CONNECTING TO GUIDANCE – the ultimate wisdom system

It’s the control tower that talks you in and allows you to land whatever and wherever your heart desires; the beacon that lights your way 'home'. Once you make this choice and take appropriate action, all doors open, all possibilities are on offer. When you choose not to connect to Guidance, this is like working offline. In this state, you are able to function reasonably well, however with somewhat limited resources.

The 12 Step Process:

1. Take Time Out from your day and move to a quiet space where you will be undisturbed, preferably one that you love (inside or outside). If that space does not yet exist in your life, it's time to create it and fill it with anything and everything that brings you joy. Then turn all phones to silent and/or take them off the hook, do not disturb signs on the door, whatever else it takes, so you are assured of uninterrupted peaceful, blissful silence.

2. Focus On Your Breath and start taking slow, deep breaths in and out to the count of 4, until you feel completely peaceful and relaxed.

Added bonus:

If you know where your pulse is at your wrist or on the side of your neck/throat, synchronise this 4 count with the beat of your heart. So breathe in for 4 heart beats; hold for 4 heart beats; breathe out for 4 heart beats; hold your breathe out for 4 heart beats. Repeat for 4 cycles. If you don't know where your pulse is, then simply count to 4 in a slow paced manner or coordinate your breathing with the second hand on your watch. In so doing you synchronise yourself with the pulse and vibration of the Universe and thus move into "flow".

3. Pay Attention To Your Heart - actually visualize it pumping. The idea here is that whatever presents in your life, check whether it 'feels good' in your heart. If it does, then it is good and a perfect choice. You might like to ask questions like "heart, what is the answer to ...¨ or "heart, what is appropriate/helpful for me to understand and/or do about ...” etc.

Always keep the questions open ended to allow for all possibilities that are perfect for you at this time. Bringing your focus to your heart takes you out of your head and thoughts which are potentially illusory and unhelpful. Put your hand on your heart (literally) whenever you need help to help you connect to your joy = your 'feel good' meter. For those not into anatomy, your heart is slightly to the left of your central chest bone/sternum.

4. Focus On Your Destination - focus on what you wish to understand and/or achieve aka where you are going - not on what you wish to avoid.

5. Choose A SMART Goal - your goal needs to be Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Time bound. For those into smarties, feel free to add inspirational, extraordinary, spiritual - stretch components.

6. Allow The Answers To Surface - your answers will percolate up gently into your conscious mind in their own time, space and way. This process is much like the action of bubbles in a fizzy drink. They surface with ease and grace, no effort required. Trust they are there. Trust you can access all of them. Trust they will present. Surrender to the process. Allow it to be effortless.

Be prepared:

You may wish to have a pen, paper or other preferred recording device nearby to note the ideas that surface and pop into your mind. They may come in the form of insights, hunches, thoughts, words, phrases, images, visions, feelings, smells, sights, tastes, tactile sensations, sounds, songs etc. Whatever comes to you will be exactly what Guidance has deemed best for you in this moment.

"Every thought is a hint from God/Guidance..." - so pay attention.

Be patient: 

• To ensure you receive all the clues and thus operate from complete understanding. This may take seconds, minutes, hours, days or longer. Some answers will present quickly, others over time. The answers that surface quickly are usually those from the conscious mind. And like the search engine on a computer, the deeper into the subconscious, unconscious and super-conscious mind the search extends to retrieve that file memory, the longer it may take. 

• In order to know how long to wait for the clues you seek to spring to mind, you may choose to nominate a complete signal. Just as the search engine on your computer indicates 'search complete'. That way you know you have retrieved all the relevant information. 
• Some people are predominantly visual and might choose to see a tick, a circle complete, etc.
• Some people are predominantly  auditory and will choose to hear a bell ding, or the word done/finished/OK etc. 
• Some people are predominantly  kinaesthetic and will choose to feel different sensations or experiences - feel warm, sigh, yawn... as the cue signifying completion. 
• Whatever completion signal you choose, it works best when it feels good to you. 

These seven factors help increase the quantity, quality, speed, efficiency, clarity, completeness of understanding and joy of the question and answer process: 

1. Set the intention that your eyes, ears and all senses are now fully focused on the present - no longer past or future focused. To receive the presents, the gifts, you need to be fully focused in the present moment.  
2. Attend to the essentials = your fuel sources.
   
   Be well hydrated, nutritionally balanced, well rested; have acid/alkali balance; all meridians, chakras, organs - at full healthy function... The conscious, subconscious and unconscious minds are influenced by anything and everything e.g. when you are tired, hungry, thirsty, your programmed learning - what you hear, read, were taught, observed, perceived... The super-conscious mind = your ‘true essence, your true natural self’ is always ‘pure’, completely trustworthy and  accurate. It is uninfluenced by anything or anyone and therefore the only reliable source of pure clear accurate Guidance. 
   
