Preparing to Meet Your Spirit Guides

In this second part of the Definitive Guide to Meeting & Working With Your Spirit Guides, we will explore:

• What guides are
• Understand how our mind creates expectations around our experience with them.
• Shift this mindset to remove any spiritual blocks.
• Gain insight into how connecting with guides may manifest for you and how to open yourself to more of their information.

In a short recap, I’ll mention again who my Spirit Partners are, and how I work with them. Use this as a basis for my background on the subject and what to expect from the rest of this series while you step into or continue with your spiritual journey.

Recap: How I Work With Spirit Guides, or “Partners”

First and foremost, I work within energetic and spiritual protection, I’m running energy for balance between the Earth and Cosmos, and clearing out old energy to replace with new. Once this is all set, I have an agenda for the issue that’s top-of-mind, usually in the form of questions. Then, I open a meeting with my spiritual partners, my “Board of Directors,” calling in only those crucial to the topic at hand; I feel that opening to a broader population of guides can make for sloppy, arduous work that can mislead me, make my work take more time (up to years!) – even if I’m working with the highest and most powerful beings. I choose guides balanced between Nature (Mother Earth) and the Cosmos, so I know my answers will be in equilibrium and aligned with expediting my ultimate goal. I will walk you through this after we prepare to do so. For now, let’s head back to the beginning and unravel this so your mind is prepared to put it together correctly and start putting it to use!

As you work through this blog series, know it’s greatly been channeled to me so you have the information within. If you have more questions, would like courses on the subject, weekly healings & integrations, plus an ever-expanding library of resources, consider checking out my community, Beyond.

Why Are We Drawn To Knowing Our Spirit Guides?

As we embark on the spiritual journey of self-discovery, one of the first things we do is delve into the mystical realm of spirit guides. We all have spirit guides, and we all want answers. These unseen yet profoundly influential ethereal beings hold the key to unlocking deep spiritual growth and wisdom. By exploring who our spirit guides are and how they communicate, we take the first step towards connecting with our higher self and embracing the wisdom of the present moment. It’s natural to want to know who is on your team, have the names and see the faces of those offering divine love and guidance, and hear the messages so you don’t get off-course… again. To start this process, we need to align our mindset to the process, set, and remove expectations around this goal.

The Different Types of Spirit Guides

Spirit guides come in various forms, each serving a specific purpose in your spiritual journey. Some may be deceased loved ones offering comfort and protection, while others could be animals (alive or passed), ascended masters and archangels guiding you toward spiritual growth. Guardian angels provide continuous support, and animal spirits offer wisdom through their unique characteristics and archetypes. Additionally, ancestral spirits connect you to your roots, aiding in understanding your heritage during this human incarnation. You can also connect to the earth and gain insight through the five elements or terrains or connect with elementals such as elves, mermaids, or fairies. By recognizing the diverse types of spirit guides, you can deepen into the multifaceted nature of spiritual guidance.

The Human Mindset, Spirit Guides, and Their Messages

One of the most common things I see with clients wishing to meet their guides is their mindset being set on a specific expectation of the outcome. As you become more familiar with me, you’ll know one of the most important things I teach is removing expectations and simply leaving that space empty so Spirit and your Higher Self can fill it with miracles and exciting opportunities. So how do you do this?

Your Guides Are Already With You

The most frustrating piece of this puzzle is that spiritual teacher saying, “your guides are already with you.” Ugh. You’ve heard it before… you just want to hear your guides already!!

Let’s get into some blocks that you’ve created around this phenomenon and open clear space for communication to come through.

Exercise In Identifying Your Spirit Guide Expectations

First of all, think about what you expect to receive when you “finally” connect with your guides. What are your goals? What do you hope is in store regarding your new relationship with your guides? Do you want to:

• Know a list of names?
• See them in front of you?
• Have a conversation with them?
• Hear direct words spoken into your head?
• Have the wheel taken from you before a car crash?
• See, feel, know, hear, do the same things a friend or a TV personality does?
• Fill a lonely space in your heart because you know a loving group is waiting for you?

List out exactly what you’ve imagined or what you want your guides to do with you and for you. If you can, make this a very detailed list. Dig into your heart and put some emotion into it!

Your Blocks

Spiritual Proof

Your guides constantly send you messages, although your requirement for proof or your desire to experience spiritual messages through Human forms may be blocking your experience. When you soften to their world, remove expectations around how messages come to you, and realize that your way of communicating with them is different from everyone else’s, you’ll find the messages flow to you in ways unimaginable. The key is simple faith, and recognizing the little things as the miracles they are.

