I know I have a spirit guide, but how do I communicate with him? How do I find out his name? I once read somewhere that spirits don't really even HAVE names, and yet I keep hearing people call their own spirit guides by various names. Some names are very strange (like Ramtha) while some are so ordinary (like Fred!) Is there any way I can be sure my guide is hearing me?
Marie
Dreamchaser:
I have had some guides tell me their names, while others have not. I don't believe names are important on the Otherside, but they are important here. Guides know that, so if they feel the need, they will "name" themselves.
Here is the easiest way I have found to contact guides: Light a candle in a dark room at night, then either lie or sit down and get very comfortable. Use the flame as a focal point, and just stare at that flame and let yourself go. Allow your eyes to go blurry.
Now here comes the best part: In most meditation practices, you have to clear your mind, and I know that is very hard for some of us. In this practice, I want you to simply let your mind run wild. Don't try to control it, change it, etc. - just let it go wherever it wants while you simply listen and observe.
You'll start to realize that there are thoughts that pop up into your head that you did not think. They are VERY random thoughts. The hardest part about this whole exercise is believing what you hear in your head. I want you to only do this for about 20 minutes. You will have to do it for more than one night in a row to really convince your logical mind that you ARE hearing thoughts that you did not think.
Once you're convinced, you can start asking questions. Get a pen and paper and have the questions you want to ask already written down, with space for an answer. Stick to your questions. Ask the question out loud, then write down the first thing that pops into your head, no matter HOW crazy it sounds. Soon you will realize you are carrying on some sort of conversation. I repeat - the hardest part of this whole thing is believing that your mind is not making it up.
Once you learn how to get a dialogue going, you can ask pretty much any question you desire. Remember that you have more than one guide. We all have one main guide, but we also have teaching guides. You may want to ask whatever guide you reach what they are there to teach you. That can be handy information to know! You can trust that all of the spiritual beings around you can absolutely hear you when you talk to them. Also remember that nothing can move into action before you ask it to, so be sure to directly ask for help, guidance or whatever else you need.
I wish you incredible hearing.
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Astrea:
Our Guides hear, see and advise us too, whether we can "hear" them or not. There are as many ways to connect with them as there are individuals who want to connect, so you'll have to find your own way to each other.
I know the names of MY guides, and have since I was a tiny child. I remember "hearing" them tell me their names before I was four years old. I believe that as children we know these things, but as we grow up and become socialized, we lose a lot of that natural psychic ability to see beyond the Veil. This is an ability all small children have, but conditioning by our parents and organized religion and other social institutions often leads us to block what naturally would come to us in the course of our daily lives.
I've never met anyone who wanted to connect with a guide who couldn't do it. One of the best ways is to ask them to come to you through your dreams. Keep a little notebook by your bed so that the FIRST THING YOU DO when you wake from one of these dreams is WRITE DOWN everything you can remember.
You won't EVER remember all of a dream with a guide in it, but after about three months, you should be able to manifest that guide in meditation without having to go to sleep to do it. Then you can ask your guide the name they choose to go by.
The reason some guides have exotic names while others don't is because some guides have never been born here on Earth. The stranger names belong to Angelic Spirits who have never been human. Lots of us also have Guides who have been born as humans, and have chosen this work as something they want to do from the Otherside.
An interesting book that might help you access your guides is "The Book of Enoch." It's one of those books that got left out of the Bible because it has an alternative Creation Myth to the one found in the "official" Bible. It talks all about the Angels and what they do for jobs in Heaven and on Earth. It's available in a lot of different formats, and interesting and fun to read, too.
Based on your question, I believe it will help you connect to your very own Guide, because a NAME will jump out at you as you read it. Once you have established open communication with your Guide, you'll find it's quite easy to get answers to all the questions you want to ask!