How do you know which way to go?
How do you make choices, decisions, plans and progress in a way that honors and includes your spiritual nature?
First of all, it sure helps to clear whatever is in the way of your own discerning clarity.
Mental and emotional debris has a way of building up during the course of daily life, and has a way of blocking the insight we long for.
The number one tool that helps me make way for discernment is writing morning pages. Like a regular regime of baking soda and vinegar to keep the pipes clean, putting three pages of hand-written stream of thoughts, feelings and perceptions into my notebook daily keeps the spiritual plumbing more clean and clear.
For example, feelings that are felt but hard to process get stuck and stagnant because they are laden with narrative that weighs heavy on our mind and heart. Resentments, worries, judgements and furries are often an automatic, if not also natural, human response to happenings in our relationships, work and world. And off-loading all of that muck onto a benevolent page creates the possibility for release, realization and even resolution when that is available.
Like brushing your teeth or taking out the trash, a regular writing practice makes way for creative inspiration and guidance to find you.
Yes, we are humans here, making the most of this sometimes painful and confounding walk on Earth and experiencing life the best we can. Fortunately, spirit guidance, support and direction are available always, activated primarily by our awareness, openness and attention.
Shrouded in mystery, the spirit realm can feel distant and untouchable. Sometimes, we default to tuning out, and we just wish for all the bad stuff in the world to go away. Or, we get very focussed on doing life on our own, retreating to auto pilot of what’s familiar instead of directing our receptors to the spirit channel.
Spiritual advice and wisdom, like electricity, needs a conduit and you need to keep you contacts clear.
What does that mean? The little mouse for my computer recently stopped working. Under the small hatch I discovered one end of the battery had leaked and corroded the metal contact. A fresh battery was still not getting it going, so a little emory board action was needed to shine it up again.
How shiny are your contact points?
Are you clear on where you are seeking help? What areas of your life could use a nudge or a pointer? What question is your heart longing to answer? Knowing what you care most about, what you are struggling with and what you dream of gives your higher guidance a place to meet you.
If your connectors to creative intel could use some shining up, writing morning pages is a way of simultaneously unclogging your creative system and polishing off the tarnish and build up that occurs naturally as part of being human.
Plus, having pen to paper on a regular basis has you ready to capture the customized messages of support and brilliance of your inner wisdom and guidance. Not only do you get to clarify your questions, your answers come into play more easily.
What goes into your personal practice of discernment?
