What Are Spirit Guides?
/Spirit guides are beings who exist on the spiritual plane. They are much like you except they no longer have a physical body and live on Earth. You are a spiritual being just like your spirit guides, but right now, you are having a physical experience as a human on Earth.
You chose your spirit guides before incarnating
Before you incarnated into your current body on Earth, you chose a select group of spirit friends to be your lifetime guides on Earth. You can call these your primary guides. Your primary guides are those who stay by your side from the time you are born on Earth to the time you cross over back to home. Home is the spiritual plane. This is where you originally come from and where you go once your time on Earth has ended.
You most likely have more than one primary spirit guide
Most of you have anywhere from one to three primary guides and then a large group of guides who come in and out of your life at particular times when you most need their help and expertise. If you are working on a particular project and are doing a ton of research, it’s most likely that a guide who is skilled in that area has joined your team temporarily to both encourage and help you. These guides are called teacher or helper guides. We all have them and you can even call in specific guides for help and inspiration.
Your spirit guides have experienced incarnation too
Most spirit guides have lived a lifetime themselves here on Earth. They may appear to you in your dreams or your mind’s eye as the last incarnation they had here. However, there are some guides who have not had a lifetime here on Earth and choose to appear as they are in spirit.
Your spirit guides are your soul family
There is nothing to be afraid of when connecting to your guides as they are like your spirit family. You have most likely incarnated with your guides many times and they know you very well. Your guides may have been your family members, romantic partners, friends, or even your children in your other shared lives. Your guides care deeply for you and only have unconditional love for you. They hold no judgment. They are by your side through thick and thin, helping and guiding you along your path in life that you chose for yourself before you incarnated.
How to connect to your spirit guides
You can meet and connect with your guides through various ways. For some of you, meditation (whether through solitary means or listening to a guided meditation) certainly helps, and for others, just allowing your guides more into your daily life helps. Think of your guides just like you do your friends and family. Just because you cannot see them as clearly as you do the other people around you, doesn’t mean they aren’t there!
You can also read more or take classes about developing your natural intuitive abilities in order to better connect to your guides. Remember, you are just like your guides except you happen to be hanging out on Earth right now in a physical body. Your guides represent your true home and they will feel like it! Along with all the love they have for you, you will resonate with their energy and feel a sense of home when you tune into them. Don’t forget that you are a spiritual being having a physical experience! This is mostly what your guides want you to know besides that you are loved and watched over.
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