Channeling: What to Do When Nothing Comes Through

During one of our courses on channeling, someone asked: What if nothing comes through? What if I see nothing? What if I hear silence or feel absolutely nothing when the questioner asks a question?  This is a common question that I get.

In the class, I said that isn’t possible—and I want to explain why.

The Ball Metaphor

Imagine that your ability to channel is like a ball.

• When the ball rests on the floor, there’s no opening because your base frequency (for now) isn’t high enough to connect with the guides.
• When you clear your energy or use meditation to raise your frequency, the ball rises and becomes suspended in the air. That suspension represents the channeling state.

We were all born with the divine right to enter this state. If you don’t yet have on-demand access, you can always use practices to lift your frequency and reach the channeling state.

Maintaining the Channeling State

Once the ball is suspended, the real work begins: keeping it there. In other words, you need to maintain the channeling state to sustain connection with higher realms.

This state naturally fades over time because we live in a dense physical plane not designed to hold it indefinitely. Even when your channel is wide open, and you can access this state quickly, it still requires upkeep.

Why “Nothing” Appears

So what about the silence?

If you’re in the channeling state but hear/feel/see nothing, it doesn’t mean you aren’t channeling. It means you’re being invited into a balancing act.

If you panic, doubt yourself, or tell yourself you aren’t a channel, your frequency drops—the ball falls and you may lose connection. But if you trust that you’ve reached the channeling state, stay patient, and show yourself grace, something will eventually come.

The waiting is the challenge. Waiting with doubt pulls the ball down. Waiting with self-love keeps it suspended. This is what the guides mean when they say mastering allowing is necessary for channeling. Allowing is about how you manage yourself in the pause: do you honor your effort and believe in yourself, or do you collapse into doubt?

On a deeper level, how you navigate that space reflects the amount of self-love in your energetic system. Love, in this way, is the true fuel for channeling.

Why the First Thing Is Usually Right

So now, why did I say that usually the first thing that comes to mind is right? Well, most of the time—about 90% of the time, according to the guides—it is. Imagine again that the channeling state is the ball suspended in the air. Let’s say the questioner asks a question, and you immediately get a feeling. It doesn’t feel like it’s yours because nothing in your life is happening to make you feel that way. So, you say it out loud: “I’m getting a feeling of ______.” When the questioner validates it, the ball rises a bit.

Then, let’s say you begin to see a picture in your mind’s eye and you describe it out loud. The questioner validates it again. The ball rises higher—in other words, the connection gets stronger. Now, let’s imagine the questioner asks something related to your professional experience, and your intellectual mind cuts through because your body automatically responds to what it knows. If the questioner says they’re not too sure about that, it doesn’t mean the channeling state is lost. Getting something not exactly right isn’t necessarily fatal. What matters is how you deal with it—just like when you hear silence.

If you berate yourself, the ball will drop and you may lose connection. But if you pause, allowyourself to get back into the channeling state by imagining the ball rising, and then try again, it’s possible the next impression will resonate. This is a simple extrapolation of the process, but ultimately what I’m getting at is this: don’t seek perfection in a reading. Instead, focus on having the tools to maintain your frequency so that, in time, you eventually arrive at a resonant answer for the questioner.

The Heart of Channeling

What I want you to know, especially if you’re just beginning, is this:  seeking perfection will make you feel like a failure as a channel before you’ve even discovered what you are truly capable of.

Channeling isn’t about flawless accuracy. It’s about entering with the right intention, maintaining your frequency with self-love, and giving yourself the grace to stay present in the process and maintain the channeling state.

Before I came out professionally as a psychic, I got it wrong far more often than I got it right. But I kept the faith, kept doing the shadow work, and one day I realized I had become a direct voice channel. I’m here to tell you that you can get there too—if you truly want to. The key is showing yourself grace and cultivating deep love for yourself along the way.

The last thing I want to share before I channel the guides’ message is this: when I’m clearing a massive soul fragment or moving through a major energetic upgrade, I can’t always reach the channeling state on demand the way I normally can. When this happens, I have to practice what I’m telling you in this email: going into silent meditation, raising my frequency to enter the channeling state, and maintaining that state by showing myself grace throughout the process.  All of these things I’m sharing with you isn’t just for now, before you have on-demand access, it is part of the lifelong skills of being an on-demand channel.

 A Message from the Guides

Dolores, an ascended master, has a message for us about why channeling with crystals work. Consistent with the convention of our blog, in italics is the directly channeled message as I hear it in my head, verbatim.

Dolores: We thank the channel for that extrapolation, for we will build on it. So, we want to recap what was learned and that is: when you are in the channeling state you are connected to us or some other type of guides.  This is true.  When you maintain the channeling state, you maintain connection.  When you are not in the channelling state, it is not that you are not connected to us, as guides, it is that you are not connected directly. Do you understand this?  We are ALWAYS communicating with you.  When you are not directly connected, we are communicating with you with the circumstances of your life.  When you are in unexpected traffic, what were your thoughts prior?  It probably wasn’t soul centered.  When there is no way you will be on time, and it is critical for you to be so, perhaps think about whether where you are going is soul centered or not?  Did you perform the discernment to see if there are alternatives?  Your life, the way it is unfolding, is always speaking to you.  What is it saying?  

What we want to teach you about now is how crystals help you channel.  So, what we are speaking about here is frequency, specifically, maintaining a frequency such that you can reach the channeling state.  Guess what crystals do?  They entrain your energy such that it raises your frequency closer to theirs.  Crystals have a very particular frequency and their frequency or vibration is capable of certain things.  So, just as reading a book about weight loss will not help you lose weight unless you actually do what is contained in the book, a crystal will not help you connect simply by purchasing it.  Do you see this?  But, crystals are a powerful tool, of not just entrainment, but direct connection to higher realms.

We have much to teach you about the way crystals allow you to channel, for now we want to teach you one thing.  So, in the last class with the channel, you learned that meditation has the power to lead you to the channeling state.  If you want to learn more about how crystals work, we will give you an exercise to try.  Try silent meditation and gauge how long it takes you to get to the channeling state.  The channeling state as the channel has said prior is that state when the brain is mostly calm, it is often silent at this state because the brain waves are sufficiently slowed down. You will know you are in the channeling state for the simple reason that your state changes.  Now, repeat the exercise just as we have asked you to do, but this time have two crystals, one in each hand.  Do you get to the channeling state faster?  Does the nature of the channelling state change for you?  Different crystals will have different effects and in some cases, different crystals will provide different access to different realms.  Try this exercise and there will be vast learning on your part.  And, so it is.