hi I'm Kari Samuels your Intuitive Counselor and  Happiness Coach and I am so psyched about today's  

topic because we were talking all about spirit  guides! And this is one of my favorite topics in  

the whole world ... or the Other wWorld because I  don't know where I'd be without my spirit guides!  

they have helped me on my path to really transform  my life there's like a before spirit guide  

knowledge kind of life in an after spirit guides  kind of life and that's why I'm so excited to talk  

to you about it because once you start connecting  with your spirit guides and knowing who they are  

and really making a connection with them your  life will be forever transformed for the better  

I learned about spirit guides because I have been  doing intuitive readings for almost 25 years and  

when I do readings I get to this place where I am  connecting with someone else and I'm reading their  

energy and they are always surrounded by these  benevolent beings that help me understand and  

help the people I'm reading for understand that  everything is really ok that everything in your  

life happens for a reason and they understand what  those reasons are and they're always directing you  

toward your destiny and they are so full of  wisdom and compassion so what I originally I  

wanted to share with you today was how to connect  and communicate with your guides but as I was  

preparing for that my spirit guides were like  easy now speed racer' that's not what we want  

to talk about before we teach you how to connect  with spirit guides they wanted you to understand  

whose spirit guides are because you need to know  who you're talking to right and there's a lot of  

miscommunication and misunderstanding about who  and what spirit guides are so we're gonna start  

with that very foundational yet important  information of who your spirit guides are  

and what they are here for you to help you with so  let's begin at the beginning so spirit guides well  

first of all you have this whole team of divine  helpers and you can't see them but that doesn't  

mean they're not there it's sort of like you know  how like a dog can see and hear things that humans  

can't they can hear sounds at a higher frequency  and they can smell things that we can't perceive  

well just because you cannot see necessarily your  spirit guides in the physical realm doesn't mean  

they're not there they're in a higher vibration  okay so spirit guides angels your whole celestial  

team you have this divine team they're in this  higher vibration they're more connected to the  

light right so as we ascend you know here on the  earth it's very dense and there's a slower energy  

down here and as we go up through the realms all  the way to the other side and beyond it's lighter  

and lighter and lighter higher higher frequency so  spirit guides are at a higher frequency all your  

divine helpers are at a higher frequency so you  can't necessarily see them with your physical eyes  

yet you can train yourself to connect with them as  you raise your vibration you raise your frequency  

and you meditate and you open yourself up to the  spiritual realm now it begins with awareness this  

is why they wanted me to begin at the beginning  with you right it's all about setting this  

intention to connect with them and then creating  a language between the two of you because your  

spirit guides will find any way they can to  communicate with you and it's your job to listen  

and to also ask right now I've heard people say  that they can't do anything without your free will  

that you have to you have to ask them for help  that's not true according to my experience from  

what I've seen your spirit guides will constantly  communicate with you it's just you're not always  

listening they were doing everything in their  power to help you right so first of all the first  

way they can help you is by you understanding  that they're here for you so yes everyone has  

spirit guides everyone has angels everyone has  a whole team of support so you may not be able  

to see them with your physical eyes but they're  always here interacting with you and the way that  

you learn to interpret their messages is by tuning  into your intuition and that's a whole other thing  

so there's many many more and teachings that  I'll be sharing with you about listening to  

your intuition how you can communicate with your  guides in angels so make sure you're subscribed  

first of all because I have a lot to share with  you so these celestial beings there's a lot in  

your divine team there's angels which are a whole  other realm of helpers angels are more connected  

to that energy of pure light and pure love and  they're more for healing and protection now spirit  

guides are more for wisdom and everyday guidance  that's why they got their name and directing you  

so the way that I see spirit guides well first  of all they're like your divine parents they're  

like the most loving understanding compassionate  humorous parents that you could possibly imagine  

they're here to protect you and and help you grow  as a soul and a human and as a spiritual being and  

they're here guiding you on your destiny now they  understand what your destiny is because your main  

spirit guides are there helping you plan your life  before you're born so before you're born there is  

a plan for you your you and your guides are coming  up with opportunities for you to grow as a soul  

which includes some challenges in case you haven't  noticed and also for you to express the gifts that  

you're meant to share with the world and because  we're all connected because we're all one it's  

super important for you to share your gifts and to  express that unique self that is you and also to  

transform fear and lower energies into love and  when you do that it helps all of the collective  

including your spirit guides because they are like  your divine parents you are connected on a soul  

level they're like your soul family yet they're  they're more evolved on a soul level they've  

transformed their karma they've gone through many  many many many lifetimes and incarnations whereas  

angels have not really incarnated into the human  form spirit guides have had many incarnations so  

they know what it's like to be human which it's  an interesting experience they understand the path  

of karma and Dharma they understand the challenges  that you have down here as well as the opportunity  

that can come your way so your guides are always  working behind the scenes to help you fulfill your  

your your soul's destiny to share the gifts that  you're meant to share with the world and also to  

learn the lessons that you're here to learn now  just like any parents because they're like your  

divine parents they can't do the work for you  you have to have experiences so sometimes even  

if you're listening to your intuition and your  life why did I get myself into that situation  

is because you're meant to learn from it you know  and you may even wonder like what's in it for them  

because that seems like a like why would they  want to do that so why do people want to become  

parents they want to share that love and that  experience with another being and that's very  

much what our spirit guides can experience when  they're helping you right it's just incredible  

how we're all connected and how even as you're  growing and learning and sharing who you are it  

helps every person in the world and even being  in the universe that's how important you are and  

that's why your spirit guides want to help you  and they're helping you every step of the way  

and they're like Sherpas so if you ever heard  that expressions Sherpa so if you're like gonna  

climb the Himalayan mountains right or Machu  Picchu you're not just gonna be like yeah you  

know I'll wing it basically guides that know those  mountains backwards and forwards and they could  

climb it barefoot well you would need like special  equipment so so your spirit guides are like life  

