The world around us is changing. The world may not alter much in a physical sense, but our own personal worlds do every day. There is an ever changing flux of emotions, thoughts, fears and memories being formed on a daily basis. More often old ones are being recycled than new ones made.

To some each day can seem to be darker, more futile and more depressing than the next. So why do we put ourselves through those emotions? Why not just stop and enjoy this wonderful life?

Our emotional and mental state is to us our yardstick by which we measure our ‘real life’. It is still our link, our axis of familiar territory on which we spin when we orientate ourselves. Once we see where we are in ‘real life’, we then use that to measure our worth. We compare families, relationships, cars, jobs, environment, happiness levels, you name it, we’ll compare what others have to ourselves, and most times decide we’re lacking something or other.

If only we could just once open our eyes and see the illusions of that we perceive as ‘real life’, and how all of that just is not that important. It is not something that we have 100% control over, so why try to control it in the first place? The workings of our lives are not all of our own making, created purely by our own action or inaction. The Universe and the part that each of us play in that is so much vaster and deeper than we can imagine and that Energy, (whether you call it God/Spirit/Higher Power) is a force that is working in our lives today, whether we are aware of it or not.

Many do not realize that there is a Greater Good at work in all things. Everything that happens to us in life is for a reason, and that Energy is there to help guide you in the right direction towards your true path. The Universe has much strength and power. It works to allow each to become the best person that they can be, if they choose to the nurture perfect soul that they truly are and have been since birth. The totality of our lives is not just what we see around us. There’s a saying that God works in mysterious ways and that may seem to be the case, but perhaps it’s only mysterious because people try to equate the workings of Spirit with the illusionary world they live in every day and to make sense of it based on the ‘real world’ primarily.

No small wonder then that the inability to reconcile these two, results in the muddying of the waters, and makes it difficult to see the doors opening or closing when opportunity is laid in their path. The Universe is aware of our ‘failings’ though, and is always ready to place another doorway in our path that will allow us to take the road that was meant for us, time and again. It does not stop giving us opportunities to grow and nurture the Self.

Many look at the world and wonder where Spirit is, if this is all there is. They see starvation, war, pain and endless hurts and feel deserted, but I don’t believe that we are ever deserted by Spirit. We are all one with the Universe and through that connection, cannot be separated from it, so are never alone. Life here is really just a flicker in the Universe.

I believe that we are here to learn the lessons that allow us to reach a higher level of consciousness, and they are not always easy nor painless to us, but they are, to the Universe, just lessons. Life goes on, and always will do. Our time here is so small a part of the bigger picture in Universal terms, yet seems so large to us because we find it hard to understand its true nature. We will continue having the lessons until such times as we learn them and that is our never ending journey of life.

It may be that until we learn to love ourselves and each other as we are, souls united by the Universe, each of us part of the whole, they will continue. Life here is one miniscule facet of our existence. We can be as we wish in this lifetime and that is the power of free will, but there are other levels of consciousness out there to be experienced, different choices to make, more paths to follow, so what we perceive as our ‘life’ today, right now, is not all that there is or will be.

So much is here right now just waiting to be experienced apart from the mundane, and all for the simple asking of Spirit to help us to take the blinkers off. So why don’t we ask?

Maybe it is because we have over time become disillusioned and lost faith. We judge the workings of our Higher Power by the world around us, maybe some looking for the signs of Spirit doing miraculous things to reinforce and justify our belief or even in a more simple way, people just having good lives. We in turn then look at our lives, what we asked for and didn’t get, and find them wanting but don’t know why. We cry ‘woe is me’, and wonder what we did to deserve our lot in life when others seem to be so much better off. The thing is, we did nothing wrong. As perfect souls already, we cannot tarnish the perfection that is within all of us. If we did not get what we asked for, it may be that we have a lesson to learn from that or the timing isn’t right to get whatever we wanted nor reveal the lesson.

But it is easier for us to believe that Spirit just doesn’t want us to have a good, fulfilling life. We have heard for so long, from childhood, that real life is never easy or smooth or perfect, so we expect it to be hard, demanding, painful, in essence just about survival. So we join the masses in their unconscious struggle, blinded to the workings of the Universe and all that it can offer us. Because we ‘know’ life is supposed to be hard, that we’ll never be happy because we never have been, and it becomes then dangerously close to a self fulfilling prophecy. We may make it so without even realizing, then say ’see, I knew it’.

We in turn close the doors to our hearts, to ourselves, to our intuition, to our spiritual side, because to us those are not things that we have been taught that ‘real life’ is about. After all, we have probably been bullied, mistreated, downtrodden, humiliated, hurt at some stage in our lives, possibly many times over, so we come to expect that this is all there is to life, survival and getting through the daily grind. We choose, albeit on an unconscious level, to follow the crowd and get caught up in the superficiality of our reality. We do not dare not to.

