Practicing Spiritual Knowing & Finding Our Divine Voice
“Singing in Spirit” – image by Dalmo Mendonça
Transformation happens when our learning is infused with intentional processes of becoming.
Each week, following an ICN article, we share invitations into deeper becoming. These may be spiritual practices, ways of deeper engagement, and opportunities for life integration. Our becoming happens personally, communally, and globally as we cultivate transformation through the I, the We, and the All.
Our intention with this rhythm is to foster an intensification of our mystical practice, deepen our embodied engagement, and support the enactment of life integration for the transformation of ourselves, our neighbors, and the world.
IF YOU MISSED IT LAST WEEK, WE ENCOURAGE YOU TO FIRST READ THE ARTICLE INFORMING THESE PROCESSES: “Spiritual Knowing & Our Divine Voice”
We invite you to consciously and intentionally engage in the following processes for your personal lives, WeSpace groups or other spiritual communities, and global participation.
Learning a New Mystical Language
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Integrating New Ways of Hearing from the Divine Within
As we first start to practice listening for the divine voice within, we often have a primary way that this comes forth most naturally. For some, it sounds like words in their head. Others see images or pictures. It can also emerge in ways more somatic or intuitive.
We often call this most natural and primary way of receiving our “native tongue.” We all have different mystical languages that are heard and express in unique ways.
“Integrated Receiving” – image by Dalmo Mendonça
In Whole-Body Mystical Awakening, we recognize that these ways of embodied knowing often feel connected to one of our four centers, examples of which can be found in the article from last week.
The more we practice hearing from God, the more we may feel drawn to integrate our ways of hearing and knowing beyond our primary and most comfortable form.
When it comes to our mystical languages, we will always have our “mother tongue.” Though we may find ourselves drawn to learning new ways of receiving and knowing that can deepen and enrich our capacity and depth.
For example:
If you normally see pictures, try instead to listen from your feet and physical body. Where do you feel energy and stirring in the physical space of your body?
If you normally hear words, try instead to listen for an intuition from your womb space. What sense is present from deep within that can’t quite be put to words? How might you try to express that from your deep knowing?
If you usually feel a lot of emotion or energy in your heart, perhaps try to listen in the stillness of your mind for what you hear. Do you hear words? Or perhaps just a faint sense of a sound, like the crackling of a fire. Or what else might be whispering in the wind?
If you usually are in your body and feeling somatic sensations, you might try to look more directly from your spiritual sight, like an impression of a spirit guide presence, an aura around someone, or another visual form of mystical insight.
Or any other way that you feel drawn to listen and receive in a new way!
All of these impressions or forms of spiritual knowing come from our awakened state of consciousness, so it’s important to enter that state before trying to receive in these new forms.
Learning new ways of receiving doesn’t have to be separate from ways we already practice spiritual knowing, but we may find it helpful to “turn down” our receptivity from our other centers to be able to tune more into these other ways of knowing.
And just like learning a new language, it may feel awkward and halting at first. But the only way to get better is to keep practicing!
“Listening with My Whole Being” – image by Dalmo Mendonça
A WeSpace Practice of Wombful Listening
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From Receptive Guidance to Spacious Receiving
The following guided meditation can be used in a WeSpace Group or other collective setting (or individually), perhaps as a new way of listening and receiving for many.
It is an invitation to deep receptivity from our womb center, which for many is a more difficult place to hear from because our intuitive knowing is often beyond concepts or words. Sometimes these deep, wombful knowings take the shape of an image or picture, or perhaps just a single word. But often they are just a “sense” that can be hard to articulate.
Our guided meditation processes in ICN always intend to give ample space for listening to our internal voice in new and familiar ways. From the receptive space of being guided and led through a meditative process, give yourself and the WeSpace plenty of spacious silence to listen and receive.
For a WeSpace group, you may need to intentionally set aside a certain amount of time for spacious receiving, rather than sliding into the familiar groove of your normal rhythms and patterns.
You can use this guided recording, with extra time after, or follow the written transcript with any helpful adaptations made by the one facilitating and leading the meditation for the group.
Finding Our Divine Voice in Any Moment
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Integrating Speaking from Spiritual Knowing in Our Lives
“Tongues of Humans & Angels” – image by Dalmo Mendonça
In our WeSpace groups and times of meditation, we practice our spiritual knowing and speaking forth from our awakened consciousness. This is a wonderful space to share together in a trusted setting and affirming environment.
However, they are not meant to be the confined container for such experiences, but rather the training ground for living from these new ways of being in our lives.
We often refer to this default mode as being in a state of “ordinary consciousness.” This is how we were enculturated and brought up to live and operate in the world. It’s not necessarily bad, just incomplete. It’s not reflective of the fullness of reality and the wholeness of our true being—personally, collectively, and universally.
What would it look like in your life to dwell and speak more from your wholeness?
What would it feel like to offer your spiritual knowing from your divine voice to a friend, family member, or stranger?
What difference would we make in the world if we lived in and from this divine, loving power in more and more of the many we-spaces we find ourselves in each day?
Set an intention to consciously tune into your spiritual knowing in a particular setting in your life.
To begin, each morning this week, you could look for a time in your day ahead to practice tuning in more consciously to listening and speaking from your divine voice.
“Present as a Divine Blessing” – image by Dalmo Mendonça
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