Connecting With Your Spirit Guides

A beautiful young woman recently asked me how she could talk to her guides and I realized just how often this question comes up in private readings. It might be the question I hear most frequently and it is certainly a good one. I hope the information received below will provide some insight, clarity, and deeper connection with your spiritual teachers. 

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"We are assisting you all of the time, simply without your knowledge of the communication. What you really want to know is how to have conscious contact with us. This isn’t even so much necessary, for if it were everybody would be hearing us clearly all of the time. We are here to support you on your journey but it is your journey and we do not wish to be telling you what to do—that would be counter productive to your purposes. If people could hear us clearly this would be the inclination—to ask us which direction to take in every choice given, which would be a complete disservice to your path as it is imperative for you to decide which directions to take. That is all part of life’s journey.

Now that said, we do understand that there are times you would like to feel our presence or seek our advice on a given issue. We are always aware of what is going on with you and we are continually offering you guidance. Please know this is so even if you don’t hear our guidance or perceive our presence in your life. If you would like to establish a more conscious connection with us there are several things you can do. The most important thing is establishing presence. You cannot “hear” us if your mind is full of other thoughts and chatter. Our words will simply get lost in the fray. So becoming still and quiet is an essential way to hear or feel us. This will be achieved in different ways for different people. Do whatever allows your mind to be quiet, your senses to be in tune to the present moment. We will not come through in loud booming voices. You will be inclined to feel our guidance or an answer to a question rather than hear it in a loud clear voice.

 People will receive our information in different ways. Some will receive visuals, others will simply ‘know’, others still will “hear” an answer. We put the word “hear” in quotation marks because it is not the same process as obtaining physical auditory information (such as sounds in your environment or speech when you communicate with your friends). That is a different process when you are actually processing physical sound. When one hears us it works a little differently, but it may feel the same (like it’s coming through your auditory channels)—like when you have a thought you can ‘hear’ your voice in your mind. So learning how you receive information from non-physical sources like us is beneficial. Are you more visual? Auditory? Sentient?

Learn to discern between our guidance and your own mind chatter. We will often come through more subtly than the stream of thoughts you are used to having in the head. Again, this is where presence becomes important. Try to still the mind chatter—bring attention solely to your breath, or to the sounds of nature. Bring the stimulation of the mind to a minimum.

Next, you need to learn trust. When you do receive our guidance, it is typical to question whether it came from us or your own mind/imagination. Trust what you receive. So often when guidance is received people write it off as their own imagination or mind wanderings. Yes, sometimes it can be difficult to discern our guidance clearly when one is strongly attached to a particular outcome or answer. But with some practice you will learn discernment and how to be more objective. You have to understand also, sometimes we speak to you through your own thoughts so there will not always be a clear distinction between your thoughts and our communication. The bottom line is this: we are always watching over you, always guiding you towards your greatest good, and always aware of what you are going through. We hear you when you talk to us. And we answer. Just because you may not be conscious of hearing our answer does not mean you aren’t receiving our guidance. 

Try not to be so attached to hearing us, but rather trust that you are, on some level, getting our guidance and communication. Much of our communication will come to you in the sleep state which is not consciously remembered upon waking. But you do not need to consciously remember it. If it was important that you did, you would. There is a part of you that is always aware, always hearing our guidance. Trust that you are being guided by that part of you—your higher self, or soul. Trust that you are receiving our guidance and wisdom whether you have conscious awareness of this or not. You are getting exactly what you need when you need it. Feel free to speak to us anytime it suits you. Feel free to establish that connection and relationship with us. But let of the need to ‘hear us clearly’. Trust that we are talking to you and you are receiving it. Sometimes it will not come in words but in a feeling of comfort, like a warm hug on a sad day. Our communication with you is subtle and often comes through in a simple feeling. Don’t try so hard, just let go and trust. The more you do that, ironically, the easier it becomes to feel and hear us."

Do you have a question you want to ask Heather's spirit guides? You can email your inquiry to: hwallaceavl@yahoo.com

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