HOW TO KNOW ...
...when you are talking to your GUIDES and why you should listen.
How do you know when you are talking to your guides? The answer - most of the time you don't. [giggle]
A common misconception by people unaccustomed to the ways of psychic phenomena is the belief that they are not in touch with their guides. They do not believe they are connected to their guides or they believe they don't have any guides because they don't 'hear' them. It is the expectation of contact with guides that causes the misconceptions of understanding, for everyone has a guide but some assume contact with them involves some miraculous voice or event. The truth is so much simpler.
Guides often connect to us in a variety of ways - such as a knowing, or a light inner voice [sounding like us], or a thought. We'll see a picture, or experience a feeling, or know of an event before it happens... and the list goes on. There is no great waving of flags or sound of trumpets, no loud booming voice, no sudden and dramatic change in our surroundings, no sudden changes in reality, etc. It is possible that some of us may have experienced a bit of this on a rare occasion, but as a rule - this is not the norm and certainly is not a daily event.
One of the easiest and simplest ways I know to show people when they are in contact with their spirit guides is to give them a couple of examples of interaction. For the sake of argument [and to give one example] let us assume you can drive a car [you can also apply this example to walking - with a few variations].
One day you are driving down the road towards home on the route that you usually take and either while sitting at a certain stoplight or approaching it, a thought occurs - 'you should go left at the light instead of going straight through' [as is your normal custom]. You then think to yourself, "Why should I go left, I always go straight? To go left means I have to go a few more minutes out of my way while if I go straight I can be home that much quicker." Your next thought again tells you to go left but once again you counter the thought. For several seconds you carry on this little debate in your mind - you feel the inclination to make a left but you ignore it deciding instead to go straight ahead. You have free choice and have decided to follow your usual route.
When the light changes you continue on straight through as you normally would and find after traveling a couple of blocks that the road is heavily jammed with cars because of an accident up ahead and you are now bogged down in traffic and will be quite late. You then think to yourself, 'I should have gone left...' you thought it but you didn't do it. You had that little argument with yourself and chose to ignore it. THAT was your guide you were talking to [or higher self]. You do not usually refer to yourself as "you" and you do not usually argue with yourself but you can and will argue with your guide as you attempt to assert yourself in this matter. You ignore the warnings or wishes of your guide as you do what you want to do.
If you pay attention to the word tense [the text] it may help you to better understand when something is a thought from inside you and another is 'someone in spirit' talking to you. How often do you refer to yourself as "you"? Most of us say "I" and "me" but our guides say "you" to us - just as if another person were carrying on a conversation with us in the physical - but this occurs more as thoughts in our head.
Our guides 'guide' us gently the first few times and if we listen we are happily able to go about our daily business. We don't have to listen all the time - there is room for free choice, but in certain things we are expected to listen. If we continually choose to ignore the gentle prods, our guides find a way to make us listen to what they say and trust in a higher power.
Say you are doing too much - you're really overworked but you refuse to slow down even though you think to yourself several times that you should and you know you might get ill if you don't. Or another example - you are told not to do something but you say like a willful child that you want to do it and continue to do it anyway. You are getting thoughts telling you to 'slow down' or 'not to do' it but you ignore them. As time goes on, you still ignore the cautions and begin to start having little accidents that get in your way and cause you frustration. Problems continue to increase as you continue to ignore the cautions to 'slow down' or 'not do' the thing. Frustration builds and problems escalate until you either throw your hands up in frustration and listen, or you 'get hit by a two-by-four'.
A 'two-by-four' is the ultimate caution from spirit. At first you get a gentle nudge - you develop a sore or aching back if sitting at a desk all day, or sore feet from standing too long, or an illness, etc. You think to yourself once again that you should 'slow down' or 'not do it' but still you choose to ignore it. Your next warning is a push - you trip and sprain your ankle and have some restriction of movement - yet still you continue to do what you want. The next warning you get is even more severe [a stronger push] - you hurt yourself enough to take painkillers - you tear a ligament in your leg. You should listen now, but silly you - you don't. Your guide is still telling you to 'slow down' or 'don't do it' but you ignore the warnings and continue on. You get smacked with a 'two-by-four' to get your attention - you have a car accident end up flat on your back with a broken leg or worse. You ignored and wouldn't listen to the gentler warnings so you left them no choice. Only when you are really stubborn and continue to do what you want instead of listening to your guides, will you be hit with a 'two-by-four'.
