Virtue, Doreen: HEALING THE FEAR BLOCKS TO CLAIRVOYANCE
In many people, clairvoyant abilities are blocked by fears. These fears are entirely normal, and they can be easily cured whenever you’re ready.
For instance, you may be afraid of:
1. Losing control
The fear: You worry that if you open your clairvoyance, you’ll be overwhelmed with visions of angels and dead people everywhere you go. You might also fear that God will try to control you or make unacceptable plans for you.
The truth: Clairvoyance is like a television set that you can turn on, switch off, and dim as you wish. And God’s will for you is identical to that of your Higher Self. The Big Plan has lots of happiness and plenitude in store for you – plus, you’ll find greater meaning in all areas of your life.
2. Seeing something spooky
The fear: You can’t stand haunted houses or monster movies, and you don’t want to see anything smacking of ghouls or goblins floating around your home.
The truth: If you’ve been able to watch the movie The Sixth Sense with your eyes open, you’ve seen the worst. The spirit world is beautiful, something that Hollywood hasn’t caught on to yet. Even the Earthbound spirits and fear thought-forms (the so-called fallen angels) aren’t half as bad as the average big-screen renditions of life after death. Most deceased people look radiant and youthful and exude happiness. Wouldn’t you look wonderful if you knew you never again had to pay another bill?
3. Being fooled
The fear: You have the worry ‘What if it’s my imagination and I’m just making it all up?’ or worse, ‘What if I’m contacted by lower-world spirits who are posing as my guardian angels?’
The truth: The reason why studies show that children have the most verifiable psychic experiences is because they don’t get hung up on worrying whether or not it’s their imagination. Joan of Arc is quoted as saying to her inquisitors, who asked her if she was imagining hearing the voice of God: ‘How else would God speak to me, if not through my imagination?’ In other words, just because it’s all in your head doesn’t mean it isn’t real, valid, or accurate.
Sometimes I’m asked, ‘Aren’t you worried about being fooled by a demon masquerading as an angel?’ This question implies that demons shop at costume stores, drape themselves in white feathers, and – boom! – wrap us around their claw-tipped fingers. The fact is that there are lower-world energies and beings whom I wouldn’t invite to my home for dinner, just as there are living people whom I choose not to hang out with. But this is no reason to shield oneself from seeing clairvoyantly.
I mean, if I asked you if you’d rather walk down a dark alley on the wrong side of town at midnight or at high noon, naturally you’d say noon, right? And the reason? So that you can see who’s there, of course! Well, the same holds true for the spirit world. Since those unsavoury beings are there anyway, wouldn’t you rather be able to glimpse who the players are so that you can call upon Archangel Michael to act as a ‘bouncer’ at your home’s front door, ensuring that no one gets through without proper ID – assuring that all visitors are beings of high integrity and a big inner light?
The inner light is the best indicator of a being’s integrity, whether a living person or someone in the spirit world. With clairsentience, you can sense a person’s character; with claircognizance, you just know that someone is of high integrity or not; and with clairvoyance, you can literally see the glowing light within.
So-called fallen beings in the spirit world can’t mimic the huge glowing light that emanates from the belly and radiates upward and outward. These beings could put on an Archangel Michael costume, but they’d lack the essential element: the bright aura that results from living a life of Divine love. In this respect, clairvoyance helps us screen our friends in the physical and non-physical worlds and actually keeps us safe from harm.
4. Being punished for something that may be ‘evil’ or ‘wrong’
The fear: You worry that clairvoyance is the devil’s work and that God will punish you for sinning.
The truth: This fear is often based on Old Testament quotes warning about wizards, mediums, and speaking with the dead. Yet in the New Testament, we find Jesus and many others talking with the deceased – and to angels as well. Saint Paul, in his letters to the Corinthians, exclaimed that we all have the gift of prophecy and that we should aspire to these spiritual gifts... as long as they’re used with love.
And that’s the distinction, isn’t it? The Manual for Teachers, volume III, of A Course in Miracles says that psychic abilities can be used in service of the ego (which it says is the only devil in this world) or of the Holy Spirit. In other words, we can harness clairvoyance for love or for fear. If you apply this tool in the service of God and for healing purposes, there’s nothing to fear. You’ll find that other people’s judgments simply roll off you.
5. Seeing the future
The fear: You may be wary of foreseeing planetary or social changes that are frightening.
The truth: If you ‘see’ these events, and you’re absolutely certain that they aren’t coming from your ego, then you’ll have a better picture of your lightworker mission. You’ll be specifically guided as to how you can help the planet avoid, or cope with, these changes. For instance, you may be called upon to pray for peace, send out healing energy, anchor the Light in various places, teach other lightworkers, or heal those who are affected by these changes.
While such an assignment may seem daunting and intimidating, remember that you signed up for it prior to your incarnation... and God and the angels wouldn’t have given you such a monumental task unless they knew that you could do it. They also provide you with full support along the way – as long as you ask for it and are open to receiving that help.
6. Not being able to do it
The fear: You worry that you’re an impostor who’s unqualified to be psychic or to perform spiritual healing. You wonder whether you really have any angels, and if you do, whether you’ll be able to make contact with them.
The truth: Everyone feels like an impostor from time to time. Psychologists actually call this fear ‘the impostor syndrome.’ Research shows that some of the most competent, successful people are prone to experiencing this condition. It doesn’t mean that you are an impostor; it just means that you’re comparing your insides (which feel anxious in new situations) to everyone else’s outsides (which appear to be calm, cool, and collected).
The ego, or lower self, uses sleight-of-hand fears such as this one to distract us from remembering who we are and from working on our life purpose.
After clearing these fear blockages, and using other healing processes I suggest in How to Hear Your Angels, your clairvoyance should be noticeably brighter and clearer. You’ll easily be able to receive angel messages yourself or on behalf of another person.
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