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Have you ever had a strong gut feeling, a flash of inner knowing, and then let your logical mind talk you out of it? Do you spend a lot of time wondering, “Is this my intuition, or is it just a random thought?” I get it. We’ve been taught to doubt our inner wisdom. But I’m here to tell you that your intuition is your greatest superpower—it’s a direct, unfiltered line of communication from your spirit guides.

The truth is, your guides are always communicating with you. You just have to learn how to tune into their frequency and trust the messages you receive. In this episode, I’m giving you my most practical, simple methods to open that channel and receive their guidance clearly and consistently. I’ll teach you the daily practices I use to feel divinely led in my life.

And because you’ve sent in so many amazing questions on this topic, I’m answering them! We’ll talk about how to know for sure if it’s your guides speaking, what to do when you ask for a sign and get silence, and how you can call on your guides for support in every area of your life—from your career to your relationships. If you’re ready to stop second-guessing and start living with a deep sense of certainty and security, this episode will show you how.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

  • How to finally know the difference between the voice of your ego and the divine wisdom of your guides.
  • My 3 simple, practical methods to open a direct line of communication with your spirit guides today.
  • The daily prayer I use to surrender control and let the Universe lead the way.
  • Why not getting the sign you asked for is sometimes the clearest sign of all.
  • How to use your body as a divine compass to get a clear “yes” or “no” on any decision.
  • How to call in your guides for support during moments of stress and anxiety.

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This podcast is intended to educate, inspire, and support you on your personal journey towards inner peace. I am not a psychologist or a medical doctor and do not offer any professional health or medical advice. If you are suffering from any psychological or medical conditions, please seek help from a qualified health professional.

dear gabby #286 Oct 20, 2025 spiritual connection

is it my thoughts or my spirit guides? here’s how to know the difference

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Hey there. Welcome to Dear Gabby. I'm your host Gabby Bernstein, and if you landed here, it is absolutely no accident. It means that you're ready to feel good and manifest a life beyond your wildest dreams. Let's get started.

Are you asking the universe for guidance but getting nothing but silence? What if I told you your guides are talking to you? You just haven't been taught the practical ways to receive their guidance. Today we're talking about how to open a direct line of communication with your spirit guides, and my goal for this episode is that you walk away with three practical, simple methods to start receiving their loving guidance, not in months or years, but today.

Most people have been taught that connecting with spirit guides is a special gift that's reserved for the select few. We think that we have to be a medium or a psychic or meditate for hours on end to get even a [00:01:00] whisper of guidance. And this belief makes us feel like we're not spiritual enough and that our guides are distant.

But that belief system really flawed, and the truth is connecting with your spirit guides isn't a special skill. It's your spiritual birthright. Your guides are always communicating with you, and the problem isn't your ability, it's your approach. You just need to learn how to tune your energy frequency to their channel.

So in this episode, I'm gonna give you my proven three step method to dissolve the resistance and open that channel. I've also created a really powerful visualization meditation to accompany this. So you can just click the link in the description and check it out. Now let's get into the practical steps.

So the first method is about making a conscious choice to open the door to communication. And this is about setting an intention first thing in the morning. And I do this every single morning. The moment that you wake up before you even check your phone. I hope you don't check your phone the moment you wake up.

But if you are, just put your hand on your heart and just say, thank you [00:02:00] guides for showing me where to go and what to do today. And you can just really set that intention. Thank you guides for showing me where to go and what to do today. And this is a really powerful tool because you're actually saying thank you, you're affirming that they are there.

That they're listening, that they're present, and you're also invoking their presence into your life to show you where to go and what to do to lead your life, to direct you, to guide you and protect you. And this matters because your ego mind believes that it has to figure everything out. And this prayer actually bypasses that ego completely.

It's an act of radical surrender that tells your guides, Hey, I'm here. I'm available. I'm ready to listen. Show me where to go and what to do, and it shifts you outta that controlling energy and into a receiving energy, making you this instrument for inspiration and miracles and just listening to your highest purpose and to allow yourself to be guided rather than control every corner of your life.

And this prayer is your invitation for guidance to come in. But if you [00:03:00] don't create a space to actually receive the answers, then you actually are gonna get lost in the noise of your day. And that brings us to the next point, which is the method for capturing the inspiration. Your guides will send you.

