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Wednesday, 21 June 2006 03:50 |
| | Janese Johnson |
Even as a child, I was fascinated with understanding people from a deeper perspective.
My grandmother ?®read?∆ a regular deck of cards and would get together with all the neighborhood women and give them readings. She said it was just for fun and that she didn??t really believe in it.
The neighborhood women later told me that she was amazingly accurate and they had no idea how she did it. I begged my grandmother from nine years old until I was 12 to teach me how to read the cards. She said I was too young and that she would teach me at 12.
Indeed,
at 12, I learned about the cards. I played around with them with
friends and continued ?®goofing?∆ around with them until I met my former
husband at 23 years old. He encouraged me to read them professionally
and connected me with a woman who became very excited about what I did.
I later quit using cards and currently I use only my intuition to help
others.
In the beginning days, I came from a belief that we were all fated and
it was for me to receive what others?? fate had set up for them.
I have since come to believe that our future is based on our current belief system and that we have free will.
So if someone subconsciously believes that life is hard and that they
have to struggle so much in order to have any happiness, then that is
what their future will be. Not anything that is different than their
subconscious belief system.
So I now use intuition to help others become more conscious and aware
of what is really within them. If we can see what is within our own
selves, then we can affect our future outcome.
Dreams can be an important aspect of this work.
There are many types of dreams that we have each day. Some dreams are
simply emotional stress dreams, others are disjointed thoughts and
still others can be guidance from our own soul.
Often, when I
have a dilemma that I need clarity on, I ask before I go to sleep that
I receive clarity through a dream. I find this is easier, because my
rational mind is out of the way and I get the answer straight from my
soul.
I also have to affirm that I will remember the dream and understand the answer.
There have been times in my life that I have asked and in the middle of
the night I awake with a knowingness that I received the answer, but I
have no memory of the dream or the answer.
Since then, I have learned that it is important to be specific with
what you want to experience ?? and that is to wake up with the memory of
the dream and the knowingness of the answer within the dream.
There are many
times that I have to ask the question over and over again before I have
clarity. So it is important to be patient.
There are many philosophies that tell us that we dream in symbols. I
have seen this to be true at times and other times I have experienced
dreams to be quite literal.
I have also found that symbols mean different things for different
people. Swimming in a lake for one person might mean they are swimming
in their emotions, but for another person, it might mean that water is
important for them.
Others can help us to understand our own dream a little better, but
really we are the only ones who really ?®know?∆ what our dreams are
about. We just have to dive a little deeper within ourselves to
understand more. Because we are the true receivers of our own direction
in life, no one really is any better at ?®knowing and receiving?∆ for us
than our own self.
So by asking questions and using your dreams for the answers, you will
find that you can see aspects within yourself that you had no idea
existed.
And the truth of who you are will set you free to experience the life that you are meant to live.
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Janese Johnson
has been doing intuitive counseling nationally for more than 20 years.
She may be contacted at janesej-at-bellsouth.net.
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