Can
You Fire Your Spirit Guides for Poor Performance?
by
Julia Melges-Brenner. Copyright Sabrina Scott, Inc. All rights
reserved. Written for and originally published in Kajama.
Dear
Julia:
Can you ask
for new and better spirit guides? I feel like my guides aren't doing a
very good job. I'm not getting anything I want in life and am going
through all sorts of bad luck.
Kevin
Dear Kevin:
I believe what you need is not new spirit guides but rather greater
understanding of their role along with working knowledge of the law of
attraction and how to step into your own divine power to create what
you want in your life.
The first thing to understand is that your spirit guides are not
responsible for what happens in your life. Let's say that your life is
a corporation. It sounds like you are viewing your guides as employees
who are falling down on the job, when they are really more like
consultants you can call upon to help you figure out how to build
greater success and make things run more smoothly.
Though our spirit guides and angels are always available to us, they
can't and won't step in without being asked to do so, for we always
have free will. Further, whether we like it or not, we are all creating
our own realities. Our guides' role is not to take over or even make
things happen for us, but to give us ideas on how we can do whatever
must be done to fulfill our desires.
It's my understanding that for the most part, we all have a guide that
is with us from birth until death plus guides who come and go depending
on what we are working on at any particular time. The bigger we live,
the more guides we tend to have working with us. For example, someone
who is settling for the same old job and relationship they entered into
decades ago because they lack the faith and motivation to reach for
something higher may not have any specialized guides working with them
at all, while someone who is working as a healer of some kind could
have a whole team of specialists guiding them through each day and
working intensively with them at night in other dimensions of
experience.
Our guides are always perfectly suited for us at any given time. While
it's true that we may sometimes get new guides, usually this is because
we have changed or are about to embark on some special task, dream or
goal. To use the business metaphor again, this is like having a
traditional medical practice and deciding to switch to a holistic
approach that emphasizes preventive medicine. When we open up to new
experiences and endeavors, our needs may change, which can summon new
help from Spirit. This means the more actively we pursue our own
spiritual growth and go for our dreams, the more often we tend to
experience a spiritual changing of the guards.
We can't make this happen whenever we feel like it because we all come
into life with certain goals and lessons we need to learn. In a way, we
"earn" new guides and higher levels of experience by mastering whatever
we've been working on. Once we grow and develop beyond what our current
guides can do for us, we'll be ready for new ones.
I have heard many stories from different spiritual seekers about new
guides coming into their lives. I remember one woman who took up a
disciplined practice of yoga and spiritual growth when she was
diagnosed with breast cancer. One day not long after this, while
meditating after an hour or so of yoga, she became mentally aware of an
old Hindu wise man who was patiently waiting for her to notice him.
When she acknowledged his presence, she was able to mentally dialogue
with him, which is when she learned that he was a new guide sent to
help her through a time of spiritual healing and exploration.
Sometimes, new guides move in just before transitions get into full
swing. The more we are conscious of our guides in general, the more
we'll tend to be aware of such developments. Since I began working as a
spiritual counselor decades ago, there have been a few times when I
suddenly became aware of a new guide or group of guides during
meditation, and each time, I got the sense that they had been there for
a while, waiting for me to become ready to work with them in a more
conscious way. Spirit is always aware of what we need before we become
aware of it ourselves. Since our guides are always leading us forward,
new guides tend to show up before we become aware of why they may be
needed. Whether we are aware of them before moving into new spiritual
territory or not largely depends on how psychically aware we are of
what is happening on this level of experience.
If you're not happy with the way your life is going, it could actually
be because
you are blaming your guides! You didn't describe your relationship with
your guides and whether you are consciously working with them at all,
but if you are aware of guides and they seem to be leading you astray,
you're probably being influenced by metaphysical beings who are not
guides at all. It is important to always test any spirits we interact
with; we do this in part by evaluating how they make us feel and how
sound and helpful their guidance proves to be. If you are listening to
and acting on the suggestions of spirits and it is not going well for
you, you can be sure you're dealing with lower level entities and not
divine helpers.
Further, whenever we blame anything outside of ourselves for how we
feel and how things are going, we give away our power to create what we
want in our lives. In blaming your guides for your bad luck, you are
disempowering yourself and keeping yourself down. To turn things
around, you'll have to take responsibility for how you feel and begin
to consciously work with the law of attraction. You'll also have to
pull yourself out of this emotional slump and cultivate a higher
vibration so you can hear your true guides and work with them to create
a higher level of experience. I've written a great deal on how to
cultivate a high vibration. For starters, check out Raising Your Vibration for Spirit Communication.
If you want things to go smoothly and your dreams to come true, you'll
have to shift out of this passive approach in which you expect your
guides to take care of things for you, and become willing to do "the
work." Engaging in regular spiritual practice like yoga and meditation
will help you gain control of your vibration and become more open and
receptive to Spirit's guidance. You'll also want to consciously ask for
Spirit's help: pray to your guides to send you signs and pay attention
to your intuition. The more you meditate and ask questions within, the
more guidance you'll receive and the better things will tend to go. If
there are any issues or wounds from the past that need healing, you
will be led back to them again and again in the form of problems until
you fully resolve them, so make sure you are doing all you can to
cultivate peace, wisdom, and inner purity.
Finally, I recommend you reach for a more grateful, friendly attitude
toward your guides. Instead of fantasizing about firing them for poor
performance, recognize that they have been available to help you all
along, and have done many wonderful things for you that you didn't know
were attributable to them. Though spirit guides are beyond getting
angry or upset, it is nevertheless wise to remain thankful for all the
help, guidance and support that is always available to us.
Julia
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