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Your Calling Is Elevated Through Talking
We do not need to wait helplessly for our calling to reveal itself. We can prepare to receive inner guidance by elevating our heart through talking, meditation and the release of pain. As our heart is elevated and refined we become a clear conduit for guidance to come through. Then The Great Universal Power is able and willing to express itself through us.
To converse is to communicate directly with the source of our calling - the Creator who is present everywhere. For talking to work, for it to be powerful, it must be simple and sincere. We can use conversation to help us become an open conduit for the call, and to ask for guidance on particular issues.
For talking to help us become an open conduit to our inner guide we need to ask the highest part of ourselves for changes and improvements in our character. We must ask for a pure heart. Conversation is very flexible. We can converse spontaneously in a corridor before an important meeting, while we are out walking our dog in the park, as a regular part of our life before going to bed or when we awaken. We need to make our conversation suit us. It is very important that when we talk we are sincere. Sincere conversation will reach the Source; insincere dialogue will fall well short.
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TAKING FLIGHT
A Talking Exercise |
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As you go about your daily life, try stopping occasionally to remember and talk to the most elevated part of yourself. Try trusting your calling. This will nurture a deep and profound security within.
If you are asking for a change in your character, you need to request help with all your needed changes and then do our best to implement these changes in your character as you go about your daily life. If you converse with sincerity you will notice that it will become much easier to bring about the changes you desire.
As your character improves and you attain higher levels of personal integrity you become increasingly sensitive to your calling. Improving your character refines your heart. A pure heart opens up a conduit to the inner call. With this clear channel you receive the grace and wisdom to lead an inspired life of worthwhile service.
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When I ask for guidance from my inner mentor on a particular issue, I always request answers to problems that are either current or coming over the horizon. These are issues that are important to me in my life, are close to my heart and with which I want help from the call.
For example before I wrote this book I had withdrawn from the world. I was spending a lot of time peacefully in my own at home in Belfast. I was experiencing a level of contentment I had never known. After some time being peaceful at home, I felt I needed a project for my life in retreat. The peace surrounding this feeling suggested my inner guidance was at work. This was an issue that was coming over the horizon.
That night, before going to bed, I talked to the most elevated part of myself. I requested from my heart that I would receive a project that would help me reach people and touch their lives. The next day I was sitting quietly after a long period of meditation, when I sensed that I wanted to write. I fetched some paper and began to express the words and ideas that were arriving in my mind. This was the start of the book you are reading now. I know in writing this book, whenever I need help or inspiration, I can turn to my inner mentor. This gives me a great feeling of security. I also give thanks for the help and support I am receiving. That is the power of conversation when linked to inner guidance, the beautiful radiant swan within.
Envoi
I am alone.
I am lost.
I am confused.
Talking to the most elevated part of myself,
I tell of my confusion.
I cry out from my heart.
I feel loving feelings of connection.
I ask for help.
"Please bring me clarity that I may see the way forward.
Please give me the answers I need."
The morning stillness fills the room.
I sit quietly, listening to the ever-changing
Sounds of the city at daybreak.
Then when least expected, the answer comes.
I am not alone.
I am never alone.

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