Your spirit guides are always with you. Ever vigilant at your side. They're with you when you sleep, when you're at work, in the car, and in the bathtub. They are always communicating with you. Sometimes, we just need to quiet the busy noise of the world around us and our own mind (worries and the like) in order to clearly sense (hear, see, touch, taste, smell, feel) and comprehend their messages.

Messages from the spirit world often have dual meanings. Often, we are getting a message from our guides, but we dismiss it or treat it as unimportant.  On the other hand, sometimes, we are only ready to comprehend one meaning of our spirit guides messages. Then, after we have been through an experience, we understand the 2nd, 3rd, or even 4th meaning of their message because we can finally let go and look at the message from an unbiased, emotionally neutral, detached perspective and suddenly it makes sense. Having experienced that myself has taught me to train myself (it does take a conscious effort/awareness) to allow the message to arrive, take it with a grain of salt.  Sometimes I take action, other times I do try to let the message be and take no action until some time has passed.  I'm not always good about that. 

In my practice, I connect to clients spirit guide teams and either channel messages for them (I allow them to use my body similarly to that of Jane Roberts, Sylvia Browne and Esther Hicks), or I sketch their spirit guides.  

Consistently, the guides I channel advise the following ways to connect with them. Please keep in mind, you must choose the method(s) which allow you to be safe.  Don't attempt this while operating any equipment or doing something that could put your or others safety and well being at risk.  That being said, guides often come to me or I pray quite fervently while I'm in the car.   If you don't feel safe doing so in a car, let your guides know "Hey guides! I'd love to talk further, but now is not a good, nor safe time, please come back when I am not driving."

One way to connect with a guide is to gaze upon an image that represents their energy to you.
Let your eyes go soft.
Breathe in to the count of 7.
Breathe out to the count of 7.
Repeat.
When you feel yourself relax and fall into a soft state, allow yourself to ask, "Hello guide. I would like to talk with you about _______________________. What guidance do you have for me at this time? How may I proceed for the best and highest good of all? How may I align with my Divinely given, perfect plan?"  
Listen, sense, and be open for messages.  

If you're not sure what your guide looks like, ask for them to show you a symbol that represents one of them. Then, be open to the symbol arriving in any form.  Likewise, if you're waiting for a message from your guides, it could also arrive in these very same ways: 

• on the lips of a friend
• in the words you see on your desk
• in a billboard sign
• on the page of the book you just opened
• in the lyrics of a song
• in the teddy bear held in the arms of a little girl you walk past in public
• in the shapes of the clouds
• in the shapes of the trees
• in random spots made up from the remains of your coffee

Are you seeing that messages and conversations with your guides can arrive in many forms? Can you begin to recognize that you may have already been receiving such messages already? 

In the above spirit guide you see a goose taking flight. This could be a message to get out into the world. It could also mean taking flight from the family nest. The meanings can be infinte. The most important thing is to examine what the meaning of goose is for you.  

"I don't know what goose means! How do I figure that out?!"  Ask. Ask your guides to clarify. "Show me what you mean by goose. Show me more details on what goose represents in my life right now."   Then, go take a walk outside and look to nature for symbols, shapes, etc.  Being outside, as Peg mentioned in her post, is one of the most helpful ways to clear the junk out of your aura & mind and get into your 3rd mind.  It also helps you hear a message clearly. 

As you begin to hear more and more messages from your guides, know that you may need to discern between guides and ego. 

Ego speaks in a negative tone.
Guides always speak from a place of loving support.  

Sometimes, we confuse "not now" and "no that's not for you" messages from our guides as ego plainly because we want the thing that isn't for us so badly we cannot see clearly. When we don't want to hear those messages, it's best to stop asking and start doing. Do anything that is fun, enjoyable, and brings you peace. The easiest thing is to get outside for a stroll or a walk or a roll or a ride. Sit on the grass or a rock. Ask mother earth and her children (the grass and rocks) to support and love you right now. Personally, when I'm stuck I dive into my beloved hobby, sewing, or I go dance (that frees up stuck energy big time) or I go for a long walk. I focus totally on the thing I'm doing. I put on music that uplifts me or inspires me to wiggle and dance. I also will watch funny TV shows to evoke a laugh.  People like Ed Wynn really do it for me. Slapstick is great. 

Guides also visit us in our dreams. An easy way to get started is to invite them to connect with you before you go to sleep.

