Spirit Guides

Socrates Statue

Spirit guides are souls that love, guide and support us everyday throughout our life. We have many spirit guides around us but there is one main guide that stays with us throughout the whole life. Our spirit guides help us plan our incarnations and are souls we know very well on the other side.

Spirit guides have lived many lives on Earth and are very evolved souls. Not all souls will be spirit guides, this is a job some spirits choose is my understanding. Our journey to learn about our spirit guides is very personal. Before we came into this life, we chose these guides for a reason.

I’ll share another interesting fact about spirit guides. The name they provide us is very much intentionally chosen. I found out that my main spirit guide’s name is Socrates. He gave me this name because he's a teacher and mentor to me in the Spirit Realm. I will share the channeling below where he said his name, you will see that he has a good sense of humor and is quite the character! I also have another spirit guide called Shema which is the Hebrew word for “to listen” and my parenting spirit guide said to call her Grace. 

I've mentioned in other posts that I meet with an intuitive named Stephanie that can channel spirit guides and the higher self. When Stephanie channels, her voice doesn't change but her cadence changes. I ask a question and then she invites my main guide or higher self in depending who I have the question for. Then she speaks nonstop for about 10 minutes straight. Below is the first session where she channelled my main spirit guide. There aren't paragraphs in the transcription below because the channeling is spoken without breaks, I believe this has to do with the way energy is transmitted through the intuitive.

My question was what name should I use for my spirit guide and why he chooses a specific human form when I see him in my meditations or my mind. Stephanie started to say, "inviting Lauren's main guide in.." and then I could tell my spirit guide stepped in and was speaking to me:

"Yea yea yea, I know I know, I know who it is, I’ve been here for a while, just waiting for you human, waiting for you to stop talking. Not that it’s a problem that you talk, it's just that I’ve got a whole lot to say and I would rather flow it all forward. Because I know exactly what you need to know, what you want to know, what would be in your best interest to know. And as well I also understand that moving at the pace of trust is absolutely essential and you might say oh don’t worry about that I already trust you, go fast go fast. And I say woah nelly that is not the way we are going to proceed. Because here’s the thing about us, we work best when we are in rhythm, when we are in harmony, when we are in a suitable and as they say sustainable pace so it’s going to be slow. You asked for this, this is not my doing, I am not imposing something that is ill fitted or ill suited. It is what you have asked for. You said prior to this incarnation, let’s do this thing, this next lifetime, it’s going to be big, it’s going to be kind of dense at times, definitely intense and we will bring all the gifts and skills and tools with it. And by the way would you help me keep a pace that makes sense for my heart. That's what you said honey bunches! And so I said, yea got it, I took notes on that. I keep a little pen tucked behind my ear just for such declarations. So that’s how we are going to go and it’s alright you get impatient at times. You were imbued with kind of a lot of that and that’s alright too. It’s not something that will hold you back with relation to us. So, oh what’s that you say, you want a name now, I’m gonna give you a name, I’m gonna give you my name, it’s going to blow your mind, ready…Socrates. Yep told ya, mind blown, just like that. And so now you will go down some rabbit holes, I know, I know how it goes with the technology and the investigative reporter aspect of you. You love information, you love research, you love putting puzzle pieces together. You said it just minutes ago in fact, so go for it, figure that out. And now you’re saying, you mean THE, THE Socrates, the real one, the one in the books, the one that people still talk about, quote and have formulations that are attributed to and I’ll say…yea haha go for it, give me all that credit, I don't need to play humble here but this is the name you will most understand and connect with and this is the name that should provide you with all the affirmation that you need in order to keep going on this journey. And this is the name that will grant you the excitement and all the enthusiasm, and even the bragging rights because who among your kind can say, Socrates is my main dude! There you go, there you have it, you are welcome, now let’s move along shall we again at the pace of trust. Let me underscore trust here for a moment, it’s a common theme, a thread moving through this entire journey for you. How to build it, how to protect it, how to give it, how to embody it, how to save it, how to preserve it, all the things trust related. And you will find that there have been very good reasons for the stretches of time that you have felt not so very trusting. And this trust comes back to not what you give to others by way of trusting what is outside of you but what you give to yourself in trusting what is deeply within. And so your self trust is where it begins, where the middle juiciness is, and where the end completes. And this is what you are here to build. And so isn’t it great you have found your way back to meditation again. Because this space is the space from which you can listen truly to what is real and honest and for you and what you need in order to release what is not for you. And in the practice and regularity of this you will find that your trust within yourself blooms and blossoms. And you will find also that the forms I choose to take in your imagination and third eye space will sometimes have relevance that you can connect with and sometimes seem totally erratic and unrelatable and both are true and both are equally important and both are a requirement for the building of that trust. So can you trust me is a question that only you can answer, and can you trust the part of you that is leaning into the trusting of me. And can you trust the fact that I am not me but that I am you and that there is truly no separation. And can you trust the notion that this is true for all of life, for all of beings, souls, essences, energies, spirit, that has chosen to embody in various forms. Can you trust that you are also the beetle and the worm. Can you trust that there is an interconnectivity of all things and if it is so that you can easily say yes I trust all of that then my next question to you would be then let’s teach it, then let’s speak of it, then let's live into it. Because not for me, not for my sake, but for you, for your sake, because it’s what your soul asked for. It asked for me to remind you of what you knew before you forgot, before you agreed to forget and so here I am doing that. And so I should pause now because I imagine there is some bit of processing or digestion that is involved with this kind of information so I will push the pause button."

