All About Spirit Guides
The purpose of, how many do you have, how to recognize them.
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All About Spirit Guides
I remember when I was around the age of 19, I met and got to know a girl who was a few years younger. I don’t even remember her name. She was a rather open, kind of wild-child and I found her fascinating. The thing I do remember was that she was always talking about her Indian Guide. “He told me this… and he told me that. I don’t believe ‘this’ because my Indian Guide said not to.”
Indian Guide? I asked her who that was. She said something very vague about a spirit. At the time, my life was rather upside down and I was not concerned with the thoughts or beliefs of other people.
I just accepted what she said.
She never really explained to me what a spirit guide was, and I was okay with that. It did not phase my life, so it did not matter to me.
She moved away not too long after that and I never thought about her or her Indian Guide again until I started writing this journal about guides.
These things happened to me all during my early life. I guess as a way for my own guides to get my attention. I must have been very hardheaded because it never really got my attention until I joined a spiritualist church. At that time, I gobbled up everything I could find about spirit guides and Spirit, in general.
Have your guides been sending you hints?
What or Who Are Spirit Guides
Spirit Guides are entities or beings that are currently in the spirit realms or dimensions. These are individuals, or groups of individuals, who have agreed with a person on the earth plane to act as their guide or guardian. Usually we enter into this agreement with at least one "primary guide" prior to being born into a physical body. These "primary guides" are often other members of our Soul Group, and we have quite likely traded "guide duties" with them during various lifetimes.
We can also call other guides to us as we need or desire their extra help, and it is not uncommon to have two or more guides assisting us at a given moment. Many of the guides with which we work are beings who have lived on this earth plane at one time or another (or many lifetimes), but there are guides who are from other worlds as well. Also, many of the "special guides" that come to help us with special needs or learning experiences seem to be more evolved beings, or 'old souls' who are willingly sharing their expertise and expanded knowledge with those of us still working on our evolvement and enlightenment.
What Purpose Does a Spirit Guide Serve?
The main reason we have guides is simply guiding and teaching of those under their care. They agree to help us remember the lessons we set up for ourselves in this life, and to instruct us with regards to those lessons. They can, and will, teach us as much as we want to learn. Their guidance is a very gentle nature. And they will not give us any more than we are ready to receive and capable of perceiving.
They're here to help us to learn, but they won't shove the information on us if we decide we really don't want to do that after all. They'll counsel and help us see other perspectives, but they won't make the decisions for us; the choices are ours to make and to live with afterwards.
How Many Spirit Guides Can You Have?
One or two "primary" Spirit Guides. These are the ones that we make the arrangements with before being born, to guide us and help us learn the lessons we set up for ourselves; And to gently remind us when we're a bit "off path" from our original plans for this lifetime. But we actually have an unlimited number of Spirit Guides available to us. We can call "special guides" to teach us specific lessons, and once those lessons have been learned, they will move on to help others.
How Might a Person Contact Their Spirit Guides?
Meditation. Meditating and asking for communication with your guides, and then listening for their response, is a really good way, in my opinion. Development Meditations aimed specifically at meeting a guide can be very useful.
Dreams are another way. Often if we are too busy living, and we don't remember to meditate and listen, then our night dreams become the only time we're quiet enough to receive their messages.
How Can You Know When a Spirit Guide Is Around; How Can You Recognize the Presence of One?
There are many ways that Spirit Guides will alert a person to their presence. In other words, many things can let us know that we've got a guide around us.
the use of fragrances. Many guides and spirit entities use scents and odors to signal they are there. If this happens, you'll get a whiff of some fragrance that has no "physical source" or explanation. It can be any kind of scent: sweet, sour, pungent, floral, obnoxious, etc.
Sounds are another way. Some guides and entities will use auditory signals such as the sound of "chimes" that you seem to hear. In some cases, the sound will be audible to anyone in the vicinity; sometimes only you will hear it.
chills, goose bumps, and ---"energy brushes."
Synchronicity is also a sure sign that guides and/or angels are trying to get our attention!
Do You Have to Ask for Your Spirit Guides' Help?
You have to ask your Spirit Guides for their assistance! This is one of the very subtle ways in which Angels and Spirit Guides differ from each other.
Guardian Angels are much more apt to help without being asked. And while Spirit Guides will help up to a point without being asked, they are bound by certain "laws" from interfering with our lives. Before we were born, we set down certain lessons and experiences for ourselves in this lifetime. Our guides will help to set these things up for us, but they do truly need for us to ask them to help us in more specific ways.
"Free Will" = we have the right to do as we please. . . even to the point of ignoring the lessons we originally set up for ourselves. And our guides, and most of the angels, cannot interfere with our freedom to choose.
They will help unasked to a certain extent and try to get our attention if we're not tuning into them. That's part of the reason they agreed to be our guides.
If we want the wonderful teachings they have to offer us, we have to ask for it and then listen! If we want the extra boost over a particularly rough spot, we have to ask. Our guides are willing to help in any way they can, but we have to live our own lives! And they can't interfere with that living of our lives.
Always 'asking questions.' If I just meditate, and listen, I'll probably hear a little bit, and at the very least feel a presence. But it's only when I remember to ask questions -- and the more specific the question seems to be the better -- that I begin to get strong answers and more insights.
Will You Know Who Your Guides Are or What Their Names Are?
While I know the identity of several of my guides, I do not know who all of them are. Some have given me names while others choose not to. Some have no problem with giving you a name to identify them by and some will give you a symbol to use as a "name."
And there are those who choose for one reason or another not to reveal their identity or a name. Some feel that we will be distracted by names and identities, I think, and choose to work unfettered by that.
Can You See a Spirit Guide, or Only Sense the Presence of One?
Seeing Spirit Guides is very much like all the other psychic-related things. Some see their guides and some don't; some see them part of the time. I suspect the majority of us, though, don't actually see our guides. We can sense them on many levels.
There are other ways of being aware that our guides are around. Many of the guides will "signal" you of their presence with scents or auditory sounds or by a touch on your arm.
The "standard" form of most spirits in the next dimensions is basically an energy form. They also have the capability of "molding" that energy form into the form and appearance of any and all of their incarnations on the earth physical plane. So, if they show themselves to us, or we are able to see them by some manner (psychically, etc.), then it is most common to see them in the form/incarnation that we will most likely recognize.
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Melissa Leath writes A Mystics Journal on Substack. She supplies outrageous metaphysical babble/rant from a modern-day mystic's viewpoint and provides workshops about empowerment and psychic/metaphysical development. Her books Psychic Integrity, The Respected Practice of Modern-Day Mystics (Balboa Press, division of Hay House Publishing) and Does Your Child See Sparkles? are available through Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Melissa’s long-term study includes years of group development, platform mediumship, meditation, becoming a spiritual medium and minister and a BA in Metaphysical Counseling. She has worked with 10s of thousands of clients in USA and other countries, taught development classes for 12 years and settled into online workshops.
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This may seem like a silly question. I never know who to ask for help. I have been told I need to ask for it but when i do I’m never sure who to direct it to - God? My Spirit Guides? Angels? Ancestors? Often I just say “whoever can help me” LOL