Spirit Guides are truly universal. The Pew Foundation reported that 72% of Americans believe in angels and guides. This is a much higher percentage than Americans who believe in any world religion, because angels are fundamental to most of the world’s major religions. We find them in Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Mormonism and many other spiritual traditions.
St.Augustine, an authority on Angels, said, “Make friends with angels.” He recommended that we make personal relationships with our Spirit Guides and Angels, and that we let our relationships with them deepen, much as we would with any important, intimate relationship. Asking a Spirit guide for help is one of our most powerful spiritual practices. We can ask the Guides for immediate help at any time and in any place.
Here are some techniques that will help:
1) Ask for help – Spirit Guides offer us help 24/7. The more receptive we are, the more help they can give us. If you diminish your receptivity you limit the guides ability to help you. Create your own invocations, or prayers, that specically call for the help you need. Realize that when you call upon a guide, what really happens is that you open yourself into greater receptivity to their assistance. When asking for help, it’s important to realize yourself as fully worthy of angelic assistance. Spirit guides work with everyone regardless of personal histories and beliefs. They are innite and omnipresent, your request does not diminish them in any way, nor does it affect their ability to help the rest of us at the same time. They exist beyond our experience of time and space and respond to everyone with complete unconditional love.
2) Connect with your inner divine child as you call upon the Guides and ask for help. Your inner divine child is whole, innocent and true and recognizes guides as trustworthy gifts of the Creator. This will help create openness, receptivity, excitement, eagerness and wonder as you prepare to receive the gift your guides have prepared for you.
3) Hand everything over to the angels when you ask for their help; every issue, problem, worry and fear as well as every good intention and positive outcome you imagine as the result of your request. Release all expectations of how your request will be answered.
4) Express Appreciation and Gratitude. Find and express genuine appreciation and gratitude for things exactly as they are. If you are struggling with this, ask the guides to help you to find the love that is present in whatever difficulty you are facing. Have patience with this and let go of any expectation of how this love may be revealed to you.
5) Know that it is done. Every request is answered and help is always given. If you fear that your request will not be answered, then also ask for help in understanding. Trust that you will see the love in every answered prayer. You are known completely and loved unconditionally by the angels and nothing that will serve you is ever withheld from you.
6) Act quickly on the guidance you receive. Accept the opportunity and act upon it immediately. Angelic help is innite and unlimited, you can not use it up or run out of it. You cannot ask for “too much” and the guides are joyously happy to give to you without limit. The faster you act, the faster you receive more assistance!
7) Celebrate yourself exactly as you are in the moment. Leave any critical judgments or negative feelings about yourself, your life, or others in the hands of the angels for healing. Even if it is just for a few moments, let go of everything that is not of love for yourself and everything around you. In this moment of surrender much more can be done for you by the angels than you can accomplish on your own. Thank yourself and the angels for deepening the relationship between you.
Hopefully these helpful steps will help you connect more deeply with your Spirit Guides for help and assistance. Remember, Guides will be at your side with every step you take today. They are always with us and are eager to help.