Contacting Spirit Guides Your spirit guides have your best intentions at heart, and their purpose is to protect and guide...
Contacting Spirit Guides
Your spirit guides have your best intentions at heart, and their purpose is to protect and guide you. They do this using gentle means – by leading you towards your inner truth and wisdom. For example, they can help you tap into your intuition more, or help you read ‘the signs of life’, or make sense of certain synchronicity.
Guides aren’t there to control you, exert influence over you, or interfere with your free will. If you feel they’re affecting you in a negative way, then they’re not your spirit guides. Cut all ties and communication with them!
Some guides stay with you for your entire life, while others come and go as you change and grow as a person.
Types of Spirit Guides
Following are the five most common types of spirit guides:
1. Angels, Ascended Masters and Light Beings
When you hear the term ‘Spirit Guides’, you probably think of angels or your Guardian angel. It’s said they’re often people who walked the planes of Earth once, and achieved a higher state of consciousness that allowed them to transcend death and now help humanity ascend to a higher spiritual plane. They usually help an entire group of souls rather than just staying with one person, as they’ve achieved such a high spiritual vibration.
2. Archetypal Guides
These are guides who try to reactivate an identity from a previous life, so they’d appear in a symbolic form. In fact, you may have met them in a past life, so they’re likely to take a symbolic shape that would remind you of them from before (for example, an archetypal image of a warrior). They tend to stay with you until your intentions change and another archetypal guide enters your experience.
3. Ancestral Guide
An ancestral guide is someone who comes from the same physical lineage of your family. They’re related to you in some way. This is likely to be someone like your grandmother or great-grandfather who are now helping and guiding you through life.
4. Animal Guides
This may be your deceased pet who’s trying to comfort you through your grieving process. Ever heard of ‘totems’? In some traditions, such as this one, it’s believed that each person has their own ‘totem’ or animal spirit guide, also known as spirit animals or familiars.
5. Your Higher Self
Your Higher Self is your most trusted companion and your spirit guide. In fact, you are a physical expression of your Higher Self.
Techniques for Contacting Your Spirit Guide
Because spirit guides don’t interfere with your free will, they can’t help you unless you invite them into your life and make the intention clear that you wish to connect with them. So, first you need to set an intention that you wish to communicate with them. Then you can try meditation or automatic writing as a means to contact them.
Spirit Guide Meditation
When you’re meditating, don’t set an intention to clear your mind. Rather, just focus on your breath and watch the thoughts as they rise and fall, without judging or acting upon them. Every time your mind wanders, gently and kindly escort it back to your breath. As you grow more and more still, imagine yourself surrounded by a bubble of light. Then ask your spirit guides to show themselves to you – in order of importance in your life, if you wish. You may feel a sensation, hear a name, or see an image. Contacting your guides may not happen on the first go, so keep trying!
Automatic Writing
This is a fun and insightful technique to contact your spirit guides. Put your pen to paper and start writing down questions that you want to ask your spirit guides. Try to remove any judgement or preconceived thought as you write down the answers. If you want to experiment more with this, or if you feel like the rational part of your mind is interfering too much, you can switch hands and write with the hand that you don’t normally use for writing.
Contacting your spirit guides, as well as developing any of your psychic abilities, is a process that takes practice, but it’s a rewarding one because inviting spirit guides into your life can help you develop your intuition, make big decisions easier, and help bring positive changes into your life!
Hold a Séance
A medium may hold a séance to help you get in touch with the spirit world. Many Pagans and Wiccans communicate with the spirit world by way of holding séances. Before you have a séance of your own, there are a few things to keep in mind. A séance is an event that can either be fantastic or a real mess. Which one it is will depend on how much preparation goes into it. With a little bit of planning and thought ahead of time, you can pave the way for your séance to go smoothly. It’s definitely a good idea to expect the unexpected. After all, the dead are hardly predictable. By setting yourself a few guidelines in advance, you can make sure that everyone has the best experience possible.
Resources: Wiccan Spells, Learn Religions
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