Spirit Guides: The Intimate Connection
Have you ever thought about the little voice we all have whispering to us? Comforting us, protecting us and offering direction? Intuition perhaps? Our imaginations even? The truth to the matter is that many of the times we hear the little voice of reason and direction; it originates from the spirit realm. Thoughts, focus and direction are offered to us on an almost continual basis. All of us are constantly offered thoughts that will motivate and focus our attention to different directions in our life.
The issue with most of us is that we seem to get inspiration and focus only in spits and spats. Rarely do we develop a true understanding of the significance of these inspirations and guidance. We just know that we get these inspirations and thoughts occasionally and go along, never giving much more thought to it.
What if we could really bring these feelings, these fleeting moments of inspiration into our lives on a full time regular basis? Maintain a long-term, focused connection to your own personal team of spiritually advanced entities whose only love in life is to help and guide you through your life here. Well I’m here to tell you that this is entirely possible.
Of course I’m talking about our spirit guides, guardian angels or whatever you wish to call them. There are many reasons why spirit guides want to connect with us and in many ways I feel it is difficult to ignore their attentions. Working with us here in the physical is one of our guides’ greatest pleasures. They understand how difficult life here can be, and with their help, it can ease the path for us. They won't live our lives for us, but they will guide and support us to achieve our desired experiences here.
Our guides will use many different ways to communicate with us to get our attention. This can be hard work for our guides and helpers in spirit sometimes, the bulk of guide communication with us here in the physical, is subtle and non-descript. In most cases it is not a loud booming voice speaking to us from beyond!! Listening and understanding is the hard part of guide communication. When I started taking interest in guide communication, I was looking in the wrong direction. I used to think ‘okay I've read the books, I'm here with my eyes closed, in the quiet... now speak to me…’ Needless to say... I was left waiting... and waiting... and waiting... finally nothing. The disappointment was almost more than I could stand. I had read all the books written about those who professed to have had amazing experiences with their own guides and thought, ok why not me? Don’t fall into the same trap and have bigger expectations than are reasonable.
I really thought reading a few books and closing my eyes would do the trick (I can almost hear my guides laughing as I write this today – ‘that would have been just too easy’) Back in those days, I would have thought woo hoo! I have a direct line now. So what are the lotto numbers Will I get the girl I'm after Etc. It's never that easy!
It is very important in the overall scheme, when looking to open up a meaningful and long term communication with our guides or loved ones, to know that they are not able, or allowed, to offer more than guidance. Doing more than that may inhibit our growth, and compromise the contract that we have agreed to, before coming back to the physical. We will all fall into that trap of expecting more than they are able to offer.
I recently had the opportunity to do a question and answer session on a radio show. One gentleman asked me ‘what to look for’ from his guides, at an upcoming job interview. The answer was simple, ‘look for confidence, look for positive energy sent your way, feel them encouraging and supporting you.’
So, if we now discount the booming voice from beyond - then how do they communicate with us? The answer will be different for everyone! Much depends on our openness to the process and the faith one has in the fact that the help is there in the form of our guides and loved ones. Understanding that we have these energies available in spirit, is the first step in meaningful communication. Faith, in my opinion, is an overused word - however, it really encompasses what it is that you will need initially. Communication is going to seem strange at first, especially if, as usually is the case, meaningful communication does not happen immediately. Guide communication has a process behind it. It is in understanding the process involved, and also the fact that the process is different for many of us, that is paramount.
Having established that we need to understand our own process, or modality of guide communication, how do they best communicate with us and what form does that take? We can break most people into 2 groups - I like to use the Native American term - dreamers and seers. I apologize in advance to anyone who may feel I'm using these references out of traditional context; however, they are excellent when trying to establish modality.
The seer is one who is more comfortable and open to signs and indications of guide communication through our waking hours. This may take the form of showing you answers to questions asked, or perhaps by leading you toward a book that contains your information, or sending people in your direction that can help you. These may appear to our thinking minds as coincidences - they aren’t! To my mind, there is no such thing as coincidences. Smells, scents, and synchronicity, can also be commonly associated with a seer. Seers are also individuals who generally in my experience, have an easier time recognizing communication for what it is, and once they understand it, accepting it is a little easier than dreamers.
