What is your preferred method of meeting your guide?

[SaturninePluto]

Originally Posted by SlayerOfLight

lol 30 minutes? Holy cow compared to me you must be the most patient guy on the planet, as 5 minutes is already too much to ask of me.



Damn... Now that you mention it, I may have experienced the ''unseen voice'' thing several times before, but didn't really take it seriously. From what I recall, the most recently there was some voice with a feministic essence to it mumbling something about the name Sarah but I can't exactly remember what was being said and I didn't really care about it because I deemed it to be just my subconscious trolling me.

And well then one of your guides is a pharaoh? That ought to be interesting... I can already imagine mine to be Napoleon, lol that would be really something.

But I will try my best regarding the visualization part, even if I don't quite now how to do it. Thanks for the tip either way.

Yes, often we train ourselves to believe what we see and not to believe everything we hear or are told, but I feel we miss things like this. Like the voices within dreams. With the old man, I know he is a guidance even with how temporary he may be because he comes within my dreams from time to time. Not always as an image but most often as "the voice of the old man" so to speak. I have come to learn to listen to what is said due to the vividness of the dreams.
I also am not perfectly listening every time, the last time the old man came to me it was before waking, that 15 minutes before waking, I remember waking to remnants of the old man's voice. He was speaking to me of the soul, and what happens with our souls, and I woke up crying. I felt deep sorrow and I have no idea why. It was something he had said, but I couldn't put my finger on it enough to remember it, but I remember the last thing he said. Which was "Please do not worry about this".

Guidances can come from ways other than meditation. Others here have said they use divination, and this is and can be a reliable way if we trust ourselves. Which is important- self trust.

Currently I am working with inspired thought as a means to communicate with higher self and guidances- my guide Bastion and myself had a full fledged conversation through my own thought process. My thoughts sound as they always do, his sounded male and yeah he cursed haha, but the conversation had to do with honey. He said honey when I addressed him. I asked if he called me this as a name, he said not call but honey, honey bees, hives, all things honey and bees. I inquired further and he cursed at me saying what don't you curse word understand? Honey get it! Moments later my younger brother literally walked into my room with a small bottle- Ya know the little 2 shot bottles of vodka... Honey Flavored Vodka. Hahaha. My brother said he didn't think he'd like it and gave it to me, I knowing this was a precognitive experience via an aspect of guided thought accepted it. Then internally though- Alright Bastion I get it, but was there a need to violently curse about it? Haha.

The thought as a credible guidance aspect is pretty new to me, but I find it very interesting, almost like a telepathy, only coming from a male voiced character of thought.

The Pharaoh is another story. But I feel he has finally come to agree to communicate due to my last meditation state with him- He brought me a top a Mesa, and offered me a talking stick. Without the details of what was on it, I observed it, nodded appreciation and handed it back. I didn't expect this at all.

So really you may actually want to try to visualize your female guidance being there. Who knows? Maybe with a bit of effort she may surprise you.

At least that is what I would hope for you.

All the best.

[slowsnake]

Originally Posted by Enlightening

Maybe imagining a crystal ball or dark mirror would help me. I have ADHD so clearing all thoughts from my mind is sometimes really hard. Usually, I just focus on my body/the sensations until it is ready to focus well enough until I can let it go wild with imagination. When I try to do the full blank mind I either fall asleep or struggle for far too long. Though, maybe if I keep my first images simple to give my mind something to focus on so it doesn't get bored then it would work.

Thanks :)

I was born with ADHD,I am 64 now and it was diagnosed when I was aged 58,so all my life I was never diagnosed, but that doctor I was seeing was treating me for something entirely different,he was a psychologist specialising in victims of child sexual abuse,he matter of factly said to me on the second visit " by the way William,are you on D5's for the ADHD "??
I just said,I beg your pardon,I don't have ADHD, he said yes you do!

He tested me and sent me elsewhere for a psychiatrist to test me?
Conclusion,the most severe case of untreated ADHD that they had seen,come across, ever diagnosed!

Blew me away really,but it explained the past 58 years or actually 52 years,it started I think when I was 6 or 7 years old!

The point,well you just have to learn a relaxation techqniue that works for you prior to meditation, and what's the best way to relax?..laying on your bed,you do not have to sit to meditate,but,try and keep your spine straight,try it out,see what a difference it makes,it will be different too,even some poor folk with serious spinal curvature can meditate,you do not have to sit,meditation is only prayer,you can do that washing the dishes,give it a try!

