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F.A.Q'S - Are YOU hearing Spirit? - revised April 2007
Q: I have heard mediums say that they are having a conversation with "spirit people". What does this mean?
A: Have you ever felt that someone or something has guided you to an answer?
Have you ever thought that you were not alone?
Have you received a strong "gut-feeling" about something?
Did you sense a dear departed loved one speaking to you?
This is having a spiritual ‘conversation’ in the sensing 'department', that sensing is only one way of being aware, so also is sound and vision, that is what the medium means. S/he is being aware and sending also receiving communications in these different ways.
Q: What is the difference between intuition and spirit, and how can I test this?
A: Intuition is the voice of your own sub-conscious self, the inner spirit talking. Some say the 'over self' or higher self, in other words our spiritual essence.
BUT … Spirit speaking to you is a thought put into your mind by spirit guides, which could not possibly have been your own thoughts.
Test this by asking a question of them for example:
“So that I know its you talking to me spirit, please give me a picture that I can’t possibly have thought of in my own mind" - and wait for the answer!
Example; a pink kangaroo in thought or picture coming into your thoughts or projected onto your 'inner screen' is not going to be your most obvious choice is it? This would indicate to me that spirit gave the answer!
Q: What methods are used to communicate the by the spirit guides and helpers?
A: As I indicated above, all the senses, seeing hearing etc... Plus your intuitive consciousness, sensing, and also through compelling feelings, but also projected onto that inner screen mentioned above, in pictures and images on the inner eye, for this you need to be open to receiving the images, and then let your common sense interpret them. [see 'Articles' -'Lessons' - 'Silver Screen' ]
It’s best to set aside a little time for this practice of communication, say in the evening when you are rested, the practice of meditation and visualization is also used for this, perhaps in circle when the energies of all the group are a big help.
Because we are all made of spirit our guides and helpers are able to contact us through that channel.
Or ... whenever you have a sense that someone is around you - they "pop" into your head out of the blue, perhaps your eye is drawn to their photo, or maybe an object they once owned.
Q: What is a simple and straight foreword way to get an answer?
A: One of the best ways to get a "yes or no" answer (such as, "Will this new job be best for me?"), is to just close your eyes, imagine a traffic light, ask the question and allow the signal to light up. Trust your first response!
It is so easy to let the desired answer to influence the result! [as you can imagine,] but the thing is this, when the expectation is neutral - the result can be trusted. There is the important word, trust, we all must learn to trust our guides and helpers - but also learn to trust our own selves too.
Q: What steps can I take to develop/fine tune my communication skills?
A:
1) Begin by listening to your own spirit and acknowledge when you receive a spiritual / intuitive insight - from wherever it comes.
I understand at the early stages of training its difficult to decide if a thought is our own or anthers, but the important thing is to acknowledge that thought - it is a stepping stone to the next stage, and at the beginning lets give spirit helpers any benefit of doubt.
2) Practice - looking for signs and ask questions frequently to stimulate conversation with your spirit friends - yes they are friends - who else would go to all this effort?
By-the-by, get to know your spirit friends as you would anyone else in this world [or the next] by asking things about them, for example ask for a name to pop into your head, and then you have been introduced!
3) Meditate - learn to programme your mind and be open to the messages sent to you. [See Visualization and Meditation in ‘Lessons’ also again the 'Silver Screen' ]
4) Listen - pay particular attention to the first impression you receive. Still can't help but doubt? Ask again!
5) Trust - trust yourself and your intuition - to send you the correct ideas and images to guide you to the answers you seek!
Have a bit of confidence in your own abilities as a student, a good way to do this is keep a diary, this will show you when looking back over the weeks that you have progressed, even though you don't feel you have, because it is slow and steady. It works for all my students.
To sum up...
We are all on a path of progression, it is up to us to get on with it in the best way possible, if in doubt about anything ... maybe you think you are not going on so well ... ask yourself "what is my motive?"
The basic reason for asking spirit helpers to work with us [and we must ask ] has to be selfless, Spirit will use the most horrid person on the planet to carry out their works, but that person will not benefit in any way, the reason is 'like attracts like' selfish acts bring ditto, and of course spirit will not allow us to be harmed in any way through their actions, which are based on love.
Conversely, they will do their utmost to assist us all in our progression through the love God bears for us all, [don't forget that's on both sides of the veil,] but of course all is on the understanding ...
"Thy will be done- Amen".
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