I believe we all have spirit guides, Spirit Guides are evolved spiritual beings that are connected to your soul to help you grow, evolve, and learn in this lifetime. 

And when you cultivate a relationship with your spirit guides you will receive clear, wise guidance to help you in every area of your life.

Spirit Guides come in many forms such as archangels, guardian angels, spirit animals, ascended masters, departed loved ones.

Some guides have been with you for your entire life, even before you were born.

Others appear as you need them at different times in your life, and you have the ability to request more spirit guides as needed.

They all have different purposes but the common goal is to help guide us back into alignment with the love of the Universe.

Connecting with your guides can help you find the guidance you need when facing major decisions or turning points, feel supported in difficult circumstances, and discover the bigger purpose and lessons underlying your daily life. 

If you haven’t connected to your spirit guides before, I welcome you to keep an open mind.

These 5 practical and beautiful steps will help you cultivate a connection to your spirit guides and deepen your relationship day by day.

01. Quiet your mind and start to listen

The way to do this is by meditating. Many times the messages our guides send are lost on us because our lives are too busy or our minds are too busy.

When you meditate, you quiet your mind so that you can hear the wisdom of the guidance that’s within you and around you.

Find a meditation practice that works for you so you can get better at creating more space to allow the guidance and messages to come through. 

02. Ask for signs

Even while you go about your daily life, your guides are always supporting you and sending you messages of inspiration, encouragement, and guidance.

The more you watch for signs from your guides, the more you’ll recognize the signs they send. But something else magical happens too—as your guides sense you are more aware of them and their helpful messages, they will send more.

03. Start a sacred journaling practice

Get a special journal and simply let your pen flow. Just riff onto the page, allowing whatever needs to come through. Ideas, stories, topics, inspired visions, things that you may not have thought of on your own, will begin to come forward.

Don’t over think it or second-guess yourself or edit a word. Just write.

You can also use this sacred place to increase communication between you and your guides by writing them a letter or asking them for assistance in specific ways.

04. Practice the Art of Surrendering

Sometimes We get in the way or avoid divine guidance by trying to control situations.

When we are frustrated about a situation, confused about the best next step, or feeling that we don’t have enough control, the best thing to do is to surrender, release outcomes and trust that our guides have a plan that’s better than ours.

We then start to truly feel like we’re being led. When we surrender, we can feel our guides leading us to the next right action.

05. Rest in gratitude

Always try to stay in an energy of gratitude. Your gratitude keeps your relationship strong.

You want to be thanking your guides, appreciating them and feeling deep love and gratitude for them.  When you receive any form of guidance, thank them.

When you open your heart to offer your guides gratitude and appreciation it keeps those guides present with you all the time, because they know they’re welcome.