Message on Choosing Your Diet Part 3 (Become Your Own Expert)

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When we use this term “highest desire” we are referring to desires that come from your spiritual self. These are the highest desires. The more one connects to this spiritual self or higher self through meditation, through dreams, through healing, through art or creative expression, the more that it will become apparent what the highest desires are. Therefore, it is an ongoing process.

Do not expect to be there in any particular time. It is truly a process and not a definitive goal or place. It requires awareness and presence in each moment, watching one’s thoughts and emotions and making the effort to be in the now. We know this is the challenge of being human, and so it is to be expected that you may feel overwhelmed by this pursuit. Yet note the small progresses made and do not become discouraged. This is the long answer to the question.

The short answer could be summarized very simply:

Do whatever feels best to you, for it is a personal choice what you wish to eat.

No matter what you have read or heard, there will never be complete agreement from all the experts as to what is right for someone even in the exact same position as you. So become your own expert and choose with confidence and faith in your ability to be in charge of your life. It is a wonderful responsibility to hold.

You are king of your life. You are the expert of your life. You are the president of your life. You are the CEO of your life and all of the departments of your life – health, relationship, family, career, hobbies, you are the department heads. So knowing that, you can move forward with confidence and excitement. You have been empowered to make these decisions on behalf of you.

With that, we wish you blessings.

Message on Choosing Your Diet Part 2 (Listen to Your Body)

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It is not about reading books. Your human body has its own mechanism to let you know what it accepts or rejects. When you focus on the messages your body gives you, then you can know what is best for you. It is common nowadays for people to look for these answers outside of themselves, trusting medical professionals over themselves. And yet also a new era of body awareness is re-emerging.

There have been many reported abuses from the medical field in which the physician promoted a treatment that was unnecessary to the patient or sometimes simply misdiagnosed the problem. This is not to say that you should not trust medical doctors, for they have spent many years perfecting their science and accumulating wisdom based on experience. However, who has more experience with your body than you?

You should know your body best. The fact is that most people are the last ones to know about their body because they try not to listen to it. In fact they often shut it up. The things that the body tries to tell them are not convenient to their lifestyle and so they ignore the message or the symptoms. By doing this they dishonor the body’s wisdom and they lose touch with the great wealth of knowledge and resources that the body provides.

So we ask that you notice when your body speaks to you. Pay attention after you eat and see what your body is telling you. This is the best way to know how to give your body the nutrition it needs. If you eat something that your body likes, then it will assimilate it much better. When you eat things that your body likes, you feel good.

People nowadays can’t distinguish between their emotions, their mental chatter, and their body. When people follow their emotions, they can eat foods that are not aligned with their body. Becoming aware of one’s emotions is an important step in choosing the right diet. For if one can be aware of when they are not in a state of peaceful balance, they can then recognize if the food cravings come from that emotional craving. It doesn’t even have to be what one might think is a negative emotional state. It could be any emotion that is out of balance.

Over-excitement, for example, could lead to emotional eating just as easily as loneliness or boredom. So it is important to try to watch the emotions and notice the connection between emotions and cravings. For then one can make wise decisions from their body’s viewpoint.

The body, when it is relatively healthy, will not speak loudly.

What we mean is that in order to know what your body wants

to eat, you have to be in a state of mental and emotional stability and balance. For when you are in this state of balance, it will be silent enough for you to tune into your body and hear its desires.

Now when the body is fairly unhealthy or off-balance, it will resort to speaking much louder, and you may be able to know what it needs at that time. Yet, wouldn’t it be better to tune into your body regularly, such that you would know what it desires and be able to keep it in a healthy state of alignment with your highest desire?

Message on Choosing Your Diet Part 1

My significant other has a hard time being a vegetarian because of his work. He travels a lot, eats at odd hours and doesn't have time to leave the hotel to eat. He was wanting to know if it was right for him to be a vegetarian on the road since he often doesn't seem to get enough to eat by choosing no-meat options.

The reply was lengthy, so I split it into three parts.

Yes. We are really wanting to explain this dietary concept to you and others who have a similar concern. The question often arises nowadays whether one should be in alignment with their value system or with their lifestyle. There is no simple answer, for we are not here to be the decision-makers for you in your lives, nor are we here to pass judgment upon your choices.

We, instead, wish to assist you in becoming clear as to what is your highest desire. For when you follow your highest desire, then your physical self will in fact align itself to that highest goal. When there is conflict within oneself as to what you truly and sincerely wish (given the specific limitations that are involved in the lifestyle that you have chosen for yourself,) then the resulting impact on the body will also reflect this conflict.

