When you first realise you have a gift one of the first emotions you may experience is fear.Fear of the unknown, fear taken from the bits and pieces you have read, watched on TV or dare I say, seen on horror films?For some this fear is overriding and it will affect their development and how they themselves may go on to teach spiritual and psychic development.Protection is one of the first things most people teach unless they teach for the Albert Findlay College, for the SNUi.Why don't most of these teachers promote protection? These are the people who have access to all the research, to all the knowledge, and who have learned to trust in their own intuition.I write this article after reading many books and asking for the views of my own teachers, many of whom also teach at the A.F College.Because of the knowledge of these guys, and their positive attitude towards helping me, I feel confident in passing this knowledge on.I understand fully why most people fear their gift and it was not that long ago that I was in the same position.Our very first contact with our guides is a churning in our solar plexus. this is a nudge to tell us that something is going to happen.It is all very well learning that the solar plexus is the first place we physically feel our guides, but when you do not understand this or have never heard of this, then all you feel is a gut-wrenching churning which does not feel at all pleasant!If it feels unpleasant then it must be unpleasant right?Wrong.It is simply a very basic feeling as our guides use what they can in order to make us aware of us when we may have been missing or even ignoring the more subtle messages.If you feel it happening to you, just breath through it.Over time as you develop you will learn to work out if this sensation is letting you know that an opportunity may be appearing, or it may be a warning of something unpleasant or even a forewarning that something fantastic is about to happen.I myself worked out how to use the sensations within my own solar plexus to give yes or no answers and actually work out roughly what is about to occur.Of course, as we develop and build a relationship with our guides, then there is less need for our solar plexus to even be used as a point of communication.We become more able to understand those more subtle messages or our clairs develop to an extent that we can understand fully what our guides wish to tell us.When we feel fear is it because our fear is necessary or are we letting our ego. that part of us that hates us going through change or moving forward, take control? Could it be that our fear is in our mind?The power of the mind is an amazing thing.It allows frail grandmothers to lift cars off their grandchildren who have been involved in car accidents and allows people to walk over burning coals.Can you imagine how strong the mind is if it decided that a situation is negative?Remember back to our childhood when we played hide and seek in dark cupboards, and how our imagination would let us feel the thrill of fear? Now magnify that with our everyday worries, tiredness and the stresses of life and of course, our very natural fear of the unknown.It is very easy for something which can be explained to fire our imagination and work with these factors to see evil where there is none.If you approach your development with a feeling of fear, then fear is what your sub-conscious will give you.If we feel spirit's emotions and they are negative emotions, for example regret, remorse, sadness. and we do not understand what it is we are feeling then we expect it to be something evil or we feel it is bad, because they are 'bad' feelings.After all, we are feeling something negative aren't we?Of course we are but we just do not understand what it is we are feeling.If we have not developed enough to have learned the mechanics of what we do, then how can we differentiate between the negative emotions our spirit contact is feeling and what our imagination and logical mind are telling us?A spirit may have negative emotional feelings attached to it, but as you pass on your proof and then (and most importantly) the information that spirit actually came forward to give; you can feel those emotions lighten as the communicator achieves their task of passing on a message or remorse or/and love.In fact, part of that negativity may be how you actually find the identity of the spirit.For example, if you have a sitter before you whose father was a bad person, a criminal or a violent person for example, will they be able to identify with a father figure in spirit who brings them love and fluffy pink bunnies?No; your sitter will not be able to relate to such a lovely rose-tinted view of their father and quite rightly will assume you are a fraud.We use the feelings we obtain from spirit to allow us to use tact and delicacy to bring forward the information that our communicator (spirit) is here (keeping quiet about the negative feelings) and is a father figure and we ask if the sitter is happy to accept a message from that person.We can use spirit's negativity as a clue that maybe our sitter would not appreciate a message from this person and so we use it to give them a choice to accept it or not.Already that bad feeling has become a tool, something which can prevent our sitter from reacting badly or from getting upset.We have been able to forewarn them and if it is someone who caused them upset in life, they are able to accept or refuse the message and communication.If they say yes, then we carry on working but we are always aware of the sitter's feelings.We pass the information on, but we do not analyse it.Once identity has been proven, then we usually find others emotions come in, and the mood lightens as does the message!If we walk into a room