Kind Regards Billy.

[Enlightening]

Originally Posted by slowsnake

I was born with ADHD,I am 64 now and it was diagnosed when I was aged 58,so all my life I was never diagnosed, but that doctor I was seeing was treating me for something entirely different,he was a psychologist specialising in victims of child sexual abuse,he matter of factly said to me on the second visit " by the way William,are you on D5's for the ADHD "??
I just said,I beg your pardon,I don't have ADHD, he said yes you do!

He tested me and sent me elsewhere for a psychiatrist to test me?
Conclusion,the most severe case of untreated ADHD that they had seen,come across, ever diagnosed!

Blew me away really,but it explained the past 58 years or actually 52 years,it started I think when I was 6 or 7 years old!

The point,well you just have to learn a relaxation techqniue that works for you prior to meditation, and what's the best way to relax?..laying on your bed,you do not have to sit to meditate,but,try and keep your spine straight,try it out,see what a difference it makes,it will be different too,even some poor folk with serious spinal curvature can meditate,you do not have to sit,meditation is only prayer,you can do that washing the dishes,give it a try!

Kind Regards Billy.

LOL! Oh man, that is sort of like my dad, but it was the rest of the family that finally got him to go the doctor lol. He was the poster child for ADHD, but wasn't ever diagnosed because it was really before ADHD became a "thing". They just called him hyper in general lol. Then me and two of my cousins were diagnosed when we were growing up, and he really thought it was just doctors overmedicating kids and teachers not wanting to deal with kids with more energy. (Mainly because we were similar to him). Well, until we talked him into getting tested, and he came out to be ADHD too. lol.


I agree with the right techniques for me that work to center and calm myself. I often breathe and focus on the feelings inside my body. At least doing something with my mind helps me prevent myself from getting distracted as quickly. It was the only way I have learned to do 30 minutes at all. lol. Before that I was lucky to sit still for 5 whole minutes. lol. I just can't allow my mind to go into "nothing" after that or I fall asleep or end up giving up.

Though, I do know that I watched a video from one monk that explained that these thoughts rambling on are ok, that I shouldn't just ignore it either or tell it to shut up. He said doing that can deter people from getting into healthy meditation habits. He says it is better to just focus on the thoughts, and see them from an outside perspective (why did I think that, what makes my mind go here of all places, ext). That just pulling higher thoughts outside of your "thoughts" sort of brings you to a higher place. I have to do this before I can meditate at all. Though, the ADHD continues to chatter off int the background now ignored.

Though, this only lasts about 30 minutes, and has taken me a long time to get there. So wasn't sure if other people had other styles that works for them. Mostly though, meditation has changed my ADHD just as much as ADHD effects my medititaiton.

[Rozie]

I never meditated in my life. I don't even know how it is done properly.

I have done other things that are meditative and focuses your mind on a creative work, while the other half of your wanders freely. Being creative taps into your inspiration which is higher guidance. Driving is also a dissociative activity and that is where you do your best thinking. Whether you are aware of it or not, you are working with your guidance all the time and they communicate with you just fine.

To do it consciously isn't much different really. I had to learn every different way, and I have to use them all.

Though I don't meditate, I look inside and see visions. That isn't meditation because I am just looking at the scene I am being shown. I do it with my eyes open. It is faster and easier in my opinion. Sometimes I will see a 'flash' which is a spontaneous vision.

Sure I can speak and be spoken to but that is the least trustworthy way to communicate. You can't take it literally and it requires much discernment to know what to trust. Ultimately you can trust your own sense of what feels right and consider that.

When I first started, I had to dance to get the energy up so I could communicate....that would be music also and the beat and the rhythm. When I got the energy high enough then I could speak and act out a scene. That would tell me what I needed to know for that day.

I still do something like that but it is more subtle. That kind of energy feels good.

I have a lot of experience with how my guidance works and the different ways to communicate. Though I could easily have a conversation, I still have to use every way, and that includes dreams. They are very useful. Other people and what they have to tell me is incredibly important because everybody gets their guidance in some way and they might be guided to tell me something that I need to know.

If meditation is closing your eyes and kind of travelling through the mind and beyond, then sometimes I have to do that. That is to train the mind to be flexible and move around, at least for me. I do that when I am guided to and that isn't often anymore.