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One of the things I am so grateful for and thank God for everyday is the help that I have. My guides, Angel’s, Ascended Masters, etc. There is not a day that passed that doesn’t have me saying a long grateful thank you for all you all do.

Spirit Guides of course can’t run your life for you or make all your descision. We have free will for one and they will not interfere with that and they will help immesely but how can we learn to lessons we need to learn if they do all the hard work for us. I am usually guilty for forgetting to ask for help when I really should be. And they stand there waiting and sometimes I even get message from other mediums saying “I asked your guide why they are not helping you and they said you need to ask for help…did you not ask for help?” Doh! I forget. And that is easy for us to do because we are so use to towing the line and struggling through everything in life that many times we start thinking this is just the way things are…period and deal with it!

The lesson I learned early on even before awakening is that I don’t have to be able to sense spirit to communicate with spirit. They hear every word spoken and every thought that pops into my little head. Funny enough I often start conversations with “I know you already know this but…” Because they do. Think about it. It is like a best friend that you never have to explain things to and that already know all the infromation they need to know to comment and and give advice.

Often I will express to my guides things that I would like to do or work on but that I have no clue of how to. At some point in the near future I am always guided to infromation I need or the person who is doing what I am interested in doing. Case in point Michelle Caporale who is a Medium who left a comment for me on this blog. Note you can find a link to her site under my links list. I have previously expressed to my guides that I have a big interest that is always coming to mind (it just wont go away so I know it is not just a fleeting interest/thought) about developing my skills towards helping with crime investigations and specifically missing persons. Everytime I see or hear information about a missing child I am so drawn to wanting to help and I do receive infromation regarding the missing child. So, I keep telling my guides I really want to know what I should do to head down that path, if in fact that is the right path for me. And then I received a comment from Ms. Caporale who offers her mediumship skills to help with crime investigations. I do absolutely feel this is the handy work of my guides and not just coincidence…not to mention I don’t beleive in coincidences.

I know for me this was one of my biggest and most important goals, to speak with my spirit guides. Before awakening I would talk yo them know they could hear me even though I couldn’t hear them. Since I didn’t know my guides name I gave her/him a form of my middle name. My middle name was Andrea so I called my spirit guide Andy for probably about a year. The thing to always remember is to be respectful. As respectful as you would be to anyone you are communicating with.

If you would like to meet and speak with your spirit guides one of the best ways to do this is in meditation. Before you begin your meditation state that you would like for one of your guides to come to you in your meditation so that you can meet, find out their name and be told anything they would like to tell you. Your guides are there, always there with you, and will hear you and will come.

Ya know the saying “If you build it they will come.” That is what I did in meditation. I built a place where I could sit, enjoy the atmosphere and wait for my guide(s) to join me. I would create a scene that I would visualize in meditation. An open field of soft grass near a waterfall that was on one side and a brook on another side. I met a few of my guides there.

The important thing to remember is to TRUST what you see and hear. In the beginning you will come out of meditation feeling like what you experienced was something your own mind made up. I assure you it is not. So, take notes after your meditaiton. Even better…start a journal where you cna write about all your experiences and especially things you hear and are told in meditation. Don’t worry if the first couple of times you just can’t make it happen. Meditation is not exactly magic. It is something you need to do often and practice. If this is important to you then I am sure you won’t mind putting in 15 minutes a day.

Also in the half a sleep/half awake state it is easier to hear (as though outside your head) spirits. I have so far heard Metatron and Queen Mother Mary (as she annouced herself in this way). The funny thing is having doubts and not really trusting at the time it was great that they came to me versus another spirit. Because I knew nothing of them at all and even had to look up information on them. So that helped to take away my doubt.

I won’t give you an impression that I was not a little freaked out. I was! My heart was racing so fast and I was so nervous but I tried to stay calm and stay in that half awake/half asleep state so that I could hear as much as they had to say to me. It was an awesome experience. It’s okay that you are nervous but stay calm and remember that they love you and do everything they can to make sure your contact with them is a good experience so you can learn, grow and then share the knowledge with others.

