Learning how to channel my spirit guides has been one of the most transformative practices both for my spiritual path and my life.

Challenging your guides does not require that you to be a special person like a psychic or a clairvoyant, it just needs for you to be open to the experience and also willing to learn how to do it since each one of us can get in contact with their spirit guides.

In this article, we’re going to explore some basics around the concept of channeling spirit guides, and some important things to have in mind when you’re starting out and becoming a channel of Spirit.

So, if you’re ready, let’s begin.

The Core of Channeling, How Intuition, Presence, and Healing Open the Way

Intuition Is Your Inner Compass

Before your attempting your first channeling sessions, it is important to note that you need to have established a good sense of how your intuition is communicating with you.

Your intuition is your compass that aids you in learning how to discern true high-level guidance from ego-centered chatter.

Your intuition also serves as the bridge between you and Spirit, since it is through the right hemisphere of your brain that is the place from where your intuition enters your thought stream.

Your intuition is your compass that aids you in learning how to discern true high-level guidance from ego-centered chatter.

So, when you have developed your intuition, it means that you have also developed your ability to tune in to the right hemisphere of your brain, which also acts as an interface between you and your spirit guides.

Higher Consciousness Requires Surrender, Not Control

As I mentioned above, for you to communicate with Spirit you need to develop your ability to engage your brain’s right hemisphere.

And talking about the left and the right hemispheres of your brain, one of the biggest antagonists for you to connect with your spirit guide is your own mind, logic, and reasoning that comes through the left side or hemisphere of your brain.

Your mind, which is also referred to as your Ego, desires certainty, and to have control. Channeling requires trust and surrender.

As I have mentioned though in another article where I was talking about intuition, your ego-mind should not be seen as an enemy, rather than an important part of your ability to function in your everyday life.

Your mind, which is also referred to as your Ego, desires certainty, and to have control. Channeling requires trust and surrender.

But the mind cannot enter the higher dimensions from where your spirit guides are sending you their guidance, because this is not its role. What you need is to learn ways to bypass your mind, and by doing so, open to your intuition that operates through feeling, imagery, and symbolism.

Channeling Is a Journey of Healing and Energetic Harmony

Channeling, besides being a vehicle of receiving guidance and gaining information that cannot be accessed through the five senses alone, can also become a vehicle of healing.

In my case, when I started connecting with my spirit guides, it was their support and also their ability to give spiritual context around the challenges that I was facing at the time that helped me view my life through a totally different lens. I started from feeling a victim of circumstances to becoming the one who navigated the wheel of my life.

7 Easy Steps to Learn How to Channel Spirit Guides and Call on Them

1. Learn How to Recognize Yourself as a Natural Channel

As I stated above, channeling is not reserved for a few special people, but it’s available to all of us.

It is not about learning to do something from scratch, but more about rediscovering your ability to connect with higher wisdom.

This can come in many forms, and in my case, when I was younger, the fact that I had a very vivid imagination, to where what I imagined felt almost tangible, was the sign that I was receiving spiritual downloads without knowing it.

As I stated above, channeling is not reserved for a few special people, but it’s available to all of us.

To recap, channeling can be expressed in many ways. For example, one of the most common one is when you receive ideas, or inspiration, during your day-to-day life, which makes you realize that there’s something guiding your way because you wouldn’t have thought about these insights just using reason alone.

2. Learn How to Let Go of Mental Resistance

As I discussed, one of the biggest blocks in receiving divine guidance is your own mind.

Your mind can litter your mental space by flooding it with doubts and fears about the concept of channeling, especially when you are trying to channel for the first time.

For me, the biggest hurdle was my doubt I was receiving true guidance, and that I was not making things up.

My guides at the time assisted me in overcoming this doubt to a great degree, by making short-term predictions that would come to pass, something that helped to ease my mind’s worries that I was just imagining things.

Your mind can litter your mental space by flooding it with doubts and fears about the concept of channeling, especially when you are trying to channel for the first time.

On that note, when I became proficient in channeling, my guides removed those “training wheels” of giving me predictions and told me I was the one who oversaw my future and that by relying on predictions I would sabotage my ability to manifest the life that I wanted.

