Trusting Your Intuition, Part 3

My daughter, Christina, and I headed to Miami in May, 2001. We drove down, and met up with a family friend close to Miami. Christina was going to stay with her friends on the West Coast while I attended the workshop. What a gift that was!

I got settled into my hotel room that Sunday afternoon. The course began the next morning, and I was so excited I could attend!

That week, Doreen taught us about our connection to Spirit, and how to clear our energy fields so that we could be more aware of our connections. Mid-week we began to give readings to one another using Doreen's angel cards, which we had cleared and dedicated to Spirit's use. Then came, for me, the biggest intuitive hit, which led me to really "get" what this intuition thing was all about.

On Thursday morning, Doreen had us do readings for one another without knowing who the other person was. We were to write a question on a piece of paper, fold it up and hand it in. Before we handed it in, we had to write our row (A, B, C...) and our seat number on that paper (and remember where we were sitting). Then we switched seats. The questions were mixed up and handed out to the class. We were to get quiet, ask the question for the other person, and then write down the answers on the same piece of paper, then turn them back in.

For some reason, this seemed harder to me than having someone sit across from me. We were not to use the angel cards, but rather to trust what information we got for the other person. (I now know that one of my strengths is to read someone's energy, which I had been doing with the person across from me, but this was different, more removed. Now it is just as easy to read someone's energy this way, but then, not so much.)

I received the other person's paper. The question was something like "What is next for me to do? This, or this?" I got quiet and then began to write what came to me. It was easier than I thought. I wrote what came to me and it flowed. Then I received the instructions to write "And you will know, my son, ..."

What? Wait. No. Uh-uh. I began to argue with the angels. "I'm NOT writing 'my son,'" I said. The urging came back stronger. "NO!" I shouted in my head. "There are 10 men here out of 125 total attendees. Are you kidding? What if I'm wrong?!" The urging came back stronger.

Oh, jeez, what to do?

After debating for a few minutes, I acquiesced and wrote "my son." Then I finished it up and handed the paper back in.

We all got back into our regular seats and got the answers back. Then went to lunch.

At lunch, I went to the large round table and a number of people joined me. We all talked about the reading we had just given using automatic writing. A guy was there with his wife and he began to talk about what he had gotten.

"I was thinking yeah, yeah, as I read it," he said. "I wasn't taking it that seriously, until I came to 'my son' and it stopped me cold. I knew that this had been written by Spirit because I always heard that in my meditations. I then re-read the reading and really heard what it was saying. It was so accurate!"

"Oh, my gosh," I stammered, after having dropped my fork in my salad. "I wrote that!" I shared with the group how it kept coming to me to write "my son" and how I had argued with the angels about writing it, but finally had written it.

They looked at me like I had just levitated! Not only had I written this - and trusted my intuitive hit - I had also had that hit confirmed almost immediately. Of all the places this guy and his wife could have sat, he sat directly across from me at our lunch table. We had never met before, and hadn't sat together at any meals in this class. Only Spirit could have orchestrated such a perfect "coincidence!"

This experience was the solid "Aha!" experience I had in that class. It was amazing and it anchored for me what it felt like to receive information from Spirit and what fear felt like in the face of that information. It was an incredibly useful experience that has served me so well in continuing to develop my intuitive abilities. Well worth the expense of the class, by the way!

How have you connected to Spirit today? Are you listening to the gentle, yet firm, inner urges to do something? Are you paying attention?

Begin today by saying "I trust my intution." Doreen taught me that affirmation. Believe me when I say that when I first started saying it I didn't believe it at all. I felt like I was lying. Now, 8 years later, it is congruent with who I am.

This is the process of affirmations, by the way, which we will begin to cover in some upcoming blogs.

For now, though, create a wonderful day, and TRUST your intuition! It will never guide you astray!

Trusting Your Intution, Part 2

In Doreen Virtue's book, "The Lightworker's Way," she talked about asking the angels for help. I was comfortable talking with angels at this time, but had no idea if I was asking for too much, or whether or not I'd actually receive the help. I hoped I would, but hey, I really didn't know.

What I did know was that I wanted to attend Doreen's next Angel Therapy Practitioner course, which was going to be in a month in Miami.

So, I decided to ask for help. It went something like this, "Ok, guys, now you know I want to go to the ATP class and you know I don't have the money for it. If I am really supposed to go, then I need your help in getting that money together for it."

I had a car that I had been trying to sell for two years. Two Years. Two. Years. And I had had no luck. I decided to ask for help in selling it. I knew that if it sold, I would be able to go.