I tend to obtain much direction from my spirit guides in this way. I have learned to trust in the responses I receive to questions, and learning experiences sent to me. I know there have been a few occasions where my faith, so to speak, in my guides has been tested, and sometimes I have resorted back to my five senses, and started to rationalize. I almost always come unstuck and swear not to doubt again - but still do from time to time. This, for a seer is difficult to overcome, as our world gets hi-tech and what seems impossible today, becomes reality tomorrow - we live more and more in our 5 senses and it gets harder and harder to be impressed, so to speak.
Guide communication, although it may appear from the prospective of the seer, to come from and to our 5 physical senses, we must remember that guide communication originates outside of the 5 senses, and to really benefit from their communications, we must try to interpret the communications using all of our spiritual and physical senses combined. You will know when you are working with all of these senses as a seer, because it becomes more about the ‘feeling’, the ‘knowing’ that your guides are using their influence, and less about the physical manifestation of this influence.
Now dreamers! Dreamers are just that – dreamers. Much of their communication comes from very clear and vivid dreams that they seem to remember when they awake. Messages from loved ones and guides can be relayed in this dream mode because our minds shut down and allow this to happen. Dreamers are not usually as easy to impress with communications, and maybe people with busy lifestyles, that would have trouble focusing on messages and signs whilst awake. I include in this group, people who achieve communication during meditation. The meditative state is getting close to the state we find ourselves in during sleep. I have also found that the information is more direct, and in some ways clearer - in dreamers. I have heard of people achieving incredible information in dreams or meditations.
When we sleep, it is said we move close to the spirit realms vibrations and this makes contact with guides and loved ones, a little more intimate and in many ways more direct. Through dream work and practice, dreamers are indeed able to effect some remarkable communications. It is important to sort the wheat from the chaff when it comes to dreams however, with practice and patience, a person can develop strong techniques and effective communication. There are many fine books and other materials on dream working.
It need not be a complicated process and it may be as simple as asking, and as simple as receiving. Of course, some find messages are received in both ways, although I believe one method will predominate the other, if not for clarity, with regularity. Identifying which group you predominately fit into, and by focusing on this modality, will give you the opportunity to develop and enhance guide communication. Keeping a guide diary is a great way of achieving this. Ask questions of your guides. Start with simple things. Over a twelve week period log the responses you receive, the communication you have had and how they are achieved.
At the end of this period, you will see a pattern developing, and ultimately you will be in a position to determine your modality, and work on enhancing and developing it to a new level of clarity. Do not automatically think that you are one or the other. You may be very surprised once you start a diary just how you receive communications! Remember that this is a process, just like painting a wall - the more attention you pay in preparation for the paint to go on the wall - the better the results.
Finally, patience and time will be required, and a strong belief in the presence of our helpers and guides is very important. Don’t dwell too much on what or who your guides are - or their names - these things will come in time. Stand back and look at this as a long-term project - put in the time and preparation. Nothing worthwhile will be gained without patience and an effort on your part. Your guides and loved ones in spirit will be there always! This goes without saying, and perhaps for some, that is enough.
If you are looking to enhance your relationship and communication with them, understand how and why they are around first, and the rest will fall into place for you. I wish you all the greatest success with your own spirit guide communications.
FAQ:
Q. Can family and loved ones that have crossed over be our Spirit Guides?
A: Family we have known here are rarely guides as such. The guides who establish guidance with and for us have been arranged long before we take our first breath here in the physical. However family may take up the role of what I term spirit helpers who assist our guides with their work with you.
Q. How many guides do we have?
A. In short, as many as we need. We may have 2 or 3 but we may have as many as 6 or 7. It very much depends on the teaching and learning experiences we go through as to the numbers of guides we have.
Q. Do we always maintain the same guides?
A. We generally have several guides that stay with us all of our lives here. However guides do come and go at different times of need. As we require certain assistance other guides may come to us but for varying periods of time.
Q. Are guides always connected to Indians or historical figures?
A. No, It is one of the big misnomers when it comes to spirit guides. If you do not experience an Indian this doesn’t mean that you are imagining it or that you do not have a guide at all. Our guide’s appearance largely depends on how you will best accept them.
