Connecting With Your Guides

In this talk, El discusses how to begin developing a relationship and communicate with your spirit guides. They mention how to notice synchronicities and signs as well as work on clearing blocks to meet your guides. This talk was recorded live on Insight Timer June 24, 2022

Transcript

So today I will be discussing what is a spirit guide or any guide and how do we communicate with them and what is that process like and just kind of getting into different things that I've channeled and asked my guides what I should share.

I am very excited to be here and talk about this because it's something that a lot of people talk about but I don't hear a lot of people really taking the time to discuss it and answering questions.

I more so see people just say things here and there and then they have a meditation where it's a guided meditation to meet your spirit guides which I do highly recommend doing if you are interested in getting that connection.

When connecting to our guides people always make it seem like it's a really big deal,

Like it needs to be this crazy spiritual experience that is life changing and it can be a big deal and it's true that it can be really hard and really frustrating to do especially at the beginning.

The relationship that we have with our guides is something that is unique to every single person my relationship is not going to look like your relationship.

I mean there may be similarities between our relationships with our guides but everybody has their own relationship and you may have one guide,

Two,

Three,

Four,

Five,

You know the number doesn't matter but most people do have multiple guides and I believe that anybody here,

Anybody listening to this live talk being uploaded later and anybody listening here live,

If you are here you are meant to connect with your guides in this lifetime.

This is a relationship that you are destined to learn how to communicate with and if you're trying to learn how to connect to your guides you know I believe if you're here like this is this is a sign that just taking the step is enough to show not only yourself and your subconscious but to show your guides you know I'm serious about this I do want to have this relationship,

I do want to be able to communicate and connect and for some of you here it may take years and that can be really hard to listen to and frustrating to think about it may take years to develop the relationship in the way that you want it to.

I know it's taken me years it's not it's not like you two one meditation and then wake up the next morning and all of a sudden your guides are talking in your ear like no tomorrow.

I mean maybe some of you it may take one session one meditation and then all of a sudden everything clicks and everything snaps into place that may happen to you.

