Getting to know your Guide / Asking for Guidance - Part one

When we say ask for guidance from the best person for the job, what do we do?

We ask the spirit person who knows US the best, aha! I hear you say, but I don't know THEM !

The way to get closer to the guide and talk to him/her is to do what you would do with a friend, sit and just be there with them. 

You might think that takes a lot of doing, but you’re wrong, it only takes a few minutes at a time - after the method is set up.  

Let me put it this way… 

What if your best friend was always [wherever you are] sitting in the next room and you could at any time pop in and have a quick word, or dash in, throw yourself on the nearest chair, and say absolutely nothing … just chill out…wouldn’t that be great?

Well you can!

It takes a bit of practice but once you’ve set up the thing its easy, here’s how…

Imagine a room, the nicest room you ever saw, what would it look like? In your imagination money is no object you can have anything you like. So, make yourself a room and decorate it any way you like.

[I’m a big fan of that advert for paint where the walls change into scenes of fields and flowers, and birds fly in heavenly blue skies…. But that’s only me.]

Now that room has a door [picture an important door] and this is important, first of all you see the door – then you see the room – then you go in and sit / lay down. Listen for nice sounds, smell pleasant things while you wait, you choose what.

At first you need to wait for the visitor to come in and join you. This is the setting up part that may take time.

Now when a person comes in they are behind you and you can’t see them. If you need to look, then that’s OK. But wait till you know that the peace this person brings you feels just right, calming and restful, and then do what you would like, turn and look, or just sit and be at peace with that person in the room the two of you together.

If you are seeking conversation / advice, then expectations need to be realistic. Unless you are experienced in meditation you can’t expect to have a two-way chat, but having said that we all can receive communications in many ways.

For example ‘knowing’ an answer without any reason you could put a name to, is called ‘inspirational’ guidance. But the direct method is to say either out loud or inside your head, what it is you need and then leave it alone till you feel better - that’s all.

The answer at first might be a bit obscure, or not what you expect, don’t worry, just trust that all you need will be to advance into the quiet zone and feel better, asking for guidance is all that’s needed you don’t have to take it… think haw many times you have ignored advice before, you can do again.

The whole point is to seek, what you have done is open yourself to the power of the spirit, that is the key, the spirit people will do all in their power to help you simply because you have asked.

There is a myriad of helpers and guides that cannot move a ‘muscle’ because of the principle 5 personal responsibility clause in our basic law book. [See articles on Philosophy.]

Back to the programme.

You have set up the door, the room, the sitting in peace, now for a quick time saving guidance request you go through it on gentle speed mode. Got it?

Picture in the mind 1. Door. 2 room. 3 peace. 4 ask .

Done it!

To learn about the kinds of different guides and helpers Click  >>HERE<<

Connecting with Your Spirit Guides. Part two

In my work with psychic development classes and circles, I've encountered any number of people who want to get in touch with their spirit guides. Our guides are with us whether we're aware of their presence or not. Sometimes a person is at a place in their development where guides are working with the person's Higher Self, but it's not yet time for the earth plane personality to become aware of them. Some people receive guidance quite often, but aren't aware that it's coming from a guide. Some people just haven't found the best way yet to connect with their guides. Because our spirit guides are not here to "run our lives," they will usually remain outside of our conscious awareness until we have developed the strength and wisdom to accept their guidance without attempting to rely on them to make our choices or run our lives for us.
Here are some tips for getting in touch with your spirit guides:

1. Ask, I repeat, ask. The world of Spirit can do nothing if we don’t ask for their help. Although our guides are always with us, because we are in the physical world and they are not, we need to request awareness of their presence. And we also need to ask for help and guidance – personal responsibility - they cannot interfere, and so can only assist if we ask them to.

If someone in the physical world were here to help and serve you, they would wait for you to ask. Guides are the same. How? A simple thought of “Help please” will do it.

2. Practice placing your focus on your inner world. Most of us are trained at an early age to focus outside of ourselves on the physical world rather than internally, and to look outside of ourselves for answers rather than trusting our own intuition. But you have answers within you; all you need to do is look within, listen to the inner voice, and learn to trust the information you find.

How do we do this? What voice is this? That voice inside when a decision has to be made is the one I mean, the one that says, “This is not a good idea!” in times of conscience searching. The best question phrase is “What would the wisest person in the world say?” By leaving the ‘wisest person’ open, by not naming that person, you have allowed your inner mind to pick the best option.

3. In meditation, extend your conscious awareness around you 360 degrees. When we're in human form on the earth plane, we tend to focus almost exclusively on what we can see with our eyes, which only encompasses 140-180 degrees of our reality. But our guides usually remain to the side or slightly behind us in our energy field, and by increasing your awareness of your energy field all the way around your body rather than just in front of you, you can sometimes become more aware of their presence.

 Ask yourself a few questions, like for example “Can I feel a person behind me?”

We all can do this – you know when you walk into a room if there is an atmosphere, don’t you? Well, this is the same sort of thing, you think to yourself “What’s going on?” its just the same but ‘who’ instead of what’.

4. Listen for a voice, look, feel and open all your senses in every way to connect with your guides. Many people expect to "see" their guides, because humans are so used to relying on our vision in the physical world, but some of us have stronger clairaudience (hearing) or clairsentience (sensing) than clairvoyance (seeing) abilities.

I was once searching for a parking place at the hospital, and after I'd gone round a bit without success, I thought, "Maybe down here." I distinctly heard, "No, in the next entrance" -- and it was. Guidance isn't always this clear, but can come through any of the senses. Sometimes even a recurring smell or taste can alert you to the presence of a guide. My aunty comes through a cigarette smoke.

5. Work with others -- join a development circle, gather some like-minded friends, or get a psychic reading with the specific intention to become aware of your guides. I do this many times and teach the use of ‘aids’ like flowers or cards. Often, because other people see you from a much different perspective than you see yourself, they will notice features or characteristics of your guides that can be helpful to you in getting in touch with them.

A development circle can be informal, just a few friends getting together and trying one thing or another, as long as the intention is clear and you surround yourself with light to protect yourself. Though we all have guides, and psychic ability, like any other skill or ability it takes practice and experience over a period of time to become proficient.

Always protect yourself before you work - See the articles in the ‘Teaching’ section. Surround yourself with white light, or protect yourself in whatever way works best for you, a bubble or other metaphor, and ask that only the highest and best information may come through. When you receive any form of guidance, ask yourself if it feels true for you. That inner voice again.  If it feels wrong, it may not be coming from a higher being, as in this world, there are mischievous spirits that delight in having fun with the unwary! If it feels innately right, you're on the right track.

Sometimes guides appear in dreams -- if you have a particularly powerful dream, ask yourself when you awaken who was involved, what was happening, and how you felt in the situation. The Silver Screen on the lessons site provides a good introduction for beginners.

Once you have connected with your guides, it's important to develop and build on the connection. How do you make a long lasting friend? By staying in contact, let them know you appreciate their help, and say thank you.

Keep going to development / open circles or take a class, or just spend a few moments a day in meditation with the intention to contact your guides. We all have a few moments while daydreaming, maybe in the bath, or while washing up? Your guides are always with you, but they do not watch our every move; so don’t think that you have an audience in the bath! It is of no interest to them what you do with your physical; they have left those concerns behind.

If you consciously intend to connect with them, and ask for that connection, you will find it when the time is right. Good luck! And may the light be with you.