Find Your Spirit Guide   by Laura Bartolini Mendelsohn

An early fall day in New York City found Leslie at home. She had been laid off from a job and now had time on her hands to explore life. As she looked out a window from her bedroom she could see the leaves were beginning to turn colors and the sun warmed the day. She ached to get outside.

Leslie, had been reading "The Game of Life and How to Play It," a book written in the 1920s by an artist and metaphysician called Florence Scovel Shinn. She opened the book to a random page this day to see what it said.

Basically it told her to follow her "feelings," her intuition that day. She sat there wondering how to do that. All she could think of was to go out and walk.

When she felt to turn left she did. When she felt to turn right she did. Following this path she finally found herself inside Central Park approaching a park bench.

There was only one person sitting on it. She was drawn to go and sit there. It was a fascinating to learn this man had many similar life experiences to hers. They had so many shared similarities she could not help but wonder if her intuition had led her to this bench.

He, like her, was a "high tech" professional who did not like his work any longer. He had been frequenting a well known psychic medium in Manhattan for weekly demonstrations of channeling, as well as private readings. Leslie went to this very same medium and had worked in high technology.

As their friendship formed he invited her to go with him to visit another psychic reader he frequented in upper Manhattan. When she got there, the Cuban ex-medical doctor turned Santorian reader told her "Your guides want to come through."

"What the heck does this mean?" she asked. In response to her question, the reader explained how to get her guides to speak through her.

As soon as she got home to her miniscule apartment in Queens, she asked her guides speak to her. Suddenly her head was pushed back and a booming voice emitted from her throat.

Not understanding what this was, she ran to the other side of her tiny apartment. Obviously this was not an escape, nor did she truly desire one. She asked they speak again.

This time their voice came in softer. Her guides began to channel through her from that day forward.

The process to begin your dialogue with spirit is a direct, but not difficult one. Here are the steps.

1.Meditate daily. Leslie began her opening to spirit during a time she did not have to go to work. This provided a relief from day to day tensions and allowed her brain waves to slow down. You can get the same effect through a regular meditation practice.

2.Ask. Leslie asked for her spirit guides to come through. It is advisable to ask in prayer with protection. At first Leslie did not know to do this, but was protected anyway. You should always ask to work in highest light and love.

3.Receive entirely. At first Leslie was trembling when her guides came to her after her request. After quieting down, she allowed them to speak through her fluently and frequently without censoring what they said. The more she did this the better her communications got.

This is the basic process to open to spirit channeling. It is very helpful to develop your channeling ability if you record on paper the responses you receive. Most individuals do not get immediate vocal contact. They rather receive ideas, feelings, colors and even symbols. Some get words which become automatic writing.

Channeling is receiving a stream of consciousness from a source outside your normal conscious mind. Many channelers report a feeling of energy from their guide controlling their hand to write or voice to speak. Whatever you are feeling, identify them as right.

The more you make what you receive correct, the more you will receive.