Inner Voices

PLEIADIAN COUNCIL:
Hello, and we say a fantastic day to all of you. We speak on behalf of the Pleiadian Council and many beings supporting your planet in your evolution process.

It is always exciting for us to be able to connect with you in this way, as it allows for both you and ourselves to deepen in connection to Source through the reflections we offer each other. And for that, we extend our thanks.

Today, the message we share is called “Inner Voices,” and it is about how you can distinguish between all of the different voices that you might hear within yourself and learn how to channel through refining your awareness of where you may be focused.

Many people get discouraged around the notion of channeling because they start to think that the voice of their guides will sound profoundly different from the voice of their normal self. And it may not sound completely different, but it will feel different. The sense of connection and contact with that higher self or spirit guide will be felt.

Guides have to work through the same inner narrator that you are navigating in your day-to-day life. And this voice that you hear can be the messenger for different guides that may be beyond you, but also for the parts of yourself.

So it is important to learn to distinguish who has the microphone.

The voice that is speaking inside is, in the end, just the microphone. What you focus upon is what you allow to come up to the microphone and speak, you could say.

You have different parts or belief systems that exist within your mind and body. Some call them soul parts because they exist at the spiritual level as well. As you have gone through different eras of your life, you have experienced challenges, trauma, and challenging circumstances that asked you to adapt and caused you to develop certain beliefs.

These parts that exist within your own psyche have their own beliefs, and they have their own drives. They steer you in different directions when you fail to pay attention to their momentum.

You can know that you are under the grip of one of these parts when there is constriction, dullness, or a sense that you are not expressing the complete self you know and want to be.

In times of great stress and under pressure, these parts will tell stories of how they can protect you by helping you avoid uncomfortable situations, or by finding ways to get rid of the emotion and resistance that you might be experiencing.

When these parts of you take over, you can notice the voices inside start to get chaotic. In very tense circumstances, you might find there is a split between parts of you that want you to hide and parts of you that want to risk everything; parts of you that are deeply afraid of a loss of connection and parts of you that want to ensure that you break contact with the outer world.

Your parts can have very conflicting agendas, and you may know that you are in the grip of a part and its negative belief system when you cannot see through to clarity.

One of the first steps is to ask: Where does this part live within my body, and where does it come from?

Notice those areas of tension and guide your awareness there. Allow your breath to move through those areas, and perhaps visualize light flowing through them.

As you restore a sense of compassion and acceptance to the tension that exists, you might be able to pass the mic from the part to your higher self, and ideally to a guide, perhaps, if that is what calls to you.

You will be able to feel the difference when you connect with the higher-self energy. There is a lightening. There is a softening. There is a sense that your body drops and relaxes.

The voice of your higher self assures you that everything is in a kind of divine order.

The voice of your higher self knows that no matter what circumstances and challenges present themselves in your life, there is still a beautiful, immaculate universe that you are a part of, and what occurs now, in this moment, is part of a larger plan.

Your higher self sees from that expanded perspective that recognizes that, yes, cause and effect brought you to this crossroads, and the actions, choices, and beliefs of the past contributed to this intersection.

At the same time, regardless of what could have been, this moment is an immense opportunity to allow for your own spiritual expansion to emerge.

Through your witnessing presence and through making aligned choices, your higher self restores the sense of connection, the sense of agency, or the capacity to enact change and self-direct your path.

When you feel the presence of your higher self, you can then start to ask: Who are the other beings that are present, and what do they want to say?

Through deep meditation, if you have that capacity to hear many inner voices, we would encourage you to enter into a dialogue with them. These can be voices of your inner child, voices of the parts of you connected to relationships and past experiences.

For example, every different activity in your life requires a different kind of mindset. Those conditions that allow you to, for example, drive your car, write a message, or tend to your garden are a particular configuration that, in their own way, become like a part of you as well.

There might be the you who is a performer, the you who is an energy healer, the you who is a chef, and so on. These different aspects of your consciousness also have a kind of independent will and volition.

You can listen to them as well.

You might find at times in your life that a certain pathway or a certain action has served you for a substantial time but no longer gives you joy. Sometimes it is important to ask: Why do I continue choosing something that does not necessarily resonate with my heart’s full excitement in this moment?

Reflecting and listening closely to your own inner truth can help you find resonance with a new calling.

