Spirit Guides 201
April 20, 2010 by Akemi
This is the follow up of my first article on spirit guides. In that first article, I shared the basics such as who spirit guides are, why they are such a great resource to improve your life, and why you may be feeling so lonely and helpless. (Photo credit)
Today’s article is what I have been learning myself by facilitating Spirit Guides Coaching. This gave me opportunities to work with various clients and their spirit guides. While each client and their spirit guides are unique, there are also commonalities.
Nothing is too petty to ask to spirit guides
First I encourage you to communicate with your spirit guides daily, from small to large things. Don’t wait until some catastrophe hits your life and you desperately need some supernatural help.
Attempting to communicate with your spirit guides only when there are major problems in your life is like running a marathon only when there is a race. You will be much better off if you practice daily. And the good news is you might enjoy the practicing part.
And don’t be shy to ask for help for some “small” things. There is no small things for spirit guides.
For instance, I was at a supermarket the other day. Usually, I do most of my grocery shopping at a small natural food store, but sometimes I go to the big one called Market of Choice. I think I wanted a can of tomato or something that day. Because I eat a lot of raw foods, I don’t buy cans often. I went to the aisle that I thought I saw them before, but I didn’t see any. Hmm… Where are they? Do I need to ask a clerk?
I immediately got a hunch, “Over on the other side” Oh, really? Sure is! Gee, my spirit guides even care about my grocery shopping!
They are just so helpful. I might even say my spirit guides are a bit too mothering. They try to remind me what to take when I go out. (“Refill your water can, Akemi!”) I guess they know how unorganized I am in my natural state…
Spirit guides are ALWAYS encouraging
Many people are afraid of communicating with their spirit guides. They think spirit guides would criticize them, like their caregivers and peers did when they were growing up.
And let’s admit we go through ups and downs in our lives. Sometimes we fail to do things that we know we need to do. Sometimes we act out in a way we regret later. When these things happen, we are depressed, often blame ourselves, and we fear rejection.
“Do my spirit guides still love me? Or are they sick and tired of me, like I am myself? Are they going to leave me because I am no good?”
And I am here to say I have never seen spirit guides being fed up with our humanly failures and weaknesses. They are always loving. Spirit guides are very patient in their love.
If you don’t take their advice and do something else, then they figure out how to help you from there. Spirit guides live in the now.
So don’t be afraid to face your spirit guides. They are always willing to help you.
Spirit guides want you to take good care of yourself
I’d like to emphasize that I have NEVER heard spirit guides talk like,
“She needs to work harder. Things are not turning out because she is not pushing hard enough. Maybe she needs to cut down her sleep to put in more hours. “
This is the kind of human thinking that is limited by space-time. Spirit guides are far more creative in coming up with ways to help you. And they don’t like seeing you abuse yourself.
Often, clients come to me because they want to see certain change in their life. For example, the client may be considering to start their own business. The Spirit Guides Coaching runs only for six weeks, so they want to jump in and talk about self-employment.
Typically, however, their spirit guides have different idea. They first want the person to take better care of themselves. Which makes perfect sense if you step back and think well. Starting a business takes a lot of energy, and if you are consumed with years of sleep deprivation, malnourishment (physically and emotionally), and most importantly, overworking in the corporate world, you are not going to make it. Further, when you are attached to one idea of a new business, you fail to notice other good ideas.
So, quite often, their spirit guides first give assignments such as relaxing and detoxing. For example, they might suggest solitary walk in the morning. Or napping. Or playing with a dog. Or taking a detox bath.
Don’t worry, when you are ready, your spirit guides are happy to help you with the things you think you need help for. But first, they want you to take good care of yourself. So leave your shortsighted agenda and trust your spirit guides.
Do you have any questions about spirit guides? I cannot comment back questions about your spirit guides because specific individual case requires individual attention (so you might want to consider ordering a reading), but I’d be happy to answer general questions in the comment.
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Wow!! What a great article!!
There really is nothing too petty to talk to your guides about. I often look at my guides like I have my best friends with me all of the time. Anything you would ask or mention to a buddy you are hanging out with I bring up to them. For example, my shampoo and conditioner were discontinued so while at the store I said, “Now which ones should I use.” They pointed me to one and it was perfect!!
They’ve also been a great example for how I can talk to people. You just never know true unconditional love until you know your guides. Having a relationship with them has allowed me to see what that looks like and apply it to my life. This has been extremely helpful to me as a mother/wife and will be very helpful as a counselor
One other thing I have learned and would like to share is the difference between genie’s and guides
. I think it would be easy to put up a request like “I’d like to lose weight and live healthier forever!” One might expect that they would start eating better the very next day or week however this is not how it works. They are not magicians they are advisers. They also know you and what you need better than you ever could so when you put up a request like that they will get to work immediately looking at all that will need to be done to align you with your true goal. For example you may first need to work on your self worth which will then lead to healthier eating and being more active. And remember these things take time 
What are your thoughts on that Akemi?
