Transcript: How To Communicate With Your Spirit Guides

How To Communicate With Your Spirit Guides

Whitney (00:00)

You know, communication is a two-way street but when it comes to our spirit guides, we tend to just go around saying, help me, help me. Why aren’t you there? Why aren’t you talking to me? So today, let’s get into communicating with your spirit guides.

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Welcome to Spiritual and Ambitious. I’m your host, Whitney McNeil. I’m a certified medium and spiritual teacher, and I help spiritual and ambitious souls just like you live your life purpose through your career and attract abundance by connecting into your intuition and spirit guide. Let’s get spiritual and ambitious.

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Before we get started today, I would love for you to connect with me over on Instagram and I would absolutely love a review of this podcast, and of course, if you found value and you’re a listener, I would love a five star review and what we’re gonna be doing is we’re gonna be giving away prizes. So you can go to messengerofspirit.com/podcast review for all the details. Okay, let’s get into this. So communicating with your spirit guides. How do you do that? Now if you are brand new, you might wanna listen to the episode before this first. You can also go to messengerofspirit.com/seven and you know now that you’ve listened to that episode, what, who spirit guides are. So how do you talk to them? So one of the biggest misconceptions that I see with people who haven’t worked with me before is, can I just talk to my spirit guides anytime or aren’t they just sitting around doing nothing, waiting for me to talk to them? Well, the answer is no. They’re not sitting around and the answer is it’s better to talk to them at a more scheduled time than just any time, and here’s why.

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When we set out a time to talk to our spirit guides, we put that as a priority and your spirit guides start organizing the things that they have for you and also their day based on your meetings, so it’s important that they have time with you and also it’s important that you schedule that time with them too. So the first thing is talking to them is more important than not talking to them. So if you are like, I’m not a meeting kind of person, just talk to your spirit guides because when you do, they understand that you’re ready and you’re willing to say yes to opportunities that they’re going going to create but it’s always nice to set a time, a scheduled meeting just like you would for someone that you highly respect on the Earth plane. So for instance, sometimes I’ll tell my friends, I don’t know, just call me whenever and if I’m not there, I’ll call you back. Sometimes we can treat our spirit guides like that if we have other things to do or if we don’t really have anything specific to say but when you make an effort, when you are like, ooh, I really wanna talk to this person or I’m so excited. You’ll say, hey, what time is it best for me to call? So if we could apply that strategy to talking to our spirit guides, that’s gonna be really helpful in improving our communication for several reasons. Now, one reason is that your guides know that you’re really ready to hear them and to communicate with them at that time and they’re gonna show up for you when you show up for them.

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Another reason, it’s helpful though, when you set aside that time, you are basically saying, whatever is coming through during this meeting and during this time is only coming in from my spirit guides and my intuition. So you’re essentially creating the sacred time to talk to your spirit guides which is beautiful and wonderful and also, it kind of tricks your mind too, to be like, hey, whatever thoughts you’ve got, you can just take a back seat, whatever’s coming through, this is just my spirit guides. Also, you start to learn the difference of how it feels, and sounds, and what you see, and what you know during this special time because I get a lot of, how do I know the difference between what my mind is making up versus what my spirit guides are telling me or what my intuition is saying? So if you can create this sacred time and you’ve devoted it that whatever’s coming through is from your guides, it also helps you recognize what it is like to get an intuitive message.

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So you set the parameters and you’ve also set up this consistency too. So you get this consistency of, oh, I get what that feels like and when you set consistency, you also are creating this pattern that this is important to you. You’re creating this pattern with your guides and you’re essentially building, in air quotes, your intuitive muscle. So if you are someone that just sits around all day and doesn’t exercise and you decide to say, I’m gonna go run a marathon, mmm, dunno how far you’re gonna get with that, right? You just dunno how far we’re gonna get with that. So consistency, you probably train right a little bit more each day or a little bit slower, just one foot in front of the other, same with your spirit guides and your intuition. The more that you make this a priority, the more that you’re going to see the results.

