Want to know more about what Angels and Spirit Guides are? This article gives you an introduction how each group of Spirit can help you in life.
Spirit guides are those souls who have passed over and have come back to help us from spirit’s all-seeing perspective.
People often have grandparents or relatives as guides. Though, guides are not limited to people we know. We may have a guide who has chosen to help us for a specific reason. For example, to share a particular skill or knowledge they developed during their lifetimes, or to protect us in a way that will ensure we reach our goal in this particular incarnation.
The concept of Guardian Angels is also very pervasive in wider understandings of the guidance and protection available to us. There are also the Archangels, Angels of Healing and many other groups who are said to assist us in some way.
My understanding is that guides and angels come from the same source. They are all souls, created by, from and through God (just as we are), who have chosen to guide us - the souls currently living an incarnation.
Angels are called this because it implies that they have a greater power and work with greater depth than those we refer to as our ‘Spirit Guides’. That is, ‘angels’ are those souls who have evolved further in their knowledge of the unlimited nature of life and, therefore, have a far greater power than a soul who has had less incarnations, or experience.
The concept of an angel, to my mind, is that every guide is ‘angelic’ because of their very existence and desire to help others on their life path. However, the higher source of energy that the ‘angels’ bring us works more quickly and more powerfully, than the energy of a guide who has not acquired the full understanding of life and its unlimited nature.
The soul, or energy, known as the Archangel Michael, will work quickly because the knowledge and understanding (which translates into powerful assistance) has been developed over a much greater period of time. That is, compared to someone who was born only a couple of generations before us and is still on their path to remembering what the purpose of life is.
(By the way, I’m told the purpose of life is to find your way back to the understanding of who and what God really is… how you go about that, and the form it takes, it your own Soul Journey)
God is everything – everything is created with the God energy. Therefore, the very soul that you are is made up of the energy of God. Your purpose, then, is to remember this by creating the experiences which will allow you to gain this understanding – that you are God, in essence.
That is, you are created of the same energy that God is and, therefore, have the unlimited potential of this energy. Obviously, life experience to this point may not have allowed you to realize this. This knowledge - of the very essence of life being God, and therefore, unlimited - has been unavailable to many people.
This is why we have greater assistance at our fingertips – there is much wider knowledge about Spirituality, energy, quantum physics, God without religion and Angels now available to us. We all have the right to understand just who we are and how our universe works.
By calling on our guides or the angels we are putting forward an intention to heal or change and to create more satisfying experiences. We are allowing ourselves to access a higher source of energy which, in turn, allows previously unseen doors to open more quickly and with greater effect.
Every person has guides. No-one is without the protection, support and guidance of someone who has gone before us. By opening up to this guidance, we are allowing a greater knowledge and greater power to come into our life.
There are a number of ways that our guides are able to assist – to name a few:
Our guides are able to bring us the information needed in a way that we will understand. Opening the door to their help is as simple as giving our guides permission to assist in all situations. Being aware, however, that it is up to us to follow advice and notice the signs they are giving providing!
By giving our guides permission to assist, we are also stating our intent to open the door to change and healing. This in itself is a vital step as what we give out we draw back to us. If we focus on healing, changing or moving ahead, we will be more open to receiving the tools which will help us to do this.
One way to begin this journey with Spirit is to sit with pen and paper in front of you. Begin writing a list of the changes you’d like to see in your life. You might like to add any dreams or desires that you hold for yourself and your friends or family. You can also speak openly about the frustrations that may be holding you back from putting life into the perspective you’d like it to take.
At the end, simply write ‘thank you’ – put the list aside and keep an eye out for opportunities, thoughts or people who come into your path!
If you do want to develop a strong relationships with your Guides, it’s also helpful to read as much as possible about developing intuition and opening your psychic-eye.