How to Meet Your Spirit Guides

SPEAKER_02 0:00

In this week's episode of Three Cups and a Dash of Spirituality, everyone's always curious. So we are going to talk about spirit guides. How do you connect? How do we connect? Stay tuned. Hey guys, we are back for another episode of Three Cups and a Dash of Spirituality, and we're going to be talking about spirit guides. Hey Stacy Michelle, how's it going?

SPEAKER_03 0:30

Hello, hello, hello. I did yours. You sure did. I love it. I was a little stunned quiet when I heard your hello. Trying to be ominous, but it came out seductive, huh?

SPEAKER_01 0:43

Oh, very seductive. Spirit guides, spirit guides.

SPEAKER_00 0:46

Who wants to start off? I'm gonna pick Stacy. Um, okay, so my spirit guide is Simon, and Simon's a dick. Oh, you're in so much trouble. I know you should have seen him react to that because typically I'm connected to him, but I say it more often than not. So, my my spirit guide, I've been working um actively with him now for probably closer to a year and a half, two years. And he's been my spirit guide probably my entire life. I think he's been here all along. His name is Simon, and he is sarcastic and not always the most helpful interaction that I have because he gives me a lot of information that sometimes does not do anything for me other than tells me shit things that are gonna happen in my life.

SPEAKER_03 1:28

He tells you good things too.

SPEAKER_00 1:30

I mean, you're not wrong.

SPEAKER_02 1:32

Okay, what about mine? I don't have a name for mine, but it did start off as a slow process. Everybody knows if you've heard the other ones. You know, I grew up in a religious family, then I went atheist, which was really important. And then my guide started waking me up by moving things. And by this time I was a therapist, and so uh I could look at it and go, okay, well, I'm not schizophrenic, you know, I'm not, you know, off their medication schizophrenic. I can literally see the book just move. I can sit down, you know. By that time, also I'd seen a psychic. So I was opening up to the possibility of this stuff. And in my own mind, I said, psychic ability is just like tapping into your unconscious, there's into you know, all the things that are out there. And that's my was my scientific viewpoint. But spirit guides kept working that relationship with me, which was really important, so I could start trusting it. I need a big stuff, so you you may get big stuff with yours starting out, or you may not. It may be a gentle mind, was like pushing you in the pool.

SPEAKER_00 2:41

I just want to say, Carissa, that I love how your voice changes depending on what you're talking about. Because when you're like, you guys have already heard this, it was very monotone when you were repeating stuff that we've already heard. Like, this is boring. I am not going to let my voice at all because we're sharing the same thing. What about you, Michelle?

SPEAKER_03 3:03

Well, you know, I started my spiritual awakening in 2019, late 2019. And before then, I'd be laying in bed sometimes because I have the habit of worrying or getting very anxious at night, like thinking about everything I said during the day, thinking about everything I need to do, worrying about my kids. And I'd always have this voice come through that it wasn't my own saying, stop it. You're being ridiculous. So that has always been present. However, when I started awakening, I started discovering a little bit more about my spirit guides. I have a main spirit guide. He told me his name was Shiloh when I first met him. He is an angel.

SPEAKER_02 3:46

I had a puppy's name, Shiloh, once.

SPEAKER_03 3:48

Did you?

SPEAKER_02 3:48

I love that name.

SPEAKER_03 3:49

Yeah, and that was one of the synchronicities, like my name's Shiloh. And then I started seeing that name everywhere. And then he's always come through with like a purple color around him. And then one night I was in bed, and all of a sudden I saw this like bouncy little karaoke ball. That's how I can explain it. It was like a red energy, and I'm like, that's a different spirit guide. So I have two. Uh, I've actually come to find out there are like five that I work with. They each have different assignments. Uh, Shiloh is my main guide, and the others come through as colors, also. They each add so much value to my life, and I get pulled to whatever one I need at any given time.

