What function do Spirit Guides play in our life? How are they different from our Higher Self? How can we communicate with our Spirit Guides? Spirit Guides are energetic bodies that act as representatives of Spirit, and they are with us literally to act as guides. They are not here, however, to make our decisions for us. We can have many different Spirit Guides during a lifetime. They may stay with us for a specific issue, or for a specific time period. Or they may choose to stay with us our entire lifetime.

Our Spirit Guides come to us with a vast amount of wisdom, gained over several lifetimes. They can be viewed as Angels that have lived physical lifetimes. They are here to teach us, and to help us heal. Because they are spiritual in nature, they have a higher frequency than we do here on the physical plane.

Communication with our Spirit Guides can be through telepathy, through images and archetypes, and can happen during meditation, journeying, dreamtime, or in our waking hours. Generally it is not during our waking hours, as the mind is still functioning, and can act as a barrier to spiritual communications. When the mind is quiet, the messages have an easier time coming through. One thought is that what we consider “synchronicities” in life may be experiences that were set up by our Spirit Guides to help us learn.

We can actively communicate with our Spirit Guides in many ways. We can choose to use automatic writing, for instance. Take a piece of paper and a pen or pencil. Hold the pen or pencil in your hand, and rest your hand on the paper. Focus on your breathing until your mind quiets down. Once this has happened, you can either allow whatever information that wants to come through to come through, or you can focus on addressing a specific Spirit Guide, or on asking a specific question. If you do not start writing within a minute or two, then start drawing circles or otherwise move your pen or pencil across the paper. This can encourage your mind to allow the messages to come through.

We can also go into dreamtime to communicate with our Spirit Guides. Before you go to sleep, either ask a question or ask to speak to a specific guide. Then just go to sleep. Your answer, or the guide themselves, if you asked to speak to a specific guide, will come to you in a dream. Keep pen and paper by your bedside so that when you wake up – at whatever time that may be – you can write your dream down. You want to do this because within thirty minutes of waking we lose much of the information that has come to us in dreamtime.

You can connect with your Spirit Guides at any time that you wish. If you need help connecting with them, or you would like help interpreting their messages, remember that our readers are here 24/7 to work with you!