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... I realized this was a confirmation for me and an encouragement to go ahead and let his words through in my first channelling. Channelling is the process wherein the person channelling psychically connects to a higher consciousness – in my case, usually to a guide or archangel who wishes to communicate their messages of encouragement, support, guidance and deep love. When I channel, I enter a light state of trance and one angels or archangels blends with my energy so it appears to the client that they are talking with that Higher Being. And whether or not it is an angel “speaking” you can be assured that the client’s guides are present as well. They give a brief message first. Then they invite questions from the client to focus on their immediate concerns. People come to see me as a channel for many reasons but basically it is to discover how they can live their lives in a more positive and ‘grace-full’ way. Some people are very focused on everyday events – career or relationships – while others seek to enhance their spiritual practise. As a channel, I am honoured to be the link in facilitating this interaction. The experience of channelling has taught me a number of very important lessons. Like my teacher, I am a conscious or Light Trance Channel. This means I am aware of what is being said during the session. [I also have the power to stop the channelling if I do not agree with the message or if I become uncomfortable with what is happening. This is where trust between the Channel and the Guide/Angel comes in.] Because of my level of awareness, I believe it is my job to facilitate as clear and accurate a transmission as I possibly can. I see it as being a fibre optic line that lets the Light [the message] pass through with clarity and above all, without interference. I had a huge lesson in this early on in my career. I was channelling for a lady who asked a specific question. To this day, I would not recognize her if I saw her, nor do I have any recollection of the question or the answer. The answer that came though, frankly, shocked me. I immediately thought to the Guide, “I can’t say that!” I heard the same words again and again I refused to speak them. I knew if that answer had been given to me, I would have been absolutely devastated. I felt a pressure within me to speak the message and just as I was about to decline again, I heard, ‘This is not for you.’ Time seemed to come to a screeching halt. I realized several things at that moment: the message was for her, not me – it was not up to me to take ownership of it; if I trusted in the Guides to have her best interests at heart, I needed to get out of the way and let her have her learning – it wasn’t up to me to judge it; and if I trusted the Guides to work with and through me clearly and lovingly as much as I believed I did, I needed to get out of the way and thus advance my own learning. I felt like we had a 20-minute “conversation” although the client later said it was only a moment or two. Eventually I did grab onto Trust in the Divine and allowed the message to be spoken. And she did cry… but she said, “You couldn’t have said anything that would have meant more to me.” Hearing statements like that is very important – getting confirmation that what I experience or bring through is accurate lets me know the connection is clear and strong and The Work is proceeding well. I learned a long time ago for instance that when I get goose bumps all over my body – in my hair, down my legs, et cetera, that Truth is being spoken. It doesn’t matter who is talking, even if it is a song on the radio – what is being heard is the Truth. The goose bumps say to me – pay attention. A client once asked if she could be told about her guide whom she felt wanted to communicate with her. At that instant, I felt my body begin to shrivel and shrink as if my 5’8” frame was being stuffed into a very slender and old male body of maybe five feet. I felt the sleeves of my jacket lengthen somewhat and the fabric become smoother. The weirdest part was the feeling of a long thin moustache growing on my face. I definitely felt her guide was an elderly oriental gentleman. He spoke with her for a while and when the session was over, she told me it seemed that I became smaller and took on the facial features of the old Chinese gentleman she had seen frequently in her dreams. That’s confirmation! When Alex held a channelling workshop – the only one he ever did – I participated in order to get a day of intense practice. Before the workshop began, I asked the Archangel Michael to come and channel through me. And he did! During that workshop, he told me if I ever called for him, he would not fail me – and in almost 20 years he never has. I am still often amazed and in awe that this wonderfully loving Being has agreed to work through me. One of the first things Alex taught – as do I – is to invoke the iridescent White Light of the Divine as the energy of Protection and Guidance whether during meditation or channelling. As a person goes into meditation [and as I do in channelling], they are opening and expanding their receptivity to the energies of the Unseen Realms. Some of these energies are mischievous or curious and some are clearly ill-intentioned. By surrounding and filling yourself with this prismatic White Light, these energies are unable to interfere with you. I have heard people say if you focus on the need for protection, you will undergo experiences that validate or confirm the need. My take on it is that we are in a realm of polarity and we need to take what steps we know to reinforce the degree to which we are enclosed in the Light. If you seek protection from a standpoint of fear, you will indeed reinforce the fear aspect, but if you calmly carry out your routine of protection in the same way as you bring along an umbrella on a gloomy day, you are not intensifying fear into an experience. I believe it is the intensity of the emotion surrounding the request for protection that determines your result. After all, the Guides and Guardians are unable to intervene in our lives unless we ask. And, over and over, I hear them saying, “Please ask – often!” When I channel Michael or other Angels, I am filled with an amazingly radiant Love not only for me but very much for the person for whom I am channelling. It is why I tend to think of this Work as “Sitting in the Light.” I often wish that I could hand over that experience of the depth and richness of the encouragement and support the Guides and Guardians [Angels] have for each of us. Remember feeling the comfort of your mother holding you when you were a child and the passion of your being held by your lover, then step it up ten or 100 times, and you are touching the edge of the extravagance and purity of a Love that can be breath-taking and overwhelming as you realize that this Love is for you, just because its you and for no other reason. For me, this is what the caring, compassion and concern of the Angels is like. I was once asked, “Don’t the Guides love and care for us just as much as the Angels do?” The answer, of course, is yes, but it is not the same. I find the difference between Guide and Angel energy is like the difference between a leaf and the whole tree – the beauty is still there; the richness is still there but the lavishness and the bounty are not the same. So many people now are feeling a huge degree of stress and confusion. They seem drawn to transform in some major way but have no idea what or how. When one is in need of a wise counsellor who only desires your well-being and your happiness, talking with your angels and guides can be an amazingly comforting and empowering thing. The angels and guides are very willing to respond to a broad range of questions giving practical and spiritual recommendations but they absolutely will not make a person’s choice for them. They give options and indicate the potential of both sides of a question, then leave the final decision up to you in accordance with the Rule of Free Will. Time and again, the angels remind us we do not have to carry the burdens of our lives alone. While they are not going to say that everything you have ever done is okay, they do clearly let you know that there is nothing you can do that will diminish the love they have for you. They patiently stand ready to lift you to your feet again and help you face your next step with courage and the comfort of knowing they take each step with you. It sometimes surprises people that I learned to become a channel as an adult. Many assume that gifts like these must be ones that we had as children. I think it is important that people know that we are all naturally intuitive, psychic and able to learn to connect to our guides and angels. Although I’ve certainly always been intuitive I benefited enormously from the wisdom and teachings of my gifted teachers. There are many techniques that can be learned to help you open up to channel or hear your own guides and Angels. We all have these intuitive abilities waiting to be nurtured. My life as a channel is one of great blessings. I am deeply grateful to be able to help people connect with the love and support Those in Spirit have for us. ******* Portions of this article were originally printed in Mosaic Magazine, Winter issue 2005. © Michel Green, 2005
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