Contact?

How do I get in contact with my guides? I've used my pendulum and I'm pretty sure I have two guides one is an animal, a lion. That's all I've gotten out of the pendulum but I want to actually talk to them and have a conversation and find there names but I'm not sure how??

[sea-dove]

Say a protection prayer (helps to stop imposers), then try meditating with the goal in mind to connect.. I suggest to call for your higher guides.

Some like to use guided meditations to connect with guides. You may be able to find a guided meditation on DVD or CD at your library to use.

[CrystalSong]

Meditations and Oracle cards is the system that seems to work best for me. Names for them I find to be arbitrary, meaning they'll make up a name for us to call them if we really want it, but it's not what they would call themselves.

I find crystals describe their 'name' or individuality from other crystals through energy and a physical symbol usually geometric in nature. Angels a best as I can discern do it via a energy frequency and color, though I might call a certain color Michael or Gabriel and they don't seem to mind. My Guides seem to show up more as an energy presence with the brain giving them a rough form and then translating it as Jesus or Athena and so on.

There seems to be this interface where our brain has to take some information, usually of a form we're not used to communicating in, like symbol, energy frequency, vibration, and give it some sort of recognizable pattern and then a label. It seems to be a bit different for each of us... so a lot of it is just experimentation and figuring it out through repetition and repeated contact.

What we're really contacting is Consciousness and when it's not in a body it's just Etheric energy or spirit matter.... and that changes the whole manner of communicating on some levels.

Thanks for that I've tried meditation and I'm really bad at it, I get really distracted throughout it but I'll give it another go and I'm unsure on what oracal cards do or what they are? Thankyou both.

I've tried meditation and I'm really bad at it, I get really distracted throughout it

that my dear, is a very common experience when meditating. even for advanced users.
we are human beings and we have a busy every day life, in which, most of the time, there isn't much time for spiritual thoughts. at least not consciously: we got to work, pay bills, care for our bodies (physical needs) and care for others (psychological needs) and they just sometimes are such a heavy burden, that it's not the easiest of tasks to meditate with a clear mind, but that's exactly where you're required to learn the lesson of "let be, and let pass!".

When you meditate and these thoughts come up, don't get annoyed. Stay calm, let them come to you, and let them be. Let them pass by, only then you can focus on what follows after these thoughts pass you by.

Try to find that space, without intention of establishing a connection to your angels or guides at first. Sit down somewhere quiet, turn off all electrical equipment (mobile phone, tv, telephone etc.) and get into a relaxing position, and wear loose comfy clothes. just relax, feel your body, feel your breath, and just BECOME CONSCIOUS of your body... What do you feel? An itchy spot? A blubbering in your stomach? A muscle spasm?... Just notice how your body is. And then start to relax. Start with your toes and work your body up to your head. And once you're whole body is relaxed, just stay there in that moment of peace and relaxation and see what happens. Perhaps you'll not just notice what is you, but also what's around you.

Don't expect it to work after your first time, but yet you might! :)

Good luck, and don't give up!

Thankyou c: