| Spirit guides are spirits that exist to watch over and | | | | the individual has known in his or her life such as a |
| protect humans living on earth. They are a significant | | | | family member or a friend who has passed. Also, it is |
| part of Chinese, Egyptian, and Native American | | | | believed that a person can have more than one spirit |
| cultures as spirits of ancestors who appear to guide | | | | guide, but only one guardian angel. |
| people through perilous times. The reason spirits guides | | | | How to contact your spirit guide |
| are often associated with the Chinese, Egyptians, | | | | There are various ways through which you can |
| Native Americans and even Tibetans is perhaps due | | | | contact your spirit guide. Techniques can range from |
| to the deep spirituality associated with these cultures. | | | | the very simple to the complex, such as mind |
| A spirits guide exists for one purpose: to act as a | | | | visualization to astral projection and lucid dreaming. |
| mediator between the living and the spirit world. The | | | | These techniques are usually conducted because the |
| spirit guide often talks to those who want to | | | | spirit guide exists on another plane that is separate |
| communicate with dead loved ones through a medium | | | | from ours, so normal forms of communication will not |
| and, in some instances, may take over the body of the | | | | apply. The plane inhabited by spirit guides is called |
| medium himself or herself to communicate. | | | | ‘the Other Side,’ which has an atmosphere |
| Spirit guides may appear at different points in a | | | | believed to be denser than the earthly atmosphere. |
| person’s life. In some instances, spirit guides can be | | | | These techniques for contacting your spirit guides are |
| contacted by the efforts of the individual. In other | | | | used to free the mind to be more receptive to the |
| instances, the presence of the spirit guide is | | | | information being given to our spiritual guides from this |
| automatically felt, often more strongly in times of | | | | plane. Other means of contacting your spirit guide are |
| spiritual distress and spiritual healing, during creative | | | | clairaudience (or clear hearing) and clairvoyance, both |
| activities, or during life-threatening events. It is believed | | | | of which are observed through meditation. Some |
| that a spirit guide can save individuals from harm by | | | | people call the whole process of trying to contact their |
| entering their bodies or by stopping time. | | | | spirit guide as ‘channeling.’ |
| Difference between spirit guides and guardian angels | | | | Individuals who need a guide in communicating with |
| Guardian angels may often be confused with spirit | | | | spirits can enlist the help of mediums and clairvoyants. |
| guides, but the two are actually very different. | | | | Starting off by learning meditation and other techniques |
| Guardian angels have a Christian origin and are | | | | is also a good way to open one’s self to the |
| believed to be pure angel spirits assigned by God to | | | | influence of one’s spirit guides. It is believed that |
| each individual at the moment of birth. Spirit guides, on | | | | spirit guides are constantly with us, but we must attune |
| the other hand, were once humans who have been | | | | ourselves to their influence in order to benefit from |
| transformed into spirit guides after their deaths. A spirit | | | | their directions. |
| guide is often an ancestor, someone the medium or | | | | |