This is a practice of channeling divine wisdom directly onto the page. It's about letting go of your own thoughts and allowing a stream of consciousness from your guides to flow through your pen. I've been doing this for decades. This is something I swear by. Open up a journal to a fresh page, and at the top of the page write the question, dear guides of the highest truth and compassion, what is your message for me today?

And just start writing. Don't censor it. Don't edit it. Don't even think. Just let it go. Let your pen flow, words beyond your own are gonna start to come through you. You're gonna start to hear messages and inspiration and intuition you couldn't even have thought of. In fact, I've channeled all of my books this way, and I actually remember I was struggling to come up with the title for my fifth book, and my publisher had their ideas.

I had mine and nothing felt right. I was getting [00:04:00] really stressed out. So I actually sat down and I opened my journal and I asked my guides, what is the title of my next book? And I just let my pen flow. The words float onto the page clearly and effortlessly. The universe has your back. It came through me, not from me.

And this is a title that has since resonated with millions of readers throughout the world and it has changed a lot of lives. This book, and I channeled most of the words that came through this book onto the page. And that wisdom is available to you too. That divine wisdom that could change your life and change the life of others.

This is a crucial practice because it creates a physical, tangible connection to your intuitive wisdom, and it's opening up your conscious mind, filtering out any of the other thoughts, the ego, fear-based belief thoughts, and just allowing that higher consciousness to come through. I really love free writing because it bypasses that filter and it builds this trust in the guidance you're receiving because you can see it right there in your own handwriting.

[00:05:00] It's undeniable proof that you are connected. You don't need a device. You don't need a computer, or you don't need an iPad. You're just writing. Now, free writing is a very powerful way to get the detailed channeled messages, but what about when you need a quick answer on the go when you're facing a decision and you need that immediate clarity?

This final step is actually what teaches you how to turn your body into this divine compass. Your guides often communicate through your physical and energetic body, and your intuition isn't a thought, it's a feeling. The problem is most of us are really stuck in our heads and we've forgotten how to listen to our body's wisdom, and this method is about relearning your body's native language.

So let's calibrate your intuition right now. Close your eyes for a moment and think about a time when you felt expansive and joyful. Just really completely certain. Maybe it was falling in love or maybe it was landing your [00:06:00] dream job. Feel that sensation in your body and just notice where you feel it inside.

Is it an openness in your chest? Is it a softness in your heart?

The feelings of joy and. Peace and freedom inside. These are the feelings of your yes. Take it in and notice the feeling of your yes.

Now, think of a time when you knew you shouldn't do something. You felt this sense of dread or resistance or heaviness. Maybe your stomach tightened up or your throat felt constricted. Notice where you feel that in your body. Get connected to that feeling right now. Where is it inside of you? What does it feel like?

And that is the feeling of your, no. Take that in. Take note of the no [00:07:00] feeling.

Now, just gently come back into the space and. Reconnect and just take note for a moment what your yes feels like and what your no feels like. For me, my yes feels like a warm, expansive energy. It's like this humming in my solar plexus and I can breathe deeper. I can speak more slowly. I'm just in my present energy and my no feels like a knot in my stomach and my jaw clenched so tightly.

It's an immediate, no, I can feel it instantly. I close off energetically. Before I make any big decision, I quiet my mind and I ask myself, is this a yes or is this a no? And is this person right for me? Like I'll say, is this person a right fit for my team? Is this podcast interview of my highest good? And I wait to feel the answer in my body before I let my mind justify it.

This is a huge tool if you are a big decision maker, whether it's for your family or for your [00:08:00] career, whatever you're doing, this is an empowering tool and it's so crucial because your body can't lie and your guides are speaking to you through the physical sensations, and your intuition is totally aligned with that guidance, and your mind can't rationalize or create stories and take you into or out of anything based on fear or ego, but your body.

Has this intuitive response that's really pure and it's unfiltered guidance from your spirit. And so learning to trust these physical cues gives you this very reliable, instant way to check in with your guides about any decision that's big or small. And I gotta tell you, I've relied on this many, many times and has never failed me.

So let's wrap this up. Now you have a plan to open the line of communication with your guides. You are gonna start your day with a prayer. Where would you have me go and what would you have me do? Starting off with that, thank you guides for showing me where to go and what to do. Then you're gonna practice your free writing to channel [00:09:00] their wisdom.

