Spirit guides are always around you. You may never acknowledge them, see them or hear them. It all depends on you. If you would like to get to know them you can when you are ready. You can ask for a sign from them to let you know that they are there, either a physical sign like ask to see something, for example, a certain item which has special meaning to you, something unusual, then keep your eyes open for it over the next couple of weeks. Or for them to show you a sign in your dreams.
You can go into meditation and ask for them to come forward or meet you in the garden or place you have set up. You can find a guided meditation to specifically ask them to come forward or hypnosis can bring forward your guide or guides. Now some people can ‘see’ their guides visually as in their mind and some people can’t, some have the sound of their guides voices only. When you think about it your guides are asking for a leap of faith from you when you only hear their voices.
I have found you actually have more than one guide. You may have one for a start then get more as you progress spiritually. Different guides will come in at different times to teach and advise. They get closer as your vibration changes as you grow. Remember that you are in control. If it gets a bit overwhelming you can ask them to slow down, leave you alone for awhile, or go away. I think that would be a pity, they are here to help you. You can call them your guardian angels, inner voice, inner wisdom, whatever you like. They are there.
If they come to you at night and you want to sleep, tell them so. You needn’t have them there in your head chatting, ask them to wait until tomorrow. Or if you are still not too sure of them ask them to come back in the daylight. The concept of sleep is foreign to them. You are in control.
Guides come and go. You will find as you grow spiritually you out grow your guides and get new ones as you progress. Some will be with you for a week or two some will stay for all your life. There are many different types of guides, guardians, gate keepers, teachers, angels, friends, healers, protectors. Some will be with you for a certain purpose or to teach you something and then go.
Guides behave like humans in that they have many human characteristics, loving, caring, impatient, humorous, short tempered. The type of relationship you have with your guides and other peoples guides depends on you. I have heard of guides who will make you listen when they want you to. I believe you can tell them how you want to communicate and when and how, be in control. Talk with them when you are ready, don’t have a time of day, make it anytime you have spare. You are in control if it gets too much tell them to back off. If you need a break tell them, stop them. Don’t let them rule your life. I won’t talk to them at night, my choice, otherwise my sleep is disturbed.
Some guides are ones which channel messages to you. If you sit with a pen and paper messages will come through. You may be told by your guides that this is something you can do. I hear words and see words and I just write them down. I then go back and read it afterwards as I concentrate on the words rather than the content. When channelling starts to come in you will find that you hear different voices and hear tapping's and knocks, this is spirit trying to attract your attention to listen to them.
If channelling is not for you tell them to go away.
Messages can be for you, someone you know, someone you may meet in the future, a message from a passed over loved one, a general messageto pass on to anyone who is interested. A message for guidance and reassurance and that what you are doing is the right thing.
Some people do trance channelling where spirit takes over the body and speaks directly to someone else, answering questions. I have found that messages are being channelled by many people now, there is a message to get across to everyone. The messages coming through from spirit all have the same theme, a change for the better.
Channelling comes through in many forms, a message, a new invention, a poem, a dance, healing.
Now as you start to awaken you may hear voices. Like your name being called, you turn around and look for the source but there is no one there. This may go on for a while.
Voices may come to you in your dream state. They may reassure and talk, you may pass it off as dreaming, see if you can see a face or person, ask for a name, and do they answer? Can you have a conversation? Can you ask a question and will they answer it?
As long as this does not frighten you OK. If you are frightened and you are not ready yet, tell them to go and leave you alone at this time.
Have a listen to what they are saying to you, is it everyday things, is it garbled voices, in a different language, does it sound like tuning in a radio. Is it a message? A prophetic one, a warning, a greeting in general.
There are some spirits who make mischief. One night when asleep I heard a voice say to me in a menacing voice, “you are going to die”. I woke up and heard it again, I told this voice mentally “so what every one is going to die sometime”. The voice said again “you are going to die soon”. Well I said “I’m not afraid of dying go away”. I heard him huff, then he was gone. I went back to sleep.
There are dark and mischievous spirits. If you hear voices which tell you to hurt yourself or anyone else, seek help. Spiritual help, a Doctor or someone you think may be able to listen and advise you.
Some people are needy and when they pass over into spirit sometimes they will contact you to ask you to come and join them. Stand firm. Tell them to go away. Some spirits get very lonely and seek comfort from others, sometimes it is something you do, like drinking or smoking. Apparently spirits who have smoked or drank will hang around pubs or bars or people who have the same habit that they had for their fix.