But that is not all there is, nor does it have to be that way. We chose to allow that to be our reality and we can choose to leave it behind too. All the pain and the hurts accumulated over many years can be diminished, if not extinguished, if we allow Spirit to enter our lives and trust that it will guide us.

Renewing faith, not only in the Higher Power that you believe in, but in ourselves, is needed. Forgiving ourselves for past hurts done to us and by us, allowing those to be released, but not forgotten, so the lesson is learned, that was needed. We can live our lives in such a way that we can grow or expand our consciousness so that listening to our inner selves and trusting what we hear, becomes second nature to us. We can all be comfortable in our own skin when we wake in the morning and go to bed at nite.You can allow all the blinkers of ‘real life’ to fall away and let Spirit open your eyes and your heart to what is really the most important thing in your life - you.

You have a path that you can choose to take to attain a life that is fulfilling to you, but you need to work at it and seek it out. Raise your awareness to a level where opportunities are seen with clarity. Think about who you want to be as a person, what you really want to do with your life, how you want to live it and seek it out. Even if it seemed an impossible goal right now, and so far away, still hold it in your heart and make even small steps towards it whenever you can. If you feel emptiness, look within and ask for help. If you feel pain, look within and ask for help. Whatever it is, Spirit can help guide you if you allow it to do so.

The answers are there for you to find, and will become apparent to you once you start looking for them. They can come in many forms. Sometimes a person, sometimes a book, sometimes just a seemingly coincidental happening that helps or guides you forward. The key is allowing yourself to see with your heart and recognize when Spirit is putting all these tools in your path to help you on your journey to a happier, more fulfilling life, not hindering you. Let it work.

Kay Elizabeth enjoys dabbling in writing, meeting new people in chat and discussing ideas on life,love and everything. She spends her waking hours working alongside her husband at The Megaphone Broadcasting System, http://www.themegaphone.net. The Megaphone Community is all about bringing back the old style html chat rooms in an ad free environment and enjoying a few laughs along the way. There’s an active Spirituality chat room that’s free to join plus a forum. All paths are respected and welcomed.

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Your Spirit is continuously beaming communications to you. As long as your mind is properly receptive to your Spirit, this vital communication is received. But if your mind is busy being distracted by its fascination with the world that serves the ego, or by the fear-based broadcasts of the lower self, the communications are not receivedor the signals are fuzzy at best. Like a radio broadcast that takes place regardless of who is listening, your Spirit is constantly broadcasting to you, but you can only receive that broadcast if your radio is tuned to the right station and you are paying attention.

Of course, in addition to paying attention and being open and receptive to the wellspring of information coming to you through your Spirit, you need to understand Its language and have confidence in it. Because this language is personal between you and your Spirit, you are the only one who can unlock its secrets through attention and experience. It is not something that someone can give you a special decoder for! There are some generalizations I can offer you, though.

The language of your Spirit is only sometimes verbalmost often, it is presented in a non-verbal format. This language of your Spirit, regardless of the form it takes, is what we are accustomed to calling intuition and can usually best be described as a knowing. It may take the form of an urge, an impulse, a feeling, a dream, a vision, a song you can’t get out of your head, a bodily sensation, a voicepretty much the sky’s the limit on your Spirit’s resources for getting through to you.

Your Spirit will often give you information via books, movies, things you find on the Internet, spiritual teachers, and even from the mouths of your husband, your mother, your baby sister, complete strangerspretty much anybodyeven people you don’t like! (Of course, these “mouthpieces for Spirit” often have no clue that’s what they are.) Your Spirit knows you intimately and will use any means necessary to deliver Its messages, and sometimes those means are extremely creativesometimes they have to be!

I can almost hear you asking this next question: How do you know for sure which messages are from your Spirit and which are from your ego or some other lesser, untrustworthy part of you? And which messages are your Spirit speaking through your mother and which messages are simply from your mother? (And yes, your Spirit trumps even your mother in the message hierarchy!) First and most obviously, when it is a message from your Spirit, it is higher in frequency. For this and many other reasons, you will need to learn how to sense and monitor frequency.

You were sent to Earth with both mental and physical equipment for gauging frequency, for discerning things that are in harmony and aligned with Spirit, and those that are not. Though these tools have been largely decommissioned since you arrived on Earth, it is time to re-commission them in service to your Spirit. To develop the ability to recognize the truth coming to you via your Spirit and differentiate it from the ideas coming from a lesser source, learn to pay close attention to what goes on inside your mind and body in relationship to energy, to frequency.

