The Ultimate Guide To Meet Your Spirit Guides

How To Meet Your Spirit Guides

So you want to meet your spirit guides but not sure where to start?

You are in the right place. I am a Spirit Medium and have been connecting with my spirit guides and helping others in contacting their spirit guides and loved ones my whole life. Over my many years connecting with my own Guides, I have mastered easy tools and guided meditations to support you in not only finding your spirit guides but also specific ways to effectively communicate with them.

Learn how to watch for synchronicities and receive answers to your life questions about health, love, children, finances, career, partnership and more. Receive helpful and healing guidance to connect with your spirit guides while sleeping or seeing animal spirit guides in nature.

The Ultimate Guide to Meet Your Spirit Guides is filled with tips, tools and simple meditations on:

• Experiencing messages in dreams
• Following synchronicities
• Shifting awareness from the mundane ordinary reality into the magical non-ordinary realm of reality.
• Hearing and understanding your guides
• Speaking to your spirit guides
• Finding and identifying your spirit animals
• Invoking Goddess Quan Yin
• Meditations and prayers for calling in your spirit guides
• Practices for interpreting messages

We all have spirit guides by our side just waiting to communicate with us, answer our questions and guide us on our path. Here’s your step by step guide to begin your journey today to connect with your very own ancestors, loved ones, allies and angels. I am honored to share with you what has worked on my path in building a strong two-way channel of communication with my spirit guides. I see the same for you.

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Guided Meditation To Connect With Spirit Guides 

Here are 4 simple steps to cultivate a clear meditative state and an open channel of communication.

1) Close your eyes turning your gaze inward to heighten your awareness of the mind/body/spirit axis.

2) Center your awareness on your senses. What are you hearing, smelling, seeing, tasting feeling?

3) Breathe slow and smooth, expanding your awareness beyond your senses, becoming aware of the currents, channels and energy frequencies moving through your inner and outer environment.

4) Listen deeply with child-like wonder and observe the subtle stream of intelligence, signs, symbols and messages moving through you, informing your mind, sensory perception of your body and your intuitive sense/sacred imagination. What do you notice? Are the signs streaming through informing an inquiry or decision you have been holding? Perhaps an insight is coming to you from the messages, signs, symbols received.

Become aware of entering this meditative bridge between your everyday ordinary reality and the novel non-ordinary reality of seeing, hearing and understanding the messages from your helping and healing spirit guides.

It’s really as simple as settling the currents of your body and setting the aperture of your perception to include the subtle dimensions of information streaming through your heightened awareness.

Each time you enter this meditative state, you are choosing to open the channel of communication with your spirit guides, you are essentially opening the pathway to receive instant answers to your life inquiries and clear guidance on your health, healing, happiness and more. You can learn to connect to your spirit guide instantaneously with the simple guided meditation below.

Understanding Messages From Spirit Guides

There are many ways our guides try to communicate with us. Understanding and interpreting your spirit guide messages is an important piece to receiving the personal information being shared with you.

Often times, we notice these signs of communication that capture our attention but we just don’t realize they are messages from our helping and healing spirit guides or power animals. We go about our day of ordinary reality without stopping to tune in to the messages coming through for us.

Once you begin opening the channel of communication with your spirit guides, there are a variety of ways you may notice your guides trying to communicate with you. Here are a few ways you can understand and identify messages from your spirit guide.

• You have a felt sense or a deep knowing that what you are hearing or feeling is a message from another intelligence other than your ordinary reality of thoughts and sensations
• Repeat numbers, words, phrases, symbols or locations showing up in your awareness
• Noticing spirit guides that come across your path in nature like hummingbird spirit guide, deer, fox or white eagle spirit guide
• Seeing shamanic power animals and receiving spirit guide messages in journeys or dreams from animals not in your everyday reality, like a dragon spirit guide
• Hearing or feeling messages while in the shower or submerged in a body of water
• Seeing images of animal spirits, answers to your questions or stories from ancestor spirit guides in the clouds
• Realizing a new answer to your inquiry pops into your mind out of nowhere or you have new clarity/insight around a situation you have been debating
• Noticing a book falling off a bookshelf suddenly at your feet, a flash of light out of nowhere or a new trail in nature pulling at your curiosity

Need Support with a 1:1 Spirit Guide Activation Session? Hear what others are saying and learn more about what you can expect from a private session to connect with your guides in a SpiritDivination Reading with Shanti. Receive guidance from your helping and healing spirits and ask your life questions about career, partnership, love, finances and more.