I'm not saying there is a right way or wrong way to connect with your guides but for a majority it's not something that happens overnight and it's definitely something that's unique for every single person but our guides have always been talking and communicating with us even if we don't realize it even if we don't understand it ever I believe that ever since we were put on this earth ever since we were born our soul once we come into our own human journey our guides are with us and sometimes we have blocks from past life from any karmic connections and relationships sometimes there are blocks that need to be cleared and released in order to actually communicate with your guides in the way that you want to I know I'll get into this a little bit later but recently in the last few months I did some somebody was doing an angelic light healing and it I felt the block like like jump off of my body I felt it clear I felt it be removed and it was very very very powerful and the next day there I'll get it I'll get into the story later but from what I have channeled to ask my guides of advice to give for when connecting to guides this is some of the bullet points that they told me to share when it comes to connecting with your guides sometimes it can be a little bit scary and it doesn't need to be but I know I was really scared on my journey when I started talking to them I was really nervous I had no idea what it was going to feel like if I would see them you know that was really scary to me the biggest most important thing that my guides were telling me to tell all of you is trust faith and patience don't expect it to be easy because everybody you know I already said this but everybody has a unique journey and communicates differently and our relationships with our guides they shift and they can change over time and even the guides that we talk to may may shift throughout your lifetime so I'm going to share a little anecdote right here right now in this moment there is one particular guide and he is like in my ear with me all the time and this is the guide that I okay so let's backtrack to the beginning of the story that I haven't shared back in 2020 so almost two years ago now I mean 2020 was two years ago when I'm recording this it's 2022 but it was in October I remember October 2020 I had had gotten really excited learned that I could connect with my own guides and it wasn't something that I needed somebody else to do and that everybody every single person and this is true every single person has the ability to learn and to create a relationship and to communicate and connect with their guides everybody is able to do that and again everybody's journey is different it takes everybody a different amount of time but once I realized this I got really into it and I looked up maybe like I want to say maybe 20 different meditations of connecting to your spirit guides trying to listen to see which one I liked which one I felt suited me you know I looked on YouTube I looked on insight timer I looked at all these different websites to find a meditation to connect with my guides because I was like I'm going to do it I'm determined it's going to happen and so I actually have my journal from when I did my first like spirit guide meditation I remember very clearly I went outside to a park and I laid down on a blanket and I had my headphones in and I had my journal and a pen in my hand and I was ready to meet my spirit guide I was like this is it this is the meditation and what I picked up from the meditation what I have written down says be calm be patient trust and I didn't really meet my spirit guide you know I sensed that there was an energy around me but I couldn't really put a finger on it I got a visual which is interesting for me because I'm I don't really see a lot of visuals when meditating that was something new but I kind of understood that there was a horse like figure and then it grew wings and I was like ooh a pegasus maybe maybe one of my guys is a pegasus and I just remember writing that down and I for me when I started connecting with my guides it was really important for me for some reason it was really important for me to learn their names which now I know names don't matter but if you want to you can definitely ask your spirit guide for their name or what they want you to call them but for the most part it doesn't really matter but I was determined at the beginning of my journey with connecting with my guides to learn their names so I wrote down a bunch of names after this meditation that came to me and one of them did stick around like one of the names that I had written down a few months later came back up again and that I started using it for a name for one of my guides I kept doing spirit guide meditations and I understood that I around me have three guides three main guides that are around me and I understood the energy of two of them really well and I saw bunny rabbits and I saw birds and I knew that for one of them I would see birds and the other one I saw bunny rabbits and I was having a really hard time connecting with the third one and it wasn't until a couple months ago that I got that block removed and was actually able to fully communicate very easily with this third guide and I talk with him all the time and he is like he's really silly and it doesn't have to be super serious connecting with your guides like they're just our buddies they're our friends they're here to guide us they kind of laugh at us and tease us sometimes they teach us lessons but they're they know that you want to talk to them and they may be leaving you signs and may have been showing you things that you you won't realize for a while that it's them and I find that this has happened with me is for the longest time I you know kept seeing the same bird outside and you know could be coincidence okay the area I live in this bird is around but it was like the numbers of the birds that I would see I would see three birds okay the next time I got out the same three birds and then six and then nine and then for me the pattern of three is is very prominent in my synchronicities and you know for everyone it's different but that for me I was like okay interesting that I'm seeing this bird and then I started seeing bunny rabbits all the time and you know at this point I'm in downtown Boston there's not a lot of bunny rabbits just running around downtown Boston but somehow I would end up seeing them and you know that to me is um I don't really like to say it's a coincidence I like to believe more in the synchronicity of events rather than it being a coincidence I like to put meaning to the signs that I see but you know everybody to each their own now that I have cleared that block I am really only talking with this one guide and the other two I know they're around me but I haven't really communicated with them since I would say like last year I've kind of just been like allowing my guides to come through together but now this one guide he is very very particular and is telling me to call him in every day every moment every he's he's really excited that the block is is gone and it's like you know sometimes you're you don't think you're ready and then when you are ready you're like ah now they're here all the time now they're not leaving you alone you know it's something that is you know sacred to every single person everyone's journey is different and again I said names don't matter but you're allowed to ask for names and I would say I wouldn't recommend going in with the expectation that you're actually going to see or hear them like in the physical realm unless this is something that you've been doing for years and you have a close relationship and you've been practicing for a while but if not you know our guides can come to us in many different ways and through meditation they may come in different forms you know when I did my first meditation I kind of saw a horse maybe a Pegasus and and now I see you know when I think about the specific guide I also see a horn so I see unicorn horn you know and and that has shifted and for a different guide at first I saw kind of like a lion you know but to me that was just a sign of having courage and that this guide was there for me in order to find courage within myself and now when I think