This step will take some time for you to achieve. A simple thing you can do is to stop resisting to your mind when doubts and fears come up when trying to channel and just accept them. Then say something in the line, “Thank you for your support, I will take it into consideration” and turn your attention back to the session.

3. Strengthen Your Trust That You Can Channel by Dropping Into Your Heart Space

Another good preparation step that you can take before you start your challenging sessions at the beginning is to connect to your Heart Center.

Your Heart is also the center of your own inner Christ, the source of your intuition, that allows you to open and surrender to the wisdom of Spirit.

One simple practice you can do to drop into your heart space, is after taking a few conscious breaths and relaxing your body, to imagine a dot of light in the center of your chest, that is radiating light, and that with each breath you take this light will become stronger and stronger till you reach a point where you feel your heart’s radiance is enough and stop “adding light” to it with your breath and just be.

Your Heart is also the center of your own inner Christ, the source of your intuition, that allows you to open and surrender to the wisdom of Spirit.

This practice will harmonize your aura, and also help you move your attention from your mind to the world of feelings, the entrance to the higher dimensions of spirit.

4. Learn How to Access Higher Consciousness Through Intuition

Learning to trust your intuition, as I discussed above, is a very important thing if you want to communicate with spirit.

It is the first step that you take to switch from your reason-driven way of approaching life towards enriching your life by gaining access to higher consciousness.

5. Learn How to Trust What You Feel Over What You Think

If you’re not yet accustomed to listening to your intuition, there’s also another way for you to open up to spiritual guidance, and that is by paying attention to your feelings.

Your emotional body acts as the litmus test of when you’re open to higher guidance or you’re listening to your ego-mind.

When you feel agitated, stressed out, and tense, it is a sign that you’re not operating from a place of receptivity to your higher consciousness. When you receive higher guidance, your emotional body reflects that by feeling calm and at peace even if the guidance that you are offered is having has to do with challenging situations in your life.

Your emotional body acts as the litmus test of when you’re open to higher guidance or you’re listening to your ego-mind.

Because true guidance from higher consciousness is often followed by feelings of peace, trust, and expansion, by learning to relax your body through practices like conscious breathing, or by scanning your body and intent places of tension to open up and let go you can prime yourself in receiving clear guidance.

6. Learn How to Use Automatic Writing to Channel Higher Guidance

When I first started channeling my guides, I used to communicate with them through automatic writing. I would sit in front of my first computer, and after aligning myself to them, type a question and then continue typing anything that would come through.

At some point, I reached a level where I could channel using my voice as a vehicle for transmitting information coming from my guides. For years, I combined both ways of channeling, especially when I was giving a reading to a friend or a group.

Nowadays, I mostly use automatic writing because I have retired from giving readings to other people and is my preferred method of communicating with my guides since I don’t bother anyone by using my voice, and also feel that it less taxing to my energy.

You can learn to do that too. You just need to have a notebook or if you prefer to sit in front of your laptop. After preparing yourself either by grounding, conscious breathing, or visualizing light coming from your crown from the top of your head down through your body, and after writing the question, let yourself be open to whatever comes. It might be a phrase, a symbol, or even a feeling. Do not censor anything, just write it down or type it down. And that’s it.

In the long run, you will be accustomed, in this form of communicating with your spirit guides, and what you will receive will become richer and richer with each session.

7. Learn How to Discern Real Guidance from Imagination

If you have applied the steps that I mentioned before this one, I’m sure that you have managed to develop a good level of trust that what you receive is real guidance and that you are not making it up.

But if you are still struggling, I would advise you to give readings too very close friends of yours.

I know that this might sound daunting, but trust me, if you take this leap of faith and do some readings for close friends, and witness their expression when they realize that what you are transmitting throughout the session is of importance to them you will build a very solid foundation in trusting that what you receive from your guides is the real thing.

Conclusion

As you might have probably noticed by now, channeling is not reserved for the few, but is something that everyone can learn to cultivate in order to connect with their spirit guides.

It will take practice and persistence, but in the end, the rewards of establishing this communication with Spirit will be plentiful, enriching your life, aligning you with your purpose and your soul.

Till next time, take care.