How can you tell if a psychic truly connected with your spirit guides

[Minerva]

I have to admit part of me is a skeptic at times with the notion of spirit guides and part of it doesn't help when I see various psychics and each one claims to have contacted my spirit guides but they each have a different view of how my spirit guides look, or their names and even their messages. How can we be sure of which psychic is right?

I have that scientist kind of mind and I like to do research and experiment especially if it involves something close to my heart and I need verification. And I have spoken to a lot of psychics LOL But I don't feel comforted to know that there are discrepancies of my spirit guides with them. I actually start to feel frustrated when they say that my spirit guides are giving certain messages and I am like 'that is not my spirit guides' and it doesn't resonate with me.

I just want to know-- why the differences? Do all psychics truly tune in correctly to your own spirit guides? Is there a way to tell if a psychic is a legit one with your spirit guides? And why the messages I get from my spirit guides don't seem to match certain other psychics? They all claim to contact your spirit guides, but at times it just doesn't seem like it. What is going on??

Thank you Erin or anyone else for any replies cause I am just baffled on this and let down on the whole concept of spirit guides cause of it.

[HiImJeremy]

i intend on writing about my findings with Spirit Guides soon. Stay tuned

Furthermore, i've had similar feelings and thoughts and understand where you're coming from.

[Minerva]

I so remember you telling me this and I am looking forward to your writing.
And thank you for understanding where I am coming from too. It means a lot that I am not the only one.

[Erin Pavlina]

Great question.

First, when I do a reading the guides come to me as a collective energy, but when I ask them to separate out they will do so. It's always best if you find your guides on your own. Don't ask a psychic to tell you a name or a personality. that robs you of your power and your relationship with yoru guides.

Second, guides don't have names. they agree to let us call them by a name because they know it helps us keep them sorted. I would be leary of a psychic who tells you your guides names unless they give you this disclaimer. Sometimes, a guide DOES give a name. And that's okay becuase sometimes they really want you to call them by that name. But mostly, you are to recognize their energy signature.

And lastly, a good intuitive should give you some validation during the reading that she or he is really tuned in to you by providing you with some information he or she couldn't know through logic.

Also some psychics tune in to higher selves, spirit guides, angels, ascended masters, or even Source itself. They may think they are tuning in to guides when in reality its something else.

[Minerva]

First, when I do a reading the guides come to me as a collective energy, but when I ask them to separate out they will do so. It's always best if you find your guides on your own. Don't ask a psychic to tell you a name or a personality. that robs you of your power and your relationship with yoru guides.

Ah, thank you. I must admit I have had a few readings on my spirit guides and only one of them hit home with me and resonated beautifully with me. And it matched to what I already felt and knew what was around me. Thank you for pointing out that I have the answers inside and that I can know and I do believe I do know about my spirit guides and more importantly that energy signature that you pointed out! That is true!

And lastly, a good intuitive should give you some validation during the reading that she or he is really tuned in to you by providing you with some information he or she couldn't know through logic.

~Best Advice Ever~ I so remember reading your articles on how to determine the scams from the real deal and I forgot about this notion.
Having validation during the reading is so important indeed. And I agree it can't be done through duh duh logic *lol* It is like saying 'my mom passed away' and so I go and see a medium and they are like, 'you are feeling very sad.'

I have had this one psychic and I swear she scared me cause the details during the reading were so specific and dead on. She was like "You like to bake and he likes to cook." How did she know? "He just bought cooking pans." He did!! "He loves to come home and get right into his jeans. He hates his dress clothes." She is 100% correct. It was freaky. And so when she told me what could happen in the future, there was so much validation of specific stuff that is not by logic-- I knew I could trust what she says about the future then. Funny thing is-- she never heard about a spirit guide and she said she had no clue about that stuff or chakras. She said she just hears a voice and listens. And she works for the police in helping finding people since she is so specific of the present.....which actually kind of makes me nervous if she is right about the future....

Thank you Erin!!

[Federer]

Great advice Erin and great question by minerva.

[angel A]

Originally Posted by Minerva

Ah, thank you. I must admit I have had a few readings on my spirit guides and only one of them hit home with me and resonated beautifully with me. And it matched to what I already felt and knew what was around me. Thank you for pointing out that I have the answers inside and that I can know and I do believe I do know about my spirit guides and more importantly that energy signature that you pointed out! That is true!



