Spirit Guides

Spirit guides are just spirits who don't happen to have a body at the moment. Just like there are many different kinds of people WITH bodies, there is a huge variety of folks on the "other side."

Kinds of Spirit Guides

Some spirit guides are here to help individually, and some are working on projects both large and small for the good of many.

Angels are one type of spirit without a body. So are elementals (ondines, nymphs, water sprites, elves, fairies and such). There are different levels of spirit guides, all with their own unique "purpose" if you will.

We all come in with spirit helpers. Some could be considered angels. Others are friends from other lifetimes or people we knew in this life who have passed over. And some are baby spirits, who would like to be our children this time around. Hey, you were a twinkle in your mom's eye once, too!

Stuck spirits, also known by some as "entities" are really just beings that don't get it, and are stuck in an old pattern that has nothing to do with present time. These are not spirit guides, but beings who need help getting home, if you will. You can tell the difference because their energy feels darker, more stuck, and their communication usually is not helpful or supportive of Life and the greater good. These folks can usually be helped by just visualizing a connection or pathway between them and God.

Getting Help from God and Your Spirit Guides

Because we live on a free-will planet, we usually need to ask for help first before Spirit will offer it. Although sometimes, as in the story below, our angels are working overtime and offer guidance without a prior request.

Asking for help is something that most of us have trouble with, especially people who are usually independent in nature and have trouble asking for help from other human beings, too.

Asking for help doesn't mean that you just ask and then sit back and do nothing. But it does mean that you allow that you can receive guidance to help you navigate through the problem in the easiest possible way. Oftentimes, spirit guides will work through you, giving you some communication that you need to hear. Other times, they will work through the people around you to bring help.

Sometimes that help comes in a form that helps you learn through experience. How you can help your guides help you is to ask "What can I learn from this situation?" And take some time to process it before moving forward.

There's a great story from a book called Creating Miracles, by Carolyn Miller, PhD. She tells of a man who was working at a summer camp, and walking along a deserted road one night. He hears a voice next to him say "Move over," which of course he dismisses and keeps walking. The voice insists again. He does nothing. And then suddenly the voice starts nagging him, saying things like "You never listen to anything I tell you. For once could you just do what I say?" Still thinking it's crazy, he make a grand jump to the right. And seconds later, in the space where he was standing, something big whooshes by at high speed in the dark. It was a car, without lights, traveling on the wrong side of the road.

So the next time you have a problem that seems like more than you can handle alone, ask for help, be willing to let it come in, and notice what happens!

Articles about spirit guides and guidance:

Talking With Your Angels

Talking With Spirit: With Mary in the Garden at Meriamana

A Conversation with Neale Donald Walsch, Author of Conversations with God

In Your Dreams...Navigating the Astral Plane

You can also get a reading on your spirit guides, which can help you learn how you are already communicating with them and how to make that communication even clearer.