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So it’s really important of why to set aside this time. Also, it helps you to say all the things so that if you weren’t having meetings, you might just randomly remember things. Oh, yeah, and then you just start talking to your guides in the middle of the day which isn’t very organized. It doesn’t lead to the best communication and also, there’s two parts to communication too. You gotta listen. You gotta get their messages. And if you’re randomly talking to them while you’re shopping for your groceries and they’re supposed to give you the messages right then, you are gonna question that message to death seriously. You’re gonna be like, was that a message? I don’t know. I was thinking about the broccoli. Oh, wait a minute, look at those apples on sale. Oh, okay, yes. I got a yes for my new client. I mean, you need to really have some time to allow your mind to become clear.

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Clearing the mind is really, really important. So creating a space during your day every day would be helpful. So one of the questions I get is, well, when do I do this? Choose something that works for you. You can do this before you go to bed. When you wake up in the middle of the day, attach it to after your workout or after you are brushing your teeth or after you eat lunch, whatever it is. Just find something that works for you. Now, if you have set up this schedule to talk with your guides and you forgot about it, or you’re traveling on a plane at that time or whatever, just talk to your guides. It’s more important to talk to them than not. So meetings, what do you say? Like what happens when you’re there? You’re in this meeting. If you’re talking to your guides, sounds easy but what’s the structure like?

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So one of the things that you can do is when you have this meeting, I always like to start out my meeting with an affirmation. It’s like an intention. It’s an intention to align all of your energy bodies, right? You have a physical body, an emotional body, a mental body, a spiritual body and when you say these affirmations, it all align. So if you’re brand new to affirmations, an example, that’s a negative example would be if you said, you’re stupid. Oh, I’m stupid, ha ha, ha. A lot of times people might say that when they’re joking or they feel kind of embarrassed, huh, so stupid, and they’re laughing. But the more you say it, the easier it is to say it. The more your mental body believes it, the more you feel frustrated and then you feel like you can’t ever get anything right? When you say, you know, I’m so confident or I’m so smart.

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The more you say that, the easier it is to say it and you attach it to a positive emotion and you believe in yourself that you can do anything, so that’s just a quick example of why affirmations work. So not only are you saying, hey, this is my intention and I’m aligning my bodies, but you’re also putting this blanket statement out to the universe. So your vibrations matching it and you attract what you’re putting out, but you’re also talking to your spirit guides and it’s kind of like a mission statement for what’s going on. All right? This is what I know I have to help Whitney with. This is what I have to help you with. When you’re doing the meetings, your guides know, and it also has this kind of effect like, I’m ready. I’m ready for the meeting. So your guides know, all right, it’s time to get our meeting started and they start coming around a bit more.

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That’s how I start out my meeting and then I’d like to say, hey, wanna talk to my personal guides and teachers? And I say, thank you. Thank you for giving me the hunch yesterday about this. Thank you for doing this. So if you know of a specific intuitive hunch that you got, name it. If you don’t, you could just say, thanks for being here. Thank you for being around, thank you for caring about me, for helping me learn and grow and then set your intention of what you would like help with or what you’re asking for. So you can say, thank you so much. You know, I would love to receive more information about X, Y, Z, and state what it is that you need and then you can always say, what can I do better to understand that? So thank you, here’s my intention.

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What can I do? It’s really nice to have that flow back and forth between your guides. A lot of times we end up demanding things. I just want you to help me with this. I need you to do this. Oh my gosh, like can you imagine if you had somebody every day, like a personal assistant that you never said thank you to? You never really paid the person, you never even acknowledged the person until you needed something. I need you to do this. In a way, it kind of reminds me of the parent child relationship a little bit but it’s important to appreciate and see what you’re doing in this part of the relationship. So if you ever wanna think about relationships, if you’ve ever been to counseling or seen a therapist and you know that communication goes both ways, both people have to make the effort, right? So it’s really important to do that. Now I’m telling you what to say, but you might be wondering, do I just say it out loud? Do I say it? Like how do I actually say it? So I’m gonna tell you all about that when we come back from this break.

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Thanks for listening. Okay, let’s talk about how you actually say things to your guides. So you’ve got your meetings scheduled, right? And you’ve said your affirmation, you’ve also welcomed your guides. You’ve said thank you. You’ve also said your intention and then you’ve also said, how else can I do it? Like, tell me what I can do to further improve this relationship, or further manifest my goals, or further align to my purpose.

