Clear Channel: A Guide For The Newly Awakening - Softcover

Joy, Wendy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1452533326 ISBN 13: 9781452533322

Publisher: BalboaPress, 2011

Synopsis

You are experiencing phenomena you can't explain: You know the phone is going to ring before it does. You feel a friend's emotions as you stand close by. You awaken at the same time every night, feeling like you need to do something-but what? You see a glow around people. You sense a presence in the room, but can't see anyone. You feel warmth in your hand as you rest it on your sick friend's shoulder. You become restless because of a growing feeling that there is something you came to this life to do-a divine purpose-what is it? You see people who have died and it frightens you. Are you alone in your experiences? Are you imagining things? Worse yet, are you going crazy? In Clear Channel: A Guide for the Newly Awakening, Wendy Joy uses personal experiences to help the reader navigate their own spiritual awakening. She explains these phenomena and more and provides techniques to ease the reader's journey. You are experiencing phenomena you can't explain: You know the phone is going to ring before it does. You feel a friend's emotions as you stand close by. You awaken at the same time every night, feeling like you need to do something-but what? You see a glow around people. You sense a presence in the room, but can't see anyone. You feel warmth in your hand as you rest it on your sick friend's shoulder. You become restless because of a growing feeling that there is something you came to this life to do-a divine purpose-what is it? You see people who have died and it frightens you. Are you alone in your experiences? Are you imagining things? Worse yet, are you going crazy? In Clear Channel: A Guide for the Newly Awakening, Wendy Joy uses personal experiences to help the reader navigate their own spiritual awakening. She explains these phenomena and more and provides techniques to ease the reader's journey.

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Clear Channel

A Guide for the Newly AwakeningBy Wendy Joy

Balboa Press

Copyright © 2011 Wendy Joy
All right reserved.
ISBN: 978-1-4525-3332-2

Contents

Acknowledgments...........................................................xiForeword by Joy Gardner...................................................xviiIntroduction..............................................................xix1 Energy: Can You Feel It?................................................12 Building to Conscious Contact: Intuition and Beyond.....................153 Allowing and Prayer: Be Open............................................354 Speak the Truth: What's Your Truth?.....................................475 Awakenings: Everybody Up!...............................................576 Operate From Love: Are You Feeling the Love?............................657 Fluctuations: Here We Go Again..........................................738 Healing: You Are Perfect and Whole......................................839 Be Well: Additional Healing Concepts....................................10110 Know Your Power: You Are Powerful......................................11111 Divine Life Purpose: Live Your Joy.....................................12712 Clearing Energy: Getting Unstuck!......................................13913 Support From Others: Don't Go It Alone.................................14714 Jesus: A Loving Role Model.............................................15915 Ghosts: Who's There?...................................................171Conclusion: Or Is It Just The Beginning?..................................177Notes.....................................................................181About the Author..........................................................185

Chapter One

Energy

Can You Feel It?

Let's start with a primer on energy. Most of us don't think in terms of energy, yet energy is all around us. It makes up everything. More and more people are giving themselves permission to feel the energy, but they tend to brush it off as an itch, a cobweb, depression, anxiety, Restless Leg Syndrome, a joint pain, or some kind of nervous problem. We are not educated to be aware of the energy that is all around us and flowing through us. The purpose of this chapter is to make you more aware of this energy and of the energy experiences you're already having.

I hope to expand your awareness to the world of energy so that more of these experiences will begin to occur in your life. And they will. Once you become open, you free Spirit to operate more fully in your life. Remember that you are energy in your purest form. You know what energy is and how to use it. Tuning into the energy around you allows you to do many things, including:

? Increase your intuition

? Work more closely and consciously with your guides and Angels

? Heal yourself and others

? Benefit more fully from environmental energy shifts

? Keep your body and energy fields balanced

? Make contact with loved ones and helpers on the Other Side

How to Feel Energy

You can begin to feel the energy of something by putting your hand just above it. Plants, and especially flowers, give off a lot of energy, so try running your hand about one inch above a flower and see if you can feel a change in the sensation in the palm of your hand. You may feel heat, a magnetic sensation of pulling and pushing, coolness, a vibration or a sense of thickness. Close your eyes and put all of your attention into your palm. I have an orchid I use to help people feel energy. The energy of my orchid is greatest when it has buds, just before it flowers.