Obviously my mouth was hanging open and I was speechless. First of all my spirit guide sounded like a funny New York cab driver...but then again if I was a soul planning my life I think I would choose a funny guy as my spirit guide. Let's just say it took me a while to unpack all of that. Interestingly I met with a very good intuitive before this channeling session that also told me my focus in this life is self trust so it wasn't the first time I had heard that.

More on spirit guides....

Spirit Guides communicate with us energetically through the chakra points which connect to our clairs (clairvoyance, clairaudience, clairsentience, claircognizance,..etc). See my blog post on mediumship to read more about this. What I have found is that when spirit guides are communicating to us, it will usually sound like our own voice in our heads. Spirit guides communicate with us all the time without our knowing. I’ll share another interesting fact that I’ve learned along the way. We can feel the energy of our spirit guide on one side. For example, Socrates is on my right side, Shema stands on my left side, and Grace is behind me. My understanding is that we are pulled to one side or the other due to an energetic connection. This is why you will see mediums/intuitives looking to the side when they are speaking with their guides. 

In one of the channeling sessions with Stephanie I asked my spirit guide if it is challenging to communicate with me when my mind is spinning. He had a great answer. He said that I can be in high distractibility sometimes and when I am in “rote behavior” that I should observe the thoughts. I should remind myself that I am the one observing the thoughts and in that space I am available for them to connect with me. Socrates did say that meditation is a great way for spirit guides to connect with us but using this method of “observing our thoughts” will work as well. 

I’ll give a couple examples of how my spirit guides have guided me. An example was when I walked out of an ice skating rink with my family and there was a man sitting in the rain with a sign that said he was homeless. My attention was brought to him and my thought was that I wish I had cash to give him. My eyes were drawn to an ATM close by. I asked my husband if he would wait with the kids for me and he told me to do what I needed to do. I took out money from the atm to give to the man and locked eyes with him. For a second we locked eyes soul to soul and I smiled warmly at him. That situation felt very guided. Why did it happen? There were other people around to see it happen so perhaps my guide knew it was a moment of compassion others needed to see, perhaps that man needed human compassion in that moment or perhaps both, it’s hard for me to know exactly. I don't think it was about the amount of money given but it was about the human compassion in that moment of time.   

