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Practical Tips for Getting in Touch With Your Inner Pilot Light

1. Reduce your level of busyness.

Take a break from your busy life and get quiet. As long as you’re scheduled 24/7,
you’ll find it impossible to hear your Inner Pilot Light.

2. Get out in nature.

Being in the natural world, away from technology and the mind’s other temptations
for distraction opens you up to the wisdom of your Inner Pilot Light.

3. Listen to music.

Try asking your Inner Pilot Light a question and then turning on Pandora to play
“Pandora roulette.” Or put your iPod on random. See what song your Inner Pilot
Light sends your way in response to your question.

4. Tune into your body compass.

Start by noticing how your body feels when you’re faced with a decision. Your
body’s “Hell no” will feel like a tight gripping sensation. A “Hell yeah” often feels like
openness, especially in the chest. Sometimes a choice will feel scary, so you might be
confused by butterflies. But are they the butterflies of excitement or the flutterings
of dread? Tune in.

5. Meditate.

Messages from your Inner Pilot Light tend to be quiet, so you’ll need to clear the
mind’s clutter before you can hear your Inner Pilot Light’s gentle whispers.

6. Face up to your Gremlins.

As long as they’re prattling on, it’s hard to hear your Inner Pilot Light.

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7. Pay attention to dreams and keep a dream journal.

When the cognitive mind is asleep, your Inner Pilot Light has a heyday. Dreams can be
filled with intuitive messaging that needs to be decoded. Read up on the various
techniques to interpret your dreams here.

8. Notice books or articles online that speak directly to where you are in your life.

Consider that billboards, license plates, Facebook posts, emails, sign posts, and books
that fall off the shelf all have messages from your Inner Pilot Light encoded in them. Be
on the lookout for what might be right in front of you.

9. Tune into any health issues you might be facing.

If you have a headache, what is your Inner Pilot Light trying to tell you via your
headache? If your back hurts, what is your Inner Pilot Light trying to communicate? For
more information on how to access your Inner Pilot Light regarding your health, read
Mind Over Medicine.

10. Release your resistance.

As long as you are dissing the wisdom of your Inner Pilot Light as “crazy talk,” you’ll
find it harder to hear. Listen up to that sense of inner knowing that something is true,
even if it feels completely crazy, implausible, or unachievable.

11. See if you can access a spirit guide.

Your spirit guide just might be a translator for your Inner Pilot Light! As my gift to you,
you can download several guided meditations aimed at introducing you to your Inner
Pilot Light and your spirit guide in the free Fulfill Your Calling Kit.

12. Practice tuning into your Inner Pilot Light by simply asking a specific
question.

You can start with something simple like “What should I eat for lunch?” Then close your
eyes, breathe deeply, focus on your question, and notice any thoughts, images, voices,
sounds, or feelings that show up.

13. Play with your Inner Pilot Light.

Your Inner Pilot Light is never more spot-on than when your life or the life of a loved
one is at stake. If your intuition screams, “Don’t trust the babysitter!” you’ll want to take
note. But don’t wait for life-and-death situations to start learning to discern between
your Inner Pilot Light and your Gremlins. Instead, cultivate a playful relationship with
your Inner Pilot Light. Make it a game. Is the phone ringing? See if you can intuit who it
is. Going to watch the World Series? See if your Inner Pilot Light can sense who might
win. Not sure whether to say yes to a job opportunity? Tune in, see what you get, and
then look back to see how things went. Get playful and see what happens.

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14. Put your Inner Pilot Light to the test.

Got a hunch? Write it down in an Inner Pilot Light journal and check back on it later.
Sometimes it will take a year or two to assess how things went when you followed your
intuition or ignored it. In the beginning, following your hunches can feel risky. But over
time, you’ll develop “evidence-based faith.” When you see how effortlessly things can
flow when you follow your hunches, you’ll be less inclined to let your mind dismiss your
intuition.

15. Get into your right brain before seeking guidance from your Inner Pilot Light.

How do you get into your right brain? Try making art, dancing, or visualizations. Here
are a few tips for getting into your right brain:

Sign your name every which way.

Have a bilateral conversation in writing with your right and then left hand.
Learn to move your body in new ways.

16. Learn to recognize the feeling of truth.

Even if the voice of your Inner Pilot Light scares you with what it whispers, it always
lands with a thud of truth. You may not like what your Inner Pilot Light has to say, but
your Inner Pilot Light smashes though layers of denial and cuts to the core to show you
what’s true. Once you start to recognize that feeling of truth, you’ll find it easier to know
when it’s your Inner Pilot Light piping up.

17. Recognize that your Inner Pilot Light tastes like freedom.

Martha Beck suggests that we ask ourselves, “Shackles on or shackles off?” When the
voice of your Inner Pilot Light speaks, it always feels like shackles off.

