What Is Channeling? And How To Do It

In this talk, Eliyaju (El) discusses what is channeling, how we do it, and what different ways channeling can come up for us in our daily lives with synchronicities and signs we see from source/spirit. There is a Reiki healing throughout the entire talk.

This talk was recorded live on Insight Timer on March 26, 2023

Transcript

In this talk,

We are going to be talking about what is channeling,

How do we do it,

And what are different ways that channeling can come up for us in our daily lives with synchronicities and signs that we see from source and spirit.

What is channeling?

Channeling can be seen as a lot of different things,

But the definition that I will provide,

Channeling to me basically means that through your own vessel,

Like your body,

Your mind,

I am able to,

And you are able to channel in messages,

Sounds,

Signs,

Beings,

Spirits,

Whatever you want to call it,

Divine,

God,

You know,

Whatever definition you have,

The universe,

We as human beings,

Or I say for myself in my experience,

We can channel through us.

It doesn't necessarily mean that it is coming from us,

More so that it is coming through us as a channel,

As a conduit for messages,

For synchronicities,

For signs,

And I as a human,

You as a human,

We have the capacity to channel in higher dimensional light,

Higher dimensional source,

And the way that we connect to this source,

The way that we connect to divine is different for every single person,

And it's,

I would say,

In my experience,

It's all based on your intuition,

And so if you are somebody who has been working on your intuition,

This is something that you know the vocabulary about,

Like this is not new information for you.

You're like,

Yes,

I understand,

You know,

My intuition,

You know,

There's the ego and the higher self and the inner child and all these things,

The shadow self.

If you're familiar with this language,

Then this will probably make a lot of sense to you.

If you're not familiar with this language,

That's okay,

And that's why we're here to learn,

That's what we're here to discuss.

So I feel like right now,

Whoever is at the live,

I mean,

I'm going to post this later for people to listen to,

But whoever's at this live,

I feel like y'all are very intuitive people.

You've kind of been seeing the signs,

You kind of understand what channeling is.

There are different ways to channel.

Some people,

They channel like using a notebook,

Free writing,

You know,

You set an intention for what it is you want to channel.

So that's the thing too,

Is when we are channeling,

When we are accessing divine source spirit,

It's important that we work with intention,

Because when you set an intention and you ask the universe,

When you ask divine,

Ask source for your intention,

If it's clear,

You are more likely to see the results that you want,

If that makes sense.

And if this is something that you are just tapping into for the first time,

Please know that it takes a lot of patience,

A lot of trust,

And a lot of time to develop these gifts,

To be able to channel,

To be able to access divine,

To be able to get a clear message.

These are things that maybe for some of you will come super,

Super easily,

For others,

It might take years.

And when I say years,

I mean years to develop it to the extent that you see yourself right now wanting to channel.

Like when I first started channeling messages and getting signs from source and from spirit,

I already was like,

I want to talk to my spirit guides,

I want to hear them,

I want to have a conversation with them,

I just want to be like,

Hey,

What's up?

And then them talk to me right away.

It was not like that for a long,

Long time.

And I've worked for a couple years.

And now I'm getting into the space that if I get it grounded,

Or when I get grounded,

I can call in my guides,

And I will know that they're there with me.

And I will understand what it is that they are channeling to me.

But that takes work.

And it's not easy work for everybody.

For some people,

It will come very naturally.

So don't be discouraged.

But know that if you are facing this roadblock,

If you feel like there is a block,

And you're unable to access source in the way that you want to,

That it's okay,

And that it's normal,

And that it takes time.

And so don't give up,

Keep trusting and keep practicing because this is a practice at the end of the day,

Channeling work,

Connecting to source.

This is a practice,

It is a gift,

Something that we are all born with the ability to do.

And as we grow up,

Depending on,

You know,

Where you're from,

The culture around you,

Some people they grow up and their family is very spiritual,

And they are able to do this from a young age.

