How a Professional Hypnotherapist Uses Spiritual Guides

Part Six
You’re Never Alone — Meeting Your Spirit Guides
with George Worley

You’ve heard me talk about guides for the first five parts of this series. How about another perspective? This time from a transpersonal psychologist.

George Worley is a valued ICN board member, long-time WeSpacer, and a practicing professional hypnotherapist. I asked him to share some of his journey with spirit guides and how he uses them in his therapy practice.  Here is what he wrote.

How I came to contact my guides

I always thought “who am I to contact a guide.”  Actually, before this thought was part of my being, I never thought about spiritual guides in any manner.  Later, I grew to understand this type of thinking puts a barrier between you and those in the spirit world.   What changed my thinking initially was a visit to a spiritual community called Cassadaga when we lived in Florida over a decade ago.  I had just started my spiritual awaking so I was opening to possibilities, but unsure of what these possibilities might be.  My wife and I had a day free and we decided to visit Cassadaga and see a “medium.”  This first visit was interesting, but not particularly revealing.  I received no inputs or guidance that I could not ascribe to a good cold reading.  

However, for some reason (later I understood it was my guide nudging me) I decided to visit a different medium, a gentleman named Ed Conklin.  He still practices at Cassadaga.   He provided two readings which provided validity via information not available on the web.  This information was very specific and what I had silently asked for before the sessions.  We never discussed this information.  In fact, I was largely silent before, during and after the readings.   Along with this specific information was his insistence that my guides were always with me and he told me who they appeared to look like.  At this point, I opened to the fact that my guides were there.  Also, through my spiritual studies, I opened to how to listen for them via intuition and nudges.  These nudges have been part of my life since.  

As I opened spiritually, I began to read about how others connect to their guides.   I remember the first time I asked my Highest-Level Guide to contact me and I received some strange feeling on my left cheek.  I then asked for a name and the name Charles immediately came into my mind.   At that time, I was using a more standard meditation technique to quiet the mind which took between 15 and 20 minutes.  I also did not really trust what I was getting assuming that parts of my ego were inputting the wishful thinking of other parts of my ego.   However, I started to get confirmations in my daily life as to the answers.  When I started my hypnotherapy practice, I began a habit of meditation prior to each client and this evolved into also opening to contact with my guides and asking them what to expect during a session.  This then has evolved into writing down the guidance from my guides for each client.  Almost without fail, the guidance is spot on.  This has added the trust layer which helps further open the channels of communication.

My Current Practice

When I sit down to contact my guides, I prepare myself like any meditation session.  I sit, back erect and usually facing east.  However, when preparing for a healing session, if I know where my client is, I face in that direction.  This is more of the intentionality of the process to focus my energies prior to quieting the mind.  Next, I take a few deep breaths from my lower diaphragm and then gently close my eyes.  After my body and mind are relaxed, I focus inward on my heart.  I move my awareness into the field space of the heart and ask my Higher Self for Light.  One’s Higher Self is the active part of the soul for this incarnation.  It is your true essence in this dimension. 

Sometimes I need to further get my ego out of the way (small self) before I feel this Light, but less and less often is this ego an impedance.  I feel this Light as warmth and love in my heart, at times almost overwhelming.  Then, with intention, I move this Light out through my body and then surround whatever area I am with this Light.   

After surrounding myself in Light and Love, I begin to open my chakras.  I first ensure I am grounded via the feet chakras and then feel this grounding from my root chakra.  I usually send Light and Love down each leg and also from my spine creating a three pronged grounding field.  Once grounded, I begin to open each chakra in turn, beginning with the root chakra.  I imagine/sense each chakra opening and expanding.  At first I used images of sea anemones or lotus flowers opening.  Now I just sense the field of energy expanding with the light frequency that resonates with that particular chakra.  If I sense some blockage or energies that don't belong, I just send Light and Love and breathe these energies clear.  I move up each chakra in this manner until I open the crown chakra. 