SPEAKER_00 4:34

So I love that you just said said that. And I'm gonna actually add on to it if it's okay, because I do actually have two spirit guides. And this is the cool thing is you can have more than one and that are that are typically there for different purposes. So, Simon is my my main guide. And while I'm getting the stink eye from him right now, he is there to help me kind of in all areas, I'm gonna say. Not necessarily specific. He helps me with psychic readings, he helps me with clearings. He's the one that is always typically front and center when I'm doing things that have a spiritual component to them. However, I do have another spirit guide that is I she's known in my family as Gan Mu, which I believe is my mom's great-great-grandmother. And she has kind of shown up a lot whenever I need more protection or I need to shift my protections in some capacity. Um, and if I don't do it quick enough for her, I will sit in meditation and see a woman, like an elderly woman, waving around a wooden spoon at me, like they're gonna like beat me with it until I actually listen. So I get that message from her very strongly when something needs to change. And so it's gotten to the point where now, if I don't listen to her quick enough, all I see whenever I close my eyes is a wooden spoon. That's not does it work though? I I mean it gets my attention for sure, but different, they they both have different roles though, which is which is the cool thing that you just said. I wish I saw colors. I was it, I wish they showed up prettier than they do. Simon, I wish I didn't have a wooden spoon.

SPEAKER_01 6:06

Yeah, I'm surprised that works, Daisy, because for you, you're like, tell me what to do. I dare you.

SPEAKER_00 6:15

I that I mean, I do have so it it it was a struggle for a long time because I really do have a hard time. I'm I am the type of person that if you tell me what to do, I will intentionally work against I love it though.

SPEAKER_02 6:29

I love it, and we I love because we all have a little rebellion and I love it. Like I'm looking at y'all's charts, you know, and Michelle has this like all has to be on her spiritual path, but it's always unconventional and very different. And then Stacy's got this, you know, too, uh, which we already know. Tell me what to do. I dare you.

SPEAKER_00 6:52

I love it, and I'm gonna drive against it, and then I'm gonna be fighting you every step of the way. And I think that's why, you know, when I started initially talking about Simon, I said, Yeah, Simon's a dick, and it's because he has to be. Because you in in order to work with me, you have to have really tough skin because I'm I'm an asshole and I know it.

SPEAKER_02 7:09

I wouldn't be on a podcast with an asshole. So I'm just saying I don't see an asshole, but whatever. I don't see any asshole.

SPEAKER_01 7:16

Oh, wait, I got quiet.

SPEAKER_03 7:19

I was like, Michelle's like, um sometimes, sometimes what were you going to say? I was gonna say when I see my guides, I see him standing almost in a V formation like this, two here, two here, with my main guide in the middle. And I feel like he's the one that everything mainly comes through. But I know like my red guide is I feel an energy not of this world. I feel like it's a galactic energy of some sort, and it's my adventure. It's my like, you need to go try something new. I see one guide in yellow, and he is like this nostalgia. He is the comfort, he is where I go when I need that hug, that encouragement. And then I see my green one. He is that gut feeling when I walk into a situation that does not feel safe. He's the one that's behind me. It feels kind of like Superman energy. And then I have this lovely blue energy who she wouldn't tell me her name for the longest time, but she's there to hold me accountable and to make sure I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing. And I did know her in my life. She was supposed to teach me so much, but she passed before she could. It is my grandma. So I call her grandma blue now.

SPEAKER_00 8:28

I love that grandma.

SPEAKER_03 8:30

Grandma Blue. So they all have their jobs and they're my main guides. And I never know which one's gonna come through. But we also have guides that are there just to teach us a lesson. Like they may come in for just a minute. You might only meet them one time, you might meet them every three years, you might meet them.

SPEAKER_00 8:50

I love them after a certain point. I love that you're saying that because I remember somebody that came through for me that was a guide. You you actually helped me figure it out, Michelle. The the random energy that I had coming through that was not necessarily of this world, was here to teach me a lesson. And, you know, it was at that point in time that I saw a shift in dream abilities and in and actually being able to travel in my dreams and do different things. So I'm I'm actually connecting her directly in with that that ability in within dreaming, because that it all kind of shifted whenever she showed up. But can we talk for a moment about names of guides?