And they work on these gifts throughout their entire childhood,

Their entire life.

Others,

We are just now,

Quote unquote,

Waking up,

Connecting to our divine intuition,

The divine feminine is coming in,

We are accessing these gifts.

Maybe we've never even considered doing channeling work,

Maybe we've never even considered connecting with source,

Connecting with spirit,

But now well,

Maybe,

Maybe I could do that.

You can,

You can.

So if you're thinking,

Oh,

Maybe I could do that,

You definitely can.

So let's backtrack.

In order to do channeling work,

It is very important to be grounded and centered.

And if you don't already have a practice in place,

I have some meditations here on insight timer,

Like a quick five minute grounding meditation,

You can do box breathing,

Which you know,

You inhale for,

You know,

Four,

Six,

10 seconds,

You hold it for six or 10 seconds,

You exhale for six or 10 seconds,

And then you have a moment of pause for six,

10 seconds before you inhale again.

And I say four,

Six or 10,

Depending on how much breath work experience you have,

I find for me that four seconds,

Sometimes it's like 1234.

And that's it.

But for others,

It's like 1234.

And you actually get that full inhale in four seconds.

So make sure that you are just taking a complete inhale,

Holding it,

And then exhaling.

And the box breath,

That's,

That's what it's called.

You know,

This can be a very grounding breathing technique.

For some for others,

It doesn't work.

And they're like,

Okay,

I'm not feeling grounded.

I'm just breathing.

You know what I mean?

So it everybody's tactics,

Everybody's ways to get grounded and centered look differently.

For some of us,

That's really sitting in a quiet space and meditation.

For others,

That's singing at the top of your lungs,

Dancing around the room,

Going on a walk,

Jumping around,

Whatever it is you need to do to get grounded and centered.

Do that before you attempt to start doing channeling work.

First and foremost,

Getting grounded,

Getting centered,

And trusting that you are meant to experience whatever it is you experience when you attempt to channel,

Especially if it's your first time,

You might end up sitting there and get nothing the first time.

And that's okay.

And that's,

I would say pretty normal.

But others,

You know,

Some of us may have been working on our spiritual gifts without even realizing it through this lifetime.

And so there's a lot of different ways to channel.

Some people,

As I mentioned before,

Channel best through free writing and taking their pen to paper and just writing and letting whatever come through.

And you might be surprised at what comes through.

Some people channel that through talking and speaking aloud,

You know,

You might ask your ego to step aside,

Allow your higher self to come through and you just start asking questions to yourself,

Saying things out loud to yourself,

And you might be surprised at what you say.

And some people are channeling light,

Higher dimensional beings,

Healing energy.

Like when I'm channeling Reiki,

As I am right now to all of you,

I set the intention to be a conduit,

To be this channel,

To send it out to all of you.

So not only can people channel spirits and messages,

But we can also channel this higher dimensional light to heal and raise our frequency and raise our vibration.

Some people channel songs,

Music,

We might get some channeled messages in the form.

If you've ever had like a song stuck in your head and you're like,

Why is this song stuck in my head right now?

Write it down.

See if that song comes back in any sort of significance over the next month or so.

And that's the thing is when we channel,

You might channel something that makes absolutely no sense to you in the here and the now.

But when you come back to it in a couple months from now,

In a year from now,

It might make perfect sense.

So that's,

I like to suggest that you keep it some sort of journal or notebook or diary or just papers that you understand our messages and things that you have channeled so that you can go back to it because not everybody is going to sit down and channel a message that resonates for them right then and right now.

Maybe you'll get there,

But as we begin,

It might be more difficult to do that.

And the way that we access our intuition is different for everybody.

So some people like to look at the world in a different way.

Some people like to look at the world in a different way for everybody.

So some people like to describe it as the different clairs.

We have clairvoyance,

Clear seeing,

Um,

Claircognizance,

Clear knowing,

Clairsentience,

Clear feeling or understanding.