~Best Advice Ever~ I so remember reading your articles on how to determine the scams from the real deal and I forgot about this notion.
Having validation during the reading is so important indeed. And I agree it can't be done through duh duh logic *lol* It is like saying 'my mom passed away' and so I go and see a medium and they are like, 'you are feeling very sad.'

I have had this one psychic and I swear she scared me cause the details during the reading were so specific and dead on. She was like "You like to bake and he likes to cook." How did she know? "He just bought cooking pans." He did!! "He loves to come home and get right into his jeans. He hates his dress clothes." She is 100% correct. It was freaky. And so when she told me what could happen in the future, there was so much validation of specific stuff that is not by logic-- I knew I could trust what she says about the future then. Funny thing is-- she never heard about a spirit guide and she said she had no clue about that stuff or chakras. She said she just hears a voice and listens. And she works for the police in helping finding people since she is so specific of the present.....which actually kind of makes me nervous if she is right about the future....

Thank you Erin!!

I reckon that psychics have different degrees of development,some more than others, thats why we should not think that any one psychic knows all the answers. Take me for an example,i'm a healer and practice Reiki, but have not really explored crystal healing, which many Reiki healers use.It doesn't make the healing i offer any less effective, crystals just enhance the healing.

It must be the same with psychics! The psychic you visited may be good at what she does, but if she learned and developed more, could possibly tell you about your Guide,although i think Guides are personal to us so why would they reveal themseves to someone else!

I have never bothered about finding my angel/Guides name because, it doesn't matter, i know that their energy is with me.It doesn't really matter what they look like either,although i sense that they are very tall and slim. I'm not sure if its male or female yet, so maybe i am not fully ready to know that yet.

I wonder if ,because we are human and have human traits,such as judging a book by it's cover,it would interfere with our perception, of our Angel/Guides,if we knew their identity without ,first,learning to trust them completely!Learning to trust and get to know them, takes some people a life time, or like me, many years!

[Minerva]

Originally Posted by angel A

I reckon that psychics have different degrees of development,some more than others, thats why we should not think that any one psychic knows all the answers. Take me for an example,i'm a healer and practice Reiki, but have not really explored crystal healing, which many Reiki healers use.It doesn't make the healing i offer any less effective, crystals just enhance the healing.

It must be the same with psychics! The psychic you visited may be good at what she does, but if she learned and developed more, could possibly tell you about your Guide,although i think Guides are personal to us so why would they reveal themseves to someone else!

Good point!

I have another question for Erin or anyone else:

Why is it when I get a reading, some of the reading fits and is correct and then some pieces are wrong? Should I dismiss the whole reading? Or should I pick and chose? Do psychics tune in correctly and then tune out, etc?

[Erin Pavlina]

Psychics are picking up information energetically that has to be translated into language. In my experience, most intuitives pick up the energy correctly but can sometimes fail in the translation.

I'll use an example of how a psychic can appear to get something wrong even though they got the info correctly.

I was doing a reading for a gal and she asked if I could tune in to a deceased friend. So I tune in and the dead guy says, "Tell her I'm in her car." that's what I heard. Now some psychics will interpret this using logic... "Maybe she has a photo of him in her car" so they take a stab at the info and say to the girl, "You keep a photo of him in your car" to which she would say no.

With me, during this reading, I din't know what he meant so I just told her what he said. I said, "He's telling me to tell you that he's in your car. Do you know what that means."

To which she actually replied, "Yeah, that's where I keep his ashes."

So if the psychic says "you have a photo of him in your car" he or she will appear to be wrong, when in actuality she got the info correctly but didn't express it correctly.

If I don't know exactly what I'm getting, I present it to the client the way I got it and sometimes it makes more sense to them than to me.

On the other hand, some psychics are just wrong cuz they either are not good, not tuned in, or they lose their connection all of a sudden, or their own logic jumps in.

Does that make sense?

[Minerva]

Originally Posted by Erin Pavlina

Psychics are picking up information energetically that has to be translated into language. In my experience, most intuitives pick up the energy correctly but can sometimes fail in the translation.

