I used to want my guidance to come to me like God speaking to Moses in the burning bush: “Do this! Not that!” I wanted clear voices in my head! I wanted an “action plan” from heaven. Rarely is this the case. More often guidance is as natural as a nerve signal coming from the brain – just an impulse to do something, a natural feeling that you want to be here and not there, a natural feeling to pick up the phone, a natural feeling to drop your work and eat dinner, or a natural feeling to sit and fantasize and feel good or manifesting a new life.
These days a lot of you are telling me your natural impulse is to rest. Many of the light-workers I talk to are, using a phrase I don’t use often “battle-weary.”
It has been an internal battle, at times these past few years, to stay positive when the world has been so contentious. It has been an internal battle to have compassion when others are judgmental and project their fear or anger onto those of you who simply want to live in peace. It has been an internal battle to stay strong in your faith when many factions would like you to believe that a virus is going to kill us all off. It has been an internal battle for many not to fall into anger and judgment about those who want to force their will upon you.
Nonetheless, we have remained strong. We have chosen love time and again, even in the face of hate. We have chosen peace when others want battles. We have chosen over and over to put our faith in the growth and expansion of this universe rather than the nonsense that the world is going downhill.
It takes perseverance and strength to “fight” the lower vibrations. The good news is that we don’t have to fight anything or anyone. The angels remind us that instead of fighting, we can simply surrender to love. There is a vibrational world of difference between fighting what you don’t want and loving what you do. One is fear-based. One is rooted in love.
We can fight an urge to hate another perspective or we can shift our focus to loving the perspective we do. We can fight the urge to react to an angry person in anger or surrender to loving ourselves. We can fight the idea of vaccines or no vaccines or simply surrender to our own guidance about what is right for us. Can you imagine if we were trained as children with the notion that we don’t need to fight anything or anyone as long as we focus on what we personally love? Our world would be a different place.
Love is our deepest influence, but fear, pain, anger, and other learned programs can numb us from feeling the natural, loving impulses that are always being sent to us from the Source.
It took me a great deal of retraining in my late twenties to learn to listen to my heart and the loving impulses that were being sent to me. As did many of us, I learned to please others first. I had to sit and start asking myself questions. I had to get to know myself again. “What do you want to do now?” “Do you like your soap? Your shampoo? The color of your file folders?” “Are you honestly wanting to go out or stay in?” Simple questions, but honestly back then I had to really sit quietly to get in touch with my own heart and find the answers.
The loving impulses from the Source are rarely dramatic or intense. More often they are just a feeling that you want to do something right here and now or you don’t. An idea, situation, even, or person resonates with you or they don’t. Something inspires you or it doesn’t.
Surrendering to love is simply surrendering to your own feelings that feel good in the moment.
An email came in the other day inviting me to take a hike and a cold plunge in the wintry creek up north. Before I could even think about it, I pressed the button to register. It was just what I’d been asking for! I had a glorious morning out in nature with a wonderful group of positive, proactive, amazing souls. The sun was shining. The red rocks were glowing, and after three minutes sitting in silence in the wintry white, swift flow of the creek’s icy waters, I felt vibrantly alive. It is those moments when you don’t even have to think about saying “yes” or “no,” when you just trust your good, loving, feelings, that you are listening most clearly to your guidance.
So although the world – and our old habits – are always tugging and pulling at us, and as well various groups and individuals are wanting us to be what they want and do what they want, Love is always beckoning us to go along the kindest path. We all, always, have our own inner compass, our own guidance, and our own impulses that come from the Source of life and love itself… and when we listen to these, life is pretty amazing, no matter what the world or anyone else in it is doing.
Here are a few pointers to help you listen to the loving impulses from the Source:
1. Make your feelings matter
Your feelings are strong indicators of guidance. We talk ourselves out of our feelings way too often. You feel parched and yet put off getting a glass of water. You have to run to the restroom but don’t want to excuse yourself from a meeting. Someone is going on and on with some diatribe and you just don’t want to listen but you “politely” do all the while resenting it. Or on the flip side, something sounds really fun and inspiring, but we make excuses why we can’t do it. Someone offers to help and you really would love it but you say, “I can’t.” The list goes on. I know many of us weren’t taught that our feelings matter, but they do.
Your feelings are indicators as to whether or not you’re listening to those impulses from the source. Listen to them. Pay more attention to them. When you feel a bit off, ask yourself, “What do I really feel like doing?” Imagine you can ask your heart that question. Trust the answer. Do that when you can, without judgment or guilt.
You need never feel guilty for listening to your own guidance. It comes from God who loves all beings and knows the best interaction for all.
2. Check in with yourself frequently
It is easy to get on auto-pilot. We are doing our to-do lists that are never ta-done. We get involved in trying to accomplish a task. We do things by habit.
It is useful as you’re retraining yourself to listen to your feelings to check in with yourself frequently throughout the day. Ask yourself a few simple questions, “Am I feeling the way I want to feel? If not, what can I change? Can I change my situation or, if not, can I change my perspective?” Ask your angels for ideas and see what shows up.
Sometimes the impulses to slowly shift your vibe are so subtle. Take a nap. Talk a walk. Think about something fun. Get a cup of coffee. The angels work to help you shift your vibe first, knowing that as you feel soothed, comforted, and even a little better, then the better thoughs and actions will follow.
3. Give yourself permission to be Happy
As odd as that sounds we have a lot of conditioned junk about when we can and can’t be happy. We’re allowed to be happy when things look right, the bank account is full, people are nice, and the world is as we like it. We’re not allowed to be happy when conditions aren’t right. Or so our training tells us.
We can be happy, paradoxically, even when things don’t look right. The world doesn’t look right, right now, at the surface. But we can find many reasons to be happy every day if we’re willing. Sometimes I’ve been in pain and yet something can make me laugh or the scent of a rose can transport me. I can be happy at the slightest bit of relief and as I focus on that good feeling thought things improve quickly.
It is sometimes extremely difficult to sense good-feeling impulses. When you lose someone you care about and you’re grieving it can seem impossible to give yourself permission to feel good. Source impulses you nonetheless, towards better feelings. You may have a very natural desire to sleep more, to let others take care of you, or to do something and in every case, the Source and your dear one in heaven are guiding you – one step at a time – towards one better feeling at a time, until you feel loved on earth, so you can then open to the magnificent love of your dear ones in heaven.
We can allow better feelings even in the toughest of circumstances. Even if the feelings aren’t joyful, a little better feeling and a little better feeling again is how the Source will guide you one step at a time.
Right now the world is tugging and pulling at us in all directions. You can hear arguments for nearly every major perspective and all in between. You all know people who would argue one side of a coin and others who would argue the other. It isn’t as easy to listen to your inner compass with all the noise out there. That is why time in silence, time resting, or time doing something you enjoy is important. In those moments of consciously choosing peace, joy, soothing, or something uplifting, you are open to receiving guidance with ease. The angels are urging the lightworkers to take care of themselves now. I’m back to sleeping at least 6 hrs a night and connecting in silence every day.
The more of us that listen to the loving impulses in our hearts, without judgment, the greater the light on this planet, and that – even if your impulse is to nap in peace – is a vibrational contribution that has phenomenal value.
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