Anna Sayce

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  • 8 Signs Your Predominant Spiritual Relationship Is with Your Angels ( & Not Your Guides)

    8 Signs Your Predominant Spiritual Relationship Is with Your Angels ( & Not Your Guides)

    In this article, I’m going to cover a situation that I’ve seen from time to time for my reading clients when I used to do Spirit Guide readings.

    Usually when I was doing a Spirit Guide reading for someone, their primary Spirit Guide would step forward as the ‘spokesguide’ and main source of guidance for the client. Their Guardian Angels would also be there, but more in the background. Their role would be that of the silent protector.

    However, every now and again, I would encounter someone whose situation was different, and who had a closer relationship with their Guardian Angels than they actually did with their Spirit Guides. This is the case for maybe 5% of people.

    In this article, I’m going to go into what this looks like and some signs that this may be the case for you.

    But before I go any further, I just want to clearly describe and define the two types of spirit that are referred to in this article:

    Spirit Guides — Most people have between 4 and 7 guides. There’s usually one primary guide that has been with us our entire lives. The rest show up at various points during childhood, adolescence and early adulthood. Spirit Guides are there to give us guidance (as their name suggests.) Their role is to keep us on track with our soul’s purpose for this lifetime. They have distinct personalities, energies and appearances. You may even have known them in past lives, and they are human souls who have usually incarnated on Earth before.

    Guardian Angels — Most people have 2 or 3 Guardian Angels. The role of your angels is to protect and guard you, physically, emotionally and spiritually.

    If it is not your time to cross over to the other side, for example, in a life-threatening situation your angels will intervene to keep you safe, or intervene to keep you away from the situation in the first place (this is more common). Guardian angels also influence us with their high-vibrational energies so that we can have more access to energies like love, truth, peace, and peace, when we get bogged down with heavy earthly energies.

    Guardian angels are not human souls, and have not ever walked the earth. If you are lucky enough to see an angel clairvoyantly, they often have handsome or beautiful faces, but in a bland, generically good-looking sort of way. They may also look tall, powerful or imposing. They often do not have names or a gender – many appear to be androgynous.

    So, as mentioned, most people have a closer relationship with their guides, simply because that is the role of our guides — to work closely with us in terms of guidance.

    OK, now let’s look at the sign you are in the less common situation of having your primary relationship with your angels, and not your guides.

    1. You don’t feel a strong connection with your guides nor do you have a conscious relationship with them. You don’t know who they are.

    If you are aware of who your angels are, and have a conscious relationship with them, but you don’t have the same familiarity with your guides, this is a big sign that your primary spiritual relationship is with your angels.

    This doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t have a relationship with your guides — it just means you’re more in tune in with the angelic beings around you right now.

    2. You’re strongly clairsentient and often feel high-vibrational energies from your angels, such as peace and love

    The role of Angels is to embody and hold positive energies that we can draw on and use here on Earth. Angels bring these beautiful, high-vibrational energies to us, and so if you’re sensitive to the angelic realm and in touch with your angels, you will be feeling these energies from them, through your clairsentience. You may just have random waves of positive emotion come through you, especially at unexpected times, such as during stress or difficulties.

    3. You have had dreams with angels in them

    Another big sign that you have a strong relationship with your angels is if you dream of them a lot. Dreaming is an easy way for Spirit to communicate with you, because when you’re asleep and in the astral planes (which is like a halfway house between heaven and earth), Spirit can reach you much more easily.

    Dreams involving angels can be such beautiful experiences. For example, you may have a dream where you’re blessed with a kind and loving stranger’s actions towards you, and you wake up feeling the warm energies that came from this person. That’s the kind of dream you might have when the angels are involved in your trips to the astral planes!

    Let’s have another look at a sign that you have a closer relationship with your angels:

    4. You’ve trained as an angel intuitive or have consciously called on the angels regularly in the past

    There are some intuitive development programs out there that focus exclusively on connecting you with your angels. If you have gone through one of these programs, you may have a closer connection with your angels simply because you have done the work to establish a relationship.

    Even if you have just been calling on the angels and nothing more, this is also a sign that your primary relationship may be with them. This is because calling on your angels draws them closer to you and allows them to help you, especially when you make specific requests of them.