Just opening up on the page saying Thank you guides for showing me what you want me to know. And then you're gonna always check with your body's wisdom to feel that intuitive, yes or no. And recognize that you're not alone in this intuitive process. You're always being guided through your intuition, through your physical sensations, and just checking in with your yes or your no.

To make these practices even more powerful, I want you to remember to try out my free meditation for connecting with your spirit guides. This is a very powerful visualization meditation. It's totally free. You can go to dear gabby.com/spirit guides or listen for free at the link in the show notes. Now you have this relationship to your spirit guides that's gonna give you this sense of certainty and a sense of freedom and a sense of security that you may have never had before.

My intention is to support you in elevating your consciousness into creating a greater spiritual connection so you feel beautifully aligned in every corner of your life.

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Now, you've learned how to ask for guidance, so let's take it one step further. You guys have been sending in a lot of questions on this topic, so I thought it would be really fun to answer some. Now, my answers are gonna help you feel really connected to the three tips that I just shared with you, and they're gonna stop you from doubting yourself.

So get psyched, hear the questions. Dear Gabby, I've heard you say that meditation can help me connect with [00:15:00] my guides. What's the best way to use meditation to actually receive guidance? The best way to use meditation to receive spiritual guidance is to do any meditative practice that helps you calm your nervous system, that helps you feel relaxed and breath coming through.

Naturally, connecting to your guides is actually about. Aligning with the frequency of spirit. So in our worldly experience, we're in this pretty frantic, hypervigilant vibration. We're constantly assaulted with messages from our phones or buzzers that are going off, or slack messages or people calling or social media alerts, and we're just blasted, blasted, blasted with all this misaligned vibration.

So to connect in the spiritual realm, we have to actually attune our energetic frequency to be in alignment with the vibration of spirit. [00:16:00] And the vibration of spirit is joyful, free, relaxed, calm. The energy that we have to assume to be in the frequency of spirit is an energy of calm, of relaxation, of stillness.

And peace. So the best meditation practice to connect to your spirit guides is the meditation that makes you the most relaxed. So maybe it's a body scan. If you're a Gabby coaching member, you have hundreds of meditations in your app. You can go use the light bath meditation or the body scan meditation.

If you're not a Gabby coaching member and you wanna try any of my meditations for free, just go to dear gabby.com/app and just check them out because you can get seven days. Try it out, see how you feel. If you have a meditation practice that's a mantra-based practice that relaxes you, or if you have a healing practice where you lie down and just relax and rest your body and breathe.

Or you have a [00:17:00] guided meditation that you love, follow a practice that's gonna soothe your soul. You can also go to dear gabby.com/magnetic, where you can get a free magnetic energy meditation, and this is a meditation that's specifically designed to help you get into alignment with the frequency of spirit.

The link is in my show notes. Remember the key and the secret here to using meditation to align with your guides is all about getting into a grounded, relaxed state. It's the frequency alignment that is necessary to connect to your guides. Dear Gabby, how do I know if I'm really hearing my spirit guides or if it's just my own thoughts?

We have 60,000 thoughts a day, and a lot of those thoughts are negative loops that are constantly replaying and repurposing and replaying and repurposing. And it's those moments when new thoughts start to puncture in thoughts that are not the typical loop, that are not the typical routine thoughts that feel inspired [00:18:00] thoughts, that feel intuitive, they're thoughts that feel directional, or even a thought that feels like you might not even understand it, but it feels good inside.

These are the messages from your spirit guides. Your spirit guides are also gonna sometimes even give you thoughts that sort of sound different than your own inner voice. I know sometimes I hear my spirit guide say to me, let love in. Let love in. That's not necessarily something I would say to myself, but it's a message I'm receiving or that desire to just pick up the phone and call that friend, and that friend picks up and they're like, how did you know that I needed to talk to you? How did you know I needed help? Those are the moments when spirit's speaking to you. Those are the moments when you're being divinely guided, so. It's when the thought feels like it's something that's not necessarily logical or something that's just really high vibe, but you can't explain why, or it's a sense of knowing inside.

Those are the thoughts of spirit guidance. Those are your spirit guides, speaking through your [00:19:00] inner wisdom to show you the next right. Action. Dear Gabby, what have, I've been asking for signs, but nothing shows up. Does that mean my guides aren't listening? No, not at all. Remember, sometimes not getting a sign is the sign.

