I’ve seen that different guides and energies have more interest and ability in leaving you better than they found you. Many don’t seem to understand the potential damage to your body systems. So this is another place to be very discerning, and to negotiate with the energies asking to come through you. You don’t invite just anyone into your house, so please don’t just invite anyone through your body.

Three:  How can I live and embody this channeled message/energy in my own life, to LIVE it myself, before I proclaim myself an expert? How can I embody this wisdom instead of relinquishing responsibility for the energies and messages that come through me because I am “just the Channel.“

See, energy that comes flooding through in an ecstatic state has not yet really become an embodied transmission until the human channel has integrated it, walked it in their own life.  When someone has not only been receiving the messages, but also integrating them, practicing them, and then embodying them… That’s what I call embodied channeling.

An embodied channel emanates the energy of the wisdom.  You can feel it when they walk up to you, a sense of embodied wisdom. They’ve made sense of it in their own life, so they can speak to it as a teacher, as a mentor, as a coach.  They don’t shrug their shoulders and disavow all responsibility for what comes through them. Quite to the contrary, they are able to explain, exemplify, and directly transmit a lived experience of the wisdom. 

Are they inspired? Yes. Are they constantly receiving new downloads? Yes. The difference is, they are receiving the downloads, and then applying them to their own life first, before moving on.

When you listen to an embodied channel speak, you feel welcomed, invited, possibly confronted but genuinely empowered and lifted up.

When you listen to a straight channeling, you will probably feel “the energy” and the words will sound vaguely impressive or even intimidating. You may feel the energy having an effect on you directly, but you likely will not be left with an empowered clear message you can use right away. Rather, you will be left to interpret and integrate whatever you received on your own. You might leave that event feeling impressed by the channel. You might feel like you need them to channel to you again, because something doesn’t feel finished.

Of course, there are people who have a combination of both straight channeling and embodied channeling. This often happens when the channeling person has an ongoing relationship with the wisdom energy that comes through them. They continue to embody each level that the wisdom energy brings through them.  That way even when they are bringing new downloads through, they have already integrated and embodied much of the foundational information that it builds upon, layer by layer embodying it.

Embodied channels often walk in the world as inspiring leaders. Many of them don’t speak about the fact that they download their new ideas, their best wisdom, and their innovations directly from spirit. They don’t need to. They don’t want to be confused with the straight channelers who go into trance, giving themselves over to an energy to use. They identify more as a co-creative partner with their wisdom source.

In my opinion, we need embodied channeling more than straight channeling.  We don’t need to be distracted or wowed by impressive energies. We need true role models.  We need true leaders. I think it is the embodied channels we need now to lead this world from a deep co-creative conscious partnership with heaven and earth.

What do you think?