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Connecting with Spirit Guides and Your Individuality
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Connecting with Spirit Guides and Your Individuality

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Because all of us have different minds, different bodies, and different souls, our spiritual paths and how we connect to our guides will also be different. While I share my experiences, favorite techniques and exercises, and others I have tried but aren’t for me, I always encourage you to adapt and integrate any of this information and these practices as you feel called to. You can and should test out anything you feel called to and add it into your spiritual journey as you see fit. 

Spirituality is Individual

I believe the individuality of the spiritual journey is something that often holds people back from fully exploring and embracing this part of themselves. As humans, we are herd animals. We have survived as a  species by sticking together and by repeating what we have survived in the past. Many institutions, from organized religious to cultural societies to schools have used this aspect of humanity to instill in us the idea that we all must do the same practices, embrace similar beliefs,, and exhibit the same behaviors, and if we do, we will all have the same results in the end.  However, spirituality is different because our souls are all here for different reasons and we’ve all had different experiences over lifetimes. As such, we will experience our spiritual journey differently. Do we all need certain things to survive? Yes. Food, water, and shelter. But do we all need the same things to thrive? Absolutely not…and it would be a very boring world if we did!

To me, to fully embrace your spiritual connection and to discover and engage with your personal spirit guides and angels, you absolutely must embrace your authenticity and your unique human experience. You much learn to know, accept, and love who you are at soul level, which is the human you came here to this incarnation to be. To do that, you get to do what works for you. In fact, it is essential that you do.

For years, I tried to connect with my spirit guides by following various methods, practices, and meditations. I would follow the instructions to a T. Dedicating myself to mastering this gift. Yet I never seemed to get anywhere. Knowing that I am a highly intuitive person, I saw this inability to connect with my guides as a failure or as a special gift I simply didn’t have even though deep down I knew we all had the ability to do it. I was troubled by the question of why, when so many other spiritual things came to me so easily, could I not seem to communicate with my guides? It made me question myself and my abilities. It made me almost give up on it. And it made me doubt spirit guides even existed.

It wasn’t until I started to follow my own rules – in other words, there are no rules! – that I realized my guides had already been sending me messages for quite some time. When it first began, I realized one had been sending me signs for nearly a year. Now I know I’ve been receiving signs since I was a teenager. The problem was that the communication wasn’t coming through in the ways I had read about and learned. It wasn’t what I expected. It was new and different. And I had been limiting myself to an imitation of others’ experiences with their guides. This is why I urge you to follow your intuition, your inner voice, those seemingly insignificant callings. Each one will be leading you to the correct next step for you on your spiritual journey.

While connecting with your spirit guides may take some time and some patience, and it may also require some trial and error, I can assure you that you do have a whole team of guides waiting for you to receive their messages. You can connect with them any time you choose, and you don’t need to go through anyone else to do it. We all do, and we all can. So please, give yourself some grace. Give yourself some time. Be patient. And most of all, allow yourself to get creative in this endeavor!

Insights on Developing Your Intuition
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Insights on Developing Your Intuition

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Developing my intuition has been an amazing journey. I have discovered some very interesting things along the way. Not only about myself, but about how intuition comes to me. So I thought I’d share some of my recent discoveries.

 #1 –  Intuitive insights are a lot like dreams. 

Even when I’m 100% positive I’ll remember it later because it was so clear in the moment, it often fades or blurs or I totally forget! 

Writing things down immediately after my listening practice was part of the process when I learned. As I got better at doing readings, I neglected this part more often. Recently I’ve discovered just how important it is to continue doing it so I can continue growing!

So I’ve learned the importance of being intentional with my intuitive practices and writing it down, not relying on my memory alone…because that hasn’t always worked.

#2 –  My position matters. A lot. 

One night, laying in bed getting ready for sleep, I began my daily listening practice. Unexpectedly, I had the sudden call to sit up. As I did, my intuition started to flow in a whole new way. 

