What is Ascension?
Ascension is a process which everyone is going through right now. The intensification of Earth’s energies is forcing changes in everyone, spiritual seeker or not. The changes are raising humanity’s vibration. People are holding more light and, as a result, are capable of being more and doing more than ever before. Humankind is evolving.
It seems that making the right decisions for every aspect of our lives—our government, the environment, the economy, even our bodies—has never been more important. We are at a crucial time; events appear poised to push us down vastly opposed paths. Which are the highest and best? Making the right decisions is critical for our future. But how do we make the right decisions? There are often compelling arguments on both sides of an issue. Do we follow party lines? Do we follow our religious leaders? Do we follow what our family has always done?
It is time to follow ourselves. We need to go within and trust our own guidance. For those who feel like they don’t receive guidance, begin to focus on your physical body when decisions are needed or issues are presented. How does your body feel? Does it feel constricted? Is there a bad feeling in your gut, a tightness in your chest? Do you feel weak? That’s your body saying “no.” If you feel open, light or strong, that’s your body’s way of saying “yes.”
Your body is brilliant. It’s a master truth detector. You simply need some practice at stopping what you are doing and paying attention to the sensations in your body. They are always there, we just don’t always register them because we are too busy focusing on other things.
Break from Beliefs
A helpful step in tuning in to guidance is to break from automatic ways of responding. Break from your beliefs. This doesn’t mean you discard them. Simply recognize when you are operating from an old belief or from society’s rules and begin to question whether each one is right for your life or not. You will find you will keep some beliefs and drop others. Question all aspects of your life.
How Guidance Presents
Know that guidance can come in many ways. The feelings that you experience in your body can grow into clairsentience. This is when you begin to feel other people’s emotions in your body, you feel the energy of the place you are in and the objects around you, and you may feel angelic energies and the energy of loved ones and others who have died.
Guidance can also come through clairaudience or hearing words, sounds, or messages. You may inwardly hear the creak of the closet door and realize that you are being alerted to where you left your keys. You may hear a voice that sounds like it is inside your head or it might sound like it is outside of you.
You may also be guided by seeing images, energies or entities. These visions again, may be inside your head or may be in the outer world. For instance, I often see images with my inner vision during past life regressions that I do, as I’m shown what happened in that person’s life. Yet I recall on a ghost-crossing visit I was on, I saw a vision in the field in front of me of worn-down Civil War soldiers resting. Many people are beginning to see folks who have passed appearing in their homes and work places. For those who have never seen these types of things before, it can be very disconcerting when it begins.
The final main way of receiving guidance is through a clear knowing, or claircognizance. You are experiencing claircognizance when you “just know” what to do, where to go or what the answer is. This form can often be the most frustrating because initially it can be hard to separate from your own thoughts or your mind-level knowing. Claircognizant guidance often comes very quickly, frequently before the question is even fully asked. It is easier to detect when the answer is not the one you would have thought. For instance, you take the time to ask your body what it wants and you “know” it wants salmon when you were on your way to the pantry for some peanuts.
Build Your Guidance
There are several things you can do to build your guidance:
1. Ask for guidance to come. Ask Spirit for assistance.
2. Allow that what you are getting may be guided. If you are not sure and are unwilling to act on it, that is okay. Simply acknowledge it. Perhaps even write it down.
3. Cultivate a quiet mind through practices like meditation. In fact, a lot of guidance will come during meditation and other quiet times. You are better able to realize it is there when the clatter of the outside world is gone.
4. Develop a habit of focusing on your body. Be mindful of what it is showing you through the emotions, pains, pressures and other sensations it feels.
5. Get out of fear and other strong emotions. They tend to block your ability to perceive the guidance that is coming through.
Another key is searching all of the “clairs” when you feel like you are not receiving guidance. Initially, when I was learning to pay attention for guidance, I used to look for the voices and the images because these were the ones I was used to hearing about. But for me, my guidance came first as clairsentience and claircognizance. As I got better, I learned to scan for them. But then, as my guidance continued to grow, I often missed it because I wasn’t looking in the other areas. I missed the images and voices or sounds. I then learned to scan what I felt, thought, heard or saw when searching for answers.
Gnostic Revelation
Another form of guidance comes in the form of what I’ll call gnostic revelation. Some may call it divine revelation, accessing the Akashic Records or tapping into the quantum field. I will describe it from my own experience. Gnostic Revelation is when knowledge is given about something you’ve been asking to know about. The knowledge seems to come all at once and may come through many channels. For instance, you may see an image while also knowing clearly what it means, hearing words and feeling emotions and energies in your body. I often feel an intensity of energy around me or through me. Often, the revelation seems profound, yet at the same time very simple.
I have probably received this guidance the most around questions of religion. I would question something because it didn’t make total sense to me and then it would be revealed soon after, sometimes in dreams that felt like I was awake, and sometimes in waking moments. In the religions, there is another layer of meaning beyond the surface words. There, what we are told to do is ask about it (pray) and wait for the answer (meditate). Very good advice.
We all have the ability to access this level of knowing, whether we are “psychic” or not. You don’t necessarily need to build the clairs to have a gnostic experience. What does seem to help, though, is a sincere heart when asking for the wisdom and enough quiet about you that you can receive the answer.
Imagine the world we could create if we all cultivated our ability to connect with true guidance and did not rely on our little minds. How much better it would feel; how much more on-course it would seem. I invite you to make the commitment to start today.
Learn more about your abilities in Wendy Joy’s book, Clear Channel: A Guide for the Newly Awakening. In private healing sessions, Wendy can help you to access your own guidance and learn which ways of connecting are most natural for you. Contact her at www.wendyjoy.net. “Like” her on facebook to receive FREE monthly distant energy: www.facebook.com/wendyjoyauthor. Listen to Wendy every Tuesday at 10 pm ET on Bringing the Light, www.para-x.com.
