Connect With Spirit
Spirit Guides – How to Connect and Communicate With Them
By Alison Yates
What are Spirit Guides?
Many people believe that everyone has a Spirit Guide (or Guides) – entities that come from the Spirit world, who you can contact and communicate with, and who are ready and willing to help and assist you as you walk the Earth.
They are believed to be loved ones who have passed, ancient ancestral spirits, or even spirits from the Angelic Realm, and are assigned at birth to protect and support us.
Your Spirit Guides have learned many lessons and may well have also crossed your path on Earth in past lives. They know you very well, your strengths and weaknesses, and your abilities and your hopes and fears – and they know your destiny.
Your Spirit Guides are always willing to help and support you, but will not interfere in your life without a specific invitation.
Connecting with your Spirit Guides
Simple meditation is recognised as the best way to contact your personal Spirit Guides. Meditation is simply the process of calming your thoughts, slowing down, and focusing on a particular outcome or particular thing.
Spending fifteen minutes a day stilling your mind will be beneficial not only for contacting your personal Spirit Guides, but it will help you relax and enable you to reach some inner peace and calm that most of us have forgotten.
Find a quiet place where you will not be disturbed. Try to make it a special place and a special time in your day. To create a pleasing ambience, pull the shades or dim the lights, play some soft music, light candles and incense sticks.
To help increase awareness of your personal Spirit Guides and shift attention away from the Earthly Plane, we will create a special place in your mind where you can meet them.
Relax in a comfortable chair, close your eyes and take some deep breaths. Every time you exhale, feel the stresses and worries of the day leave your body with every breath. Notice the sinking feeling when you breath out, and use this as a vehicle to allow you to let go and relax even more.
Imagine now a woodland path, bathed in mottled sunlight that filters through the leafy branches above. The air is warm and a soft breeze wafts the fresh smell of scented flowers over you. This can be a place in your imagination, or a real place you have visited.
Walk now along the well-worn path and come to a clearing in the woods. The clearing is bathed in a strong light, like a sunbeam. Enter the light.
This will be your sacred space and when you come here you will feel protected, safe and comfortable. This is a special place where the spiritual world meets the physical world – a place you have created with the power of your imagination.
Notice that the light you stand in is made up of the rainbow spectrum, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet.
For each colour in turn, look at it directly as it falls at your feet. Sense it. Tap into its meaning. Remember what you see, what you hear, what you feel, what you smell. Look at the colour very carefully.
Do this for each colour and then move your focus to the final colour, Violet.
Now see a distant figure walking towards you. They will ask if they can enter the light to be with you. Here will be your personal Spirit Guide.
You can now ask questions. But don’t be disappointed if you receive no answers. Answers may come to you later, and often when you are not expecting them.
Rather than hearing something, you might get a feeling or a sensation of something. This will be the beginning for you. They may present you with a gift, or may speak to you by answering a question you have posed, or just some words of comfort or inspiration. If this is the first time of meeting, they may tell you their name. You may recognise this name, or not.
Practice connecting to your Spirit Guides at least once per day. Soon it will become easier for you, and like second nature.
When you are ready to leave, thank your Spirit Guide. Open your eyes and spend a few moments relaxed, and get acclimatised once more to the Earthly realm.
Alison Yates wrote this article. For more detail on connecting with your Spirit Guides visit: http://www.alizons-psychic-secrets.com/spirit-guides.html
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Mirror Image
What Do You See When You Look at Yourself in the Mirror?
By Preiti Juuneja
Do you see a critical and lamenting person looking at you? Or do you see a loving and compassionate ‘You’ in your eyes? Okay, so you say, you don’t see either of them. Every morning you brush your teeth, men shave their beard while women put on their make-up, get ready… in front of a mirror! Do you know that you do all of this without ever really Seeing Yourself?
When I first started doing Affirmations about 4 years ago, I heard of a powerful technique of doing them in front of a mirror. Phewww… the mere thought of talking to myself in front of the mirror used to freak me out.
“You look awful.” “You stink”. You don’t know how to dress up.” These are the voices I used to hear popping out of everywhere when I’d look into my yes.
“How could a person who as a child was bombarded with criticism most of the time, muster the courage to see anything good about herself in the mirror?” said my course instructor at my certification course on Cognitive Behaviour Therapy.
