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Spirit guides serve as a specialized team that support your choices so that you may experience yourself as an infinite being in a body.

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Deanna - I just finished this article, and it has greatly lifted my spirits. I find this fascinating. I am going to try and save up to do one of your readings.
This really helped me today as I create. I'm going to talk to my guides!
Chel

Chel, I am so glad to hear that!

I know when I first starting noticing the presence of both angels and spirit guides, it made such a big difference, mostly because I felt so supported!

They are really very happy to help us in any way they can - in any way we are open to! Often people are so disappointed because they don't hear their spirit guides talking just like they hear people talk. I'm like geez, give them a break! They are in another dimension, right LOL!!

When spirit guides communicate with us, so often it feels like inspiration, or a synchronicity, that it gives us an "ah-ha" moment, which is much more likely to make us pay attention simply because of the way the experience made us feel.

They are there! And they are listening

Thank you, Deanna!
And, I am one of those people that listened for them to talk.
I will stop doing that.

Or maybe just let yourself be surprised and delighted by how they respond

Can you explain the difference between spirit guides, angel guides, and animal medicine? I don't know if I've ever connected with angelic beings or ascended masters, but I do believe that I have animal medicine and guidance from my power animals.

Hi Korie, I will share my own feelings based on my experiences, okay, because someone else may feel differently

It's mostly a difference in vibration, or frequency. Angels are beings of pure Light, and closer to Source energy than any other being.

Spirit guides have been human, and have a deep understanding of how choices affect our outcomes. So they "guide" us by supporting us in making those choices that allow us to experience the brightest version of ourselves.

The angels, wholly loving and supportive, see us as the perfect beings of Light that we are and see that any choice is fine, and that we can learn from even the most negative of experiences. They may not necessarily try to steer us away from trouble because they are not judging it to "be" trouble - it's just another experience.

Every now and then I'll get a client who will say something like "Oh, my nana just died, and now she's my guardian angel."

Nana may have passed, and may be serving as a loving and supportive spirit guide, but it's not likely she's become an angel right after she dies. Angelic frequencies are just too far up there close to the pure creative Source Energy. As Souls, we are raising our frequencies gradually. Just like someone doesn't instantly lose 140 pounds, a Soul doesn't instantly go from a frequency of, say, 700 to 50,000. Right?

Animal guides are more of a collective energy of that species. And the animal ally (totem, spirit) is there to show you that you share in its qualities. You'll have both its strengths and weaknesses. In my own experience, connecting to my animal allies was far easier than connecting to my spirit guides! They made their presence known to me, and I understood it so much easier! And, we connected when I was child, and had NO IDEA what animal spirit medicine was LOL!!!

They all serve as guides, just differently. Anyway, I hope this was helpful

Hi Korie and Deanna - I don't mean to crowd in here, but I find this subject fascinating. And I really appreciate your well-detailed explanation, Deanna.

I totally get it now.

However, can you direct me to an article you may have written about Animal Medicine. This is new to me.

Chel

You got it Chel - I just shared it Thanks for asking! And thanks for reading XOXOXOX

Thank you, Deanna.
That was a great article and explanation.
When I was little I was always fascinated with dogs, but never allowed any type of pet outside of a cage. My parents were way protective!
After my mother died, Jeff and I rescued two dogs from a kill shelter. When I saw the picture of the black lab, who I named Bearoness of Chel, because they had been calling her Bear because she had a Teddy Bear in her mouth when she was found, I had the strongest feeling that she was my dog. We had given up looking for dogs. I was going to wait until spring and this was early December of 2013. When I did meet her, I was warned before going in that she had been severely beaten and was extremely anxious. She literally ran to me!
Thank you again for this article.