What Are Spirit Guides; Does Everybody Have Them?

I find that more people are beginning to look for answers outside themselves, and they’re not finding them in organized religion. As spirituality seems to become a more accepted practice, and more people are looking for a “personalized” relationship with a higher power(s), reaching out to the non-physical world is becoming more attractive to more people.

As a result, I’m getting more questions like “What are spirit guides?” “Are there different types of spirit guides?” “Does everybody have a spirit guide?” and “How can I connect to my spirit guides?” 

So let’s jump in.

What Are Spirit Guides?

Spirit guides are highly evolved souls who’ve lived many many lifetimes in the physical, from many hundreds to thousands. To say the least, spirit guides are very experienced in what it’s like to be a human! This tremendous experience comes in handy, as they’ve seen it all and done it all. Think of them like your kindly wise old grandfather who's been around the block…A LOT!

However, it’s not just their tremendous experience that differentiates them. Spirit guides also get extensive amounts of training from higher level guides. There’s definitely a hierarchy of guides based on experience and consequent expertise. The highest teach the level below them, and so forth. By the time you get to your guide, you’re dealing with many, many levels of superior wisdom, knowledge and expertise that your guide brings to you.

Spirit guides have a vested interest in your spiritual growth. Not only is this their job, for which they’ve been trained, spirit guides grow as you grow. The more evolved you become, the more evolved your guide becomes. Thus it’s a win-win situation for both you and your guides. Though your main guide may be with you over multiple lifetimes, if you evolve substantially, you may find yourself working with an even higher level guide.

Different Types of Guides

There are multiple types of guides. You have 2 groups, or bands, of guides that work with you, so you’re clearly not alone. You have your “Inner Band” of guides (often between 5-7 guides) who are the ones who stay with you and interact with you most of the time. You also have an “Outer Band” of guides, or specialty guides, who act like sub-contractors who you can call on as needed for specialty projects or needs. Below are the most common guides that you’d encounter in the Inner Band.

Master Guides

Your Master Guide is the manager or director of your spirit team. This is the guide you will see most frequently. Its role is to direct the rest of your spirit team and act as your go-to person. It heads up your team and has been involved in many of your incarnations. Your Master Guide is usually a member of your soul family. The Master Guide teaches you soul lessons and inspires you to fulfill your destiny and is often your Teacher Guide.

Gatekeeper Guides

Your Gatekeeper Guide is the bouncer of your spirit team. Its role is to keep you safe. This guide offers physical and psychic protection to all spirit communicators, allowing only higher vibrational energies and the most appropriate spirits to work with you. The Gatekeeper also ensures that spirits don’t crowd you and only approach you one at a time.

The Gatekeeper is strong in manner and character and often has a large, strong etheric body to match. It is often of indigenous heritage to wherever you live or of your ancestry. While often human in appearance, it can also appear as a larger animal such as an elephant, panther, or wolf. You call on the Gatekeeper when you need strength, courage, and bravery … or to have with you all the time as a spiritual protector to watch over you.

Message Bearer (Messenger) Guides

The Message Bearer Guide assists you in finding and obtaining information; improving your ability to get, hear, and deliver messages from the spirit world; and in developing clairaudient or clairvoyant skills. Many psychics, mediums, and those who work in the Akashic Records use Message Bearer Guides during readings and for the information they provide to others. While Message Bearer Guides are usually humans, they can appear in the form of a bird, usually a hawk or eagle, because of their ability to travel great distances in a short amount of time to obtain information quickly and swiftly with little detection, which can be quite helpful.

Healing Guides

Your Healing Guide helps you with your spiritual, emotional, and physical health. This is the medic of your spirit team. This guide is responsible for healing your energy field and chakras, as well as teaching you how to heal yourself and others. They are excellent guides for anyone working in a healing profession such as energy healing or surgery. However, you may connect with a Healing Guide to improve your well-being. These guides were often healers in their time on earth, and often appear as ancient monks, Old-World shamans, and spiritual healers on the other side.

Teacher Guides

Your Teacher Guide helps you with your spiritual growth. The Teacher Guide assists with your soul’s growth, teaching you things related to the life lessons you are here to learn. It directs you to books you need to read and classes you need to take, and it introduces you to new and necessary physical teachers here on earth. Teacher Guides assist you in understanding the philosophical and spiritual aspects of any studies you undertake while on earth. Teacher Guides help you learn your lessons through action.

Joy Guides

Typically your Joy Guide is an uplifting source of energy that tries to boost your spirits when you’re feeling glum or just sort of ho-hum. It helps you enjoy your physical life and bring opportunities in your path that help bring feelings of happiness and love.

Joy Guides more often than not appear to you as a young child (often a little girl), symbolizing youthful energy, innocence, happiness, joy (obviously), fun, and bubbly effervescence. Imagine all the traits of a happy young child, and that is your Joy Guide wrapped into a package. Think of Tinker Bell, Peter Pan, or any other young, happy fantasy character, and you begin to understand what a Joy Guide can do. I find one of the most important guides in everyone’s life is probably a Joy Guide.

Doctor (Philosophy) Guides

Philosophy Guides often provide great wisdom and insight into more profound subjects, including your purpose, the meaning of life, creation, explanation for higher level activities and thinking and often great writings and poetry. Doctor of Philosophy Guides were often professors or renowned thinkers of their time and seek to share their knowledge and thought process with those in the physical.

Chemist Guides

Your Chemist Guide is an important member of your team. This guide works with your energy and the chemical composition of your different subtle energy bodies. A Chemist Guide often works together with a Healing Guide to help restore the etheric and energetic bodies back to proper health. They act in much the same way as a pharmacist and a physician in the physical plane work together.

Does Everybody Have Guides?

Short answer, yes. While many people may not even be aware of their guides, whether they’re heavily focused on their material endeavors or they have limited belief systems, everyone does have spirit guides who are by their side trying to work with them. However, since it’s a universal law that spirit cannot interfere with our free will, unless we invite our guides to become more heavily involved in our lives, they may have limited influence. 

As we become more spiritually evolved, however, our guides with whom we interact may change depending on your growth and your energy you give off. If your spiritual growth has been quite profound and your vibration has increased dramatically, you may find yourself working with a higher level guide who can serve you more appropriately. There must always be an energetic match between you and your guide.

Always know that your guides are here to help you, and if you reach out to them, they will offer their help. Many people want to see or hear from their guides, but they will only show themselves when they feel you’re ready. So if you don’t become aware of your guides initially, don’t worry, it’s just a matter of time.

Next week, we’ll discuss how you can CONNECT with your guides.

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