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Reconnecting
Recently, I have been focused on re-opening my channels to divine guidance. Many of us, whether we are conscious of it or not shut down our natural channels of communication to the divine often because we have misunderstood the messages, been hurt by others during the process of receiving messages or we are angry at God. I had at one point questioned the validity of my natural guidance to such a degree that I could no longer take it very seriously.
Over time I had managed to push it so far into the background that I was rarely aware of it anymore. When I began to realize that I could not hold my purpose in this lifetime without it, I got serious about clearing out all the old judgments, pains and difficulties I had associated with consciously receiving messages from God.
Promptings
Since opening myself to the process I have received more promptings than ever before. Things like knowing a certain person would call that day even though there was no real reason that they should, being led to information, feeling another person’s pain or discomfort and sensing the presence of ethereal beings.
My real reason for opening these channels however was to receive direction about my own growth…and this is perhaps the most difficult guidance to receive because it challenges you on all levels to remain present as the old antagonistic voices stir with messages that are in opposition to what you are being prompted to do.
Higher Self Verses Ego
You can always tell the difference between higher self communications and those of your ego. Your higher self does not paint grandiose mental pictures in which you are loved by all for your accomplishments…its promptings are of a more wholesome nature in which you are simply acting in a way that supports what is already there. Your higher self may show you an image of further education or a direction of service but rather than the image of being loved by all for your special abilities it will simply show you contributing in a balanced way out of your own center of being. The higher self is only interested in your happiness and growth, it is always gentle and loving and will only give you guidance that brings you more fully into your own true nature.
Holding the Space
There have been times that I received divine guidance only to realize that I had a lot of fears around what it was telling me to do. One of the messages I have only recently received clearly is one I have misinterpreted many times in my life…but as is the way with divine guidance, your higher self will continue to send it until you finally understand. Knowing this did not make the fact that I had developed deep fears surrounding the disappointment of the past promptings much easier to face…but because I understood that my ego had gotten a hold of the situation and that was the reason I ended up disconnecting from the guidance in the past, I knew what to do.
I held the space around the guidance I had received. I looked at the fears and asked my higher self to lift them from me. I used mantras to positively reinforce that I have the courage to use the guidance I was given. By holding the space and not allowing judgments to come into play I had the presence to take the next step, and the next…with my higher self offering gentle support throughout the entire process.
Deep Connections
It challenges us down to our very depths to have close communications with the divine because it shakes every fear, negative belief and unprocessed pain that we’ve ever had to the surface. It reaches into our very being and extracts the beautiful essence of what we truly are from the cocoon of all the thoughts we have about who we think we are. Trust me on this if you can though…it is worth the work to be free of that old, disconnected, fearful way of living…and be able to trust life. 