Meet Your Spirit Guide In A Dream

Another very accessible channel of communication to connect with spirit guides while sleeping is through an intentional dreamworld.

You can simply enter the meditative state through the 4 steps above and make this earnest request just before falling asleep,

“Great Spirit, thank you for connecting me with my power animals, ancestors and spirit guides wanting to support my highest good. Thank you for guiding me to meet a compassionate spirit guide of the highest truth in a dream tonight. Thank you for sending me a sign. I am open to seeing, hearing and sensing the signs, symbols and messages from connecting with my spirit guide while sleeping.”

Have a spirit guide dream notebook or journal by your bed. Immediately upon awaking, write down any words, phrases, stories, messages or draw any signs or symbols that came through in your dream world. Try not to filter the information you are remembering, simply free write what is streaming through your memory from your dreamworld. You may want to call in spirit guide Archangel Gabriel to bring you messages in your dreams and combine this request with a spirit guide prayer and the sleep meditation below.

Spirit Guide Prayer of Gratitude and Protection

A spirit guide prayer of gratitude is another instant way you can connect with your spirit guides and ask for messages, signs and symbols.

After an opening prayer, you can directly channel your spirit guides, write a letter or speak directly to your guides. Here is a proven recipe for creating your own gratitude spirit guide protection prayer.

1. Begin with a statement of gratitude. Here’s one you can use- “Thank you compassionate spirit guides for showing me what I need to know. I am grateful for your messages leading me in the right direction for my highest good.”
2. Make a list for what you are calling in or clearly ask your question about career, love, health, etc. “Thank you for revealing solutions to my health concerns.” or “How can I improve my health?”
3. End with a statement of protection before listening deeply and sensing all the messages streaming through for you. “I am divinely protected and blessed by my helping and healing spirit guides leading me to my highest truth. I am open to receiving answers to my questions and guidance on my path. Thank you.”

Getting Support – Meeting Your Spirit Guide

Sometimes we need support in meeting and connecting with our power animals and spirit guides. Often times we need practice in fine-tuning clear questions to receive guidance as we begin to communicate with and see our spirit guides.

I would love to continue to support you in connecting with your guides. Keep in touch with me at the form below to receive free wellness tips and be the first to know about new spirit guide meditations and upcoming events and retreats.

Spirit Guide Meditations

Whether you are writing a letter to your loved one who has passed, enjoying a shamanic journey to connect with your animal spirit guide or invoking a goddess guide during a ritual, the key is to settle and center your energy around your heart wisdom while cultivating a meditative organoleptic state to create a clear two-way channel of communication with your guides. Here are some examples of meditations you can use.

Breathe and Be a Tree

You can enjoy imagining your favorite Tree or enhance this meditation by sitting with Tree as your spirit guide.
1) Begin by centering your awareness around the current of your breath rising and falling . What is its texture? Is it fast or slow, smooth or jagged? Without judgement, accept and allow becoming aware of your natural breath.

2) Exhale completely out rounded lips for a count of 6-8

3) Inhale slow and smooth through your nose for 6-8 counts. Repeat this breathing pattern.

4) Become aware of how trees also breathe and your connection to a favorite tree. Imagine, feel or sense your lungs as the trees of your body. With each inhale become aware of your body expanding like limbs on a tree as you consciously receive your breath. With each exhale, become aware of your stable and strong trunk as you gently and completely release the breath out of your body. Repeat for several rounds of breath.

5) Become aware of the current of sensations arising through your body and any thought streams flowing through your head. Accept, without judgement or attachment, whatever is arising, as the observer of the moment. Direct your attention and intention to the currents of awareness moving through you. Allow for an experience of self-realization.

6) Repeat to yourself or out loud, “I wonder what Tree wants to share with me as my Guide.”, as you continue this conscious breathing pattern and open your awareness to signs, symbols and messages coming through the currents of the moment.

7) When you feel complete with this meditation, take a moment to reflect and remember with gratitude the insights that came through for you. Perhaps take some notes.

