosing to re-align your energy means you begin to consciously accept who you are.  If you do not tend to this soul connection, nothing you do will create forms of success that satisfy you.

3) Learn to recognize when you are connected to your inner self.  How attuned you are to your thoughts influences how attuned you are to your feelings and whether or not they're vibrationally-compatible.  How you feel about your thoughts detemines what happens in your life.  To deliberately control feelings, means to mold your feelings, to make vibrational shifts up to more desirable levels.  Although other people may inspire or motivate you, only you can achieve conscious awareness of your feelings and inner being. You need is clarity of thought.   Beliefs and thoughts must become compatible.

4) Deliberately choose emotions that align you with your soul.  The sooner you realize when you are not aligned wiht positive emotions, the sooner you can take steps to change.  How you feel is your constant gauge of harmony or dischord with your desire or vision for success.  You can sense whether you lean toward abundance or whether negative emotions control you. If your belief isn't compatible with your desire, then you will not achieve it or experience joy.  Its not hard to activate beliefs that harmonize with your desires.  When you do, you will sense increased joy.

5) Relish the feeling of desire.  Through your interaction with contrast and variety, you envision and create new forms of joy.  Your habits of thought may differ greatly from the thought you decide you want.  Dominant, activated beliefs are what bring you more thoughts like it. The more you focus on a subject, the more you think, talk or, express feelings about it, the more active that vibration becomes, and the more similar thoughts and experiences are drawn to it.   Relish feelings you want to project and create them.

5 Tips to tap into your divine gift of creative power

When you sense you receive guidance to undertake something profoundly new, you can feel safe, protected and loved during the process.  To reassure yourself is a choice. We each have innate skills, including natural intuitive and clairvoyant abilities.  Even if you do not choose to develop such skills for use in a career, you would benefit from being able to access different information sources as you navigate various phases of your life. 

For some people, life purpose is a notion that changes and may evolve with them.  Other people believe a sense of purpose can be lost or forgotten.  You may benefit from help to tap into your divine gifts of creative power to reinforce meaning and purpose.  Your intention is key.  Whenever you ask for guidance, it will be given.  It is up to you whether you will choose to be receptive and when.  If you decide to explore what you have yet to experience, consider these 5 tips to get you started (and remain open to others):

1) Realize imagination is a gift.  Society seems to teach us imagination is "airy-fairy" or, not to be trusted.  You may falsely believe it has no measurable value, couldn't lead you to a good job, or sense it would distract you from focusing on more 'reliable pursuits.' You may fear developing faith in your imagination would lead to rejection or folly.  We are conditioned to devalue the power of our creative abilities. Yet, in reality, before anything materializes in the physical world, it starts as an idea with energy potential. 

2) Let the information flow through you.  What you sense about the process is not the result of how you think so much as the result of letting down your walls, learning to visualize what you wish to see, and permitting images to flow.  Throughout your life experiences,  you are taught by Spirit guides, Angels and other non-physical beings. You only notice them when inspired to bridge the gap between the physical world and other realities you would imagine and perceive.  Everyone channels images their own way.

3) Nurture yourself.  In order to grasp things and put them into perspective, you will benefit from learning about and connecting with your spiritual anatomy.  This includes regularly clearing your chakras, channel, and inner emotional screen. To develop faith in your skills and intuition, physical and emotional repair and maintenance are required.  Varied pproaches will help you uncover your emotional blocks and work through them.

4) Appreciate all breakthroughs.  This is not a race.  You are not competing.  You learn as you go and when ready and willing to do so.  Many books and information sources are available tools.  What you choose to learn and unlearn empowers you to remove or let go of unwanted or undesirable things from your mind and body.  Revelations ("ah-ha" moments) will add energy to your life force. 

5) Enjoy the twists and turns.  Learning techniques to clear your mind and re-align unbalanced energies will allow you to tap into your divine gifts.  Its all about learning to give up control, to discover how to relax and 'let it happen.' Each person reacts differently to life changes.  To confront misunderstandings and blocks will lead you to experience a kind of rebirth.   Awaken your dormant self and enjoy the ride.

