Nanner wrote on Dec 18th, 2007 at 6:16pm:Justin - Quote: We all have helpful guides who try to keep us on track, but how often do we really listen? There are also deceptive, ignorant, and purposely misleading forces who try to connect to and influence us.
What are the means you know of that "Guides" make themselves known by?
Nanner
It's probably different for different people. Most consistently and on average, dreams are a major avenue for and of guidance.
For those who have practiced going within a lot in this and/or in other lives, then sometimes one gets more conscious messages, which can take the form of deep and sure feelings about something, unbidden visuals, streaming movie/dream sequences, symbols, sounds, words, a physical sensation, etc.
I've experienced all the above at one point or another.
Most of the time though, sometimes certain thoughts and/or feelings out of the blue can pop into one's head and/or heart.
I'll use a silly and recent personal example. I've seen kids with those Heely shoes, where they can skate around just on their shoes. I've thought to myself, "Man, that's so friqqin cool, i want to get a pair of those!"
But i didn't actively pursue it, and didn't even know if they had adult sizes. So, this desire and intention went on what i call the "back burner" for awhile. The other day though, i'd figured i visit a store that i hadn't been to in awhile, to pick up a couple of things.
Near to the store in the same shopping plaza, was a shoe store and one i don't remember seeing or noticing before. Now, i'm not much of a shopper or consumer, and i had just bought myself a pair of cheap sneakers a little while before, so i wasn't looking for a regular new pair of shoes.
But for some reason, the impulsive feeling and thought came to me out of the blue, hey why don't you go visit that store? I was like, ok i have a little time to kill right now. So i went in, and in the store i noticed a pair of shoes on clearance, half off from their original price, and they were adult sized Heely's which fit. Course i felt and thought, "whoo hoo the Universe provided! Now i can skate around in stores like one of those little kids!"
Needless to say, i bought them. And i promptly began doing the former, and now people look at me as if i have 3 heads or something.
Point being, normally i wouldn't have gone into that store under those conditions, but something, some aspect of self or guidance with more awareness than my conscious personality, beamed a thought/feeling strongly into my energy field, which inclined me to go into the store anyway.
Some have called it the still small voice. It takes trust and receptivity to be able to listen to, hear, and follow that little nudging.
Now, some like my wife, tend to get more overt signs from their guidance. When at The Gateway Voyage program at TMI, she asked to meet one of her guides. As she got deeper in meditation, a powerful pressure or electromagnetic like wave of energy pushed through one end of her CHEC unit (she said it was like there was an earthquake), went through her and while it did she felt this electric, tingling, orgasmic type reactions, perceived or sensed a lot of powerful White Light type energy, and then went through to the other side of her CHEC unit.
She realized later on that her guidance had "waved" hi to her. For her on her path, she has needed more overt, more physically oriented, and more "in your face" and bells and whistles type guidance messages. Partly because, she tends to have more doubt and skepticism regarding stuff like the above as compared to some. Plus, she kind of has a dramatic personality, and i guess stuff like that fits more with her expectations?
I've noticed that for some especially for those who have been on the path for a long while and who have developed a lot of faith and trust, guidance can become ever more subtle in nature, on average. One may still get some of the bells and whistle type experiences and messages, but more and more, one begins to just rely on a type of inner, feeling oriented intuition, though not a "gut" reaction as some say. For me, its more like a combo of Heart and 3rd eye type perceiving or sensing. A deep, inner intuitive knowingess which contains both feelings and thought patterns.