Intuitive guidance has an expiration date
Posted on November 21, 2007
Filed Under Embrace Your Highest Path and Purpose, How To Develop Your Intuition, Spiritual Development |
Occasionally, a client will pull out their notes from a reading we did together six months or a year ago, and start quoting what they wrote down. And then wonder why I seem to be contradicting myself.
For all of us who work with Divine Guidance - whether we receive it ourselves or through a professional intuitive - we have to remember that guidance comes with an expiration date. When we open ourselves up to guidance, what we receive is based on our life circumstances as they are in that moment. The guidance is designed to move us forward to the next step on our Soul’s journey. Once we’ve taken that next step, we are no longer who we were when the guidance was given. We have changed, evolved, and hopefully aligned more fully with our highest path and purpose. The piece of guidance that moved us there has fulfilled its purpose. It has reached its expiration date.
We all like the idea of having one single answer or piece of advice that is “true.” We work so hard to connect to our Higher Selves and Spirit Guides, and when we do receive clear information or guidance, it may be tempting to cling to what we have received, to uphold it as THE information we need in our lives, not just now but for years to come.
Invariably, this can lead to disappointment. No matter how clearly your intuition told you five months ago that you’d get a new job or romantic partner within six months … that was then. Our situations constantly shift and change. We are always given information that serves us in the moment of our asking. If we do not embrace this perspective, we may dismiss our intuitive guidance system entirely. We may feel like we get “wrong” answers, or feel misled. In reality, we just chose to attach ourselves to outdated guidance.
Here are some tips to avoid attaching to expired intuitive guidance:
Ask for guidance for today. Even the longest journey is traveled one step at a time. Focus on receiving guidance around your next step … not what lies a quarter mile down the road.
Act on guidance as soon as you receive it. Is there a persistent thought in the back of your brain that there is something you need to do today? Then do it - today!
Let go of “why.” Suspend your mind’s desire to “figure out” how the guidance of the moment is going to lead to your desired outcome. This is beyond our conscious ability. If our mind could accurately foresee the final outcome of your choices, we would have no need for intuitive guidance. Your mind will ask why you needed to take a different route to work today. Your mind will ask why you needed to call your friend, who was obviously not in distress. But you will never know how your day would have unfolded had you not acted on guidance. Don’t buy into your mind’s attempts to rationalize the guidance you receive in order to stay in charge.
Surrender the outcome. Before we go on a journey, we cannot possibly imagine what we will see along the way. Similarly, we cannot possibly know how guidance will serve us before we put it into action. We have set out intentions, and Divine guidance will take us there. How this will happen is completely beyond our conscious understanding. We may have to take some detours along the way to learn the lessons that will serve us in the end. While we’re on detour, we may think we’ve lost our way. We may again think that we’ve received “wrong” guidance. If we can find it within ourselves to just keep taking one step and the next step, we will understand the need for the detour in hindsight, and we will bless it as a necessary part of our journey.
Remember that there is no destination. We travel along life’s path by setting our intention on goals or destinations. These are not only subject to change, but are constructs of our conscious mind. They are necessary constructs, because guidance will support our conscious intent. But they are still just a frame of reference we create within which to navigate. There is no need to become attached to a perceived goal or destination. As we travel, our frame of reference evolves. More desirable goals may become available. And remember that a goal or destination in and of itself is merely a navigational tool. If your destination no longer serves you on your journey, allow guidance to take you into a new direction that more fully aligns with your highest path and purpose.
Remember that guidance is always available in each moment, for each moment. To attach to guidance beyond its moment would mean exceeding its expiration date!
Blessings,
Andrea
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Andrea,
One of the biggest challenges I have doing Readings for other people are what I call “requests for Prophecy.”
I’m glad that you’re putting this “time sensitivity” factor out there — I’d love to hear more about how you handle/interpret/re-work those questions that start with “how long will…” and “when will…”
Thanks to both of you, I am learning a lot of things that I did not know about Spirit Guides. Since I am now beginning to actually work with mine, these are really good things to know.