Proof in spirituality is a backward phenomenon. Our modern minds tend to let science prove something to us before we jump in – which is important when considering new medications that draw a fine line between toxicity and supporting life, or recognizing how electricity works before we try to DIY that ceiling light.

Proof when working in the spirit realm comes after you believe in it. This proof comes in what we call miracles.

Faith

The way Guides usually communicate is more of a feeling or knowing you must hone and recognize (using something called faith). If you have a stranglehold on requiring proof before stepping into the world of spirituality, you’ll probably have a rough go of it. However, if you sit back, remove expectations, and let the spiritual world prove itself to you, you’ll have a much easier, happier, confirmed, and supported experience.

Faith is a concept people have struggled with from the beginning. The trick I use, and honestly, what led me to where I am today, is pretending to believe. This is just a fun game, as if you are a kid playing pretend. Go ahead and pretend to believe as hard as you can in that angel above you, Jesus at the church door welcoming you in, or knowing the feeling you have not to drive today is a stop sign from God/Universe/Source. The key is pretending with all your might, all the belief you can put toward it. Make it fun… nobody has to know you’re playing this game!

Comparing Your Experience With Others

In my experience, very few people have been met by a specific angel or guide on the onset of their path, wake up one day able to talk to dead people, or induce healing miracles by the laying of hands. When we hear about these few and far-between instances or see them on TV, our human minds tend to compare our experiences to theirs. We can become desperate for that or jealous of them, putting an even larger block between us and our guides.

The thing I want you to know about you and your spirituality in general, is you’re different than everyone. You will see, hear, feel, and know things in different ways than that lady on TV. You will have a different and magnificent first rise into ascension. You will speak different words into healings and hold a different energy than every spiritual being on earth because you’re unique. I call this the energy medicine that only you can give to the world. So in this way, you will have different guides than everyone out there, they’ll communicate to and through you differently, and your life purpose (if you choose to co-create it with your guides) will look wildly different than everyone else doing the same work out there. Be kind to yourself. Turn your empathy and love inwards. This is a fantastic adventure!

Now, I want to invite you to let go of the comparison you’re holding. You are working your magic with your guides. Trust this indefinitely. The more you simplify your mind and hone it to only your experience, the faster your guides and Source can prove miracles to you and set you on your Divine Purpose.

How Do I Remove Expectations?

Let’s go back to your list and break you out of some blocks. Once we lasso your brain and get your mindset on track around the Spirit Guide phenomenon, you’ll be able to easily start communicating with invisible partners.

The Human Ego and How It Relates to Spirit Guides

The need to have a name, face, or voice connected to a spirit guide is a common desire for those at the beginning of working with Spirit. Know, however, that this is simply a desire stemming from the human ego. We find safety and comfort in seeing a face, knowing a name, and being able to go into the internet and research someone we’re doing business with.

A large percentage of the time, your spirit guides don’t have a human name since we don’t have the letters in the alphabet or sounds to apply to what they’re called in their own realm. Along those lines, they may be from a realm where faces don’t exist, and the sounds they may or may not emit may be imperceptible to our ears.

It’s like the limitation of our color spectrum – our eyes don’t have the ability to see all the colors, so we don’t have names for them. We just know (within the limitations of current science) that they’re found in the electromagnetic spectrum. Expanding on this, colors in the angelic realms reach even farther from these. These colors and frequencies are infinitesurround you and influence you at each moment, yet, they’re unnamable.

Just for fun, let’s play a game. We’re going to pretend (again, pretending is the fastest way to connect to your spirituality!)  that the first guide you’ll meet has a name: let’s call this guide Helvetica. (If you know a Helvetica, choose a name of someone you don’t know.)

All right. So, you have that name. It’s Helvetica. Helvetica is your guide. What now? How has knowing the name Helvetica influenced your spiritual work? How has this knowledge changed you? Are you more cosmically aligned? Are you more grounded now that you have a name?

Consider this deeply. You haven’t changed a bit now that you know who one of your unseen helper’s names is. Your journey is the same. Your ego has been appeased, but has that done anything for your increase in vibration, wisdom or ascension?

Releasing the Need for Names, Faces, and Voices

Okay, so you don’t need names. Your ego still says it would be nice, and sure, communicating with a partner is easier if we can put a name or a face to an unseen being. Just know that your guides are with you whether you know their names or not. They’re still speaking to you, giving you messages, and throwing hard lessons your way when you don’t take action on the messages you’re absorbing (aka, not listening to your gut.) They’re always by your side, and you can ask them questions at all moments of the day. Whether you know their names and faces or not.

Asking for Names, Faces and Voices

As you practice working with your guides, you can always ask them to manifest for you or give you a name. You may see them and know immediately it’s Archangel Michael, or be able to look up who the ascended master of the 5^th ray is who came to you in a dream. This is all work that deepens as you do and will come faster as you release your expectations. I invite you to let go of your requirements for these beings. Once you do, your journey will catch fire!

