How to Connect with Your Spirit Guides

Your spirit guides are like friends and teachers in spirit form. They are always close by, behind the scenes gently nudging you along your path.

Some guide us from birth throughout our entire incarnation here and others drop in at different periods of our life. They put you on the right path in accordance with what you wanted to learn and achieve before you incarnated on Earth.

If you’ve ever experienced an inner-knowing, or tap on the shoulder pushing you in the right direction, this is your spirit guide making contact.

This contact should feel uplifting and for your highest good, it will leave you feeling comforted knowing someone has your back, not fearful or worried.

Here are the methods I use to connect with my guides daily. The more you open this line of communication the more natural and fluent it becomes.

Connect With Your Spirit Guide Through Meditation

One of the best ways to start communicating with your guides is through a practice of meditation. By meditating we raise our vibration allowing our guides to meet us halfway.

Think of it like tuning into different radio stations, your guide could be standing right next to you and you’d be totally unaware if you aren’t tuned into their frequency.

Meditation is a way to turn the radio knob and tune in. Start by finding a quiet space, sitting in a comfortable position and simply focus on your breath for at least ten minutes. When a thought enters your mind simply acknowledge its presence, release it and refocus on your breath.

Once your thoughts have calmed and you feel relaxed begin visualizing yourself a forest clearing with a pathway leading up to it. At the center of this clearing visualize a bench with space for at least two people to sit.

Build this space up in your mind’s eye with as much detail as you can, making it come alive with a light breeze and the sound of wildlife. This becomes easier to solidify the more you practice.

Then begin counting down from ten and call in your guide/s imagining them walking down the path towards you, then watch as they take a seat opposite you.

Try to keep your mind free from assumptions while doing this and try not to force anything. Just let the details fill themselves in naturally.

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Meet Your Spirit Guide In A Dream

There are several ways in which spirit guides can show up in dreams. It’s likely they are already showing up as different recurring dream characters, you can also ask for them to meet with you in a non-lucid dream or lucid dream and ask them to appear.

As you fall asleep you can affirm ‘I will meet my spirit guides tonight’, allowing your higher self to open up this channel of communication. With consistency your guides will appear in a dream for you, don’t give up if you don’t succeed the first time.

Spirit Guide Contact Through Lucid Dreaming

Another way to contact your spirit guides is through lucid dreaming – this is where you become conscious within the dream state and can proceed to ask your guides to appear.

If you know how to lucid dream this is simply a case of going to a peaceful location within the dream such as a forest or beach and asking your guides to come forward.

During lucid dreams I use a similar space to the one I do during meditation but it can be whatever makes you comfortable. I find a forest clearing and invite my guides into the dream space, this has become a safe consistent spot for me to make contact.

Once you have met your spirit guide don’t forget to write the experience down. This will solidify the meeting in your memory and allow you to reference your experiences in the future.

Automatic writing

Another powerful way to connect with your guides is through free-flowing or automatic writing. This is the process of allowing your guides or intuition to write through you, rather than using the logical mind.

The first step, as with all of these is to get to a calm state of mind. You can do this through meditation or utilizing binaural beats. 963hz is a great choice for this purpose.

Once your mind is calm, open a page in your journal. Call on your guides ‘My benevolent guides please inspire the most helpful insights’. Allow yourself to write freely.

I write pretty much everyday, by paper if I can, and often without asking I feel the presence of my guides coming through.

There are so many different ways that spirit can manifest, but I think it is quite obvious when our guides are speaking. There is a very embodied loving presence, that feels more ‘concrete’ than general intuition. You have to experience it to know what I mean, so give it a try!

Mindful walks

Mindful walks are now one of the most important parts of my daily spiritual toolkit.

This is simply walking around an area you know well paying attention each step and sensation in the body. Alternatively, on days where you have more time, taking a leisurely walk in a new place and allow your intuition to guide the journey (where it is safe to do so).

Any nature setting is great for connecting with our guides, hence the visualization method. Sure, our guides can communicate with us anywhere, so it’s moreso about what nature does to our own state and receptivity.

Set a clear intention before your walk, something like ‘I welcome my benevolent guides on this walk with me, and am open to their guidance’.

Spirit guides can send us messages through the animals we see while out and about, in the weather, clouds, detors we have to take on our path (and where they lead us) and of course through the usual ways.

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What to do after you connect with your guides

Communicating with our spirit guides is all about raising our vibration.

Again, this is something that technically shouldn’t matter. We are all ‘high vibrational’ to an extent, but due to our environments and programming we might need a little help tuning into spirit.

Our spiritual guides exist on a certain wavelength of consciousness or frequency, and through meditation and mindful we get up to their level.

In these sessions you might find your energy gets a little ungrounded as a result.

I like tapping my chest and body afterwards, you could also rub your hands together or feel your feet on the ground and bring some awareness there.

