Accessing Inner Guidance

In the way of Deep-Heart Healing it is very important to develop one’s ability to access intuitive guidance. It cannot be emphasized enough that our ability to do this comes from our awakening to the Absolute Source of our life, of all life, and realizing that we are on earth to manifest Divine Being in loving service. This is our essential being and once we have awakened to this, our deepest responsibility is to cultivate those attitudes that allow Divine Being to manifest in all our thoughts, words and actions. What this means is listening to a summons, a call from the truth of our inner being. This will always mean a commitment to our inner truth and becoming aware of conditioned attitudes, usually unconscious, that are not in harmony with our essential being and need to be brought to awareness and transformed.

 

Towards this end it can be very helpful to find a way to access inner guidance. One way this can be done is to first awaken to The Presence of Spirit/Source/God and ask a question such as: “How shall I know what is in harmony with The Spirit of Love within me in my thoughts, words and actions for my highest good and the highest good of all beings? After this listen with your whole being for any knowing that might be given. Another form of question phrased as a voice speaking to yourself could be: “How shall I know, yes (your name) this thought, word and action is in harmony with The Spirit of Love for for my highest good and the highest good of all beings, do it?” Such meditations are often part of private session and are also used in workshops.

 

As you meditate on such verses listen with your whole being for any form of an affirmative sign, “yes” sign. Some people feel a body movement of some kind, some an inner feeling or voice. If it doesn’t come right away continue to ask in periods of meditation. As you find this inner affirmative sense you can then ask for guidance about any aspect of your life and with another’s permission you can use it to facilitate guidance for them. Once you find an affirmative sign it is then good to ask for a sign for what is not in harmony: “How shall I know, no (your name) this thought, word and action is not in harmony with The Spirit of Love for my highest good and the highest good of all beings, do not do it?”

 

When two or more people meet using their intuitive knowing to assist each other in realizing the path of love for the good of all, powerful guidance is given. There is a principle of knowing here, namely that Love is the highest truth to which all else is subordinate. Love understood as the creative power that has brought forth the Universe, all of life. An enlightened master I knew from monastic life once said, “Love alone accounts for the Universe, anything, anyone in it.” Poets speak of “The Love that moves the sun and other stars.” It is that Love that has given birth to all that all may be blessed in love. How can we know if something is really true for us? If what we think, say or do is strongly supportive, in harmony with the call to love and serve for the good of all beings then it is true, do it. On the contrary if it is not, do not do it.

 

This way of knowing can be applied to access profound guidance. I have personally experienced this. Deep-Heart Healing strongly says that friends can help each other as they use the gifts of inner guidance they are given. The areas of our life in which guidance can effect deep transformation are the following:

 

  • Clarifying and developing ones spiritual practice

  • Bringing unresolved emotional issues, especially from childhood, to consciousness along with negative messages we tell ourselves so that they can be healed

  • Systems of the body that are weak, needing supplements, and other healing modalities for support

  • Work and relationships – are they in harmony with the path of love and service?

 

Negative attitudes begun early in life that we had no way to process often have become so much a part of us that it is difficult by our self to bring them to light. In a meeting with another person who has developed his or her way of accessing guidance the cause of them can be readily brought to light and the way of healing opened up. The Spirit of Love knows where the inner causes of emotional pain in us are and the way to heal them. This approach of trusting inner guidance in this way can save a lot of time that involves trial and error methods. This does not mean that a person cannot benefit from psychological therapy or other forms of therapy. This may be needed. What is being said is that when we know the root cause of unresolved emotions the way of conscious resolution can more readily move forward.

 

When it comes to bodily health can we really trust asking inner guidance what systems are weak needing support? I say absolutely, yes, because we are not defined by our body. We are Spirit with an inner drive to experience communion with all in The All (see article: Deep-Heart Healing: A Holistic Perspective). Our body is the vehicle through which our deepest identity as Spirit expresses itself. When our life force is trapped in negative emotions these can cause severe bodily symptoms. When these are brought to light and released physical symptoms can profoundly shift. Likewise, long before a weakness in the body system manifests as a symptom needing the intervention of Western medicine it can be known by Spirit in asking: “What systems of my body need support that I may have the health I need to realize my path of love and service for the good of all?” And once weak systems are known it can be asked what vitamins, minerals, supplements, modes of healing will best bring harmony and balance.

 

This is not to be confused with diagnosis and prescription. It is accessing guidance from Spirit, the highest Intelligence. What is above all needed here is overcoming ones doubt that this can be trusted. This doubt often goes back to early childhood when we knew that what was said to us or done to us was not true but we had no way to express our knowing to those who confronted us. We had to mistrust our knowing and give way to what was given from others. We do need each others help but it is always wise to ask if what is given us resonates with our own inner knowing from Spirit. Western medicine is a science of the body and a great blessing. The question is, however, is what is diagnosed and prescribed actually for the health we need to follow the path of love and service. Western medicine is one way that can help, not the only way. There are many other ways inner guidance gives us for total health of mind, body and spirit that more often than not will keep us from needing the intervention of Western medicine. Always it is best to listen to: “Ask and you shall receive.”

 

We our self are the only one who can awaken to our inmost truth and ask, “What needs to brought to light in my life to realize the path of love given me for the good of all beings?” No one else has access to it. In this we awaken to Divine consciousness that is the Highest Intelligence that does know how all thing either fit for us or do not fit as they pertain to our call to love for the good of all.

 

Again, Love is the highest truth that is the key to life. It must be given absolute priority if we are to know the truth of who we are, the truth of anyone or anything. Know for certain that your inner truth that is one with Divine Being always wills for you to realize yourself as manifestation of Itself for your highest good and the highest good of all. Another way to say this is that we must recover the original trust we were born with that often gets dimmed as we face overwhelming situations that isolate us, set us over against others, making us mistrust ourself, others and life itself.

 

Deep-Heart Healing always emphasizes the importance of developing the ability to access inner guidance. It is offered in private sessions, workshops, in Reiki sessions and in teaching Reiki. For what ever we are not aware of will continue to influence our life and block us from realizing the fullness of life we are called to. And so, it is good to dare to find the voice of The Spirit in us, to ask for true guidance. We are in communion with so many, both beyond time and space and within time and space, who have awakened and realized the highest qualities of the enlightened mind/heart. As they have done, so we can do. Many have great faith in us.