Dear Lipstick Mystic,

I've really enjoyed reading your articles. You seem to have a lot of experience and wisdom. I have a question you may be able to help me with. I appreciate any input you might care to offer.

If someone wants to learn how to obtain higher wisdom for themselves, how can they do this? What do you recommend to those of us whom are not able to access (read) our own energy patterns and chakras? From your experience, what is the most direct route to developing this ability?

Thanks again, and keep up the informative posts.

---M.

Hi M.,

The wisdom you're trying to access is something that can be called the Higher Self or God/Goddess/Great Spirit, the Mind of God, the Quantum Self, or the Divine Self. There are many words that can be used to describe this omnipotent knowledge base of higher understanding. We're all meant to be able to do this for ourselves. Unfortunately, we're not taught how to do this. So seekers can end up becoming dependent on a guru, a therapist, or a psychic advisor to give them their spiritual "fix." It's great that you're focused on learning to do this yourself.

Getting spiritually "online" will help you to have a much more harmonious life. It's okay to turn to a psychic, healer, or a spiritual teacher to help you to get started. We all need some help in the beginning.

But people eventually need to learn how to access the wisdom of their heart on their own. That's really what you're doing - connecting with the divine intelligence of the heart. You're already familiar with the way your heart views things. That's the part of you that measures choices by how good they feel - does this choice enhance my life or destroy my life? Does this relationship spread love and joy, or does it pull me down into pain and darkness? That sort of thing.

If you are already a spiritual seeker (which you obviously are - just like me. I'm the perennial seeker!).....you'll find your own way of obtaining truth.

Probably the most powerful meditations I've experienced are ones in which you sit and open up both your heart chakra and your crown chakra (at the top of the head.) Sometimes, it's helpful to use a visualization to connect with these energy centers.

Simple Rose Meditation

The very first chakra meditation I used many years ago was one in which I imagined a pink rose at my heart chakra and saw the petals unfurl and open up, all the while setting the intention for my heart to be opened. Then I'd imagine a pearly white rose sitting at the top of my head, imagining that rose gradually opening up, releasing the energy of my crown center. Then I'd visualize them both aligning with each other, so the energy streamed from my heart up to my head and out my crown and upwards to my Higher Self. Then I'd focus on bringing the wisdom, love, and strength of my Higher Self down into my crown and heart centers. Sometimes I'd picture this as white light, but you can also use gold, solar orange, divine purple, or any color that represents power and purity to you.

Try the rose meditation and see if it's easy for you. It's pretty simple to do, and the energy involved is very gentle and loving.

You can repeat this visualization any time you want to connect with those energy centers, training yourself to open up to higher wisdom "on cue." As you get good at this, you'll find some amazing things happening. You might start to develop clairvoyance, clairaudience, clairsentience or a combination of these. You may sprout healing abilities. You might experience a moment of communication with an angel or spiritual guide. Many things will unfold once you start to open up. Everybody's path is different.

If you keep focusing on your heart and your crown centers, you'll learn a great deal on your own. Contrary to many religious and mystical traditions, some of which have become massively distorted over time, nobody possesses the ultimate pipeline to Divine Wisdom. So it's important to set up your own, personal passageway to higher understanding. Experiment with different prayers, meditations, invocations, affirmations, rituals, and creative play while keeping your heart and your crown centers open.

Have fun, trust what comes to you, and report back on your adventures! You're learning to tap into the power of the Cosmic Internet, and life is going to become lighter and more exciting.

Best to you,

---Lipstick Mystic