There are no wrong decisions universally. There are decisions that will have a negative impact for you when you are not in alignment with your own highest desire. So we throw the ball back into your court, as is the expression, by asking you which is your highest desire? Is it to be vegetarian, in this case, or is it to have enough food options available to you? Now, it is not really so black or white. There is no reason why you cannot be a vegetarian and have enough food, even with the limitations of traveling often.

However, it requires a lot of effort and planning on your part. So we would add one more value to consider. Which is of the highest priority? Being vegetarian? Having a lot of food to eat? Having a simple and uncomplicated meal decision and planning process? There needs to be clarity within your self. Which is first and last in priority? When you have your own priority system intact, then you can create your own guidelines for how you choose your diet.

For instance, if being a vegetarian is of the highest priority, then you will understand that the meal planning and preparation in order to be true to your highest priority will require more effort. You can simply accept that, knowing that you have made your choice in alignment with your highest priority.

If in fact it is more important, say to have more time for relaxation and less stress or planning around the meal process; then if sometimes you cannot follow the vegetarianism, it will be acceptable as well. There are no wrong answers. There is only what is in alignment with your own chosen value system. So we wish you to give some thought to what is most important to you.

On that level, when you have that clarity, then the other thing to note is how your body feels when you eat as a vegetarian or when you eat meat or fish. If you can pay more attention to how your body responds, you will know what is right for it. This is true not only for vegetarianism, not only for you individually, but for all people.

Message on Writing with the Higher Self

As previously mentioned, I am starting up my hypnotherapy practice. My website is up and running.

http://www.awakeningtransformation.com/

Now I am in the process of writing articles for the website, to provide more information about how hypnotherapy can help people. Perhaps I may start a blog on hypnotherapy there. As I was writing today, I wondered if perhaps I should connect to my Higher Self first.

Yes, we believe it would be highly beneficial for you to partner with your higher self when writing articles to be shared with potential clients and the general public. For in fact, in this way, you are actually demonstrating the benefits of connecting within – the very benefits you are writing about in a slightly different context. The method may be different, but the goal of the work is the same. You will be assisting others in connecting to their higher selves and empowering themselves to find their answers from within.

When you write from a place of higher wisdom, the energy vibrates through the words. On some level people respond to the vibration of your writing, whether or not they recognize this. So even if someone were to write an article with positive and uplifting words, but in fact had a bad intention, many people would not be drawn to this person. Something feels not quite right, even if they are not sure what it is. In contrast, when you write positive uplifting words imbued with your highest loving intention for the reader, the reader will also be drawn somewhat unconsciously to the message. A part of the person knows that the message is speaking to their higher self. The degree to which the person is connected or desiring to connect to their higher consciousness will determine the degree to which this person is drawn to your message.

Always write from the highest, most loving space available to you. This principle of course applies to all things you do, to all your work. Most people know that what they put out is what they get back. Yet it is not always easy to stay in conscious awareness of that principle. The benefit of writing is that it is mostly a very conscious deliberate effort. Therefore you can practice it with the greatest awareness of what you wish to convey and how it can be of most benefit to you and to others.

One more thing. Please remember to always write down our answers to your questions. They can be valuable to other people. Even things that seem very simple or practical in nature have an immense value to others. We always endeavor to answer in a way that will benefit a wider audience than simply you. This is not to say that your questions are insignificant, but rather, that each person’s individual struggles have a common theme to all humanity. It sometimes takes an intuitive mind or a discerning heart to see the similarities rather than the differences however.

We wish you a good day. Blessings.

Message on Connecting to Higher Self and Guides

My significant other has been reading and doing the exercises from "Opening to Channel." He has had some good experiences, but also he has felt some frustration at not being able to connect with his guides the way he wants. He asked me to channel on the best way for him to connect with his guides.

Welcome. We wish to honor this connection with you. We are delighted to respond to your inquiry. We wish for you to begin communicating with your higher self first and then with your guides. This is a crucial step that enables the strengthening of spiritual connection. If you would be so kind as to begin by making a regular practice of meditation, any form that you wish will assist you in becoming familiar with these realms. It can be a simple daily practice. It need not be complicated, for the intention is half the battle. When you make the intention to connect with your higher self every day and you follow through with some sort of action, you are automatically strengthening that connection. It is rather simple, isn’t it?

This is the groundwork for the connection to your guides. First you want to make a pathway, a pure and protected pathway for your guides to communicate with you through. So this will be how it begins. If you wish, you can simply close your eyes and think of your higher self, or create some sort of imagery or sensory perception. Whether it be through words or images or sensations, the effect is the same. It is an arbitrary process. It only matters that you have the intention and you create an action that you consistently follow through with. This is how to strengthen the higher self connection.