18. Learn to “read energy.”

Sometimes, you instinctually read someone’s energy without even realizing you’re doing
it. You’ll look at someone you’ve never met and pick up on cues about their emotional
state, health, and well-being. But when we make it a conscious practice to read the
energy of a person, business opportunity, or personal choice, we bench-press our
energy-reading muscles and strengthen our connection to our Inner Pilot Lights.

19. Ask for guidance.

Your cognitive mind will try to convince you that it’s possible to control life. But your
Inner Pilot Light giggles when your mind thinks like this. The sooner you realize that the
Universe doesn’t need you to be in control, the more peace and ease

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you’ll experience. Since you’re not in charge, why not enlist the help of forces of
consciousness larger than your Small Self? Whether you call it God, Goddess, Buddha,
Allah, your Inner Pilot Light or Captain Crunch, surrender to this force of love that can
show you the way of greatest flow for your unique soul.

20. Cultivate presence.

Be here now. When your mind is churning over what happened in the past or worrying
about what hasn’t yet happened, you’re less available to all the intuitive knowing that
only exists in the present moment. To cultivate presence, start a meditation practice,
spend time in nature, and practice mindfulness in your daily activities.

21. Tune in to signs.

The world is alive, everything is conscious, and Consciousness itself is always trying to
communicate with you via your Inner Pilot Light. But most of the time, we’re so busy,
distracted, and caught up in our minds that we miss the signs showing us how to find
and fulfill our calling, how to align with the right people, and how to live in accordance
with our souls. Learn how to interpret the signs. Not sure how to tune into the signs.
Listen to “10 Ways Your Soul Guides You In Daily Life,” a free call I recorded with
Rachel Naomi Remen.

22. Send your Inner Pilot Light a text message.

Got a question? Pretend for a minute that your Inner Pilot Light has an iPhone and is
able to instantly receive and respond to texts. The trick is . . . you have to be the first to
initiate the text. Close your eyes. Visualize yourself typing in your question to your
Inner Pilot Light. Then BOOM. You get an instant response via text with your answer
right there. What did your Inner Pilot Light say? (Hat tip to Martha Beck for that tip,
which she taught with Lissa in the teleclass Coming Home to Your Spirit.)

23. Draw your Inner Pilot Light.

Pull out your art supplies and go to town. See if any wisdom emerges as you move into
your creative flow. Or ask your Inner Pilot Light a question and then start to draw.

24. Vision with your Inner Pilot Light.

Let your Inner Pilot Light make a vision board with you. Don’t do it the old school way.
It’s not about cutting and pasting what your ego wants for you. Tap into the deep place,
put on some music that feeds your Inner Pilot Light, and let your Inner Pilot Light
vision with you.

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25. Engage in repetitive movement.

Run. Dance. Chop carrots. Hike. Play an instrument. See if your Inner Pilot Light
lights up when your hands and feet are otherwise occupied.

26. Consult your Inner Pilot Light via oracles.

Try Doreen Virtue’s Goddess Guidance cards or a Tarot deck or the Norse runes or
the iChing. Or try asking your Inner Pilot Light a question and then opening Lissa
Rankin’s new book The Anatomy of a Calling to see what wisdom the book might
have to share. Anything can be an oracle if you have the eyes to see and the ears to
hear. Or pick your own favorite book to serve as an oracle.

27. Find your Inner Pilot Light in nature’s wisdom.

Got a question? Ask a tree or the ocean or a waterfall. Tune in.

28. Consult your Inner Pilot Light via animal totems.

If an animal unexpectedly runs across your path, assume your Inner Pilot Light is
sending you a message. Look up the animal totem on your cell phone and receive
the message.

29. Let your Inner Pilot Light write you a letter.

Sit down. Get quiet. Tune into your Inner Pilot Light. Then, without thinking, begin
a dialogue with your Inner Pilot Light. You can start by asking a question—or just
let ‘er rip. Feel free to write back and forth. Think Neale Donald Walsh’s
Conversations With God. You can talk to your Inner Pilot Light any time, and your
Inner Pilot Light will respond. Seriously. Try it. You’ll be amazed.

30. Surrender your desire to communicate with your Inner Pilot Light.

Are you frustrated that you can’t hear your Inner Pilot Light? Does the Daily Flame
annoy you? Do you find yourself grasping at the desire to be more tuned in? Trying
making your desire to connect with your Inner Pilot Light an offering to the Divine.
Ask for help. Let go of the grasping. Trust that everything in the Universe wants
you to be connected to your Inner Pilot Light and then let go of all attachment to
outcomes. (Hat tip to Tosha Silver for this tip.)

DOWNLOAD: Meet Your Inner Pilot Light Meditation