What else?

There's a bunch of different clairs and I'm blanking right now on all of them,

But those are some basic ones that some people either have really strongly or they have to develop.

Like for me,

My claircognizance and my clairsentience are very different.

So I,

When I am channeling,

I don't necessarily like hear like clairaudience,

Clear hearing.

I don't necessarily hear messages more so than I know and I understand.

And some people get images,

They have clear seeing,

Maybe they'll see the words.

You know,

Everybody has a different way to access their intuition.

So some people see,

Feel,

Imagine,

Sense,

Know.

Some people even smell.

You might channel a certain smell or environment around you through like your nose.

I forget the name of that clair,

But it is a thing.

And so along with being centered and grounded,

This next step,

I was called to say to all of you,

But I will say that in the past,

I have not always adhered to this by creating your space,

Making it feel sacred and beautiful and divine to you.

So really having a lovely space that you are in can be really,

Really helpful when you feel safe.

You know,

If you go outside to do some channeling work and you're feeling unsafe,

Maybe if you're in public,

Maybe try to,

You know,

Really get grounded and feel safe in your surroundings before attempting to channel,

Because if you are feeling unsafe in your body,

You are more likely to doubt what comes through as well as block the frequency of the light to come through.

Because when we are in this anxious fear,

We subconsciously or unconsciously put up a wall that kind of blocks spirit to come through.

And so when we operate from this frequency of love,

From this frequency of feeling safe,

You are more likely to be able to become that conduit and channel of this light.

Make sure that you're breathing,

Make sure that you're drinking water.

So once you're grounded,

Once you're centered,

Once you've created,

And I would,

I would honestly,

I would suggest creating a divine space,

Making your space feel beautiful and lovely,

And then getting grounded in it.

Like you can get grounded before you make your space lovely,

But also take a re-grounding breath and know that you don't necessarily have to be alone to do this sort of channeling work.

But if you are doing this for the first time,

It might be helpful just to be alone,

Just so that there's no judgment.

You know,

I feel like when it comes to doing spiritual work for those of us who did not grow up around a very supportive and like spiritual family working within this like magical light,

Because to me,

I see this as magic.

Like when,

When we are doing channeling work,

When we are connecting with source,

It's magical to me.

And some people are afraid of the magic because they grew up saying magic isn't real.

We can't do that.

We don't have special powers.

No,

No,

No,

No,

No,

No.

We can't,

We can't just know things.

We can't channel things.

That's not true.

That's wizardry.

That's,

That's witch craft.

You know,

Some people,

It's really hard for them to unlock that feeling of being safe and being grounded and being open to receiving messages,

To receiving a connection to their spirit team,

To their spirit guides,

To their ancestors,

Whoever it is you want to be connecting with,

Even if it's your higher self,

Even if it's your inner child.

So as I mentioned,

We can channel light and energy healing.

We can channel messages.

You can channel synchronicities,

Light,

Wisdom,

Songs,

And music protection answers.

Like if,

If you're feeling really stuck on something and you're like,

I don't know what to do.

Like,

I don't really have,

I don't feel comfortable talking to my friends about this,

Or maybe you did.

And what you heard from your friends is not really good advice.

And you're like,

No one can really help me.

All I have is myself.

Yeah,

That's true.

You do have yourself.

And not only do you have yourself,

But you have unlimited access to your intuition and to your spirit team and to your divine,

Sacred knowledge and wisdom from past lives,

From centuries and centuries of lifetimes.

And you may not have access to that right here,

Right now,

But when you work on your intuition,

When you work on this gift of channeling,

You will soon be able to connect to this wisdom and knowledge and this inner knowing and trust it.

And that's a really,

Really big thing.

So trust is huge.

