How to Draw True Guidance
Dear friends,
We all want to do what’s right. We all (hopefully!) accept that our own sight is limited by our past experiences and our current fears and desires – the twins that cloud judgment and intuition.
I have personally made it a life-long practice to do my best to constantly ask for guidance. There are many images of Spirit, and each speaks to us individually, but the process is the same. I myself open my heart to Yogananda and Swamiji (my teacher this life). Others ask Jesus, Buddha, or countless other great Saints that have incarnated to help us along the way. But regardless of the image that calls to us, the principles of drawing guidance are the same. The one I want to share about today is the need to act.
Sometimes when we do not know what to do there is a tendency to freeze and wait for intuition to come to us. This is not the best strategy. There is a phrase I have always loved: “Moving energy has its own intelligence.”
Think of the children’s game of Hot and Cold. There’s a group of children in a room. An object is picked and known to all but one child. That one child moves about the room and the others shout “You’re getting warmer” when he moves towards the secret object, or “You’re getting colder” as he moves away. By continually moving he homes in on the object and achieves success in finding it.
So too in our lives. Have you ever entered a room and sort of felt, “I think I don’t belong here?” You could have stared at that room for hours and been unable to tell. But entering makes your feelings known.
Act towards what seems right, but pause and feel every step of the way. A friend of mine recently said, “It’s difficult to steer a parked car.” Move forward without attachment, but, as an explorer, sensitively feeling the energy each step of the way. Our own desires tend to crowd out the sensitive feeling needed as we move forward. Some people pray, “Dear Spirit, I will do whatever you want. But not Tuesdays. And please not after 7:00pm because I get tired. And hopefully not…” This kind of “openness” is mediocre at best. If our own desires and fears are shouting in our ears while we try to listen for that quiet voice saying “warmer” or “colder,” we of course will hear nothing.
May we each have the courage to move forward, and even more importantly, have the courage to be truly open as we do so.
Blessings,
David G., manager
For the staff at East West