What is a Spirit Guide?

By understanding what is a spirit guide you can then use your developing psychic skills to make use of the connection to call on them for help and insights in your life. But while our guides can be of value and service to fulfilling our needs and our desires it’s also good to understand the role that they hold in your life to make the most of the relationship.

Becoming aware of the role of your spirit guides is highly important in your development of how to be psychic. Just by learning that your guides exists and allowing them to guide you is a powerful step in developing your skills.

The Spiritual Mentor

What is a spirit guide? A spirit guide can be thought of as a spiritual mentor. His or her job is to help you to experience the things that you pre-planned before you were born. In many cases, your spirit guide may have even helped you to do the planning.

Just like an older brother or sister, the spirit guide tries to gently guide you in your life towards experiences and outcomes that you wanted prior to birth, while also trying to help you avoid many of the pitfalls that you may not be consciously aware of that would detract from your plan.

A Spirit Guide is someone that has lived before and has went through similar life-lessons that you're expected to go through in your life. They aren't necessarily "wise enlightened masters” but rather very often someone just like you.

During the time that your guide is with you, he is also learning from you. Within your experiences he also has the opportunity to see how he made similar choices, both the mistakes and appropriate choices. In other words, helping and observing you also is teaching him or her.

How Spirit Guides Work

The way that they work is usually to cause you to notice clues or insights that help lead you to stay with the plan that you created before birth. The clues may be in the form of a book, newspaper article or even a television show. Your guides are often very resourceful in their ways to get insights and messages to you.

If you’ve ever felt like someone was nudging you in the right direction, or as if there were someone dropping answers to your unspoken questions, this might just be your spiritual helpers at work.

Everyone will have one primary spirit guide that is with you from the moment you are born and will be with you to welcome you back home when you leave the body.

In addition to your primary guide, there will also be several transient spirit guides that will come and go throughout your life. These guides are there to help you learn a specific lesson or to help you as you go through a certain period of your life. And yes, you can consult your guides for spiritual advice. These guides are also there to learn from you as well.

By understanding what is a spirit guide and that their role is not there to grant your every wish or desire, you can begin to develop a communication relationship or just simply acknowledge their presence and know that they are always there with you for your highest good.

You don’t have to know what is a spirit guide in order to benefit from them. But using your ability to perceive and intuition, you can have an on-going relationship with your guides and even get a wish or two granted from time to time.

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