Dear Guides,

Tell us more about the power of knowing, “I am right,” within oneself, as opposed to being buffeted by others’ opinions and second guessing oneself.

Excerpt from Minda’s channeling on 1.19.2010:

Dear ones,

In this sacred moment, as you ask a question about inner knowing, self-determination and self-direction, we come very close around you, because this question sets up the delicate balance of what you have chosen to face in this lifetime, the expansions you desire, the challenges you are ready to experience, the things you are here to learn – and these are balanced or juxtaposed next to the co-creating that you are doing with the other souls with whom you have made agreements for experiences and learnings together in this lifetime. And then, as well, these two elements are both interacting with the outer world, or the rest of the world’s natural tendency to influence, to spill out in its boundless exuberance, stirring up all kinds of well-meaning bits of chaos and grit upon which you can fine tune your skills and also adjust your trajectory.

So you see, we can’t exactly give a simple answer like, “When you know, just follow that - never sway to one side or another,” thus supporting your steadfastness to a goal or a desire. It is the nature of life on Earth to constantly be evolving, shifting, adjusting, hearing inner calls and outer calls, which are also the voices of wisdom, always trying to expand your vision and your perception of the possibilities open to you in this lifetime, as you evolve to be ready to integrate more into your field of vision.

Your question implies a deep inner trust, which is the beautiful key to your path. And yet when this inner trust bumps up against great resistance, from outside but also from within - that “second-guessing voice” - there are lessons inherent in that.

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Channeling (c) 2010 Minda Bernstein

Painting (c) 2010 Julie Bernstein Engelmann

Painting title: Inner Knowing You’re Right 1.19.2010

Dear Guides,

Can you tell us more about the process of allowing? How do we allow things to be perfect just the way they are and what role does this letting go play in the manifestation of what we want?

Excerpt from Minda’s channeling on 1.12.2010:

Dear ones,

This question opens the door to the guidance on living your lives in this world you have chosen. This is the technique you have been seeking for so long, as you come closer and closer to living in alignment or from the center of your divine inner knowing, rather than from the fringes of fear where you are so vulnerable to the winds that buffet you around hither and yon.

The more you can feel the center, the peace in the center of the storm, the more you know when you are balanced inside, and stable. And with that relaxed, poised energy of preparedness, you become like a cat, with that pure energy, that which allows you to jump at any moment, hiding or encapsulated within your deep relaxation. This brings you confidence. Part of it is the knowledge of your prowess, part of it is the trust in the Universe. You begin to feel how when you activate both yourself and your unlimited force within, together, anything is possible.

This inner sense of knowing that all is possible - or it could be called trust that the Universe will bring you everything you desire - is a way of relaxing the gnawing anxiety that you “should, should, should” be something different than you are, or do something different than you are doing.

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Channeling (c) 2010 Minda Bernstein

Painting (c) 2010 Julie Bernstein Engelmann

Painting title: Allowing 1.12.2010

Dear Guides,

How can we better channel through art?

Excerpt from Minda’s channeling on 1.5.2010:

Dear ones,

You are asking about tuning in to the hum of the Universe, transmitting the deep, inner pulse of the Source within all matter and being, which is the micro- and macro-unit of all life. This stream of pure energy is always available to each artist and soul creating on any level, whether it is a life, a work, an idea, or solving a problem, or even creating a relationship or an interchange between two souls.

But while you may easily remain distracted from hearing this pulse when you are in the fray of daily existence, juggling many things simultaneously, and trying to accommodate others as you move forward in your own path, when you designate time to “do your art,” you actually give yourself the potential to have a hiatus from the push and pull of daily life and to step into a zone where you consciously focus on that pulse of the Universe.

Or not.

For there are many other layers or levels of pulse that you can be receptive to.

You can tap into the emotional level and express the turmoil of human emotions. There is nothing inherently wrong with this by any means. It is an expression of human nature, of the turbulence of vibrations that many of you are surrounded with, that you unconsciously or consciously choose to be surrounded with, in your daily lives. This layer of energy brings incredible passion and color to your art. It can carry the true voice of the human experience, and have a power to captivate many, many souls who are longing to see their own dilemmas reflected in order to gain understanding and perspective about them.

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Channeling (c) 2010 Minda Bernstein

Painting (c) 2010 Julie Bernstein Engelmann

Painting title: Art as Channeling 1.5.2010

Dear Guides,

What might a new economy look like where money was not the primary motivator, rather people’s aspirations and focus of exchange revolve around creativity and service?

Excerpt from Minda’s channeling on 12.29.2009:

Dear ones,

Oh, how exciting and creative of you to envision this question which will allow you to envision the answer, which is the first step to creating the new. You are 100% moving towards light to ask and envision these questions. And by doing this, you bring more and more into the consciousness of the many who surround you and who come in contact with you. This is how the process works to raise consciousness on the planet on which you live.

There are so many, many possible futures for you in your society and on your planet, or in any distinct community, for that matter, as long as there is harmony with those involved. In order to expand your vision of the possibilities, which are in your own power to choose to move towards, think of this range.

On the one hand, there could be a society which totally manifests everything through personal vision and creation, where each individual sees the contents of their universe to be filled with objects of their own creation, juxtaposed and overlaying others with their own visions.

An in-between ground could be one where all peoples share the set of contexts together, but the society does not use counting and measuring and any remuneration at all, or any quantitative measurement at all, and there is only a free-floating sense of well-being that is revered and sought after and “measured” by each individual.

Or it can be more like the current extreme where things are counted, listed, measured against each other, and there is a constant sense of comparison which is suggested, expected and almost encouraged, certainly normalized, which drains a lot of energy in a non-productive way for the most part.

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Channeling (c) 2010 Minda Bernstein

Painting (c) 2010 Julie Bernstein Engelmann

Painting title: The New Economy 12.29.2009