Message on Connecting to Higher Self and Guides

My significant other has been reading and doing the exercises from "Opening to Channel." He has had some good experiences, but also he has felt some frustration at not being able to connect with his guides the way he wants. He asked me to channel on the best way for him to connect with his guides.

Welcome. We wish to honor this connection with you. We are delighted to respond to your inquiry. We wish for you to begin communicating with your higher self first and then with your guides. This is a crucial step that enables the strengthening of spiritual connection. If you would be so kind as to begin by making a regular practice of meditation, any form that you wish will assist you in becoming familiar with these realms. It can be a simple daily practice. It need not be complicated, for the intention is half the battle. When you make the intention to connect with your higher self every day and you follow through with some sort of action, you are automatically strengthening that connection. It is rather simple, isn’t it?

This is the groundwork for the connection to your guides. First you want to make a pathway, a pure and protected pathway for your guides to communicate with you through. So this will be how it begins. If you wish, you can simply close your eyes and think of your higher self, or create some sort of imagery or sensory perception. Whether it be through words or images or sensations, the effect is the same. It is an arbitrary process. It only matters that you have the intention and you create an action that you consistently follow through with. This is how to strengthen the higher self connection.

The more you think about your higher self and wonder what your higher self thinks or how your higher self acts and behaves, the more you become your higher self. It can be something you do on your down time. When you are traveling or waiting for something, you can simply think about your higher self or wonder what your higher self would be doing, how it would be expressing itself if you were your higher self. Wondering about it is calling it to you. Thinking about it, writing about it, meditating with the idea of connecting to it – all of this is part of establishing this connection.

When you are in a meditative state, it doesn’t really matter what you experience. It is still successful. If you go into a meditative state with the purpose of connecting to your higher self, you have successfully connected. Whether or not you are aware of it or have any amazing insights, it still works. So trust this and let this be your first step. It is a crucial step. Just through taking this step daily and on a consistent basis, you will grow a lot spiritually.

It is important, if one is to connect to the higher realms, to keep that person’s energy system in a high and loving place as much as you can. Now we are not saying that you need to be an enlightened being or even a highly spiritual being in order to connect with your guides, but it will assist you greatly in this process if you are able to stay in the most loving state available to you. For, if we carry our worries and fears, it can be hard at those times to connect to this higher state. This higher state, nonetheless, is always available to you. So the more you practice being in it, the more natural and easily available this connection will be.

We hope that you are willing to make this small effort. For, in fact, your guides are there with you all the time, even though you are not able to always see or feel or sense them. Don’t doubt their love for you and their support of you. Even when things don’t seem to be going the way you intended them to go, don’t doubt that the universe is always supporting your highest good. Don’t allow your fears to block your true nature, your true knowingness of the perfection and universal order. It is always there. It is always available to everyone. All that is needed is some practice on how to be able to sense this perfection and love and beauty that is always right underneath the surface.

We recommend just starting this way, just making this connection to your higher self. The word “just” is not meant to diminish this action whatsoever, for this is in fact, a very big action to make the connection to the higher self. There is no one best way to connect to the higher self. Don’t discount the way that you work best. There is no need to fit yourself into another’s mold. This is not to say that you will not develop your gifts more and more over the time that you practice and develop this connection. Of course you will. Of course many more ways of connecting and communicating will be possible and available for you.

However, it is important to work with what you have in this moment and not to discount all that you have achieved to get to this point. For, in fact, you have made great strides just in the past few years. So rather than focusing on the gaps between where you are and where you want to be, take a moment to look back and reflect upon how far you have come and how exciting it is to be exactly where you are - exactly at the perfect point of your growth and development. We hope you will see yourself the way that we see you, as a bright shining light that is beginning to surface and become even brighter. It is like a flower bud that is blossoming. What an amazing and very natural sight. It is humbling even to be present to witness such an event.

Have we answered your question to your satisfaction? For we most sincerely want to assist you in this process. (Yes.)

Then we most humbly ask that if you have any more questions in the future, please call upon us again. For we work in conjunction with your guides and your higher self. Yet we also know and trust that you will be getting many more messages from your higher self in the near future. You will receive these as insights and as dreams and sometimes as messages through other people. So be open to all of the ways that messages can come. Sometimes you may have a sudden desire to read something from a specific book or you may find a website that you are drawn to. Don’t discount these as ways that you are communicating and connecting with your higher self. It is a very multi-layered, multi-dimensional process of communication.

We wish you a lovely day and we give you our blessings.