Communion with the Divine or your Guide
Getting in touch with your guide is the same as communing with the Divine. Your guide is an extension of you in your totality, but unlike you in your present sense of Awareness is Aware of you as you really Are. You are not what you think. What you think can only be what you thought before. There is nothing original about your thinking. Your thinking is like a computer that has stored information and is now running that information like a program on your computer.
To get in touch with your guide would be letting go of what you think, putting it side for the moment and becoming still. This of course takes practice and effort at first until it is second nature and the connection with your guide is so strong that you will come to a place where at time you will not be able to tell if what you are hearing are your thoughts or that of your guide. Your guide is there just as much as you are as Individuality in His or Her own rights but to you it may just be a thought connection or a feeling of Knowing something that you did not know before.
It may feel like someone else is in your mind because you do not think like that and where are these thoughts coming. It may also be that the thoughts that are coming to your feel different then the way you feel with your thinking.
With your thinking you may feel doubtful and unsure of yourself. You may also feel anxious and fearful, confused, not able to make a decision, thinking always in the past with a fear of the future. In fact you may not tell the difference between the past and the future and at time they seem the same.
Whereas with your guide the thoughts that come to you feel empower as if you know something before hand or that you can now see the big picture and how everything fits. There is this sense of order where your whole life is now beginning to make sense. You are beginning to feel less fearful and your thoughts are sorting out the confusion is going and the cloud of doubt is passing your by.
Your guide is not there to control you nor can he but to give you direction and a Knowing that you did not feel you had before. Your guide cannot control you because you always have the prerogative of choice in the matter. Your guide can instill in your thoughts and the ideas that you are looking for to give purpose and meaning to your life.
Your guide can show you the way but you must choose always what that way will be. You can look at your life as a map with many roads to choose from, but your guide is always standing there on your behalf to point the way or the direction that is best for you in any situation. He will teach you how to live not from your perspective where you are now feeling alone and separate but how to embrace life on its terms and embody all that you already are.
Your guide can teach about yourself and teach you who you really are by demonstrating to you and showing the evidence of who and what you are already. Your guide can show you the proof just like a treasure map show you’re where the treasure is and the path to that treasure and of course the treasure you are seeking is yourself in your totality.
Your guide cannot nor will he do it for you but he will show you the signpost alone the way that you are going in the right direction or not. Your guide will give you a total different perspective on life. He will not judge you but love you more then you are able to love yourself. Your guide will temporarily complete you until you can step in the shoes of where your guide is standing which is always at the threshold of your being.
Your guide stands at the door of You and knocks asking you to receive what he is willing to give eternal life.
Now, don’t believe me but find out for yourself by investigating and exploring this realm of being, by getting in touch with your guide.
Your guide is your friend forever and is there to teach you freedom from bondage. You are already free already but if you do not know that you are free what good is it. Your guide is free and that is why he can teach you freedom. He wants also thought he was bound by the material world and his thoughts but he learned to and through that process of remembering or Awakening he or she realized the Truth, the Truth that is you within and without. He has traveled the same path that you appear to be traveling on for a time but He is now both the journey and the destination just like you what you are seeking is you and when you are ready to find you then your teacher will appear and the teaching can begin.
You have tried to teach yourself by your own boot straps but because you had forgot your way you erred or became mistaken about who you are and now you have one who will Comfort you and will be your friend if you will let him. All it takes is an invitation by you for Him to enter into your life.
He will give to you the faith and the courage and the Knowing that you need to move forward and let the past go. He will show you your soul purpose for being here at this time.
The first thing for you to get in touch with your guide is invite Him or Her into your consciousness into your awareness and that is done through meditation. Getting a name from your guide is a very important step because that will link you with him and him with you.
This is done through meditation learning to become still enough so that you can listen to the voice within you that speak to your awareness and you’re Knowing.
The first step is meditation and that means concentrating on something that will take you attention from your thinking. What I have used and works aptly is your breath. By paying attention to your breath one can then detached from one’s thoughts or the outer mind.
Find a time and a place where you will not be distracted by the outer world that you can go to each time you want to meditate. Make it your temple of devotion if you will a place of comfort where you can if you like let down all your defenses. Turn your cell phone off and if the phone rings while you are meditating do not answer it. Close your door this is your time. Light a candle if you like, maybe some soft music at first but remember it is not the music that you are listening for but you guest your guide.
This is a quiet time so make sure you got done all your personal needs like going to the bathroom and taking care of any bodily needs. If you are a little hungry have a snack. If you do have some important phone calls or errands then do then first but remember to come back and find time to give yourself the chance to be still once again. It is in the stillness and the quietness of you inner being that you will come to know the Truth and hear the Voice for Truth. The Voice for Truth is also the Voice for Love.
Now I would suggest that you have a comfortable chair maybe not to comfortable because you do not want to go to sleep if you can help it. I know in the beginning I would fall asleep during meditation right in the chair but now I do not do that.
Sit straight as you can but comfortable and relaxed the more relaxed the better. When you relax you let go of stress and all that goes with it worry, fear and concern.
So this is an activity that is for you to relax and to learn to enjoy being in the moment. Now, if you like get you self a set of beads so that you can keep track of your breaths and the time. Doing a round of beads is a good start instead of using a watch that you will at first wanting to look up at is a distraction and just holding the beads in your hand and not counting them but with your fingers selecting each bead on the strand. Each single bead is a complete cycle of breath in and out. Holding each bead with your finger and thumb breathe in slowly and then out without forcing your breath breathe as natural as you can. One may start out by breathing a deep and loud breath and each time you breathe in again breath slower. If you breathe faster at first you will hear your breath, but if you breathe slower your breath will become quieter and calmer.
Your attention at this time is on your breath not on the beads and at first that may be a little distraction but it will passé just keep remembering to focus on your breath. Now if you do become distracted by our world things cars going by noise in the room or by your thoughts and feeling or by the beads you are grasping then gently notice them without any opinion or judgment and gently bring your attention back to the focus of your meditation and in this case it is your breath. Now all you are doing is being an observer and you are with intention observing your breath as it goes in and out.
Now there is also a still point between you in and out breath that is a pause notice that too because that is where your breath is changing from an in breath to an out breath or vice a versa. Keep watching your breath and if a thought comes to your attention or awareness notice it and then let it go and return to your breathing.
It is that simple to become still and after one has done this for awhile one will begin to notice what I call a still point where there is not thought of any kind a space between your thoughts as it has been said before. This still point of stillness is where you can listen.
Twenty minutes or if it is too difficult ten minutes is sufficient at first for this first time meditating. Do this preferably at the beginning of the new moon or start at the beginning of the week and do this for at least 30 days. Each seven day period assess your progress and compare it with your state of mind at the beginning. Keep a journal or a note book and write down if you can your daily meditations in your own word what you are feeling and what you thoughts are becoming and if there are any noticeable changes in you. Remember this is the first step
The next chapter will be the second step and that is the invitation and the asking or giving your guide permission to visit with you and asking for a name. Please practice this diligently with your whole heart, mind, body and strength because this is your beginning of freedom to Know your Self.