Another important step is gratitude! Really anytime we receive an intuitive insight or meditate we want to practice gratitude.

This is a way to more deeply nourish and sustain our relationship with spirit, and welcome more uplifting experiences and synchronicities.

What Do Spirit Guides Look Like?

At first you may only receive a vague impression, an outline may form before any of the details are filled in. When I first contacted by guides this way I was expecting a humanoid figure but got a ball of light instead!

Spirit guides can come in all shapes and sizes and often this can surprise us! While humanoid guides are common they can also appear as beings which we are not generally accustomed to.

Your guide could appear as:

A humanoid being
An animal
A ball of light
A mythical being
An angel
An alien being

Note: Spirit guides are energetic beings without a physical form like us so the way we perceive them is somewhat filtered and translated for our own comfort.

They materialize to us by pulling from the visual imagery and frame of reference that we already have, so the more open you are to whatever shows up the less distorted your impression of them will be.

How to See Your Spirit Guide

How well you see your spirit guide will depend on how developed your third eye is, the ability to see clear images in this mind. However many people are not skilled in this area.

At first your guides may appear faint or you will only perceive an outline but the more you practice the better your visual input becomes. You can practice visualization exercizes and focus on the third eye during meditation to improve your inner sight.

For many feeling and sensing their guide’s energy comes first before any visuals, which come later down the line. Your guides use your strongest senses to come through to you whether that be through emotion, visual, sound or touch.

How to Find Out Your Spirit Guide’s Name

In meditation you can more easily converse with your guides and ask them any questions you have, try asking their name and see what impressions you get. At first this might be vague and you’ll only receive the first letter or intuitively know the origin of their name.

What you’re looking for is very clear communication when it comes to specific information like this so if nothing comes try again another time, don’t try to guess anything or force it.

When you are ready thank your spirit guide for making contact and say goodbye. They may have a parting message or want to give you an item before leaving.

My experience connecting with guides

Around 2018-9 I made a concerted effort to connect with spirit guides. I would do a lot of journeying meditations and the results were absolutely breath-taking.

To be honest, I was surprised how easy it was to connect with spirit, I think this will be the case for most people even if they don’t believe themselves to have any spiritual ability.

Connecting with spirit is so natural, it’s why we’re here in the first place.

I connected a handful of guides in that time. One in particular had a deep connection to/was Egyptian. As far as I know I do not have any Egyptian heritage, but I have had this place pop up in sessions numerous times.

Recently, I connected with a very intuitive woman in real life and she specifically mentioned Egypt, which reminded me of this memory.

I got the name of this guide, at first just the first letter and then the whole thing.

Every time I would connect with a spirit guide I would remember a past life or something to that effect. I think spirit guides are very connected to our past and parallel lives and ancestral memories.

Over time I’ve developed a more ‘mature’ connection to spirit guides. It’s important not to give your power away to guides and be open to your interpretation of things changing.

Spirit guides might possess elevated knowledge in a lot of areas but they are not ‘above’ you, in the sense that you are still in control of your life. Take the guidance you receive with an open heart, but always come back to what is coming through your own higher self.

How to know you’ve made contact with your guides

You’ll know that you’ve successfully made contact with a guide by how you feel afterwards. If you dream of a guide, you’ll wake up feeling refreshed. During the day, you’ll feel energized and protected.

Contacting your guides should be an uplifting experience! Affirm that you only allow communication which is for your highest good. You are in charge of your inner spaces, only welcome in beings which have your best interests at heart.

During daily life you’ll begin to notice your spirit guides getting into contact with you more often. You’ll feel gentle nudges in the right direction and clear guidance, a warm breeze or light tap on the shoulder. Their energy nearby protecting you at all times.

Allow your intuition to guide you with these interaction and reply back verbally or mentally if you wish.

When you’ve connected with guides you’ll often feel inspired and empowered to take action in line with your soul. Guides are an extension of your higher self, intuition, spirit, and so they move you in that direction.

You may also experience amazing synchronicities and see repeating numbers after connecting.

In conclusion

Connecting with our guides is all about self-trust. We cannot deeply and consistently encounter spirit if we do not trust our ability to navigate the messages we receive wholeheartedly.

There’s a lot of fear, doubt and stigma around connecting with our spirit. It’s not something taught in schools or included in general conversation.

There’s a fear of being seen as ‘crazy’ when exploring or talking about these things.

I tend to think of myself as a rational and particularly pragmatic person, and so the way I approach these matter is similar to anything else. If it helps you grow in awareness it’s worth doing, even if it isn’t 100% verifiably ‘real’.

We can remain objective in these practices by reverting back to our own intuition and not giving too much power away to external concepts, these are just tools not the whole thing.

What has your experience connecting with guides been like?