Hi beautiful,

FAIR WARNING : A long post follows. Grab a cuppa, curl up and enjoy.

In this post you will learn:

• How to transform your fears and doubts about channeling.
• How to make sure you align with the best fit guide for you.
• How to tell the difference between your thoughts and your guide’s message.
• The best technique I know to strengthen your connection to your guide.

I’m so passionate about airing this subject and sharing perspectives. It’s the number one factor that prevents amazing and beautiful souls from having the experience of channelling they desire, from sharing their channeling with others or even from trying in the first place.

Let’s stop that shall we?

Imagine the wisdom and insights, the shifts that would occur if more people channeled? What a pool of collective wisdom; the perceptions of non physical combined with the experiences of physical life.

Lemuria anyone?

One thing I really want you to know before we continue, without this as a foundation understanding, the rest of what I am going to say won’t work.

It’s okay to have fears and doubts…..[inlinetweet prefix=”” tweeter=”” suffix=””]

perfectionism is not a prerequisite for attempting anything in life, and that’s true for channeling too.

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It does get easier to discern and trust

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So, now you understand that fears and doubts are a normal part of the process, here’s something else important to recognise. Your fears and doubts will have a positive intention. Mostly they will be trying to keep you safe in some way, so rather than being frustrated with your fears, be gentle and even grateful that you have an internal team on your side.

They are simply aspects of you, needing some reassurances. It can be useful to listen to those fears and doubts, not all of them are irrational. As you practice discernment and develop your skills those fears will diminish.

You transform fears by listening, accepting and loving them.

Will my head start spinning like a crazy possessed thing??!!!

Ok, so that is a  little irrational and most probably born from horror films. However, it does point to a real concern that many people have when they begin to channel which is “Will I loose control” and “Will something “bad” take me over?

I’ve had my own personal battle with this; there is no bad or evil, only fear and everything is a friend.

Aurora was very clear that I was in control of the connection at all times. Everything was at the speed I decided, I was always fully in control of my energy system and I could decide when, where and how I wanted to connect. It was all up to me. It will be the same with you. You are in charge of your energy system and here are four key points to consider.

Set your intention

When you prepare to connect with a guide, setting your intention to work with a high level, teacher guide is a powerful way to declare what is acceptable to you and what your boundaries are. Your intention will shoot out a stream of desire into the non physical, and the guide who resonates with that desire responds.

You can choose the intention that works for you. Some people set the intention that they connect with Love, open to Love, the angelic realm, a particular archetype or master guide. Use words and language that resonate for you and feel right.

After all my experiences, I’m convinced that there are many, many guides, teachers, helpers, in the non physical, that are so happy and enthusiastic about supporting us, helping us to accept more love, joy and abundance in our lives. Really it’s more a question of how much can you allow yourself to open up to?

How much love can you let in?

Sometimes when I’m channeling, the amount of love feels overwhelming, and I’m pretty sure I’m only scratching the surface.

I always joke with my clients that they should go for the Creme de la creme. If you are going to work with a guide, you want the best! Although I am joking, there is an important point here; allow yourself the optimum experience. Which takes me to my next point;

Choose the right person and material to work with

If you are using a book, course or one to one support in connecting with your guide, I highly recommend that you choose someone who has taken the journey themselves and who sees both themselves and you as the multidimensional beings you are.  No one is superior to another.

Its important that who you choose to work with believes this too.  I recently supported someone in connecting to and blending with their guide. This client had worked with guides before, but in the environment of a spiritualist church and developing mediumship skills. She hadn’t blended energetically with a guide before and always experienced them as separate to herself. As she connected with the guide, she exclaimed that she had never connected with such a loving guide or had such a clear connection.  She did not know such a high vibration was available to her.

I want to be clear here. This client could have connected with this vibration before. Its perfect that she didn’t, but her experience is due to the mindset I SOMETIMES come across in spiritual training.  In my experience of working in spiritualist churches and mediumship training (brief though it was – I got out of there pretty quick) there was a limited perception of what we are all capable of. The general attitude was that most people could connect to spirit, that is, the personality aspect of someone who had died. But that connecting with teacher guides (what I refer to as beings with expanded awareness) is reserved for special, gifted people.

That’s simply not true anymore and it’s a crazy environment to be in. The message is;  you can do this really exciting, out of the box thing that you have been just DY_ING to do for years. You are encouraged and supported but there’s also this invisible, unspoken limit. A ceiling on your abilities and if you dare to break through this, that’s your ego. That’s not ego, that’s growth.

Get yourself quality support. Someone who knows you are a magnificent, creator being and is not threatened by the idea that your abilities and skills could grow at a faster rate than theirs.

Moving on…..

Do I need protection? White Light? A violet flame? To cast a circle? Use crystals?

