Channelling Intensive Workshop - Part 2

Special Note: Welcome to the downloadable copy of the old class Avril ran on 'Channelling Intensive Workshop' in 2009. With so much new content coming through from Spirit, Avril is not able to offer feedback with this content any longer, which is why it has been turned into a Broadcast only. You may read references to feedback required throughout these notes, but as this is no longer an online class and is simply offered as a Broadcast of information, you can ignore these prompts. We've left these prompts for feedback in the notes, as they are good indications of when you might want to reflect for yourself and write your experiences in your journal. Enjoy!

Module: 1 Review

If you did the gratitude exercise, you probably would have noticed your week transformed with lovely experiences. If you'd like more amazing and wonderful experiences, continue this process. It will also accelerate your channelling ability beyond your wildest aspirations.

The Chakra Clearing and Healing meditation process is a very important one to use often for all channelling students. Not only will it open your channel, clean out your Chakras and vitalise your physical energy, but it will also help clear your energetic patterns to open your channelling abilities, beyond the ones most natural to you.

The Chakras you noticed were the easier ones to breathe through are your naturally open ones. These Chakras will show you where your natural abilities for channelling lie. As we discussed in Module 1, you can develop all abilities, but these Chakras will Guide your first steps in channelling. They are the places within your energy field, which have the easiest capacity right now, to allow energy through them. I suggest you do the Chakra Clearing and Healing Meditation at least once a week, more often if you can.

My own personal channel opened much more widely, after I was doing this meditation every day for about 2 months. After this period, I saw such a benefit that I did it every day for about 5 years! Now my channel is permanently open and as long as I don't cloud it with new muck, it will stay that way.

Beginning to Channel

In this module, we'll be talking a little more about your tap connection and how to get it plugged in. Plus we'll be going through a process to download and record channelled information.

Remember, the most important thing is to stay grounded. As we spoke of in Module 1, once grounded, only then can we channel from the realms of Love and Light in the Universe.

When you first start channelling, the information you receive will come through your Main Guide at the time or your Higher Self. As you progress with channelling, you will also be able to channel from different realms and different Light Beings. You do not always get to choose with whom you are connected. Those beings who can share their expertise with you will come forward.

It is important however to ensure that you always set an intention before channelling. You may for example state that 'you wish to be connected with a Guide who can bring you all the wisdom you need to know right now about X', whatever X is, that you wish to learn more about. Once you have done this, whomever the representative for Spirit is, you can be guaranteed they will have expert advice for you.

Don't worry too much about who you're channelling from to begin with. We'll deepen your awareness of this later on as we continue through the modules.

Information You Channel is Not Always the Truth
The information you channel through in a written format is often beautiful, poetic-like and very general in its nature. At all times when you receive channelled information, Spirit use the opportunity to tell you what you need most to hear, not necessarily the truth. Why might Spirit, in essence, lie? Because oftentimes it is for your 'Highest Good'. What does this mean exactly?

Your Guides are working with you to try and help you find more peace and tranquillity and also to help you on the path of experience you've chosen to come here and learn. Whenever they get the opportunity, they will tell you what you need to know, to ensure you stay on that path and bring you peace.

For example, one day I asked Spirit to help me find a crystal I had been looking for. I was really busy that day and I wasn't really paying attention or in the Alpha State when I asked and so I didn't hear the answer. Two days later, I was looking for a necklace I wanted to wear. I asked and heard, 'it is in the passenger side door of the car'. I went and looked there and found the crystal I was looking for two days earlier. Grateful, but wanting the necklace I still hadn't found, I then went back into my house. As I was sipping my coffee and thinking about the necklace, my coffee cup almost seemed to move in my hands, like someone bumped it. I spilt some coffee and it dropped to the floor. As I cleaned it up, I found my missing necklace, which had dropped to the floor near the coffee!

My Guides helped me to find peace with both things, while they had the opportunity, when I was listening. They didn't tell me the truth by telling me the necklace was in the car, but they brought me more peace in the process. Understand that your channelled information always comes for a reason. Work with whatever you are told, even if you're not sure why. There is always a meaning to each thing they share with you, even if it is not the truth or answering the question you are asking, at that moment.

Each Channel for Spirit needs to understand that all information given to them or others, is for the Highest Good of All involved and this can often take a lot of trust. If you choose to begin sharing information, you'll need to help others understand this also.

