Unity Magazine - May/June 2018

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THE VOICE OF AN AWAKENING WORLD

thought, let them drop that in, and when you feel that energy along with that thought, you’ll know the thought is from them. You begin to have these incredible insights.

But you have to be willing to put aside the time to listen carefully to the quiet because this communication is extremely subtle. People expect a hammer over the head. It’s nothing like that. It’s whispers.

One more piece of advice: Have no expectations. People tend to have expectations of what they want to hear, but instead, just be open to whatever happens. It takes practice, and it requires patience.

When we connect with our spirit guides or a loved one on the other side, they have to lower their energy— and we have to raise ours. They’re in a higher dimension; their frequency is outside the human spectrum. The analogy I use is a ceiling fan: When it’s turned off, you can see the individual blades. But if you speed it up, you can’t see them. In the spirit dimension, their vibration is very fast and you can’t really see them. They have to slow themselves down and get closer to the human dimension, and a medium then must raise their vibration through meditation to meet them. That’s how guides or loved ones are able to communicate with us. It’s like meeting on a bridge between the spirit world and the human world.

Raising your vibration is about feeling the love within yourself that is God, this spark of the Divine. That includes self-love, so find aspects of yourself that you love, write them down, and put them up on the bathroom mirror so you remember them every day. (What other people think of you, by the way, is none of your business.) Getting to the power means getting into your self-love.

The more people open up to this part of themselves and accept it, the more it multiplies. I often remind people that herbal tea used to be considered a very strange thing, as was yoga. Now look—both are everywhere. In the same way, more people are now becoming able to speak about their experiences with spirit communication because those experiences are actually very natural.

That’s a good thing because so many people live in fear.

A lot of them are living a life that’s not theirs—it’s someone
else’s life. It was imposed upon them as children that they
have to behave a certain way in order to be loved or be
accepted. People love that sense of freedom when they
realize, Wow, I can be myself, and I can have my own belief
systems, and I don’t have to fall into these traps or believe the
illusions that other people are forcing on me. Part of my
work is bringing people back to their true selves, their
true essence—not who they think they are, but who
they truly are.
Too often, we jump into judgment, and judgment is fear-
based—it’s a knee-jerk reaction. We judge others because
we want to feel in control of the situation. I often tell people
to use what I call the pause button. If someone else has said
something nasty to them, I say, “Pause, take a few deep
breaths, and begin to see that person for who they
are. Realize that what they’re projecting is their
own stuff. They’re going through some things,
and you’re just in their way. Look and see
what’s going on with them.”
If we could see everyone who
comes into our life each day
as a teacher or a student,
we can ask: What are they
teaching me now? Patience,
understanding, forgiveness?
or What am I going to teach
them? Healthy boundaries,
respect, responsibility? It’s back
and forth. Use the golden rule,
treating others as you want to be treated,
and don’t take things personally because
everyone has issues.
Remember that the No. 1 unifying force is love,

which is our natural vibration. The more we can use that, the closer we are to our true self. The first step to unconditional love is forgiveness. If you can forgive another, then that space is opened up for energy to come in and move in other areas of your life. If you’re holding on very tightly and you’re not able to forgive, you’re blocking positive things that might happen for you. You must forgive in order to grow.

This article was adapted from an October 2017 interview James Van Praagh gave to Debra Moffitt on her Unity Online Radio show, Divinely Inspired Living, airing Tuesdays at 9 a.m. (CT) on unityonlineradio.org.