    5. You’ve had a lot of grief or hardship in your life and you know that the angels have drawn near to you at these times

    Angels draw closer to us at difficult times. The reason for this is because their role (as mentioned) is to bring high-vibrational energies to us earth-dwellers, and we are most in need of these energies when we are suffering. So if you have felt the presence of your angels during hard times, this is also a sign that your relationship with them may have supplanted the one you have with your guides.

    6. You see a lot of ‘angel lights’

    Angel lights are coloured lights that you may see in your peripheral vision. They are often gold, white, pink or blue, and they are flashes of light that you see, but which disappear if you look at them directly. They are often accompanied by a rather lovely feeling. I call these ‘angel lights’ because they are signs that your angels are nearby.

    7. You’re a high-vibrational person

    If the spirit world is like a ladder with different rungs on it, angels are actually a bit higher on the ladder of the spiritual energies than our guides are. Guides are at maybe level 5 and angels are at a level 6. So if you are high-vibrational in terms of your own energy, you may be connecting more with the higher level energies such as angels.

    We all have our own spiritual ‘set point’ — aka a level that we connect with easily. I find it easiest to connect with guides, others such as mediums can connect easily with deceased loved ones (who are a bit lower down on that ladder than our guides are.)

    8. You belong to the Mission Realmer soul group

    The Mission Realmer group is a group of angelic starseeds (also known as the Andromedans). You can find out if you belong to this group by getting an Akashic Record reading. Many of my Mission Realmer clients have had a closer relationship with their angels than with their guides, and so if you belong to this group, this is another sign that you have a closer relationship with your angels than you do with your guides.

    If you would like to connect more with your angels, check out the articles below, as these give actual techniques to allow you to enlist their help.

    If you’re interested in strengthening the relationship you have with your guides and angels, here are some further resources:

    Further Reading on the Angels:

  • Who Are Your Spirit Guides & Guardian Angels?

    Who Are Your Spirit Guides & Guardian Angels?

    Recently I received a question from a reader who wrote:

    Hi Anna,

    “Is it true that everyone always has Spirit Guides? I recently had a reading with someone who channelled my deceased friend but could not find any guides or angels.”

    ~ Jenny

    Hi Jenny,

    Yes, in my experience everyone has guides and angels around them.

    When an intuitive tunes into you, they may pick up on any one of a variety of different beings around you, including:

    Note that some intuitives are naturally going to pick up on a certain type of being more than the others. For example, some are natural born mediums while others are very attuned to the angelic realm.

    Here’s a summary of some of these types of being:

    Spirit Guides

    Spirit Guides are helpful beings that hold a spiritual, expanded perspective of our lives. Even before we incarnate, we will choose the right guides to help us on our path for this lifetime.

    Our Spirit Guides know our soul’s characteristics, path, and life challenges. They know what we are here to learn in this lifetime, and their job is to help us to stay on track with paths which align with our soul and life lessons. Accordingly, they give us advice, comfort, and protection in the form of warnings.

    They help us to stay on track by communicating with us intuitively, through clairvoyance, clairaudience, clairsentience, and claircognizance. You may feel tingling on your body when you’re impulsed by your guides, or you might just receive information that pops into your brain seemingly from nowhere.

    Most people have between four and seven guides around them. If the person is very young, there may only be one or two present, and the others will show up at later points in the person’s life. By maturity, a person usually has all their guides in place.

    Sometimes, if a person has a large number of guides, such as six or more, one of the guides may be a temporary guide — one that comes in for a specific purpose, and then leaves again later on. For example, if you need to do a lot of public speaking in your new job, and you’re finding it challenging, you may have a guide who specializes in communication and confidence show up, helping you through that issue. If you’re struggling with something at the moment, you can even request that Spirit send you extra help. This may come in the form of a temporary guide or it could come in another form.

    Spirit Guides tend to function as a team, but each one also has an individual role to fulfill. Much like the people around us in the physical, Spirit Guides bring us beneficial energies, even if we’re not entirely conscious of what those energies are. So, for example, if you have a life lesson of moderation (like me), it is likely one of your guides will be helping you with balance. If you’re a very serious person, you will probably have a guide with playful and lighthearted energy.  Some guides specialize in relationships and others are more at home with practical day-to-day matters, for instance.

    Spirit Guides may have defined genders and usually they have names, too. They come across as male, female or balanced in their energies (androgynous).

    They also show up with defined appearances that a clairvoyant can pick up on. Obviously, Spirit Guides do not have a physical aspect but they take an appearance which we resonate with, and which also makes a statement about who they are.