There might still be resistance around your new calling. Know that, yes, sometimes you place fear between what excites you most and your own choice because of so many layers of conditioning that tell you to play it safe, not to shine too brightly, or not to take risks that are too big.

Sometimes your excitement calls you to go against the grain in this way. Yet each time you take that leap of faith, the ability to do so becomes easier and easier.

When you enter into that state of connection with your own higher self, you may also be presented with guides.

At first, it is important not to need to distinguish between the voice of your higher self and the voice of the spirit guide.

When you focus on the intention and the message to share love, encouragement, and inspiration, you will be able to flow and channel in this way unencumbered. Sometimes getting too wrapped up in needing to know exactly who is speaking prevents the message from coming through in the clearest way.

Every voice has something important to say.

So whether you are connecting with a spirit guide or a deeper part of yourself, the important thing is to learn how to listen to that voice and restore a sense of unity between the different parts of you.

This is how the higher self leads to this inclusive, both-and consciousness.

When you get into traps of indecision, paralysis, or deep inner conflict, it is generally because of opposing belief systems or opposing intentions and desires.

You may believe that you have to save money to make sure that you can sustain yourself and maintain the sense that you have all your ducks in a row. At the same time, you might be called to invest in something that catalyzes your growth, something new that you must learn, something new that allows you to enact your excitement.

The feeling of tension arises because you believe you have to choose only one of those two options.

Ease and acceptance arise when you notice that both things can be true. It is important for you to be practical just as much as it is important for you to honor what calls you forward.

Inner conflict can also arise because you have to accommodate different people in your life. Your boss might want you to work more hours while your partner wants you to spend more time at home.

Often, in these circumstances, it is just as important to ask yourself: What matters to me more than anything else?

Until you are honest about what your own preferences are, the pull and push of other people can take you far away from yourself. You can start to believe that what others want for you is what you want for yourself, out of needing so much that feeling of connection and approval.

Learning how to return always to your own inner connection with your higher self is what allows you to hold all of these different poles and desires within you.

You very rarely can accommodate every desire that you hold within. But when you make it a regular practice of listening to your deeper truth, you can get a clearer sense of what matters more than anything else and which pathway resonates most with this energy of your higher self.

This ability to continuously return to connection grows the more you recognize when connection starts to become distorted.

When you fall out of alignment because of great stress or pressure from one of these negative belief systems, and you notice the tension that arises and turn your awareness inward to tend to it, you allow yourself to maintain the flow more effortlessly.

If you deny it or try to present a mask of being in flow and in alignment when there is really tension and resistance, you make it more likely that some sort of mistake or error arises that causes you to be confronted with your inner truth in a way that is less pleasant than the choice to turn inward and notice what is alive within and which parts have a say.

The sooner you do that, the quicker you can return to the loving embrace of a connection with your own higher self.

From there, you will be able to see the difference between a transcendent voice that allows you to see the complete process and the big picture and a narrow voice that is trapped only in fears and beliefs that have resulted from past challenges.

So we thank you for allowing us to share this message. And now we would ask: How can we be of service to you with any of your questions, comments, or musings? Begin whenever you would like.

SARAH:
Hello, Pleiadian Council. This is Sarah.

PLEIADIAN COUNCIL:
Hello.

SARAH:
Hello. Nice to be speaking with you again. I’m trying to stay on the theme, but there’s a lot of pressure that I feel to try to quickly find a way to bring money into my life. Of course, I want to utilize my gifts.

I have some books that I’m trying to get through the process of Amazon publishing, and I’m finding a lot of obstacles as I go through the minutiae of what I have to do to get these products published. It brings up a lot of despair.

There’s a part of me that just wants to put my fishing pole into the water and catch fish in a much more cause-and-effect, flowy way that is already existing now.

I know I’m a musician and I know I’m a healer, and there are a lot of things, but I’m just not sure right now what vessel to put on the water that is in flow, you know what I mean? I just don’t want to do what I don’t want to do. I want to do what I want to do.

PLEIADIAN COUNCIL:
Well, what is it that you want to do that could be profitable?

SARAH:
That’s the golden question, isn’t it? I have no idea. I really don’t.