There…my tryst with Mirror Work began!
Looking into my eyes in front of a mirror, I began talking to myself. Yeah… it looked funny, sounded weird, and felt scary!
“I love you. I really really love you.” Saying these two lines were the most difficult than anything else. Why? Why is it so difficult for us to say that we love ourselves?
Although as a child, we all do talk to ourselves… in our minds, or saying it aloud… well… some do it in front of the mirror making all those funny faces when no one is watching us! What about Winston Churchill who used to practice his speech in front of a mirror. Well, there were few among successful speakers and leaders who knew this secret of using the mirror as a tool to influence their thoughts, feelings and become a person their audiences wanted them to be.
What was their secret?
They knew how to connect with that ‘child’ inside of them who is pure and honest and will give it back to them if they ever lie!
Did you know there is a 3 year old child within each one of us?
I began to talk to this child within me every single day, nourishing this child, telling her how wonderful and capable she is.
Within 3 months of doing my affirmations in front of the mirror, I began to feel different about myself.
And about 6 months later, I remember, when my ex-trainees and ex-colleagues organized a get-together and hesitatingly invited me knowing how busy I used to be with work and only work back then.
I was pleased to be invited there….and the moment I reached I was showered with compliments …”Oh My God. Preiti you look 10 years younger than your actual age.” “Preiti, there’s something quite magnetic about you now. What have you been doing? “
I knew within what was working for me …for the first time in my life I felt connected with the Divine. I knew that I had found a treasure after all!
To my trainees and coachees, however, this doesn’t seem like a treasure when at first I share it with them. For all they see this as a fathomless, funny exercise.
I witnessed the unending struggle and sheer amount of pain he had to go through when I handed the mirror to one of my coachees in a session and have him say “I love you and accept you as you are.”
For 5-6 consecutive times he couldn’t go beyond “I love…” …” I love….” And he would put the mirror away after that.
That 3 year old child within him was so angry and resentful that all these years he had not given that child all the love the child deserves! How could he expect the child to accept love so easily now?
However, with support and persistence he was able to affirm love to himself in the mirror, at least 2-3 times in the session. This was an excellent beginning for him!!
With regular practice of doing Mirror Work at home, he began feeling from being uncomfortable to feeling lighter and at ease with himself and others too, both at home and work.
“My relationship with my son has improved now. We talk and laugh together at things. At work, I get compliments more often now.” He reported back after a few weeks.
Remember, the most important relationship you have is the one with yourself! You can nurture this relationship with this powerful technique and you will see all the other relationships being taken care of.
Here’s the thing… When we look deep into our eyes and say our Affirmations, we connect with that Power within us – which is Divine, Supreme and Pure. At that moment, these affirmation do not remain as mere words, instead they get charged with our feelings that we generate. And research has shown long ago that it is ‘feelings’ that are a powerful force that carry energy and thus vibrations. These vibrations go into the Subconscious Mind and from the Subconscious to the Unconscious Mind where they become a belief or attitude or habits. And we Attract in our lives what we Believe in.
Brhadaranyaka Upanishad of the 1.4.10 of the Yajur Veda says ‘Aham Brahamsi’ which means ‘I am the creator’ . This mahavakya or great saying is the basis of Law of Attraction. Where ‘I’ means the Self. You have the power to create anything you want.
So when You are the creator, with a simple tool like Mirror Affirmations you can get into a daily self-cleansing practice of your subconscious mind, and thus create whatever you want to in your life!
But for that you will have face the mirror!
What is holding you from facing ‘Yourself’ in the mirror?
What would you want to create for yourself?
I welcome and look forward to your feedback and comments. Please continue to share your experiences @ http://www.preitijuuneja.wordpress.com
Preiti is an Independent Training Consultant specialized in Soft Skills & Behavioural Skills. Being a Behavioural Trainer and a Coach makes her passionate about learning and sharing about ‘How the Mind Works, the Mind-Body connection, Alternative Ways of Healing, Affirmations by Louise L.Hay. She uses Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) and Mind-Body concepts with her clients to facilitate their healing and attract abundance in all areas of life.
To find out more about Preiti’s work,please visit http://preitijuuneja.wordpress.com
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