With regard to my establishing contact with my guides, once I get to the heart chakra, my guides make contact.  The first guide who makes contact is usually my primary guide who I call Charles.  I feel his presence by a pressure and tingling on my left cheek.  My head also begins to turn to the right at this time for some reason...it just happens.  Other guides make themselves known via my right check at times.  I just have to ask.  Once I am fully clear via the energy flows up and down the nadis (energetic pathways between the fields of the chakras), I listen and then think my question or begin a conversation, whatever is appropriate.  The answers come before the thought is completed.  I can then converse like this for as long as necessary.  When I am ready to come out of this trance, I just take a few breaths and open my eyes.  I usually don't close down my chakras as I find having them open during a client session allows me to continue to receive clearer inputs during my time with my clients.  However, if I am to move into uncertain energies, I do close down my chakras again just sensing these fields of energy and pulling them in a bit.  

I find guides wait to be asked so ask!  This is the choice function of the soul which is the fundamental characteristic innate within everyone.  This choice, or free will, allows for the infinite creation within all that is.   As we converse with our Highest Level guides, if the answer is asked in the Light and of the Light, you will get a response.  If the question is not of the Light and thus not in your highest good, you will get an answer that tells you so!  If you ever get an answer that is not kind, loving…not in the Light, you are not connected to your highest level guide.

One thing to note, the guidance you get is always subject to free will from those involved.  So one takes this guidance at a place in time and space, but one must be aware that once that guidance is given, fields are being impacted by other fields.  It is a lovely, creative, organic dance. 

My (Paul’s) Reflections

What stood out to me is George’s practice of the extensive inner work he does for each session with a client. This is just one of the reasons why George has many more requests for his services than he has time for. He is currently training other therapists in his methods.

It seems to me that this is also a model for those of us who are not doing hypnotherapy but who are wanting to engage consciously with one another and our spirit guides. This goes for any 2nd-person spiritually intimate relationship, whether that be us “alone” with our guides or together with others engaged in Integral Prayer and a WeSpace group. Whenever we show up to one another having done our inner work, with conscious intention to be awake, aware, and loving, we can enter into the healing flow. Our practices of Integral Prayer in WeSpace gatherings flow best if we invest intention, time, and energy into our own preparation for those times.

Warming Up for the WeSpace Dance

As ballet dancers warm up before dancing, so can we before we engage with others in the sharing and Integral Prayer of the WeSpace dance.

I try not to rush into the WeSpace time from other activities. I like to give myself five or ten minutes in front of my iPad or computer to reflect and tune in. I send some love and light energy ahead of time to the participants wherever they are in the world. I reflect about the last time we were together, if my increasing “elder” memory allows me. I feel grateful for each person. I anticipate, as George said, “a lovely, creative, organic dance, ” be it ballet, waltz, tango, or hip-hop!

More about George:  

George Worley is a member of the Integral Christian Network serving on its Board of Directors. He is a Christian mystic, hypnotherapist, and a conduit for spiritual healing.  Here is his story:

Before discovering the Integral Christian Network, I had moved out of traditional religion and had settled into the spiritual but not religious crowd. I grew up in a traditional Christian household with all of the dissonances that can come with this environment, especially in the 60s and 70s. My separation from organized spirituality occurred while I served as an officer in the Air Force, living a very traditional existence. I tried many times to find a spiritual home but could not find one where I felt welcome with my “knowing” of what I had come to understand at some internal level, not of the mind.  

I now understand it was this inconsistency found within traditional religion that propelled my journey onward, and I am grateful. These are the necessary motivations for growth, but we need to listen. 

Paul Smith’s book Integral Christianity: The Spirit’s Call to Evolve illuminated my path back to Christianity. Before reading this book for a spiritual direction class, I was moving into the integral space completing an MA of Transpersonal Psychology at Atlantic University. Of note, Edgar Cayce who founded Atlantic University was a devout Christian and quite integral for his day. He was also a very accomplished mystic. I feel his spirit aiding this movement.

I am excited to be home but still very much on a journey inward as I explore this new relationship with Jesus. I am inspired to help others find their inner Divine and grateful for this new way of being. 

For more about his work, visit his website: heartcentrichypnosis.com