Another experiment is to bring your palms close to each other, and then begin to move them in-and-out, closer and farther away from each other. You may feel a magnetic pushing-and-pulling sensation. See how far out you can move your hands while still feeling the energy. Then try putting your palm to someone else's palm. Hold your palm about an inch from theirs and see if you can feel anything. Swirl your hand in a circle in front of theirs (or your own) and feel the energy shifting. Next have your partner lie down and run your palm above their body from head to toe. Move slowly and focus on your palm. Branch out from there to other people and even objects.

You can also feel the energy of something that is not physically present. Energy healers do this when they do distant healing. One day, Will Linville said to me, "I want you to hold your current financial situation in your hands." I held my hands out in front of me as if I was holding a ball, with my palms facing each other. I could feel energy in my hands. The energy then began pushing my hands further apart and I remarked on it to Will. He said, "That is because the Universe wants you to have everything you want. It is we who limit it." What an empowering and exciting concept.

When I work with Reiki, I feel the energy coming from my hands, and from the person I'm working on, as heat. I've always felt injury as heat —not just where there's swelling (which is typically hot), but any injury. I've always put my hands on my own injury, as most of us do, because something about that action makes it feel better. I thought everyone felt injuries as heat and I was surprised to learn that they didn't. It never even occurred to me to say anything about it because it seemed so normal.

Anyone can cultivate sensitivity to energy. It is less about thinking and more about feeling. It may feel like heat, or a prickly feeling, or a pins-and-needles feeling. The next time you or someone you know has pain or an injury, ask if you can put your palm directly on or above the area and see what you can feel. Focus your attention on your palm. You may or may not feel anything the first time. Just keep trying, and pay careful attention to any sensations. The mind tends to dismiss these feelings as "imagination." It's best if you can take a minute before you try to feel the energy. Sit quietly and take some deep breaths. Then tell your conscious mind to step aside, and tell your intuitive mind to take charge. Imagine your conscious mind sitting in a big armchair, with a footstool.

At times, you may feel as if someone is gently stroking your cheek, but there's no one there. Or maybe a strand of hair brushed over your cheek, but when you lift your hand to remove it, there's no hair there. You may, in fact, be connecting with the energy around you. I found out early on that just by asking Spirit to touch me and to allow me to feel it, that I could increase those experiences. They would happen all the time.

Sit quietly for a moment and ask to feel an Angelic presence. What do you feel? Pay attention especially to your face or any other bare skin.

These sensations can be very minimal in the beginning. For me, all I had to do was acknowledge the possibility that it was Spirit in order to increase the intensity of the experiences. Then, especially when I was upset, I would ask Spirit to be around me, and I felt this wonderfully warm, comforting energy surrounding me. It reminded me that Spirit was always there—even when I could not feel a presence. Just ask for what you want, and know that even though you may not be able to feel it, it's happening. It might not happen right away, but with time, you'll feel it.

In the beginning, I could only feel Spirit at nighttime or when it was quiet. It helped if I was alone and without a lot of other sensory input. It was harder to isolate that feeling in the midst of others. Now, if I can't feel my Angels, I just ask for them and I can feel their energy. Meditation can help to increase awareness of these experiences. It's good to request that Jesus, another Avatar or an Angel be present to supervise what's happening. In this way you can alleviate fear and anxiety, knowing that what is happening is in your highest good and the highest good of all. If you ever feel any doubt, just state aloud: "If this is not in the highest good, let it stop.

Early on, before I'd had much experience with energy and Spirit, I performed an experiment. I was listening to a Christian radio station, and there was a pastor who came on twice a week, with a short message. On this morning, he was speaking about filling up with the Holy Spirit. He said that we fill up with many things each day, and we need to make sure that one of them is the Holy Spirit. That was great, but I had no idea how to do that. I thought, well, in church you put your hands up to show that you surrender to God. Maybe that was a way to do it.

I focused on filling up with energy the whole day and faced one palm up whenever I could. By the end of the day, I had a red circle in the center of my palm. I had done it! It was that easy! I finally had the concrete proof that my rational mind had been wanting.

