First Time Connecting to My Spirit Guides

  • May 7, 2010 5:08 pm

As a professional psychic reader, and an accomplished witch, who has written numerous articles, offered support and advice to thousands of spiritual seekers, and runs a metaphysical mail order business, surely I am proficient at meditation, right? Not even close. Meditation had always been a struggle for me. I had trouble with: clearing my mind, sitting still, keeping my eyes closed, not worrying about how much time has passed, surrendering control, holding the vision, the list goes on and on. If you have experienced any of this, and I think you have, I want to share an incredible experience with you.

April 9, 2010 I was sitting in my office at the Center for the New Age in Sedona Arizona cruising websites on my laptop. It all started with a You Tube tarot video that caught my eye. I watched a couple tarot videos (tarot is my passion after all!) and then saw a Reiki video of interest. After watching a couple Reiki videos I wondered what to look at next, and in my head I heard “guided meditation.” Searching “guided meditation” I came up with a plethora of results. I’ve tried guided meditations before. In fact, I even bought one here at the Center about a year before establishing my office here, at the recommendation of Jamie, my aura reader. Although I find the meditations quite soothing, I never experienced what they seemed to imply I would. So how do I choose one from this extensive list? As I have been actively pursuing an increase in consciousness, the obvious choice was by intuition. So I sat quietly, starring at the meditations on my screen. Trusting in myself and my intuition, I easily selected one by Lilou Mace. Seating myself in a comfortable chair, I pressed play on the meditation video and closed my eyes.

This guided meditation started out as expected. A short explanation, counting you down in your consciousness, then creating the visualization. As I was being counted down I could feel myself going into a deep state of consciousness, similar to what I achieve (at a lighter level obviously) while connecting psychically. The visualization (of the guided meditation I used) begins with imagining yourself in a crowded room, finding a door to a quiet room, and settling into a comfortable chair. After you are counted down to a deep level you step into a beach scene. I decided to really experience this as I haven’t been to a beach in years, and as a Pisces this is unacceptable lol! I could feel the breeze on my skin, smell the salt in the air, feel the sand between my toes. I got really into it!

Next the meditation instructs you to see a path, and see the light at the end of that path. As the light gets closer, you begin to see your guide solidify from that light. This is the key moment… go time! This is the moment you need to truly surrender. I, admittedly, have some control issues, therefore, not an easy thing for me. I guess somehow I was just ready. I realized I had to let go, or nothing would happen. And I did. I surrendered completely to the vision and allowed it to continue on its own. And that’s when it happened. I saw her, my spirit guide!

She was walking down the path toward me, the warmest smile on her face. At first she was a little fuzzy, but she started to come in much clearer the closer she got. Her hair was just past her shoulders, big, thick, golden waves. Her skin was smooth and luminescent. She wore a white outfit which made me think of a toga. I searched google images trying to find an example, and couldn’t really find one that matched, but I believe it was some sort of toga. It was white, gathered to emphasize the bust line, flowing, with a gold colored cord at the waist. As she came toward me, I noticed a guy directly behind her. He kept blinking in and out like bad tv reception, and eventually disappeared all together. I was later told (by a psychically inclined client no less!) that his name is Ethos. I did not get to speak to him then or since, however, a fellow psychic intuited that I don’t need him yet and will connect with him some time on or after July 22nd of this year.

As my guide approached I asked her name, to which she replied “Athena.” It wasn’t until after the meditation was over that I made the connection between the manner of dress and the name. I have not yet been able to confirm whether my guide Athena is the same Athena from Greek legends, but I suspect I already know the answer to that. The goddess Athena is known as a warrior goddess, a defender, and as a teacher. Good thing I didn’t think to be star-struck at the time or it may have pulled me out of the vision!! I asked Athena if I have lived before, and was told that I have lived many many times, usually deeply involved with religion and/or spirituality. When asked how many spirit guides I have, she replied 17! This seemed like a large number to me, so I was quite astounded. Although the guided meditation track I was using only lasted a total of 8 minutes, it felt like I was under for far longer. Unfortunately, I didn’t record my experiences in a journal or post at the time. It was one of those moments which felt as if I could never forget, but already much has faded. The entire experience had a dream-like quality to it, although I am certain that I was not in fact asleep. And as dreams do, details have flitted away.

I have used this meditation several more times, usually with some degree of success. The second time I used it nothing happened. The third time I saw the guy (presumably Ethos,) but he was faint and did not communicate with me. The fourth time I connected with Athena again, and to bottom right of my vision was a beautiful Egyptian woman, but she did not speak. The fifth time I saw the Egyptian woman again, this time solo, but her words were faint. The sixth time I again connected with Athena, strongly as before, and was told that my purpose is to “learn and to teach.” My seventh attempt yielded nothing. And on the eighth attempt I was finally able to connect with the Egyptian woman, but we will save that story for another day :)

I feel I have learned some valuable lessons from these experiences, and I hope that my experiences are a source of guidance, hope and inspiration to others. Here are a few tips I feel may help. Please remember, these are from my own experience and my own perception. You may experience something completely different, and that is perfectly alright.

  1. Just because you can’t remember the last time you psychically “saw” something does not mean it is impossible. I think the last time, prior to this experience, that I “saw” a spirit, entity, guide, etc, was when I was about 11 years old. I was frieghtened, thought I was nuts, and promptly stopped “seeing.”
  2. You are unlikely to have a vision if you resist or try to control the experience. I think this was my block all along.
  3. Visions (at least for me) are not cinema quality. Don’t expect a Hollywood movie to play behind your eyelids. The texture and quality of the scene matched that of my own visualizations. The difference is that I felt this take off on its own, I knew that I was no longer fully in control, and I felt the truth of the experience.
  4. Hearing guides (in my experience so far) sounds very much like a thought. My visions, sadly, do not come in dolby digital! There are two things that distinguished this from a thought (a.) the answers would begin before I was finished asking the question (b.) The end of the words would seem to cut off, like when you have a bad cell phone connection. I think these are both things one learns to overlook as time progresses and the interaction is experienced multiple times.
  5. Pause the meditation track once you connect with your guide if you think you can do so without bringing yourself out of the meditative state. This gives you more time to connect with your guide and receive more guidance.
  6. If you don’t see something the first time, don’t panic. It may take practice. My husband didn’t see anything the first time, and my daughter only saw a ball of light. Neither of them got audio on their first try. Work on your skills of surrender, and try again another day.
  7. Trust yourself. As I said earlier, much of the experience is similar to a thought. So how do you know that you are experiencing something instead of just making something up, imagining, etc? Trust & intuition.

Let’s be honest, if you have any experience in the paranormal you know that feeling of “Have I lost my marbles?” Don’t give into this self doubt. If you trust and listen, you will feel how effortlessly the information comes. If you were imagining and creating, it wouldn’t be that effortless. It would require thought. Yet if you ask your guide a question, the answer is (in my experience) instantaneous. So unless you have the answers to all of life’s questions on the tip of your tongue, it’s not coming from you lol!

{sidebar} As I am writing this my right thigh is all tingly. Waves of tingles. I wonder what that means? {end sidebar}

Guided meditation can be just what you need. It will help you relax, connect with yourself, connect with your guides and intuition, learn to hear your inner voice, and even provide concrete answers to necessary questions. Find one you resonate with and practice,practice, practice!

I will be sharing more experiences in the future. Until then, please post your own stories in the comments below as I would love to hear them!

Love and blessings,

~Anyanka

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