Chapter Three - Contacting your Guide

“Considering you are here for the experience why not make it the best it can be!”

My guide has become an important part of my life! Some people say their guide is their higher inner consciousness. Others say the guide is a human being who has passed over and has been trained in guide ship or an energy/spirit being who has never accessed the physical realm at all. Guides come in all forms.

Then, in some cases a human may have an extraterrestrial being who work with them for the purpose of raising the planets vibrational status (as well as our own.) It doesn’t matter who or what your guide is, we all have intuition, we all know what is right and wrong.

 I have found that if I listen to the quiet inner voice, it gives me good advice and allows me to make solid decisions. The problem comes when the answer needed is dependent on information that is beyond my level of knowledge, or understanding and wisdom. How do I answer a question I can’t possibly know an answer to?

This is where having contact with your guide is vital in the communication process, your guide may communicate through your thoughts or you may even see your guide. As an example. I’m walking through the treacherous mountains, and come to a fork in a path if I choose the wrong direction, it may mean disaster, and who do I listen to? The inner voice or my guide, how do I know which is which?

Meditation and constant communication with your guide will provide certainty as to whom you are sharing and listening to.

For some people there are special guides for special times, and just because you start out with a guide does not mean that you will have the same guide for the rest of your life, although you can. (it may also be the same guide in a different form!)

There are also helpers, people who have passed over, (loved ones) who work with your guide(s) in helping you to develop. An amazing spiritual guide is called “Silver Birch” and his words of wisdom have helped me through many unsettling times.

The meditation process in the previous chapters work towards calming your mind. Have you ever been in a shopping center, being pulled by your children, people here and there, music blasting? If someone standing next to you tries to communicate with you, it’s difficult. You may or may not hear some of what they are saying to you!

Imagine a spiritual being trying to have a conversation with you, your mind is racing, to expect that you will be in a place where you can hear or sense a voice that may be offering advice, it’s basically impossible.

For a spirit to communicate with someone on this earth plain, there are many problems that they have to navigate. For a loved one who has just passed over or a guide, it’s also difficult, until you have learnt to recognize their signs and signals.

Meditation allows us to see who we are and hear from ourselves, we provide internal information, and knowledge and wisdom from beyond time and space. The quiet inner voice is not heard above the turmoil of the mind, and is only heard where we find the inner silence. We mostly lose this peace from living our daily lives.  

I remember an old friend telling me “people need to find the silence and the stillness within.” I though ok, “How hard can it be?”

(I found out very quickly how difficult it can be.)

When we find the silence, what do we expect to find?

Can we possibly understand who we really are?

What if we see ourselves in silence, and then have the awakening that we are truly spiritual beings, living an existence, where we are just playing a part in the physical realm, how would that then effect the daily life you once held to be so important?

So how do I find my external guide?

“The quiet within”

Over the years I tried to find my guide, the attempts were many, each one only served to make me think it was all in my mind, even when I thought I had a visual image of my guide, I allowed it to fade away and forgot about it.

One of the key points to remember is desire, (you must desire to meet your guide and let nothing stand in the way!) If you are to climb a mountain, you prepare, focus, and go for the top and with good conditions you will succeed, move that principle over to contacting your guide, and you will see that it’s a steady, focused, committed path that you must follow.

Of course depending on your current vibrational state (your level of spiritual consciousness, and how stressed you are) will determine how easily you will achieve this.

 If your life is full of the physical and you have a troubled mind and worry about everything, this will mean you will have to first calm the mind to allow the journey to being, whereas as if you are an easy going person and relaxed the process may be easier .

So, basically I can hear you thinking.

 “What do I have to do!”

 I started with the intent to actually have a contact with my guide and from there progressed to meditation sessions where I sought to still my mind.

As I silenced my mind, I found I was able to hear more of my internal thought processes, it was like viewing myself from a third party point of view.

I had also downloaded a guided relaxation meditation from the internet. This allowed me to walk through a guided session where I could find my guide. I managed to see a being of light standing next to me on the beach, it was in my imagination, but further extended my ability to focus on the task at hand.

