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Native Americans believe that we all have an animal spirit guide, a link to the natural world that represents our inner qualities.

The Native Americans felt a special kinship with their animals.  They found them, not only in the world around them but also in the world "inside".  These animals were their spriit guids, offering comfort and advice.  The can contact your own animal spirit guide,using the step-by-step meditation included.

Finding Your Spirit Guide

Chooseing which animal - and this includes birds, retiles and insects - is best suited to your depends on your personality.  Each is a focused verision of the components inside all of us; the animal that most clearly speaks to you is the one that shows you who your truly are.  Remember that as a human you've advanced beyond the animal stage.  Your spirit animal is only a guide to your inner and out being - not your master.

Your animal spirit guide might be a wolf or an owl - or even a snake or an insect.  IF you prefer cities to the countryside, it could be an urban alley cat, or even a rat or cockroach.

Discovering the Qualities of Your Animal Spirit Guide

Any aminal can be spirit guide, but the ones most often encountered in Native American tracitions are:

Bat: Flies through the darknetss, where others fear to tread

Butterly: Fantastical but impatient

Coyote: Can take or leave others; know as a trickster

Crow/Raven: A trickster who tends to be cold and clinical.  The crow is the more domestic version

Deer: A graceful chid of nature

Dog: A domestic aminal that is loyal; craves companionship

Eagle: Majestic and ready to soar to new heights

Snake: Powerful, unseen, working at ground level

Spider: Web-weaver; jack of all trades

Turtle: A slow but study winner

Owl: Wise; sees and knows all

Wolf: An aggressive loner

Animal Spirit Guide Meditation:

Your aminal spirit is out there, waiting for you to make contact.  The process of meditation and getting back to nature can bring you closer.

To contact your animal spirit guide, follow this meditation.  It may take a few attempts to make contact, but each time you try you will be getting closer to nature.

- Natural Surroundings

If at all possible, get out into the open countryside or a quiet corner of a large park.  Though you guide can find you anywhere, you will be more accessible when you are open to the sky and nature.

- Take Comfort

Wear comfortable clothing.  The surgace you rest on is you to you, but be prepared to sit for as long as you need.  Avoid using distracting incense or music.

- Sensory Experience

Look around with your eyes, listen with your ears, smell with your nose, and fell with your skin until you are in touch with the rhythms of this part of the world.  Think of these rhythms playing out year after year, century after century.

-Open Your Mind's Eye

Close your eyes.  You'll continue to hear and smell, but your mind will supply your vision without the distractions of the outside world.

- Making Contact

Unless you're an experienced meditator, your mind will wander, and various creatures will appear.  The first one you see is not necessarily yours.  Talk to each one that comes along and try to feel what its message might be.

- Communication

Your true guide has something more important to say to you than just flattery or condemnation.  Guides don't want to take over - they have lives of their own - but they can show you ways in which you can take change.

- Learning Experience

Don't be discouraged if at first you don't feel that you've contacted your true animal spirit guide.  Consider what you learned from the experince.  Would you be more comfortable in different surroundings?  At a different time of day?  Try again another day and you might be surprised by your success.

- A Lifetime's Bond

Once you've found your guide, you'll see him time and time again.  He may be in your dreams, or in the glance of a stranger.  But forevermore, he will be your personal guide.

Meditating close to nature, even if it is in a city park rather than the real countryside, will help your spirit guide to locate and contact you.

Be Fun In Light & Love-

Oshuyn