Honestly, I haven’t felt the need to energetically protect myself for a long time, with anything other than my own intention.  This is a really personal decision and it’s about what you are comfortable with. There’s no right or wrong here. If you believe that you need it, then it’s best that you do work in that way. If over time it feels natural to let that drop away and simply trust your intention, then do that.

Personally, I don’t think we need protection, I think the intention is enough. I trust that. But I’m also a big believer in alignment and trusting your own needs. If I was ever in a position where I thought I needed energetic protection, that not doing it could leave me too vulnerable, I’d do it in a flash. I wouldn’t need anyone else’s permission. I also believe that vulnerability and self trust is beautiful and I’m willing to meet my fears and transform them.

Its completely up to you. Your choice. Just remember that you really do create it all, and that includes the beings or guides that you believe you will connect with. Another beautiful benefit of channeling is the increase in self trust you will experience.

You have a say

It’s your sacred space and you are in full control of the connection. When I teach people to channel, initially they meet their guide in the mental realm with time to communicate at that level. This allows any fears to be discussed and soothed and also allows people to really know that they have a choice. Think of it this way, if you went to a social gathering and met someone there who you didn’t resonate with or who really irritated you, would you then invite them to your house? Nope. Your energy system is like your house and you only invite in the beings that you want to chat with.

Everyone I have taught so far has felt an incredible amount of love and joy and has easily recognised that it was the right guide for them.  There are usually ripples of recognition, as if they have worked with this guide before, or been THEIR guide in another lifetime.

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How do I know the messages are not just my imagination or my ego?

The million dollar question!! I get asked this one so, so many times. Mostly it comes with practice. But there are some brilliant techniques to support you.

The biggest help for me in this area was asking Aurora for their unique feeling tone to be expressed in my body.  It sort of feels like one specific aspect of my personality, but with something else added. I get a rush of excitement and pure bliss mixed with a playful energy. It’s distinctly an Aurora vibe. If you already work with a guide, I invite you to ask them for their unique feeling tone and notice what happens. If it’s subtle, ask them to amplify it.

At the beginning, to strengthen my connection, I used to think of Aurora’s name to call them to me, and then I would feel the feeling tone. It really helped me to know that I was truly connecting with something separate from myself. You can silently connect with them whilst you are driving, on the bus, walking through town, doing the washing up. Take your guide everywhere with you. Ask to see life through their eyes and see what happens.

I wouldn’t worry too much about the whole ” is this my imagination” thing. Honestly, play with it. Use your imagination as a bridge of connection with non physical. Get curious. Why would you imagine one thing and not another? Where does that imagining take you? Guides use our imagination, initially, to create a connection and then over a period of time, you get to know your own style of channeling. You might see pictures, get a knowing download, hear the words, see energy, or a blend of of that. You will develop your own style.

Your guide’s thoughts have a different vibration

You might notice that the message of the channeling seems to be coming from a different part of your mind than your usual thoughts. The thoughts themselves might seem different. One of the most significant differences for me is the speed. When I’m channeling, the answer to a question comes really quickly, as though I haven’t got time to think. In my normal thought processing, I chew over what I want to say or I think about different perspectives. In channeling mode, its quick…almost like having no thoughts, just a sudden perception and knowing of truth.

When you start to channel for others (which I highly recommend) if the message is something that you have been wanting to say to the other person for a long time, chances are that’s you, not your guide. This is not necessarily a negative thing. One of the benefits of working with a guide is their perpetual encouragement to lovingly share your truth. So as you shift into a channeling space, it might become really important for this particular relationship that you share your truth. When I first started to regularly channel with my partner Ian, Aurora really encouraged me to share my truth. My truth was much easier to be aware of whilst I was in that expanded channeling state.  It was important, however, that my truth was distinguished from Aurora’s guidance. So I would channel the words “Cara is thinking/feeling/wanting/needing….. or the channel is……”

Integrity and clarity will be important to your guide and they will encourage that within you too.

My final advice on this subject is play, play, play and don’t take it too seriously. Play is an open, curious state and allows for an ease of connection. Practice, get feedback, see what it’s like for you.

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So that covers the most common questions that I’m asked about how to handle the fears. If you have any more, I’d love to know so please leave a comment below or email me.

Channeling has been my biggest, most transformative and fun personal growth tool. EVER. If I was to take over the world and become a tyrant I might just force everyone to channel because it’s just SO amazing. Don’t allow fears to hold you back from something that can transform your life and bring you joy. You can do this, channeling is easy and for everyone. There is so much love in the non physical for you.

You will meet yourself too and, whilst you may meet your fears, you will also meet your beauty, your magnificence, your vastness and your connection to the loving pulse of the universe.

Now that might just be worth shifting through a few fears and doubts for, don’t you think?

Hugs