Who Are Spirit Guides?

In this weeks podcast with Victoria we talk about a lot of different topics - one of them being spirit guides.

This is a topic I used to feel was too “woo woo” for me and something I could never connect to or resonate with. It felt unapproachable and out of reach. Sometimes even made up.

But recently I’ve started to feel differently.

I have always felt deeply connected to my Grandmother. I feel deeply connected to all of my Grandparents - however the one difference is I have never met my Grandma Miriam, my mom’s mom, and yet I feel as if I know her.

I don’t know her mannerisms, her voice or how she acted - but I feel as if I know her energy, her presence, her heart. I feel as if she is here with me. Whenever I think of her, I get chills.

After hearing more people talk about Spirit Guides and connections to their Ancestors I realised - this is it. This connection I feel to her, this presence and energy I feel around me - this is her spirit guiding me.

I think we sensationalise spirituality. Social media portrays spiritual awakenings as big earthquake events - as if a ghost falls from the sky and changes our lives.

When in actuality, spirituality is subtle. Magic is subtle. And that’s because - being a human is spiritual. We are spiritual beings. Our spirituality is interwoven into who we are. Being a spiritual person is choosing to see the mundane as magic, recognising the synchronicities, getting excited about the small everyday moments that have become normalised, and allowing ourselves to believe in what we can not see.

The more we choose to live our lives in this way, the stronger this muscle becomes: the more magic we see, the more synchronicities we recognise, the more connected we are to the unexplainable mystery that is being a human.

The more I lean into the belief that my Grandma is here, guiding me, the more I feel her. That is a Spirit Guide. An energy I feel guiding me, supporting me, protecting me. Maybe I can’t prove this is true, maybe I have no evidence to show that it’s my Grandma, but I feel it in my bones.

For me, that’s enough.

What is your relationship like with Spirit Guides? Do you feel as if you have one? Do you feel an energy guiding you? Do you know who it may be?

What would it be like to consider this possibility? What would it be like to open yourself up to the unknown, welcome in the unseen, and consider the unexplainable…