within which something traumatic had happened, then we pick up on that feeling. we feel fear.I have known people to leave a room because they have felt it an unpleasant place to be.This feeling however is just a 'memory' of what has been before, and with a smudge stick, or some loving care and attention, that feeling will go away.If we do not understand this, then again all that we have on our minds is that negativity.This is because we have not been taught how mediumship works. how the energies work with us and when we have, we understand fully why those so called evil-entities are not really there.If they were, considering what the world is like now and the negative energy which surrounds us, we would be living as if we were in a scene from Ghostbusters.I don't know about you, but I have yet to be slimed by a green monster!If we understand fully how something is done, how the mechanics work and who it affects us, we lose fear.There is no fear where there is understanding.If we approach it with our imagination and our expectation of the heebie-geebies, then that is what we will get.Take a step back and think. is this real, will this harm me or does it just feel unpleasant? This is where it can be an advantage to use the logical mind.Is our fear real, or the result of our up-bringing, social-programming and those dodgy horror films our parents would not let us watch but we found a way too anyway?Spiritual and Psychic protection is (from what I have researched so far) reasonably modern phenomena. it all started in the 1970's and 80's. about the same time horror films gained in popularity and the media circus worked out fear was a big seller.Prior to this, reputable mediums and psychics did not even consider protection.Why should they? They were working with the purest forms of energy, with the highest intentions.There are a few things that are important to remember when we develop, whether that development is psychically, mediumistically (think I may have invented a new word there but you know what I mean ) or both.1.We control what is going on around us.We have the right to say if we are happy to work psychically or with spirit, or if we are going to have some time off.You do not have to be rude. just politely point out that this is your time and you will spend it doing what you want.Setting rules of work is the first thing we should do in any job or learning experience.After all, would you like your boss or teacher to call you at 2.00 am to discuss the next day's work?2.We have guides who are there with a purpose. to help us to achieve our higher good.If you feel frightened or worried, explain to them why and ask them to take it away.They are the gatekeepers between you and spirit for example. just ask them politely to keep the door closed until you are more confident and have learnt what you need to.If you suffer bad dreams or premonitions, ask them to tone it down or clarify anything that is worrying you.Your spirit guides by an amazing coincidence, are spirit. and they have been with you for your whole lifetime.So ask yourself. have you needed to protect yourself from them?3.Intention is everything.Have the intention that you will develop with the aim of achieving your highest good, to help and with love.With this goal, then that is what you will receive in your development in return.Spirit lower their vibrations to communicate with us just as we higher our own vibration.Love is the most effective emotion to allow this to happen, so work in love and this is what you will find being returned.4.Remember to ground and protect (if you feel it is necessary) and follow basic good housekeeping rules. how you act is what you will attract.Basic grounding allows you to feel balanced and less off centre or 'not quite right'.It takes away the ammunition that your imagination needs to turn a simple occurrence into a horror film.Simple protection using white light attracts positive love and light towards you. it is intention.Remember also, most of us have been working with spirit and guides for a long time before we decided to develop and we are all here to tell the tale, without grounding and protection.In fact our guides are spirits who have highly evolved.Do you trust your guides?Primarily, it has been instinctive; we have known when one of our children has been in trouble, we have felt that things may not be quite right in a situation nor with a friend of colleague, or as children we have seen spirit and just accepted what we saw.We were innocent and society had not done its worst, giving us social expectations to tarnish our minds.As children there was no grounding or protection and there were no repercussions.If you are an empath, then you may need to protect yourself from other people's energies; that is fine and just.If you feel you need it then do it! But maybe try another approach, just to see what happens.If you walk into a room filled with negative energy, try to fill the room with loving, happy energy straight from your heart chakra!Ultimately, you are in control and you are never given more than you can handle. but if you are feeling tired or a little worn or stressed, and you feel it is too much; just ask it to stop.Say 'No thank you, not right now'.Be polite to guides and spirit, as after all they are the same as we are.We are spirit in a physical form and just like us rudeness can offend.If you wish to work with spirit then you have to accept them as colleagues, team members, and your guides as friends.You will learn to develop a professional relationship with them. if you tell them to bugger off, then it is unlikely they will want to work with you in the future!I hope this helps some of our members and remember. watching horror films before doing a reading or a sitting is a def.Nono!
