By Carmen Vasquez

Yes, it’s true: Everyone can channel, which basically means getting tuned with higher beings and connected with the spiritual world to bring information and messages from them. Many people have been doing this without even realizing they are channeling with their Angels, Guides, Ascended Masters and other light beings, because people usually think that these beings show themselves in a 3D body or talking to them loudly. It could be the case, of course, but when people still have the veil and has not being awaken yet, is not common that they will see those higher beings with their physical eyes or listen to them with their physical ears at the beginning. Usually the spiritual world communicates with people through visions, thoughts, our inner voice, flashes of inspiration or a download of ideas.

So to start to channel, it really helps to be in a quite space and be able to relax; in that way you can get your left brain focused and at the same time your right brain, which is your creative side, will be open and ready to receive and listen to your intuition, the most common way they use to communicate with us.

We all love music. Sometimes all it takes is one song to completely alter our mood and prepare us for the day ahead. But how does it actually do that? What happens when our brains hear the music? Recent scientific studies reveal how music can benefit your brain and what exactly happens in different brain areas when you listen to music.

Music is sort of an ultimate exercise for your brain since it activates every known part, especially the visual, auditory and motor cortices. Researchers have realised that when we hear and attempt to play music, our brains process sounds that they couldn’t otherwise hear. This helps us develop a neurophysiological distinction between certain sounds. Actively engaging with music vastly improves the strength of neural processing, also helping our language skills.^[1]

Before you can follow your star, you want to know where your star is.

Before you can reveal to yourself who you are, you have to know who you are.

In life, you strive to find the star you swing on. No matter how many moons you have lived on Earth, you are trying to find out this answer.

You know all you are not. You are good at that. Too often you don’t know who you are or what you really like nor do you begin to know what you are capable of.

It is as though you were in summer theater. You put on a costume and wear a hat. You play a part, and yet the part you play is hollow.

You put that costume and hat aside, and next summer you put on another costume and hat and act in another play, and all the while you wonder where your star is to wish upon.

All year and your whole life, you have wondered when you will find the ship that is yours to sail, and, you wonder, when you see it, how will you know it’s yours?

It has been said that you find yourself by losing yourself. Lose your search for identity and belonging, and you may well discover your star as you are not looking or looking so hard.

Observing the events unfolding in Baltimore.  The ego is eager to "take sides," depending on my personal experience, emotional conditioning and belief systems.  This indeed is the way of the world.

The Wave of Creation suggests that I not take sides (although in many ways it would be much easier).  It does this by gently pushing my words back into me, and by doing so, showing me that that taking sides-that separation in any form-does not resonate with the deepest truth I know. Instead the Wave whispers, "Look to your own thoughts and actions.  Are you promoting peace or are you fueling flames?".  It lets me know that my thoughts and words have a profound impact, either serving the forces of separation and fear, or those of love.  

I bow to that which is beyond reason, beyond emotion, beyond logic.  Until the moment when we are reunited and the illusion is severed, I try to remember who I am.

Ted Slipchinsky is a mystic singer, writer and songwriter. You can see more of his work at songsofmysoul.com where you can also purchase his recently released book "Songs from the River". Ted also has a Facebook group The Other TED Talks.