Calling in Your Spirit Guide

Early morning before we get out of bed is a powerful time to not only reflect upon the messages and signs from our spirit guides while sleeping but also to create a daily pattern, or ritual, beginning our day with a simple embodied practice to call in our power animal or spirit guide to support us with our day.

Immediately upon awaking, use the spirit guide prayer above combined with the 4 steps to a clear meditative state to set your intention and protection for your day. You can ask a clear question, ask for guidance or simply say, “I call in my spirit guides to show me what I need to know for my day. I wonder what you will share with me. Thank you for your guidance.” Listen and sense the signs and symbols streaming through the moment, and throughout your day, as messages for what you need to know from your spirit guides.

Repeat this morning ritual of calling in your spirit guide each morning before getting out of bed for at least 7 days. Take note of what you notice as you invoke the support of your spirit guides.

Reading Our Own Heart Meditation

Reading our own heart is a powerful practice to enter the channel to connect and communicate with our spirit guides.

This simple and sacred 5-minute guided meditation to meet and connect with spirit guides is my go-to before Spirit Medium readings to support a client in preparing to communicate with their own spirit guides.

1. Place your hands on your heart. Listen for and feel your very own heartbeat. You may wish to tap or rub your heart to settle into the energy around your heart.
2. Center your full attention on your heart. Notice sensations, emotions, tensions and even memories arising through the moment. If you notice your mind wander, simply bring your full awareness back to your heart underneath your hands.
3. Direct slow smooth inhales through your nose to your heart sensing the warmth of your full attention on your very own heart as you receive each breath. Exhale slowly out rounded lips allowing your full attention to remain on your heart. 
4. As you continue focusing your full attention on your heart, notice any sensations, feelings, memories or emotions arising in your awareness, as you direct each breath to nourish your heart. Simply be witness to reading the stream of intelligence flowing through your heart . Allow the current of information to move through you rather than following a story and feeling as if something has happened to you.
5. When you feel open and clearly connected with your heart, you can continue the practice by asking a clear question to your spirit guides for divination. For some examples: “How can I live in my power more fully?” or “What lesson am I needing to understand to let go of the pain of my past?” or “Where in my life do I need to focus my energy?” or perhaps “How can I forgive the past to live fully in peace now?”
6. Listen to and watch for signs, symbols and messages as you read all that arises in answer to your inquiry. Continue placing your full attention and breath on your heart as you read the sensory information streaming through while noticing any sacred symbols or messages coming to you.
7. Complete your practice by humming down into your heart a tone of deep gratitude for what was shared with you. You may wish to journal about your heart reading for reflection and insights.

Sleep Meditation to Connect With Your Spirit Guide

This simple sleep meditation can prepare us to connect with our spirit guide while we enter our dreamworld. As you close your eyes to enter your dreamworld, repeat this earnest request and affirmation mentioned above:

“Great Spirit, thank you for connecting me with my power animals, ancestors and spirit guides wanting to support my highest good. Thank you for guiding me to meet a compassionate spirit guide of the highest truth in a dream tonight. Thank you for sending me a sign. I am open to seeing, hearing and sensing the signs, symbols and messages from connecting with my spirit guide while sleeping.”

After silently stating this request and affirming your permission, try this gentle sleep meditation to connect with your spirit guide.

Use your sacred imagination to become aware of your physical body dissolving into space. You can image your body floating through the cosmos or perhaps drifting amongst clouds in a soft blue sky. Become aware of the density of the earth element completely leaving your body. Imagine or see all the earth and water of your body dissolving – blood, bones, muscles, cranium and organs – dissolving into space.

Become aware of the levity you feel in your body and sense yourself as an empty illuminating clear vessel of light swirling around the air element of your breath. Notice your luminosity and lightness as you drift off to sleep and open to the messages, insights and guidance streaming through your being from your dreamworld.

Meditation To Find Your Spirit Animal

Another effective tool you can use in finding your spirit animal is entering a shamanic journey to meet your spirit animal. This practice is best done with a trained Shamanic practitioner. You can also self-guide a journey to find your spirit animal.

You will need a blindfold, a journal and a drum recording at 220 beats per minute to attain a shamanic trance to enter the journey.