I'll use an example of how a psychic can appear to get something wrong even though they got the info correctly.

I was doing a reading for a gal and she asked if I could tune in to a deceased friend. So I tune in and the dead guy says, "Tell her I'm in her car." that's what I heard. Now some psychics will interpret this using logic... "Maybe she has a photo of him in her car" so they take a stab at the info and say to the girl, "You keep a photo of him in your car" to which she would say no.

With me, during this reading, I din't know what he meant so I just told her what he said. I said, "He's telling me to tell you that he's in your car. Do you know what that means."

To which she actually replied, "Yeah, that's where I keep his ashes."

So if the psychic says "you have a photo of him in your car" he or she will appear to be wrong, when in actuality she got the info correctly but didn't express it correctly.

If I don't know exactly what I'm getting, I present it to the client the way I got it and sometimes it makes more sense to them than to me.

On the other hand, some psychics are just wrong cuz they either are not good, not tuned in, or they lose their connection all of a sudden, or their own logic jumps in.

Does that make sense?

It makes a whole lot of sense and thank you so much! I know I have been skeptical and doubtful a lot lately, but I am soul searching and trying to find out things. Would you mind if you answer one more question? It happened to me sometimes, but I am so much like a scientist. I ask myself how people have no problem believing in God which they can't see and I do so myself, yet it is so hard for me to believe in angels or spirit guides. I realize faith does play such a role.

Anyway, people say they see their spirit guides, but how do you know it is not imagination or subconscious? For example, for me, when I hear a voice during the daytime and I know the energy signature (I love this word from you cause that make lot of sense), I know there is something else there. Definitely. But upon going to sleep (even meditating down too far into alpha state) or upon waking up, people go through something called hypnagogic imagery (dreamy hallucinations). They hear voices and see visions. Some of friends claim that these voices are of the spirit world. But is it truly the case? I know the voices or visions as like miniature dreams as your mind borders the dream world and the conscious world. And so one morning, as I was coming to, I heard my name being called to me. My friends got excited and said that was my spirit guides. But another morning like this one, I woke up to a weird noise like someone gasping out of shock and I don't feel anything loving about it. What the heck was that? I can't claim it was from spirit guides cause it is so bizarre. So it had to be hypnagogic imagery. So how can one tell?? What is truly spirit guides or spirits in general or if it's hypnagogic imagery?

Sorry for my question! I promise this is my last one

[Erin Pavlina]

I don't communicate with my guides during hypnogogic episodes. I wouldn't rely on that at all. All kinds of nasties can interact with you in that state.

Conscious meditation is the best way to connect with guides, especially if you're clairvoyant or clairaudient.

[Minerva]

Originally Posted by Erin Pavlina

I don't communicate with my guides during hypnogogic episodes. I wouldn't rely on that at all. All kinds of nasties can interact with you in that state.

Conscious meditation is the best way to connect with guides, especially if you're clairvoyant or clairaudient.

You know I had a feeling you would say that. Thank you!! I truly appreciate your help *hugs* And yes I absolutely agree all kinds of nasties can interact during those sessions. Hopefully, one day, I will have a reading with you. I am looking forward to it.

[Fellforit]

Can you please elaborate on that, Erin? I tend to get most of my visions in the hypnogogic state. Sometimes they're clairvoyant in that they come true later. Other times, they seem very random and not related to anything that I can decipher. Now I've started seeing words printed out in a scraggly handwriting. I'm kind of suspicious of those though....

I'm still practicing talking to my guides in meditation, although, like Minerva, I'm still working out how to know whether the messages are from them or my own ego/logic. The times I seem to think I'm communicating with the guides, I only get a few words that seem kind of cryptic and they're accompanied with a kind of energy pulse in my head. When I seem to be talking to them in full sentences like I'm having tea with them, I'm realizing that those discussions are really from my own ego.

How do you get to the point where you get more than a few words from them/can trust it's really them? Just practice?

Thanks for your help!

[Erin Pavlina]

First discern what your dominant intuitive modality is, then use it to connect with your guides through meditation. tune in, get info, test it, check results.

With signs and signals I require my guides to send it to me three times before I'll know for sure it's from them.