It is guidance

The practice of receiving guidance

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"What would god like me to write?" I heard that as a question and a prayer for guidance. A prayer to listen to what needs to be heard, what needs to be known. When I was sitting, waiting for something to merge as an inspiration to emerge, that was the first line that popped in my head. Not out of my mind but into my mind. There's a difference. In listening to what comes in and thinking a thought from the mind. It is discrete and very obvious in feeling, the feeling in your body. It isn't restrictive and limited but expansive, the voice you hear that enters your mind but it isn't from your mind. After dismissing it once and feeling empty. I went back to it and began writing.

It is guidance. 

Who knows what the source is, I only know the difference in feeling. The difference that is there in how I feel when I hear it inside of my head. It feels like being open for flow to enter, for god to enter, for the unknown to enter. We may question the door that appears, as a statement or a question. The first thought that appears when you sit with an intention to receive, to hear the words that will guide you in your creative act or in resolving a problem. Or a thought that enters your mind when you are relaxed, present in an act fully, not looking for anything, when you are just being. And the force of your mind is at rest. We may dismiss that thought, which is quiet but carries weight in its lightness, in its stillness. It neither pushes or pulls. It is just there. Wanting nothing from you, needing nothing from you. We may move past it, dismissing it, overlooking it, deeming it irrelevant. 

And we move on, into the space of consciousness, continuing to look for something that is substantial, something better, something good, something great. And all after, it has already shown itself, the guidance and after it's been overlooked. Telling ourselves that there's nothing there, being disappointed, concluding that prayer doesn't work or we are just barren of new ideas or we are just not the ones who receive guidance. While we are the ones who deny it when it shows up. We pay it no mind. Brushing it off like something not needed, not wanted.

It is a practice is of connection and attunement. A practice of trust, a practice of faith. A practice of openness and a practice of surrender. It is a practice of paying attention to the mind and that which enters the mind. And then it is a practice of discernment to distinguish and recognize the voice of guidance from the many thoughts that want to deny it. It is a practice of recognising it when it shows up and it is to practice faith in following it. The mind is limited, it can only work in the parameters of what it already knows and what it has already decided to be worthy. It cannot see beyond it. Good, bad, relevant, irrelevant, are all labels given from that limited self. It wants more than itself but can never accept anything that is beyond itself. Beyond its logic, beyond its own sense. That is the ego mind, the small mind, the conditioned mind. It is the “I” that identifies with things, concepts and ideas and believes them to be itself. It is the lost self. 

Hence, it is a must to have a practice of connecting to the feeling of the body and the wisdom of the heart. To know what feels true and what feels like smallness. Even if what feels true and grounded has no logical sense and it might look like it is far from what was asked, what we had been looking for. Connecting to the heart and the body gives us access to higher intelligence. To esoteric and the etheric realms that exist in the unknown. It is to use our full intelligence. It is true discernment that comes from connection to the heart and the body. With that we can listen for what can guide us in the right direction. This practice can allow us to recognize doors and pathways and create new pathways that can lead us to our souls, to god, to all that is beyond. Connecting us to the realms hidden from the naked eye, within and without. It can show us new landscapes, new worlds, it can show us the aspects of the true self. This process of receiving guidance can bridge the gap in the separation we feel deep within, it can remind us of ourselves, it can bring in the new and bring back the forgotten aspects left in the past, to see, integrate and be a whole self. 

It is a path of surrender, truth, faith, connection and true discernment. It is a way to creation that feels like peace. To a life that is fully alive, anew and awake. And it can all begin from a single thought. A thought that appears in grounded-ness and has no other explanation. It doesn't convince you, it doesn't entice you or ask you to move by creating fear of an unwanted future. This is not of the mind, it is just there, in it's centred-ness. It is whole in itself and it will not tell where you will reach by following it. It is right in its essence, in its presence. It feels right in the body, it feels true in the bones. Only if we go there to feel what it feels like. And then to have trust in our own being, in that which is beyond the small mind. It requires faith every time. Faith that what you've asked for has been answered. It is always answered. Faith that it will take you exactly where you need to go, which you might not even know.  

It is guidance.