If you feel ready for more contact. Just ask for clearer communication and listen you will be able to hear your guides, sometimes in meditation, sometimes in your dreams and if you are lucky whenever you tune into them.
The guides have personalities like you or I, they can be serious, rude or loving like any person you may meet. They have messages for you, reassurances that you are not alone, you are loved and you are on the right or wrong path.
Some people can only hear their guides, the messages come through as you listen, guides have distinct voices. They will somehow sound familiar, as though you have heard that voice before. As you speak to them you may feel them brush the side of your face or hair. You can ask them to give you a signal that they are there, a touch on the shoulder, or hand, a touch on the cheek or arm. I get a flush down the side of my face when they are with me listening to other people talk and also when they want me to take note of what the other person is saying.
Have you ever been talking about something of a spiritual nature and your voice starts getting croaky as if you have a frog in your throat, it is as though the spirit is trying to communicate through you the same message, it is a way of letting you know that they agree with what you are saying. A channelling voice.
In the special meditation place you have made you can request that your guides meet you there. In your minds eye you may see their physical features, be told their names and converse with them, feel them give you a hug and they become like a best friend. Ask someone who sees and speaks to his or her guides, how they would feel if they suddenly could not do it any longer.
Sometimes you will see your guides in your dreams, this will get you used to them. They may take you on a journey and show you things. You will get to know the difference between a normal dream and a prophetic dream.
Seeing things, a person standing in the shadows or sunlight, a glimpse as you move your head, you turn back and they are gone. Seeing a shadow or a flash of something past a window or door. You can get a glimpse of spirit at times in a form you know. Sometimes you can see past auras of people or animals who have passed by and left an aura trail imprint, from say up to a few hours before. You can sometimes see an aura print of the long past. I have seen a body from the past in a house.
As you progress you will start to see the energy emanating from objects that you wouldn’t expect to have any. You will see dark little spots and lights, like shadows, they will appear on the wall, and floor, ceiling anywhere. You will wonder if it is a spider or mouse, it is energy moving. As your senses open up you will see it.
You will be more aware of the energy that comes off people and places. Off people you will get the feeling of happiness and can’t stop smiling or feel cold and uncomfortable and don’t want to be anywhere near them, you can get some people who drain your energy with their negativity and bleak out look. This is your choice, to be around them or not.
Have you ever gone into a house and gotten a cold and creepy feeling, you don’t know why but you don’t want to stay there. It has to do with the energy that is in the house. It could be spirit or spirits, it could be something that has happened in the house and imprinted itself there, it could be a negative situation that has happened or is happening in the house.
You know where you feel welcome and where you feel uncomfortable. As you become more spiritually aware you will feel this a lot stronger.
Experiences with guides are different for everyone I have met and am one of the people who see, speak, feel and hear their guides.
Children these days are quite spiritual without any religious instruction. Many children are, as we read more about spiritually, all children are born with spiritual abilities - the learning to live in the real world is what trains then out of it. If you encourage them to open up about their dreams they have, you will find many times they have the same theme. With my children and the healing I do, I have shown them what I do and what it feels like and they have accepted it as natural. Because I can read what they are thinking and doing it makes it easier to get them to talk because I can understand them better. Reading their thoughts and asking them the question they were going to ask me has made them try to do it back. Sometimes they are very accurate which makes them know they can do it as well. Try using playing cards and get them to guess what colour the card is, then go onto what colour and suit. Make these a game that they enjoy. Introducing those types of things to them will keep them open and willing to use their intuition. As they develop it more, they will be more accepting of other people and ideas. Imagination is what the great inventors of the world have needed to advance us at the pace we have progressed. Children who learn to use intuition and keep it going into adulthood are the progressive adults of the future. They will be able to read situations and people a lot better and keep the peace around the world and take care of the environment. A whole New World with compassion, imagination and insight.
What about the feeling of a cat or dog brushing past your leg and you look down and there is nothing there. Cats and Dogs do stay around. They are talked about by mediums being with a certain relative in the spirit world being looked after by them. I have been told that pets are also brought back into your life. They reincarnate like people. They can have been in one of your past lives with you and join you again, I really think that animal spirits stay as animals and don’t change into anything else.
I do believe these animals friends stay with us in spirit. They fill a place a human relationship can’t.