Meeting your guide is an exquisite experience. You will be quite refreshed and thrilled after your first meeting. You will have much to look forward to for you are beginning a wonderful journey into a friendship with an enlightened being. The first meditation on your CD in this course will assist you in meeting your guide for the first time, the one you will be channeling. You may be tempted to simply just sit in the light of your guide, rather than doing much else. This is fine if this is what you would like to do. It is good to learn how to wear the energy of your guide and get comfortable with holding that much light and love.

What To Expect The First Time

At first you might not notice a difference between yourself and the guide. It may even feel like just a higher vibration of yourself. Guides generally approach gently and softly, and do not want to jolt you or upset you. You may not realize that your guide is there at first. The change may be subtle. You will feel, most certainly, a heightened stage of awareness and well-being.

Some people do notice a huge difference as soon as the guide enters. Some people experience a great infusion of light and love, and can barely hold this level of awareness. If the energy becomes too intense for you, you can ask the guide to temper back the energy a little bit until you get used to it.

There will be some trial and error as the guide figures out how to connect to you and you figure out how to connect to the guide. Be patient with this process. Your translation might not be accurate at first, for the guide will be figuring out how to transmit to you in a way that you can receive information, and you will be figuring out how to receive the information from the guide. It is okay if things don't come out right at first. You must learn to walk before you can run. And of course, practice makes perfect! In a short time this will be easy and effortless for you, and you will understand exactly how it works.

A good experiment to find out if you are actually channeling is to have someone ask you a question when you're not in trance and answer it from your personality point of view, the human perspective. Then go into trance and ask the same question of the guide. You'll notice that the vibration of the answer is higher, and that the answer might be completely different. Notice what the differences are between your human answer and the guide's answer. This will help you develop confidence in your guide's ability to give messages of a higher spiritual nature.

Another good thing to remember is to relax the back of the head and neck. This is a place where the most tension gathers when you are attempting to channel, for much of the channeling energy seems to gather behind the head and neck. Just open to this energy and allow it to flow.