    Spirit Guides can also be in the form of animals — I usually find that most clients have at least one animal energy around them.

    Spirit Guides are fairly high vibrational, so folks who resonate with these energies (those who have a lot of energy running through the upper chakras) will find it easier to connect with the guides.

    Guardian Angels

    Everyone has at least two Guardian Angels around them, and some people have more than two.

    The role of angels is to protect us physically, emotionally and spiritually. They also comfort and influence us with their loving energies.

    They mostly protect us by putting thoughts into our minds. For example, if there’s going to be an accident at an intersection you’re approaching, but it’s not your role to be involved in that accident, your Guardian Angel will give you a really strong urge to stop off for food or gas, so that you avoid it. Or if you’re thinking of getting involved with someone who would not be good for you, your Guardian Angel will influence you to stay away from that person.

    In really dire situations, Angels can also manifest in physical form to give assistance (although this is less common, I have heard some amazing stories about such cases.)

    Angels do not tend to have names or genders (they are gender neutral) in the same way as Spirit Guides, and they often appear to be hovering in the background, more concerned with their role as spiritual protector than they are with being channeled.

    Angels are of an even higher vibration than the guides, and some people are naturally good at picking up a signal on the ‘angel channel’. You can become more attuned to the angels by calling on them often.

    Deceased Loved Ones

    The next category of being that psychics commonly pick up on is the deceased.

    If you should lose a beloved friend or family member, then know that this person is likely to spend time around you even after their death and can be picked up on in much the same way as an intuitive picks up on a Spirit Guide.

    Deceased loved ones don’t guide us in exactly the same way as our guides do, but they become our non-physical ‘champions’ from the other side — looking out for us and providing insights and help along the way.

    Whether or not an intuitive picks up on a deceased loved one depends on how easy it is for the deceased person to communicate, and it also depends on the skill of the medium.

    Connecting with the dead is like building a bridge — both sides need to be able to build their end of the bridge and meet in the middle.

    Deceased loved ones resonate at a lower vibration than the angels and guides — it’s almost as if they are closer to the human aspect than the other non-physical beings I’ve talked about in this article. Some people are naturally good at picking up on spirit at this level — and those people tend to be the ones who are rather in tune with their emotional side.

    I recently had a reading with an intuitive who only picked up on my deceased cat and my maternal great-grandmother, Ida Sayce, whose surname I adopted when I decided to change my name.  This psychic was very attuned with those who have passed. As for me, I’m naturally more in attunement with the angels and guides and communicating with the dead is not something that comes most naturally to me, although I can do it if I need to.

    For someone with a natural attunement like that to one type of being, they sometimes need to consciously learn how to tune into the other types.

    Want to Learn More?

    For those who are interested in learning to tune into a person’s Spirit Guides, angels, ancestors, and other types of beings, you can learn how to do this in my Intuitive Reading Program.

    This course teaches you how to tune in and create a portrait of all the different beings around your client — this is a beautiful reading which reminds people that they are not alone on their path through life.

    The program also teaches you to channel these beings for other life questions, along with instruction on doing career, relationship and decision readings for clients.

  • What Does Tingling Around My Third Eye Chakra Mean?

    What Does Tingling Around My Third Eye Chakra Mean?

    (Note: if you would rather listen to the answer to this question rather than read, scroll down to the bottom of this article for a video version of it.)

    I received this question recently from a student, who asked why she feels tingling around her crown and third eye chakras when she talks to her Spirit Guides, watches anything about mediumship, or meditates.

    (Note – the third eye chakra is located in the area between your eyebrows, but it also encompasses the area around your eyes, forehead, and temples.)

    Feeling a tingling sensation between your eyebrows, on your temples or forehead can mean one of two things:

    • It signals that your third eye is opening in that moment and being used. The third eye is the centre of our intuition and imagination. So activities such as meditation, visualisation, and intuitive development open up and ‘exercise’ your third eye chakra. If you are sensitive, you might feel the third eye chakra waking up — this happens especially when you are new to intuitive development, meditation or visualisation. You’re using your third eye chakra in a new way, and you are sensitive enough to feel the energy opening up.
    • If you feel tingling in an ongoing way when you communicate with your Spirit Guides, or do any activity which utilises the third eye chakra energy, then the tingling may be your spirit guides’ way of impulsing you. A way for them to say “hello, we are here” —
      it is a manifestation of your clairsentience.