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You can say this out loud, just like you’re hearing me speak. Literally, saying it out loud. Now you might feel uncomfortable with it and that’s okay. I just talk to my guides out loud all the time and I’ll say to my husband, hey, I’m talking to my spirit guides. Now, when I say all the time, I wanna preface it with at the times that I need to with my meeting but my husband will often walk in and say, who are you talking to? I’m talking to my guides and sometimes I’m in the car and I wanna talk to my guides, and I say, I’m gonna go talk to my guides. But if that is not possible, what you can do is just really intend after you’ve quieted your mind and ask it with your inner reading voice with the intention, they pick it up.

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That’s important. So if you were to just think about it, just as you think about the grocery list, it is not gonna get to them. That is not how spirit operates. This is not how spirit works. So if you’re just saying, oh, gotta get the dinner, gotta go, oh, I’m hungry, you know, oh, I’ve gotta go pick up the dog. Yeah. So my guides, I’d like for you to do this. Oh, I got, they’re not going to get the memo. They’re not gonna get that difference in energy. So it’s gonna be really important for you to talk, but do it in your inner reading voice with the intention that they pick it up. So you need to be sending out the signal, basically, is what I’m saying. So when you’re sending out the signal, they pick it up. It’s like this, oh, we’ve got a conversation.

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We’ve got a message from Whitney today, so that’s how it is. It’s you’re giving them permission to basically read your thoughts. Now, they do not read your thoughts. This is another question I get. They will not do that because you’re an ethical person, if you’re listening to this podcast, at least I hope you are. So that means that you have ethical spirit guides and they’re not going to just peer in on all your thoughts. But also, could you imagine the cluster that that would be if they tried. You’re thinking like a zillion things. I know you’re probably up at night and thinking about all the things or you get up at 3:00 AM and you think about all the things, like that would be horrendous to try to pick through all of that nonsense that we have to be like, oh, this is important. This is, this is what they meant for me.

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So those are ways that you can talk to your spirit guides. Now, if you want too, you could also write it out, but if you write it, do so with reading it or do so with the intention that you’re saying it with the intention that they get it. Writing can, for some people, add a little bit more oomph to their messages, just because they’re literally manifesting it out loud. They’re putting it into a physical form, so up to you but no matter if you choose to write or not, it’s out loud or with inner reading voice with the intention they pick it up. That inner reading voice with the intention they pick it up is called intuitive thought. So I’ll say, you can talk to them with intuitive thoughts. When you have communicated with them, there’s a part of the communication that you’re gonna wanna receive which is their answers.

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So here’s the deal, clear your mind. I know if you’ve taken Intuition Abundance Academy with me or Four Intuitive Languages, you know, I have a whole module on clearing the mind. Why do we clear our mind? We have to clear our mind because if we don’t, how in the hell is the message gonna get through, right? Seriously, it’s like you’re creating a force field. If you don’t clear your mind, it’s like the message comes in and bounces off or tries to get through the force field and you don’t know because you’re thinking about the groceries. So when your mind is completely clear, that means you’re just allowing yourself to receive. You’re not producing any thought. You’re not thinking it’s, I’m gonna allow my mind to rest. This, I promise you, is the easiest and the hardest step. Sounds like a contradiction because it is.

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Seriously, there’s really no energy that happens. You just let go but letting go is so freaking hard for spiritual, ambitious souls. You’re thinking about your business, you’re thinking about your purpose. You’re thinking about all the people that you need to help. Yep, this is what happens and then we start second guessing ourselves. So clearing the mind is super, super important. So how do we do it? Well, I teach a ton of ways inside of my programs, but I’ll give you a little sneak peek right now. So one of the ways that you can clear your mind is imagine a chalkboard if those things still even exist anymore. I don’t know. And you can imagine that you’re taking a eraser and you’re moving your hand up and down, and you’re hearing the eraser on the chalkboard. You’re visualizing and seeing the chalkboard being completely clear. You feel it, you know it.

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You just allow or you could just see white light and imagine that the right and the left sides of your energy go to the right and the left and it forms a tunnel, and just let those messages come in, allowing those messages to just come in, so it’s clearing the mind. So what ends up happening is people get obsessed with this. I’m clearing my mind every five seconds. I, I, oh, a thought came in. So I encourage you to practice clearing your mind and you can do this in smaller intervals and then gradually go up and give yourself permission. So I say to give yourself permission to let your mind go. Promise yourself that you’re gonna worry about all the things later and write it down if you want to write down all the things. Normally what happens is when we clear the mind, we have this backed up cue of stuff that we needed to talk about or we needed to think about.

