Highest Aspirations
Recognition of higher guidance
Development of courage and tenacity to follow it Development of necessary skills
Failing to seek confirmation and guidance from life all around us Wanting a safety belt before accepting that a particular course of action is desirable
Thinking the Divine path has certainty of outcome (for example, both sides in a war asking God to make them victorious)
Fear of failure preventing the unfolding of our highest destiny
Having attachments to outcomes: they distort the guidance we receive
Practices
Meditate then write, intending to access higher guidance through the writing process
Keep a spiritual journal over a long period of time, noting guidance Ignite Your Spirit therapy, which develops the intuition of the
THE omnipotent and omnipresent Divinity is always with us. Our progress is watched over by countless angelic beings and spiritual guides. Some present us with tests, and others present us with answers. If we pay attention, the path is littered with signposts and help. The Master is very good at noticing these, and has the courage to follow them.
You have to ask
Life on Earth involves free will. You can experience anything. Some people do not ask for help, and none is forthcoming. If we want help from the Divine, we need to ask. Our benevolent Mother is always waiting to give us all necessary assistance. It does not always come in the shape we imagined it would. Pearls of wisdom are liberally sprinkled around us and, if we pay attention, we find them and life unfolds with grace.
Listen, look and learn
To discover pearls of wisdom that will assist us where we are in life right now, we need to be aware. Awareness is something that can be cultivated.
It is the opposite of focus. When we focus, we are aware of nothing except the object or task upon which we are focussed. This is useful in many applications and is a necessary skill.
Awareness is also necessary. It is the capacity to know what is going on around us on an ever-increasing scale. This means that, as well as being able to meet deadlines, perform tasks and finish projects, we get better at identifying the context of a situation. Context involves feelings, understanding other people and our relationship to them, perceiving how energy is being affected in our own chakras and energy field and so on. Awareness has an intuitive edge to it that brings to our mind factors that the less aware would miss.
Many of us have minds that are programmed to notice certain things and to ignore other things. If we remembered everything we ever experienced, saw, heard or smelt, we would be in sensory overload all the time, and be bogged down with oceans of irrelevant detail.
While we do not want to be able to notice everything, it is good to do awareness training so that we start to notice more of the things of relevance to our life than we did before.
Awareness without any ability to focus would be chaotic. Too much focus, however, leads to a narrow, tunnel vision mentality, and guiding pearls of wisdom will be lost to us.
People who are overly focussed have an unwavering desire to get to their destination. They can be so busy digging a hole to China that they do not notice the signposts provided by the Divine telling them they are going the wrong way. In fact they are supposed to be heading to France now.
One way in which a pearl of wisdom is shared is through coincidence.
When we were relocating our Sydney Harmony Centre we found very suitable premises, but it was considerably above our budget. Not only that it was twice the size of what we had previously been looking at. Yet, I could not help thinking that it was meant for us. It had been empty for a while, and I really wanted to accept it. The businesswoman part of me thought it might have been a bit too big a jump in overheads. I decided to seek guidance.
I invited two of my colleagues who are very aware to accompany me on the second occasion that I inspected the property. They like me felt a tremendous energy when we went there. It felt right, and not only that, it felt as strong as our temple already, as though the energy had already moved in ahead of us.
The next day I was teaching a wealth seminar. Someone asked me about the new Sydney centre, and I said I needed to find a property lawyer to look over the rather lengthy commercial lease we had been given. A woman in the second row heard me make the comment, and told me that she had just concluded a commercial lease and had used a very helpful solicitor. She just happened to have the card in her pocket and fished it out for me. The solicitor was in the very next suburb to our proposed new property.
Still thinking that the property was slightly too large for our immediate use, I was finally convinced it was the right one when the landlord rang me and told me that if we wanted to sublease a portion of the space he had a tenant lined up for us who was already in the building and wanted more room. Thank you God: I got the message! Namaste.
Coincidences that we enjoy are there to tell us that we are going the right way. Coincidences that we do not enjoy, also known as Murphy’s Law, (everything that could go wrong does go wrong) are also a form of guidance.
We had previously been looking for a centre in a different suburb and had found one that seemed perfect, was right near a train station and close to our old centre. However, everything went wrong. The negotiation for the lease was frustrating. The agent had difficulty getting instructions from the owner, and there turned out to be a bizarre covenant on the land that it could not be used for a healing centre. After going back and forward for months we got nowhere. At that time the one we eventually got which is fabulous would not have been ready. We needed the delay but we also needed to realize that we were looking in the wrong place.