If you have any experiences to share I am sure other would love to read them…so feel free to post them here and leave a link to your blog or website if you would like and I will be happen to check it out and write a post telling others about it.

To be an empath versus psychic (aka spiritually aware, awakened, etc.) at times seem like they should be both classified as psychic. And no wonder if you take a look at Meridian-websters definition of Psychic which is: 

• -lying outside the sphere of physical science or knowledge : immaterial, moral, or spiritual in origin or force
• -sensitive to nonphysical or supernatural forces and influences : marked by extraordinary or mysterious sensitivity, perception, or understanding

And emapthy is defined as such in their online dictionary:

• the imaginative projection of a subjective state into an object so that the object appears to be infused with it
• the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner ; also : the capacity for this

So with the definition of psychic it is clear that it is pertaining to having knowledge where you can’t explain how you have it scientifically whereas with empathy it can be scientifically explained. See the following articles regarding mirror neurons in the brain:

• Mirror neurons may generate ability to empathize - http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7656021/
• Mirroring Emotions: The Role of Mirror Neurons in Empathy - http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/exchange/node/2334

Empaths feel and transmute negative energy. When an empath talks of other things like knowing who it is they are feeling and having insight into peoples thoughts…that deeper insight that goes beyond just feeling, they are actually utilizing psychic abilities in conjunction with their empathy. And just because there is a chakra that is responsible for emapthy and there is also chakras responsible for the functioning of psychic abilities, that makes no difference. There is a chakra that controls fear as well but that doesn’t make fear a psychic ability.

Empathy is also genetic and it looks like scientist are getting closer to proving that. See the following article:

Empathy Partly Based On Genes, Mouse Study Shows - http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090211082354.htm

Also with psychic ability information it is actually coming from some where/someone. For example, information from spirits, akashic records, etc.

Everyone is born with psychic abilities. Not everyone’s abilities stay awakened and opened however. But everyone has the abilities and can awaken their abilities. I guess you will not know what abilities are your strengths until you awaken.

So I would say that as an empath you’ve got maybe what might feel to you as a shorter way to go to get to calling yourself PSYCHIC.

I would say that no empathy and psychic ability are not the same. You can become psychic through development however you can’t become an empath through development and practice. If you are not emapthic but want to be then you would want to develop clairsentience.

I spent months pondering how to develop my clairaudience, meditating on all the minor and major chakra’s associated with clairaudience, chanting mantra and using mudra’s, etc. I tried ear plugs, listening to radio static, and of course asked guides and Angel’s to help adjust my hearing and frequency. Some of you who may be giggling and thinking of all the time I’ve wasting are probably asking “So, how’d that work out for ya?” lol.

Well first of all there have been stages. First I just wanted to be able to hear my guides (clairaudience in my head as thoughts) and that went fairly well. Although hard to discern at first between my own thoughts and theirs I quickly learned through meditation that if I could easily quiet my mind I would be able to hear them clearly. Then I learned that I was hearing a lot but was missing it because I was taking for granted things that I was use to hearing. Thoughts that would pop into my head, humorous thoughts pondered while sitting on the toilet, songs that would suddenly come to mind, etc. All these things (well many) were my guides communicating with me.

The problem was that I was under the impression, probably from watching to many movies, that hearing spirits was going to be something very mysterious accompanied by a misty fog that would fillt he air. lol. Once I told myself to let go of how I thought things would be it got a heck of a lot easier.

Go forward with no preconceived notions and develop the true of things as you go along. What others may experience and how they may experience them may not end up being the way you experience them. If someone says a particular cloud formation looks like a duck but you look up and see a puppy, do you think one of you HAS TO BE wrong? No you would both be right. Your perception is one thing and others perception will be different and that is completely fine because you both end up with a wonderfully beautiful experience that is right for each of you individually.