SPEAKER_02 9:27

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 9:28

So one of the questions I know I get asked quite often is how do I find out my guide's name? Do you guys have any input?

SPEAKER_02 9:36

Because I well, for me, I don't really care. I think it really depends for you if you care. I really don't care if they want to tell me one, cool. But otherwise, for me, it's about feeling it, experiencing it, the communication, quality time. I have a shaman guide too. Doesn't he does not communicate, he just like does this. I don't need names. I mean, I don't know if it's about need, but sometimes people really like them because it makes it easier.

SPEAKER_03 10:06

I like names, but they can get a little confusing because I, as I said, my main guy, he's an angel, he's a very ancient angel. Uh, he told me his name was Shiloh, but come to find out later, that's not his real name. So now I don't know what to call him. I either call him Shiloh Sam or his by his other name. I don't know what to call him. So that's a little bit confusing to me. I just know he's there and I recognize him when I see him. Yeah, the other ones, I think it was just for me because they have very normal names, like my yellow guide, my nurturing guide is Gus. He reminds me of a big teddy bear. And my other guide, his name is Henry, the green one, the Superman-like one. Well, there was a Henry that played Superman once, so maybe that's where it came from. It works for me.

SPEAKER_00 10:54

So I'm gonna throw out there that the the names are typically mostly for us because we are so human, and sometimes we need to have this label to refer to our guides as. So, as I, you know, as I said, my my lead guide is Simon. And is it his name? I don't know. It's one that I'm comfortable using, and he's fine with me calling him because it's that mutual relationship that kind of creates a sense of comfort for us to continue to work with our guides. Um, I know there have been people in the past that have come to me saying, What's my guide's name? And I'll have a name come to me and they love it because now they have this reference point of something that they can call this entity that has been there to help them their entire lives. What I'm going to offer though is if there is a name that our listeners are drawn to and they feel like my guide's name is Joe, cool. Call him Joe. I guarantee you, unless he is really against that name for whatever reason, if your comfort and your ability to continue to work with him or talk to talk to him more is there with the name Joe, go with it. Call him Joe.

SPEAKER_02 12:09

Just have fun. Remember, you bring in your higher state of joy, higher vibration, and the intuitive flow. Have fun with it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 12:18

Yeah. People ask about guides all the time. So I do have another question. I'd love to get your input about it. Very often, you know, some people say that guides have never had human form. What do you think about guides? Who can guides be? Have they never lived or walked this earth? Have they walked this earth? Are they in your soul group? Like, what do you all think?

SPEAKER_02 12:40

Mine are soul group, mine were in families and well, I'm only thinking of three and definitely families in past lives.

SPEAKER_00 12:50

Well, and I'm gonna say my answer to your question is yes to all of the above. Um, I don't think there's any right answer for guides. They can be anything, they can have never had a meat suit, they they could have never walked the earth, or they could have had 500 lives and be here to just chill with you and see you continue to live in your meat suit and experience different things, or they could be archangels. I'm sorry, your meat suit reference, you did it a couple episodes ago.

SPEAKER_03 13:17

I'm like, I just can't.

SPEAKER_00 13:18

That just Hannibal Lecters all I see is Lady Gaga. Okay, you see Hannibal Lecter, I see Lady Gaga, and I appreciate both references, which is why I'm going to continue to refer to our bodies as meat suits. So I I'm gonna I'm gonna throw out there though, the reason that I call bodies meat suits is because I think it actually lightens a little bit of the thought process around death. Okay, and and so hear me out with this one. If you think about the human body passing, we still have our spirit form. We still, we still essentially we go back to spirit, we we become one with the universe. Whatever your personal belief systems are, we go to heaven, we go to hell. Whatever your personal belief systems are, this is this is what happens when we lose our meat suits, when we when our when our human body passes spiritually, you know, we go on to the next phase, whatever that is, whatever our personal belief system is. So I I personally feel kind of, I don't want to say making light of, but looking at the body and the spirit as two separate entities in a way allows us to release death or accept it a little bit easier, which is why I refer to the body as meat suits.