Your Divine Spirit guides are not going to guide you to what you think you want. They're gonna guide you towards what you need. So if that sign that you're asking for. Isn't coming to you, isn't being revealed to you, it's probably because you're not ready to receive it. It's because there's a message that's being guided to you that's different and you're not paying attention to it, and maybe the guidance that you're ready to receive has to come through a different frequency than the one that you think you're looking for.

So when you're not receiving the sign that you're looking for, stop asking, stop asking, and start allowing. The other thing is if you're asking specifically for your guides to show you a sign that they're guiding you but you're [00:20:00] not receiving it, that probably means you're looking too hard. Stop looking.

Just do nothing. Be just in the presence of your life, and then notice what comes through. It's when we're in that looking and searching that we're playing games with the universe and playing games with our guides. Whereas if we're just allowing, that's when the signs can come through naturally. So stop trying so hard, just let your guides reveal to you the signs and the wisdom in the right divine order.

Dear Gabby, do our guides ever get frustrated with us if we miss their signs or ignore their guidance? Spirit guides are here to help us and guide us and support us. But in this lifetime, in this human form, we're always exercising free will and they cannot interfere with our free will. So if we're not following the guidance that's on us.

There's no spirit that's gonna be mad or frustrated, but your guides are waiting for you to say yes and pick up the notification or follow that wisdom, or listen to that intuition or follow that synchronicity. But if [00:21:00] you're not, that's on you. That's your free will, your blocks or your blocks in this lifetime to heal.

And your guides are only here to guide you towards the highest truth and compassion, to guide you towards the highest good, to guide you towards the highest healing, and to fulfill your joyful purpose in life. So if you're not following it, it's. That's on you. That's your choice. It's a free will choice.

And remember, your guides cannot interfere with your free will. They're not mad at you. They're just gonna keep trying to guide you. And if you don't pay attention, then you're gonna keep blocking that wisdom and that direction. So it's your choice, it's your free will. Dear Gabby, can I ask my guides to help with big decisions like relationships or career, or is it only for spiritual things?

Hell yes. Ask your guides for help with everything. Every situation in your life offers you an opportunity to receive guidance. And I actually think of my spirit guides as my board of advisors. They're my family board of advisors. They're my career board of advisors. They're my health board of advisors.

And the more you start to listen to your guides, the more cues you're gonna get of the way that they [00:22:00] communicate with you. Just as an example, my left hand starts to go numb. When I'm channeling not numb, I can move it, but I, it just starts to sort of. Vibrate and, and feel a little bit numb. And then when I'm channeling and I have that sort of sensation in my left hand, I ask my guides a question.

And if it's a yes, they go like this, they move me to the left. If it's a no, they move me to the right. If it's a, maybe it's sort of this shaky energy in between. And so I can start to sense, okay. I ask for some guidance and direction and I can sometimes get a hell yes. Like it's just going in this direction, or the no is really strong, or if it's a not sure.

It's something that maybe I have to figure out on my own, and I'm not supposed to get that guidance quite yet. So you're gonna start to notice and develop. The ways that your guides are gonna communicate with you. And one way to do it is to do what my friend Marianne DeMarco talks about, which is the five second rule.

Ask your guides a question, okay, should I do this or should I not do this? And what is the first thing that comes out of your mind? Five seconds. Don't think, just answer. And that's an intuitive. Decision that [00:23:00] you've made, and that intuition is a wisdom that's coming from spiritual guidance. The spiritual guidance that we wanna stop blocking is the first answer that comes through.

So try that five second rule and see what happens. And then you're gonna start to develop your own ways of knowing, oh, this is how spirit speaks to me. Maybe it's through writing, maybe it's through songs, maybe it's through signs. Maybe it's through the five second rule. Maybe like me, you start to feel sensations.

These are different ways of communicating. Dear Gabby, can my spirit guides help me during stressful or anxious moments? And if so, how do I call upon them? When you're in a place of stress or anxiety, all you have to say is, thank you, guidance of the highest truth and compassion for helping me now. The reason I like the words, thank you, guidance of the highest truth and compassion is because the words thank you imply that yes, it's already happened.

