Wisdom from Your Spirit Guides: A Handbook to Contact Your Soul's Greatest Teachers

by James Van Praagh

Overview

Your Spirit Guides Are Waiting to Talk to You!

Whether you realize it or not, you’re in constant contact with your spirit guides. Your spirit guides, a team of energetic beings, are ever-present spiritual teachers offering guidance, support, wisdom, and love.

In this book, world-renowned spiritual medium James Van Praagh shares the benefits and rewards of having a conscious relationship with your guides. You’ll explore the many different guides you can encounter over the course of your life and lifetimes, including earth guides who have physical bodies and those who reside in the Spirit realm. Since our soul’s energy is constantly changing, our guides, too, are changing, making for a rich and infinite array of possibilities.

You will also discover where the guides come from and what they are here to do. James offers insights from the guides that deal with common situations, and shows you how to make contact with your own inner guides and protect yourself from unwanted energies. The book features a series of powerful energy-raising exercises and meditations to enrich your journey to understanding your guides and the assistance they can impart on your life. In doing so, you’ll learn how to work with your chakra points, increase your heart space, and ground yourself to receive messages from your guides.

“From the moment we take our first breath, our unseen support team is always nearby to assist and take care of us. Even in the most desperate of moments, we are never alone. There are many beings encouraging you to rise up and believe in yourself, or to find an aspect of yourself that you have forgotten which can strengthen your resolve.”

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781401951382
Publisher:	Hay House Inc.
Publication date:	10/24/2017
Sold by:	Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format:	eBook
Pages:	272
Sales rank:	428,317
File size:	7 MB

About the Author

James Van Praagh is the internationally renowned #1 New York Times best-selling author of a dozen books, including the most recent The Power of Love. He has worked as the voice of the Spirit World for the past 30 years and has appeared onOprah, Larry King Live, Dr. Phil, Coast to Coast, and many other programs. He is also the successful creator and producer of CBS’s long-running series Ghost Whisperer, starring Jennifer Love Hewitt. James recently launched The James Van Praagh School of Mystical Arts, an online school that offers a variety of learning experiences, from professional certifications to audio and video courses, with live calls and online forums. Website: www.vanpraagh.com

Table of Contents

Introduction xi

Part I The Guides

Chapter 1 What Are Guides? 3

Spirit Guides 5

Earth Guides 7

Guides Are Close By 9

How Long Do Our Guides Stay with Us? 11

Are Guides Assigned to Us? 12

A Sacred Contract 13

Spirit Guides Are Always Learning 16

Chapter 2 Where Guides Reside 17

The Realms 18

The Physical Dimension 19

Animals as Guides 20

The Astral Dimension 24

The Etheric Dimension 25

The Spiritual Dimension 26

The Celestial Dimension 27

How Guides Influence Us 29

Chapter 3 Understanding Your Guides 31

The Expression of Guides 32

The Energy of Guides 33

Questions About Guides 34

How Guides Contact Us 38

Part II Personal Guides

Chapter 4 Master Guide 45

Master Guide and Guardian Angel 46

Golden Feather 47

Know Your Master Guide 49

Chapter 5 The Gatekeeper 51

The Zulu Warrior 52

The Winchester House 53

Uninvited Guests 56

Guarding Yourself 57

Chapter 6 Relationship Guides 59

Love Bonds 60

Family Dynamics 61

Endings 63

A Guide's Function 64

Chapter 7 Healing Helpers 67

My Healing Guide 67

A Healer's Advice 68

Spirit Doctors 70

Chapter 8 Inspiration Guides 73

Finding Inspiration 74

Spiritualist Teachers 75

An Inspirational Thinker for All Time 77

Part III Lessons from My Guides

Chapter 9 On Treating Others 83

Lesson 1 Never Judge Another 84

Lesson 2 Follow the Golden Rule 86

Lesson 3 Give Without Expectation 87

Chapter 10 On Being True to Yourself 89

Lesson 4 Don't Relinquish Your Power 89

Lesson 5 Your Beliefs Are Right for You 93

Lesson 6 Be Yourself 95

Chapter 11 On Greater Truths 101

Lesson 7 Accept Struggles as Lessons 101

Lesson 8 Thoughts Create Your Reality 104

Lesson 9 Stay Open-Minded 108

Part IV Contacting Your Guides

Chapter 12 Training Your Mind 113

Preliminary Ground Rules 114

Set Your Intention 116

Shifting Your Awareness 117

Opening the Channel 119

Experience the Spirit Space 121

Chapter 13 Moving Past Blocks 125

Knowledge Is King 125

Birds of a Feather 127

The Development Circle 127

Nourish Your Soul 131

Examine Your Intentions 131

Chapter 14 Raising Your Energy 133

Sensing Energy 134

Reading an Energy Field 135

Chakra Points 136

Grounding Your Energy 140

Increase Your Heart Space 142

Raising Your Energy 143

Chapter 15 Making Contact 145

Getting to Know Your Guide 147

Receive, Organize, Apply 150

Mind Meld 152

Greeting Your Etheric Council 154

Epilogue 159

Acknowledgments 161

About the Author 163

Editorial Reviews

"Wisdom from Your Spirit Guides is a beautiful, grounded, and welcoming invitation to engage deeply and personally with your allies in the subtle realms. It shows the perfect way to connect with the love and support waiting there for you."
— Sonia Choquette, New York Times best-selling author of Your 3 Best Super Powers"

James Van Praagh is the master at sharing insights and truths that comfort and inspire. Wisdom from Your Spirit Guides is filled with heartwarming stories, deep understandings, and fun exercises that will convince anyone they’re not alone in having to navigate their wondrous adventure through time and space."
— Mike Dooley, New York Times best-selling author of From Deep Space with Love

"In his new book, Wisdom from Your Spirit Guides, James Van Praagh helps readers develop an understanding that we all have access to something higher within and beyond ourselves. This book shows us how to become consciously aware of our relationship to our spirit guides so that we can feel more supported, inspired, and fulfilled. I love everything about this beautiful book and I recommend it those who are ready to enhance their spiritual path."
— Gabby Bernstein, #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Universe Has Your Back

"Wisdom from Your Spirit Guides is the most comprehensive book on spirit guides ever written. If you want to understand everything there is to know about your spirit guardians and their messages for you, go no further! In a step-by-step manner that anyone can master, you will learn how to hear the secret messages from these loving beings. Highly recommended!"
— Denise Linn, internationally renowned teacher and best-selling author of Kindling the Native Spirit

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