If the spirit world connect to us through our imagination, how do we know the difference between them talking and our own mind chat? What are we listening to at any given moment? Is there a technique to defining the differences?
I’m speaking for myself here, but if there was ever a way to have a daily printout of all the thoughts I’ve had, I’d hide myself away on a desert island! Not even the greatest psychologists or psychiatrists could untangle such a spectrum of pointless brain-noise!
Equally, if there was a mind-speaker that could be heard aloud, my mind would shock, surprise, intrigue, confuse, worry, frighten and occasionally delight anyone listening. I have a monkey-mind as it is often referred to. But I’m no different to anyone else, if the truth be known.
From the moment we wake in the morning, until we finally fall asleep at the end of the day, our mind feed us a constant flow of thoughts, which more often than we would care to admit, offer no real purpose or use in our life at that moment. That is our imagination at work. Like a tap turned on with no way of stopping the flow, right?
The annoying aspect of all this unwanted thinking is in how little sense our thoughts make, compared say with a newspaper content. You’re reading my words as I wrote them, in nicely formed sentences with a beginning and an end. My writing is disciplined, fluent and focused. I just wish my mind acted like that more than it does!
So, as a medium, how do I define the difference between my thoughts, and those of a spirit person communicating with me?
The truth is easier to understand than you think, but it does involve some discipline and practice. The first thing to lightly ponder over is how much activity actually is in your mind. It’s a busy place, right? So the most obvious question might be to ask how much of that racket is already communications from the spirit world? Have you ever stopped to internally listen to it? Of course not. In the same way we don’t go around prodding everyone to make sure they are real people and not spirits amongst us. Rule one: The voice of spirit is often our own internal voice. It’s the origin of the content that we need to consider.
Honestly, the people in the spirit world have their own stuff to do, so it’s very unlikely that they are going to be injecting communications on our mind’s imagination willy-nilly. Why would they do that without good reason? After all, they know their efforts are likely to go unnoticed anyway.
Consider your mind as the surface of a big pond in a rain storm. When you observe the surface, with your mind’s eye you can see rain drops hitting the surface, each one creating a ripple. Hundreds of ripples, representing the thoughts of the mind. It is our highly intelligent conscious mind that responds only to what is appropriate at that moment.
You may be driving, mowing the lawn, reading a book, carrying out a task at work, or any one of thousands of other things you do every day. Your conscious mind is only hearing and responding to what is important for the task in hand. You might even be able to plan the evening meal while doing something else. And again, your mind feeds the thoughts you want to hear. But more often than you care to imagine, there are a lot of stray and random thoughts trying to grab your attention. Threads of thought that, if we were to follow one, would lead our imagination off in another direction, all be it often temporarily.
But surely we can’t control the place in our mind where all this imagination lives?
Imagine we take five or ten minutes out to sit somewhere alone. We close our eyes and we focus on that surface pond with our mind’s eye. We watch the ripples, knowing these are being created by our thoughts. We see ourselves sat by the pond, observing the water’s surface.
We focus only on this pond and don’t allow our minds to wander from the subject. We imagine that the rain hitting the surface is decreasing and fewer ripples are appearing on the pond. (Because you are focusing on this, that really should be happening. Your mind is quietening.) Now we speak to the spirit world in that place we’ve created.
“Hello, I am Trevor. I am listening and ready to hear you.”
We remain focused on the pond’s surface, observing how fewer raindrops are hitting the surface. We create a still surface with our mind. Our mind is quieting all the time and finally we have the perfect conditions to hear the spirit communicators speak to us.
All very easy. But how do we progress this?
We allow our own spirit to speak through our imagination. It might be simple at first. Allow our own higher spirit to speak, using our own mind’s voice.
“Hello, I am with you.”
Is an example of what we might hear ourselves saying. It’s up to each of us what we want to say to our self! But before someone suggests that that is nothing more than our own imagination, consider this: How do we know? You see, we have to understand that the spirit people will communicate through our minds, and the only way we can recognise it is in our imagination. Hello? Your imagination. The place used by the spirit people to communicate with you. Let me repeat - your imagination.
Finish your exercise by saying thank you and return to your normal state of thinking. Let all the ripples return!
Is That It?
Not entirely. But it’s a good start. We’ve now learnt how to set the environment. We’ve learnt how to adjust our focus and, to a greater or lesser degree, we’ve learnt to settle our mind and make space for other communications to be heard.
