Noticing the connection between inside and outside: Be aware of your emotional state, your thoughts, physical sensations, and what is happening in the outside world (events around you). There is a connection between our inside world and our outside world which can be noticed if we pay attention.

The trajectory of the journey is to make us aware of the fact that we are consciousness and that thoughts are creative. So, what is inside the mind, conscious or subconscious, can show up on the outside. We need to pay attention if we want to notice this connection.

Eventually, the distinction between ‘inside’ and ‘outside’ will fall away because we are consciousness, and everything, thoughts and seemingly outer events, happen inside of consciousness.

Meditation: Before you can feel what your higher self is telling you, you need to be aware of the usual chatter that is going on within and the usual feeling state.

In order to receive answers via the inner voice, one needs to be quiet enough to listen. Calm down ego chatter and come into a receptive state of mind. The inner voice can only be heard when there is peace inside and an openness to a new perspective.

There are several different meditation methods out there. Focusing on the breath and letting the thoughts move by like clouds, visualizing some colors and forms in connection with chakras, visualizing a journey to a peaceful landscape, clearing the mind.

For me, none of these techniques was attractive or helpful. The method which resonated most with me was to turn the focus of attention inward in a 180 degree turn, focusing on awareness itself (see the post Describing the ineffable ). This meditation makes me calm and blissful. However, since the focus of attention is away from everything including the inner voice or any visions, it is not such a good method to get guidance. For getting guidance, I rather relax the body and relax the mind (as trying to have fewer thoughts), but then stay alert and notice what thoughts or images appear in the mind. It is not useful to clear the mind entirely and disregard all the thoughts that appear because they could be from guidance. Esther Hicks did that in the beginning (let go of all thoughts) and the guidance (Abraham) had to move her nose and make her paint letters in the air to get the message through.

Journaling:

I love journaling because it helps me to think about the meaning of my dreams.

If I have a problem in my mind, I write about it and then usually get a different perspective during writing. The mind is not the place to organize my thoughts since I can keep only very few thoughts in my mind. After that, I need to put them on paper.

Journaling helps me to keep track of the connection between dreams and events. Often I can only interpret in retrospect that I have actually received a warning in a dream before a disturbing event. Or I can see in my dreams that I get announcements for future events and when the events come, I can make sense of this.

I find using tags (like #innervoice, #essay, #blogidea, etc.) helpful for finding paragraphs later in the long journal text.

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For more information about divine guidance, you can download my workshop script (pdf) here: https://karinfinger.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/divine_guidance_workshop_script.pdf

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Author: Karin Finger

Source: https://karinfinger.wordpress.com/2022/01/06/helpful-habits-for-getting-divine-guidance/