How To Access Your Spiritual Guidance

In the last couple of years, I have worked with a process called Inner Bonding, which is a powerful six (6) step psychological and spiritual healing process. Through this experience, I have discovered that there is no real healing without a personal connection with a source of spiritual guidance. 

You must feel in order to heal!

Everyone in recovery - whether from alcohol, drugs, food, spending, gambling, sex, TV, codependency, or any other addiction - knows that they cannot heal without a connection with their Higher Power, yet for many, this connection is elusive. It is a common experience for people who have been in the Twelve Steps program for years yet still don't have a direct, personal experience of their Higher Power. All of us want a direct line to our Spiritual Guidance but not everyone is in tune enough to access it. Our Spiritual Guidance provides the ideological structure to assist us in maintaining abstinence and taking responsibility for ourselves. We want to know what is for our highest good, what the right decision is in different situations, how to set appropriate boundaries, and how to manifest what we desire.

It is the birthright of each of us to have a direct line to God, however, God is represented for you. Yet few of us have taken the time to learn how to do this at will on a daily basis. Those who do, find surprisingly, it is not hard to do.

We live in the 3D of consciousness. This can be defined as seeing things from a purely physical state, where you are seen as an individual that is separate from others. Things are perceived as good or bad and life is a constant competition. In 3D, there is no desire to go deep, look within and find the deeper meaning. Life is played out on the surface. While enjoyable, emotions can be very difficult to manage. Those who perceive things from the 3D state will experience life in a completely different way than someone walking in the 5D. 

In the 5D state, you begin to realize that we are all one and we are all connected. Life becomes a journey toward growth and there’s no such thing as good or bad. Everyone is equal and there is a strong desire to live in a place of true authenticity. You understand that your purpose is to live your truth and be loved. This spiritual realm exists at a higher frequency than we do here on the physical plane of Planet Earth. In order to access it, we must learn how to raise our "frequency".

One way to understand "frequency" is to imagine a room filled with people who are sharing love and joy with each other. This room has a feeling of lightness--a high frequency--whereas a room filled with angry, tense people has a feeling of heaviness--a low frequency.

So, how do we raise our frequency? There are numerous things you can do to help yourself raise your frequency, but none of them will work unless you have the intent to learn with Spirit about loving yourself and others.

Our intent is the most powerful tool we have for raising our frequency. There are only two (2) possible intents in any given moment: to learn with God/Spirit about loving yourself and others or to protect against your pain and avoid responsibility for your feelings. When our intent is to protect and avoid, we seek to control - through our various addictions - our feelings, others' feelings, behavior, and the outcome of things. When our intent is to learn, we seek to take responsibility for our own feelings and behavior by discovering what we may be thinking or doing that is unloving to ourselves and others and what would be loving.

You can try many methods of raising your frequency, from prayer to meditation to chanting, but if your intent is to protect instead of learn, none of these will do any good at all. The reason is that when the intent is to protect against pain, we close our hearts so as not to feel whatever we are feeling. Spirit cannot come through a closed heart.

We are each given free will when we come to this planet. This means that we get to choose our intent - to be open or closed, loving or unloving, protected against pain, or taking responsibility for our feelings. While the love that is God/Spirit is all-powerful, it cannot come into a closed heart. Just as the air you breathe cannot come into your lungs until you take a breath, the love, power, and wisdom that is God/Spirit cannot enter your being until you choose the intent to learn about love.

When you have a true, pure intent to learn, your frequency automatically rises. None of the actions I suggest below will raise your frequency without this intent. However, once you have this intent, the following actions can help to further raise your frequency.

• Move into your imagination. Your imagination is a gift. When you move into your imagination, you raise your frequency and tap into the source of your creativity and inspiration. Our willingness to move into and trust our imagination is essential to being able to connect with our personal Spiritual Guidance. When you first begin to utilize your imagination to increase your frequency and connect with Spirit, you might feel as if you are just using your imagination to make things up. However, as you take the risk of trusting what you think you are "making up," you will discover that it really is coming through you from Spirit rather than from you.
• Keep your body clear. Your body is an energy system. If your body's energy is clogged with drugs, alcohol, nicotine, caffeine, sugar, heavy foods, lots of food, or foods contaminated with pesticides, preservatives, artificial sweeteners, or any of the thousands of chemicals that are added to foods, your frequency is lowered.
• Be grateful. Sincere prayers of gratitude and asking for help in healing any obstacles to loving can raise your frequency.
• Chant. Repetitive prayers, chants, and mantras can open you to higher frequencies, as can singing in general.
• Dance. Movement may open you to higher frequencies.
• Spend time in nature.
• The frequency of a city is far lower than the frequency of nature. Being among trees and flowers, near a river, creek, or lake, at the ocean, in the desert, or on a mountain can all raise your frequency.
• Listen to soothing music.
• Create. Moving into your creative imagination raises the frequency.
• Use incense or do "smudging." Incense has been used for centuries to
• raise the frequency and invite spiritual connection. "Smudging" is using the smoke from various dried plants such as sage, pine, cedar, and lavender to clear the energies in a room and raise the frequency. Smudging has been used for thousands of years by indigenous peoples throughout the world.
• Lighting candles. Candlelight, too, has been used for thousands of years to clear the air and raise the frequency.

If you get into the habit of asking yourself throughout the day, "What is my intent? Am I trying to control something, or is my deepest desire in the moment to learn about loving myself and others?", you will begin to understand intent. This will eventually lead you to hear, feel, and see your personal Spiritual Guidance.

I wish you love and knowledge on your path. 

• Everything is one. 
• All is connected. 
• Everything has a spirit.

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