You have to trust yourself and learning to trust yourself,

Especially for those of us who grew up facing trauma,

Facing obstacles within the structure that is our society,

For those of us who have been shot down by our parents,

By our family,

By our friends,

By our coworkers,

By our peers,

By teachers,

By mentors,

For those of us who have learned to not trust yourself,

Who have learned to doubt yourself,

Which is many of us,

Especially in this day and age,

Especially through capitalism and through the systems that are in place.

If you're not a cisgender heterosexual white man,

Chances are you faced a lot of trauma in this lifetime.

And all of us who are alive right now,

We have already faced collectively the last few years within this pandemic,

We have faced a lot,

A lot,

A lot of trauma.

So that being said,

Trusting yourself and working on your intuition is really the first step in order to be able to do channeling work.

But assuming that you have done that moving forward,

What can we do when we channel?

What can we do to look for synchronicities and confirmations?

So say you wake up in the middle of the night and you're like,

Oh my God,

It's three in the morning.

What the heck?

I want to go to bed.

I would highly suggest if you don't already have a notebook or a dream journal or something by your bed to keep some sort of pen and paper or pencil or whatever marker,

It doesn't have to be pen and paper,

But something to write something down on.

You could totally use your phone.

I personally,

Before I go to bed and in the middle of the night,

I don't like to see a screen.

Like for me,

If I look at a screen before falling asleep,

It's more difficult for me to sleep.

And I also tend to have more,

Um,

I feel like I don't sleep as well.

So I try to put my devices away.

This is just me personally.

I try to put my devices away before I sleep.

And in the middle of the night,

If I wake up,

I try not to look at my phone to check the time or,

Um,

To write something down.

So I like to have a pen and paper and,

You know,

You can use like a clock or I have a,

A little like,

Um,

Device that I can like ask it what the time is.

And it'll tell me,

So I don't have to like look at any bright lights.

It's very interesting thing,

But say you wake up and I,

I would encourage you to just sit with yourself and say,

Is there something like you can ask?

You can take a deep breath and say,

Okay,

Spirit or K divine.

Okay.

Universe.

Okay.

Hi,

Yourself,

Whatever,

Whatever language you feel comfortable using.

You can just say,

Okay,

What is it that I need to know right now?

And just close your eyes or don't even close your eyes,

But just breathe and observe.

Are you hearing anything?

Are you sensing,

Seeing,

Trusting?

Is there a song that comes into your mind?

I say this because I have been channeling music.

Like when I wake up in the middle of the night,

If I'm like going,

If I wake up in the middle of the night,

Sometimes I'll go to use the restroom.

But like,

As I come back from the restroom,

I'm like,

Okay,

What is it that I need to be aware of?

What is it that I need to know?

And let me even,

Even I have my journal right now.

Let me show you like just the other night.

What did I channel?

Um,

Two nights ago on March 24th at 3 50 AM,

I got the message.

Don't lose sight of what's important to you.

Okay.

I wrote that down.

And then I got,

I'm almost there from princess and the frog.

I didn't write down the lyrics.

Usually I'll write down the lyrics.

Like in the past,

I've got like,

Don't stop,

Believe in,

Don't stop,

Believe in that song from journey by journey.

Um,

Um,

Don't stop believing,

Hold onto that feeling like just that over and over.

I've written that down.

Like,

This is just an example.

Like I'm almost there princess and the frog.

So something that has been coming up for me since,

And this is something I'm noticing right now,

A synchronicity that I am just now realizing from reading what I wrote down two days ago,

I have been seeing frogs today,

Yesterday.

So that's interesting.

This is a synchronicity.

And this is,

I don't necessarily know what that synchronicity means just yet,

But it is something I am aware of and I am observing and as something I am channeling.

And that's what I wanted to mention that we might,

And most likely we will see and face delays in confirmations in seeing synchronicities of what it is we have channeled.

So I have messages from years ago that I read now and I'm like,

Oh my gosh,

This makes sense.

This makes so much sense right here,

Right now,

Years after I've written this down,

There's been a couple months where,

You know,

I'll write down the same message and I'm like,

Okay,

Like be still have compassion,

Have patience.

