Positive Energy Guide

Let’s break down a few more preconceptions to get to deeper insight.

At first consideration, if ordinary guidance is like business advice, coaching, suggestions for revamping your kitchen, or assistance with a health program, esoteric guidance might pertain to your spiritual life. This distinction proves to be of little use when examined closely.

What about health or business information that arrives intuitively, or “spiritual” advice that is merely a regurgitation of platitudes and the road-weary beliefs of an advisor who has no direct intuitive link to you or to spirit? Now where is the distinction?

Guidance is not about the information but about how you come by it and how it functions in your life. Guidance–with a capital G–implies connecting through intuition. The difference between ordinary and esoteric guidance has to do with the extent to which we are connected with the whole of life when the guidance comes through. And, when we ARE connected it does come THROUGH, because it just pops in, and we are not personally identified as the source.

Guidance is about connection all around. It is necessary to remain deeply connected with ourselves to maintain clarity and discernment while interfacing with energies beyond the scope of personality and accumulated learning.

One of my most advanced spiritual teachers, in my early twenties, bid me: “Always test your intuition against the stark realities of everyday fact.” Taking this advice to heart and making it a solid habit is a Must for anyone serious about developing skillful Guidance. Looking back I see that much of my success in my business and spiritual Practice springs from tending this seed over time.

Developing clear and accurate intuition requires alert, repeated, ongoing verification and extensive practice. In addition to asking questions to find out if hunches are correct, we verify intuition by bringing any information we receive back into everyday life, to see how it works in actual practice.

The line between knowledge or information and intuition is inevitably blurred. This is one way intuition develops:

When we practice an activity with full effort over a long period of time–a business, sport, hobby, relationship, or spiritual practice–the activity can assist with developing intuition. Skills we master over time focus attention.

Committed practice gradually reveals our inconsistencies, moods, states, imbalances, and attitudes, which are reflected in our practice. Self-observation skills are necessary for real mastery of a complex skill because we influence our performance.

When we begin to learn a skill, we first operate from knowledge and effort–trying to get things right. This is primarily a left-brain (thinking, organizing) type activity. As skill develops we broaden our base of knowledge. We may struggle to synthesize between several different approaches.

Next we begin to recognize patterns. We start to recognize exactly what is going on in the moment as we pay close attention to our craft. Now we begin to move less from memorized techniques and more from actual feedback with our environment.

As we become more confident the clunky mental processes of effort melt into the background. Mastery, fluidity and expression emerge from the compost of experience, and learning becomes more intuitive. We are now using parts of the brain that naturally include intuition and connection with the Greater Whole.

Some personalities compartmentalize this type of intuitive experience and operate as if their intuition does exist. Others import the fruits of focused attention and mastery into daily life.

What does Guidance mean to YOU?
How do YOU interface between your intuition and your cognitive mind?
How comfortable are you with your intuition?

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