Vibrations in the Night

You may experience various sensations, like vibrations or warmth and calm during the quiet hours of the night. You may associate some of these feelings with anxiety because they're unfamiliar. I began feeling vibrations in my body that would wake me from sleeping.

Julie talks about knowing who is around her by the difference in vibration. For instance, Archangel Michael feels very warm, and she actually starts sweating when he is around. Jesus feels intense and loving. I don't always know whose vibration I am feeling, initially. Eventually, though, they give me enough information to figure it out.

The vibrations started out small. There was a rock quarry on a nearby mountain, and I just assumed I was feeling the blasting from the quarry. I would ask Frank the next morning if he'd felt it and, of course, he hadn't because it wasn't the blasting that I was feeling. It wasn't until I began feeling these vibrations in just one part of my body, and they became more intense and occurred during the day and at work, that I realized that it wasn't the quarry! I think it was my own vibration increasing. It was very low level; just enough to wake me up. Other times I would feel the chi moving in or releasing from my body. In our culture, we use the word "energy," but other cultures use the words "chi," "ki" or "prana" to describe the same thing.

As things began to intensify, I'd begin to feel a buzzing in the middle of the night. It was stronger than the little vibrations, and sometimes it would buzz me awake. My guides seemed to use the buzzing when they wanted to wake me up to show me something, like the number on the clock or if they wanted me to meditate. If I focused on the physical feeling of energy during meditation, just quietly observing my bodily sensations, it was a great way to get me out of my mind. It was especially helpful when I felt like my mind wouldn't settle down. It prolonged my ability to sit quietly. The meditations following the buzzing were always more intensified, as I could feel the energy all around me, and I could feel Spirit touching me.

When I first started meditating, I never felt anything. I was just trying to have longer periods of quiet. But one night I felt like there was a ball of energy swirling around underneath my chin. I used to meditate slouched over. I knew that you always saw pictures of people meditating sitting up super-straight, but it was the middle of the night, for goodness sake! I was tired! I figured I could be quiet slouched over, easier than I could sitting up straight (and maybe I could sneak in a little sleep at the same time).

A night or two later, I felt a ball of energy at my chin. It was small and it didn't last long. The next night it was back again and I started asking, "Why are you there? What are you trying to show me?" It felt like it was pushing up against my chin, so I lifted my chin up and the pushing-up-feeling stopped, but the energy stayed.

Over the course of the next few nights, the swirling ball, as I called it, kept coming back and showing me how I should be meditating! One night it centered on my back, and I knew to sit up straight. I've come to understand the posture while meditating to be similar to an antenna. A straighter antenna would allow for a clearer connection. Another night, there was a vibration at my lips and I knew my guide was telling me to breathe in through my nose and out through my mouth. I still hate this one because it takes too much conscious thought at a time when I am barely awake, so sometimes I do it and sometimes I don't. I received little reminders over the next few weeks when I would begin to slouch or drop my chin. Spirit was teaching me how to meditate.

Head Rocking

As time went on, other things began to happen during meditation. One night I felt a gentle rocking. Initially, it takes a very relaxed body and an attitude of allowing, to be able to feel that Spirit is trying to move you physically. It requires an openness to move where Spirit wants you to be. I relaxed my head and neck and just let it go where it wanted and it began to rock back and forth. The first night it lasted for a couple of minutes. The next night it lasted 15 minutes and on the next it lasted 30 minutes. I periodically stopped my head, to make sure that I wasn't creating the rocking, but I still felt the sensation. On the other hand, when Spirit stopped the rocking, it stopped gently, but abruptly. This rocking went on for many months. It happens rarely now, but it still happens.

Andrea began to have the experience just after me, which was comforting for both of us. Since then, we have become bolder in sharing our experiences with each other and with other people, which allowed us to discover that other people experienced this, too. Most attributed it to a neurological problem. Julie told us that it's an attunement—perhaps to another level of vibration. She also said that Spirit is literally rocking our heads. She said that they have one hand on the back of our heads and one at our foreheads. I think if I'd known that it meant Spirit was actually standing right there, I would've been fearful. I was so comfortable with the rocking by the time I learned it was them, that I wasn't afraid.