Okay,

Great.

And then as I move forward over the next couple of months,

I start realizing,

You know,

This is why I was channeling this for myself to have stillness,

To be patient as situations come up in my life.

So as we do channeling work,

Some of the messages,

Some of the beings that we channel,

What we will understand from them won't necessarily make sense as you channel it,

But it will make sense in the future.

And so it can be hard to trust and to have patience,

But it is so,

So important in this kind of work to trust and to have patience as we channel and building that trust with yourself is really the key.

And some people say that when you doubt your intuition,

That is a confirmation.

So say you're sitting in meditation or you're trying to do this channeling work and you get a sense of a message and you write it down and you're like,

No,

No,

No,

No,

No,

No.

I just made that up.

That was me.

I made that up.

You're doubting yourself.

You're doubting your abilities and that,

That in that,

In your doubt,

You can have that confirmation that you are on the right track,

That you have actually just channeled some information for yourself.

And so what,

Say you channel something like set an intention and move forward with grace.

And you're like,

Yeah,

I just,

I just told myself to do that.

Okay.

So if you told yourself to do that,

What an amazing thing to tell yourself.

And you can trust that as you start to write things down,

Whether or not you feel that you are consciously creating these messages,

Whether or not you feel like you've directly channeled it from source,

It doesn't really matter.

You know,

It's,

It's all up to interpretation of how like serious this channeling work can be.

It doesn't have to be that deep.

You can just write down little messages for yourself that resonate with you.

Even if you don't feel like you are like channeling it,

It's all still channeling work.

I hope that makes sense.

Lynn says,

I remember,

I remember as a small child being so aware of spirits,

But my mother telling me there was no such thing.

I learned to shut it down.

Yes.

Just like you just said,

We have so many parents and friends who told us that they're to not believe in this magic,

To not believe in our gifts.

And now is the time we have literally just shifted.

Pluto has shifted over the divine feminine is awakening.

Our divine gifts are awakening.

And when I say divine feminine,

It's not in relation to like gender and stuff,

Which some of us know,

Gender is kind of a societal structure.

It's not necessarily,

Um,

Fact,

I guess gender is kind of made up personally,

I would think so.

Divine feminine is not necessarily talking about like women or girly stuff like feminine.

It's just that energy of this wisdom of this magic,

Being able to tap into that flow,

Being able to tap into your intuition,

Your knowing,

Your nurturing,

That is this divine feminine energy that we have stepped into.

And we've been in this divine masculine of structure of,

You know,

Needing to really make sure everything is in place and,

And not really allowing ourselves to step outside of this societal structure through this divine masculine energy.

Now we are in this divine feminine.

We are seeing these structures fall.

We are allowing things to change and to shift into love.

And as we learn to shift into love,

We can learn how to channel.

We can learn how to connect to our gifts and this is the time to do it.

What I just shared now,

I hope,

I hope that that gives a sense into how we can channel.

And I know there's not,

There's,

There's so many different ways.

So honestly,

It comes down to you and what you feel called to do.

If you are being called to do channeling work,

We can channel messages using Oracle cards,

Tarot cards.

We can channel messages through listening to music,

Watching movies,

You know,

Something might come out and jump out to you and you might see it as a sign.

You might see it as a message.

And then later you might channel that same message out and seeing the synchronicity and seeing these confirmations around you for me is really what allows me to dive into this magic and like seeing different numbers,

You can channel numbers and,

And channeling doesn't just have to be words.

It doesn't have to be like human language.

It can also be tunes.

It can also be images.

It can be animals.

It doesn't just have to be spoken word.

It doesn't just have to be written out messages.

It can be whatever it means to you.

Channeling can be sitting in meditation,

Seeing different lights in your mind's eye or imagining the feeling of these lights coming through can be channeling this protection of light to cleanse your energy space,

To hold your energy,

Say in a sacred protection.

