Soft Spirituality

In this post we’ll journey into our mind’s eye to meet a spirit guide. We will set the intention that whatever comes through for you feel safe, comfortable, reassuring, and is exactly what you need in this moment. If at anytime you feel unsafe, uncomfortable, or want to leave the journey you are safe to do so. You are in complete control of your experience and can shift or stop the journey at anytime.

What is a Spirit Guide?

Before we meet your spirit guide, let’s chat about what a spirit guide is. The answer will likely vary from person to person but my definition and experience with spirit guides are that they are any being that we can connect with in the spirit realm. There are so many types of guides available to connect with you and who are waiting to connect with you. There are guides that will walk with us for a short time, as well as guides who will stay with us our entire life. They’re here to inspire you, calm you, guide you, push you, and surround you with love and acceptance.

Meet Your Spirit Guide

As you read this journey to meet your guide, you will allow yourself to go into your mind’s eye, but you know what you experience in this journey is safe, comfortable, and exactly what you need in this moment…

Imagine you’re walking slowly down a path through a forest. You feel the grass on the bottom of your feet with each step. The pathway is soft from the feet that have walked the path before you. You hear the birds in the trees all around you and you feel a soft warm breeze. You feel calm, safe, and comfortable as you continue down this path.

You continue walking as you begin to see a clearing opening at the end of the path ahead. The clearing is surrounded by trees but the sun still shines down and fills the clearing with a warm golden light. You notice someone in the center waiting for you with a kind, safe smile. You walk closer to them.

They take your hands and you begin to look them over. You take note of their face, their aura, how you feel in their presence…you have never felt more safe and held than in this moment with them. You smile back at them and ask their name. They tell you it and whatever name came through (or even if no name came through) you trust it.

Your guide then shows you a symbol that the two of you will use to build your connection. When you see this symbol, you’ll remember your guide and how supported you are by them. They are here to help you. You send gratitude to them for presenting the symbol.

You ask your guide how they want to work with you…when they respond you trust their response and it feels safe in your body. You stand with them a bit longer, taking in their presence, learning how they make you feel, leaning into the security their presence provides you and the confidence and reassurance they give you that you are on the right path and nothing could ever take you off of it. You believe them.

You then take one more look at their face and remember all that you have learned with your guide during this meeting. You take in the clearing that’s filled with the golden light. You and your guide thank each other for meeting together at last.

You turn back to the path that you came from and begin walking back into the forest. You begin to notice the soft grass again meeting the bottom of your foot on each step. Before you enter the forest again, you turn back towards the clearing and see your guide standing there watching you, and you can feel the love and support they are sending you through each step forward you take. You smile at each other once more and then enter the forest again.

With each step in the forest you start to feel yourself leave the place in your mind’s eye and begin returning to the place you are sitting in this physical reality. You remember all you were told and all that you felt during this journey to meet your guide.

You have returned to your body, refreshed, grateful, and inspired to continue on.

How to Continue to Work with Your Spirit Guide

Now that you’ve met your guide, you might want to take some time and journal about the experience. If you haven’t already started a spirit guide journal or a spiritual journal, now might be a perfect time to do so.

Some of the things you could write about are:

1. What was your guide’s name

2. What symbol did they show you?

3. How do they want to work with you? (for me, this was normally meditation, through tarot, through acknowledgement, through my intuition, etc)

4. How did they look?

5. How did you feel when you were around them?

6. What questions do you want to ask them next time you meet?

Some other things you could do with your guides, I like to call ‘spirit guide games,’ is get playful with them and lightly ask for them to play back with you.

Spirit Guide Games could look like:

1. Ask for guidance in music – Put a playlist on shuffle and focus elsewhere so you’re not hyper-focusing on each word

2. Ask to see a sign – Ask to see a physical sign (butterflies, a certain flower, etc.) and be open to it coming to you in an unexpected way.

3. Ask to see a particular number – Angel numbers, birth days, numbers with special meaning. Ask your guides to send you numbers throughout the day.

4. Ask to see their name – If you already know your spirit guides name, ask them to send you reminders throughout the day and send their name to you. Be open to how you receive this.

5. Ask to feel their presence – If you feel comfortable, ask to physically feel their presence. You might feel goosebumps or just a knowing that they’re there with you.

6. Channeled Writing – Open your journal with the intention to connect with a guide. Place your pen/pencil on the paper and let your hand guide your writing. Here’s 18 questions you can ask your spirit guides to help get you started.