guidelines when trying to connect

[Laurenaus]

To Erin or whoever wants to contribute

I'd like to try channeling and connecting to my guides--if I'd like to keep random entities away what kind of intention can I use to maintain guidelines while connecting to ensure accuracy and messages that are for my higher good? Also if I want guidance on everyday concrete specific things--not so much broad enlightening sort of fluffy messages do I just consult with my personal guides? thanks a lot

[Lightgirl]

Keep your vibration high by doing things that you love.
Set an intention to receive guidance from your spirit guides and higher self.
Don't wait for clear images and voices with specific guidance - you will first receive thoughts and intuitive nudges to do something, so don't discard those as simply your imagination.
Trust that what you receive is genuine guidance from your spirit. You will know this by the way the information feels to you - it should come out very naturally, because even when you receive information from your spirit guides, who are not exactly you or your higher self, their energy is very familiar to you and it feels very much like your own, like something that you know very well.
It is good to try to see all the signs in the physical world around you, which is just a mirror of your inner world. Try to see it that way and you will start noticing a lot of signs and synchronicities.

You can read a book "Practical Intuition" by Laura Day, which teaches how to use your own intuition for very practical things. It's also very good at helping you learn to trust your insights.

I hope this is of any help to you. Anyway, I'm just talking from my own experience and about things that work for me.

[PracticallyIntuitive]

I learned this "prayer" from one of my teachers (Rose Rosetree) and use it before each reading I do. (It's taken from "Teachings from the Inner Christ" as I recall)

I AM (your name)
I AM in control of my mind
I AM the only authority in my life
I AM objectively and subjectively balanced at all times.
I close off my aura TO ALL BUT MY OWN HIGHER SELF
and only those beings of the highest vibration who are with me at the choice of my soul.
Thank you Mother/Father God and so it is.

This way, I stay clear of anything I don't want in there while I am working.

FYI, my Guides give me lots of everyday guidance - can be in a myriad of ways: songs, people who say what I need to hear, books that come in front of me ... there are many ways. I am clairaudient so I do tend to hear them in my head but that's not the only way to feel connected to them.

Hope this helps!

[Laurenaus]

thank you everyone for answering my question