It doesn't just have to be messages,

But I feel here on Insight Timer,

A lot of us,

We like to hear channeled messages.

We come on here for Oracle card readings.

We like to see the synchronicities.

And so the messages are synchronicities.

And so that's,

That's why this conversation was really catered to getting messages through song,

Getting messages through spoken word,

But channeling can really be anything that you make it to be.

There is no right way to channel.

There is no wrong way to channel.

There just is.

And channeling is up to interpretation.

Some people claim that channeling is just when you're calling in a past loved one,

When you're calling in your ancestors or your guides,

Some people say channeling is just being a conduit for this light.

You know,

It's just definitions for different people,

But it can be whatever you want it to be.

Really.

If you are listening to this recording,

Whether it's on my podcast,

Whether it's here on Insight Timer,

Know that for the rest of the live,

We are going to practice doing some channeling work.

So if that's something that you are interested in,

Make sure that you are following me on Insight Timer and come to my live so that you are able to get this practice in,

Because this is not something to put in the recording.

As I upload this talk,

It's important to remember that when we are channeling,

When we are developing our gifts,

That it may not come to you in the way that you think it might.

So it's important to be open to seeing and learning from different perspectives and really having an open mind into what information you might receive.

So make sure that you are trusting yourself and that you know that you have access to these gifts.

And some of us,

We might actually have some spiritual blocks within our energy field,

Within our energy centers that prevent us from accessing our intuition,

That prevent us from channeling.

So as you're listening to this right now,

There is Reiki being sent and Reiki can actually help with clearing these energetic blocks that prevent us from having access to channeling and working on your intuition,

Working on these gifts.

This is a practice.

So the more you practice,

The easier it gets,

I would say,

And the way that we channel can shift and change over time.

So the way that you are channeling right now may not look like the way that you channel in a couple of years from now.

So give yourself grace and trust that you are meant to experience exactly what you are experiencing when and if you ever attempt to do some channeling work.

Thank you so much for listening and I hope you have a better understanding of what channeling work can be for you and that you work on your channeling gifts and know and remember to have patience and to trust in yourself and to trust that you will unlock your abilities exactly divinely when you need to.

And I hope you have a wonderful,

Wonderful rest of your day.

Reviews

This talk has been so informative & has helped me understand that what I have been doing already is channelling without realising that’s what it was…Thank you 🙏🏼✨💫

That was amazing, I rec'd the following wisdom while listening to it: Everything is a message and a message is in everything..you only have to listen to what you hear or what you feel to hear the message needed at this very moment..Peace, Love & Light to All

I am so interested tolearn more. I have good intuition but do not know how to access it. I will follow you for maybe more insight.
Whenerver i hang the washing out on the line i always get the song 'like a virgin' by madonna coming to me. I have no idea what that means. 🙏🙈

Insightful and incredibly supportive. Heartfelt gratitude. Just what I needed to hear at this moment. Sending light and luv. 💖

Incredible teaching, this helps me so much. Thank you!

This was informative. I have a better understanding of this practice and how to utilize it in my personal experience. Very good talk. Thank you🧚🏾🙏🏾🤍

So happy El records her teaching sessions! I read a great book on channeling over 30 years ago. This not only refreshed my memory, but also opened my mind to new ways of approaching channeling. I have known since I was having ‘otherworldly’ experiences as a small child. My mom squashed them down, not bc of religion, but jealousy. At 61, I’m diving in wholeheartedly, so I can (hopefully) help others heal. I look forward to listening to more of these sessions by El- AMMAAAZZZZING❣️❣️❣️❣️

El, this explanation of channelling resonates so much with me. I've had very similar ideas about it. Thank you for always being so kind, inclusive, open, and loving. Thank you for not using gatekeeping language - I've never heard you use language like that--but, as with anything, there are people who do at times about topics like this.

I'm looking forward to checking out your podcast!