about this guide I do not see a lion whatsoever that does not resonate anymore when it comes to this guide and he's telling me to keep talking about him but I want to get through my notes but I would say when when you start developing your relationship when you starting to set the intention to talk and to meet with your guides and to communicate with them really take note and this can be physical notes it can be mental notes it can be just talking about it with friends of any synchronicities that you come across and a synchronicity is anything that you see or hear or notice or feel over and over again within a short period of time so this can be things such as numbers it can be random objects it can be animals a synchronicity can be a song lyric you know there was once a synchronicity where you know I in the middle of the night I couldn't fall asleep there was one song that was just going over and over over in my head and I'll share the song it was don't stop believing you know by journey and just don't stop believing hold on to that feeling just like repeating in my head over and over and over for maybe 30 minutes and I was so tired of it and I didn't know what to do I got up and like went to the restroom and tried to go back to bed I wrote it down I said okay fine I'll write it down the next day I put on a random playlist it's the second song that comes on I go oh that's interesting the the song is going on okay maybe it's a coincidence maybe it's a synchronicity I take note of it I pull cards for myself the next day in the guidebook it says like don't stop believing in yourself have faith continue on your journey you know and to me like this is an example of a synchronicity through song lyric and words but I also see what some people call angel numbers which is a repeating number such as 11 11 1 2 3 4 8 8 8 3 3 3 2 2 2 5 5 5 you know all of these angel numbers they each also have their own individual meanings and when you see an angel number it can be from a guide it can be from a loved one who's passed on and you know to differentiate between that it comes down to you and your intuition and the certain situation like for me I have numbers that I am some of my past loved ones they they send me this number to to know that they're with me which is really sweet but other numbers I know it's my guide like I'll see 1 2 3 4 and for me that's keep moving forward know you're doing what you're doing what is right for you and there's so many different ways to take note of synchronicities and I you know I also for me I'm really connected to seeing and animals and birds and the different species species this word different species of birds and I have a little necklace that has a cardinal on it a red bird and this is a bird that is not it's common within the area that I live in but it's not commonly seen you know it's a very hard bird to really be seen in the public eye unless it's flying right in front of you they kind of hide well within the trees even though they're really red but recently that has been a bird that I have started seeing and I wore this necklace one day not thinking much of it and I go to a little park nearby and I see this bird and I and I see that that's a synchronicity for me and I write it down or I take note about it and then I I like to meditate and ask my guides you know what what is the synchronicity mean or I'll just I'll just notice it there can be synchronicities and signs both from our guides and from our past loved ones and when I say that I mean that one sign may be sent just from your guides and another sign may be sent just from a loved one or you know maybe I like to see all of my loved ones and all of my spirit guides as a spirit team I like to refer to them as a spirit team because I feel that my past loved ones are still with me not all of them you know I mean all of them are all I mean if I let me word this correctly there are a few loved ones that I had a really close relationship to when they were still here and now that they've passed I've been able to connect with them and I know that at a moment's notice I could call them in and they can come with me and so I like to say that they are a part of my spirit team some people like to refer to it as a galactic council of love and light you know there's all these different names for guides or angels you know the name of of what you call spirit that comes in to guide you that comes in to send you messages and signs and synchronicities you know it really doesn't matter who is in it how many spirits or souls or whatever it doesn't the number doesn't matter it's really to each their own and and working on your intuition and listening to what you feel is right is a really really big part of connecting and so I like to say it's my spirit team and then when I'm referring to just my guides I like to say my my spirit guides but when you do feel their presence a spirit guide or any any guide it's a something of pure love and light and it's just like a bright for me personally it's like a bright warm energy of safety and it can be a little bit daunting to feel this for the first time I know when I first felt it I kinda jolted out of the meditation was like whoa did I really feel that right now and you know it took me a while to settle into it fearlessly and that's something that comes with practice you know it it's really important to take baby steps and not to compare yourself to anybody else on this journey so most most of us have multiple guides and guides can be people that you know that have crossed over and they could also be ancestors that you've never met or other souls that you've never met in this lifetime it could be people or animals from a past life you know our guides are our personal to each and every one of us we all have different guides and I mean I personally have not met anybody else with my same guides but I do know that some people share guides that a specific spirit is a spirit guide for multiple people on the earth and I haven't really dug into that to see if I know anybody with my guides but most of us have individual guides and you know they could also be deities which is really interesting I have worked with a few people and in their sessions and when I bring in their spirit guides there's a deity there and it's really intense energy but our guides can be just a I don't want to say a concoction of a bunch of different souls together but that's the wording that's coming through and I don't know if that makes sense but everybody's guides are different and it's really hard to know who your guides are unless you take the time to create a relationship with them and to do that you know I really recommend finding a safe space for yourself it's really important for your body to feel safe when connecting with your guides because if not then it's it's hard for you to relax and to allow them to come into your vibration because our spirit guides and anybody in our spirit team they vibrate at a really really high loving frequency and unless we allow ourselves to raise in vibration it's going to be really hard to make that connection with them you know you may have an experience meditating and jump out of it right away and it's okay to experience things like this you know you may not be ready for a while or you may be able to work up the courage to go back there and it's something that only you will know and it does take time to come back I do have them my the journal that I had from 2020 from talking with my guides and from the first meditation that I did let's see it was four months later in this journal that I was able to write down the names of my guides so that's four months of me taking breaks of trying to connect with them knowing that it'll come with time and trying every once in a while to sit in stillness and to sit in meditation and for me something that really helped me is I tried to meditate every single day at least for five to ten minutes every single morning and it wouldn't even be to meditate to connect with my guides it would be guided meditations of gratitude it would be how to set the intention for the day and I really worked on my intuition for those months really listening to what my body was saying and what my mind was saying and what my heart was saying I started incorporating affirmations into