How can I communicate with my spirit guide?

If what you want is a meaningful relationship with wise, positively-oriented guides not in physical embodiment, it is possible for everyone. These benevolent beings are all around and extending help to humans. They do so when it does not violate universal laws. This means it must not interfere with the person's karma, nor what imposes upon the human’s will. That is, they respect individual’s free will. So you need to do your part to attract them.

But people are unaware of their involvement due to disbelief and also, the lack of supernatural elements generally assumed to accompany help from such sources. The truth is most of the help we receive do not show up in extravagant forms but in subtle ways, such as through advice from another person, a mental suggestion… providing gentle nudges towards a certain direction. Nothing alarming but could be missed. So, be here now.

Think of it, the best advice falls on deaf ears. If a person is not ready for your help, it is pointless to offer more than minimal.

Fortunately, earth's inhabitants are rising in consciousness and getting more receptive to spiritual aid. Thus there are more of these positive beings now than in the past. The desire for communicating with them is a form of silent invitation to these beings to take a more active role in guiding. If unsure, call for them out loud.

Still you want to ensure you are getting the right form of guidance and establish a channel of ongoing communication. How? Think of it like radio frequencies. We know many stations are broadcasting at the same time but to listen in, we must tune the radio to the same frequency band as the channel we want to receive. Therefore tune yourself to the same frequency band as the form of guidance you desire. The following ways will help.

Be Clear About Your Need For A Guide

In essence your guide is like a mentor who can offer guidance to whom desires to develop in the same field due to being more advanced. Rather than you stumbling in the dark, the mentor identify pitfalls and opportunities, so you can arrive at your goal in at a faster pace.

A spiritual guide offers mentorship in the field of life, which covers all aspects ie. self-development through relationships, career, and more. If your quest is to become a better, more evolved human, then your chosen field will be similar to that of the guide, who will be drawn towards you. Set this as your intention.
If you desire the highest form of guidance, make feeling Love of All as the ultimate state you want to reach.

Commitment To Personal Development

Guides have one goal, ie. help with the evolution of planetary inhabitants. Commitment to be a better person will drawn them to you.
Cultivate your character, live according to higher principles, be true to yourself, kind to every life form. Keep practising to be all of these. Slip ups don't matter. What matters is you keep trying. This is the fundamental step to ensure higher guidance is drawn to you and maintained.

Don't worry about trying to help/change other people as yet. Focus on helping/changing yourself. Your positive growth will rub off on others, which helps them as well. Without self-cultivation, what you assume is helping another, may just cause more harm.

Be patient, the time will come when your guide will suggest on ways that you can offer actual aid to others.

Release False Concepts

Spirit guides do not care about your spiritual or religious affiliations. A Buddhist or Christian makes you no more worthy of guidance than an atheist. Besides many of those who proclaim to be devout are incongruent in actions. Ditch the superficiality, behave as you would when there are onlookers as you would when alone.

Spirit guides do not care about how successful you are in the social/material sense, whether you uphold your moral codes (which are in fact, culturally imposed) and can lead to self-righteousness, whether you use drugs, commit crimes or perpetually fail at life.

From a higher perspective, all lives are worthy and each person's life path is meaningful and has value. The irony is that the latter groups are often wrapped in deep shame, which blocks their access to meaningful guidance. It’s the quality of your heart that opens up to the type of guidance your receive. Evil begets evil. Good draws good.

Shed Limitations. Be Willing To Receive and Open To Experiences

Even when people ask for help, they may still be unable to receive as they place limits on the form that help takes on.

Help can come in many guises. What you want may not be the best for you or the best right now. What you need may come through the most inconceivable way.

Be open to everything, everyone. Discard prejudices regarding what are good or bad events. Instead take every experience as a learning opportunity, start by practising identifying the good in what you usually consider as a bad event. I find the seeds of positive transformation are always found in ‘bad’ situations. Remember not all chaos is bad, not all order is good. When order is corrupted, chaos is necessary to disrupt it for a new order in the future.

This develops courage and willpower, which raises your frequency to draw in spirit guides and protectors.

I realised that in difficult times, guidance is more pronounced.

Strive towards a state of balance

The above methods should reduce your emotional excitations and lead you towards a state of emotional balance. The problem with extremes in emotions, whether very happy or sad is that there is increased perturbation of the electromagnetic waves of the body. This agitation upon your electromagnetic field, creates disharmony and blocks out the subtle, finely tuned frequencies of positive guidance.

This is why meditation is recommended. It is a good tool to clear out the mental ‘junk’ that affects your emotional state. Don't worry about keeping a strict, regulated practise. What's important is you want to enjoy it, so do it when you feel like it, for as short/long as it makes you feel good.

When not meditating, try to keep in that state of mindfulness as well, such that it becomes a constant practise.

When you feel down, a good method to raise your frequencies is to focus on what gives you joy. For eg. look at your child and think of the outpouring of love you have for them, or the beauty you've always found in flowers, or the sea… This is the object of appreciation is an individual preference. The point is to feel uplifting emotions, and keep it going.

Stay Aware Of Contact

As you do the above, you will become increasingly aware. At any stage you may notice signs of contact from guides. Guides will choose methods that are meaningful to you and their attempts will never cause you to feel fearful. You should in fact feel a sense of light-heartedness during these events.

Formulating Questions

You can ask them questions now and be more certain you will be answered by a positive guide. Without the above preparations, you risk attracting lower spirit entities which is what you do not want (I presume).

How to ask? Start by clearing your mind and releasing your desire for a specific outcome, mentally keep your attention on a benevolent entity like Jesus, depending on your inclination. You can verbally request for him or those of “the highest good" to come to you and answer. This sets the intent to draw in the right source. Now, formulate your query. Don’t put too much specifics in your question as this limits the information coming through. (Refer to my point above regarding ‘Be Willing To Receive’)

You can choose to get answers in many ways — inner knowing, outer signs. A divination tool is very helpful. You can use bible or other holy items. I-Ching is a favourite of mine. Technology has made it very easy for us, with apps available nowadays releasing us of the hassle of acquiring the materials to perform a divination. I recommend the Visionary I-Ching App. It was, in fact, my guide who led me to it.

Different methods allow for different types of responses. Guidance can come through dreams which you should familiarise yourself with interpreting. Guidance can also show up through synchronistic events. This is good for times when you are requited to take an action on something, and want to know if it is the right time for it.

Explore ways of communication with your guides. There is no one best way.

Question the source of your guidance

Never blindly leave your fate to anyone. It is your right to ensure your wellbeing. Therefore always assess the ‘purity’ of what you receive. A positive guide will never shun you because you question and in fact support you in that. Basically your guide is a wise, benevolent and high-minded being, thus the guidance he gives should reveal such. Egoistic demands, coercions, doomsday messages, and information that infringes upon the privacy of other people are not signs of a positive guide.

These may not be immediately apparent or obvious. Don't worry, your ability to make accurate judgments will get better when you practise all of what I wrote above.

As you become more in tune with your guide, the interactions takes on more life. My guide has informed me of exactly who (as in human) to seek help from for what I need. He provides me encouraging messages in times of despair, and other times gives me assurance and comfort without my attempt at a contact. He also chides me when I make self-centered decisions.

At times when I ask for guidance on a matter, my guide will attempt to draw my attention to something else more imminent. I have been helped out of potentially dangerous situations many times. During each crises, my guide leads me step by step to navigate out of it.

The bonds with your guide can be likened to that of a closest friend. We are drawn to those of like minds and aligned goals. Mutual respect, is the fertiliser for deepening bonds. In time you can experience a very fulfilling relationship with your guide.

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Contributed by Lynn Chen.