The more you think about your higher self and wonder what your higher self thinks or how your higher self acts and behaves, the more you become your higher self. It can be something you do on your down time. When you are traveling or waiting for something, you can simply think about your higher self or wonder what your higher self would be doing, how it would be expressing itself if you were your higher self. Wondering about it is calling it to you. Thinking about it, writing about it, meditating with the idea of connecting to it – all of this is part of establishing this connection.

When you are in a meditative state, it doesn’t really matter what you experience. It is still successful. If you go into a meditative state with the purpose of connecting to your higher self, you have successfully connected. Whether or not you are aware of it or have any amazing insights, it still works. So trust this and let this be your first step. It is a crucial step. Just through taking this step daily and on a consistent basis, you will grow a lot spiritually.

It is important, if one is to connect to the higher realms, to keep that person’s energy system in a high and loving place as much as you can. Now we are not saying that you need to be an enlightened being or even a highly spiritual being in order to connect with your guides, but it will assist you greatly in this process if you are able to stay in the most loving state available to you. For, if we carry our worries and fears, it can be hard at those times to connect to this higher state. This higher state, nonetheless, is always available to you. So the more you practice being in it, the more natural and easily available this connection will be.

We hope that you are willing to make this small effort. For, in fact, your guides are there with you all the time, even though you are not able to always see or feel or sense them. Don’t doubt their love for you and their support of you. Even when things don’t seem to be going the way you intended them to go, don’t doubt that the universe is always supporting your highest good. Don’t allow your fears to block your true nature, your true knowingness of the perfection and universal order. It is always there. It is always available to everyone. All that is needed is some practice on how to be able to sense this perfection and love and beauty that is always right underneath the surface.

We recommend just starting this way, just making this connection to your higher self. The word “just” is not meant to diminish this action whatsoever, for this is in fact, a very big action to make the connection to the higher self. There is no one best way to connect to the higher self. Don’t discount the way that you work best. There is no need to fit yourself into another’s mold. This is not to say that you will not develop your gifts more and more over the time that you practice and develop this connection. Of course you will. Of course many more ways of connecting and communicating will be possible and available for you.

However, it is important to work with what you have in this moment and not to discount all that you have achieved to get to this point. For, in fact, you have made great strides just in the past few years. So rather than focusing on the gaps between where you are and where you want to be, take a moment to look back and reflect upon how far you have come and how exciting it is to be exactly where you are - exactly at the perfect point of your growth and development. We hope you will see yourself the way that we see you, as a bright shining light that is beginning to surface and become even brighter. It is like a flower bud that is blossoming. What an amazing and very natural sight. It is humbling even to be present to witness such an event.

Have we answered your question to your satisfaction? For we most sincerely want to assist you in this process. (Yes.)

Then we most humbly ask that if you have any more questions in the future, please call upon us again. For we work in conjunction with your guides and your higher self. Yet we also know and trust that you will be getting many more messages from your higher self in the near future. You will receive these as insights and as dreams and sometimes as messages through other people. So be open to all of the ways that messages can come. Sometimes you may have a sudden desire to read something from a specific book or you may find a website that you are drawn to. Don’t discount these as ways that you are communicating and connecting with your higher self. It is a very multi-layered, multi-dimensional process of communication.

We wish you a lovely day and we give you our blessings.

Message on Self Worth

I am starting up my hypnotherapy practice and had been struggling with determining my rates. I felt funny trying to establish this number. I asked for guidance on why I was having difficulty establishing my rates.

Welcome. We are always happy to be exploring this energetic expression with you. We know you want to receive some specific guidance today that will help you with your next step in establishing your healing practice. This is a very important time for you to work through several issues about self and the matter of self worth.

Self worth is a misleading concept because in reality the real sense of value comes from the spiritual self. The physical self is always transient, always changing, and therefore it is not useful to establish a definitive sense of worth coming from this changing physical self. And yet it is possible to establish the rates for the services that you charge - yet you should separate it from this definitive sense of self value. They are different matters. When you can fully understand this, then you will no longer experience a sense of conflict. This conflict is not real. It is an illusion created from the illusion of separation.

The question that we wish to focus our answer upon is not why you have difficulty establishing your rates. It is clear that this comes from an illusion about the connection between your rates and your sense of personal self worth. Once that becomes separate, then it is rather simple. It is simply establishing your rate in connection to the natural value of equal services, equal quality and energy put into the services and time and the success rate. If you factored these qualities in, you can find a sensible and fair rate for your services.

Now, the other issue then is how to truly connect your sense of worth, not to your actions, not to your changing physical state, your changing mental or emotional state, but to your true reality – the unchanging divine essence that you are. This is the real issue at stake, not only for you but for all of humanity. For once you can truly establish your sense of self to this unchanging perfected state of being, then many of your self worth issues, self confidence issues, and self trust issues will evaporate.