Put on a 7-20 minute shamanic drum track and find a comfortable place to sit or lay down with your blindfold on. Focus your awareness on your slow smooth breathing. State the intention of your journey silently to yourself. For example, “I intend to find my spirit animal and ask this question…”

Use your sacred imagination to travel down through the middle world into the lower world. Perhaps you begin your journey imagining the base of your favorite tree and you travel down the roots and through a doorway into the lower world. Or maybe you go down through a hot spring in the ground.

Take note of how you enter your journey as you will want to exit along the same path back to the middle world when your shamanic journey is complete. When you hear the drum call you back, you can choose to take your animal spirit guide with you. Take notes after your journey to capture any answers and insights.

Become aware of which animal spirit guides connect with you and what messages come through on your journey? What did your spirit guides share in response to your question or intention?

Connecting with an experienced Shamanic Healer as your guide for a journey with live drumming is always advised if possible but this short example is a safe way you can explore finding your shamanic power animals. You may receive different messages from your animal spirit guides or be greeted by the same spirit animals with each shamanic journey.

Shifting Your Perception

You may have already noticed by experiencing some of these tools, you are choosing to shift from your habitual perception of ordinary daily reality to a novel panoramic synesthesia of your non-ordinary reality by opening your mind and using your sensory perception to gather information, signs and messages through your heart (intuition)/brain (intelligence)/gut (instinct) axis. To learn more and enjoy a potent and simple practice using the super power of your breath , visit our blog Build Resilience and Restore Wellbeing Breath by Breath .

Types Of Spirit Guides

So how do know when we come across a spirit guide?

There are so many kinds of spirit guides: Animals, Ancestors, Dragon spirit guides, Angels like Archangel Gabriel and Goddesses like Quan Yin. Here are some examples of types of spirit guides for you to identify. Remember, we all have spirit guides. Which ones have crossed your path and feel true to you?

1) Animal Spirit Guides

Many animal spirit guides we can explore while out in nature like deer, snowy owl or white eagle spirit guide, ladybug, hawk or raven spirit guide. While some animal spirit guides and shamanic power animals do not exist in ordinary reality but connect with us in non-ordinary reality – like dragon spirit guides. Some household pets are considered animal spirit guides like black or white cats, llamas and dogs. Past pets can even be spiritual guardian animals by our side as spirit guides for health and wellbeing.

2) Goddess Spirit Guides

You can invoke certain Goddess Spirit Guides to bless you with certain aspects like compassion from Kuan (or Quan) Yin spirit guide, courage from Mary Magdalene, wisdom from Goddess Athena or love from Mother Mary spirit guide.

Here is a short spirit guide prayer you can use to invoke the loving compassion and guidance of Kuan Yin. If you have a statue or image, that can support you in receiving the loving guidance from this goddess spirit guide:

“Spirit Guide Kuan Yin. Thank you for your blessings of compassion and unconditional love. I call upon you now. Please offer me clear signs and messages to follow in helping me to find the answers to my questions and guidance on my path. So be it.”

3) Angel Spirit Guides

Angel spirit guides are some of the most common spirit guides. They are often experienced in the form of guardian angels or archangel spirit guides. Archangel Gabriel is a spirit guide and divine messenger who helps us to remember our power and the connection to the divine within us. He is often seen with peace lilies, trumpet, harp or scrolls. Gabriel often uses music to pass on messages from our spirit guides and offers us guidance through our dreams. You can call upon him just as you begin the sleep meditation to meet your spirit guide shared above.

Coming soon!

Stay tuned by checking back here for links to my online journey to communicate with your spirit guides launching in 2023, as well as these upcoming video meditations:

1. Meet your ancestor spirit guides
2. Connect with your archangels
3. Use your plant spirit guides for plant spirit healing and plant medicine guidance

Keep in touch with me to learn about upcoming events and to receive free wellness blogs.

Spirit Guide Reading

We all have spirit guides to meet.

Now that you have some of the tips and tools I have mastered after a lifetime of connecting and working with my spirit guides, I hope you will take some time to apply these simple steps and enjoy the meditations to connect with your spirit guides.

Each of us have spirit guides and power animal guides. We just need to open the portal and begin a pathway of communication to receive connection and guidance.

What does happens in a SpiritDivination reading?