PLEIADIAN COUNCIL:
If you take the idea of profit out, what do you really want to do? Because that is often the more important question. The fact that you want to do it means that it is sustainable and will bring you renewed energy.

SARAH:
Well, I want to do something with children. I would love to be more with children. The most important things in my life are really people and love and animals.

I want to live in a cooperative community where we’re all contributing our gifts and the community is thriving. We all feel this sense of active contribution to building something beautiful together. I know that’s kind of vague, but—

PLEIADIAN COUNCIL:
We understand that is your vision, but we want to bring it into your day-to-day life. What can you do before you’ve established that intentional community and gotten the land and brought all the people together that is just completely exciting?

SARAH:
What can I do that’s completely exciting?

Completely exciting, huh? Maybe creating a show with music and comedy and just kind of a spontaneous outpouring of my interface with life. Something like that. Maybe music.

I don’t know. Do you have any sense of—I know you’re not here to tell me my truth—but right now, sometimes things just feel like they’re not moving forward. There’s no place where I can feel excitement about anything, and that’s kind of what’s happening right now. So I don’t know.

PLEIADIAN COUNCIL:
You may be letting your own expectations and your own sense of failure interfere with your ability to do it for its own sake.

SARAH:
That makes sense. Yeah.

PLEIADIAN COUNCIL:
When you place a great deal of pressure on yourself that this thing needs to succeed, everyone needs to like it, and if they don’t, then you lose your own footing, it becomes harder and harder to sustain joy for it.

When you’re in that attitude, you look very closely to see everything that could go wrong. Once you notice something that is not going right, that becomes evidence that the whole thing is sabotaged before it even has a chance to get off the ground.

So it is important to still feel that desire for success and expansion in that way, yet do not allow your fear of failure to prevent you from enjoying it for its own sake.

Because all of these things in your life, you started for the sake of doing them.

But now that the story of success and monetizing it gets into the picture, that initial passion has died down a bit. And you also have to recognize that this is not a completely unique personal story.

It happens to so many people. The pressure to turn everything into a commodity and to always find success can interfere.

Even people who find some degree of success eventually experience something similar: the pressure to always monetize their own creative expression and joy sometimes dilutes it.

So reflect on that question:

If money were not involved at all and did not matter a bit, out of all of the things I could choose to creatively express myself and share with the world, bringing light and bringing joy into this world, what would I choose?

SARAH:
Okay. I’m going to hold that question very sacred and close to my heart.

PLEIADIAN COUNCIL:
Yes. And ask it every day. Ask it to get yourself into the flow.

What we would encourage is that you find a way to begin every morning with a spiritual practice that you do just for its own sake, that is not connected with the idea of success.

Do it to get into the flow. Do it to bring yourself into joy. And from there, take a few simple actions that are practical in any area.

You might find that with some things, like publishing books or connected things, you simply have to push through the resistance even when the circumstances do not seem to be beneficial.

Do not listen to that evidence. Do it for its own sake, because oftentimes simply completing a project will be enough to bring relief and allow the energy to be directed toward the areas that matter more.

SARAH:
Great. Thank you so much.

PLEIADIAN COUNCIL:
Yes. Thanks. You’re welcome.

QUESTIONER:
I want to know why the name Emmanuel was changed to Jesus.

PLEIADIAN COUNCIL:
We’re not sure that it was, so the Pleiadian Council does not know this information. We’re not necessarily familiar.

QUESTIONER:
Okay. Well, thank you for your advice. I was listening to you with the other lady, and you gave some pretty good advice.

PLEIADIAN COUNCIL:
Oh, yes. We do know that this being, the Christ, was also called Yeshua. The names do not necessarily matter as much as the connection to the essence.

QUESTIONER:
Okay. Well, thank you for the chat today.

PLEIADIAN COUNCIL:
Yes. Thank you as well.

QUESTIONER:
Hello, Pleiadian Council.

PLEIADIAN COUNCIL:
Hello. Welcome.

QUESTIONER:
Hello. Thank you, and thank you for this transmission. It’s so much appreciated.

To some of the themes that you were talking about earlier, and connecting with our guides and our higher self, perhaps you could help me understand a little bit better: Is there really a difference, and does it matter to understand if we are connecting with our higher self or our guides when, for instance, we are in meditation or have an insight or a “download”?