Letting Go of Requirements of Spirit

Let’s go back to your list. Now that you know more about how your energy jives with the spirit world, do you think it’s time to re-write this? Let’s remove the expectations, limitations, requirements and conditions, knowing in your full power of your sovereign, spiritual self that you are here to create your own brand of magic. Open the items on your bullet point list to the impossible and let Spirit fill them in for you.

Connecting With Your Spirit Guides

Okay, okay. Enough with the prep. You want to get into it, figure out who they are, and get this train boarded. I know! Learning to talk and communicate with your senses is the next thing to conquer. If you skipped ahead to this part, please go back and review the previous sections. They’re vital to knowing that you actually are connecting, first time or not.

How Spirit Guides Communicate With You

So you’ve opened to the world of non-expectation, faith, and expecting proof after you put in work on spiritual phenomena. Congratulations! This next step in meeting your guides is a mindset shift about how they will show up for you.

Spirit Partners are always communicating with you. They never have stopped, and they never will. They are glued to you through their love and adoration for you, so get used to having a flow of Divine information coming to you at all times!

Extra Sensory Perception (ESP)

When we talk about seeing and hearing spiritual phenomena and messages, there are people out there who do see and hear with their own two eyes and ears. Chances are, you definitely have, too! However, know that “seeing” may look more like visions you have through your 3^rd eye, poetic or metaphorical messages you see in nature, or even numbers or repeated words you notice day after day. “Hearing” may be a ringing in your ear, a buzzing sensation (boy, is that irritating!), or sounds that lead you somewhere so you can find/see/discover something. How they show up in your body and mind is as unique as you are.

99% of the time, you’re not going to “see” them, or “hear” them as you would a person in this human, earthly realm. The way they communicate is much more delicate. This is where your extrasensory perception (ESP) comes in. ESP isn’t something only for special, psychic people. You already have it, and can hone it. Actually, in order to tap into your messages with skill and heightened perception, you must hone it. This comes in the form of practice.

ESP Exercises for Increasing Your Clairs and Intuition

Clairvoyance (Clear Seeing)

• Visualization Exercises: Spend time each day visualizing detailed scenes in your mind. Start with simple objects and progress to more complex scenarios. This can help enhance your ability to “see” with your mind’s eye.
• Dream Journaling: Keep a journal by your bed and record your dreams as soon as you wake up. Reviewing these entries can help you recognize patterns and symbols, sharpening your clairvoyant abilities.
• Meditation with Imagery: During meditation, focus on a specific image or scene. Imagine it in great detail, using all your senses. This practice can enhance your visual imagination and intuitive sight.
• Scrying: Use a scrying tool such as a crystal ball, mirror, or bowl of water to focus your mind. Gaze into the tool and allow images to form, practicing interpreting what you see. Some use flames and flowing water as well.
• Third Eye Activation: Focus on your third eye chakra during meditation. Visualize a bright light or an eye in the middle of your forehead, helping to activate and strengthen this chakra associated with clairvoyance.

Clairaudience (Clear Hearing)

• Sound Meditation: Sit in a quiet space and focus on the sounds around you. Try to distinguish each sound and its source. This can sharpen your ability to hear subtle sounds and messages.
• Listening to Music: Listen to a piece of music and focus on identifying each instrument. This practice can enhance your auditory discrimination and sensitivity.
• Affirmations and I Am Statements: Use I Am statements to open your clairaudient abilities. Repeating phrases like “I Am open to receiving clear guidance” can help you become more attuned to subtle messages.
• Chanting and Mantras: Use chanting or repeating mantras to activate your throat chakra. This can help you become more attuned to receiving auditory messages from the spiritual realm.
• Recording Messages: Record yourself asking a question and then play back the recording, listening for any intuitive answers or guidance that comes through in your mind.

Clairsentience (Clear Feeling)

• Body Scanning: Practice body scanning during meditation. Focus on each part of your body, noting any sensations or emotions that arise. This can increase your awareness of subtle physical and emotional cues.
• Empathy Exercises: You are most likely some form of empath, so let’s bring this out. Spend time in different environments and pay attention to how you feel in each one. Notice how your emotions and physical sensations change in response to different people and places.
• Energy Work: Practice energy healing techniques such as Reiki or Qi Gong. This can help you become more sensitive to the flow of energy and emotions in yourself and others.
• Holding Objects: Hold an object in your hand and try to sense its history or the emotions attached to it. This psychometry exercise can help you tune into the energy of objects and places.
• Grounding Practices: Regularly practice grounding exercises, such as walking barefoot on the earth or visualizing roots extending from your feet into the ground. This helps you stay centered and enhances your sensitivity to subtle energies.