I'll never forget many years ago when I understood this concept through a wonderful lesson I endured. A client came for a channelled reading. She had been given an opportunity to go a meet with a person she knew many years before. This man was offering her the world, a fairytale, marriage, his heart and to come and live in a castle with him overseas. He had declared his love for her, said it was there for all these years and now she was divorced, he wished for them to become closer. He invited her to come and stay with him for two weeks to test things out. She came to me for the reading to see if she should go or not.

During the reading, the Guides were so encouraging about the bliss she would encounter, that she decided to go. When she got back from the two weeks abroad, she rang me. She was very upset because he had turned out to be a raving mad alcoholic and she had experienced a terrible time. She said to me 'Avril why on earth did you send me there'. I didn't really have an answer other than, 'everything happens for a reason' and 'I'm not sure why the Guides tell me the things they do, but there is always a greater gift in it'. Understandably she was quite upset and there was nothing more I could say to help her.

When I got off the phone I gave my Guides a serving!!! I asked them why they had given me such incorrect information. My intention was always to help people and not send them into terrible experiences! I was very cranky with my Guides because I knew I had heard them absolutely correctly during the reading. They told me that if she never went and they told her the truth of what would happen, she would spend the rest of her life wondering what might have been. She would have endlessly questioned whether the guidance I received for her was correct and spent many hours in regret, that she didn't at least try it. In their own special way, the Guides had lead her to the path which was for her Highest Good.

These kinds of experiences are not always comfortable for the channel. If you are going to download information from the Spirit world and 'represent' their knowledge, you must trust that no matter what happens, you are always guided to share wisdom, which is for the Highest Good of All.

If you choose to be a channel for the wisdom of Spirit, you must only be the channel. Decide right now that you will not pass any of your own opinions off as channelling to others. Commit to being really clear about what may be your mind and what may be your channel. If you read a piece of your own channelling and you think it may be your own opinion, face up to this. Share the information with others, but let them know, you're not sure about this part.

It is important to be very honest with yourself when channelling. You'll need to know yourself really well. You'll also need to be really clear about the fact that you are just the tap. The information does not come from you and it may be tarnished by the grit in your channel, as it passes through. When you acknowledge these things, you will become the clearest channel you can.

Turning up the Tap
At this point in your journey, you're probably so worried about getting it 'right', that you often doubt your channel, being unsure about what is from who, your Guides or you. As I said in Module 1, this is perfectly normal. Let me now share some truths about your Divine nature and why channelling is your birthright.

You, along with every other living human being on this planet, have a set of Chakras and a Central Channel of energy. If you didn't have life force flowing through this channel from your Higher Self, you would be dead.

All people are tapped into their Higher Self, all the time. When you incarnate only about 2-5% of your total consciousness is physically here with you. The other 95-98% remains in Spirit. This all-aware portion of yourself, is what you are always plugged into. It is the top of your tap. From here other Guides and Light Beings may pour information through your hose, but your first connection is with this tap point or your 'Higher Self'.

Your Higher Self is the portion of you that remembers the Divine Nature of your Soul. It is fully aware of all of the wisdom in the Universe. It is always in contact with the knowledge and information of everything. You are always plugged into this source and therefore you are always connected and one with the Divine. When we incarnate physically, we simply forget this truth.

As you learn to channel you must connect with love, as we discussed in Module 1. The first place you find this love is within yourself. If I tell you, you are a Divine Being incarnate, in essence, a God/ess in physical form, your ego will most probably feel flattered by the notion of this, but deep inside, you may not believe this. After all no one may have told you this before.

Every single human being on the earth IS love. They ARE Divine. They already have the knowledge of all wisdom, ever thought of, in the past, present or future, inside them. This is your Divine birthright.

As you begin to channel, it is simply not possible for you to not get information. You are naturally plugged into this channel all the time.

The only possibility that effects clear channelling is when the human mind gets in the way. As you read this, you may start to think, wow my mind's a real pain! Well actually it's not. In our society we've just learnt to use it the wrong way.

Our mind was given to us to process and catalogue information. As we take our experience and knowledge back into the Universe of 'Collective' knowledge when we pass over, our mind will have it all in a nice neat format. This is its purpose.

Unfortunately here in our world, we have made our minds the king of our life castle. They are the supreme being and force within us. We have almost completely forgotten about the emotions and the spirit, let alone the true wisdom of the body. In our society the mind is responsible for intellectual achievement, which is so very highly prized. Everything is about your intellect in our world, from your tests at school to your performance reviews, to the psychological attainment of goals, the power of positive thinking – everything. Your mind is used to running the show. It always has. It has been given this power because our society dictates it is necessary.