One of the most important frequency-monitoring skills to develop is the ability to sense when your frequency rises and when it drops. When you are aligned with your Spirit, your frequency is high due to the increase of Life Force/Love alignment provides. Likewise, when you attune to the voice of your Spirit, you will experience a rise in frequency. When you are attuned with something lesser, your frequency will drop. Your Spirit’s messages will always be of a high frequency.

When the idea or message is coming to you through your Spirit, you may feel an excitement, a lightness, an openness, a sense of peace, or perhaps a jolt of energy such as a sensation of heat in your solar plexus or a swelling of Love in your heart. You may have the sense that a puzzle piece has clicked into place. Or you may at first be unaware of feeling anything at all. Mentally, you may even experience some resistance.

So often our logic-loving, “it’s not real unless I can see it and it’s not valid unless it fits in my box” minds will try to prove that ideas from Spirit are threatening or illogical, but with careful observation, you will know when that is going on. It is natural for your ego-self to try and prevent you from taking a path that looks to it to be risky, but when you devote yourself to following your inner guidance, the fire of your Spirit will ultimately raise you up to overcome the fear and propel you forward if it is in alignment with the Creator’s Design for Harmony and Wholeness. Your Spirit is always steering you toward the higher path.

On the other hand, you may find that when the idea or message you are considering is not coming through your Spirit, or if your Spirit is trying to steer you away from something, you feel a drop in your overall energy. Remember that when you are receptive to anything other than your Spirit, there is a drop in frequency as you are out of alignment and Life Force is lessened. You may feel a shutting down, a closing in, an uncomfortable feeling in your solar plexus, a sense that there’s a dark cloud present, perhaps a kind of a sticky “thickness” to the energy or, a special signal that you’ll come to recognize with experience. Or you just may have that nagging feeling that something isn’t right. You may notice that when your thinking is out of harmony with the Whole, your body just feels weaker, less alive. Remember that when you are not aligned with your Spirit, your energythe Life Force moving through youis diminished.

Another clue for discerning if a communication is coming from your Spirit is that your Spirit is all about ease and simplicity. Messages from your Spirit will be simple and elegant as are all things of higher frequency. If what you are getting is heavy, complex, complicated, or convoluted, it is likely that the message is not purely from your Spirit. Most probably, your mind has presented an answer without your Spirit’s guidance, or has added its own, not-necessarily-accurate take on top of your Spirit’s divine guidance. While one of your logical mind’s jobs is to take what your Spirit tells it and convert it into concrete form, it needs to first allow the energy of it to trip the right mental triggers, not just impatiently grab the message and appropriate it to support its own limited ideas. As you grow in your relationship with your Spirit and raise your frequency, this pure translation will be instantaneous. For now, just be aware that your logical mind isn’t always trustworthy the way your Spirit is!

Your Spirit’s voice will never guide you to do harm to anyoneeither in a direct or indirect wayand will always guide you toward greater integrity. Though you may be called upon to speak out or act in ways that challenge the status quo or make the ego-selves of others uncomfortable, your Spirit’s voice will never tell you to do something that will cause damage to anyone. While you’ve probably heard of people who, after committing a heinous act, say that “The voices told me to do it,” or even “God told me to do it,” you can be assured that the voice they were heeding was not their Spirit’s. As I have found, my Spirit’s voice sounding within me sounds just like me talking to myself. If you are hearing a voice or voices that don’t sound like you, you will want to double check that what you are hearing is, indeed, a message from your Spirit.

If, after applying all the foregoing, you are in doubt about the origin of any internal communication, make a firm declaration that you will only heed instructions from your own perfectly-aligned Spirit; declare that you are only willing to respond to energy coming through your Spirit, and that you will ignore anything lesser. Making such a declaration on a regular basis, such as before you ask your Spirit for guidance on any matter, or just as a way to start your day, can expedite your realignment with your Spirit, raise your frequency, and make clear communication easierand keep the serpent’s input out of your conversations!

Keep in mind that, regardless of the details, your primary instruction from your Spirit, no matter the situation, will always be, “Radiate Love.” As the highest frequency energy in our universe, and our assurance of being aligned with harmony, Love truly is the universal solution to all our problems.

Excerpted from Recreating Eden

©2005 Julia Rogers Hamrick

Julia Rogers Hamrick has been a spiritual-growth facilitator for over two decades, and is the author of Recreating Eden: The Exquisitely Simple, Divinely Ordained Plan for Transforming Your Life and Your Planet. Julia writes about and leads seminars on proactive joy, and the relationship between frequency and experience. For more information on Julia and on recreating Eden, visit http://www.recreating-eden.com To read about Julia’s own dance with Spirit, ego, and frequency, read Julia’s blog, accessible from her website.

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