Tips & Techniques

Everyone’s path to understanding the God within is unique. Only you can figure out what works best for you. That said, there are a number of common techniques you can consider to see what produces the most beneficial effect. Feel what resonates and go from there.

Meditation – This, in its purest sense, is listening to the God within. Quieting the physical senses, stilling the mind and emotions, and directing attention to what is inherently inside of us is listening to the voice of God. And He/She will speak to us, if only we can overcome external distractions and trust He/She is there. If you have difficulty meditating alone, try a guided meditation.

Prayer – If meditation is listening to God, then prayer is speaking to God. We can ask Him/Her for anything and He/She will provide as much as our heart and intent are aligned with what we are asking for. Just saying the words doesn’t make it so; feeling them in the depths of our being energizes the prayer to become manifest. Remember that God is not outside of us but inextricably within.

Asking for help – Similar to the intent of prayer, we can ask our angels and guides for assistance in any situation. Knowing we do not walk alone in our efforts can bring a sense of peace and knowingness. With practice, we may even sense that someone is beside us physically, although they don’t appear in the three-dimensional plane .

Reframing – Looking at a situation from a different perspective than our usual personal viewpoint (and often egocentric one) can be eye-opening. Simply seeing things from someone else’s perspective, especially from the opposite perspective and giving someone the benefit of the doubt, opens up our energy to accepting something other than our typical viewpoint. This helps to release the old mental and emotional patterns with which we view and judge the world and shows us how stale these processes may be and how we can begin to grow past them. Reframing a situation from a fresher perspective disrupts old patterns and allows new ones to grow in their place.

Care of the physical – Taking care of our physical bodies reflects our intent to be well, which carries the energy of being well to all aspects of our existence. Whether through exercise, eating well, meditating, or other wellness practices, respecting our bodily “temple” makes us develop a more robust, healthful, and positive energy body through which we grow spiritually.

Love, compassion, and forgiveness – To truly open our awareness to a feeling of oneness with others, our heart chakra needs to be open. An open heart energetically connects with others and sees them with compassion, forgives them for any and all perceived wrongdoings, sees the God within them, and loves them for who they are. The best way to open our hearts is to practice . The more often we can view everyone in our surroundings with love, compassion, and forgiveness, with the God within us seeing and connecting to the God within them, the closer we will find ourselves to oneness and to a conscious recognition of the divinity in all things.

Not judging – To judge is to create a duality that makes one thing “better” than another. Even focusing on something we judge positively creates a negative. To categorize a particular person as beautiful inherently classifies other people in relation to them—not as beautiful—and they all become energetically labeled and objectified. Everything and everyone is beautiful and perfect when seen beyond physical appearances from the perspective of the Spirit within. Being mindful in the moment helps to transcend judgment.

Trusting our intuition – We may use many techniques on our spiritual path, but often we must take a leap of faith and trust the feeling within for those techniques to take root. Practicing trusting our intuition—the deep feeling of knowingness in our solar plexus—in whatever we do enables a quiet and powerful confidence that energetically brings us to the present moment and draws to us the energy of the flow of life. This knowingness is the voice of the God within, more subtle than the voice of the ego and infinitely more powerful. As with many of these techniques, practice reinforces the new pattern and helps diminish the old.

Choosing wisely – As mentioned previously, fundamentally it comes down to which voice to listen to: the voice of God or the voice of the ego. The voice of God will lead us ever forward to knowing consciously that He/She is within and guide us to live by His/Her expression through us. The voice of the ego, to its own ends, will foster separation and lead us further away from God through denying our inner divinity. Listen to the soft, knowing voice within and not the loud, hysterical, dramatic voice of the ego.