Linda Labertew on guides

My mentor Linda Labertew and Z have this to say about Spirit guides.

http://www.dragonofdrama.com/my_articles/channeling__spirit_guides

About Spirit Guides:

Everyone has at least one spirit guide and there are very specific reasons why we have guides. Your spirit guide or guides are there to you to assist you throughout the course of your human journey. In most cases a guide will assist you during a phase of your journey or to help you learn a particular karmic lesson and then afterwords another guide or guides may step in to assist you throughout the remainder of your physical journey. Spirit guides can be deceased family members and friends whom you have shared a karmic relationship with from previous life existences. There are no standards in this respect as every karmic relationship differs from one to the other. Guides are usually of the opposite sex but that is not a hard and fast rule. There are many underlying factors too complex to discuss here which have to do with the relationship you have with those who have agreed to guide your human experience. It is very common for such acquaintances to play various roles and these arrangements will be unique to your physical experience as it relates to the purpose and the fulfillment of your incarnation.

The next question I am asked the most is “how do I speak to my guide?” Before I begin describing the process I want to be sure you understand that spirit guides do not need your conscious awareness to communicate with you. The work they do on your behalf is typically done without your awareness. You can discern or detect their presence in many ways. For example you might be aware of a feeling or hear a voice guiding you in one direction or another. They may help open up doors of opportunity or they might be helping you resolve a karmic debt. You may experience your guides in your dreams and you are probably interacting with them on a psychic level in the course of your day even though you might not be aware of it. If you pay close attention to these forms of communication you will be pleasantly surprised to realize that your guides have been communicating with you all along even though you did not know it.

Your guide or guides know when you wish to communicate with them in your conscious awareness. So in this respect do not be afraid to politely ask them to introduce themselves to you. Please bear in mind that your state of mind is the controlling factor in initiating contact with your guide. If you are unbelieving or if you have a negative or controlling mental attitude your guide will not be in a hurry to communicate with you. Although guides have their own way of communicating you should be prepared by having a pen and notepad with you just in case your guide elects to use automatic writing. Automatic writing is best defined as feeling your fingers move without your own force and the information is not generated from your mind. Automatic writing can be done on a computer, it can be in text form just as well as it can be done on paper. Spirit guides are very intelligent beings and are up to snuff on modern technology so do offer them any means of communication you have available. Z has been known to send text messages to my son or daughter (he watches over them carefully) when it was the most appropriate means of communicating with them on the QT and believe me my kids know the difference between me and Z! Once you have expressed your desire to speak with your guide and you have offered whatever communication you have available just sit quietly, relax and wait for your guide to begin communication.

If you experience what appears to not be a response from your guide do not worry about this. Most often it is not that our guides are not communicating but rather it is us who are not receiving the communication because we have a tendency to throw up psychic barriers from fear or being nervous. It takes a little practice but once you establish communication you will find them to be great company. They will spend time teaching you about matters that are pertinent to your physical journey and they will also be there to help you make the pass from your physicality back to the realm or plane you existed on prior to your incarnation.

When it comes to knowing the names of your guides you might be surprised to learn that they are not necessarily concerned with being identified by a particular name. Therefore, they may or may not provide you with a name or they may ask you to select a name you desire to identify them with or they may choose to identify themselves with a name that was meaningful to you in the relationship you shared with them prior to your incarnation. I communicate with a group of guides known as the Collective We and to this day I have no idea how many entities make up this collective group nor do I know any of their names. They have only seen fit to identify themselves as a collective and have never been forthcoming with any other information as far as their identity goes. There was only one occasion when an entity from this group during a one on one conversation chose to be identified with a name and not very willingly I might add. Sometimes their names will be relative to their title or their level of responsibility. Although Z’s universal title is the Master of All Things his name also has a universal significance.

As is always the case with we humans we have a tendency to categorize, departmentalize and organize the matters of life, hence channeling and speaking with spirit guides are no exception to the rule. So it goes without saying that there are always the experts or gurus who provide steps, lists, charts and graphs designed to provide us with the most beneficial means of knowing how to channel and speak to our spirit guides. While these do serve their purposes do not get hung up on dotting all the i’s and crossing all the t’s. It is really more a matter of following your intuition or just simply paying close attention to information that streams in from outside of your scope of knowledge or understanding. I hope that I have shed light on the matter of channeling and speaking with spirit guides and I hope that you found this article helpful. If you have any questions or would like to share your experiences please feel free to contact me.