I can’t tell you how many times people have said to me: “I can’t tell if it’s my Guides voice I’m hearing or my own.”
So how can you tell?
When I started channeling, my Guides spoke to me on the right side of my head. While I truly felt it was them, in the early stages self-doubt would creep in and I would doubt myself. I remember once I asked my Guides, “How do I know I’m not making this up?”
They said, “We are giving you great advice, so who cares?” They were right.
The advice was the best advice I had ever received and I had already been in therapy for years – group therapy, coaches, psychics, priests…you name it, I went for it because when I was in much pain, I would do anything I could to feel better. Discovering my Guides and dialoguing with them was the best therapy ever. And it was free!
I’ll never forget one of the first times I started opening up to hearing. I was scared s*&tless but fascinated at the same time. During that period, I was desperately seeking answers to my life. I felt like I was going nowhere fast. I was constantly ill and the doctors couldn’t figure out what was wrong with me. I was depressed that my career that just wasn’t working out. I was lost.
By then I was used to hearing my name called but no one was there or hearing knocks on the wall, footsteps in the hall, but I didn’t hear what they wanted to say. It was frustrating but at least, it was consistent. Then I started to feel this energy leaning up against me on my left side. I didn’t know what it was but there was something there.
I went into my therapist office and told her what was going on. She was used to working with mediums so she said, “Why don’t you ask who it is?” So I closed my eyes, put my attention on my left side and met my first Guide, Simon, and he had a ton to say. I repeated everything he told me as my therapist made notes. I came out of the session feeling lighter, as if I had finally met a soul mate and couldn’t wait to hang out with him again.
I don’t remember what Simon said to me in that session and that therapist and I parted ways a few months after that experience. The fact was, I no longer needed her.
Simon and I continued to work together for a while. He prepared me to meet my other Guides that I am working with today and I’m assuming I helped him get a wing or two. It’s always a co-creative relationship. I used to tease him that he was a gnome and he would get mad and tell me to stop calling him that. We laughed all the time.
So for me, my clairaudience opened up way before I met Simon but I just didn’t know it because it sounded like my own voice. When I think back to the times I made decisions opposite of what people were telling me to do, I always thought it was my voice inside of my head. But it was my Guides, directing my steps. They just sounded like me.
How do I know it was them? Because it was clear advice. Advice that went against the grain. Advice that freed me from a situation or saved me from a bad experience. It was advice that spoke directly to my heart and lit up my soul.
For example, at age 13 when my father was pressuring me to go to one school, I insisted on going to the another high school because of that voice and it was one of the best decisions I made in my life.
Later on, that voice told me to get out of my neighborhood so I could stop using drugs.
Again, the voice told me to follow my dreams and to leave production even though I had just won an Emmy and was making a ton of money. Thank you, Spirit, for that one!
Then the voice told me I needed to move out of NYC and head to California, something they had been saying for 15 years before I finally did it. And boy, was that the best decision I’ve ever made!
The voice always tells me that I am loved even when I do something utterly embarrassing or risky that doesn’t go exactly as planned. It wakes me up in the morning with words of wisdom to take throughout my day. Yes, it still sounds like my voice and some may argue that it is, but to me it’s my loving beautiful Guides. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
So the next time you hear their advice, pay attention to the emotional energy behind it. Does it feel loving, neutral, peaceful? Getting used to how it feels will help you to know it is your Guides. Also ask yourself, what color is it? Where is it in your head? Or is it outside your head?
It is my experience that when one ear is open that the information will always land in the same place. When both ears are open, the information will land in one place for the right ear and one for the left or the same for both. There are different options when both ears are open. Keep paying attention to the feeling, color and where the information is appearing and you will learn to distinguish your Guides voices’ from your own.
