Divining tip #1: Enhancing your listening capacity

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You are ready to ask a question of your favorite divination tool! How do you ensure that you will hear the answer intended for you to hear?  

Below is a sure-fire method for enhancing your listening capacity:

1: Relax – Stress is the #1 suppressor of your listening capacity. It doesn’t matter if it’s emotional, mental, or physical stress. It doesn’t matter if it’s positive or negative stress.  Whatever the stress – let it go!  
 
Take a few moments and close your eyes. Take a breath in and hold it for a count of 10 then exhale and wait for a count of 10, repeat that a few times. Then think about your body starting with the head and feel the muscles in the head relax. Then think through each of your body areas in succession: neck, upper body, arms, hands, spine, lower abdomen, thighs, calves and feet.  The act of putting your attention on the body area is what relaxes it.  

Remember, intention followed by attention creates action or change.

2: Let go of any notion of what the message will be – It’s easy to be caught up in desire or fear and assume what message will be conveyed, or more often, know what you ‘want’ to be conveyed and rally your energy for that message to appear.
 
Unfortunately, if the message you expect or strongly desire doesn’t show up in exactly the way you want it, the message that does appear may seem confusing or even irritating. If you begin each divination session with an affirmation, it can be easier to let go of pre-conceived notions and allow the tool to reveal truth.

Try an affirmation like, “I am a clear and open reader.”

3: Be willing to listen to the message the tool actually conveys – There can be many nuances to any message, or more than one way to interpret that message.  What you want is for your intuition to guide you to the fullest, most truthful message possible.  This takes a willingness to see truth.  

Tell yourself, before you begin, that you are open and willing to hear the truth of the situation.  Try an affirmation such as, ”I am willing to see and hear the truth in this situation.”

Conclusion: Now put this all together into one affirmation that you say each time you sit down with your tool.  Say something like this:

“I am a relaxed, clear and open reader.  I let go of pre-conceived notions and invite my intuitive channel to guide me. I am willing to see and hear the truth in this situation.”

After a while the act of saying the affirmation will bring about the state you want to fully enhance your listening capacity and get the most out of your divination experience.