my daily life saying things like I am open and ready to receive abundance and love and support and protection and health and if I'm looking back in this if I'm looking back in this journal I did a few inner child meditations and healings and allowed myself to be frustrated and upset and angry and allow my younger self to come through and heal a little bit more before I was able to come back to my adult self and to connect with my guides you know there's a lot of shadow work as some may call it shadow work is kind of for those of you who may not know deeper healing work that looks into your ego and looks into your subconscious mind of different things that have cast a shadow that have dimmed your authentic light that have dimmed your sovereign energy and sometimes in order to talk and to communicate with our guides you need to go through that shadow work and heal the side of yourself that has been punched down and taught to hide and taught to not speak your truth and to dim your intuition because when we grow up we're born with the ability with all of these spiritual gifts when we're when we're straight straight out of the womb we have these gifts we know love and light we know gratitude and then society puts all these expectations on us they take away our gifts not take away but they trick us into believing that they don't exist they tell us that we're not deserving that we're not worthy that we're not talented that magic isn't real it's made up and once we uncover those lies that we've told ourselves and once we work on our subconscious mind and convince ourselves internally that we are enough that we are talented that we do have the capability to be divinely guided and connected only then are we able to actually connect with our guides and I did want to talk about the different ways of what communicating can actually look like so I am now at a place that I can in my head I'll say I call in guides ABC you know I say I call these guides in and they'll come in straight into my ear be like oh thank God why haven't you called us in sooner like I kind of hear them now which some people call clear audience like being able to hear what they're saying and that is not how it has always been for me this is something that I was working towards for over a couple years being able to talk with them in this way of me being like oh my god are you serious and they're like yep and being able to actually like have a conversation with them like that that is something that took me a really really long time and is not something that everybody is able to do you know everybody has their own gifts whether it's being able to feel a message being able to understand a message you know if you see an angel number it's really if you're just starting to see the synchronicities try to backtrack on your thoughts of what you were thinking about exactly when you were looking at that number example I was hanging out with somebody yesterday and they were asking me you know you know you seem really in tune with your spirituality and I said yeah like I always look out for numbers and it's all about trusting yourself and I pulled a card for them and then I pulled a card for myself and the card that came out was trust and that was a synchronicity and the number on the card was number nine and I say yeah number nine like this is a number that is very makes a lot of sense to me this number is something that I've been seeing a lot as a confirmation that I'm here that I'm trusting myself and then I looked at the time and it was 7 11 and 7 plus 1 plus 1 is 9 so a synchronicity like that like that to me gave me chills I was like whoa and that's a form of communication and confirmation from my guides that's not a comp that that's not an actual literal dialogue conversation is seeing the number saying it out loud knowing like oh it's really important that I trust myself and I look at the time and it's a confirmation of 7 11 7 1 1 9 and then the card had a 9 on it you know this is that in itself is communication and that's also another thing that no matter how you try to connect or how you communicate it's important to try different ways and being able to sit in meditation and sit in silence it may be easier for you to start sensing or hearing a message but you know that's something that takes a while and is not guaranteed to happen the first time you do it but I do recommend there are amazing meditations here on insight timer to connect with your spirit guides and I definitely recommend trying them if you are interested and if you have already tried them in the past and you know you think they don't work for you set the intention before sitting in meditation with yourself before sitting in stillness before sitting in silence set the intention say I'm calling in my guides I'm calling in my spirit team of love and light to send me a message and maybe have a journal with you maybe have a notebook or have your phone to type on and sit and just see what comes through what you start thinking about what you start feeling and just take deep breaths and allow whatever it is to come through and something might come through right away something might come through just before you stop meditating and taking moments like that just to to breathe and to not have the expectation of anything to come out of it but just say I'm open to receiving a message I I would love to have a confirmation for something and you can ask a specific question and wait for an answer you don't need to have Oracle cards you don't need to have any others anything but yourself those are just tools that I like to use for myself because I think it's nice to see the confirmation and the synchronicity in a physical form but that's me there's no need to do anything but breathe in order to connect with your guides like that's the bare minimum is being able to sit with yourself and breathe and you don't even have to be in a full deep meditation it can be just like when you're cooking and just having a moment of presence with yourself and you know asking questions and seeing if anything comes through it doesn't have to be super super serious like a lot of people make it to be but it can be and if it feels right to you for it to be super serious take it very seriously because that's the only listening to your intuition about I'm quoting this how it's supposed to go because there is no way it's actually supposed to go but you're allowed to act on your instinct of what you think you need to do in order to connect with your guides because your intuition is probably telling you what you need to do but if you're trying all these things that you thought you needed to do and it's not working allow yourself to accept that what you've tried isn't working and to try something else and to research and see you know what's something that I haven't tried that I would want to try or you can always book a session with somebody for spiritual guidance soon there will be a link in my bio hopefully within the next month for you to book a session with me and I can help you bring in your guides hopefully and you know sometimes to have somebody else do it with you can be very very helpful you know I when I set out to do it I really was determined to do it on my own and I was able to do that just a little bit but once I started having sessions with other people they were really able to bring in my guides and after I connected to that energy with somebody else it was easier for me to bring it in on my own I hope you take some time to sit with your intuition and sit with your guides whether or not you're actually feeling them around you or whether or not you're actually feeling comfortable and talking with them yet because this is a journey that you may feel comfortable one day and then you may feel really scared and nervous and not want to talk to them ever again the next day and that's okay to go through this our healing journey and our journey connecting to our guides is not linear you're not always going to be able to talk to your guides the same way every single day every single moment of every time it shifts as we are human you know our our journey shift and grow and change every single day every single year we are different people and that's a part of this that's a part of this journey so thank you for listening today.

