Can't communicate with my guides

[Rose of Cairo]

I usually talk to my guides in my thoughts, just trusting that they hear me. I can't do anything but trust, since I don't see them, I don't hear them, I don't feel them.. nothing. I'd love to be able to really communicate with them and get to know them!

I've been working with Andrea Hess' Spirit Guides Report in the last few days. It works like this: I sit down, do some breathing and relax, then I intend to meet my inner circle of guides. I imagine a meeting room with a table in it, where I meet them. I sit down and ask them to present themselves to me.

Unfortunately, whenever I do this, I get very very tired and feel terribly sleepy. I have a very hard time staying awake and even start to dream a little bit (not about my guides, though). It takes a lot of effort not to fall asleep. As soon as I cease communication, I feel fit and awake again.

Yesterday I had to break off after guide #3 because I'd have fallen asleep otherwise. It's a bit frustrating!

Also, yesterday I called #1 and got a very strong feeling in my chest. Then I called #2 and felt something in my forearms. #3 felt intensive in my head. I have no clue what this means, or if I just imagined it. When I asked them what their role is in my team, I got no answer. Today, #1 wasn't there, I just felt nothing. I felt #2 in my arms again, then I almost fell asleep again and broke off.

Why do I get so tired? Am I doing something wrong?

Edit: also, why was #1 absent today? Is it possible that they sometimes are just away?

[Morticia]

Hi Rose, why don't you try this:
Put on some lovely soft meditative music, do your breathing,start by bringing down the golden light to envelope your whole body, including under your feet, ask the angels for protection,I use Micheal and Raphael, take some time to do this, no need to rush through it.
Next open your chakras, starting with your base, which is red
Sacrel which is orange
your solar plexus which is yellow
your heart which is green
your throat which is blue
your third eye which is purple, think amethst colour and
your crown which I use as gold.
To open these imagine them as a ball of colour, then see them open like a flower, you have activated your chakras.
Next, open your channel to the collective unconcious by imagining a beam of white light coming from your crown chakra and up into the heavens.
Now to contact your guide.only one at a time, you want to give them all an equal chance to speak with you!
See yourself walking towards a large oak tree with its branches spreading far out. As you get closer you can see a person sitting under the tree on a garden bench. Keep approaching, taking as much time as you like, and when you reach the figure under the tree you can introduce yourself and see where your conversation goes from there. It is not necessary to ask thier name, but if you want to ask other questions thats ok. Sometimes you don't even have to say anything, just being there with them is contentment enough. When you have finished, make sure that you thank your guide for meeting you,give them a hug, if you wish and walk away from the tree,not looking back.
Please let me know how you go
Blessings xxxxx

[Kaspian]

Rose,

First thought: Is it possible that you are trying too hard or trying to make the experience of connecting fit a particular set of expectations?

Another thought: Maybe they wanted you to fall asleep in order to give you information at that level.

Three blog posts on hearing spirit guides that I find helpful:
Tips for Working with Your Spirit Guides : Shift Your Spirits
How Do Your Spirit Guides Respond to You? : Shift Your Spirits
Are You Sure You Can’t Hear Your Spirit Guides? : Shift Your Spirits

[Rose of Cairo]

Kaspian, Morticia, thank you very very much for your replies! They were very helpful. I think I just succeeded in connecting! I'm so excited

Morticia, thank you for your advice, I listened to it. I first used some kinesiology to put myself in a harmonious state before trying to connect. Then I performed a chakra cleansing and opened them. Then I did some breathing and relaxing, feeling my inner body and grounding myself. I imagined some big roots growing from my feet into earth, and the same reaching out of my head into the universe. I imagined white light surrounding myself. Then I called my guides.

I didn't ask the angels for protection because, to be honest, angels don't mean much to me. I have no christian background and don't even know who Michael and Raphael are. I don't know what angels exactly are so I cannot really relate to them.

I also didn't use any visualization because I'm a totally not-visual person. When I try to see such things, I have to consciously imagine something, and who knows then if it's my subconscious or my spirit guides?

I listened to your advice to meet only one at the time and asked to talk to my primary guide. I also found this explanation by Andrea to be interesting and plausible, so this time I didn't go to meet them in an imaginary meeting room, but asked them to come visit me in my living room, where I was sitting. While talking to, er... it, I kept my eyes open and a part of my attention in my body, and didn't get sleepy at all!

Originally Posted by Kaspian

Three blog posts on hearing spirit guides that I find helpful:
Tips for Working with Your Spirit Guides : Shift Your Spirits
How Do Your Spirit Guides Respond to You? : Shift Your Spirits
Are You Sure You Can’t Hear Your Spirit Guides? : Shift Your Spirits

Thank you very much Kaspian! I had already read Slade's posts, I regularly read his blog and like what he writes very much. I also read his Spirit Guides 101 paper and found it to be very helpful. Unfortunately I really don't hear them. I'm only a little bit more auditive than visual, which means, not much

Originally Posted by Kaspian

First thought: Is it possible that you are trying too hard or trying to make the experience of connecting fit a particular set of expectations?

Oh yes of course. Trying too hard is a habit of mine I also expected to see and/or hear them or that something truly extraordinary would happen...

I thought of your question before trying today and just decided it would flow naturally.

I felt "it" in my chest, or in fact a little bit outside my chest. It was the same feeling I have dreamed about several times as a child, but had never felt while awake. It was quite amazing. When I asked a question, I suddenly just knew the answer without thinking or hearing it. When it was no, I felt nothing. When it was yes, I could feel a strange ascending feeling along my sternum.

Of course maybe I invented everything completely, but I don't think so. Or at least, I decided to trust the whole thing to be real.

[Kaspian]

Originally Posted by Rose of Cairo

I felt "it" in my chest, or in fact a little bit outside my chest. It was the same feeling I have dreamed about several times as a child, but had never felt while awake. It was quite amazing. When I asked a question, I suddenly just knew the answer without thinking or hearing it. When it was no, I felt nothing. When it was yes, I could feel a strange ascending feeling along my sternum.

I often experience intuition and hearing my guides as a quiet knowing. And mine, too, tends to be more from the heart than anywhere else.

Originally Posted by Rose of Cairo

Of course maybe I invented everything completely, but I don't think so. Or at least, I decided to trust the whole thing to be real.

I think I've seen this quote posted here before...

Joan of Arc, talking about the voices she hears: They come from God.
Robert de Baudricourt: They come from your imagination.
Joan of Arc: Of course. That is how the messages of God come to us, through our imagination.

[Rose of Cairo]

Originally Posted by Kaspian

I often experience intuition and hearing my guides as a quiet knowing. And mine, too, tends to be more from the heart than anywhere else.

Cool! Glad to hear