• Get a notebook & paper to keep at your bedside.
• Sit at the edge of your bed.
• Relax yourself using your preferred method.
• Breathe in & out to deepen your state of calm.
• Begin your request.  "Hello guides. I would love to connect with you tonight in my dreams. If you wish to show me what you look like, reveal your name, or give me messages, I am setting the intention now that I am open and ready."
  
• Lay yourself down for sleep as you normally would.  
  
•  When you wake up, write down anything you remember from your dream. Even if only one thing, one symbol, that's perfect!  (I've had the number 5 strongly make itself known to me upon waking. I kept seeing it over and over. Know it doesn't have to be wildly glittering and dramatic. It can be and usually is a very small thing.)
• Either let the symbol be and do nothing with it for a little while or look up it's meaning from a person or book you trust. Or, go back to my earlier point about asking your guides to clarify what it means.  Or, ask for more confirmation and symbols to arrive and reveal what the message means to you.  (5 could mean changes or it could represent 5 people in my life or a person's birthday or that my 5th project will be the one to work out or, or, or, or...)

When I've been the most relaxed is when my guides are able to clearly communicate with me. Here are a few other times and areas where I've clearly and easily connected with my guides to receive messages.

• In a Reiki healing sessions (Past lives that tied to present pain were revealed & released by Horus & Abe Lincoln)
• During Massage (my Paternal grandparents came to me and delivered a message along with impressing the image of a bouquet of forget-me-nots)
• During the Healing Circles that Peg & I run (I've been gifted with so many wonderful visions of my future husband.)  If you're interested, we have one that runs the 2nd Monday of the month at Wisdom U in University Place, WA (between Tacoma & Lakewood)
• In my bathtub while taking a salt bath (I asked for guidance on healing some physical pain and couldn't shake the feeling that I had to call a particular reiki practitioner right away even though her site said she wasn't taking new clients.  She got me in right away.)
• In the shower (I do a lot of praying there!)
• In bed (more prayer here.)
• At the spa
• While exercising (Active meditation is my thing. When I'm moving, I forget to worry about lots of things.)
• While sewing (Oddly, I achieved a zen state while piecing PDF patterns. I was such a state of peace. It's a tedious thing to do, yet I allowed myself to fully focus on only the idea that I'm connecting one line to the next and look no further.)

Can you think of other times or places you achieve bliss? 

I hope this helps you deepen your connection with your guides. 

Thank you for reading our new 2-perspective series.  Peg & I are planning more of these.  We've learned that it is very helpful to receive information from multiple sources as it helps us put together the whole picture. 

Please let us know if you have enjoyed this 2-perspective mini series by leaving us a comment below! We love to hear from you. 

Many people long for communication and guidance  with their spirit guides and teachers, loved ones from the other side or the Fae ( Faeries, mythical beings, Ect). My path to  receiving this gift was full of many trails and much advice which distilled down to some very simple steps.

Trust your own feelings, test the hell out of them.. But trust for you are the only one who can know what goes on in your own heart. 

Spend time everyday unplugged and alone. Start with a few minutes and build up to longer times. You are your own best friend and constant companion.

Spend time in nature daily.

Take long baths or showers and dream or imagine what you would talk about with your spiritual advisers.

Read read read books, stories, faerie tales, spiritual books and grand glorious novels 

Write with a pen or pencil on real paper every day. Start by coping phrases or quotes than inspire or uplift you. Then you can see where the writing takes you. 

Use your imagination for this is the key to communicate with those in the unseen world say prayers of thanks out loud to whom ever you pray to. This is especially effective when spending time in nature, gardening, at the beach or lake and while driving. Make one of those prayers thank you for helping me to walk in beauty and grace.

Listen with your 3rd mind as you create a daily practice. Your 3rd mind is the part of your mind that is the observer and the witness of your awake and sleeping life, the recorder of dreams, hunches, inspiring actions, boldface lies and untruths. It is the part of you that puzzles out problems and helps you understand. 

Love all of you both the light and the dark, for every aspect of you is important and worthy of understanding and observation and celebrating as they are uniquely you!

Be patient 

Build little altars everywhere and change them when inspired.  Simply or complicated from a feather and a rock to a faerie garden. Do what will inspire and uplift your heart. Then change when it is no longer making your heart go flitter flop. 

Love, trust and a little bit of faerie dust.. Peg