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
The Myths of Spiritual Protection
When you first realise you have a gift one of the first emotions you may experience is fear.Fear of the unknown, fear taken from the bits and pieces you have read, watched on TV or dare I say, seen on horror films?For some this fear is overriding and it will affect their development and how they themselves may go on to teach spiritual and psychic development.Protection is one of the first things most people teach unless they teach for the Albert Findlay College, for the SNUi.Why don't most of these teachers promote protection? These are the people who have access to all the research, to all the knowledge, and who have learned to trust in their own intuition.I write this article after reading many books and asking for the views of my own teachers, many of whom also teach at the A.F College.Because of the knowledge of these guys, and their positive attitude towards helping me, I feel confident in passing this knowledge on.I understand fully why most people fear their gift and it was not that long ago that I was in the same position.Our very first contact with our guides is a churning in our solar plexus. this is a nudge to tell us that something is going to happen.It is all very well learning that the solar plexus is the first place we physically feel our guides, but when you do not understand this or have never heard of this, then all you feel is a gut-wrenching churning which does not feel at all pleasant!If it feels unpleasant then it must be unpleasant right?Wrong.It is simply a very basic feeling as our guides use what they can in order to make us aware of us when we may have been missing or even ignoring the more subtle messages.If you feel it happening to you, just breath through it.Over time as you develop you will learn to work out if this sensation is letting you know that an opportunity may be appearing, or it may be a warning of something unpleasant or even a forewarning that something fantastic is about to happen.I myself worked out how to use the sensations within my own solar plexus to give yes or no answers and actually work out roughly what is about to occur.Of course, as we develop and build a relationship with our guides, then there is less need for our solar plexus to even be used as a point of communication.We become more able to understand those more subtle messages or our clairs develop to an extent that we can understand fully what our guides wish to tell us.When we feel fear is it because our fear is necessary or are we letting our ego. that part of us that hates us going through change or moving forward, take control? Could it be that our fear is in our mind?The power of the mind is an amazing thing.It allows frail grandmothers to lift cars off their grandchildren who have been involved in car accidents and allows people to walk over burning coals.Can you imagine how strong the mind is if it decided that a situation is negative?Remember back to our childhood when we played hide and seek in dark cupboards, and how our imagination would let us feel the thrill of fear? Now magnify that with our everyday worries, tiredness and the stresses of life and of course, our very natural fear of the unknown.It is very easy for something which can be explained to fire our imagination and work with these factors to see evil where there is none.If you approach your development with a feeling of fear, then fear is what your sub-conscious will give you.If we feel spirit's emotions and they are negative emotions, for example regret, remorse, sadness. and we do not understand what it is we are feeling then we expect it to be something evil or we feel it is bad, because they are 'bad' feelings.After all, we are feeling something negative aren't we?Of course we are but we just do not understand what it is we are feeling.If we have not developed enough to have learned the mechanics of what we do, then how can we differentiate between the negative emotions our spirit contact is feeling and what our imagination and logical mind are telling us?A spirit may have negative emotional feelings attached to it, but as you pass on your proof and then (and most importantly) the information that spirit actually came forward to give; you can feel those emotions lighten as the communicator achieves their task of passing on a message or remorse or/and love.In fact, part of that negativity may be how you actually find the identity of the spirit.For example, if you have a sitter before you whose father was a bad person, a criminal or a violent person for example, will they be able to identify with a father figure in spirit who brings them love and fluffy pink bunnies?No; your sitter will not be able to relate to such a lovely rose-tinted view of their father and quite rightly will assume you are a fraud.We use the feelings we obtain from spirit to allow us to use tact and delicacy to bring forward the information that our communicator (spirit) is here (keeping quiet about the negative feelings) and is a father figure and we ask if the sitter is happy to accept a message from that person.We can use spirit's negativity as a clue that maybe our sitter would not appreciate a message from this person and so we use it to give them a choice to accept it or not.Already that bad feeling has become a tool, something which can prevent our sitter from reacting badly or from getting upset.We have been able to forewarn them and if it is someone who caused them upset in life, they are able to accept or refuse the message and communication.If they say yes, then we carry on working but we are always aware of the sitter's feelings.We pass the information on, but we do not analyse it.Once identity has been proven, then we usually find others emotions come in, and the mood lightens as does the message!If we