How do you hear God? Why you should improve your connection to the Universe and how we can all ‘hear’. Plus 11 steps to do so, easily.

OK, so many of us pray. Many of us won’t use the word God anymore; maybe Source, maybe the Universe, your Higher Self. Some of us won’t use the word pray; meditation, energy work or even spell work. 

For me it’s all variations on a theme. They all about directing energy in a certain way. 

Problem with the word pray is that is takes away some of our power; it gives control of our destiny to a greater power. 

A Greater Power, a true God, will never take away your power. Will never tell you exactly what to do. Never try to control you. Never make you feel guilty or feel fear. Only darkness feeds on that type of energy. Love is what the Universe and God thrives on. It is a pure and simple connection which is calling out to you from your very soul. 

God is here to guide, to help you to make your decisions that is best for your Higher Good. The guidance given to a priest, a preacher, your family or your partner is for them. It is not necessarily relevant to you. 

This Source, is all knowing, which is a great filter. We’ve all asked for a relationship to work out, or to get ‘that’ job. But we’re only screwing ourselves over when that isn’t the right thing for us. We ask, we plead for help, guidance, protection. Sometimes we ask for things; I’m sure we’re all past asking for the best BMX; but we all for love, for health, a happy home, enough money for food on the table. So using ‘God’ or Higher Angelic Beings as a filter when you’re doing energy work or spell work can be a good thing. 

But we often forget or don’t realise we can hear back. A couple of thousand years of reinforcing the fact we need a third party to chat to the Big Fella himself, has left that part of us in the main dormant. I’m not going to start banging on about the failures of the Catholic Church and then the majority of Christian churches have taken forward. I don’t care how you get to ‘God’, as long as it’s done through the path of love, (we all know other organised religion and love don’t always go hand in hand). 

In fact, what many of us don’t know is that hearing that Higher Voice is far easier that communicating with every day Spirits, (in fact Guides, Guardian Angels, Archangels and higher get easier and easier to communicate with due to their increasing strength to the ladder) and that daily taking a few moments out to listen, not ask or talk, is all you need. Think about how powerful that Source is; about how powerful the whole Universe is. How could it not have the strength and ability to communicate easily? How foolish of us to think it isn’t capable of it. We just need to take time to listen. 

I’m just as guilty as everyone else of not doing. But when I do, there is honestly nothing else like it. 

I was having a conversation with my aunt, who is a Mormon, about praying a few days ago. I was explaining that my prayerful experiences are very different to what I used to do as a child, different to hers currently. It doesn’t mean I have any better a connection, I just have a different experience. I explained I feel like I have a special, individual connection. Which we all do. That’s the beauty of it. 

And what brought me to make this point today was a conversation I had myself. For me, when I connect into the Universe or God, it’s very different to connecting into my Higher Self. I know for some it isn’t. For me, one is external guidance. Guidance from everything. The other, is internal guidance. 

I asked, ‘what’s the best way to guide my son?’. The first thing I felt was an overwhelming feeling love and joy. It made me cry. ‘hi! Sorry. Haven’t spoken to you for a while’. Still the feeling of joy and love. The love of the whole Universe around me, moving through me. Bliss. No words in response, I just found myself with my hand on my heart. ‘that is all you need Child’. I could feel my heart pounding on my chest. So much wisdom with the simplest communication. 

I just need to love him. My love for him beats within my breast, thundering through my whole body. My love for him drives me, in the same way I couldn’t function without my heart. This is the only direction I need to be a good parent. 

I need to not worry about the detail and just be. In being, so will he be. So much is not within my control. So why worry. Just enjoy loving him. 

I’m sure there is more that you or I could take from the symbolism this. 

I would love to hear about your own experiences, but also about how you connect in. 

If you’d like some guidance to elevate your own prayer time, here’s my tips. Don’t forget this may take some practice. 

1. Find some quiet time and space. The car, the park, the loo even (the world is a very crazy place, at home and at work!) 

2. Set your intent; is it just to connect in and relax? Do you need guidance in a certain area?

3. Either play some music you find beautiful and relaxing or choose a phrase or mantra to repeat in your head get your mind to relax. Om is the obvious one, but you may choose the word relax, clear, calm, God, Spirit etc etc. 

4. Close your eyes or stare at a fixed inanimate point. Take confidence in the fact that if you only have 5 minutes, this will take 5 minutes. Set a timer on your phone if you want to be able to relax your mind, but you’ll be surprised after a few times of saying ’10 mins please!’ that you’ll be done in that time. 

5. Become aware of the speed of your breath and whether or not your you are breathing from your belly or not. 

6. Feel the connection into your planet through your feet or Base of spine, and a connection through the Crown of your head into the heavens. You may feel heaviness in your lower half and lightness in your head. Feel or sense or imagine what your energy field looks like around you. Watch as it forms a protective shield around you in which ever shape, texture and colour you need (just accept the first thing you get as being right and good). 

7. Just sit. Repeating your mantra where you need to, or filling your mind with the music. Any thoughts which aren’t relevant about the shopping or paperwork, thank the Universe or God for allowing you to remember; and feel/understand that it now passes on, to unburden you of that task for now. 

8. Note the energy you feel, the emotions you feel. Understand anything you feel here will not be of your mind, but from God/Universe. You may randomly think of a memory, a loved one, see images, hear whole strings of words and phrases (this will be in your inner monologue voice. You know, the one you use when you play TV chef in the kitchen?!). Don’t analyse it now as you’ll remember later to do so. Just sit. Sit as long as you can. 

9. Come back when you’re ready or when you need to. Make a paper note if you need to of anything. You may know instantly know what guidance you’ve been given; you may need to think. But it will click at some point that day as to what the symbolism is or how that may help you now. You may have just had a beautiful, blissful experience. Which from a healing point of view, was exactly what you needed. 

10. Feel your connection up dim down, and your earth connection get firmer. Touch some grass or a tree if possible. Know that the protection you put in place earlier now will act to filter out negativity in your general life. 

11. Do this daily! 

Those of you that meditate will know this anyway, those that want to improve their guidance from Above, I hope will find a new angle to touch the Heavens with and listen to what God is so desperately trying to tell you. 

I’d love to hear from you about this. 

Love as always 

Rachael