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Whether you've dropped into deep knowing in the midst of a spiritual experience, glimpsed epiphanies when your curiosities expanded into a clear insight, or asked questions and perceived wise answers arising from your inner being, you've probably already experienced the well of knowing inside you that goes all the way to source.

What you may not realize is that the glimpses into inner knowing don't need to be sporadic random events that occur here and there. You don't need to access your potent source of inner power only now and then. Nor does it need to be mere glimpses of timeless truths.

It's possible to ask direct questions and receive direct answers. 

In short, it's possible to start a conversation with inner knowing where you ask questions from your human perspective, and the answers arise from deep within you. It's possible to come to such confidence in the source of these answers, and in the love that they emerge from, that you can take the "inner voice" as your guide to all of life.

It's possible to come to deep understanding through this conversation about every question that has ever plagued humanity. And every question that has ever lingered in your heart. 

No questions are forbidden here. None are too impossible. None are too outlandish. 

Everything you are, have ever been, have ever done, all is accepted, all is loved, in this space of your inner voice conversation.

The answer to the world's suffering and to your own pain is all here. So is the pathway to expansiveness. 

Ultimately, this conversation has the power to guide you into enlightenment.

So what is an inner voice conversation?

First, let's get clear that the "inner voice" I'm referring to here is the process of receiving direct words and pictures from your inner being. This inner voice is always loving, never in fear, never doubtful. Answers don't arrive as "maybe", "I think", "I hope". What arises from pure inner knowing is always in context with what you need right now, and it never seeks to reduce your innate sovereignty. It's always with a sense of purpose. In short, it's love, put to words, in your language, in context of your life.

While you may have accessed your inner voice or received insights from inner knowing in the past, developing a regular conversation can take you so much further.

The basics of how to do it are pretty simple:

• Use writing

• Use speaking

Writing with your inner voice

This is probably the most common way people get started and even "accidentally" develop a way of hearing their inner knowing. It's becoming popularized by Elizabeth Gilbert (the Eat, Pray, Love author) in her beautiful "Letters from Love" series, as one of many examples.

This can be as simple as a journaling exercise, where you write a question and then write down what comes to you. The question needs to be with a sense of openness, so you can receive the answer.

Speaking with your inner voice

To take your conversation to the next level, I encourage opening your phone's voice recorder and trying an audio conversation. This may feel awkward at first, and it's best if you do it in your own private space, so you're not distracted by others around you. But once you get past the initial awkwardness of "talking to yourself", you may find that you can drop in deeper and come to more presence and confidence with what you receive.

With your voice recorder on, close your eyes, speak your question and then breathe out. Speak out loud whatever word or words arise naturally within you.

A starting point

Inner voice, are you here?

Do you love me?

What can you show about . . . [whatever you're curious about]

About Eva Live

I was in love. But not belonging.

By my early 20's, I was already in the midst of a love relationship with the divine, and that expanded a lot through 3 years of Christian charismatic training schools — where I encountered Love in many ways, through heightened spiritual and energetic experiences. Ultimately I came away with a single prayer: Give me reality.

But I also felt relationally disconnected in the churches I attended. There was a profound sense of not belonging that arose to an inner torment when I would force myself to go. So around 2009, I stopped attending church altogether, and ultimately deconstructed from Christianity over the next several years.

In 2016, I decided to leave my marriage, and that external shift unleashed a powerful awakening within me. I still knew that same Love I'd always known, but I had no paradigm or belief system left around it, so my prayer became, "I accept you for who you are and who you are not, without knowing."

A spiritual awakening and inner voice opening

A year or so later, the dam burst with the question, "Who are you really?" The answer that filled my awareness was far beyond words, as a deep knowing and understanding settled within me, like a 1000 piece puzzle instantly falling into place. The words were "That's what I'm trying to find out". The knowing was that we/God/being is here for experiencing through human form who we are. The human life is about expressing and experiencing what love is.

That awakening led to a season of personal and spiritual growth. In early 2020, I came back to the inner voice dialogue with a lot more intention and frequency than ever before. I was inspired by The Lively Show, a podcast by Jess (now Bella) Lively, in which she described her own inner voice experiences and facilitated connection for some of her listeners. Just hearing what she was doing activated it in me more profoundly than ever, and that's when I picked up my phone's voice recorder and started recording the conversation.

Later that same year, I went through Bella's inner voice facilitator training program and certified in facilitating sessions for helping others access their inner voice.

A "masters" course in life, taught by inner voice

 Since then I've gone through seasons of teaching and facilitating and other seasons of retreating, during which I devoted myself to my own inner voice conversation, ultimately culminating in early 2022 with what I like to call a "masters" course in life from inner voice. During this 4.5 month period, I held sessions for myself nearly every day, sometimes multiple per day, and I spent the remainder of my time listening back and editing session transcripts, writing about what I was receiving, and summarizing what came. 

This immersion in inner voice training resulted in a profoundly different understanding of life than what I'd received as a child in Christianity and went far beyond what I'd learned from spiritual teachers since deconstructing from religion. It released me from many misassumptions and created the foundation for further training I've been going through ever since.

Becoming guided through evolving beyond ego

Ultimately, I've learned through trial and error as well as direct instruction from inner voice what it takes to foster a truly transformative conversation where the inner voice can become the guide of the human through evolving beyond ego, into enlightenment. That's the journey I'm taking, and it's my life mission to make a path for transforming humanity into the potential of living as being through human, without simultaneously maintaining egoic separation, so that love may expand and express through the experience of human life.