PLEIADIAN COUNCIL:
It doesn’t necessarily matter, and we were getting to that a bit earlier. What matters more is the information and how that helps you and others.

It is the felt sense of expansion and love, and the way that translates into a tangible transformation or change, or a new action step that supports that process of growth.

It can be fascinating to connect with guides because they have particular vibrations and areas of life that each of them can support you with.

Guides can be past- or future-lifetime incarnations. Guides can be ancestral spirits. Guides can be extraterrestrial beings. They can be angelic beings, nature spirits, or animal spirits, among other forces.

The idea is that as you tune into the felt sense of peace, clarity, and openness that is made possible through your connection with your higher self, your imagination can start to expand to allow these other guides to present themselves to you too.

It doesn’t necessarily matter if you cannot distinguish between higher self and guide as long as you receive the information and experience that serves you.

Does that make sense?

QUESTIONER:
Yes, it does make sense, and thank you for explaining that.

I think what I’m struggling with at this part of my journey, or not quite connecting with, is that I’m wanting to connect with my guides and I’m not sure if I am.

However, when meditating with another friend or in a collective, sometimes that person is getting downloads about me. I’m struggling to understand how I can connect more directly so that I can somehow exchange and go deeper.

It makes me wonder if I’m still having too many limiting beliefs, or what I need to do to shift that process for myself.

PLEIADIAN COUNCIL:
What we sense is that you might be expecting some grand pronouncement or fireworks alongside the message that comes through.

But often the message is just a whisper or a trickle. It is just a very subtle sense.

So if you erase all of your preconceived notions about how this intuition or connection might present itself, then you will be in a clearer space to receive these messages.

Get rid of all preconceived notions and then prompt yourself with a simple question: What does my friend need to know today?

Everybody will have a different way of receiving this information.

If you have a very visual connection, you might see the answer to that question show up as images. When you describe those images in language, the meaning of them gradually reveals itself.

This is especially true for those who receive information in visual ways. The meaning behind those visions is not always clear right away.

It is often in sharing those images with the person they are meant for that the deeper meaning starts to unravel.

So that is what we encourage: Let go of all preconceived notions, and then work with whatever sense shows up first.

You might find that images present themselves before words, but as you unravel those images, you find the message that is within them.

QUESTIONER:
That makes sense because I do tend to be more of a visual communicator and visual learner, and the things I tend to see are very abstract rather than pictographic or illustrative.

I also don’t want to overinterpret, which I sometimes tend to do. But that helps me understand—to clear preconceived notions.

I’m also going to be going into Vipassana very soon, and I’m curious if, related to what you were just saying, there are other things I should do in preparation for that.

PLEIADIAN COUNCIL:
Yes. These abstract images you see might expand as you share them with others.

If the abstract images are just for yourself, reflecting upon them and allowing them to evolve with time can illuminate their deeper meaning.

If you are working on supporting others, share with them the images that you see and ask them if those images mean anything in particular to them.

Sometimes your intuition allows you to pick up on things that are more buried in other people’s energy fields. And just the act of communicating what you saw initiates a process in them.

Sometimes they get it right away, and sometimes over a period of time they gradually come to understand why you saw what you saw and shared it with them.

So just trust the process and become more willing to share, because that signals to your own inner self that you have trust in this process. The more trust you have, the clearer that intuition will become.

And in terms of the Vipassana, yes, the best thing to prepare is to close any tabs that you have open, so to speak.

If there is anything that you find running through your mind when you are meditating or having free time now, it would be wise to make sure that you do as much as you can so that you have fewer thoughts and less energy going toward those things.

Beyond that, we would suggest meditating a little bit longer so that the shift into long periods of silence and focus does not come as a shock to your system.

And yes, perhaps place more emphasis on stretching your legs and allowing yourself to find that comfortable seat.

We would say: Be prepared for a deep dive. Though know that on the other side there will be relief.

Allow yourself to recognize that the challenge that might come will have benefits. The more you can stay present through the discomfort that arises, the more ease you will feel when you return home afterward.

QUESTIONER:
Yes. Thank you so very much for the guidance.

PLEIADIAN COUNCIL:
Yes. Thanks. Gratitude to you as well.

PLEIADIAN COUNCIL:
We can add something to our initial message in this evolving conversation about voices and guides, and that is that your own state of being can distort the information and the messages very much.