Untold chaos and restrictions don’t just happen by themselves. Just like when everything is flowing and going right, the Divine is telling us this is the right way, when everything is chaotic and difficult, you can bet that down the track you will discover that this is the wrong direction for you. When everything starts going wrong it is time to do some serious introspection, and a visit to your friendly local Ignite Your Spirit therapist would not go astray.
A pearl only forms because of a problem. The originating problem that
gives rise to a pearl is an irritant within the oyster shell. The symbology of the pearl is that it starts off being something you’ve just got to deal with and yet it ends up producing a luscious, lustrous pearl.
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Sometimes pearls of wisdom are subtle and at other times they are more obvious. I know people who have been in bookshops, trying to find the books that had the answers they needed, only to have a book fall off the shelf onto their head or foot. It is safe to assume that this is the book with the answers. It has happened to me several times, and if you pay attention, it might happen to you as well.
I knew a woman who had prayed for God to give her advice in writing.
She was an avid reader of The Sydney Morning Herald, and so God put her advice in the headlines. Every morning she would wake up and pray, ask questions, then read the paper at breakfast. She was able to discern Divine guidance in her life through whatever the headlines said. Invariably, they said something that allowed her to answer her own questions that she had posed that morning. As with all guidance, the answer may be meaningless to any other person. Often pearls of wisdom are innocuous. They are disguised as normal life experiences. If we pay attention, we will start to find them everywhere.
Proof
Very often inspiration and spiritual teaching can be received through meditation. In our school at the higher levels we meditate together and a discourse is given by Guru which is inevitably of precise relevance to everyone in the room. This discourse often contains new spiritual teachings.
They come with a burst of energy, love and clarity. They are powerful. Yet, the lawyer in me likes to have confirmation of things, particularly in writing!
Our incredibly beneficent loving and generous Divine parent often indulges me with such proof. Many is the time that I have received clear discourses, pertaining to things that I have never seen, read, heard or previously been taught. Within days I will be shown some sign that the transmission was accurately received. This has served to give me confidence over the years about the subtle feeling that Divine transmission contains. It is not thought based; it is pure liquid consciousness from which meaning is intuited. To then observe some tangible sign that pertains to the ‘download’ is enormously comforting and preserves accuracy of perception.
I ran a retreat in India once, and we had a particularly powerful spiritual experience that involved a very specific geometric shape. The group was informed in the discourse that this shape was the foundation for a new spiritual practice that was then given.
Following the meditation, the group went out to dinner. The tablecloth
was covered in the exact design we had seen in our meditation. We got back to our room, which had polished wooden floors, and we decided to request that housekeeping send up a rug for the floor which was more comfortable than bare boards for sitting and meditating. It arrived, and guess what was on it? The very same unusual geometric design. To anyone else it was just a rug with a design on it, but to us it was yet more confirmation of the inner plane experience.
Greg
Greg had two children and had recently gone through a marriage separation. Because of the inner turmoil and stress, he started to meditate with a small group but found it did not satisfy him for very long. He wanted to move on and so he started to ask where to go.
One day he went to a healing centre in Newcastle, and the owner told him to come to The Harmony Centre. The owner told him we were at Cooranbong: “It’s run by a woman called Kim Fraser. Go and see her.”
Cooranbong was only ten minutes from where Greg lived. After he left the healing centre in Newcastle, he got back in his car and turned on the car radio. Within five minutes, I was on a radio program that came onto the station he was tuned to.
He had never heard of me before but here was my name mentioned twice in 5 minutes. Being an aware person he knew that this amazing coincidence was telling him something. He thought, “Okay, God I hear you. You don’t have to shout”. He rang and visited, and enjoyed a rapid evolution. He healed various situations in his life, found his spiritual home, and is now one of our valued, talented and loving spiritual teachers.
At the time, he had no idea that this would be the direction that his life would take, but thankfully he paid attention, and now his life is more fulfilled than it was before.
When we need them
Very often when we receive pearls of guiding wisdom, we pretend we haven’t! Our fears can be activated, and we wonder how we can possibly do whatever it is that the guidance is suggesting.
Assuming that the guidance is accurate (a subject we will look at further in hallmark twelve), it is likely that it will challenge us and create an impetus for change. Divine guidance might ask that we face ourselves and our inner truth in ways that we may not want to explore. We might find that we need to change the way we interact with people. Relationships might come and go. Jobs might change. Sometimes the changes are not to do with the outer world but involve important changes within.
