The following is an excerpt from the book Clear Channel: A Guide for the Newly Awakening by Wendy Joy.

Be Open

One of the most important practices to help you clear your channel and enhance communication with other realms is simply to be open. Be open to the possibility of spiritual occurrences. It’s that mustard seed of faith. You just have to have an open door that Spirit can use.

When your conscious mind always has to have a concrete reason for unusual occurrences, open yourself to the possibility that it could have been something else. Allow for that. This is a major step in becoming a Clear Channel. Make no judgments about what is happening and just let it be. You will see that your unexplainable occurrences and your “coincidences” will grow, and things will happen on a daily basis that do not have concrete explanations. You will begin to recognize what Spirit feels like as you become more attuned to the vibration. You will begin to remember. You will feel Spirit come and comfort you when you call, and your feeling of closeness to the Spirit world will grow.

Be Still

I think that meditation is an incredibly important part of helping us to move into our fullest potential as human beings, toward Homo spiritus. The Bible tells us, “Be still and know that I am God,” because you need the quiet in order to hear Spirit. Spirit gradually slowed me down and revealed itself step by step, allowing me to be able to feel Spirit and know what it was saying.

For years, I awoke in the middle of the night with my head racing with thoughts of what I was going to do the next day and what I was going to accomplish. Over time, I began to notice that I was being woken up and my head was no longer racing. It was calm and quiet. That was nice, but I wanted to be sleeping. I began to get a sense that I was supposed to meditate; I was intentionally being woken up for that purpose.

If I fought meditating, I would not be able to sleep for a while.  But if I sat up and meditated, even for just a few moments, then I could go back to sleep! But that meant I had to sit up. If I tried to lie there and say, “Okay, I’m meditating now,” it wouldn’t count. Something always seemed to keep me awake. But if I sat up, I would be okay! So I sat!

In the beginning, I could only sit for a few minutes and then my body would start fidgeting or I would start to fall asleep. My mind was rarely focused on nothing—which some say is necessary in meditation. It’s not. What is necessary is starting and trying. Spirit will help you with the rest. Just be willing to try. Your mind will eventually quiet down. Just stick with it. My mind was constantly thinking and constantly planning. But I sat and tried anyway. I would meditate for five minutes if that was all I could do, but I would sit up every single time they woke me up because I knew I was not going to sleep otherwise.

I have heard it said that prayer is talking to God and meditation is listening for the response and I believe this is true. Even when you don’t necessarily hear something, you’re learning and growing and opening up to being able to hear those messages throughout the day. They’re not necessarily verbal messages. Meditation allows you to tune into that inner knowing. Meditation opens you up and is well worth the time and sleep disruption! Allow yourself to be open to the counsel coming in through meditation.

You don’t have to meditate in the middle of the night. That was my way; that was when I felt the most quiet and receptive. So I meditated for many, many months like that. It was typically five minutes at a clip. If I was really lucky I could make it to fifteen minutes. Some days my body would have too much energy and I really couldn’t settle down to meditate much at all, but I’d try anyway. It got to the point where I loved that time; it really helped to quiet my mind and open me up. It allowed Spirit to enter into my life more fully, and it helped me to be open to feeling Spirit in my life.

Watch Your Thoughts

I realize now that prayer is important. I don’t, however, think that prayer has to start with a “Dear God” and end with an “Amen.” I believe that every thought that you have, everything that you say, is prayer. God wants to give you what you want and He doesn’t just start listening when you say, “Okay, God, now I’m talking to you.” No. He’s listening all the time.

(I think of Spirit as being genderless and I think of God as genderless—incorporating the energy of both genders—but it is easier to just say “He.”)

He is listening to everything. He is listening to your every thought. So if you put thoughts out there like, “I’m not going to do this well,” or “I’m always in pain,” or “Everybody hates me,” you will begin to get or continue to have experiences that match that. Because that’s what He believes you must want and He wants to give you everything you want.

You need to be very careful in controlling your thoughts and watching you every thought. For example, I was always very self-deprecating and I would pick on things about myself, even though I liked me very much! That was just my style. I had to learn to watch that tendency and change it.

It’s a very interesting exercise when you begin to look at your every thought. We have a lot of thoughts about things that we really don’t want to happen. As you begin to think of thought as prayer, it becomes very evident that most of us need to shift our thinking. If we think of every action, idea, thought, and word as prayer, then we begin to see a shift in all our behaviors and in the world around us.

Just allow those negative thoughts when they come, but don’t attach any emotion or judgment to them. Then begin to cancel them out. I practice canceling with people around me. When someone says to me, “He’s always like that,” I say, “Yes, but he’s changing.”

When they say, “I’m always in pain,” I say, “But it’s letting up now, it’s going to get better.”

When they say, “I’m so tired of being depressed,” I say, “Yes, but you’re changing some of those behaviors now that keep you depressed.”

I practice canceling those thoughts out and begin to shift myself and others into a more positive way of thinking, because you will get what you believe.

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