One night I was told by Spirit that things were going to be a little bit different during that night's meditation: I received the word "dish" with the image of a satellite dish. My head began to move slowly in a big circle. This movement lasted quite awhile and, as usual, I stopped the movement periodically to make sure that Spirit still wanted me to move that way. True to form, Spirit stopped it gently, but abruptly, and there was no mistaking that it was done. The whole time, I was surrounded by a warm, loving vibration. It felt like Spirit was aligning my energy.

These sensations were very subtle. The key was to allow and to be very relaxed so that I could feel where Spirit was urging me to move. My hope is that in knowing these things happen, it will speed up the process for others.

Some people told me they believed they were experiencing early symptoms of multiple sclerosis or Parkinson's disease. It's amazing how our first thought upon feeling something new or different is that it must be a disease or something must be wrong. Consider when you feel these sensations, that it's actually an expansion. You are expanding into all that you truly are. Relax and enjoy it, and you'll probably be able to reduce or eliminate the feeling of anxiety.

Chakra Clearings

For a couple of nights I heard a hum or buzzing sound that I could only hear when my head was in a specific spot. If I moved my head even a little, the sound went away. I assumed that there was a specific vibration of energy that resulted in a sound when I aligned with it. On other nights there was no sound, but I saw geometric shapes moving incredibly fast downward. It was hard to see them clearly because they were moving so fast. It felt like I was being downloaded with information, yet I had no idea what it was.

This downloading continues to happen periodically. Will said that I'm now at a point where I can see inside these shapes to see what they carry. I have tried a couple times—but no luck so far.

Next, I'd feel this vibration or ball of energy moving at each of my chakras. The chakras are energy centers on the body where energy can enter and exit the body more easily. The seven main chakras run along the spine. Between the legs is the root chakra, below the belly button is the sacral, above the belly button is the solar plexus, at the heart level is the heart chakra, at the throat is the throat chakra, between the eyes at the bottom of your forehead is the third eye and on the top of the head is the crown chakra. I began to feel Spirit "playing" at these centers. I felt it mostly at the throat, the third eye and the crown.

One day after yoga, Julie and I were sitting at the coffee house and I said, "I feel them right now, right here" pointing to my neck area. She smiled and laughed a little—this was after she could see Spirit—and said, "Spirit is touching you there." She said that "he" was standing in the corner and had just walked over and touched me there.

She said, "He's talking to you— can you hear it?" But I couldn't. This was a big source of frustration for me—knowing they were talking, but not being able to hear it like a voice, even though I was receiving a knowing of some information.

There were times when I would ask repeatedly, "Show me that you're here." If I began to feel like I was about to see something, I might become scared. I realize now that Spirit wouldn't show itself to me while I was still afraid. I know now that it's starting to come, because I can see vague shadows moving around. I know it will become clearer as I'm ready for it.

Don't be afraid. Your Angels and Guides won't try to scare you. They'll ease you in as you're ready for them. If you have no fears, it will happen more quickly. Spirit is all good and all loving and is there only to guide and help you. Ask to lift any fears you might have about developing a deeper connection.

Seeing Colors

I might just be sitting and eating lunch with a friend, when suddenly I'll feel a vibration in my body or hear a tone in my ear. Then I know that Spirit is trying to get my attention. I'll look up and I might see a block of green or red color on the wall, just off to one side, in my peripheral vision.

I used to see these colors and dismiss them as a visual disturbance of some sort—like when you look at something and then look at a blank wall and see an afterimage. I played around with it and I became convinced that the block of color was definitely there.

Once I saw a bright neon-looking red light, and it stayed with me even when I got up and went into the bathroom across the hall. It was there on the wall, in the bathroom.

I was starting to catch on, so I asked, "Are you an Angel?" The lights flickered.

Lights tend to flicker around me a lot, and I have come to regard it as a way that Spirit lets me know that a presence is there, or confirms something I was talking or thinking about. I'd point it out to people who then began to recognize that the lights did flicker a lot when they were with me.

(Continues...)

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Edition details

• Publisher: BalboaPress
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1452533326
• ISBN 13: 9781452533322
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 220