Communicating With Spirit Guides Through Writing

Spirit guides are non-physical beings, whose experiences qualify them to be of assistance to you, and who try to guide you through life to help you fulfill the purposes for which you are living.

An important consequence of the existence of these guardians is that it implies that every person can receive communications from spirits. Why would people have spirit guides if they couldn't be guided? If spirit guides can influence you, how do they do it? Usually, your guardians don't appear and talk to you face to face, so they must influence you through your mind.

Spirit guides don't force us to follow their advice. Some people are so attached to their own ideas, desires, and ego that they are unwilling to consider anything that contradicts their attachments. In these cases people can ignore guidance but that doesn't mean that they are not receiving it.

Most of the time you perceive guidance as an idea that comes to your mind but you don't recognize that it is from outside yourself. However it is sometimes possible to learn to recognize these communications and to improve your receptivity:

To learn to do this, try this exercise every day at the same time of day:

Sit down with the intention of writing about important issues or questions in your life or issues or questions of spirituality that you have an interest in. These are the types of topics that spirit guides try to help you with. One would expect that they would try to guide your thinking as you write about these subjects whether or not you are intentionally trying to communicate with them. Begin with a short prayer asking God to watch over you, protect you, and guide you. The Lord's Prayer is excellent for this purpose. Then start writing, on paper or at a keyboard. Continue for twenty minutes or so. Do not practice more than an hour a day.

The changes that will occur in your experience of this will occur over a time period measured in years. Do not expect astounding results immediately. Do not do anything suggested by this writing that you would not do under ordinary circumstances. Do not get carried away and consider every idea that comes into your head a divine revelation making you infallible. If you like what is written and it makes obvious sense then accept it at face value. If you disagree with it then reject it.

As you write try to maintain a detached state of mind. Don't judge what you write while you are writing it. You can judge it later when you are done. Resistance or doubt interferes with your receptivity. Just write whatever comes. Accept silly stuff you think you might be making up - remember you are looking for gradual changes over a period of years so in the beginning don't expect profundity or expertise. Also, the communication may come in the form of ideas not a series of words, in this case it is your own mind that puts the ideas into words, so there may be a very good reason why it might seem like the writing is coming from your own mind. The important point is to maintain a receptive / meditative state of mind so that you and your guides can gradually build a rapport. It takes time.

Sometimes you may start off with something that seems silly but as you go on it winds around to something profound. If nothing comes to mind then sit and meditate until thoughts begin to arise. Don't put pressure on yourself to perform. If you really don't like what is coming through then don't write it.

If you do this practice daily over a period of years you may gradually become more aware of when you are being guided. It is possible that rather than sensing a presence, you may just notice subtle changes in the characteristics of the style or mechanics of writing that indicate you are being influenced. Even if you don't notice anything different, you may find that what you write is useful and meaningful to you so that you may continue this practice for that reason alone. It is important that your intentions be pure and that you do this because you desire to know more clearly the divine plan so that you may be able to play an appropriate part in it. If you look inside yourself and see that your motives are purely for amusement or to attain power then you should not do it.

Related Reading

• • You can find links to more articles on communicating with spirits on my blog post How to Communicate with Spirits. That post discusses how to communicate with recently departed loved ones, easy techniques for communicating with your spirit guides, and techniques developing a general ability to communicate with spirits.

  • Learning Their Language by Marta Williams. Check the index for "automatic writing". This book is about communicating with animals but the instructions for automatic writing are applicable.

  • Light From The Spirit World by C. Hammond http://www.spiritwritings.com/SpiritWorldHammond.pdf

  • Rebecca Rosen http://www.rebeccarosen.com/howitallbegan.html

  • The Seven Purposes by Margaret Cameron http://www.spiritwritings.com/sevenpurposes.pdf