Written by Michelle Robinson
Welcome to our first edition of The 6th Sense for 2024. In this column I explore some of the questions mystically minded readers may have about the spiritual realms. This month I’m discussing spirit guides.
The term ‘spirit guide’ refers to a loving and highly-evolved spirit who has agreed to be our helper or teacher as we journey through our life on Earth.
While we may not have known our spirit guides in this life, we knew them before we incarnated. They were carefully chosen, and their roles mapped out, before we were born. Our guides are committed to helping us advance our soul’s learning. They support us through challenging experiences and are always close when we need their help. Since we are responsible for our choices and growth, spirit guides cannot interfere in our lives, but they can attempt to steer us towards the best directions and decisions. Guides will not make decisions for us, because we have free will and the choices we make are our own.
Our spirit guides communicate through our thoughts and feelings. They may place signposts in our life that prompt us to recognize something significant. They can guide us towards certain people or situations that bring us into alignment with a lesson we need. Moments of synchronicity that have special meaning are often created by our guides.
One of the things that I have learned is that spiritual guides often present themselves in a symbolic way. For example, a guide may give the impression of being a Native American Indian, a Chinese person, a monk, a nun, a medicine woman, or a recognised spiritual figure. Their appearance gives us clues to the way they are helping us. It is for our needs rather than theirs that they come in a particular form, because spiritual guides are energy beings who live in the spirit world. Some guides change as we evolve so that they can best help us in our development.
In addition to the teaching and helping guides not known to us in our current lifetime, we can connect with our family members and friends who are now in the spirit world.
These spirits offer a great deal of love, support and guidance. They may influence the right people to cross our path at the right time, and watch over family members. Such guides are known as familiar guides or family guides, as opposed to our spirit guides who we have (generally) not known in this life.
Your guides never grow tired of you. They don’t give up on you or run out of patience. They are there to encourage you whenever you need them. Your guides have endless patience because they are dedicated to the role that they have chosen. You are always watched over loved, protected and guided. It doesn’t matter whether a person knows about their spiritual guides or not; every person has the love and support of their guides. Every person has a soul who is learning lessons about love, compassion, kindness, forgiveness, endurance and much more through the experiences they encounter. Our guides recognize us for the spiritual beings that we are.
Quiet contemplation or meditation is a great way to communicate with your spirit guides. Sometimes you may sense their energy around you as tingles near your face and neck. Make sure you affirm that only your highest guides or loved ones may draw close to you, and then ask your question or relax in the peaceful energy they bring.
Remember, if you would like to stay connected with me to receive positive tips for life each morning in an oracle card reading, feel welcome to join my free Facebook group “Your Intuitive Gifts At Work.” You’ll find some free meditations to help you connect with your spirit guides in a folder in this group.
Here is a direct link where you can join my group
www.facebook.com/groups/yourintuitivegiftsatwork