SPEAKER_03 14:33

Okay, well, let me ask you guys this question because this conversation has sparked it. We have guides that we are connected to in our soul group or our higher self. So we have our higher self, we are a piece of our higher self. When we die, we go back to it. So do you think in the lives of other people we are the guides that we have signed up to be the guides for other people, other family members? Sure. I I mean did that make sense?

SPEAKER_00 15:03

It did it because you you're you're basically you're referencing the fact that so going back many episodes. I know we talked about time at one point or another. If we step into this physics belief system that time doesn't really exist, it's a human-created thing. There is no reason to assume that we are just living one life at a time. We can be living an an unending amount of lives all at the same time. So why can't we be a guide in another for another?

SPEAKER_02 15:33

What my guides came through and said is anything's a possibility. Anything's a possibility.

SPEAKER_00 15:37

And and I guess the the challenging thing about that is you know, you can't really come up with something that is so outrageous where we would be like, no, that's not possible, because anything really is possible.

SPEAKER_02 15:49

Anything's possible. And what I love about us and what we say in our podcast is we're students of the universe, and we don't have all the answers, and it's fun just to explore and listen to what our intuition and guides say.

SPEAKER_03 16:04

Exactly.

SPEAKER_02 16:04

And students of the universe. I think you came up with that, Michelle, right? Or did stay.

SPEAKER_03 16:09

I don't know if I came up with it. One of us did, probably it's a term out there so many people use, but as students of the universe, too, like we have our comfort zone and we get to push it and decide and figure out how to use our own abilities within the next lesson, which can be challenging. I am finding that very challenging in a couple of things that I'm doing right now. So I hope that makes sense. Like what?

SPEAKER_01 16:35

Like what?

SPEAKER_03 16:36

Like the forensic uh psychic detective stuff that I'm doing, stepping into that. I find I don't learn real well when I have other people around me who are like throwing out their answers because I start comparing myself to them. So I have to step out of that and find a way that works for me to step into it, unique to me. When we talk about astral travel, like we're doing something completely different with our energy. We're having to, for me, like project it out or to visualize it differently. And it's just a learning process, it's just part of the next step. What are we capable of? Anything is possible. So, how do I push myself to get there? How do I make my abilities work for me in this new scenario?

SPEAKER_02 17:22

I think it's time to start reading the book. I think it's time to start reading up on it.

SPEAKER_00 17:27

Yeah. Well, I I am also going to throw out there too, because you're sparking within me that it's it's the human experience meets the spiritual experience because there are things that I struggle with. You know, I um was looking at something a couple weeks ago and I was really like I connected with my guides. I I was convinced like this is going to happen for me. It's this is without a doubt. Like I just I had this gut feeling, like the answer is yes, moving forward. The answer is yes, this is this is my next step. And then all of a sudden it didn't happen. So I kind of took a step back going, so is there a lesson here, or am I did I step into some sort of self-doubt and I kind of tripped up my own energy? And I remember I looked at a friend of mine and I said, What what the hell? Like everything was saying yes, everything was saying yes. And then when it didn't happen, I was like, I I don't I don't understand. And she said, It's not necessarily that it didn't give you what you needed. So she's like, the answer is still yes.

SPEAKER_02 18:34

That's what my guys were just saying. The answer is still yes, it's just not the time because but the answer is yes, it's just not in the way you were expecting it to be.

SPEAKER_00 18:45

And she said, This got you to do the next steps that you were perhaps not wanting to do, not because of laziness, but because you just busy and you're you're you get stuck, right? So updating things, doing things in your life kind of gets put to the wayside because we're human, and when human meets spirituality and you get excited about something, and and I'm gonna use an example because it that's not real life, okay, because I'm married, everybody knows that I'm married. Um, but if somebody wants a boyfriend, a book friend, just bound, thank you. Um Michelle's gonna do it one of these days. Somebody wants a bookfriend and and they are they meet somebody and they hit it off with them, and they're like, This is this is it, this is the next person in my life, and they start asking their guides, and their guides are like, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. So they start to put themselves out there, and then all of a sudden it does not work out with said person, it's kind of like the same same energy, but what needed to happen is they started to put themselves out there. It's not about the specific person or that specific direction, they had to change something in their current situation to open them up for what's right.

