A client asks: “I so wish I could communicate readily with God/the Divine. Is it possible/likely that I will be able to develop significant or at least sufficient intuitive skills in this lifetime – particularly with regards to being able to ‘receive’ communication from the Divine (such as via clairaudience, channeling, etc)? If so, how can I achieve this in the fastest possible way?”

These things are rarely fast because they depend on practice, patience, and cultivation of greater belief, all of which are time-consuming to a certain degree. This does not mean to give up this desire and a quest for growth and greater experiencing. There can be a further expansion of your capabilities. You can request the assistance of your higher self to have an ongoing program of enhancement underway and if you ask both higher self and us to assist you in this, and do so repeatedly, this can be worked on over time because it will take time. It is a healing need just like suffering an illness and is subject to the same constraints and limitations and a potential lengthy undertaking to turn things around. On the other hand, nothing ventured nothing gained, and the outcome of doing nothing is entirely predictable, that nothing will change. In the process of working just on this request, there will be much useful healing in other respects that must be attended to in order to work towards the goal you seek, so this is not a futile or idle exercise but one that will have many benefits regardless of the goal you have in mind and whether it is achieved to the extent you would like to see. So we give you a thumbs-up here by way of encouragement to work towards cultivating this. One of the ways you can do this is to engage in a program of communication with the divine on a regular basis and make it a two‑way process, to ask to be shown a sign of recognition you are being heard, a sign of involvement in carrying something forth you would like to see happen, the conveying of impressions and the knowings of what you would like to find out and understand more deeply. And making repeated requests to both higher self and Creator for feedback of this kind on an ongoing basis and setting aside the time to have a prayer experience rather than meditation, but to use the meditative state to essentially load the dice in your favor, that you will be able to receive an intuitive impression from the divine realm in answer to questions. This can well develop with practice. It will require relaxing and letting go and allowing this to happen. It is subtle and if it is forced, or the attempt made to force it, it will choke down the gateway and prevent communication. So this must be done in a relaxed, expectant, and allowing energy, and that is a bit counterintuitive depending on the urgency and the importance of the questions at hand you want assistance with. But this is again the reason why practice is important. To start on things of lesser urgency, more of a routine nature, something you may be curious about where the stakes are not high, and this is a good way to proceed with cultivating your skills. Once you gain confidence in getting impressions under those circumstances, it will be easier to do so when the matter at hand is of great urgency and importance for your welfare. That is the ultimate test for an intuitive, to be dispassionate and allowing even when there is much at stake and you are putting yourself on the line, so to speak, and will sink or swim depending on the answer you receive and the outcome in perhaps following that information with action that could potentially work both for and against you. This is up to you because it is another thing governed by free will and free agency. We cannot lead you. We cannot make you something you are not. You must make yourself. This is true of every other aspect of life. We cannot take an infant and teach it how to speak, give it a vocabulary and rules of grammar, and teach it how to get along with others, how to find its way, how to strike a balance so there is some sharing and respect of others in addition to striving to meet its own desires, and so on. All of those are experienced and learned from as a consequence of engaging in life. This is similar. It is just another way of engaging in life to see what will happen and taking things step by step. We will do all we can to help you but it will be up to you how far you can go.