walk into a room within which something traumatic had happened, then we pick up on that feeling. we feel fear.I have known people to leave a room because they have felt it an unpleasant place to be.This feeling however is just a 'memory' of what has been before, and with a smudge stick, or some loving care and attention, that feeling will go away.If we do not understand this, then again all that we have on our minds is that negativity.This is because we have not been taught how mediumship works. how the energies work with us and when we have, we understand fully why those so called evil-entities are not really there.If they were, considering what the world is like now and the negative energy which surrounds us, we would be living as if we were in a scene from Ghostbusters.I don't know about you, but I have yet to be slimed by a green monster!If we understand fully how something is done, how the mechanics work and who it affects us, we lose fear.There is no fear where there is understanding.If we approach it with our imagination and our expectation of the heebie-geebies, then that is what we will get.Take a step back and think. is this real, will this harm me or does it just feel unpleasant? This is where it can be an advantage to use the logical mind.Is our fear real, or the result of our up-bringing, social-programming and those dodgy horror films our parents would not let us watch but we found a way too anyway?Spiritual and Psychic protection is (from what I have researched so far) reasonably modern phenomena. it all started in the 1970's and 80's. about the same time horror films gained in popularity and the media circus worked out fear was a big seller.Prior to this, reputable mediums and psychics did not even consider protection.Why should they? They were working with the purest forms of energy, with the highest intentions.There are a few things that are important to remember when we develop, whether that development is psychically, mediumistically (think I may have invented a new word there but you know what I mean ) or both.1.We control what is going on around us.We have the right to say if we are happy to work psychically or with spirit, or if we are going to have some time off.You do not have to be rude. just politely point out that this is your time and you will spend it doing what you want.Setting rules of work is the first thing we should do in any job or learning experience.After all, would you like your boss or teacher to call you at 2.00 am to discuss the next day's work?2.We have guides who are there with a purpose. to help us to achieve our higher good.If you feel frightened or worried, explain to them why and ask them to take it away.They are the gatekeepers between you and spirit for example. just ask them politely to keep the door closed until you are more confident and have learnt what you need to.If you suffer bad dreams or premonitions, ask them to tone it down or clarify anything that is worrying you.Your spirit guides by an amazing coincidence, are spirit. and they have been with you for your whole lifetime.So ask yourself. have you needed to protect yourself from them?3.Intention is everything.Have the intention that you will develop with the aim of achieving your highest good, to help and with love.With this goal, then that is what you will receive in your development in return.Spirit lower their vibrations to communicate with us just as we higher our own vibration.Love is the most effective emotion to allow this to happen, so work in love and this is what you will find being returned.4.Remember to ground and protect (if you feel it is necessary) and follow basic good housekeeping rules. how you act is what you will attract.Basic grounding allows you to feel balanced and less off centre or 'not quite right'.It takes away the ammunition that your imagination needs to turn a simple occurrence into a horror film.Simple protection using white light attracts positive love and light towards you. it is intention.Remember also, most of us have been working with spirit and guides for a long time before we decided to develop and we are all here to tell the tale, without grounding and protection.In fact our guides are spirits who have highly evolved.Do you trust your guides?Primarily, it has been instinctive; we have known when one of our children has been in trouble, we have felt that things may not be quite right in a situation nor with a friend of colleague, or as children we have seen spirit and just accepted what we saw.We were innocent and society had not done its worst, giving us social expectations to tarnish our minds.As children there was no grounding or protection and there were no repercussions.If you are an empath, then you may need to protect yourself from other people's energies; that is fine and just.If you feel you need it then do it! But maybe try another approach, just to see what happens.If you walk into a room filled with negative energy, try to fill the room with loving, happy energy straight from your heart chakra!Ultimately, you are in control and you are never given more than you can handle. but if you are feeling tired or a little worn or stressed, and you feel it is too much; just ask it to stop.Say 'No thank you, not right now'.Be polite to guides and spirit, as after all they are the same as we are.We are spirit in a physical form and just like us rudeness can offend.If you wish to work with spirit then you have to accept them as colleagues, team members, and your guides as friends.You will learn to develop a professional relationship with them. if you tell them to bugger off, then it is unlikely they will want to work with you in the future!I hope this helps some of our members and remember. watching horror films before doing a reading or a sitting is a def.Nono!
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