So, I politely reminded the angels that I had this car available which could be used for money to attend this class.

Within two weeks it was sold. And I had the money.

I immediately signed up for Doreen's class, and made reservations for a hotel room.

From this I learned to ask.

What I Learned In Miami - next.


To be continued...

Trusting Your Intuition, Part 1

Since 2000, I've been on a quest to really trust my intuition. Why 2000? On July 27, 2000, my life, as I knew it, changed. I learned that the life I had so carefully built was nothing more than a house of cards, and it all came crashing down around me.

So, what does this have to do with intuition?

In my attempts to cope and process the experience, I went to a therapist. And she said something that really stuck. She said, "It's a good thing you listened to your intuition, or else this would have been much worse."

At the time, I thought, "Worse? This was awful! I don't know that it could have gotten much worse." But, of course, she was right. It could have been much, much worse. Still, it was bad enough, frankly.

And I digress.

I heard her. I really heard her. She shared with me that I had felt something was wrong, very wrong, and by my insisting that our family get into counseling at the time I did, we had prevented something far worse from happening.

Let me tell you, this was all news to me. I was not familiar with the conversation of trusting my intution; heck, I didn't even really know what that was or how it felt. And yet, that conversation was the beginning of my learning to trust myself, and it was the beginning of my learning what intuition was, how it felt, and, even more important, why it is so important to be aware of intuitive hits.

She showed me how I had listened to my intution. She connected the dot between saying that I had listened to the dot of my experience. And that was huge.

Then, in 2001, I read a book that changed my life: "The Lightworker's Way," by Doreen Virtue. When I finished her book, I knew - KNEW - that I had to learn more. I knew that I had to take her Angel Therapy Practitioner class.

The only problem was, I had no money. And it was in Miami, Fl (I lived in Virginia), and I would have to get there, stay a week at a hotel (and of course pay for it and food and travel), and also pay for the class ($1500). It didn't matter. I was determined to do it.

To be continued...

Coming out of the closet...so to speak

I channel. Ok, I've said it. Openly and publicly. I channel. I have been channeling for about six years, ever since I took Doreen Virtue's Angel Therapy Practitioner course and learned how incredible this is. And I studied Sanaya Roman's book, Opening to Channel, around that time, too.

Now I realize that some of you who have landed on this page will now navigate away from it because this is just too far out there for you. I get that. But let me just say in my defense, that there have been many, many, many very famous channels throughout our history, and some of them have churches built in their names.

Think of Mark for example. Yes, Mark from the greatest selling book of all time, The Holy Bible. Mark has one of the most famous churches in the world: St. Mark's Cathedral in Venice, Italy. I actually was there last fall, and lit a candle to Mary and Jesus in the sacred sanctuary.

From Mark, let's go to Revelations (also from The Holy Bible), written by St. John the Divine (in whose church I was ordained last year in New York City) ... and let's just add that many, if not all, of the books of the Bible were channeled.

So was The Course in Miracles.

So was The Qur'an (by the prophet Mohammed, father of the Islam faith).

So were all of Ellen G. White's writings (the Seventh-Day Adventists' most famous author).

So was the entire Conversations with God series, by Neale Donald Walsh.

So are the Teachings of Abraham, by Esther Hicks (the Abraham-Hicks work).

And so on.

Many, many works are channeled. And I didn't even go into the musical world, or the art world, or, or, or...

So what is channeling anyway? Basically, it is a trance state (it could be any level - light-deep), wherein one opens oneself to higher consciousness, and then brings forth that wisdom or vision or insight to this waking consciousness.

So, when I first started channeling, I found it to be difficult. It took a while to learn to trust my intuitive hits, to hold the energies of higher-level teachers, and to be comfortable with this.

Then two years ago, my life changed. During a meditation, I received a new group of guides called Karleon. At the time I did not realize that when one channels, it is common for certain guides come to you at different times. I was startled to hear from Karleon, and it took another year for me to be willing to share them with others. (Mostly because of my own fear of how people would view me.)

I began to channel for others in a bi-weekly group. And I came out more openly with it in safe settings like metaphysical bookstores, and friends of friends.

Now, I've been guided to share this with everyone else. So, I've begun a new blog called "Ask Karleon" where people can ask Karleon questions. If you're interested, you can find it at: http://askkarleon.blogspot.com/. Feel free to utilize this very beautiful, very important guidance in your own life.

Blessings to you all.