I often feel my intuition through my whole body, so sitting upright rather than laying down allowed me to tune in with my physical body much more. Tuning into your intuition in an upright and untangled position helps a ton – so uncross those arms and legs!

#3 –  Don’t overthink it! 

One of the things I learned when I first started intentionally working with my intuition was to listen first, write it out second, and discern its meaning third. As my mind and intuition flow, my conscious mind loves to speak up and give her opinion during the process. 

Allowing myself to simply acknowledge and then let go of the urge to discern while listening has been incredibly helpful. Because once I do, that’s when my intuition really begins to flow. 

Sometimes I feel that thought of “Oh no! I need to write this down so I don’t forget!”  But I’m continuing to learn to trust the process, knowing that I’ll remember just what I need to, and know that if something is super important and I forget it, it will present itself again!

Building intuition is an ongoing practice and it’s getting stronger all the time. And maintaining that  beginners mindset is key! So often, we love to think we’ve mastered things and don’t need the basics anymore… But it’s kind of like exercise. Just because someone is an elite athlete doesn’t mean they don’t need to warm up, cool down, or practice!

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FREE Third Eye Chakra Hypnosis Recording

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Did you know that when you Strengthen Your Intuition and Balance Your Third Eye Chakra, it assists you in connecting with your Spirit Guides?

The third eye chakra, also known as the Ajna chakra, is believed to be important in spiritual practices as it is associated with intuition, perception, and spiritual awareness. It is thought to be a center of higher consciousness and can help individuals connect to their inner wisdom and guidance.

The third eye chakra is associated with intuition, insight, and spiritual awareness. It is believed that when this chakra is balanced, individuals are better able to trust their intuition and make decisions based on deeper wisdom. It also helps people to build self trust, connect with spirit guides, and trust their messages.

Meditation, Visualization, and Hypnosis can help you to balance your third eye chakra. I created a powerful hypnotic meditation to combine all three practices. It is the perfect way to give your intuition a tune-up!

And it’s FREE!!

Click here to download the free recording.
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How to Strengthen Your Intuition in Less Than 10 Minutes a Day

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We are all intuitive. Every single one of us. This isn’t a gift for the rare few. It’s not something for only introverts or quiet thoughtful souls. Each and every one of us has intuition, and you’ve likely been using it already. Intuition is defined as: The ability to understand something immediately, without the need for conscious reasoning. It’s the ability to just know or feel when something is right or wrong. When something is off, without any real context to inform that knowledge. 

Intuition is a knowing that cannot be rationally explained. The impulse to get off the highway an exit earlier than planned, only to find ut a huge accident occurred just down the road moments later. Choosing not to go to a certain party and then learning your ex showed up unexpectedly. The calling to go to the beach to relax instead of working one day, and having major breakthroughs in your career goals as you soaked in the salty air. 

But intuition is so much more than these serendipitous moments. It is our inner guidance system. It is the voice of our higher self that always knows what is best for us, even when it makes no sense logically – and is not what we want to hear. For the purpose of this book, our intuition is a bridge to the spirit realm through the superconscious. Most importantly, intuition is not something that just happens when it happens. 

It is something that can and should be developed so we can learn to hear and trust it easier and easier each day. To begin this process, we must learn to actively listen to this inner guidance system. And the best part is that it’s pretty easy to do!

Here are three simple steps to strengthen your intuition in 10 minutes a day!

1. Set the intention to Listen
2. Sit in stillness with your eyes opened or closed and simply notice what you notice. What do you hear? What do you see? What do you feel? Notice the things you’re picking up in “real” life and the things in your mind. Do this for 3 minutes, resisting the urge to track it or analyze it.
3. After 3 minutes, write down everything you recall.

Do this three times a day, at different times and in different places.

As you do this, you’ll begin to see patterns in what you are noticing as well as where and when you notice more!

This will tune your mind into listening in a new way, with all of your senses, inviting your intuition to speak to you more often and more clearly.

Click here for a video on this intuition strengthening technique.