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So it’s like, huh, I’m finally gonna rest, oh, sh*t this is popping in, uh, oh, this is coming in too. All right. That’s what happens, whether you’re trying to take a nap, or you’re trying to leg down, or you are trying to clear your mind. When we’re in the shower, it happens a lot too, a lot of these backed up things. So the more consistent you can be in clearing your mind, the more those backed up things go away and the easier it is for you, so clearing the mind is gonna be important. And then you receive spirit’s answers, when I say spirit, I’m talking about your spirit guides in this scenario, through your intuitive language, through your seeing, through your hearing, through your feeling, or through your knowing, or you might even smell or taste the message. Sounds really weird, but go back to episode one if you need to.

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You can always take the free quiz to help you determine your intuitive language too. That is the recipe for communicating with your guides. So you’re carving out time, right? You’re not doing it any old time. You’re carving out time. You are allowing yourself to set your intention, saying out loud or saying it with the intuitive thought. You are welcoming your guides. You are asking or thanking them, setting your intention, and then asking and then you’re clearing your mind and receiving the answer. Now, another way you can do this is just a back and forth. So you set your meeting, you set your intention, and then you ask a question. So you could say, thank you. Here’s my intention. What can I do about this scenario in my work? And then be specific. Clear your mind. Get the answer. Okay, now I wanna know about this health thing.

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Could you tell me if X, Y, Z is the right answer, or A, B, or C, or, give me more insight? Whatever your question is, clear your mind. Get the answer. You can do it that way too. I have students that do it both ways and whatever’s most comfortable. Now, let’s say that you asked a question and you get nothing. I get it. There’s a couple things. Go back to see if you’ve cleared your mind. Also, it can be that you’re blocking the answer cuz you’re not ready to receive it. This is something that happens where, especially with relationships or jobs or, or things that you’re just really attached to the outcome. I’ve seen this a lot with those two topics where it’s like, I really don’t wanna lose my job or I really don’t wanna change relationships and they’re just not ready for the answer.

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Or even if you’re single and there’s a relationship coming, your ego might say you want it, but on a deep level, you’re not ready for it, or even saying you wanna start your business forever, but you’re scared to death to leave your job or being let go. So we, the ego can perceive these things as being negative when in fact they’re not negative. They’re actually positive, like, hey, we’ve got this great opportunity for you. We’re so excited you’re gonna be starting your business. It’s gonna be amazing and our ego goes, oh, sh*t that means I’m gonna stop my, you know, like not working anymore. How am I gonna get this income together? Blah, blah, blah. Spirit helps you take care of the details and let’s see it as a positive message so make sure that you’re ready to really receive whatever it is and then if you’re really not getting anything and you really feel like you’re doing it all right. One, maybe your intuitive language has changed. Your intuitive language can shift.

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Maybe you’re used to seeing and you’re expecting. Now, if you find yourself expecting how the message is gonna come through, that means your mind’s gotten in the way and you need to clear it again, so you can clear your mind as many times as you would like to. However, let’s not use that as something that we do all the time. Let’s just set our intention to clear our mind and let it go cuz when you get in that hamster wheel of clearing the mind, clearing the mind, clearing the mind, that kind of is almost in a way going to knock you out of that, that place of receiving cuz you’re constantly in a cycle. So making sure that your mind is indeed clear, is it going to be important? Has your intuitive language changed? Don’t expect how it’s gonna come in. Now, another reason that you might not get an answer is because Spirit doesn’t have all the details yet and they can’t give it to you.

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Maybe they think it’s not for your highest good to know the answer just yet. Normally, if there is an answer and you’re getting answers for all the other things except this one thing. I always say like, wait three days because spirit will usually start to put together a plan or investigate a little further within the three days. So those are some things that you can do to communicate with your spirit guides and I think it’s really important to do that. Okay, if you would like to learn more about ways to communicate with your guides and have a workbook and have a class, I’ve got a free one for you. You can go to messengerofspirit.com/freeclass. It’s easy as that. Go to messengerofspirit.com/free class and there you go. Thanks for listening to this episode and I will see you in the next one. Here’s to staying Spiritual and Ambitious.

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