Some call me a psychic spirit guide, or spirit animal medium, during my SpiritDivination readings when receiving answers to their life questions or guidance from a spirit animal. I have been connecting and communicating with my spirit guides on a daily basis for as long as I can remember. I want to support you in learning how to meet and communicate with your ancestors, spirit guides and animal spirits.

You will receive immediate answers and learn proven tools to connect to your spirit guides just waiting to work with you from other realms and dimensions. No prior experience is necessary.

With the use of oracle cards, sacred ceremony, crystals, embodied practices and the tools of Shamanic Divination, we fine tune our questions based on the information and guidance you are wishing to receive. By communing with our combined Council of Spirit Guides, we receive answers to your heartfelt questions, while supporting you on your journey with specific guidance in healing from past traumas, resolving generational family patterns, releasing ancestral influences.

Here’s what people are sharing after a SpiritDivination reading:

“All I can say is thank you so much. My life was changed forever with our reading.”

“Wow, it was crazy how much came through in our reading. It was like a switch had been turned on deep inside of me. I am still in clear contact with my guide and feel so grateful to you.”

“Thank you! Knowing I have the power to connect to my guides gives me peace of mind. I now know I’m not alone.”

“I had no idea what to expect from a spirit reading with you but I am so happy I came in to see you. Your insight into my past for healing was so helpful. And thank you for connecting to your guides to answer my questions about my next career steps and future partnerships. I will be back again, thank you Shanti.”

“Shanti is a beautiful being, radiating love, wisdom, compassion and insight. I feel so fortunate that we have crossed paths. As a psychologist who believes strongly in the power of psychotherapy to help heal, I will tell you that Shanti will give you another perspective on your healing and awakening journey that is unique and powerful.”

“I did not know what to expect when I was gifted a reading with Spirit Guide Medium Shanti. The reading was overwhelming in that Shanti touched my soul and the effects have continued on until today. Shanti is so intuitive and also sweet and kind, I felt like I was wrapped up in my grandmother’s arms. I’m thankful I received this reading and recommend Shanti to everyone that is open to receive her gifts of self care and wellness, with a touch of magic!”

“I’ve had a healing from Shanti and she was accurate about everything. She is a spirit guide medium and incorporates sound healing that is amazing. Shanti also offers wellness retreats at Starhouse and they are amazing as well!”

I warmly invite you to join me on the journey to meet your ancestors and spirit guides. To schedule a private Spirit Medium Spirit medium divination reading or Shamanic journey with Shanti online or in person to meet and connect with your angels, ancestors and spirit guides click the button below. Receive instant insights and valuable guidance.

Shanti has spent a lifetime connecting with her helping and healing spirit guides while supporting others in communicating with their compassionate guides. Her Spirit Medium readings offer insights, answers and deep connection to spirit guides and power animals. She has been gathering women together in sacred circles of celebration and leading transformational retreats for over 20 years. Her Stirring the Shakti sisterhood retreats and events inspire women to transform the mundane into magic, celebrate the simply sacred, empower true nature, and fuel the fire of purpose and passion.  Learn more about Shanti’s upcoming events here in Boulder, CO and around the globe at: Gatherings + Retreats

She founded her Body Current® modality as a bridge between ancient wisdom and modern neuroscience. Much of Shanti’s inherent wisdom in regulating the nervous system was imprinted as a young child living through her own trauma. Her own healing has inspired the root of her unique approach in coaching women’s wellness and wholeness as well as training elite athletes and top business professionals.

She enjoys sharing her intuitive Spirit Medium readings and connecting others to their Spirit Guides while receiving answers to questions and insights to life transitions. She weaves her certifications in Yoga Therapy, Plant Medicine Clinical Herbalism and advanced trainings in Medical Zang Fu Gong Qigong, Wuji Hunan Qigong, Brain Training and Shamanic Healing with her Body Current vagal nerve stimulation protocols and self-realization practices to ignite the primordial wisdom for healing and transformation. She has facilitated her Body Current curriculum in a variety of 500HR Yoga Teacher Trainings and as faculty at Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health as well as the Neurosculpting Institute’s and StarHouse Sacred Arts certification program. To connect with Shanti and to find out about her global events, international retreats and private sessions visit www.EnergizeShanti.com 

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