It's already done. And calling in the guidance of the highest truth and compassion is imperative because we wanna make sure that just like inviting people to a party, we only wanna invite in the highest truth and compassion. You're not gonna send out an invitation [00:24:00] to a party on your social media feed and just let anybody show up.

You're gonna send. A direct email or a paperless post to the specific people that you wanna have at your party. So the specific guides that you wanna invite into the party. That is you are the guides of the highest truth and compassion. So once again, that prayer is thank you, guidance of the highest truth and compassion for help.

I need help now. Dear Gabby, do spirit guides ever step in to protect us even if we don't ask? Yes, the times when our guides can really protect us when we haven't invoked their presence and when it's not necessarily within our free will, but it's just a divine intervention are often when we may be in a place of harm or a place of life or death situations, and it's not our time to go if it's not our time.

You may have moments, people have plenty recounted stories of spirit coming in and moving the car out of the way or saying, get off the highway now, and then the car accident [00:25:00] happened five minutes later. Those are the divine interventions where spirit can step in to save you, to protect you, and guide you.

I remember a specific time in my life when I was representing nightclubs. In New York City and one of the parts of the job, I was 25 years old, and one of the parts of the job is I'd often go visit these nightclubs and be in these dingy basements where their offices were, and I'd be alone with this male owner of a nightclub who maybe wasn't always of the highest and best.

And I remember walking into this one nightclub and I had this meeting to pitch business to this guy, and I saw him in a very scary way, guiding me into this back part of the bar. And I heard a very loud inner voice. Say, get out. Get out. And so that was a moment of spirit intervening without me calling on the direction.

And I said, immediately, I said, oh, you know what? I actually forgot. I have to go. I have to catch this other meeting. I'll have to do this meeting over the phone. And I booked it and I ran out of there. I know [00:26:00] that they were guiding me out of that corner. To save me, to protect me from something that could have been really bad.

So don't underestimate those moments of divine intervention because spirit will come in to protect you in moments when you are in danger, or if there's a life altering moment. And if it's something that's too dangerous, spirit can exercise that intervention.

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Hearing your questions always inspires me so much, and they actually remind me of the early days of Dear Gabby, when I first started answering questions like these, and I would do it live on the show. So today I pulled a clip from one of those early episodes that perfectly compliments today's topic. I wanted to share these different examples of what it's like to connect to guides, because it's first important to understand what does it feel like when you're in that union, when you're in that connection.

And then I wanna talk a little bit about how do we invoke that connection in and how do we respect that relationship? So we know we're in the presence of a spiritual guide if we have a strong intuition. Or we have a physical sensation, like sometimes it can feel like someone's tickling my head, or sometimes I can feel my hands go numb or literally being pushed in a different direction or seeing a sign that I've asked for, and that's a sign that that guide is indeed with you.

You can hear a guide, like an audible sound, [00:32:00] literally audibly. You could hear a voice. Or you could hear it from the perspective of an inner sensation or an inner directive. So let's say similar to how you would hear an author while you're reading a book, it's like you can hear their voice while you're reading.

That's kind of how I would liken the experience of listening to that guidance from the perspective of getting that inner direction. You can also get the presence of guidance through other people. So guides work through people. So sometimes you might be in those situations where you have 15 different people saying, you should read this book, check out this book, read this book, read this book.

And then a week later, the book falls off the shelf. And so those moments of synchronicity, those are guides working through people to open the door. Their guides are also gonna literally knock books off the shelf. Sometimes your guides will wake you up in the middle of the night and be like, go journal or step away and read this passage.

When I was writing my first book, add More To Your Life. I remember being woken up in the middle of the night and being guided to walk over to [00:33:00] my bookshelf. I picked a book off the shelf that I hadn't read. It was just randomly there. I don't even know where I got it from. And it was this book called Living in the Light by Shakti ua, and I read it that night.

I didn't go to sleep. And I remember when I was reading that book, I realized, oh my God, this is the exact book I needed to read to understand how to create the structure for my first book, which was Add More Ink to Your Life to really find a different outline for a book that really resonated with me so that I could have that direction for my own.

So guides are always with us, giving us what we need to fulfill our highest function and our highest purpose, and we may have the opportunity to just have that presence be really available to us. But most people walk around with a big disconnect. They don't, first of all, know that there is a presence of guys around them, and that can be the first block in itself because you think it's just your whale or the highway, nobody else is around.

