Updated 2022.06.18

Asking your Spirit Guides for help? Communicating with your Ancestors? Wanting to see a loved one's blessing? In this post, we discuss the fundamental steps of how to communicate with The Spirit World.

Whenever I have a question to ask the Universe, when the thing still feels like it needs answers regardless of whom I've asked, this is when I go to Spirit for tuning in.

When asking Spirit for an answer, for a sign, for a message that something is out there, it first helps to clear a space to connect and then, open up the veil, and you step in. 

At times, communicating with Spirit can feel like you are merely clearing energy and everything away, to explore what's right, at that moment. 

Through the Law of Reflection, Spirit usually does return a message when you ask, sometimes through feeling, sometimes through a vision, or a sudden thought, sometimes a knowing. 

When you connect, you often receive an answer to a question you have. Any genuine connection is somewhat a call and a response. With each type of request, you seem to get a new response - this is what keeps connecting with Spirit engaging.

I've found there is a pattern of steps for communicating with Spirits that tends to work pretty much every time. Sometimes, I think environmental conditions, inside or out, play a role in the small percentage of times connecting feels cloudy. 

Because most people will find their answers to their questions when connecting, I want to go over the basic steps of communicating with spirits.

My only disclaimer before we begin is that you may surprise yourself with what you are capable of when you try this activity.

If you still feel cloudy after trying the steps below, at the end of this piece are a few steps to assist.

Without further ado, to communicate with spirits in your home, on a cliffside, or anywhere you feel safe, below are my steps for connecting - 

7 steps for communicating with Spirits

1 - Create a sacred space 

If you only have a small area of land, gather rocks and place them around, or kick away leaves, to make a sacred space. 

If you have a place where you always meditate, go there. 

If you have been meditating in a place, the spiritual energy there is already primed. It may be easier to get a connection because you're tapping into a preexisting flow you created. 

If you are in a new space and create one from materials, you can arrange a flow of energy that feels good by dusting off an area and making it sacred. 

Clearing a space before energetically tuning, creates a smooth pathway that allows the energy that comes in and out to be more vivid, and easier to see or sense.

Any space can be sacred by adding sacred elements, including sacred sounds, such as the sound "Aum" made with the breath or a tuning instrument.

2 - Focus on your mood and energy field

It's you and all else, with all else. When your mood is good, and you are at peace, it is easier to connect to the wavelength of others who communicate there in The Spirit World.

Lift your energetic mood as close as you can get to feeling bliss. Use any wellness tool you have available. Some people use a four-part breath they like until they feel bliss, peace, or calm. Whatever you need to do to boost your energy, get as close as you can, and feel peace.

You want to be as close to pure joy and love as you can because this is where Spirit's Guidance will usually be coming from. The closer you are on this wavelength, the easier it will be to pick up or sense the response, which will hold the answer.

3 - Ground your energy field

Once at bliss, ground yourself. 

Snack on chocolate pretzels or almonds, garden, wear red. Anything earthy, rich, and warm, works for grounding. 

I also like sounds for grounding, anything with a prominent drum beat. Depending on where you are, anything from hearing a woodpecker's call to house music will have this.

If you use tuning forks, look for a C note fork, sometimes called Root Chakra note, or Philosophical Pitch - these will also work.

A visualization with roots coming from your feet or out from all parts of your body works too.

4 - Set an intention

Send up a prayer, a mantra, or any wish that conveys the words you intend for the connection. This prayer for mediumship can work. 

If you are communicating with Spirits to receive a solution to something, ask your question, state what you want to know, for whom, and why. It merely acts as a focal point for energy in many cases.

If connecting for someone else, a person's written name can serve as the prayer or intent, since their Spirit Guides will know what they want and the energy goes where it needs to.

5 - Ask your guides to come in and out behind you

Visualize the Angels merging with you, or ask your Guides to step in. 

Then ask them to step out, then back in. When you sense a presence, pay attention to any feeling you get or what you are guided to do. 

If you are more clairvoyant, pay attention to any images or symbolism that comes into your mind's eye. If you are more empathic or clairsentient, pay attention to the feeling you get when they step in, as this feeling could be the message.

6 - Connect with your group of Spirits

How to connect with spirits of loved ones at home

If you connect with the Spirits of loved ones at home, start this process by verbally inviting your ancestors, friends, or pets to step in. Wait with that energy, then ask them to step out and wait again.

Do this three times to see if you can sense their presence and ask or say anything you want. The first part is to get to know their energy distinct from your Spirit Guides or anyone you are calling in. Some people like just to feel here.

Feeling the essence of a loved one's energy is one of the best feelings on Earth, so lingering, and getting the tingles can feel good. If you get that, soak it in. Some people feel emotional at this point. Connecting with Spirit can create a release or flow of energy to the Heart Chakra. 

Asking spirit guides for help

If you are asking your Spirit Guides for help, I like to Ask for a Sign or use Divination Cards or a dowsing pendulum after I've done all the above. 

If I have a person there with me, I'll ask them to be my sitter. Having a sitter sometimes helps you pull a message out of the air and help you focus since it's like having a watcher, you make sure to "do" your work.

How to connect with your higher-self

If you want to connect with your intuition, your Higher Self's Wisdom, which is a Spirit, put your hand on your heart and ask yourself for the answer. Usually, it will speak back to you here as the small voice, the inner knowing. It often feels like it is coming from your gut.

7 - Visualize a golden light channel running through your entire house

When you have finished your connection, imagine a golden light flushing the entire sacred space you created in the beginning, setting all things new again. 

Then space-clear however you wish, with burning Sage, anointing with oil, or simply saying a Thank You. Some people like to step outside and take some deep breaths, resetting their energy.

This end releases a connection. 

If I have an immediate question I need to see the solution to, I will now go back to my drawing board and see if a sketch comes.

So there you have it, this is how you communicate with Spirits.

If you try any of the steps above and still feel cloudy, check out this post on clearing your energy, or this post on grounding and try again.

If you still feel cloudy or aren't sure if you are getting anything, give it about three days and see if things clear up. Sometimes, I think the astrological movement plays a role in when things are more apparent up there.

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