After a few weeks of this process, I was sitting in my office and felt a cool breeze flowing around me. I looked to the window to see the curtains and they were still, I thought this was a curious thing, but thought no more of it. The next day during the meditation process the same thing happened again, this time I said in my mind “come closer” as to invite anyone that was near, to invite them to my space.

I felt an incredibility cold patch form on the back of my head I spun around to see if the curtains on the window behind me were moving, nothing! This was very strange, after a while the cold patch disappeared and I went back to my session.

The next day it happened again, but this time I decided to ask who was there, I had my eyes closed and could see an image of a person, I heard a name, I thought is this my mind?

Am I imagining this, and got a firm answer, “No,” I then further questioned the image and was getting answers back; finally I had opened a discussion with my guide.

Over a period of a few days I noticed a strong vibrational bond forming between us and anytime I asked my guide to step closer he did, this gave me great comfort as I was able to ask and get answers to many questions.

Now, for me, my journey was to develop into a Medium, (an ability we all have, but only some develop.) So having this as my focus, I had to learn to raise my vibrational state and also ground myself or to attune myself to the vibrational frequency of the spiritual realm. Having a guide is very important; they arrange many critical aspects of contact with the spiritual realm on a daily basis, so having constant communication with them is a vital step in moving through spiritual changes.

Mentoring:

I have been experimenting on helping others to bring through their guides and I have found that by setting the vibrational tone or state, (by having my guide present while I am meditating) it’s possible to help others achieve the necessary state to contact their guides.

This also works when contacting spirit. I have noticed that there are many times when a person, who is in a remote location from me, can also sense the presence of the same spirit. Remember, time and space do not exist in the higher vibrational spheres, and so all of the limitations that exist for people are not in play.

You may be asking yourself “Is this only related to psychics and mediums?” No, is the definitive answer.

 I have been talking to people who were total skeptics (skepticism is a good thing to have) and as the conversation progressed (just a general chat, not spiritual) they suddenly felt a very strong energy presence.

(Like someone was standing beside them), I will talk more about this subject in the Mediums chapter.

How do I hear their voice?

This is an amazing process and relates to the mind and energy center’s vibrating at the same frequency. When you are connected or listening to your guide, you can hear or see them because the area in your mind that is connected via the energy center is vibrating at a frequency that allows the mind to see and understand what is being said.

As you may know, the body holds many energy states; these are the way that the spiritual body is connected to the physical, thus allowing things that we create in our mind, to become reality via our spiritual bodies. Our energy bodies are connected out to the universe via our vibrational states.

An analogy of this would be a musical instrument, by itself, it does not make a tune, as an instrument it manipulated by the musician, it creates the music that is then sent out via a frequency for people to hear.

What can I do to find my guide?

I have found some people are terminally lazy! They will give their power over to others; sit for hours while they are fed information, and at the end of it all, they will not have the “time” or “patience” to sit, focus and breathe or create any connection for themselves.  Some people have a natural connection to their guides, and for them it’s simply “easy” to connect, but for others (like myself) it was a long arduous task  (read journey) to contact the first main guide.

If you have tried and cannot contact your guide, other methods are available, letters, diaries, and visualizations.

I first started keeping a diary as I wanted to remind myself of the times I have had contact with my guide. There will be occasions, once you have established connection, that will seem “empty” like a barren desert in comparison to communication process between you and your guide that you may have had initially.

The daily ritual of talking to your friend, and writing it down, will enable you to look back at what you have learnt in the past and see guidance in many areas that you may not have seen before.

It can be a poem, spiritual inspiration, songs, chapters from a book, words of wisdom, anything that at that time you felt led to write into the diary. It’s an amazing process to look back and see what you have been given.

Visualisation:

I felt at this point that a guided visualization example may be of some assistance.

I want you to relax by sitting comfortably in your chair and if you are feeling cool, place a warm blanket around you, we have two visualizations for you to try, each one ending with you speaking to your guide.

