Since the last 1/3 of my book is the dialogue with my spirit guide, I’d better shed some light on the topic. Actually, I woke up this morning with three blog ideas: What are spirit guides? What are affirmations? What is art therapy?  Awesome, I have my next three blogs!

Spirit guides are like angels, they offer guidance and protection. According to the experts, Doreen Virtue and Erin Pavlina, spirit guides have lived in human form, whereas guardian angels have not. Spirit guides come and go, guardian angels are always with us. Spirit guides are assigned to us at birth to help us get through difficult experiences. Before we are born, we choose the helpers we’ll need. We go into life knowing what’s going to happen but then we forget because we can’t know; it would ruin all the fun.

I can share my experience. I don’t hear him talking out loud, I hear his voice in my head. It’s separate and distinct from mine. It isn’t audible to other people. I first met him when I was recovering from cancer treatment. I began having excruciating pain at the base of my skull that was only relieved by lying down. I was leaking spinal fluid or something like that. I could’ve been hallucinating, but I don’t think so.

I was trying to brush my teeth, I looked into the mirror and said, “I don’t know how much more of this I can take.” That’s when I heard a male voice say, “Hey tiger girl! What are you doing out here in the forest up in a tree?” I could feel him standing next to me. My mom was downstairs in the kitchen, and I knew she didn’t hear him. I think he was asking me, Why am I so afraid? Why am I hiding out? Why am I not living my purpose? He was reaching out because I was barely hanging on.

I asked him to repeat himself which he did even though I heard him the first time. Next, I started getting ideas for a fantasy story. I realize now he gave me something to do until the headaches went away. I didn’t talk to him again until I moved into the apartment, and that was through the process of automatic writing. I have to be careful because my ego will rush ahead and try to answer for him.

I call him Sunny, that’s probably not his real name or it’s spelled Sonny. He became my light in the darkness, so calling him Sunny seemed appropriate. I don’t like the term disembodied, when I picture him, he has a body, it’s ethereal not solid, maybe that’s the same thing as disembodied. He’s a spirit guide because he’s lived on earth before. He lives in a separate dimension now. He has more power than me. He’s enlightened. He doesn’t worry about silly things.

There’s a lot of universal consciousness we can tap into. Writers call it “the muse.” My spirit guide is gone helping other people because I’m doing better. He was never to replace actual people. I felt safe talking to him because I knew he wouldn’t hurt me. He made me laugh and gave me hope. Angels are cool like that!

Namaste,

Julie