How Can I Communicate With My Guides?
The first way you can contact your guides is to speak with them vocally, out loud. I know, I know it sounds goofy and all, but that's the best way for them to hear you. Sure you can "talk in your head" to the guides, but there's more of an effect if you say it out loud. Ask for them to show up in meditation. If you ask your guides to show up, they will. Don't be too hard on yourself if they don't appear right away. It took me weeks of begging before mine showed up and reciprocated contact. How do you hear them? Well, the idea is simple, but not easy.

You DO have to be tuned in, keep your personal thoughts quiet and LISTEN carefully. Some guides will come across as a "thought" and others will be like speaking to another human being. They will connect with you in a way in which you'll understand. Mine sound like my own voice, just with a lower tone. Some guides will sound different. Mine happen to say a lot of sarcastic things so I KNOW it's not me. When I do readings for other people, they sound a bit different and usually use words I've never used myself. Our guides also talk to us in dreams/day dreams, on the road and in our "gut". Basically, they never shut up it just depends on how tuned in you are and how much you desire to communicate with them.

Testing Your Guides
When communicating with your guides it’s always best to set Law and Order. Basically this means that you can dictate HOW your guides come through to you. If you want them to speak to you in a specific tone or look a certain way, this can be done. Your guides do not want you frightened by their presence and love the fact you’re opening up the doors of communication with them. Spirits communicate best via electricity. I’ve seen and her so many accounts of spirits coming through by messing around with phone lines, television sets and house lights. When I first started communication with my guides, I’d do silly things like ask them to wake me up at a specific time or tell a friend to call me. I remember asking my guide Eric to wake me up at 8:00 pm if I fell asleep during meditation.

I swear on my life I DID end up sleeping and some time later, my phone rang. I answered it and nobody was on the other end. I looked at the clock and saw 8:01 pm. A few weeks later, I went into my daily meditation, forgetting there was a TV show I wanted to watch. I was so engrossed in what I was seeing that I forgot all about it. 5 minutes before the show began my phone rang and my friend Jessica was on the line. She called just to tell me this show was on and she thought I should watch it. I hadn’t spoken to her in about a week and she had NO WAY of knowing I was interested in that particular show. Things that make you go HMMM.

I think my guides like TV the best for getting their messages across to me. I have a digital cable box and I always leave it on before I go to bed. I had channel 55 on. The next day I went about my routine and at 9am, I heard Eric say, "turn on the TV". I went over to find the channel was on 7. I could’ve swore I didn’t change that last night! I turned on the television to a show I’d never get caught watching. 6 minutes into it, the host was telling a story and slap me silly, but it was a clear sign and an answer to one of my most pressing issues. Again, things that make you go HMMM. Interesting that my message had to come from channel 7. 7 levels to heaven. How ironic.

Warnings
Though guides can’t stop a tragedy from occurring, they can warn us by giving us signs or physically make us aware. Depending on the velocity of the event, a guide may not be the spirit who sends the warning. When it comes to saving us from exit points, guides don’t have a thing to do with it, Guardian Angels do. Here’s an example of a Spirit Guide warning: My God-mother Susie and her husband Tommy were on the couch watching TV when they fell asleep. Susie was a smoker at the time and had fallen asleep while her cigarette was still lit. Not long after that, Tommy felt a hand shaking his shoulder and heard a clear, "wake up"! He jumped up, startled to see his wife catching fire. Needless to say Susie stopped her smoking.

Prayer and Spirit
Your Spirit Guides and any other entity can NOT hear your prayers to God. Prayer is the only sole and sacred form of communication we have to him here on Earth and it would be an invasion of our privacy. Everything said in prayer is between you and God only. Please also remember that we do not pray to our Spirit Guides. We can ask for assistance and thank them for guiding us, but we never worship them as we would our Father.

Have A Great Relationship With Your Guides
There are so many different ways Spirit Guides come through for us. I’ve learned so many things and have written so many articles from channeling them. They help us understand what it is we’re working toward and help keep us on track. If you listen closely, you’ll even be able to communicate with them as though they’re your best friend. In times when you’re feeling alone and lost, rest assured your guides are always there when you need them. TRUST IS THE KEY.

Don’t expect your guides to fix your problems though. They are NOT allowed to step in the way of your free will. When you ask, they’ll give sound and accurate advice, but they won’t be able to magically transform a situation from bad to brilliant. Their job is to help you along the path, not make your decisions and clean up the mess you’ve left in previous lives. In order to have a sound relationship with them, keep an open mind and take their advice when given. They’re like your mother; they’re usually right and have your best interest at heart.