Visualisation one:

You are walking along a path in a mountainous valley and at both sides of you are very old, green, beautiful trees; some are covered in vines that hang down to the path. The feeling you have is of a calm and relaxed nature, the air is fresh and the path is covered by a lovely green moss, this feels very comfortable under your feet.

You decide to take off your shoes and feel the sponginess and the warmth of the moss under your feet. As you walk along the path you can hear birds singing, in the distance you see a bench in an opening between the trees and when you arrive at this place, you notice a small waterfall on your right side, you sit peacefully and quietly.

As you sit, in the distance you see someone coming towards you, they look like they are made of light. As they approach, you get a warm loving sensation and feelings of a long lost friend, they move close and sit next to you.

As you both sit there listening to the birds singing and the sounds of the water fall, you turn to your friend and start to talk to them, asking questions and receiving answers.

At this point in time it’s up to you how you then progress past this point.

Visualization Two:

Take a deep breath and hold it in, as you release it, feel any worries and stress you have, simply float away.

Take another deep breath and as you breathe in, feel peace and calm. As you breathe out release any tension you have.

Notice how your breathing now becomes slower and steadier.

With each breath, breathe in peace and calm.

As you exhale, feel more relaxed.

Now be aware of a bright pure white light, beginning to surround you. It filters down from above your head and gradually swirls around your whole body.

Down, around your head, past your shoulders, your chest, your stomach, and your hips, down your legs and covers your feet.

This light surrounds you.

With this light, feel great love and comfort.

With each breath, this light becomes brighter and stronger.

Breathe in the light that has now surrounded you.

Feel the love, peace, and calm.

Become more aware of your own spirit, the real you.

The one that connects you to everything and everybody.

Both here and in the world of spirit.

As you sit in the calmness, you become aware of all your senses. They heighten.

You look up and see a ball of light, its moving towards you.

As it nears, you sense a familiarity.

You and the light become one.

As you enter the light, you feel a huge sense of healing.

You hear words.... Wait for a while here, relaxing, breathing, and hearing.

When you feel ready, move back to awareness.

Slowly become aware of being back in your home at your seat where you started.

Try to remember any sensations you may have had, did you see colors? Were there any words?

Maybe this style of connection may not suit you, look for other visualizations or guided meditations, to help you settle and ground.

Automatic Writing:

This is an interesting phenomenon where you have paper and pen and while relaxing and focusing on your inner self, you ask questions. Try initially for yes and no answers, as expecting to write whole sentences in the beginning may be a bit much to hope for. Using a Pendulum is also a great way to link into information; they provide answers to yes and no questions.

Here is an example of an automatic writing session:

 Question:

 What is a guide?

 Response:

 A guide can be your higher self, but external guides may be people who have passed, existed in another dimension or multiple energies that are not definable, and who are specialists in guidance, so when you really contact your guide your whole life will change.

 Question:

 I have read books that say that a spirit guide is a soul who has never been born, we each have one, and then we can have other guides that have been born and are passed that are specialists.

 Response:

 Whether they have been born or not is not an issue, it’s just that they exist, each person has one.

Here is an example:

Electricity is in the power lines stretching through a whole city each person can plug into the electricity like an individual guide...

But it’s still energy, like you and me.

We are one soul, one energy, when the body falls, we just reintegrate back to where we belong.

That is why having your consciousness, as a guide does not really work, as you are limited being.

Your Guide knows where, what, and why, about you.

Question:

What is the pure light I sometimes see?

Response:

Its means you are not ready yet, but getting closer.

Question:

If a guide see’s that something harmful is happening to you...do they try to stop it?

Response:

They perform many functions, offer advice, and answer questions. If you ask to be kept safe, they will do that.

Question:

Can one person’s guide talk to another guide?

Response:

I often get information from other peoples guides to give to them, that’s why validation is so important. With guides, it’s important to make sure it is your guide, they may give you a physical symptom or sign that only you will know, so when they come, you have verification, or will hear a small voice inside, some see their guides, others feel their guides.

Question:

Talking is different to everybody?.

Response:

Sure is, some may never hear their guides.