| Some people are simple wired from birth to be | | | | as healing practitioners? |
| more "psychic" than others. And some sense this | | | | 1. Clear and still the mind of all the busyness of |
| awareness after having a near death experience. | | | | analyzing, worrying, judging, remembering, and |
| But what about the rest of us-can we increase | | | | comparing. |
| our ability to receive spiritual guidance through | | | | It is only when the heart and the mind are calm |
| clear seeing, hearing, feeling and knowing? | | | | that our intuition and the voice of God can be |
| Scientific evidence points to an answer of yes-we | | | | heard. |
| can increase our openness from wherever we | | | | 2. Have beliefs. |
| are on our life path. How can we encourage this | | | | Belief in an all loving and knowing God who deeply |
| development? Many writers tell us that the way | | | | cares about us actually increases our ability to |
| of opening is through the open-heart. So what can | | | | receive guidance. |
| we do to stay in the openhearted space-many | | | | 3. Have a clear intention. |
| have found the way by using yoga, tai chi, chi | | | | When working with a client-state your intention |
| gong or other slow meditative movement, | | | | before you start and if you get stuck or puzzled |
| meditation practice, or other right-brain practices. | | | | during your work-go back to your intention. You |
| The right brain is the home of the altered state | | | | are deliberately setting your intention, declaring |
| where sensory perception, emotional acuity, | | | | your goals and asking for spiritual guidance. You |
| imagination, dreaming, holistic thinking, creativity, | | | | are not "making" anything happen-you are simply |
| and mystical experience all exist. As one uses | | | | opening to receiving. It's best not to be too |
| guided imagery or meditates, blood chemistry is | | | | specific in your intention-ask for the highest good |
| actually altered-endorphins and enkaphalins are | | | | for the other person, whatever that may be. Ask |
| released which are the bodies natural | | | | to be a conduit, a vessel, in instrument of |
| antidepressants and tranquilizers. Belleruth | | | | healing-to be of service. By not presuming to |
| Naparstek reports in her book Your Sixth Sense, | | | | know what is in the other person's highest good, |
| Unlocking the Power of Your Intuition on the | | | | you avoid falling into preconceived attachments to |
| research done by Elmer and Alyce Green who | | | | particular outcomes. Be clear in your intention. This |
| were early pioneers in biofeedback and altered | | | | will reflect your code of integrity-one where you |
| state research at the Menninger Foundation. Once | | | | do not use your skills, knowledge and intuitive |
| in an altered state, many of their subjects | | | | abilities to harm or manipulate another person. |
| reported a very high number of spontaneous ESP | | | | 4. One final suggestion- learn the meaning of |
| experiences, particularly during theta (the state | | | | surrender. |
| our brains slip into just before falling asleep). Theta | | | | Simply allow God to work in and through you. This |
| induces hypnagogic images, the sudden clear, | | | | is the receptive mode or the detached state of |
| startling sensory images that pop into | | | | mind. The spiritual masters of all spiritual paths will |
| consciousness from nowhere. | | | | give you this advise. |
| How Can We Develop More Clarity in Our Lives | | | | |