    Personally, I often experience a tingling sensation between my eyebrows when I open up to channel, and I really quite enjoy it.

    What To Do When Your Third Eye Is Tingling

    Nothing! Just be aware that your third eye is opening. If you’re working on your psychic development, congratulations! Whatever you’re doing is working. Enjoy it for the clairsentient signal that it is.

    If the tingling is bothering you, ask your Spirit Guides to tone down the signals that you’re getting from them.

    Note that if the tingling is ongoing and you can’t make it stop, this isn’t a spiritual phenomenon you’re experiencing, it’s a physiological one. Sometimes tingling on the face can be a side effect of medications or herbal remedies. It can also happen in menopause due to low hormone levels. Remember that Spirit does not harass us, so if it is a nudge from your guides the tingling should be intermittent — not ongoing. If it’s ongoing you’re looking at a different issue altogether.

  • Encounters with Ghosts

    Encounters with Ghosts

    Were you fascinated by ghosts as child? I know I was. I would spend my lunch times in the school library, looking at books about ghosts and scaring myself silly with ghost pictures, like this one:

    (This is a famous photograph taken in Newby Church, Yorkshire, and although it looks kind of fake to me now, it didn’t when I was a child!)

    I was both fascinated and terrified by ghosts growing up. My first brush with a ghost was when I was about five or six years old, in our family home. The more I developed my intuitive abilities in my early twenties, the more I perceived ghosts. In my own home I rarely came into contact with a ghost, but I regularly came into contact with ghosts in hotels and in friends’ houses.

    I spent the last three and a half weeks on holiday in England. During my holiday, I visited Blickling Hall in Norfolk, which is the supposed birthplace of Anne Boleyn (the second wife of King Henry VIII, who was beheaded by him in 1536 for adultery). Legend has it her birthplace Blickling Hall is haunted by her headless ghost, among the many ghosts that reside there.

    I was looking forward to having a look inside and seeing what I might ‘pick up’ about the place but unfortunately only the grounds were open – the actual building was shut for the winter.

    The afternoon spent at Blickling Hall reminded me that I’ve never written about the topic of ghosts, even though I get lots of questions about ghosts from readers.

    What Are Ghosts?

    Ghosts are the mental and emotional bodies of the deceased. (Another term for them is ‘earthbound spirits’.)

    They exist in the astrals, but have not fully crossed over to the astral realm and so a part of them is still on Earth. They are often found in hospitals, police stations, funeral parlours, cemeteries, bars, clubs, and hotels.

    Ghosts can stay behind on the earth plane for a variety of reasons. For example, if a recently deceased soul believes they have done something wrong that they will be judged for, they may refuse to cross over. Or if a soul had an addiction when they were incarnated that they are not ready to release, they may also be reluctant to cross over. And when someone dies suddenly and unexpectedly and the person is too shocked and distressed to cross over and leave their life behind, they may choose to stay on the earth plane. Unfinished business can also cause a soul to keep a part of themselves on the earth plane, long after their life has ended.

    (Important note: don’t confuse ghosts with the popular term ‘negative entities’. Ghosts are not scary or even inherently negative – they were once incarnated people.)

    How Ghosts Affect us

    Ghosts can occupy homes and can attach to peoples’ auras too. When they do this, they drain energy, which is one reason why it’s not a good idea to keep ghosts hanging around, no matter how much we like them!

    One ghost will drain a very small amount of energy. But the more ghosts you have hanging around you, the more draining it becomes. The second reason why ghosts are to be avoided is because by nature they are emotionally unstable and very susceptible to negative emotions. When they attach to someone, they amplify and echo any pain and negative emotion in a person’s energy field. So if you feel angry and have one hundred earthbound spirits in your energy field, that anger will be amplified. The same goes for any fear, pain or guilt. Those negative emotions can be reduced by removing any earthbound spirits that are present (although note that removing the spirits might do nothing to remove the actual root cause of the negative emotion – these spirits simply echo negative emotion that is already there – they do not create it.)

    What’s It Like When a Ghost Comes a-knocking?