Claircognizance (Clear Knowing)

• Automatic Writing: Set aside time each day for automatic writing. Relax, clear your mind, and write whatever comes to you without overthinking. This can help you tap into your intuitive knowledge.
• Trusting Gut Feelings: Pay attention to your gut feelings and act on them. The more you trust your intuitive insights, the stronger they become.
• Problem Solving: Practice solving problems or answering questions intuitively before using logic. Write down your initial insights and then research or analyze the problem to see how accurate your intuition was.
• Mindfulness Meditation: Practice mindfulness to quiet your mind and become more aware of your thoughts. This can help you distinguish between ordinary thoughts and intuitive insights.
• Learning and Research: Engage in regular learning and research on topics of interest. Often, claircognizant insights can be triggered by absorbing new information and allowing your mind to make intuitive connections.

Clairalience (Clear Smelling)

• Scent Meditations: Use different scents during meditation. Focus on each scent and its qualities, helping you become more sensitive to subtle smells.
• Scent Memory: Practice recalling scents from your past. Visualize and try to “smell” the scents associated with specific memories. This can enhance your olfactory sensitivity.
• Essential Oils: Use essential oils in your daily routine. Pay attention to how each oil makes you feel and any memories or insights it evokes.
• Nature Walks: Spend time alone in nature and focus on the different scents you encounter. This can help you become more attuned to the natural world and its subtle smells.
• Scent Journaling: Keep a journal of scents you notice throughout the day. Record the context and any impressions or insights that come with each scent. This practice can heighten your awareness of clairalient experiences.

As you start practicing your extra-senses, you’re simply deepening into how Spirit will send you messages. Everyone is different, yet we can all practice honing and expanding how we sense into this world. Let’s explore some more options Spirit may give you for receiving messages. There are ways to open the chakra energy centers for each of the clairs. I invite you to join my community, Beyond, wherein we have a course, built especially around this as a part of your morning practice routine.

5 More Ways Spirit Guides Communicate With You

Of course, how you receive messages will unfold and expand as you work with it. Here is a short list of ways Spirit can be knocking on your door with messages:

Dreams and Visions

• Spirit guides often utilize dreams and visions to convey messages, tapping into the subconscious mind for communication
• Pay attention to recurring symbols, themes, locations, or activities
• Visions during meditation or in the almost-dream state can provide guidance or healing

Intuition and Gut Feelings

• Trusting your instincts is vital, as spirit guides can send gentle nudges through intuitive hunches and gut feelings:
• Your intuition is a direct channel for receiving messages, a bridge between your unconscious mind and your higher self.
• Trust your nudges and be present in the moment.
• Spirit likes expediency when it comes to these nudges. When you get one, hold on tight and commit to your faith in it by jumping straight in to what they’re asking for!

Synchronicities and Coincidences

• Pay attention to meaningful coincidences and synchronicities in your life. They are subtle signs from your guides!
• Synchronistic events are orchestrated by a higher intelligence.
• Pay attention to repetitious numbers, symbols, and encounters that seem to hold significance, but don’t try to create them or be in the habit of searching them out. These should keep an element of surprise for you.

Physical Manifestations and Symbols

• Spirit guides may manifest through symbols or physical objects that hold special significance to you:
• Finding objects such as coins, feathers, or even bizarre repetitive things like hair pins, cigar butts, or pop-top tabs
• Look out for repetitive patterns that catch your eye
• Unusual animal encounters
• Changes in temperature or flickering lights

Direct Messages and Insights of Inspiration

• Be open to receiving direct messages and insights through meditation, quiet reflection, or sudden flashes of inspiration
• Nudges, a subtle voice in your head, signs, symbols, even a heightened sensitivity and empathy towards those around you are all messages. Truly anything can be a form of a message. Soften to them and open to their flow.

Patience, Persistence & Gratitude in Spiritual Practice

To truly engage with your spirit guides, patience, persistence and gratitude in your spiritual practice are vital. Connecting with these ethereal beings requires consistent effort and unwavering commitment. They’re always with you, so get in the habit of being with them as well. You are immersed always in a pool of love, lighting your way to divine purpose and enlightenment.

It’s normal to face doubt and skepticism along the way, but staying dedicated to your spiritual growth is the next step toward deeper connections. By persistently seeking guidance and remaining open to receiving insights, you pave the way for profound spiritual experiences. Embrace the present moment with gratitude, allowing your journey to unfold at its own pace. Let’s continue, shall we?

So, How Do I Meet My Spirit Guides?

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Next Post in this Series: Meeting Your Spirit Guides Part 3