SPEAKER_02 20:04

And we've talked about how the guides won't give you clear-cut answers, they're gonna give you some answers, but then you can't beat yourself up and go, Well, but that you said yes, I did. And it is going to happen, but it was supposed to be this. No, I'm just saying yes. So don't listeners, don't beat yourself up because it's not that black and white, it's not the communication is metaphors and it's it's the timing is relevant, which is frustrating for us.

SPEAKER_03 20:39

So, is that one of the things you find most frustrating working with the guides is not having a clear-cut path forward. You're getting answers, you're getting breadcrumbs, but you gotta fill in the in-between.

SPEAKER_02 20:52

With my pain, I've talked about my I had whore debilitating nerve pain. And as I sat down, they were like, This is a blimp in time, it's gonna be over. I mean, it was debilitating, and it was a uh over a year, spent almost five thousand dollars trying all different kinds of treatments from doctors to you know all different Eastern stuff, and finally found someone and it released, and it was like, oh, they were they were right, but they were telling me yes, and I was like, okay, yes, going to this person, it's gonna heal it.

SPEAKER_00 21:26

No, but it was a step that you needed to take to the healing that you actually needed.

SPEAKER_02 21:32

And I learned if they would have said, okay, it's gonna take this long, you're gonna meet this person, then I'm not gonna take that journey and I'm not gonna have empathy for people who go through pain because what I learned. You could I could read this all day, but because I now know pain changes your behavior, it changes your thought process, it changes your outlook. You know, people living with. Debilitating pain, I have so much more empathy for them. Because some people are like, God, they're so cranky, or God, they're this. And it's like, oh, I get it. I get it.

SPEAKER_00 22:12

Well, and I'm gonna throw it there. One of one of the things that really comes up for me is sometimes my guide has given me some really, really, really powerful messages, some really good stuff, you know, down the pike that that's coming, you know, some things that, you know, I'm I'm looking forward to, you know, in five or six years. However, I know sometimes they give me really, really good things when really, really challenging things are going to be coming up in my life. And so it's almost like this double-edged sword of I'm gonna give you this really cool visual, but hold on tight.

SPEAKER_02 22:47

Yeah, because something big for you is at four years, but it's still gonna, you're still gonna get other stuff before the four years.

SPEAKER_00 22:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 22:53

Like a uh, I mean, I feel like a really, really sweet position.

SPEAKER_00 22:58

But they give me some really, really, really good messages though, just to kind of help me through the challenging times.

SPEAKER_03 23:05

Right. It's nice to know we have these cheerleaders in our corner, even though sometimes they're not, I mean, they're always cheering us on, but it doesn't feel like the messages coming through are so, so happy. But I will say that during a lot of the readings that I do and a lot of the people I have talked to about things, they're always interested and curious about how to connect better with their spirit guides. How do you get to that point where you're having the conversation? Do you have any advice either of you for like a practice they could do?

SPEAKER_00 23:37

Or I know Carissa does, but I'm gonna share my my piece first because Carissa, I know, has some like some better information than I think we could do we could if we want to end with a quick exercise, we could do that. My suggestion is always to just talk to him, start by talking to him. Um, when you're alone or when you're even with other people in your mind, you know, see your spirit guide and start talking to them. You know, I talk to Simon regularly. I'm not necessarily talking out loud, but I'm talking in my mind, asking questions and, you know, acknowledging his presence, acknowledging that I know he's with me. And that will start to open you up to any communication that they have in return, because you're actually building that relationship because they're not going to connect with you if you don't know they're there. Even if they're trying, even if they're standing like here, screaming in your face, you're not going to be able to see or experience them because you have not acknowledged their presence. So it really starts that that's that's the ground zero. Start talking to them.

