The 7 Basic Steps For Connecting With The Spirit World
Updated 2024.12.10
Below you’ll learn how to communicate with Spirits, the basic process -
Anyone with an open heart and a willing soul, can sit with Spirit and begin to communicate with The Spirit World.
Spirits communicate through the psychic senses.
If:
You’re a highly sensitive person
You identify as empath
You consider yourself a deep feeler
You likely have a few of the necessary psychic senses already activated strongly in you and you can use the senses to pick up on messages from Spirit.
Empaths are known to have mediumistic ability, though most use it with physical people around them. However, with enough calm and grounded energy around, you can also use it to call forward and connect with the higher vibration subtle energies in The Spirit World.
Follow these steps to open your connection to The Spirit World safely and easily.
Step 1. Relax and Ground
The best and most productive conversations are had with Spirit when you are centered in your seat of self.
The cheapest, easiest and fastest way to ground your energy field is with a stick of white sage and a lighter.
Inhale and exhale. Light a sage leaf or wand, wave it around your body from Crown to Root Chakra, and ask that all energies no longer serving your highest and greatest good leave your energy field.
If you don’t have sage, that’s okay - you’ll improvise. You can also ground your energy by imagining golden light.
Do the same procedure by visualizing golden light wrapping around your energy field. Moving through each Chakra from Crown to Root, ask that all energy no longer serving you please be dismissed. Exhale. You’re done.
To ground, all you do is bring your energy and emotions down to a centered place within yourself.
Most of the time, I like to imagine all my energy going to my feet. Other times, I use my heart as my center. The caveat is if your heart’s energy is already full of emotion (whether yours or projected energies from elsewhere), it will be difficult to ground your energy there - so using your feet in more uncertain times is best.
Step 2. Safety
Before communicating with a Spirit, make sure that you fully define your boundaries of who you will interact with and when. This is to make sure you aren't potentially connecting with anything you don't want to be connecting with.
I suggest using this article on identifying the different vibrations of Spirit, to decide which vibration you'd like to connect with and then set that intention before you begin.
Set the highest intentions and create boundaries; I use a prayer of intent for mediumship to do this. You can also ask a Protection Guide or a Gatekeeper Guide to help organize the energy so only the highest and best comes forward.
Step 3. Identify the Spirit
After you've grounded your energy, and set your intention, ask Spirit to step in closer. Notice when you feel, see or hear a vibration present.
To communicate effectively with someone, you have to first know who that someone is - you can use what you sense in their essence to help identify them, I call this a spiritual calling card.
If you feel comfortable, you can start asking for proof of identity clairvoyantly or clairaudiently - I ask for everything from name to cause of death to how they know my client. You can also usually ask for a word, color, or see an image to identify the Spirit, which can typically be validated later on.
You’ll usually receive these impressions through your psychic/intuitive senses.
My eBook, the Spirit Identification Key has more information on how to identify who is present, but most importantly pay attention to how you feel. In general, you can usually trust your first impressions - the more gentle and loving energies you feel, the softer and more loving the Spirit energy present.
Step 4. Ask Questions
Spirits can hear you when you speak internally or externally, but they won't always talk unless spoken to first. They can hear you when you talk to them, and will often reply telepathically.
If you want them to speak to you, and they haven't already started, ask them questions. You can ask them identifying questions, questions about their message, or any question at all to help facilitate the conversation.
Open-ended questions for The Spirit World usually produce the most colorful and informative results.
Step 5. ‘Listen’ for Their Response
Spirits will reply to your questions through your intuitive senses. They send us energy signals, and each of us has an internal converter, and this converter takes the energy we receive and puts it into:
Thought
Words
Images
Feelings
Sensations
Depending on what your most active intuitive senses are, the way this Spirit is communicating, and the conditions of your space, this will determine how the energy you receive is communicated through you.
Step 6. Write It Down or Speak It Out
Truth sets us free when it's released. It’s also easier to interpret. When you are communicating, have a notepad or friend with a willing ear ready, so that you can record the messages.
In my own readings, I have found spirits talk really fast, so I talk really fast, and sometimes you have to ask them to repeat, to catch it all.
Sometimes if I have a formal reading, I'll get all the messages really quickly ahead of time, and I write down the bits and pieces in notes.
Then during the full reading, the Spirit World goes more slowly, and the pieces are ironed out. So just keep in mind you may get bits and pieces to begin with and the rest filters in after the initial transmission.
I've found that receptions of Spirit Information last on average 40-70 minutes once they begin.
Step 7. Thank the Spirit for Their Message
After you are done asking questions or complete receiving, thank your Spirit friend(s) for sharing their messages with you. Your Spirit Guides can stay with you but I always ask to see visiting Spirits depart in my mind’s eye and will feel an energy shift when they do.
When the message is complete, the room usually feels emptier, like a presence has left. It’s similar to the way it feels when someone in your household is on vacation - you can feel the absence.
I’ve found I usually have a sense of adrenaline when Spirit is present and when they leave, this sense immediately vanishes.
Spirits don't come directly to everyone. They only choose certain people to deliver their messages to so it is an honor to even be conversing with them in the first place.
If a single Spirit has chosen you to communicate with, chances are, others will soon begin to come forward.
Remember that every chance you have to connect with Spirit is an honor and an experience to be cherished. Any wisdom you gain from your connection can be used in your life or shared with others to increase our collected understanding of life on Earth.
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