So there are many methods for establishing this truer deeper sense of self. The best methods are to connect to it as often as possible through meditation. Another way is through self reflection of this higher state through journaling or dream journaling, also through reading inspired books and through sharing this part of self with others. All of these things will help to establish your true state of being. When you find yourself to be in a lower state or lack of self worth or self confidence, then you can simply note that it is a signal to you that you would do well to connect to this spiritual essence more frequently.

We know that you are always working in that direction and that it is an ebb and flow. When you feel disconnected, you always know the way home. Therefore we wish only to remind you of what you already know. We hope that this message will be of assistance to many others who are struggling with these same issues. There can be many reasons for low self esteem or self worth and yet they are illusions. Regardless of what the experience was in your physical world, just remember that those experiences have come and gone and yet your spiritual essence has always remained. That is the infinite truth about who you really are.

We give our love and blessings to all who wish to open themselves to receive this energy. The higher understandings of who you really are, are becoming easier and clearer to incorporate into the physical realm. We thank you for opening to our message and communication. We look forward to our next opportunity to work together. Blessings.

Message on Not Fearing the Reactions of Others

I have been out of country for a couple of weeks. These are excerpts from my last channeling session in February. Mostly I was wondering about whether this blog was too strange for people I know to relate to. Also this is one of the first vocally channeled messages I did, so we were working together to fine tune the process energetically. Most of the other posted messages were channeled via writing.

The short paragraph about relationships was pretty useful to me. I guess in the past I felt that relationships should require little effort. Now I am realizing that putting more "work" into a relationship not only takes the relationship to a new level but benefits me spiritually.

Welcome to the world that you are creating. It is a world of excitement and adventure through the medium that we call channeling. It is our pleasure to work through you in this way. You will find that the energy continues to fluctuate until a greater stability has developed. We are wanting to experiment a bit with how to best utilize the flow of energy through you and how to create a connection that will best reflect our energies and our message.

If you will be so kind as to patiently work with us, we would be most grateful. We ask that you recognize this as a growth opportunity for all of us. Mostly today we simply want to practice and to begin to feel on both ends what it’s like when our energy merges and works together in this delicate collaboration. It is in fact a highly creative way of expressing the commonalities of our energetic systems.

We welcome whatever ideas and suggestions you may have for developing this new way of working together. There will be new sensations as well as new sounds and tones that may begin to show themselves the more we practice together, therefore do not attach yourself to any way of interacting. For it would only restrict the natural growing process of how our energetic patterns would like to be expressed more fully through you.

And now we would say only that we have much, much, much awareness of what you are going through and we never judge what you experience. So it is not necessary for you to concern yourself with how we view you and your abilities, for they are always highly appreciated and accepted by us at every level and every point in this process. You are always where you need to be. If you need guidance on any particular area or topic we will be most joyfully available to assist you.

We wish to offer you a message of hope, for there are some new developments in your energetic patterns that will be conducive to greater spiritual development and a greater magnetic pull to the things which you most highly desire, which is mainly to work on spiritual awakening with others. These opportunities are very much present in your energetic system. Whenever you do experience these things, give thanks and appreciation and you will see them grow and develop even further -always focusing and fully enjoying the experience of getting what you want. This way you can make it occur even more. This joyful appreciative energy is extremely magnetic and will build upon itself.

We have one more thing that we want to say, which is to not fear the reactions of others. Those who are ready to hear your message will accept it, even in its sometimes bizarre or new ways of thinking. Those who are not ready will find that they are not even attracted enough to read the material. Or it will just seem so foreign to them that it will be impossible to follow through with and read fully. So your energy will attract those who are ready and willing to work on their spiritual growth.

Never fear -you are always ready to be of service to those who are also ready. As long as you do not force your opinions on those who do not wish to hear, then it is always an important part of your growth to share whatever you are learning and working on spiritually so that those who need that guidance and reassurance can find what they need and resonate to. It will be so helpful for you to continue sharing, even if it seems to fall on deaf ears. Just put the words out there and when people are ready to hear them, they will go and read the messages. If they aren’t ready yet, don’t push them. But let it be available, that’s all you need do.

One last thing is how you are working in your relationship. That is a wonderful arena for you to work through some of the old and long-standing blocked areas. So keep a positive attitude about the work that you are doing there. Remember that things are always in flux and changing. Whatever you see and experience in one moment may not be true in the next. So being free from the past and free from the future will allow you to grow and heal the most.

We congratulate you on taking this big step forward and we assure you that we will always be available whenever you are calling for us. Don’t worry about that. Simply keep practicing and allowing yourself to get used to this experience. Then it will be your second nature, as well as ours. We thank you for this opportunity. We send our love and blessings to you knowing that you are ready for this step