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I had my first conscious experience with a spirit guide in Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia where I was living as an expatriate. I had gone to my room for a rest and lay on my bed relaxing. My peace was suddenly shattered when I heard a voice – quite loud and rather demanding. “Isn’t it time you started healing, then?” The voice was inside and outside my head – yes I know that sounds confusing – but that’s what it seemed like. Strangely I wasn’t nervous – quite the opposite in fact I was exhilarated by this message. “What do you mean and how do I start?” I asked. “Speak to Sal” was the only response I got. I knew who the voice referred to as there was only one Sal in my life at that time and I rang her immediately – she arranged to meet me the next day and I told her about the voice. “That’s right, you are a healer” she said and lent me some books to help me on my way. This was the beginning a completely new direction to my life as I started on the journey to learn to be an energy healer. I discussed the phenomena of the voice with Sal later and I shared my belief that this had been my grandmother, my mother’s mother who had in fact died before I was born. “She is your spirit guide at the moment, and she had already spoken to me in my meditations telling me that I should help you get started as a healer” Sal told me. I found it amazing that a disembodied being, a spirit, could communicate with me and have such a huge impact and influence on my life. I decided to find out more about spirit guides and their role in our lives.
Each one of us has a spirit guide. Your guide will probably be someone who knows you and has passed over. It could be a brother or sister, favourite aunt or uncle or a close friend – someone who was close to you in your life or has a strong connection to you and a caring for your welfare. Their purpose is to keep a watch on us and help us when we need it. But how can they do this when we can’t see or hear them? My experience with my grandmother was unusual for we rarely hear them with our natural hearing. They communicate to us through a form of telepathy – sending us thoughts that we connect to and interpret as either our own ideas or intuition. When you get a “feeling” that has no real logic behind it you are often using your intuition and its through this and your imagination that they work. Our imagination is a messaging system that links our intuition, our higher consciousness and other forms of life that cannot be seen with the naked eye or heard with our physical hearing. It brings us messages and understandings that are often referred to as our sixth sense. Guides use this “messaging system” to pass us information that we may not consciously have for in their world they can see a bigger picture that we can. They have access to a higher wisdom and understanding than us and they can see danger and opportunities that we may miss. They also always work for our highest good and come from a place of love.
Other spiritual helpers that can assist us in our everyday lives are angels. These wonderful beings live around us in another dimension – much lighter and less dense than the one we occupy. They also are watching out for our wellbeing at all times and will come to our assistance when called. There are many stories of people in trouble getting help from angels. Sometimes they act unseen; other times they can take human form just for a short time to rescue someone from danger.
If you need help at any time – just call an angel. I have a friend who always calls in the parking angel when she is struggling to find a parking space – and lo and behold she is always led to one! I have personally often called for help and found the solution presented on a plate for me. You can ask angels to help you find lost items, to help you when you are lost in a strange town, to be with you when you car breaks down and to protect you when in challenging circumstances. You can also ask for romantic favours – don’t forget that cupid is an angel! Just say out loud what you want and then be receptive to your “gift” and be open to receive the help in whatever form it comes.
Since my encounter with my grandmother I have been in touch with a number of guides and angels and I will share the simple method that I use to make this connection. You will need to tap into your imagination for this and visualise the picture I am describing here. Just allow whatever comes into your mind and accept it for there is no right or wrong way to do this. Find a quiet space and sit down, close your eyes, drop your shoulders and relax. Imagine that you are surrounded by a huge beam of sunlight. Breathe in deeply a number of times and see yourself standing outside a walled garden. See a gate and walk through into a beautiful garden, feel the peace and tranquillity. The garden is filled with your favourite flowers and the sun shines as you follow a path that leads you further and further in. You come to a pool covered with water lilies and lotus blossom and a fountain plays in the centre. Sit on the wall and ask your guardian angel to join you and ask for whatever you need in your life. You may or may not see your guide or angel but they will be there and they will listen to you and you may feel their loving presence.
Bless you.
Anne Jones
www.annejones.org
Healer and author of Heal Yourself, Healing Negative Energies and The Ripple Effect published by Piatkus.
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