Spiritual Guidance and Spiritual Healing thru Lessons of Love.

How Will You Know It Is Your Guides Speaking?

Learner: When we hear guiding voices in our heads, how do we know it’s the voices of our Guides, and not our own mind giving us advice and pretending it’s you?

Spirit: When you hear us in your heads, Learners, it probably will sound like your own voices. Rarely do Learners hear audible external voices. It happens, but not often. But if you pay attention to your thoughts and our practice, you will learn to know how we come to you, and in that way you can tell that it is us. First, though, let me say that just because you determine the voice is your own does not mean you should disregard it. Your Higher Self speaks to you through your Intuition, or what some of you call your "gut." So you have other thoughts of guidance coming to you besides those sent by your Teacher Guides.

But pay close attention to what I say next: If the voice seems to disrespect you in any way, disregard it. If it implies negative things and makes you feel bad about yourself, disregard it. If it promises you instant riches or that everything you want to happen will transpire if you follow its advice, laugh at it and disregard it. When we speak to you, you will always first feel our love, before any other guidance is offered. You will feel loved, because we are channeling God’s love to you. God does not call you names, give up on you, promise you everything your personality thinks it wants, or ignore you. If what you hear does not sound like it could come from the mouth of a loving God who cares for you just as you are, disregard it.

The voice may give you guidance to rethink what you are doing. The ultimate message could be, for example, as it was for once for a Learner, to notice how self-centered your actions have become and how that attitude hurts those who love you. But if that message is coming from one of your Guides, it will come with Love. You will feel the Love even more strongly than you feel the chastisement. You may not like it, but you will not be able to say that it was given to you by someone who does not love you very much and care about your growth.

If the guidance tells you to do something that you know will harm you or others, question it. Yes, sometimes souls are guided to jump in front of a bus in order to push a child to safety, but that kind of guidance does not leave you time to think about it. That is intuitive, instantaneous, and usually generates a spontaneous response. That kind of guidance is certain, as well. You probably have seen occasional news stories of souls who have been injured by actions their society calls heroic, and yet the hero will insist that they didn’t have time to think about it, or that it seemed to be their only choice, or the only right thing to do. The guidance came instantly from within them, through their gut instinct. So if you receive guidance that you know would harm your body, mind, or soul and you have time to think about, disregard it. We don’t give that kind of advice because God does not send that kind of guidance to Learners.

If you truly have the interest and the desire, and if you will work at it, you will develop a way to know the veracity of your Guides’ presence when they speak into your minds. Maybe you will realize that the voice sounds slightly different to you in some way or that it feels different or comes to you in a different way. These are all simply techniques, helpful tools. Use whatever works for you. Whenever you are in doubt, find a place you can be silent for five minutes, go within, and simply ask us for clarification and defense or denial of the thought that you are in doubt about.