Sherpas so they understand the path that you're  going on and they're guiding you toward avoiding  

obstacles and mistakes and also guiding you toward  the path that's gonna help you fulfill your gifts  

and they do this in a variety of ways through  things synchronicity through dreams through all  

of your intuitive faculties and again that's  a whole bigger topic which I will be sharing  

with you but again it's really important that  you know who they are so that you can at least  

set that intention and start making an attempt  to communicate with them by understanding that  

they're there and here's the other thing I've done  thousands of readings for thousands of people and  

I have never ever seen anyone who didn't have a  team of spirit guides around them helping them  

protecting them supporting them and so often we  want we want what we want right we want things to  

go a certain way our ego wants things our mind  wants something but our soul wants something  

else and so it's hard to listen to your guides  that way and that's why people see psychics and  

intuitive --zz because that's what a medium is  it's an intermediary between you and the divine  

yet if you pay attention to what your senses are  telling you what your dreams are telling you what  

your feelings are telling you that is the most  profound way that you can really connect with  

your guides and and be on the path of your destiny  they're always communicating with you here's the  

other thing about spirit guides you don't need  to know their names you don't need to know like  

what they look like because really they're light  beings so when spirit guides connect with us they  

do it in a way that we can understand so we may  know our main guide as having a certain gender  

or having a certain name having a certain way  they look but you know really it doesn't matter  

as long as you're listening to your intuition and  you're paying attention to your divine guidance  

it doesn't matter if you know your spirit guides  name and here's the other thing they don't always  

have names like freaky out-of-this-world names  like ash cash low Lama or whatever your spirit  

guide can identify themselves as Bob or Janet  or Lana or actually that even is a little exotic  

it doesn't matter it's how you connect with them  doesn't matter what their name is and it doesn't  

need to be exotic and the reason they come to  you perhaps as a certain gender is because you  

need to embody either more masculine or feminine  energy but they're really somewhat gender-neutral  

because they're beyond incarnated into bodies  now so for instance for me my main spirit guide  

is male because for me I need to embody the energy  of leadership and strength and feel protected so  

that's how my spirit guide my main guide appears  to me but in general I have a team of light beings  

that I just refer to as the team my team exotic  so the other thing is they're your main spirit  

guide is not exactly always going to be a Native  American shaman or a Chinese elder you know again  

those are maybe stereotypes of spirit guides that  come from the movies or I don't know where they  

come from your spirit guide is here to help you  on your path in a way that's very specific to your  

pack so your guide is here helping you create  your life plan before you're born and they're  

also there to meet you as soon as you cross over  to the other side as well and they've been doing  

this lifetime after lifetime after lifetime they  love you so much you don't have just one guide you  

have a team of guides and also you have some  main guides that are with you throughout your  

whole life you also have other guides that come  in periodically if you're working on a certain  

project or if you're healing or you need help in  a specific area at a specific time you're going  

to be inviting in spirit guides that are going to  help you specifically with that and they come and  

go yet you do have some like I said that are with  you lifetime after lifetime after lifetime and  

the other thing that's really important to know  about them is that they are hilarious your spirit  

guides are not taking anything too seriously like  life is serious right but they're not taking it  

seriously and have half the time they're trying  to get you to lighten up because they're lighter  

right the way they show it to me is like you know  when you're a kid like toddlers or whatever if  

they drop their lollipop they'll be screaming and  crying and it's like the hugest deal for them and  

then you as a grown-up can be like it's okay it's  no big deal it's gonna be okay and you can comfort  

them your spirit guides are looking at you like  you're the kid that dropped the lollipop because  

it feels so serious and intense while we're  going through it on the earth plane but they  

have a higher perspective they're trying to help  you lighten up and let go and go with the flow  

so that you can enjoy every moment of your life  so if you want to remember one lesson that your  

spirit guides are here to show you it's to lighten  up and have a sense of humor they are so funny and  

it's the same thing to like even if you're not a  toddler if in junior high school ever you know the  

angst that you felt about every little thing same  thing and as someone who's more mature now you're  

like why did I take that so seriously well see  your spirit guides have experienced that lifetime  

after lifetime after lifetime and they're like hey  nothing too serious right now let us all lighten  

up and enjoy the moment and bring as much love as  possible into the world and that's what they're  

helping you with so what you can do right now to  connect with your guides is to relax and receive  

if you meditate that is a wonderful way to allow  divine guidance to drop into your heart and into  

your consciousness so I'm gonna leave you at that  for now because that is a wonderful way to start  

and they really want you to enjoy the moment and  get to know them in a very relaxed and joyful  

manner so I hope this has inspired you to connect  with your guides and helped you understand who  

they are and to feel a sense of calm and joy and  knowing that you're always supported you're always  

divinely guided at every step and you have so much  more help and love and protection than you can  

even possibly imagine now I have a whole bunch of  resources for you that you can get I'll leave them  

in the links below including my free spirit guide  meditation so if you want to access that just you  

can do that using the link below and I have other  resources for you there and as I mentioned I have  

lots more resources for you about numerology  astrology intuition and all things to mind so  

make sure you're subscribed and if you've enjoyed  this please like it and share it with your friends  

I'm sure they will appreciate you for it it has  been my joy to share the love of the spirit guides  

with you and I love you and I wish you enjoy full  journey in this life lots of love bye for now