Spirit Helpers or Guides

 There, Spirit Guide is defined as follows: "A being or energy which has no material body, although it has that potential open to it to do so that it may again incarnate on the earth if it chooses to do so. A Spirit Guide is a highly evolved spirit who has spent many incarnations on the earth and has grown in spirituality and purity. For the Spirit Guide, earth lessons are no longer necessary." It continues, "A Spirit Guide may only communicate when called upon and asked for assistance. The assistance may be in the form of guidance, protection or attention to a specific matter. The Spirit Guide will serve but will never step in without being asked. The Spirit Guide’s purpose is to assist the soul in reaching its most perfect state. However, understand that if the Spirit Guide is asked to assist in some way that the Guide sees as not for the highest good of the one who is asking, the Guide will first ask the individual if this is truly what he or she wants and may even issue a warning that a particular path is not for the highest good but will still help if it is the personsâ€?wish."

 Spirit Teacher. "Similar to Spirit Guide but at a higher level in the hierarchy of spirit beings. The Spirit Teacher is not given the opportunity to incarnate again. The Spirit Teacher has learned all the lessons that can be provided on earth and is therefore given the distinction of teacher. The Spirit Teacher can be asked for advice, similar to the Spirit Guide, but will give assistance only in the way of knowledge."

The Journey To Meet Your Spirit Guides

This section is the actual journey! I highly recommend reading this section out loud into a tape recorder and replaying it for the actual journey! You might want to look at the steps to attract the Elementals for suggestions for creating a sacred space for your journey as well as following the tips for successful journeying found in the previous section!

Start of this Journey (meditation)

You breathe in and out, and relax. Continue breathing easily, softly, in and out. Before you, you see a familiar path. This path leads you into the woods. As you walk along, you see high grass and trees all around you. In front of you, a sunbeam is shining on a clear, round circle of grass. You step up to the edge of the trees, and you can see the clearing is very soft and peaceful. The soft ray is shining down, making the area very bright. You see seven standing together in a circle. These seven can take on colors; they can take on form as animals or winged ones; they can be sounds that you can recognize as an object; they can be plants or rocks, they can be anything.

The first one you look at is right in front of you. This is your spirit, the one standing right in front of you. Remember what you see, what you hear, what you feel, what you smell. Look at the subject very carefully, for you are looking at your spirit. Look at the color, listen for the sound.

Remember this, then move over to the left and look at the next spirit. The sun shines very clearly on it. Remember what color it is. Remember what it looks like. Remember what it sounds like, for this is the spirit of your emotions.

Move over to the left around the circle, and the sun is shining very clearly on the next spirit. It is very solid and you can see its personality. You can see its color. You can hear it. You are looking at the spirit of your body. Remember what you see.

Move left around the circle and standing there in the green grass is another spirit. Look very carefully at this subject. You can see it clearly. You can hear it. You can smell it. You are looking at the spirit of your mind.

You move around the circle to the left and you come to a spirit that is very strong. You can feel its presence and see what it is—what type of animal or two-legged, or what color the spirit might be is very clear to you. You are looking at the guide that protects and guides you on earth.

Move on around and you have almost completed the circle of spirits. The next one stands very strong You look at this spirit. You feel it, you hear it, you see it. This is the spirit that guides you in the spirit world. It is the one that you make contact with that allows you to go into the spirit world.

Move to the last spirit in the circle. Look at this final spirit and see what it is. You listen to it, hear how it sounds, sense how it feels to you in your mind. This is your protecting spirit. It is the one you use to protect you in all things that you do.

Step back now and look once again at your spirit guide, your emotional guide, your body guide, your mind guide, at the guide you use on earth, at your guide to the spirit world, and at your protecting spirit. Breathe in and out very softly, and remember who they are and what they are, how they sound and how they smell, what color they are. Thank them for being there. Begin to leave by walking through the woods. Turn and look; it is now very quiet in the circle, and the sun is no longer shining down.

As you walk away, feel yourself coming back to your body, the warm, familiar physical presence. You regain yourself, open your eyes, and work with your journal on what you have seen. If you have trouble with any of the spirit guides, you can return through the path to the clearing and call the spirits forth again, and walk through them to find the ones you are looking for.

  End of this Journey

You can use this journeying to call on any of your guides. The object is to get into a relaxed position and with intent, call on the Guide that you wish to bring forth. Allow your mind to see what it wants, not what you expect to see. It is good to always have a journal or tape-recorded close by to record what you see, sense, know or feel afterwards. Don’t get discouraged if you don’t literally see something, you will usually get at least a feeling or sensation and you can start with that.

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