So when we have those moments of really just opening our heart, even listening to this podcast is opening the door for you [00:34:00] to connect to your guides because you're interested, you've raised your hand and said, yeah. That sounds cool. I'd like to know more. That's a door that you are opening to a relationship to a guide beyond your physical site, and so how do we make that connection?

All we really have to do is ask for it. And when we started to ask for that spiritual guidance in different ways, whether we're asking for a sign, just saying, I need a butterfly to show me that you're here, or I need an answer on this question. Thank you for revealing to me the answer to this question.

Show me a rainbow if I'm on the right track. Asking the guides to show us signs that they're there, that their presence is there, that we are on the right track, is another profound way to really connect to that guidance system that's available to us. Establishing that connection with our guides is a proactive process.

It's like any relationship. If you nurture the relationship, it will grow. If you don't tend to the relationship, it will feel blocked. So the more you meditate with your guides, the more you write [00:35:00] with your guides. The more you call upon your guides for help, the more you literally talk to your guides.
It's gonna look like you're talking to yourself, but you are talking to your guides out loud or internally, the more their presence will be known in your life, and it's the greatest presence of love that you'll ever experience. It's also really important to make sure that you're always calling in the guidance of the highest truth and compassion.

And it's also extremely important to recognize the language that I'm using when I'm invoking my guides. Thank you. Guidance of the highest truth and compassion when we commit to that type of language. Thank you. Guidance of the highest truth and compassion, or you could say only guides of the highest good.

What you're doing is you're setting a boundary and you're saying, I am not opening my vessel, my energy field, to any guidance beyond that Highest truth and compassion, of course. Just like people, there's entities out there that are mischievous and not really what we want in our life. So as long as you're calling the shots and as long as you're very clear about what it is that you want to call into your [00:36:00] life and into your practice, that it is of the highest good of all, and you are very specific about that, you can absolutely trust that you're only invoking the highest good and the highest love of the guides that are going to be there to truly support you.

A lot of people sent in questions today, tons of questions about what it means to connect to their guides and all the different kinds of questions around this topic. So I'm gonna answer some of these questions and hopefully in other people's questions you will recognize the answers that you need to have revealed.

So the first question's from Kristen and she says, I feel like spirit guides are trying to connect with me and I'm not sure what to do. Alright, so if you're feeling that connection. There might be a part of you that's curious about it and excited, and then there might be a part of you that's kind of scared because it's not what we're brought up to believe in.

It's not something that we lean on typically. And so my suggestion would just be to open the door gently and not too fast. So I think that a journaling practice with the guides might be a very valuable tool because it feels like you're giving yourself a little bit more control. You [00:37:00] can start writing and you can stop writing.

So give yourself the opportunity to sit down, meditate at the top of the page, write Thank you guidance for writing through me. Right with that guide. See what comes through. And if at any point it feels like too much, just stop. Just step away. Just say, thank you for being in my presence today, and we're gonna release this connection now.

Whatever it is you call the shots. So if there's any fear or discomfort around connecting to a guide, trust that you call the shots, whatever it is that you decide, you can turn it off. If you open the door, you can also shut the door. Ally is asking, how do we know the thoughts we have during meditation?

Are our spirit guides and not really our own thoughts? Great question. When you hear spiritual guidance, it's often gonna sound a little bit like a voice beyond your own. It could be very directive, it could be almost like you're being spoken to rather than spoken through. And there's a sense of authority in the communication. It [00:38:00] also can be very fast at times. It can have a different tone of voice or a tone of language. Like I said earlier, my guides can often say to me things like, dear Daughter of the light, and I know it's my guides. I often can check in with my physical sensations as well. Do I feel expansive?

Does my heart feel open? Just relaxed and release, or am I trying to make something happen? Am I trying to get an idea or am I just allowing these ideas to come through? Because when we're fully aligned with spirit and letting guidance come through us, we're relaxed. We're expansive, our heart is open, and we don't have that agenda on the inside.

If you don't have an agenda, you know it's the voice of your spirit guide. Robin is asking, is it normal to cry or feel overwhelmed with emotion when I connect with my spirit guides? Well, I love this question. The answer is absolutely yes. Remember, you're connecting to a high level of spiritual love.