Cut through the fog

Some people believe they get sick from things they don't control, events that unfold outside themselves. These people blame other people, things they ate, genetics, their environment. They succomb to anger, fear, guilt or regret. They feel like powerless victims, unable to release negative thoughts and feelings they generate, but don't want.

Some people believe they get sick as they refuse to permit themselves to live according to their true feelings. They become convinced the world is deliberately against them. They assume they must compete, struggle and suffer to earn inner peace and well-being.  These people may find it difficult to relax, to accept themselves and become accountable for holding themselves back from connecting with the soul. 

Transforming how you think and perceive offers a means of healing.  What has occurred in your mind is an illsion based on stress, fear and worry.  It is useful for you to take steps to identify reasons for your blocks.  You may choose to meditate, explore past life regression, or other activities to free yourself from emotional burdens like unforgiveness.  Your unconscious mind will only allow you to remember what you're prepared for.  What you discern will alter how you interpret yourself in this life. 

Every thought, feeling, reason, desire and mental state attracts similar thoughts, feelings and experiences. You can polarize your mind at any level you want to deliberately change the vibration of your energy. Forces work beyond your current level of perception.  You can shift to sense them by learning to love yourself unconditionally.

Paulo Coelho & 5 lessons to uncover the truth of Self

Whenever your mind wanders to human inspirations who are writers, you may be struck by the characters they invented or something about their writing style.  You may have connected with some aspect of their life history, if you happen to have insight into such things. Then again, there may be something enigmatic or mysterious about the person that evokes positive feelings you may not clearly explain. 

Paulo Coelho is a man whose philosophies and life experiences leave me guessing and also gathering more faith in my inner self.  These are 5 lessons I have gained from sharing adventures with his unqiue characters and connecting with chapters in his life story:

1)  Follow your instincts.  People will always have advice and ideas to offer you about how to live your life, what to do, and where to go.  Part of personal growth involves learning to listen to yourself, even if your choices take you to what turn out to seem like dangerous and scary places.  Each decision you make at a given time is in your best interest because of opportunities you have to learn from experience along the way and stretch yourself.

2) Open your heart.  It's so easy to succomb to overwleming sense of vulnerability, to your fears that an opportunity is gone, that your efforts have been wasted, that your lover doesn't care.  Yet, any situation is fixable if you learn to open your heart and believe in the power of love and a positive outcome.  Its a question of gaining perspective.  This result may not be the one you initially think you want, but you likely ignore the hardships you invite actually plow you forward to get what you truly want. 

3) Be willing to meet yourself. Not everyone initially realizes they have the courage and abilities required to merge with who they are.  Yet, we all come to discover parts of our energy, emotions, relationships and life perspectives are out of alignment.  We all fall into patterns that aren't on the surface, good for us, or find ourselves in conditions that are incompatible with our principles and beliefs.  All of it is necessary.  To explore who you aren't brings you face-to-face with who you are.  Why waste precious time  where you are being angry, regretful or upset?

4) Connect with Spiritual Forces.  Everyone has their own idea of what this means.  It could include angels, channelling, mediumship, forms of divination, or some other connection with Forces and Beings beyond yourself.  The idea isn't linked with traditional, organized religion, but it opens you up to discover the divine magic within yourself.  How you define and explore your connection to the 'God Space' or 'wider Universe,' puts you back in touch with qualities that guide your core existence.   Remind yourself what you forgot. 

5) Discern the truth without ego.  Life is full of our own self-created distortions and misunderstandings.  Ego-based views can't be anything but mis-interpretations of the truth.  We may evolve to perceive we carry burdens, but this is for the purpose of learning.  We can choose to discover meaning in silence, in facing root causes for our troubled souls.  This uncovers the hidden truth of the Self.  Deepen you soul journey.