The expectation or hope of dramatic, obvious contact

with a spiritual guide or guides too often leads to

disappointment. Much emphasis has been placed on 

spirit guide contact by many spiritual authors, but 

frankly, we believe your higher-self should receive

more attention.

Below are seven tips for gaining authentic spiritual

guidance.

1. It's very important to note that not all "guides"

offer absolute truth and wisdom just because they

are not in a physical body. Some have strong biases

and may not be objective with their advice to you.

It's easy to mistake a disincarnate soul (someone

who died but did not go to "the Light" for a variety

of reasons) or a mischievous or dark entity for a

"guide." If the guide offers input that sounds

impartial or prejudiced in any way, doesn't feel

uplifting or of a higher vibration, or feels negative

and gives negative sounding advice (e.g., telling

you to do something that would incur karma),

demand that it leave and ask for spiritual cleansing

help from whomever you pray to.

For example, if you make contact through a ouija

board, pendulum, or some other means with an

energy who claims to have been someone famous,

such as Elvis, be wary. Even if it really is a

deceased, famous personality, there is no

guarantee that the information imparted will be

truthful and non-subjective. Besides, it's common

for dark entities to play such games.

2. Everyone perceives spiritual guidance differently.

Some hear (clairaudience), some see (clairvoyance),

some just know (claircognizance), some feel

(clairsentience), some taste or smell, and some 

experience various combinations or all of the above 

(clair-all). This is true with past life recall also.

If you just know or feel, you may not directly hear or

see your guides or past lives.

Although you may very well have one (or more) main

guardian angel or guide, it's likely that most people

are not supposed to have a consistent, direct,

conscious link to him or her while incarnated. Why, 

you ask? If you could pick up your spiritual

telephone and had an invisible, on-call advisor to

give you direct answers, 100% sure-fire direction

any time you needed it, this would be cheating;

you would not learn the lessons you've incarnated

to experience.

Furthermore, we agree that help from angels of the

Light and ascended master guides is available to

many, but the insight you receive may be so subtle

that you won't be able to identify much about the

source, other than to know that it feels genuine and

pure.

3. It's entirely possible, in our opinion, that many

people have created, in their mind, a name and image

of the helpful spiritual energy they call their guide.

We don't see anything wrong with this, as long as it's

only to identify the energy.

4. We don't feel that associating a name with spiritual

insight or discovering the name of a guide is important

because it may not always be a guide from which you are

deriving information, and it's easy to become dependent

on a guide.

5. Receiving outside help is great when needed, but

relying on yourself as much as possible in meditation

by connecting with your subconscious mind and your

higher-self is usually best. Your subconscious mind is

where all past and present life memories are stored,

along with all fears and defenses. Your higher-self is

also your link to your super-conscious, or all that is.

Some say it's a direct connection to God, your

god-self.

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6. If you meditate regularly and connect with your

higher-self, you will have all the help you need, which

may sometimes include the help of other-dimensional

guides of the Light. All you have to do is focus on the

dilemma or question, and if you are meant to know the

answer, you will know it, when you are meant to

realize it, one way or another.

Through years of practicing meditation, we regularly

receive flashes of insight and the answers to questions

by detaching just enough from the conscious mind to

allow higher-self insight to flow to the doorstep of

consciousness. Sometimes it seems as if the answers

are waiting there for us to perceive.

7. Meditation is so important for self-awareness and

stress reduction. Develop and practice it as a regular

discipline and you will benefit in many ways,

including receiving regular spiritual guidance and

the ability to discern cosmic noise from divine

insight.

In summary, we believe it's to your advantage to put

aside the desire to commune with specific spiritual

guides and instead focus on becoming or remaining

grounded and centered, and accessing your inner

awareness and your higher-self.

Scott Petullo

http://www.mystictwins.com/

http://www.scottpetullo.com/

Stephen Petullo

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