Awaken to Life

A Key to Better Guidance and Intuition

Whether you are reading Tarot cards, trying to feel a tug from your guardian angel or animal spirit guide, or trying to listen to God; we must be open to any and all possibilities, detached from any results. I always thought this was rather obvious, but sometimes difficult to do. The title of this publication, "Whispers of Spirit," is literally accurate. It is only a mere whisper, easily drowned out by our own desires. Our own voice is the biggest hindrance to hearing the whispers of spirit.

If you are trying to receive guidance, but at the same time you want a certain answer, the odds are very good you will get the answer you want. We over-ride that whisper of guidance with our own loud voice. Sometimes we act like a child who speaks endlessly and louder to drown our what the child does not want to hear, "I can't hear you, la, la, la, la." I have seen this happen many times. I have done it myself. When we do this the "guidance" could be wrong; if it were still right, we would interpret it wrong.

I once used the I-Ching through a difficult and messy life situation. I was looking for advice and perspective, but it was a little too charged a subject for me. I tried anyway. The answers I got were quite accurate, but my interpretations were dreadfully biased. In the end, totally wrong. Later, in a more objective frame a mind, I could see clearly what was the true meaning. Hindsight often has that effect, but I could have seen it before if I were not trying to look away or shut my eyes. It was not the answer I wanted.

We tint and/or block out reality by our own projections; how much more so with something more subtle and ephemeral like a whisper from spirit? Before trying to use intuition, receive guidance, listen to God, foretell the future, etc., we must first prepare a blank slate of mind to receive. If it is filled with our own wants, where can we receive? We must first empty ourselves to have the space to receive.

Be prepared for any answer. Before you start, if you feel there is an answer you don't want or do want, take time to be with it and let it go. Accept it as a possibility. You need to become detached, objective. It may not be the answer you are guided to, maybe it will, but if you don't trust what is received, why did you "ask" to begin with. Looking to guidance to justify what we want to do is totally the wrong approach.

When you feel you would accept any answer to come, very accurate guidance emerges. No longer colored by our own desires and fears and attachments, the truth comes through very clearly. We quite our own voice so we can hear the whispers of spirit more clearly.