This is why it is always important to return to a state of calm before you begin to channel.

For some, that might mean having a longer meditation. With time, you will be able to tune right in because you know what it means for you to come into that receptive state.

When you are in a time of more stress, even when you attempt to connect to your higher self, you might be able to do so, though that stress can become like static that interferes with the message.

This stress and this static can come not just through your own nervous system, but from the environment and the world around you.

When you put yourself in spaces where there is a lot of noise or stressful energy, that can impact your ability to channel and the messages that you receive.

The same is true when you go into a place that is very peaceful and quiet. That energy and information can create a resonance that allows you to tune into peace as well.

That is often why, when you come together with others, in person or at a distance, in that kind of resonant, calming energy, you start to pick up on the energy and information that you need.

Your own energy comes into resonance with your higher self because the space is calm and grounded and those who walk within it have their awareness focused. You can use that resonance to propel yourself forward.

So just as much, make sure as you walk your path that you choose the environments and the groups that support you in continuing to move forward in this clarity.

Does somebody else have a question they would like to ask or share?

QUESTIONER:
I have one more question, but I’ve already asked my question, if that’s possible.

With the Pleiades getting very close to the moon tomorrow, is there anything we should notice or maybe focus on during meditation to help connect more deeply with your consciousness, with the Council?

PLEIADIAN COUNCIL:
We are present regardless of how the constellations, from your perspective, align.

Though certainly many of you will feel our energy more potently connected to you when the full moon passes through the Pleiades, and so on.

You can invite us into your meditations.

And if you can look into the night sky to see our constellation, take a moment to look up and observe it.

Or look up at the moon in its alignment and visualize that light pouring into your body through your crown and down to your toes.

Allow yourself to connect to this feeling of fullness.

And in that energy, you might receive more information or signals from us.

QUESTIONER:
Thank you so much for that.

PLEIADIAN COUNCIL:
Yes. Thank you.

PLEIADIAN COUNCIL:
So we can close with a short meditation.

Allow yourself to focus on your breath for a moment.

Take a full and deep breath in, and hold the breath for a moment.

Take a slow, deep exhalation out, and again fill yourself with breath.

Bring your awareness through the center of your heart.

And in this heart, see a half-moon shape arise.

Let the top part of your heart be filled with the light of the moon and the bottom half filled with the shadow cast onto the moon.

This lunar phase unfortunately gets ignored, though it has something very important to reveal.

It reflects both the light and the dark of the moon, reminding you that the light the moon casts is a reflection.

And this reflective quality is indicative of how your own mind works as well.

As you see this moon emanating from your own heart, ask: Where does this light originate?

And perhaps out before you, you see the light of the sun shining toward you.

Just as much, you see light emanating from others, flowing toward you.

The energy that radiates from your own heart is a reflection of the light that you receive, and others receive the light that you reflect.

In this way, you are interconnected through a web of reflection.

Just as much, this process of reflection shows you how easy it can be for the original message to get distorted, as the reflection of this light through your heart depends on how clearly you have polished the mirror of your heart.

And just as much, the same is true for every being.

Take a moment to rest with this feeling of light in your heart and notice:

Where does light come to me from?

Which energies influence me the most powerfully?

Channeling is, in a way, a kind of waking dream. Much like the visions that you experience during meditation.

These visions and dreams have so many different layers to them. There are many different types of visions and dreams.

Some visions are a processing of everything that you have experienced at a conscious level. Your own psyche needs a way to sort through it.

Other visions and dreams reflect deeper longings and deeper memories within your soul.

And other visions and dreams reflect that transcendent connection to something spiritual.

Yet, to an extent, all of your visions do a bit of each of them.

So as you continue to dream awake, notice that your visions include reflections of your waking life and reflections of something deeper.

And when you can recognize that these reflections depend on both the light from the world around you and your own inner polished mirror, you will be able to see the differences very clearly.

Allow this light to settle within your being, and allow yourself to walk in trust and take note of a deeper purpose behind both the longing, the challenge, and the passion that exists within you.

There is always a reason to persevere, even when the odds do not look so great.

Remember that Source expands through the love that you experience.

And if love calls you to take a step forward, that alone is enough.

So our great thanks and our love to all of you, and we wish you a fantastic rest of your day.