How Spirit Makes Itself Known; 10 Ways Spirit Tries to Connect

Those are fair questions and ones that for a long time I had trouble understanding myself. However, I learned that while it’s fairly easy to discover spirit’s presence, several things need to happen to let them come through fully. 

First and foremost, we must be open to the very existence of spirit, otherwise we’ll never be able to interact with them. Know that spirit eagerly wants to communicate with us in some way (mental, physical, etc.) to let us know they’re still here.

However, universal law stipulates spirit cannot interfere with our free will, so they’re not going to be overly active with us. Instead they’ll be so understated and low key that they seem hidden to us.

Just think of when your gut instinct is telling you to bring that umbrella because you sense there might be a chance of rain…but you usually ignore it and you get soaked later (happens to me more times than I care to think of). Or perhaps you’re driving down the highway and you get the feeling that for some reason you should move over to the next lane…but you ignore it and, because the car in front of you suddenly stops, you slam into it.

Are these instances just sheer chance, coincidence and timing, or is there something more happening behind the scenes?

These are perfect examples of spirit softly nudging you and making itself and its information known, but only if you WANT to accept it. It’s sort of like a very soft-spoken advisor in spirit giving you information to do with what you want. Mmm, “spirit” + “advisor”….sounds like a spirit guide doesn’t it? Or maybe it’s a loved one in spirit trying to impart some wisdom somehow.

Either way, when spirit tries to get a message to us, it’s always in such hushed tones and in hidden methods, that we don’t normally recognize it as such. Yet that’s just how spirit works—so softly that we must proactively search for it to understand it and see it. But once we understand this, that’s why I answer “yes” to the question, can anyone contact spirit?

Second, our state of mind enables us to be receptive to spirit and thus be able to hear it, feel it and know it. We must be calm, peaceful, and positive and carry a loving disposition (at the very least to ourselves and hopefully to others). We must be in a receptive state.

You might ask, “How can I possibly be in a more loving and receptive state with all the horrible things going on in the world these days and all the difficulties in my life?” My response to that question is: MEDITATION.

Take calm, peaceful walks in nature (helps ground yourself), listen to soft, soothing music (“music soothes the savage beast”), listen to guided meditations, take yoga classes, go to meditation studios, and take care of your body and mind. These are all examples of how to calm down that tense and negatively biased mind of ours so that we can allow ourselves to create a loving mind.

Universal law also states that Like Attracts Like. Spirit is love, and if we’re loving, we can attract more loving spirit into our life and simultaneously become more aware of sprit all around us. 

Perhaps you haven’t been able to achieve that calm, loving state of being (we can’t all be like Buddha). How can spirit get through to you then? If spirit has a compelling reason why they want to get your attention, then they can certainly do so.

However, most of the time spirit makes itself known, you probably brushed it off as something else. Below is a list of potential experiences you may have had when spirit was trying to get your attention.

1. Have you ever felt inexplicable tingling sensations/goosebumps or cold/warm pockets of air on your body (arms, shoulders, legs, etc.) when the room isn’t cold or hot?
2. Has your digital clock ever displayed unique numerical series repeatedly (11:11; 12:12; 1:11, etc.)? 
3. Have you ever just “felt” an energy or presence but can’t figure it out?
4. Has your dog ever barked incessantly at something (at waist level) in the house, but you don’t see anything? 
5. Have you ever heard your name or heard a sound and turned to look, but no one was there? 
6. Have you ever seen a flash of light out of the corner of your eye and turned to see what it was, but no one was there?
7. Have the lights (or one lamp) in your home flickered on and off in an unusual way or better even been turned on and off (it’s not just faulty wiring)?
8. Have you received a call on your cellphone from a number with all 0’s (or it shows your loved ones’ phone number) and no one was on the line (electronics; sprit loves that)? Perhaps the phone often rings, but only rings once.
9. Has an item in any room moved by itself without explanation (don’t use the excuse of the house settling)? 
10. Has a book ever fallen off a shelf without explanation (whether live or before you got home)? 

These are just a few examples of spirit making itself known in a very noticeable way…even if you weren’t looking for it. You don’t have to be an experienced medium to contact spirit, for they are often connecting with us in surprising ways.

Just because a loved one may not be with us in the physical doesn’t mean they’re not with us at all. That’s why I always say, death is not goodbye.

As was written well over 2,000 years ago in the Bhagavad Gita, “The spirit is beyond destruction. No one can bring an end to the spirit which is everlasting.”