    Perhaps you have also had the experience of feeling a presence in your home or somewhere else. Here’s what it feels like for me:

    It often happens as I’m falling asleep. The sides of my head get hot and start tingling.  Next, faces I don’t recognize start flashing through my mind’s eye furiously and usually, one or two will stick in my mind’s eye.  If I attempt to sleep, I get woken up, sometimes as often as every ten minutes or so and it feels like someone has hit me on the side of the head to wake me.  (This happens mostly in hotels and friends’ houses – it has only happened once in my own home.) If it goes on for long enough, I can clearly see in my mind’s eye the entity that is bothering me. The last time this happened in a friend’s house, I was told by the family living there that the description I gave of the entity I saw in my mind’s eye matched exactly the previous owner of the house who was known to be haunting the property.

    Who Attracts Ghosts?

    Sensitive, empathic and intuitive people often notice ghosts.  And ghosts notice sensitive people and are attracted to their auras because they are so open.

    Your aura may be even more open if you practise automatic writing, channelling or mediumship, and you are willing to channel whoever ‘comes through’.  Ideally, you would want to be channelling your Guides in spirit or your Higher self – not just any old spirit. For this reason, I recommend starting an automatic writing session by addressing your Higher self or Spirit Guides. Because if you are willing to open up to whoever comes through, you may actually be channelling the emotional body of a ghost who is still around on earth because they couldn’t let go of their physical addiction (as an example). That’s the earthly equivalent of asking someone who is on drugs or addicted to drugs, for advice on your latest life issue.  It’s possible that you might not get very helpful advice because it is could be coming from a place of stuckness and fear (remember that many ghosts won’t cross over because of fear, pain or sometimes a desire for revenge.)

    In the first chapter of my Intuitive Awakening Course, we get clear on who it is OK to channel, for exactly this reason – there is no point asking for advice from disembodied entities who have no more (or even a lot less) perspective than you do on your own life. If you do end up channelling a ghost, the channelled information may not be very coherent or helpful.

    How to Avoid Channelling Ghosts

    To prevent ghosts entering your aura, don’t open yourself up to channel just any old spirit.  Instead, channel your Higher self or the beings who were assigned to you to help you on your path (i.e. Spirit Guides and Guardian Angels.)  When you do channeling, request to channel your Spirit Guides, Guardian Angels or Higher self only – those beings who are with you at the choice of your soul.

    Those who smoke marijuana can also attract ghosts in even larger numbers because this substance opens up your aura to these spirits.

    What about you – ever had an encounter with a ghost? What happens for you when you perceive one? Do you have any further questions about ghosts? (I may write another article on this subject.) Feel free to share your experiences in the comments.

  • Where Does Intuition Come From?

    Where Does Intuition Come From?

    Some people believe that intuition is data from your subconscious mind, based on past experiences and patterns, which is introduced into your conscious mind spontaneously.

    I actually think that intuition is more than just your subconscious trying to direct you towards pleasure and away from pain. Intuition, to me, is a spontaneous notification or alert from your Higher self or Spirit Guides of something that they want you to know. The one defining trait of intuition is that it includes information that would be challenging (or impossible) to see from your current perspective.

    The Purpose of Your Intuition

    Being in a physical body without any input from the spiritual part of you (your Higher self) can be challenging – it’s like being on the ground, unable to see the wood for the trees, not knowing which direction to go in, with a limited perspective.

    On the other hand, your Higher self has the ability to see your life from a different vantage point – like being on top of a mountain and having a bird’s eye view of the life going on below in the valley. Because your Higher self has a higher vantage point, your HS has access to the bigger picture of what’s going on, in your life, in your past, present and future and in the world around you.

    Your Higher self can alert you to:

    • The truth about the people around you
    • What’s going to happen in your future – short and long term
    • Why something happened in your life – cause and effect and how you can fix it
    • When you can avoid danger or an unpleasant experience
    • Which activities, work, relationships, will contribute towards your happiness and serve you on your path of growth and evolution as a human and spiritual being. He/she also knows which activities/work/relationships will not serve you and take you away from your ‘highest path and purpose.’

    Input from the Higher self is like a guiding system – a GPS – of what will bring you the most joy and what won’t. One of the easiest ways to keep you on track and connected to what your Spirit wants, is through your intuition.

    How the Higher Perspective of My Guides and Higher Self Has Helped Me

    I personally constantly get feedback from my Higher self about which activities will bring me most joy and abundance, through clairsentience. When I’m undertaking something that isn’t really in alignment with my highest path and purpose, I begin to worry more and I get stressed. So then I usually change to a course of action that does bring me joy and which is in alignment with my highest path and purpose. But sometimes I get really harassed by my Higher self before that happens.