Hi Jen,
Yep. Spirit guides work so hard, and they are just so patient and loving. Choosing a new shampoo? Sure, that’s a perfect thing to ask to them.
The challenge is we are not always ready to listen to them. For example, I have some food sensitivity. Gluten is the biggie, but that is not the whole story. There are many foods that seem to irritate my gut and I just have to learn by trial — or by listening to my spirit guides. The other day, I bought a gluten free oatmeal. I wanted warm oatmeal porridge. I had a feeling about it, but I ignored it.
Bam — I had stomachache — and headache –okay, okay, no oatmeal, even if it’s gluten free.
Jen, you are totally right that spirit guides are not genies but more like advisers or consultants. So the challenge for many of us is to learn how best to work with them without being reliant on them.
Hi Akemi,
How timely yesterday I wrote in my journal how do I connect with my guides, then i was connected by a chaneler. spirit worker and then I come here and find you are starting a series.
I will follow this converstion- I must go back and Evelyn’s Akashic Record Reading. she did for me.
I look forward to reading more here and develpoing my inuition and learning who my guides are
namaste
Suzie
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This was so interesting to me Akemi, because I don’t think of myself as directly communicating with my guides very often, mostly because the spiritual traditions I ‘grew up’ in (as an adult that is) don’t emphasize them much, although I have always believed in the idea of infinite help being available to us, and have always felt beings on many different levels. But I do live my daily life almost completely intuitively these days, including in situations like you describe in the grocery store, and often get answers like that. So is that spirit guides or intuition? I guess it doesn’t really matter, as long as I stay open? That is how I think anyway, what do you think?
Suzie,
Glad you liked it. This is my second article on spirit guides — I don’t know if I want to turn it to a series, but if there are more things to write, I sure will.
Lisa,
In the end, I don’t think it matters if it’s “my” intuition or my spirit guides. That’s why I promote my Spirit Guides Coaching as a way to develop intuition. And I’m pretty sure you are communicating with your spirit guides anyway.
For some people, it’s easier to think of it as spirit guides. This way, they can accept the ideas are coming from someone who are wiser than themselves. It’s also comforting to think of our spirit guides always caring for us.
Do spirit guides help with making intuition clearer to hear and understand ?? Just wondering ??
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Lotus,
Spirit guides are the source of our intuition, or at least the big source of our intuition.
Some psychics will tell you that Spirit guides will not help you with winning the lottery and things like that. Well this can’t be true, because my spirit guide actually tells me who is going to win a sports game. As you know, we are allowed to bet on sports…so this is like free money to me, when they tell me who is going to win. They are right 100% of the time. Only way I will lose is if I don’t get a clear answer or ignore their advice. I have started to trust them much more after seeing that they are practically always right. Humans are never always right which is something unavoidable. As we all know, we are here on a mission. If we were right about everything, there would be no reason to be here. One time my spirit guide gave me a answer out loud, coming through my own mouth. It was insane. I asked about the NBA championship game. I said “Who’s going to win tonight” I can’t remember if I asked in my head or out loud, but what I do remember is that the INSTANT after I asked, these words uncontrollably came from my mouth. The words were that of the team who actually ended up winning the championship. I knew 100% sure they would win before the series even started. This is because I knew it wasn’t my imagination talking when I said the team who would win. It couldnt of been because I said it instantly after I asked my guide the question. There wasnt enough time to think…and besides I DIDN’T think at all…it was so wierd because I actually said it out loud to myself…but it wasnt even ME talking! Unless there’s no such thing as spirit guides, etc and we are all just psychic for no good reason. lol
I’m becoming nervous. When I was a little bit younger I always had my intuition and my “good” and “bad” feelings that helped me make disisions and later learned it was my spirit guide helping to keep me out of trouble. But now I’m 18 and I don’t hear him anymore. And the good n bad feelings I used to get don’t come. I’m worried that my spirit guide has left me. Could that be possible?
I really am desperate to find my lifes path now I am coming up to 40 yrs how do I do this ??
Jen x
Hi Akemi, I really love this knowledge about spirit guides, and in fact I’m crazy about the whole series you have written about star seeded souls. I have just printed out everything to read at home and discuss with a friend tomorrow.
But in the mean time, I have a question about spirit guides. How do I contact mine or tell that I have one or more?
Luv,
Saangita