   *Click on Games and More Hints for Playing to learn more about the essentials.The degree to which you honour the essentials is directly proportional to the degree to which you achieve and experience joyful success in all areas of your life.
3. Take time out to get the answers
   
   The busier you are, the more you do, the less ‘window of opportunity’ you create to allow yourself to ‘receive’ information and answers. 'Ask and it is given'. I assure you that Guidance is constantly 'transmitting' you the help, answers, gifts and miracles you ask for. However you need to allow the space to receive and notice them at a conscious level. Then you give yourself the best opportunity to understand and use this information to serve your joyful success. 
   
   Einstein and Edison and all the greats knew this. It is well documented that they chose to take a minimum of 20 minutes at least three times a day to be still and connect with their Inner Guidance - from whence all 'genius' emanates - hence their success.
   
   
4. Keep your awareness meter wide open.
   
   If your focus at this time is on the external world, Guidance will equally provide helpful clues from there as surely as it does from within, when you meditate. Be alert to the clues in every moment when you have an issue to solve. It may come from songs, movies, poems, billboards, family, friends, colleagues, car registration plates...the list is endless. Guidance will send you the messages in infinite ways until you 'get it'. You cannot 'miss out'. If you miss one opportunity, be assured another will present. The Universe is infinite in opportunities, gifts and miracles.

5. Understanding 

‘Getting it’ is that seemingly sudden flash of insight, that hunch, that ‘ah ha’ moment. However it comes, you can be sure that it is ‘pure’ Guidance when it feels good. Ease is the result of complete information and understanding. Dis-ease is the opposite. Further, the ‘feel good’ sensation clearly indicates to you that this information is ‘truth’ for you at this time in your life. "If it feels good it feels ‘God’". Consider the possibility that you are never actually indecisive. If it doesn’t feel good, this generally means that you do not have all relevant information and/or understanding of the information or situation and therefore the ideal option is not yet obvious. So allow the time and space for all information to present. Notice what feels good. Then and only then make a choice and take appropriate guided action. 

6. Divine Timing and Content

All guidance (all answers) comes when and how it does simply because this is the perfect time, way and place for it to present, otherwise it would present differently. If a 2, 7, 14 or 21 year old were to ask you the same question, you would answer truthfully, yet differently, to match their level of understanding and wisdom. Equally you would you the time and place that best served to present this information. 

7. Spirituality

The level of consciousness at which you operate determines your understanding, your choices and your life. You can choose to focus on what serves you alone; you and your family; you and all you know; you and everyone and everything that exists in the physical and non-physical realms, whether you know them or not - aka universal consciousness. In each case your focus will change the answers you receive and the life you live. At all times, set your intention to focus on the 'true natural you' (this remove your focus from the 'illusory', adapted you). 

We start life by identifying and living our Soul Purpose and then progress towards doing the same for our Divine Purpose. In time and with deeper understanding they become one and the same. “All the world’s a stage and all the men and women merely players … one man in his life plays many parts …” Shakespeare. When we seek our highest potential as an actor/actress in each and every role we undertake to play, we achieve success in our Soul Purpose. When we enable all actors, including ourselves and the play as a whole to reach it's highest potential, we achieve success in our Divine Purpose. 

8. Choose To Allow - not to judge or edit.

When you judge and/or edit yourself, others, situations, events or the answers, sensations, signals you receive from Guidance, you assume that you know the situation in its totality, which is impossible at a conscious level. We are here to learn, grow and evolve in consciousness. You also assume that you or another could have avoided that decision or situation, which is unrealistic. We are all doing our best with the wisdom, understanding and resources we have at the time.

9. Understand Content and Format - how information, clues and hints present. 

As you connect to Guidance and allow the answers to flow in, frequently the information/energy starts as single words, simple images and obvious feelings. Once you have these 'bullet points', Guidance then expands and enhances the cues to complete the full picture,  much like you do, when you write an essay or read a book. There is always a summary or contents page to start, which is developed more fully as you read on. As with all things, the more patient you are and the more you practice, the easier, quicker, more energy efficient this process becomes and the more complete the answers.

* Consider automatic writing  - Bring the topic for which you need guidance to mind. Use your non-dominant hand and write whatever comes to mind, without editing or judging. This overrides the thinking/conscious mind and allows clear ‘pure’ Guidance to come through.

10. Don't Compare or Compete.

By so doing we forget and dishonour the fact that every person and situation is unique. This is the very reason why no two people have the same fingerprint. We all come from different life experiences and thus different perspectives. Such that one person's truth will inevitably be different from another's exactly as it is designed to be and perfectly so, to allow everyone to bring their own unique perspectives, gifts and talents to the world. Therefore making comparisons and competing is unhelpful and irrelevant. It’s a case of comparing apples with apples. Rather listen with respect to all that is on offer and allow your 'feel good' meter to decide what perspective serves your joyful success. 

11. Labelling is Limiting: When we label ourselves, another, a situation or event, we limit and disallow other potentially joyful possibilities to exist and operate. We lock ourselves and others into a prison of our own making

12. Avoid Asking Why - focus on where and how.

While asking why is intellectually stimulating, it keeps you 'stuck' in the dilemma. Allow that what's happening is your current reality and choose to focus on where you want to go and what steps you need to take to get there.