Are you one of those people who say, “I don’t get guidance”, or, “I don’t see/feel/hear anything”? Is subtle energy perception an enigma for you? If so, grab your membership card and T-shirt by the door - about 90% (if not more) of the healers I meet fall into the same category. You’d think it was an epidemic.
So are you broken? Somethin’ not workin’ right? Did you miss a part on the assembly line somewhere?
Of course not. Because it’s the heart that you sense the subtle worlds through, and that’s factory-installed equipment. No, the problem isn’t that you weren’t born for it, because you were.
The problem may just lie in where you’re looking.
My grandfather once said to me (just like everyone’s grandpa said to them), “Boy, if you want to catch a fish, you gotta fish where the fish are.” Sage advice, that one.
Most people - 90%, if not more - aren’t catching anything in the subtle realms, just because they aren’t fishing where the fish are. They’re casting their lines into the trees, or onto the road, or right onto the pier, missing the water entirely. Rather than listening to the subtle guidance that comes to the heart, their focus is somewhere else.
Let me give you an example I have a client, we’ll call her Jill. Jill was one of the more naturally intuitive people I’d met, but she had no idea of what she was capable of. When she asked God to reveal some piece of information to her, what I saw was that her heart would open, huge downpours of light would stream into her being, and her wisdom would increase, nearly exponentially. What she experienced, though, was the big donut hole. Zero. No clue. She just say, “Uhh… maybe that was a yes?”
What’s happening here? Why didn’t Jill see what I saw?
Because she had never been taught to fish where the fish are. (Maybe her grandpa forgot to tell her…)
I work with acupuncturists all the time. Four years of school, and they weren’t taught to fish. I work with bodyworkers, too. Same deal. No fish.
Enough already! Where are the fish?
They’re in the subtle folds of reality. And where is your attention? On the world. Caught up in the activity of the physical drama that unfolds before you everyday. Always looking outside.
But the fish aren’t outside. The fish are inside your heart. And they’re quiet little buggers, too.
It’s called subtle energy for a reason
These are faint signals, or at least they seem that way at first. You’re probably more used to alarm clocks, telephones, and television. Life in technicolor, delivered to your home. And hey, advertising is anything but subtle these days - talk about sensory bombardment! I can’t even go to the supermarket anymore without coming home and wanting to curl up under the covers, because I feel the voices of a gazillion ad agencies blaring in my brain.
But subtle guidance isn’t like that. The voice of the Divine is, most of the time, like a faint whisper being sent into your heart. It’s so quiet, it’s easy to dismiss. And that’s where most people get in trouble - the guidance you want so much gets dismissed before given the chance to make its impression.
In order to catch the faint signals being made manifest in your heart, you need to re-sensitize your listening. Here’s how:
1) Say Yes to everything you hear. Don’t give yourself a chance to dismiss anything - as soon as you ask your inner question, or feel the impulse to intuit a solution to what you’re facing, start paying attention - because the answer is coming quick. Say Yes to all the subtle impulses you feel - bodily sensations, emotional flutterings, voices that emanate from your heart. Take it all in at this point; discernment comes later.
2) Pay attention to the layers. Have you ever listened to Bobby McFerrin’s, “Don’t Worry, Be Happy”? I know you’ve heard it - but have you listened to it? On his website, he’s got a page where you can play with the seven - count ‘em, seven - vocal parts that blend together to make one fluid song, dropping some in and out as you please. It’s an incredible exercise in training your ear to listen for the various parts.
Listening for the various parts that make up your experience of a moment is how you listen to the fishies and their words of wisdom. When you ask for guidance, you’ll have your own thoughts present, as well as how you feel, and lots more… sounds of the environment, your growling stomach, your client’s sniffles, creaky chairs, etc. The trick is to learn to listen to the sounds within the sound, the feelings within the feeling, and discern which are yours, and which are being shown to your heart.
Like anything worth anything, it takes practice. And, it can be fun, enlightening, and deeply beneficial to those around you at the same time. There’s nothing like being able to know where your clients’ diseases are coming from, which house has mold and which doesn’t, why your friend’s dog is sick, or how to cure cramps using only energy in two minutes flat. (And yes, I’ve done all these…)
So, if you’re ready to throw away your membership card to the “See nothing, Hear nothing, Feel nothing” club, then talk to the fish - now that you know where they are!
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Headed out to the Gandy on Friday and me and my girlfreind limited out in about an hour. There where some pretty nice fish in the bunch. We caught well over our limit but released all other fish that were caught.