I have seen this with both injuries and illness. The more you refuse to listen to your guides/spirit/God the more you will be slowed down with progressively harsher 'incidents' until you are given no choice in the matter. Your guides will slow you down to take the rest or make you listen to what they have been trying to tell you. They don't want to do it any more than you want to punish a stubborn child. You want them to listen but you don't want to hurt them. You try to get them to comply using gentle methods at first and reward them when they listen, however you get progressively stern if the situation continues until - you too are left no choice but to use harsher means of discipline such as giving a child a spanking. It is not something you want to do and you have tried to make him comply in a nice way but he stubbornly refuses to do so leaving you no choice but to eventually turn him over your knee and give him a few slaps. I am not saying that guides are violent and perhaps this is a poor example but I believe I am getting my point across and that is the main thing. Thank goodness most of us stop here and seek other avenues of discipline for our children and take them to counseling, etc. Guides don't have that option.
I do not condone violence but I see they are sometimes left with no choice with dealing with us stubborn mortals. Just as we guide our children, they are here to guide us. Just as we find ways to discipline our own children when they do wrong or won't listen, they too find ways to discipline us. Add in the fact that most of us choose not to listen to the guidance we are given and choose to exercise free will instead it does become a wee bit of a problem for them. They are not trying to be harsh or cruel and they truly don't want to hurt us - but how else do they stop us if we are on a course of self-destruction? How else do you stop someone from hurting themselves? I agree it is a fine line but no more so than the parenting of our own children. A loving and kind parent does not want to hurt their child no more than a guide wants to hurt us but if we see our child repeatedly do something that is dangerous both to itself and others we may take drastic action to prevent it from happening.
For instance, if a guide knows you are going to be involved in a life threatening situation in an airplane and it is not yet time for you to die, he will try to get you to stay off the plane, first with a warning - a thought. If you ignore this nudge, he will get you to feel sick and plug up your ears in the hopes that you will not go. Stubborn you, you are going anyway. Ok, now you've hurt yourself to the point where you have to use crutches. This should stop you he figures, what is the point of going on a plane to attend a dance when you are on crutches? Not you - oh no - stubborn you - you're going anyway. So, he does the only thing left, he hits you with the 'two-by-four' - you get struck by a bus when crossing the street. Two broken legs, a broken arm, skull fracture and you're in traction. So much for the plane ride. Afterwards you hear that the plane crashed - it went down in a swamp - no survivors. You may be laid up and be many months recovering but you are still alive and that's all he wanted to do - keep you alive and prevent you from going in the first place. Drastic measures yes but consider the alternative.
After years of practice with guides, some of us will now listen to that internal voice and follow the guidance while others will insist on their own choices. If we listen we avoid wasting time and achieve our goals that much quicker. If we pay attention and listen to the prods of our guides, we learn from our mistakes. We are more interested in paying attention because we know that to continue to take the wrong path will only lead to more problems. So we choose to follow their guidance more and more often.
We are not 'punished' for choosing not to listen to our guides but if we ignore the guidance on bigger and more important issues, we will suffer consequences. There is no simple solution when it comes to dealing with guides, teachers, our higher selves, whomever - but with practice and patience [theirs I believe] we eventually come to terms with what is offered and find a secure level on which to communicate with them. As long as we continue to follow the right path we are pretty much given free will, it is the wrong or incorrect path which gives us so many problems. Often the one thing you really don't want to do - is the one thing you should be doing most.
Now I do want to clarify one thing here - guides will tell you to do only positive things to help you to improve yourself and your situation. They come from a place of love and offer you love and protection the same as you do for your children. If you have negative thoughts coming into your head to do things that you know are morally wrong and improper, or downright dangerous or cruel, then you are not dealing with a guide - you are NOT dealing with the energies of the white light. You are either dealing with a negative spirit, your own baser wishes and subconscious negative desires, or you are psychotic. This is a very black and white issue [no grey areas]. You deal in love and positive results that protect and help - then you deal with the light. You deal with anything that harms yourself or another living creature - then you deal with the dark. Cut and dried, plain and simple.
I hope this information has been helpful - to let you know that you are and have been connected throughout your life to a loving, guiding energy. We only need listen to that positive guiding thought and next time you have the idea pop in your head to make a left instead of a right - try it. Ten minutes out of your way is nothing if it saves your life or the lives of your loved ones. You may never know what it was that you avoided and it really doesn't matter. Don't take the risk that it could be a 'two-by-four' waiting round the corner.
PSYCHIC ATTACK [or Clairvoyance?]
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