    Information about all of the above can come from Spirit Guides too. Just like your Higher self, your Spirit Guides have a higher, more complete perspective than you do as a human being. You could say that they are all on a mountain top of their own, so they each have a unique vantage point from which to see your life. They are not omniscient – they don’t know everything, but collectively they can see a lot about your life. One Spirit Guide often has insights about one life in particular – they all have specialties. So one Spirit Guide may deliver insights about your relationships and another may deliver insights about your health.

    In the several readings I’ve had with other psychics, I have been given many insights from my Spirit Guides and Higher self about all of the above – especially regarding my future. Erin Pavlina picked up that I’d be doing intuitive readings in the future, because my Higher self already had this all mapped out.

    About twelve months ago, a different psychic told me that I’d be moving to New Zealand/Australia within the next 18 months, and at the time I really didn’t want to, as I was enjoying life in London and couldn’t imagine wanting to leave. But then a few months later I met an Australian guy and decided to move to Australia six months later. My plans changed again a few months after that and I ended up in New Zealand which is where I am now.

    So, I actually get most of the information about my future through dreams or from other psychics rather than from my intuition. My intuition is much more likely to direct me away from negative people or situations or move me towards my highest path and purpose, or save me time or energy here and there. And for me personally, it feels like most of my intuition comes from my Higher self rather than from my Spirit Guides. Although if I actively tune in through my psychic connection, I’m more likely to get to speak with my Spirit Guides than my Higher self.

    Some intuition can also happen as a result of ‘vibes’ or energy transmissions that you pick up from other peoples’ energy bodies. For example, you can meet someone and can sense that they are defensive before they even open their mouth. In this case, you are reading the vibes they are transmitting and responding to them, which is also a form of intuition that does not directly involve the Higher self or Spirit Guides.

  • Spirit Guides & How to Work With Them

    Spirit Guides & How to Work With Them

    We are all blessed with Spirit Guides who surround us and support us. We usually have between four and seven guides in our inner circle. Our primary Spirit Guide is with us from birth. The rest of the guides tend to join our Spirit Guide team throughout childhood, teenage years and early twenties. Their assistance can be practical or spiritual in nature.

    Here are some tips for getting to know your guides and working with them:

    Know What Spirit Guides Can Help You With

    We all go through the veil of amnesia when we incarnate. Most of us forget who we are as souls, where we’ve come from and what the heck we’re doing here. Spirit Guides know that it is challenging to be incarnated here at Earth school AND keep a connection to your higher self and your soul’s purpose.

    The role of your guides is to gently but consistently guide you via intuitive nudges to stay on track with your soul’s purpose. In addition, if something is in your purpose to accomplish, you will find support from your Spirit Guides in that endeavour. They will hook you up with resources, people, money or books to help you reach your goals. They can offer insight and comfort when you feel lost.

    But there is one important condition to the help they can give us and this condition serves us:

    Your Spirit Guides will only help you to accomplish and achieve things that honour the purpose that YOU set for yourself before you incarnated.

    I personally know it is not in my soul’s purpose to win a million pounds on the lottery. I don’t have a project to accomplish at this time in my life that requires that kind of money. Instead, I know I would benefit from the growth I would experience in utilizing my talents to tap into abundance. So if I asked my Spirit Guides to help me win the lottery, I’m pretty certain they wouldn’t oblige.

    I also have a friend who wanted his guides to help him win betting on racing dogs! The guides really weren’t interested in helping him, for the same reason mine wouldn’t help me win on the lottery.

    How to Begin Enlisting the Help of Your Guides

    Contrary to what you’d think, you don’t need to have really well developed psychic abilities to begin working with your Spirit Guides. You may not be able to perceive them at all times but your guides can certainly perceive you. You only need to set an intention and they will pick up on it. Address them out loud and they will hear you.

    One way of setting your guides to work is to request their help with specific goals.

    I have got into the habit of doing this automatically by writing down my goals for the coming week and month and I ask my guides for help in achieving each of my goals.

    So here’s an example list of goals:

    I would like X amount of money to decorate my new home

    I would like to work with X number of clients next month

    I’d like to spend more quality time with my partner

    I’d like to be a more tolerant mother to my children and remain calm when they are acting out

    I’d like more fun and laughter in my life

    Read this aloud:

    “My Spirit Guides, my Spirit Guides, my Spirit Guides, I request your assistance in achieving the following goals, provided these goals are aligned with my highest path and purpose and in the highest good of all. Please impulse me so that I can recognize assistance and opportunities when they manifest. Thank you, thank you, thank you.”

