Once you can successfully quieten your mind you can move to asking for guidance during your meditation session. You are most welcome to try ask for guidance in your early stages if you feel compelled to, however, my experience is that if you try and take to many steps forward before mastering the steps in front of you it can create confusion and frustration. What I mean by this is that if you cannot quieten your mind, you may make receiving guidance a whole lot harder than it needs to be.

Personally, I have the personality that tries to do everything at once. This was definitely the case when I was introduced to meditation. I tried to perfect quietening my mind and receiving guidance simultaneously which led to some intense frustration for me. While teaching others, I have found that the best results when the individual is able to learn, consolidate and then move forward. Think of it this way, the quieter that you can keep your mind from external influences the clearer the guidance that you get will become for you.

Some of you may wonder where this guidance that we are seeking is going to come from. In order to explain this, I must introduce you to the basic spiritual concept of oneness. It is the concept that everything in creation, including source is one. We are all apart of source on a journey of evolvement. This is reflected in all of the main religions, pertinent in Christianity’s belief that we are all made in the “image of God.” Islam preaches that there shall be “unity in Ummah” due to the Oneness of Allah. Thus, if we are all one with source then we have an ability to tap into everything. This means the ability to tap into higher spiritual realms and receive guidance from more evolved spiritual beings, societies and even source itself.

People regard channeling as a unique ability. It is not. It is the birthright of everyone, you just have to develop it like any other ability. As a tennis player, I like to equate it with tennis practice. The harder the practice and the more variety you have the better you will become at it.

Before you start, it is important to have confidence. Believe that you will receive an answer to the questions that you want asked.

1. Begin by quietening your mind. Focus on your breathe and let everything around you go. Just be in the present moment.

2. Once you are in the moment, allow your spirit to flow through your body and exit through your head up into a bright white light. Allow yourself to become entranced in the light. Allow it to fill your whole being.

3. Once you are there, ask your question that you want answered. It may be guidance on a small issue in your life such as a relationship or on something more substantial such as your purpose in this life.

4. Allow the answer to come in. People sense these answers in different ways, such as symbolic images, voices or by simply feeling or knowing the answer to their question. Don’t have your mind set upon a particular way that the message will come through. In time you can learn how to receive the message through all of these senses, however, for the moment just go with and accept your natural talent. You have it for a reason.

5. Once you have got all of the answers you desire, don’t forget to ground yourself back into your body. If you feel yourself feeling dizzy  lightheaded or simply off after a guidance session, it is usually because your spirit has not grounded itself in its body properly. To fix this, visualize your spirit grounding itself in your body once again.

This tool is the most powerful tool that you will develop throughout your spiritual journey. It is a point of knowledge where you can learn new things. Somewhere where you can receive guidance and support in hard times. Use it to your advantage.

Each person has a myriad of belief systems that define who they are. No one person looks at the world in the exact same way as another. These belief systems are gained through experiences in this life and previous lives. They also form a combination of the beliefs of your mother and father which you inherit at birth. Belief systems are stored in the subconscious and have the ability to help or hinder you from achieving your goals. Essentially, they dictate what you experience in your life. After all, what you expect is what you get.

Although some beliefs may appear to be of no benefit to you at all, each belief that you hold has a positive purpose otherwise your subconscious would not hold onto it. Therefore it is important to note that you must teach your subconscious that it can gain the positive effect that this belief system has in another, less painful manner. This is the basis of effective belief removal.

You will be amazed at the effect that the removal of key beliefs has on your attitude to life. Although, they can be painful to remove at times due to the trauma that they have caused you, the ultimate benefit of happiness far out-ways the negative side effects. An interesting benefit that comes from the removal of limiting beliefs is the betterment of your manifesting ability. This is invaluable to creating the life that you want as the better your manifesting ability is, the faster the things you most desire will come into your life. There are many other benefits of removal of beliefs that will become more apparent to you as you practice.

Look at it this way, each major problem in your life reflects an issue or limiting belief to you. For instance, if you are constantly fighting with an individual they are reflecting an aspect of yourself that you do not like back into your face. If you want to solve these problems in this quickest and easiest way possible, you must address and modify the limiting beliefs that you are holding.

I remember that I was continuously fighting with an unnamed person because they were always depressed. I used to think, why are you always so negative and would then try and shut down this negativity. It reached boiling point one day when we had an open screaming match about her depression. This activated some extreme emotions in me, and caused the issue that I was facing to come straight to the surface. It soon became clear to both of us that the reason that we were fighting was not because either of us where bad people, but because we both had depression. I was in such denial about suffering from depression that I hid it beneath the surface and let it eat me from the inside. Looking back, it was of no surprise that I rejected any person that showed signs of having depression to. By rejecting their depressive tendencies  I was rejecting myself. Once I was able to realize that I was depressed, I was able to change the relevant beliefs and address the trauma that had caused it to be so. It was a lengthy process but one that I was able to overcome.

For people just beginning, the hardest aspect of belief changing is identifying the core belief that is holding the behavioral pattern in place. For instance, if you are chocking in tennis matches, a belief that you may have would be “I don’t deserve to win in sport.” However, this is often associated with a deeper belief that is effecting your whole life. For instance, continuing with the example the individual might believe that she does not deserve to win in sport, which would be linked to believing that they are not good enough in life.

In the beginning, I would sit down with a piece of paper and pen and start of by asking myself why I had the problem. I would come up with a belief and then continuously ask myself why I believed that until I got to a deep emotional problem. Once I got to the deepest level, I would intuitively pickup when I first experienced this problem and examine what was going on in my life at that time. From that I was usually able to associate a traumatic incident with a belief, release the trauma and then release the belief and replace it with another.

Today, I use guidance meditation to release beliefs. I will ask what is ultimately causing the problem and then will ask them to help me resolve it. This usually involves going in, clearing the negative energy of the belief, recognizing how it has served me and then replacing it with a suggested replacement belief. As always, do what works best for you.

One of the most important aspects of changing beliefs is being of gratitude for the service that they have paid you in the past. For instance, many people could not associate any positive effects of having an illness. However, many people create illnesses to show themselves that their family and friends truly love and support them. An example is a cancer patient that believes that they are not loved. As they are diagnosed and begin to become very sick, people show large amounts of affection and admiration for the courage that they display in fighting this illness. Illness often provides love and support for people. Thus, you must be grateful for the positives that the belief has given you and then recognize that you can continue to experience these positives without it. Gratitude is one of the most powerful emotions in the universe, especially in healing so use it to your advantage.

The last aspect of changing beliefs is staying in awareness. Many of these beliefs/ patterns may reappear in your life subtly, especially if you have had them for your whole life. If you can be aware of this, you can stop them from controlling you once again. If you sense that the pattern is rearing its head again, simply say to yourself

“I see how you worked for me in the past and I thankyou for that. However it is not in my highest good to have you anymore. I have moved past you. Thankyou.”

Don’t get bitter at the belief for coming back as that will not solve anything, however, be grateful again and then watch it go away.

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