Guidance can…
- … come even if we have not asked before
- … come via multiple input channels about a single topic
- … be a gentle whisper or a stern yelling
- … be short term and long term guidance
- … be ahead of where we are
- … come from Source (inner voice) or from the result of our resistance to Source (for example, sickness)
Guidance can come in a variety of forms, from the inside and the outside, as I have discussed above. But it can also have a variety of other characteristics.
Usually, it is advisable to ask for guidance, if we want to get it. But it can also come unbidden.
In the previous blogposts, I have artificially divided guidance up in terms of which input channel is used. But, for me, the usual case is that guidance for one topic comes via multiple input channels. For example, a dream followed by an interpretation by the inner voice and a matching message in an online advertisement.
Guidance isn’t always soft, sweet, and fluffy pink. It can be gentle, of course. But it can also be stern. It depends on how well we listen and how much resistance we have.
I was surprised to find my guide yelling at me when I did not pay enough attention. Really interesting how that ‘still small voiceless voice’ can sound stern and yelling!
Guidance can be short term for the near future or long term. And if it is long-term guidance, it can be ahead of where we are.
For example, in 2012, which was still fairly at the beginning of my spiritual journey, I had a dream that seemed to tell me to “teach something about the midlife crisis.”
At that point, I did not know what to make of it. I had just barely dealt with some major forgiveness issues at work and just started to settle into inner peace again. And then I got this dream. Was it an immediate assignment? I did not know what to make of it and filed it away under ‘strange dreams’.
A couple of years later, I could see much more clearly that I had been through a transformational crisis and that I was synchronistically meeting many people who were going through a personal transformation. From these experiences, I saw that I was being trained to understand the process and its phases. So, the message in this dream in 2012 was far ahead of my situation back then.
Guidance can come from the wise inner voice of Source (or the signs we get), but it can also come from our resistance to this (like sickness). (Not that every sickness is a sign of resistance. But it can be.)
The direction given by Source is like a river. We are either in the river going with the flow, or we are clinging to a branch on the riverbank or even trying to swim upstream (resisting). If the river is moving slowly, it will not feel unpleasant to stay on the riverbank or to swim upstream. But once the river is moving fast, any resistance will hurt or become exhausting. And then that feeling of being hurt will be the guiding sign indicating to let go and surrender to the stream.
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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/2022/02/17/various-features-of-divine-guidance/