Reviews

Beautiful talk. Eliyaju's voice is relaxing and very peaceful too! It brings me happiness listening to them 💖🙏 Gratitude 🙏

Second time I've listened to this it's very good and helpful for me, thank you

Thank you. I found this a delight and full of points of information that fit so well with me and what I was seeking in listening.

I needed this! Very helpful. Thank u for the confirmation. I’ll be in touch with u soon for guidance. Xo

This talk was just what I was looking for 🥰. Thank you so much 🙏

Super fun and informative listen! I know I have quite a number of guides that send messages through music or a specific feeling. I want to learn how to call on them and communicate with gratitude on a deeper level. There are many unexpected things in this track. I highly recommend it!!
I have always been a true believer in things happening for a reason. The IT Live I scheduled today was cancelled. When I checked to see what else was happening, El was the first live I saw. Jumped on and was blown away!! If you don’t already follow El, I highly suggest doing so!!! 💕

I loved hearing about how you met your guides El…. and that you call them ‘your team’…. I call my guides ‘my team’ !! I’ve never met anyone who says that, until now !! Synchronicity ? I think so !! My main guide introduced himself to me after my Reiki II certification…Shocker ! I wasn’t looking to meet guides, I knew my Mom was always with me, and now I have a team. You are such a loving soul, and your uplifting energy is contagious ! Thank you El !!🐞🦌<— a few team members.❤️

Incredible information- thank you love!!! ❤️❤️❤️

El is such an authentic speaker, willing to share personal experiences with beginning to connect to Spirit Guides. This track offers an empowering message that everyone can connect to their Guides, with some time and effort.
The sound quality is superb - better than most tracks on this app. This is an edited recording from a Live session and sounds like natural, conversational speech. Great wisdom is presented with humility.