How to recognise the presence and messages of your Spirit Guides

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It is difficult for us to imagine the world of spirits. We live in the physical world of solid things, things and people that have colour, smell, shape, and form, that create within us physical sensual reactions and responses.

We hear the sound of a voice and we have an inner emotional reaction that we can either voice audibly or that gets put away inside us.

We see beautifully coloured shapes and forms that have a psychologically beneficial effect on us, or we get feelings of discomfort when asked to look at something or someone we might call ‘ugly’ or ‘deformed’, or that feels dangerous or threatening.

We touch people and things and feel their textures, and feelings arise in response to whether we are touching softness, hardness, sharpness, roundness, straightness.

And everyone is unique and different in their responses to physical matter and physical experiences.

So already we know that our universe is a place in which we have many complex experiences which we manage using our awareness and consciousness. We are used to that challenge and spend a lot of time working it all out, managing our physical universe, and finding our place within this world of form.

How can we transfer these physical sensual experiences and perceptions to relate to the world of light, of spirit presence, of energetic inner movement and transmission through our body of light, so that we can communicate with beings who live in other dimensions?

Well of course we have to use the same equipment, our body’s senses, our primal instincts and intuition, our heart’s feelings and our mental faculties. But in addition, in order to connect to beings of light, we have to activate some extra powers that lay dormant within us until they are awoken.

Sometimes these powers may be awoken by unexpected or shocking events that alter our perception of reality, such as a bad accident or injury, or a severe bereavement or loss of a beloved. However, we can also awaken these latent powers through spiritual, mental, emotional and physical disciplines and practices.

Extra powers, that’s right, we all have extra unexplored and often hard-to-access powers. In fact that’s really why we are here on earth, to develop ourselves in all sorts of ways, and every person is at a different stage in their evolution and is being challenged to discover their very own unique extra and hidden potential, and to expand it and manifest it.

You could even say that every so-called weakness we might be born with or think we have, is an opportunity to find the strength that is hidden within that experience of weakness or vulnerability. After all, we are in the world of duality, so it goes without saying that inside every experience we have an awareness of its opposite, sometimes poignantly at the very same time, like when we experience the release of crying pent up tears and somehow expressing the sadness makes us feel much better.

In order to communicate with guides, sense their presence, hear them, see them, feel their energy, we have to work with our inner awareness. You can practice this inner awareness in nature, or with a tiny baby, or with an animal you love, basically in situations where there is no obvious response to your communication in words or actions, no easy human-type logical verbal or visual expression. The only way you can communicate with these beings is through a much more basic set of skills, using your ability to empathise, to enter into the mind, heart and body of the other, even if the ‘other’ is a plant, a tree, or a river.

Empathy is a key-word when it comes to communicating with guides, or with nature, animals, or babies. All the communication has to come through your deep inner feeling senses (that is what empathy means). You also have to become really good at detecting what parts of these feeling senses are coming from you and what parts are actually coming from the being you are trying to commune with.

In order to ‘hear’ and ‘see’ inside these beings, you first have to become very still inside, you have to become quite empty and very receptive ……. Achieving this is one of your extra powers. In this state of emptiness, you need to ‘open your inner eyes and ears’, and truly focus on the inside, truly watch and listen, another of your very important extra inner powers. Then with this feeling of openness and receptivity, you need to activate your imagination, yet another of your most important extra powers.

Clearly I am talking here about some spiritual practices …… becoming empty and receptive is facilitated by learning to meditate and still your mental activity. Opening your inner eyes and ears is a spiritual practice of visualising the opening of your third eye (brow chakra) and practicing opening your throat centre. Activating your imagination takes you a step further in opening your brow chakra and activating the pituitary gland inside your brain. There are many wonderful teachings on how to practice meditation and chakra expansion. For our methods, see here.

The beings who have no form need a way to travel into the physical dimension on their ‘wings of light’ so that you can experience them being close to you. When you imagine their form, when you send into the worlds of light the colours and shapes you imagine them to be, it is like a ‘spiritual clay’ to them that they can then use to mould their presence into, to ‘appear’ to you in. You could say that you give them the power of your mind through your imagination and they return that power to you with a perception or sensation of some kind that contains their essence.

Every human being is unique and has different capacities and abilities. Some beings are born with particular sensitivity and from a young age experience the presence of light beings as a visual, audible, or tangible reality. The ‘veils’ between the physical world and the worlds of light are thin for these psychically sensitive beings and that is sometimes a mixed blessing, especially if they do not actually enjoy this connection. It goes without saying that not all the beings in the spirit world are desirable as friends. This is also why we recommend spiritual practice and the raising of your energetic resonance before inviting any spirit beings any closer.

The law of attraction works throughout the universe. If you wish to attract superconscious wise beings into your spiritual life, you need to activate your desire to receive their energy. The universe will respond to your intention, your willingness to evolve, your desire to receive this energy and will reflect back to you your positive projections sent into the worlds of light.

The best way to activate your connection with the beings of light who surround you at all times is to start a simple routine of spiritual practice every day, a practice in which you do all of the above, name them, call them in, still your mind, open your chakras, imagine many wondrous beings of light all around you, imagine what they might look like, send love to them, and send images to them in your mind for them to alter and send back, send them questions and requests in your thoughts and listen to the feelings that rise up inside you afterwards, maybe even a long time afterwards.

Don’t worry if you don’t get immediate responses, don’t be in a hurry, just be consistent and committed with your practice and allow yourself to believe and be as a child with an open heart. The spirits will do their magic in your life in the way that is best for you, they always do.

with great love from the Isle of Avalon

Sally Pullinger