Q. Are guides the same as your guardian angel?
A. It is my belief that guides are indeed what we traditionally know as guardian angels. I also believe however that angels, as entities, are separate and different spiritual vibrations. Much of the great work our own guides do is mistakenly attributed to the angelic realm.
The issue with most of us is that we seem to get inspiration and focus only in spits and spats. Rarely do we develop a true understanding of the significance of these inspirations and guidance. We just know that we get these inspirations and thoughts occasionally and go along, never giving much more thought to it.
What if we could really bring these feelings, these fleeting moments of inspiration into our lives on a full time regular basis? Maintain a long-term, focused connection to your own personal team of spiritually advanced entities whose only love in life is to help and guide you through your life here. Well I’m here to tell you that this is entirely possible.
Of course I’m talking about our spirit guides, guardian angels or whatever you wish to call them. There are many reasons why spirit guides want to connect with us and in many ways I feel it is difficult to ignore their attentions. Working with us here in the physical is one of our guides’ greatest pleasures. They understand how difficult life here can be, and with their help, it can ease the path for us. They won't live our lives for us, but they will guide and support us to achieve our desired experiences here.
Our guides will use many different ways to communicate with us to get our attention. This can be hard work for our guides and helpers in spirit sometimes, the bulk of guide communication with us here in the physical, is subtle and non-descript. In most cases it is not a loud booming voice speaking to us from beyond!! Listening and understanding is the hard part of guide communication. When I started taking interest in guide communication, I was looking in the wrong direction. I used to think ‘okay I've read the books, I'm here with my eyes closed, in the quiet... now speak to me…’ Needless to say... I was left waiting... and waiting... and waiting... finally nothing. The disappointment was almost more than I could stand. I had read all the books written about those who professed to have had amazing experiences with their own guides and thought, ok why not me? Don’t fall into the same trap and have bigger expectations than are reasonable.
I really thought reading a few books and closing my eyes would do the trick (I can almost hear my guides laughing as I write this today – ‘that would have been just too easy’) Back in those days, I would have thought woo hoo! I have a direct line now. So what are the lotto numbers Will I get the girl I'm after Etc. It's never that easy!
It is very important in the overall scheme, when looking to open up a meaningful and long term communication with our guides or loved ones, to know that they are not able, or allowed, to offer more than guidance. Doing more than that may inhibit our growth, and compromise the contract that we have agreed to, before coming back to the physical. We will all fall into that trap of expecting more than they are able to offer.
I recently had the opportunity to do a question and answer session on a radio show. One gentleman asked me ‘what to look for’ from his guides, at an upcoming job interview. The answer was simple, ‘look for confidence, look for positive energy sent your way, feel them encouraging and supporting you.’
So, if we now discount the booming voice from beyond - then how do they communicate with us? The answer will be different for everyone! Much depends on our openness to the process and the faith one has in the fact that the help is there in the form of our guides and loved ones. Understanding that we have these energies available in spirit, is the first step in meaningful communication. Faith, in my opinion, is an overused word - however, it really encompasses what it is that you will need initially. Communication is going to seem strange at first, especially if, as usually is the case, meaningful communication does not happen immediately. Guide communication has a process behind it. It is in understanding the process involved, and also the fact that the process is different for many of us, that is paramount.
Having established that we need to understand our own process, or modality of guide communication, how do they best communicate with us and what form does that take? We can break most people into 2 groups - I like to use the Native American term - dreamers and seers. I apologize in advance to anyone who may feel I'm using these references out of traditional context; however, they are excellent when trying to establish modality.
The seer is one who is more comfortable and open to signs and indications of guide communication through our waking hours. This may take the form of showing you answers to questions asked, or perhaps by leading you toward a book that contains your information, or sending people in your direction that can help you. These may appear to our thinking minds as coincidences - they aren’t! To my mind, there is no such thing as coincidences. Smells, scents, and synchronicity, can also be commonly associated with a seer. Seers are also individuals who generally in my experience, have an easier time recognizing communication for what it is, and once they understand it, accepting it is a little easier than dreamers.