You're connecting to [00:39:00] a spiritual presence that has chosen to be in the service of your life. You're connecting to often an ancestor who just wants to support you or a spiritual entity that is in the devotion of your growth and spiritual development. So it can be extremely moving and heart opening, and at times very, very cathartic.

So the answer is hell yeah, it's Robin. Enjoy the tears, enjoy the heart opening experience. Let it be. Let it be. Let that love in. When my guides write through me, they often write, let love in, let love in, let love in. And I know when I hear that, that that is my guides. Another real common question that continued to come through was, what happens if I don't feel the presence of my guides?

What if my guides are just not showing up? I really wanna encourage you not to start feeling like you have to go look for your guides or to search for the signs, but instead just really open your heart. To let their presence be revealed and [00:40:00] trust that even a song or even a cloud in the sky could be the presence of a guide.

And just trust that the deeper you get into your meditative practice, the more you're opening the door to listen and to receive that guidance. So I would probably suggest that you spend a little bit more time in your meditation funding your energy, because in order to connect to that spiritual realm, we have to be in a resonance that's connected to it.

That's why often we hear it through meditation. So really practice deepening that spiritual connection through meditation and prayer, but deeply meditating, going in much deeper. So Sophie's asking, how can I tell if the guidance I receive is from my spirit guides, or just coincidence, for example, repeating numbers.

If you're noticing a lot of coincidence and you're just questioning, is that my guides? The answer is yes, it is. Your guides coincidences and all of the synchronicities that speed up in our life and just show up and show up and show up are led by a spiritual presence and a attunement to what it is that we're aligned with in the moment.

So if you [00:41:00] keep getting that message and you keep getting that message, it's the spiritual presence of the energy of love, a spiritual guide. And the energy of the universe planting you in the right place at the right time to get that message. The message is often gonna be kind of hitting you over the head until you get it.

Sometimes we can get signs that are literally like billboards. So I really wanna encourage you to keep your eyes wide open, not question the guidance that you receive, but instead say, thank you guides of the highest truth and compassion for coming through me today and giving me the answers and revealing to me what it is that I need to know.

Because when we allow. That presence of a spiritual guidance system beyond our physical site to lead our thoughts, to open our hearts, to guide us and direct us, to write through us, to speak through us, then we are given words when we didn't have them. We're given courage and strength that we couldn't access on our own.

And we're offered a presence of knowing that we're not alone, that we are walking through life. With a [00:42:00] presence of love beside us and with us at all times. There's a extraordinary passage from a course in miracles. If you knew who walked beside you on the path that you have chosen, fear would be impossible.

So take that with you today. Listen to that inner wisdom. Trust that synchronicity. Trust the feeling, the sensation, the voice. Be guided by it. Act on it. And being gratitude of the presence of that guidance at all times. The more we appreciate the guides in our life, the more we activate their power to come through and connect to us.

So gently close your eyes and place your hand on your heart and your other hand on your belly if you are not driving. And just take a deep breath in and let that go. As we close this conversation today, we open our hearts and our minds and our physical sensations to the presence of the guidance of the highest truth and compassion.[00:43:00]
 
Whatever situations in our life that we are struggling with, whatever people or issues or problems in the world that are causing suffering in us, we ask these guides to step in and support us. To lead us and direct us and to show us where to go and what to do, and what to say, and to open our hearts to possibilities for change and growth and spiritual connection.

Thank you guides for the highest truth and compassion for moving through us today. We trust and we know that you are guiding us every single step of the way, and so it's, amen. So let's just take a moment to honor this major work that we've done here. We have completely dismantled the beliefs that your spirit guides are hard to hear, and you now have this really beautiful, complete spiritual toolkit.

You know how to trust your intuition daily, and you know that joy is the ultimate compass. How to choose love over fear and how to take [00:44:00] spiritually aligned action. And so you have everything you need to go from feeling that lost feeling and disconnected feeling to feeling really guided and joyful and on purpose.

And so to deepen this connection even further, I wanna give you my free guided visualization meditation for connecting with your Spirit guides. And this is. The perfect tool to integrate everything you've learned today. As one of my Gabby coaching members said, this is my favorite meditation so far, it connects me with my spirit guides in ways I couldn't have imagined.

So cool. So, so cool. So if you're not a Gabby coaching member, this is a free meditation you can try out. It's from my membership. It's deargabby.com/spiritguides to listen for free, and the link is in the show notes.

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