Scanning the Future

Scanning the Future


by Owen Waters


One of the great advantages of regular meditation is that it
enhances your sense of intuition. The more you practice
meditation, the more you gain insight into every aspect of
your life. Insights can relate to present or past events,
leading to a greater understanding of your life's path, or
they can relate to future events.
Insights into future events can be challenging in four ways:
1. The future is not fixed. Until you experience it, the
future remains as an array of possibilities with a "most
likely" scenario based on what holds the greatest energy.
2. Viewing the future can change the outcome. Even a 100%
accurate view of the most likely scenario will trigger
questions about whether you want that scenario to manifest,
and that change can influence the outcome. This can give
the illusion of inaccuracy in the original prediction.
3. Inner impressions come into your awareness through your
imagination. However, a fertile imagination can create images
on its own, almost for pure entertainment. True impressions
of a future event arrive while you are in a meditative state,
or sometimes while performing a monotonous task such as
driving at a constant speed. They don't fire up with the
great energy of a dramatic imagination. They slip in quietly
and have to be examined and unraveled to see what each
impression contains.
4. When you first start scanning the future, your predictions
will be less accurate than they will become later, after
constant practice.
Sometimes, lack of self-esteem can be a barrier to the
development of your innate abilities. In that case you need
to be aware that everyone is everything that Infinite Being
is. The universe is holographic by design, meaning that while
the many make up the One, the One is also mirrored within
each of the many. So, each person, each spark of Infinite
Being, contains all of the qualities of Infinite Being.
Lack of self-esteem, therefore, is only a personality trait
and not reflective of your true self.
You have a perfect sense of intuition or insight, just
waiting to be developed. One of the hallmarks of the global
Shift to higher consciousness is that, with each passing
year, more and more people will develop more of their inner
abilities.
While you are practicing your intuitive skills, it is a good
idea to make written notes for later reference. Insights
arrive in your consciousness while you are in an altered,
meditative state, so their memory dissipates quickly just
like the memory of your dreams. If you keep notes, then
re-read them weeks or months later, you will be amazed at
how accurate many of these insights were.
Sometimes, you will also see how insights into less than
desirable scenarios caused you to make a decision to steer
your life in a different direction. When faced with
decisions about which direction to turn, the best
barometer is always your highest joy. Ask yourself:
"What scenario would represent my highest joy?"
When you follow your highest joy, you are following the path
through life which is most closely aligned with your true
essence - your soul or inner self.

This article was written by Owen Waters, author of
"The Shift: The Revolution in Human Consciousness"
http://www.infinitebeing.com/theshift