    Why do you have to do this? Surely guides should already know where and when they could provide assistance? In fact, your guides will not intervene until you ask them to because to do so would violate your free will. This is why consciously enlisting their help is powerful.

    Your Spirit Guides work to help you manifest your desires into the physical, often in ingenious ways! I recently realized that I have a particular guide who connects me with the clients who could benefit from a session with me. Clients often report being prompted to get a reading with me in their dreams.

    It’s not usually a good idea to ask for assistance to come to you in a very specific format. The wrong way to do it would be to say ‘please send more overtime work my way so that I can pay off my mortgage’.

    Instead, say:

    ‘I would like to pay off X% of my mortgage by the end of the year, please hook me up with the resources and opportunities to make this happen’.

    Be open ended and the Universe will send you the resources you need in ingenious and creative ways. If you are attached to receiving help through a particular channel, you may miss or discard the help that shows up in other ways.

    According to the above list, you could be gifted with some money to decorate your home or be offered second-hand items for your new home. You might get invited to a party or meet a new friend who is fun and makes you laugh. You may come across a book about conscious parenting to help you with raising your children. There are so many possibilities! Be open to them all by seeing the opportunity in every experience that comes your way.

    Get to Know your Guides

    Do you know what you guides’ names are? What they look like? What they do on your team? It can be helpful to know a bit about your guides before you begin developing a close relationship with them. You wouldn’t begin a relationship with a real person without knowing their name and what they do! Make the first move in your relationship with your guides. If you’re stuck with that first step of finding out that information, find someone who can tell you so that you can begin to get to know them.

    My relationship with my guides began when I had a reading with a psychic medium, who told me about my primary guide, who calls herself ‘The Raven’. Once the psychic told me how this guide was helping me in my life, I saw how she had been helping me all along. And I began to take my Spirit Guides more seriously and consciously enlisted their help.

    Know How Your Spirit Guides Impulse You

    To communicate with you, your Spirit Guides often choose the intuitive vehicle(s) that you’re most adept at using.

    There are many intuitive gifts, but the basic five – clairvoyance, clairaudience, clairsentience, claircognizance and dreaming cover most possibilities.

    If you’re more visual, your Spirit Guide may pop into your mind’s eye with a message or an image that means something to you. If you’re clairaudient, you may become aware of an inner voice speaking to you or lines from songs which appear in your head. Those who are claircognizant can have their guides sending information to them in the form of thoughts. I have very developed clairsentience and my guides impulse me with a funny tingling sensation on the side of my head. Once this happens, I know to listen carefully because a message usually comes through to me. They also impulse me with a cold, prickling sensation on my right thigh and the back of my calf. It makes me shiver and the hairs on that part of my leg stand on end!

    Learn How to Distinguish Between Input from Guides and Input from Other Places

    Guides have our best interests at heart. Their behaviour is very different from how an earthbound spirit would behave or how your ego would talk to you. Here are some key differences between how an earthbound spirit or your ego would treat you and how a Spirit Guide would treat you:

    • Guidance from guides will always be uplifting and will raise your consciousness. It will honour the truth that you are the conscious creator of your life. It will hold you responsible for your life. By contrast, low-vibrational earthbound spirits may encourage you to abdicate responsibility
    • Guides will not tell you what to do. They may recommend a course of action that aligns with your path, but they will ultimately leave it up to you
    • Guides obviously never get angry with you, or threaten. Guides do not deride or berate you. They are ever-patient and loving. Your guides may think you’re great but they won’t flatter your ego or encourage you to place yourself above others
    • Spirit Guides have faith in your ability to get through issues and negative circumstances. They will be there for you and show great compassion for you, but they won’t throw you a pity party.

    Understand Your Spirit Guides’ Purpose & Background

    Spirit Guides are not that different from us. Obviously they’re not in a body but most of them have experienced a physical incarnation so they know what it’s like. Many of them have evolved beyond the point where they need to incarnate here and instead they are pursuing the next stage of their soul’s journey in the capacity of Spirit Guide. Assisting you serves them on their path of evolution. It’s a win-win situation for everyone involved. They do love receiving gratitude for their work, so be sure to thank them.

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