Channeling is a much used, and perhaps misused, word these days. 

I have felt a good deal of discomfort with the term even though I am a channel.  Much of my discomfort arises from the lack of clarity as to what channeling is and isn’t.

Channeling, as I understand it from Our Friends and from my own experience, is an inherent gift that can be developed — just as an artist’s talent must be both inherent and developed, as a mathmetician’s ability must be inherent and developed, as an engineer, as a Doctor, as any gift must be invested in, cared for, nurtured. 

Just as not everyone is an artist or a mathmetician, not everyone is a channel.  We all have some degree of almost any skill if we set ourselves to build it.  But is it our natural, inherent gift? 

Channeling is the gift of being able to surrender to an energy that is not embodied, an energy for positive good, so the energy may speak and work through the channel to help others.  I believe that any energy coming through the channel comes always to work with and help the channel as well, perhaps first and foremost.

Channeling is often confused with mediumship, which is the ability to hear and interpret those who have died.   There are people who have a type of mediumship ability that relates to “hearing” and being able to interpret animals as well.

Channeling is frequently confused with the experience of being deeply present with oneself, another, or a situation to such an extent that you are able to hear and act upon your intuition and instincts easily.  This is an ability we all possess as children but have often had “taught” out of us.  Relearning it feels almost a miracle, like touching some miraculous wisdom, yet it is our birthright.

There is a confused belief that a channeled energy should know “everything.”  There are many reasons why this is not so.  Two reasons that I am very familiar with from sharing Our Friends in sessions are 1) that much in life is not set in stone, all is not planned, and so prophesy is not possible; 2)  to prophesy is to take away another’s power for action and choice, which denies that person’s soveriegnty as a human being.  

As Our Friends often say, our lives are a journey much like a river’s.  We are meant to meander.  To tell someone where they are going is to point them in a straight line.  Head out on that line and life will have to change the goal, because we are meant to take the journey of our lives, not head straight for the finish.  Besides, there is no finish…just a scene change, so to speak.

…that’s all for now…

Love, Stephanie

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