It is now down to each of us to practise this every chance we get. Internal listening. Controlling the environment in the mind. In a sense, meditating with focus. During this process we are creating space and opportunity for the spirit, our own spirit, our higher spirit to talk and be heard.
Let the talking begin! Perhaps we might like to ask our higher Self a question or two.
“What is it I need to work on?”
“To whom am I listening to?”
“Is this really only me talking to myself?”
Our answers will come from our own higher Self. The great news is that the answers will be absolutely accurate. Effectively we are asking the questions, and then answering them. Nothing more complicated than that. But ask the questions and allow our own spirit to answer. The key is to listen to the answers though - that is the important part.
Surely That Is Just My Own Imagination?
Yep, you got it! It’s nobody else’s is it? But we’re now creating an environment, a place in own imagination where our own spirit can speak and be heard. What’s even more exciting is that those working with us in the spirit world will know that. They can use that place at last!
The more we do this, the more we’ll start to be able differentiate between our ‘daily’ mind noise and the voice of spirit. We’ll develop trust and appreciation. We’ll grow a love and a desire for this new skill. We’ll become more accepting and less judgemental of everything that comes from this place in our imagination.
The title of this post is “Self Talk - But Is It Spirit Talk?”. Hopefully, now we have come to realise that there is little, and often, no difference. Self is capitalised, because it refers to our higher Self, our own higher spirit, which let’s remember, is connected to the world of spirit.
When I first started publishing my ‘Words From Spirit-Inspired Writing” sessions, there was always an internal battle going on in my head. “Am I just making this up from my imagination” was the question I was asking myself time after time.
Day after day, week after week, I persisted with the writing. The more I wrote, the more I built a relationship with the spirit communicators. Over time, I come to accept that the words I was transcribing were coming from a higher source than my own ‘daily’ imagination.
I had learnt to trust, to accept, and to understand with clarity the difference between my own planted thoughts and those of the spirit communicator. I learned how to understand their messages when words weren’t all that were being used. I learned how to stay focused, how to reject my ‘daily’ imagination when it wanted to interject. I set rules and boundaries and stuck to them.
Nowadays, I know the words I transcribe are not of my own daily imagination. They are from a higher source that uses my mind. All I have to do is internally listen in the same way every mental medium should. I set the intent.
The Only Problem We Might Discover
The only problem we might discover is us personally. We are the only obstacle. Our doubts, disbelief, lack of trust, inability to listen, to accept, to acknowledge that our higher Self, our very own spirit and those living in that same place are talking through our imagination.
Listen Internally Exercise
Find someone you know and ask them if you can practice a new technique on them for a reading. When the time comes, spend a few moments creating the environment in your mind. Focus within that environment and spend no time focusing on the person you are reading for. Say aloud what you’re hearing from your spirit and continue to focus internally whilst saying aloud what you’re hearing. Ignore the person in the room and focus on the spirit person in your mind. Ignore worrying about the order and the detail of what you are relaying. Just keep that conversation flowing. There is where the evidence is, not in the room with the person. They are only the recipient.
Say everything you hear, without needing a validation from the recipient. Keep the flow going as long as you can. Don’t worry about listening to it yourself and analysing it, just share it without filter.
Here’s what you will discover. The recipient will tell you at the end how amazing some of the communication was. You may even impress yourself!
Some people might read this article and suggest that the process of listening to spirit has been over-simplified in these words. They would be incorrect. All mental mediumship works this way. The differences come in how each medium has learnt to trust themselves and how disciplined they are in using this process.
Too many mediums focus only on getting names, dates and information that’s evidence before they’ve learnt the art of listening internally without filtering, judgement, or alteration.
Our best mediums today, such as Paul Jacobs, Tim Abbott, Eileen Davis, Darren Brittain, and many other household known names, have been doing this from a very young age. They hear these voices inside with ease. They have established the environment internally and they trust.
A lot of emphasis is often placed on ‘Sitting In The Power’. Preparing ourselves through this process by learning to understand ourselves and in doing so, creating the right environment for the internal communications to happen.
Is this an important practice? Absolutely yes. It could be viewed as cleaning the internal environment. Understanding ourselves more and doing the preparation work for a lasting relationship with the spirit connect.
The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author. Do what works for you, whilst remaining open to exploring other ways.
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