Connecting with Your Spirit Guide

The little voice that tells you to go left or right, or that feeling that makes you stop instead of go, and the sense that your steps are being guided, comforted, and protected. These are all things that your spirit guides do for you. Whether you speak with them directly, through a psychic, or just allow them to be. The need to see and speak to what we believe in is part of human nature just as connecting with our spiritual guides is important and needed in most belief systems. But who or what is a spirit guide? What do they look like? And more importantly, how do we contact them so we may ask our questions?

A spirit guide is our guiding force, our conscious, and our sense of right and wrong. In times of crisis they are that voice that either tells you to stand and fight, or to run. As to what a spirit guide looks like, there are many spirit guides and they are all different. Depending on the spiritual path, a spirit guide can be an angel or an animal. A spirit guide can even come in the form of mystical creatures, such as unicorns, fairies, and pixies. Just think back to your childhood before you became too jaded to believe in those types of beings. When it comes down to the description of spirit guides they are as different as those that they guide.

There are many ways and idea on how to connect with our spirit guides. Meditation, hypnosis, psychics, or dream are the current popular concepts that are being used today. The use of a psychic does put you into contact with your spirit guide but not directly. The psychic is the one who speaks to your guide for you and in return then gives you answers through the psychic who is the guide's direct contact. This method is the least personal and depending on your trust in the psychic information will determine your confidence in the answers past on to you.

Learning to use your dreams to contact your spirit guide is another method that holds current favor. This method takes time and practice to develop and to become comfortable using. Learning to control the flow of your dreams and allowing the conscious questions to enter the subconscious dream state, then remembering what transpired are things that can be done with practice. Just remember to start simple when you call your spirit guide into your dream. At first don't ask any questions, just get to know what the guide looks like and what it feels like to be in their presence.

The last two methods meditation (which is a form of self hypnosis) and hypnosis are two sides of the same schools of thought. One you do yourself, and the other is a trained professional that does it for you. Either way, you allow your unconscious mind to open and just like using dreams you connect with your guide to seek the answers you need. There are many ways to go about entering a meditative state, including focusing on a candle flame, the use of music, using imaging, or just simply focusing on your breathing. Whichever the method you choose, remember to start small and simple.

No matter the method a person decides to use to connect with their spirit guide, or even if one decides not to contact their guide, they know that they are always there, the unseen hand protecting, comforting and guiding our way through life.