Another example is when I was sitting at a red light and when it turned green, I didn’t go. I wasn’t sure why I didn’t go but I just sat there. Then a big white pickup truck accelerated through the red light. Had I gone, the truck would have accelerated right into my side of the car where my 2 year old and I were sitting. After this experience, I met with Stephanie again to channel my spirit guide and here is what my guide said:

“Finally in order of your presentation, what you have noticed was a very calm voice, not one that shouted and screeched and shook you by the shoulders demanding that you do not press the gas pedal as the light changed but that very very subtle just being, just listening, just attending, just there, that is exactly the state that all of us in service to humans awakening would like to be able to teach more and more. Some will say, and you have heard the accounts that if a guidance system is in place to keep others safe from physical harm it will be loud, screechy, demanding, with force. And what you are illustrating is that it can also be there along side of you, next to you with the most subtle of energy, certainly nothing that warrants explanation, for there is no explanation as to in the moment why you are feeling, doing and how you are behaving but in hindsight isn’t it oh so clear. But in hindsight as so many are devoid of, there can easily be the missed chance at seeing the purpose. This purpose you saw with your own eyes was really quite clear you could not even argue it. And did you remember to thank yourself for the subtle energy that existed within, that you have been working on cultivating, so that you could be in the presence of that subtle energy and make the reaction and behavioral response in accordance with it. To my understanding you did not thank yourself and this is oftentimes something overlooked. And just as you would give gratitude and appreciation for me and yes I have received that, and for us, those who are similar to me and yes we do receive that, although there can always be more gratitude expressed, there is less and less expression and appreciation and honoring of one Self, Self with a capital S. And so if there is a practice I can guide you towards it is to remember that without you being in there, without you filling that space, and bringing in the love, doing the outer and inner work to be greater aligned, without you there would be none of this, so thank you, thank you, thank you.”

My spirit guide mentioned above that he and others hear my gratitude. I thank my guides and the angels every night before I go to sleep for supporting me on this journey. And he was right that I didn't thank myself.

I am happy to share more on my own journey connecting to my guides, it has been quite fascinating for me. When I first started meditating, I asked my main spirit guide for some information about him and I heard the word “Sirius” in my mind. I actually didn’t even think of the Sirius star system right away. I then met with about six different intuitives in my research to understand who I was as a soul. Every time I met with an intuitive they told me that I was a starseed (a soul that incarnated on other planets before incarnating on Earth) and that I had spent a lot of time in the Sirius star system. After I was told the same thing over and over again, I started to realize that it wasn’t a coincidence. See more detail on this in my starseed blog post. Over time I’ve learned that I have shared lives on Earth with my main spirit guide and that we have lived lives in the Sirius star system together as well. Don’t worry things get weirder than this!

Apparently we can ask our spirit guides to show us something when we are sleeping. This has worked a couple times for me. I asked my spirit guide to show me what he looked like before I went to bed. That night I woke up in a state of in between sleep and awakeness. In my mind I saw a picture of a funny cartoon alien. When I woke up in the morning, I thought to myself…hmm a funny alien. Of course he doesn't actually look like a funny alien but I would say this was him communicating something to me, it was like a hint or breadcrumb. He is certainly funny and I later learned that we have shared lives together on other planets. 

I’ll share another story. I was meeting with an intuitive that has been seeing spirits his whole life and the first thing he says to me is, “your spirit guide is standing next to me and he looks like an aquatic being, he says he lived in the Sirius star system”. Let’s just say, I wasn’t shocked at this point and I said, “Yea I know, I guess I’ve been an aquatic being in past lives”. This still makes me laugh that I said this comment so nonchalantly. You may think I’m totally weird but all I can tell you is that the universe is full of magic and these are the fascinating experiences I've been having. 

Everyone can connect with their spirit guides through meditation and by just being aware of their guides. With time this connection grows and turns into a fuller relationship.