Andrea and Slade, have a wonderful Thanksgiving.
Hi Slade - I always emphasize to clients that the information is based on the perspective of the present moment, and is thus subject to change based on our choices down the road. From where we are, we can view probable future outcomes … but free will and free choice does come into play. So I’m big on using percentages of probability. It’s a great way of getting a sense of the variables that may come into play. (It’s in Chapter Four!!! :-))
Patricia - I’m thrilled you’re working with your Guides more and more, and that this information is so timely for you!
Happy Thanksgiving to you both!!!
Andrea
Hi Andrea, before I comment on the post, I just like to let you know that I’m amazed at the wisdom you display through your writings. There’s a lot of depth and understanding of life and human nature here.
In a way that is less spiritually inclined - we all make decisions in our life based on the information and understanding we have at THAT point in time. Usually, at a later point in time, we have new/more information and that decision no longer seems to be corect - it has expired.
In such cases, we should have the maturity, courage, wisdom to change the decision and move on with better perspective and knowledge.
That’s my takeaway from your great post today. Well, not very spiritual as you may wanted it, but it’s just me
Thanks for showing me the way once again, Andrea.
Thank you, Lawrence. (I’m blushing …)
I actually don’t think your comment is less spiritually inclined at all! If anything, you highlight beautifully that spirituality and mental reasoning are inextricably intertwined. As they should be! Information from the spiritual plane and information from the conscious mind must both be handled with discernment. We can try and cling to outdated information because we like it, because it fits what we want to hear … or we can, as you say, show the “maturity, courage and wisdom” to adapt our perspective to the present moment.
Thank you, Lawrence, for adding this perspective!
Blessings,
Andrea
I have to admit, I am sometimes the worst at following guidance I get, and yes, it is for the moment. I am better at giving others messages.
And that would explain times I thought & told “x” was coming and it didn’t. Right now grappling with lots of messages from many different sources and having to sort through to hear my truth.
Hello
Has been nice to read your writing
I had a little doubt. You say detours are also part of the way. Now ,doesn’t that mean that everything , even bad things have a reason, even disastor served a purpose. SO in effect, there is nothing that is actually ‘wrong’, that ever happens.
Next query is, that if there is no actualy destination, than what is the purpose of life - evolution of Self??
What of those who are in search of there purpose for this world, eg writer, painter etc.
There is a belief that says that everyone has there special talent that is there purpose, do u agree?
Or can it be that our purpose is only to develop ourselves, or rather unravel the egoist identity to find our core and emanate Love.
Would love to hear what you think>
Thanks
Hi Ronni, thanks so much for your comment! I know we always have more clarity when it comes to other people … guidance for ourselves is so much harder to sort out sometimes!!! However, I’ve lately put my brain on hold and just followed my impulses in the moment. What has unfolded has been absolutely magical. I think we can overthink and completely think our way out of guidance, if we’re not careful. So don’t “sort out” too much, but stay with the present moment, and what the choices available to you right now.
Uzma - you’re completely right. Everything serves its purpose. And that purpose is the Soul evolving itself through self-expression. From a Soul perspective, there are only experiences from which we learn and grow, and experiences from which we do not learn and grow. Which is why things sometimes “go wrong” from our perspective - we need life to slap us over the head once or twice in order to learn our lesson. Our Soul doesn’t judge this experience as “bad” or “negative” - we attach that label. Which is why we choose to attract some pretty tough experiences sometimes.
Regarding purpose - depending on the Soul’s profile and history, etc., each Soul is here to express itself through certain energetic qualities. We have gift and talents at Soul-level, but these can express themselves in many different ways here in the physical. So our purpose is not to be a specific profession, for example, but to express who we are at Soul-level in whatever manner serves us. Having said that, sometimes a specific profession does allow us to express all that we are!
But the goal is always the same - to remember that we don’t have to become anything, that we are already Divine beings, created through Divine Love.
Thanks for these awesome questions!
Blessings,
Andrea
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