by Matthew Name ©2005; ISBN 0-9725065-3-5, version 1c, Sweeney Publication, ----- Please Stumble my site!
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Some people seem to make the connection to spirit and, then, they're off and running. they have an issue or question, they simply sit down and talk to their Guide or Angel, and everything magically corrects itself. These people have many things working in their favor, mainly themselves. They've stopped complicating le and have stopped complicating the process. I so badly want to be them when I grow up.
I have run across people like this, and they assure me that they go through the starting and stopping just like everyone else, they just do it in shorter amounts of time.
For most people, a deeper connection with spirit happens in stages, depending on how quickly they're willing to let go of distractions and complications. This willingness greatly affects the length of time a deeper connection will take. Even the term ' deeper connection ' is somewhat of a relative term. I'm assured, since stopping and starting again is the natural part of the process, that even you stop, you haven 't really stopped the process; you're just in the pause part of the process.
How it usually happens for most people is they start connecting with spirits, angels, and guides and don't really get to much information, but they get a connection. They get enough to give themselves cold chills or enough to confirm that they really have abilities. Then, they hit a wall. I remember for myself; I would be able to see a spirit, get a catch phrase or a word, have a strong feeling, but that's it. No major stream of information.
The initial or first impression is usually a signature to let you know with whom you're dealing—a calling card of sorts announcing their arrival. Then there's a second part that most of us have trouble receiving: it's fainter. It's communicated in feelings, knowingness, desires and even catch phrases. Our own thoughts take over, and the message gets lost or jumbled.
We so badly want more; we've worked hard for more. Why do we allow our own thoughts to take over or drown out the rest of the contact? I personally used to feel myself close down. It was like: OK now I know he's around and my client has identied him. Well, great, thanks for coming. I would just feel myself close down; at first, I thought it was the spirit terminating the contact, but later I discovered it was on my end.
I closed down for really good reasons. I was afraid I would get it wrong. I was afraid I would screw it up or I would invalidate the information that just got validated. I even had a fear that on the other end was a telepathic genius that would scream, "Psyche! I bet you actually thought you could talk to dead people. Boy, did I have you going." I was also frightened of what spirit would say about my own le. There were lots of reasons not to let the communication get stronger or deeper. I know you turn up the volume on communication with spirits, you also turn up the volume on your own Spirit Guide(s) and Angels. Sometimes, I didn't want to hear it.
Luckily, I've hit too many walls not to want to hear it now.
I realized that my closing down, the thing stopping me from going deeper was once again just plain old FEAR. Not new and improved fear, just the old original kind: the fear of knowing, the fear of not knowing, the fear of not being good enough, the fear of being invalidated, the fear of being good enough, and the fear of the responsibilities that comes with power. These fears were hard for me to find. I had complicated it by hiding them behind analytical and critical thinking.
Those with strong analytical belief systems will probably have the most problem with releasing the fear, trusting the processes, and going deeper. Don't get me wrong; a strong analytical belief system is a very good thing. It has a direct purpose in our lives, allowing us to shape our consciousness into a logical form that can function in an earthly physical existence.
But it's always been my critical thinking that my mistrust and fear have hid behind. I found a false sense of security through criticism. I also on many occasion found a sense of better than, and smugness in this cynicism that gave me a crude sense of comfort and security.
It's criticism and judgment that's a hindrance and a breeding ground for fear. When we let go of these fears, disguised as intelligent criticism, it allows us to get closer to our own spirit; and it's when we're closer to our own spirit that we can get closer to other spirits. Because we are no longer afraid of ourselves or our own power, then, nothing a spirit can say or do can bring us harm.