SPEAKER_03 24:44

Start talking to them. Show your gratitude when things show up and say, please continue that. I think that's really important. And I know I've said this before in the podcast, but it relates here. Be open to how that information comes through because some people will be able to clearly see their guides. Some people will be able to hear their guides or to smell their guides. It's going to be unique to you. So just be open to how that comes through and ask for more. That would be my advice there.

SPEAKER_02 25:15

So we're all going to close our eyes, start taking some deep breaths to really ground in the moment. Allowing your muscles to relax in your face, your jaw to loosen, your head to be heavy, your shoulders to drop, your belly to poof out in relaxation, and your upper back melt deeper into the chair. And your lower body root more into the chair in the earth beneath you. And taking another big deep inhalation and exhalation and bringing your breathing back to a more normal rhythm, but just a tad bit deeper. As our breath is our greatest resource. It's the first thing we can always fall back on. And allow yourself to fall backwards more in inwards and inwards. And allow your creative imagination to flow. And you can either see things, you can feel them, you can just experience them. Allow whatever to come naturally. And behind this door is gonna connect you to a spirit guide. And as you reach for the door, before you open it, silently within say, My intention is to connect with my spirit guide for higher knowledge, for awareness, or just connection. And as you open the door and you step in and shut the door behind you, and notice that there's stairs going downward. And with each step, as you descend more and more, you're becoming deeper within yourself and closer to the spirit guide. Away from the world and more into the unseen world. In a relaxed and loving space, you continue to descend until you come to a room. And as you walk deeper into the room, you notice there's two chairs sitting there. And walk to those chairs. Your spirit guide may be in one of those chairs, or maybe not. Have a seat in one of those chairs. And taking another good grounding deep breath. Feeling grateful, calm, secure, at peace, excited. And silently within say, I'm now ready to connect with my spirit guide. And I'm open to any guidance or any knowledge they would like to share. Or connection. Take a moment to look at that chair and notice what you see or feel. It could be sensations in your body. And if you feel sensations, if you see something, if you smell or hear, and silently within say thank you so much for showing up. Is there anything you need me to know? And it could come in an image, a feeling, sensation, or a knowing. Not as much as thoughts, because we are in the right brain intuitive state. And allowed a calm. Whatever shows, appears, feels natural. And then if you need to ask again, silently within, thank you for that. Is there anything else that you want to show me that you need from me or want me to know? And then as you express your gratitude, you stand up. If you'd like to embrace, you can. And start moving back towards the stairs and ascending one step at a time. Coming back to the physical reality. Back to this time. And as you see the door, you open the door and walk out. Shut the door behind you. And on your next inhalation, flutter your eyes open and come back to the present moment.

SPEAKER_03 30:15

So what came through for you? Your guide guides there, a different guy.

SPEAKER_02 30:20

So for me, it was the shaman guy, but it was more nothing. It was just the guidance. I was holding space for everybody else. But no, it was me just being a guide. That's the problem. When you're the teacher or the guide, it's not the same as the sitter.

SPEAKER_00 30:36

Was Simon there? Of course. And he told me to stop calling him a dick.

SPEAKER_03 30:40

I was wondering if he would say that. I thought he was an asshole. It's an asshole or dick.

SPEAKER_00 30:45

Probably both. I probably use them, you know, at different times because he is a smart ass.

SPEAKER_03 30:51

So okay. Well, I just want to put out there, Simon, I do not think you're an asshole or a dick. So please still be present when Stacy's doing my Reiki sessions.

SPEAKER_00 31:00

Well, what I'm gonna say is my response to him was to stop being one. So we want so far relationship. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 31:10

What about you, Michelle? I just saw some different colors and my main guide was there.

SPEAKER_00 31:17

Aww yeah. I was actually expecting to see a wooden spoon this time, though. And I didn't. So I was that was kind of I was grateful for that.

SPEAKER_03 31:26

Well fun. Okay, get rid of it. Thanks for doing that. That's a good one to end this episode. So let's see how our memory is. Stay classy. Stay that assy.