January 8, 2025
The Difference Between Receiving Guidance and Becoming Dependent on Guidance
Aug 29, 2024
The Waves of Energy Hitting Us
There is something I think we need to talk about more in intuitive and spiritual development.
More Guidance is not always the goal.
That might sound strange coming from someone who teaches channeling. But I believe a healthy relationship with Guidance should ultimately make you more empowered, not less. It should strengthen your ability to make decisions. Not make you afraid to make one without asking Spirit first.
There is an important difference between living in relationship with Guidance and becoming dependent on Guidance.
Guidance Is a Relationship, Not a Permission Slip
When people first begin consciously channeling, and receiving messages from Divine wisdom, it can be exciting.
You discover that you can ask a question and receive something back. Naturally, you want to do it again and again and again.
Then something subtle can happen.
Should I go to dinner tonight? Should I call this person?
Should I buy this? Should I take this route? Should I say yes? Should I say no?
At some point, Guidance can become less of a relationship and more of an authority you constantly ask for permission. That is not what I want for the people I teach.
Your Own Wisdom Matters Alot!
You are not here to stop being human. You have intelligence, experience, common sense. emotions, instinct, choirce and most of all FREE WILL. I also call this sacred sovreignty. All of those belong in the conversation.
Guidance can illuminate something and absolutely show yiou what you are not seeing. It can offer another perspective, often confirming what you already know.
But I do not believe healthy spiritual development requires surrendering your decision-making ability. Quite the opposite. The more developed you become, the more discerning and personally responsible you should become.
Ask Better Questions
Sometimes dependence begins with the questions we ask. If we continually ask:
What should I do? It can develop into a bit of a dependency.
A deeper question for Spirit might be:
What am I not seeing here? Or: What would support my highest good in this situation?
And even better, What do I already know that I am afraid to acknowledge?
Those questions invite partnership. They do not hand your authority away.
There is a difference.
Guidance Does Not Eliminate Uncertainty
This is important. Developing your intuition does not mean you will never feel uncertain again.
Sometimes Guidance itself asks you to move without guarantees. Sometimes the message is: Wait.
Sometimes it is: Trust. Sometimes you receive only the next step. And sometimes there is silence.
Silence does not mean you have lost your connection. It may simply mean the decision is yours.
Watch for the Need to Constantly Confirm
One of the clearest signs that we are moving toward dependence is needing the same answer repeatedly.
You receive something, then ask again, or you pull another card, ask another person, look for another sign, or channel the question again and again.
At some point, we are not really seeking Guidance anymore. We are seeking certainty. And certainty is something even spirituality cannot always give us. That is where self-trust becomes the deeper practice. Can you receive something and sit with it? Can you discern it? Can you make a grounded choice? Can you allow yourself to be human enough to occasionally get something wrong?
Because intuitive, psychic and channeling development is not about becoming infallible. It is about becoming more conscious. If you can be willing to be wrong, you channeling and psychic gifts will grow expotentially!
Healthy Guidance Brings You Back to Yourself
The relationship I want people to develop with Guidance/Spirit or Source is one that gradually creates more confidence, discernment and inner stability. The more willingness to listen to yourself. You stop needing someone else to constantly validate your experience.
Eventually, you even stop needing Guidance to comment on every decision. You simply know when to listen more deeply. And you know when you are capable of choosing. That, to me, is spiritual maturity.
Guidance should not become another authority outside you. It should help you develop a deeper relationship with the wisdom already alive within you.
The question is not: “How can I get Spirit to tell me what to do?”
The more powerful question may be: “How can I live in partnership with Guidance without giving away my own authority?”
That is the relationship worth developing.
In Love and Light,
Connie
Whew! Can you feel the energy wave that is recently hitting us? As usual, we seem to be all over the place with how it is making us feel – both physically and emotionally. This energy is transforming us, not only physically but mentally, preparing us for what is to come. Our job is to simply allow the process to take place and do our best to find peace and joy within.
The big thing for me has been the emotional roller coaster I seem to be on. It started a few days prior to the energy hitting as some of us seem to “pre-wave”. My overall emotional body—including my empathic system, feelings of overwhelm, sadness and grief have been palpable these last few days. Thankfully most of the emotional pain has passed, but what hasn’t is this feeling, or sense of being a caged tiger. I feel this energy of excitement running through my body, but it has an anxious undertone to it. I am finding I just want to be outside, sitting upon Mother Earth and/or in the sun—and with winter still upon us, this has proved to be more difficult to say the least. Instead, I’ve been using movement—it’s a really important tool—to help ‘move the stuck energy,” THROUGH me.
In working with clients these past few weeks, I’m also hearing many of them are experiencing [complaining] too about exhaustion, headaches, flair ups of chronic issues and lots of ringing in the ears. I’ve also noticed that increased anxiety and depression are common during energy acceleration and often these energy surges are also accompanied by vivid dreams. If this is you, it may be you are simply clearing some deep, deep programming. Some, I understand are even clearing apocalyptic timelines, and, if this is you, we thank you for this deep level of service to our humanity.
If you’re like me, when energy like this hits I want it to end quickly…so I will spare you and not sugar coat it—my sources reveal that it’s not going to end anytime soon. However, the stronger we are energetically [and spiritually], the body upgrades, and we’re able to grow and learn and that eases things quite a bit. Those just beginning this process are being affected by things that someone who has been “at this” for a while doesn’t even blink an eye at. The key is to take a step back and see how you have grown and changed. Allow this knowledge to give you strength to keep going.
What else can you do? Well, it’s important that you DON’T GET ATTACHED to whatever is happening or coming up, simply watch it arise and then let it go. When we attach to these energies, it’ll have a much harder time moving through and leaving you, and in fact, if we do “attach” and resist too strongly we can actually create cords to whatever “it” is, firmly keeping it with us longer periods of time.
I was also told that this energy blast is making us all more susceptible to outside energy influences too. This can be the television, social media, all electronics and even people. However, it works both ways and we are just as susceptible to the energy influences of the wind, the sun, plants and most certainly laughter. Allow how you feel emotionally to determine what is right for you. For some watching a movie is perfect and for others going for a walk soothes the soul. The idea is to know what works best FOR YOU!
Here’s a link to our You Tube Channel, with some helpful meditation videos of Wendy Gayle channeling Archangel Metatron and Connie Viveros, channeling Divine Mother. Hopefully these videos can assist you with ways to handle all of the energy and changes currently taking place.
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Sending you all so much LOVE and SUPPORT as you continue on your journey. We also wish to thank all those who do this type of work…you absolutely help make our world a more meaningful and tolerant place to be. Take a moment today to acknowledge yourself deeply for the personal, and collective work you are doing!
Be well,
Namaste
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