Right now, you need to make a new arrangement with your mind. Agree that it is very important for you. It has an important job to do. As you experience different things, it is now to create a reference system for you. Its job is to catalogue and to make sure this reference system is ordered correctly. When you are calling upon an old reference, it should let you know. It should help you now and forever more, think in new ways, 'open your mind' and release limiting ways of thinking, which limit your perception. It however, no longer has the power to rule your life with fear. It also must step out of the way to allow you to have experiences and to only engage, after these experiences, to catalogue them.

Let's put this agreement in the context of channelling for a moment. If your mind is doing more than simple cataloguing, after the event, the minute you get any information, it automatically makes you question.

If instead, you have the experience of the energy you are channelling and then afterwards, you allow your mind to become involved to look for filters and catalogue the experience – then you are allowing the information to come to you without hindrances. You've opened yourself to the world of channelling. This is what I will teach you in this class. Your mind has no business in the process of channelling, but it is very useful tool after the process of downloading information is complete. We'll be using it only in this context.

I'm going to ask you to be very aware of the feeling in your body, which will show you when your mind steps in. The more you become aware of your Chakras, the more you'll know this is occurring.

Thoughts originate from within your skull. The energy of a thought bursts from within your mind, like a light switching on inside your skull.

Channelled information first 'arrives' as energy outside of your skull. Some people feel it as if the words are being spoken to them beside their right ear. Hearing the information is not like physically hearing something. It is like hearing a thought, which originates outside of your head. It is accompanied by a feeling of energy, followed by an idea, which comes to mind. In order to feel the difference, you need to become aware of the subtle changes in your body as you're attempting to channel. This is where Chakra Healing and Clearing is so important. It begins to help you feel these subtle energy differences.

As part of this module, I will be giving you a special meditation to download called 'Get to Know Your Spirit Guides'. This special meditation contains a process, which will allow you to recognise when your Spirit Guides are with you and when they are not. It is important to feel their presence before conducting any channelling.

Learning to Receive Energy
To channel we must receive energy from the Universe. In the world we live in we're not usually so good at receiving energy. We're taught to defend ourselves right from a young age. Don't get into cars with strangers. Don't talk to strangers. Be careful with your drink in a nightclub. Make sure he/she's not cheating on you. Society teaches us that everyone is out to get us!

The spiritual realms are filled with loving empowering energies and for some of us, it may be difficult to simply open ourselves up to receive this loving energy. To enhance your skills with channelling, you must be able to 'receive'. What does this mean exactly?

In our day-to-day experience, life is usually very much about what we give. We give at our jobs, with our family, to our partners. Life is all about what we do. We have indeed become human 'doings' rather than 'beings'. To receive energy and wisdom in channelling endeavours, we must learn to be still and allow things to come to us. This also helps with our manifestation in life as well, so it is a wonderful skill to cultivate, with many benefits in all areas of our lives. Let me explain it in more detail…

If we are the kind of person who never receives, who is always giving, doing and taking action, we create a blockage between the energy around us and what the Universe is sending us. Let's look at this more deeply for a moment.

Let's say you ask your Guides for some information for your best friend Johnny. He is feeling really down at the moment and you'd like some information to help him. Just like the picture above, you send this 'request' out the to Universe.

If you are good at receiving, the Universe responds with a return ripple and you receive it, just like in the picture below. The information flows down through your hose from the Universal tap of knowledge and you get an answer for Johnny and pass it on.

If you are a person who is always giving, your ripples are always flowing outwards. As waves of energy bounce out into the Universe and back to you, you repel them, just like the picture below.

As much as you may wish to get that answer for Johnny, no matter how hard you try, you won't get anything. Your own energy is repelling the knowledge the Universe has for you.

For this reason, learning to receive is of critical importance to all channelling students. Are you able to receive?

When someone gives you a complement, do you say thank you? Or do you repel their energy by immediately admiring something about them?

Do you prefer to give to others?

Do you say yes when you'd rather say no?

Part of our process this week will be opening up your energy to receive. I want you to openly go forward this week and receive absolutely every single thing, offered to you from others. Notice whether it feels comfortable or not. Test out how your receiving skills are.

Beginning to Channel
So we now know we're plugged in all the time, simply because we're alive.

We're going to let our mind take a back seat and only be a witness.

We've started to clear our Chakras and Central Channel hose.

We're going to learn to receive more energy as we progress through the modules.

Let's now start with some 'how to' for downloading some sacred written messages!