Whatever happens, be aware that the Universe does not give out safety belts. When guidance is given, we are not told where it is leading or what
comes next. Either we follow and trust or we don’t. The Law of Economy means that nothing is wasted, not even Divine assistance. It is there when you need it and not necessarily beforehand. Often we are taken to the brink in any given situation, to develop various attributes such as trust, faith or courage.
When I started the Harmony Centre, it was to be a commercial healing centre. About a year into the process, I was given guidance to offer all seminars by donation, which was pretty radical for my Western, businesswoman consciousness. I felt torn between following that advice and my brain that wondered how I would pay the mortgage.
After several days of not knowing what to do, I was at home when a man I had never met came to my door. He was lost, and was looking for the Harmony Centre. This was amusing, as I do not live at The Harmony Centre, so how he happened to find me was a bit of a mystery. He told me he felt compelled to visit the Harmony Centre but he didn’t know why.
I asked if he knew how to meditate and he did. I asked if he wanted to join a seminar and he was very dismissive of that notion, claiming he had paid out thousands of dollars for seminars, and that many institutions were just after the money, and lacked love and heart.
As he was talking, it became clear that he had no idea why he was trying to find the Harmony Centre, but a light came on in my head. I said to him,
“All our seminars and meditations are run by donation.” He smiled at me and said, “Ah, so you really walk your talk.” Then he left.
I don’t think he ever actually went to the Harmony Centre; I think he was just provided by the Divine to give me the message loud and clear that I had to walk my talk.
I believed in abundance, so now I had to test myself. If what I had learned was truly installed within me, running all of our programs by donation would work. If I had not embodied an abundance reality internally, the Harmony Centre would go bust and I would fail. No seat belt.
From that time, we have run all our seminars and meditations by donation.
At first, it was scary because I had to clean up a lot of old thought forms about lack of abundance. However, we always survived.
I did not know then that this decision was to be a turning point in my life. It was only after deciding to follow this guidance that I learned what a difference it made to give everything rather than sell it. I learned the joy and practical value of service. When you give, you get back much more than you ever expected. Not only were our bills always able to be paid, we created a vibrant spiritual community built on the heart chakra value of giving, cooperation and sharing, rather than forming a group based on the solar plexus value of competition and profit. Now the Harmony Centre Foundation is a registered charity and is still growing and expanding.
What does it all mean?
Spiritual guidance, and the pearls of wisdom that appear in our lives, will be relevant to our current level of development and desire.
To make the most of spiritual guidance, there is a skill in asking the right question. If we ask, ‘Should I go to China to help Chinese orphans?’ we are likely to get a response in the affirmative. This is a leading question. Implied in the question is the course of action we have already put energy into.
A better question is, ‘What could I do right now that will move me towards my highest destiny?’ This is an open question. Give up emotional or mental attachment to the answer through purification and pranayama. Allow events to propel you towards the highest course with ease and grace. The answer is not always the one we want! It will be the right answer in hindsight. If it is bad in hindsight, it means we lacked discernment in understanding the Universal language of wisdom. See the twelfth hallmark of Mastery for more information.
The bendy road of Higher Guidance
As well as asking the right question, it is important to develop an understanding of the level at which the answer is given. There are times when the answer will be relevant to the immediate step to take rather than to the ultimate objective we might have in our life. Sometimes guidance is about the ultimate destination and not the immediate steps. Remember, energy and life is non-linear. If there are insurmountable obstacles, the Divine will lead us by a seemingly roundabout route, which will actually be the only way we could have gotten there, and for a long time it might have seemed that we were not getting anywhere at all. Then, suddenly, we arrive at the destination that we desired. It is going to be faster to go to China from Australia via Europe if that is what the Divine suggests, because the Divine knows where all the roadblocks are.
The Soul has a very big agenda that can be a bit of a mystery, but which essentially involves our own growth and evolution towards becoming
‘transparent’ to the Divine, a diamond chalice filled with pure Divine energy.
Often legitimate guidance will suggest that we do ABC. Then, when we have adjusted course and have been doing ABC for a while, the guidance will suggest we should do DEF. So, we adjust course and focus on DEF. We learn a lot of things, and just when we are feeling comfortable about DEF, along comes guidance about FDH.
I had such strong guidance to learn and teach Pranic healing, that I thought that this must be what I was destined to do. I got quite attached to doing it,
I had such strong guidance to learn and teach Pranic healing, that I thought that this must be what I was destined to do. I got quite attached to doing it,