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4 ideas about "channeling" that I've changed my mind on, and 3 BTS intuitive business trends I'm seeing
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Thanks for tuning into our series these last few weeks on divination and channeling — did you have fun? I had fun! I hope you had fun.
I went into this divination series experiment with a pretty strong opinion about people who throw around the word "channeling" in their marketing copy. Six weeks later, I haven’t totally changed my stance… but there were quite a few ideas that emerged in our research that’ve really stuck to my ribs.
As we wrap this experiment, I’m left with four big ideas that I’m still rolling around in my brain that directly relate to channeling.
In this episode:
I.
The body always finds a way to become a divining rod.
It’s not all about freeing your mind and opening your third eye.
The body plays an integral and oft overlooked role in divination/channeling/flow state, and even thought I know this it still surprises me how involved the physical body is in the quest to become an antennae for cosmic information. It’s very easy to get all ethereal and heady and mental about spiritual stuff and forget your body is a necessary (and literal) vessel of information.
Regulating the nervous system through somatic practice — meditation, breath, repetitive motion, routine, etc. — is key for clear downloads.
This realization hit me like a brick to the face, which is infuriating because I literally study embodied cognition. I'm training to be a Feldenkrais practitioner for pete’s sake. I should know this. Yet I'm constantly trying to bypass my body — can't I just think my way through everything? Can't I just sit down and make art without paying attention to whether I'm breathing?
But every single divination practice we explored came back to the body. Spiritualist artists used repetitive motions to access trance states. Automatic writing requires that flow state you can only reach through breath work or movement. Even your morning pages routine is a somatic practice, though we pretend it's just "journaling."
II.
Fluency in your preferred medium makes channeling more powerful.
You’re able to more accurately describe what you’re channeling when you have more words to say it.
Think of it like a computer's operating system. If channeled information shows you "a green tree taller than the tallest building you've ever seen," but your reference for "tallest building" is
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