Channelled Messages
This is the easiest place to start and most commonly, the thing students are very interested in. By 'Channelled Messages', I simply mean that you receive messages and you write or type them down. These messages may be for yourself, others around you, or end up being books, oracle cards, project ideas for your vocation – all sorts of wonders are possible!

How to Conduct a Written Channelling Session
1. You must be in the Alpha State before you begin. The 'Alpha State' is the brain wave pattern you achieve when you are in a light meditation or the space your mind gets to just before you fall asleep, before you start dreaming. You also achieve this state when you do some forms breathwork, yoga, Tai Chi, have a massage, give or receive a Reiki healing or simply, when you're daydreaming and your eyes become fixed. What do you notice about all of these states? You are completely present, grounded and your mind is switched off.

For this reason, I am going to suggest that you do all channelling processes directly after you have just meditated.

Over time you won't need to meditate to channel. This is because you will be permanently in the Alpha state. When you achieve this state of being, your mind is still present, but is always the observer, not the engager. It is only cataloguing and you are deeply in touch, with the love and bliss within yourself. Most great spiritual teachers achieve this state of being and exist there most of the time. Now you know why the Dalai Lama smiles so much and why Buddha is so often depicted laughing! It feels wonderful to be in the Alpha State!

2. Once your mind is completely clear and you have achieved the Alpha State, then you ask a good question and ask your Main Guide or Higher Self to come and work with you.

A 'good question' is one that cannot be answered in an ambiguous way. For example. If I tell you I am having a 'fantastic' day today, you might conjure up images of your most fantastic day, from your memory and if this involves skiing, you might think I must be skiing.

If when you were a child, a person always told you, you were not fantastic like the other children, you might have a lot of negativity linked to the word.

If you asked your Spirit Guides to help you receive the knowledge you need to have a 'fantastic life', this too would be open to their interpretation of the meaning of the word. Asking this kind of question inevitably creates an ambiguous answer.

If instead you asked them how you could improve things in your life, so your own feelings of satisfaction and contentment were improved, you might get a clearer answer. You are asking for an answer from your perspective. They will give you an answer based on your perspective.

3. After you feel the presence of your Guide and you can feel their energy around you. The third step is to write down whatever comes to your mind, before you have a chance to analyse it. You'll reach a point where the flow of ideas stop and you'll notice your mind then engages, to analyse and catalogue the information. Notice when this happens and then stop writing.

Channelled information comes in many forms, so write down whatever feelings, impressions and thoughts come to you. No matter how long or short these impressions last for.

You might see a picture of a mountain and then a swan swimming in a lake. After this you get a feeling of peace. Write all these things down.

You may see written words or hear them spoken to you. Write them down.

You may get a feeling of contentment and then be shown a book. After which you see a person writing. Followed by an apple and then a tingling feeling in your stomach. Write all of these things down.

As you're writing what you see, feel or experience, be fully aware of all sensations you experience in your body. Notice how it feels. Do not edit your feelings or impressions or try and analyse them at all. Just write down whatever comes to you.

It is as simple as that. Yes. It is as simple as that! Remember, if you're alive, you're plugged in. You may not be as plugged in as you can be yet, but you are always plugged in. If you are grounded, energetically clear, feeling loving, relaxed and in the Alpha State, your channel is as strong as it can be right now. So whatever you get, TRUST, that it is from your Higher Self and Spirit Guides.

After you are done with any channelling session, you can then analyse its contents and this is what we'll be doing in the next module. For this module, I'd like you to do the meditation (download below) at least 5 times. It takes about 30 mins to complete. At the end of each session of meditation, I'd like you to sit down and write or type what you are given.

To get around the problem of the mind interfering, I'm going to give you 5 words and I want you to ask your Main Guide to give you information about the word.

The words are:
Andronicus
Feat-her
Larconial
Junious
Ronael

No matter where you look on the Internet, you will not find any meaning for these words and you probably will have never heard them before. I am doing this for you, so you know, your mind cannot possibly make up something for these words. It has no references. Please type out all of the information you receive for each word and post it in your 'Share Feedback' for the module. Write down everything you get and do not edit any of it.

If you can, please try and continue with the Chakra Clearing and Healing as well this week. Do it as often as your time allows.

Remember to receive everything you can, from everything offered this week as well.

In the next module, we'll be looking in more detail at filters and how they effect what we get when channelling.

I look forward to continuing our journey together in Module 3.

Don't forget to return to DownloadConsciousness.com and download the guided meditation that comes with this file! Search for the product and then click the 'download' tab, which you will only see, when you are logged in to the web site. Relax & Enjoy!