I tend to obtain much direction from my spirit guides in this way. I have learned to trust in the responses I receive to questions, and learning experiences sent to me. I know there have been a few occasions where my faith, so to speak, in my guides has been tested, and sometimes I have resorted back to my five senses, and started to rationalize. I almost always come unstuck and swear not to doubt again - but still do from time to time. This, for a seer is difficult to overcome, as our world gets hi-tech and what seems impossible today, becomes reality tomorrow - we live more and more in our 5 senses and it gets harder and harder to be impressed, so to speak.
Guide communication, although it may appear from the prospective of the seer, to come from and to our 5 physical senses, we must remember that guide communication originates outside of the 5 senses, and to really benefit from their communications, we must try to interpret the communications using all of our spiritual and physical senses combined. You will know when you are working with all of these senses as a seer, because it becomes more about the ‘feeling’, the ‘knowing’ that your guides are using their influence, and less about the physical manifestation of this influence.
Now dreamers! Dreamers are just that – dreamers. Much of their communication comes from very clear and vivid dreams that they seem to remember when they awake. Messages from loved ones and guides can be relayed in this dream mode because our minds shut down and allow this to happen. Dreamers are not usually as easy to impress with communications, and maybe people with busy lifestyles, that would have trouble focusing on messages and signs whilst awake. I include in this group, people who achieve communication during meditation. The meditative state is getting close to the state we find ourselves in during sleep. I have also found that the information is more direct, and in some ways clearer - in dreamers. I have heard of people achieving incredible information in dreams or meditations.
When we sleep, it is said we move close to the spirit realms vibrations and this makes contact with guides and loved ones, a little more intimate and in many ways more direct. Through dream work and practice, dreamers are indeed able to effect some remarkable communications. It is important to sort the wheat from the chaff when it comes to dreams however, with practice and patience, a person can develop strong techniques and effective communication. There are many fine books and other materials on dream working.
It need not be a complicated process and it may be as simple as asking, and as simple as receiving. Of course, some find messages are received in both ways, although I believe one method will predominate the other, if not for clarity, with regularity. Identifying which group you predominately fit into, and by focusing on this modality, will give you the opportunity to develop and enhance guide communication. Keeping a guide diary is a great way of achieving this. Ask questions of your guides. Start with simple things. Over a twelve week period log the responses you receive, the communication you have had and how they are achieved.
At the end of this period, you will see a pattern developing, and ultimately you will be in a position to determine your modality, and work on enhancing and developing it to a new level of clarity. Do not automatically think that you are one or the other. You may be very surprised once you start a diary just how you receive communications! Remember that this is a process, just like painting a wall - the more attention you pay in preparation for the paint to go on the wall - the better the results.
Finally, patience and time will be required, and a strong belief in the presence of our helpers and guides is very important. Don’t dwell too much on what or who your guides are - or their names - these things will come in time. Stand back and look at this as a long-term project - put in the time and preparation. Nothing worthwhile will be gained without patience and an effort on your part. Your guides and loved ones in spirit will be there always! This goes without saying, and perhaps for some, that is enough.
If you are looking to enhance your relationship and communication with them, understand how and why they are around first, and the rest will fall into place for you. I wish you all the greatest success with your own spirit guide communications.
FAQ:
Q. Can family and loved ones that have crossed over be our Spirit Guides?
A: Family we have known here are rarely guides as such. The guides who establish guidance with and for us have been arranged long before we take our first breath here in the physical. However family may take up the role of what I term spirit helpers who assist our guides with their work with you.
Q. How many guides do we have?
A. In short, as many as we need. We may have 2 or 3 but we may have as many as 6 or 7. It very much depends on the teaching and learning experiences we go through as to the numbers of guides we have.
Q. Do we always maintain the same guides?
A. We generally have several guides that stay with us all of our lives here. However guides do come and go at different times of need. As we require certain assistance other guides may come to us but for varying periods of time.
Q. Are guides always connected to Indians or historical figures?
A. No, It is one of the big misnomers when it comes to spirit guides. If you do not experience an Indian this doesn’t mean that you are imagining it or that you do not have a guide at all. Our guide’s appearance largely depends on how you will best accept them.
Q. Are guides the same as your guardian angel?
A. It is my belief that guides are indeed what we traditionally know as guardian angels. I also believe however that angels, as entities, are separate and different spiritual vibrations. Much of the great work our own guides do is mistakenly attributed to the angelic realm.
