Let’s Get Physical
Spirit guides aren’t just a state of mind
I’ve mentioned here before how Falcon sometimes has to gently trick me into writing about topics he knows I’d rather avoid. Today is no different. He had me focus on a totally different project, and because I’d already written another article earlier this morning, he led me to believe I was done writing for the day. As I was working on the other project, however, he told me to look up some things that directly pointed to the article topic he wanted me to write about. I knew what he wanted, but even then, I tried to procrastinate a bit. Still, he continued nudging me until I couldn’t avoid it any longer, so here it is.
I write frequently about the emotional and spiritual healing work my guides have led me through. However, what many people don’t realize is just how much their guides can manipulate their physical environment. Sometimes, people in the spiritual community can get the impression that our guides are more like a state of mind or a manifestation of our intuition rather than actual, sentient beings. Because of this, people may believe that our guides can affect only our emotional/spiritual states. Really, though, our guides can step in and do anything they want, physically, if they choose to do so. They don’t do this very often, as they want to empower us to do things for ourselves. At the same time, it doesn’t mean they’re incapable. Far from it! Falcon is having me share a few examples below.
Years ago, there was one day when I was sick in bed, and I had a bottled electrolyte drink sitting next to me in the bed. I hadn’t put the lid on very tightly, which was a mistake, as the nearly-full bottle ended up tipping over. I didn’t notice it at first, but rather, I noticed two of my guides swooping over towards me. That’s when I heard the sound of liquid pouring out of the bottle, and I set it upright as quickly as I could. Unfortunately, more than half the bottle had spilled out by that point. I mentally prepared to deal with a wet mattress, bedding, and floor below, but everything ended up being completely dry. Most of the bottle was empty, but it’s like the liquid had just vanished! That’s when my guides revealed that they’d rushed over to clean up the mess for me, since I hadn’t been feeling well. I have no idea how they did it, but it was simply gone, as if nothing had spilled.
On another occasion, once I was living alone in my current apartment, I was trying to lay an old bookcase down so that I could disassemble it and throw it away. However, this thing, while it wasn’t terribly heavy, was much taller than me and very awkward. I wasn’t sure how to grab it without toppling it onto myself, especially with some of the shelves already being loose, so Falcon told me to take a few steps back from it and stand there with my arms stretched out. I’d thought this was strange, but I did so. Next thing I knew, the bookcase was slowly being tilted towards me. It didn’t fall on me; it just gradually tilted towards me so that I was able to get hold of it and gently lay it down. It truly was like another person was on the other side of it, guiding it towards me.
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I never ask my guides to do these things for me; they’ll just step in from time to time to help me out. Before moving on to the next example, that’s an important point I want to emphasize: spirit beings are not our maids or servants, and they aren’t here to clean up after us. If they choose to help out, be grateful and view it as a blessing, but don’t become expectant and demanding. They’ll shut that down immediately. It’s why I’m hesitant to share these sorts of stories, as I don’t want people viewing spirit beings as their personal assistants. While they may step in from time to time to help us because they love us, their primary focus is on teaching us to do for ourselves.
This next story happened shortly after I’d moved into my current apartment. I didn’t have a lot of money for food at the time, but I had a lot of dried goods from my old house, which I’d moved with me, including flour. This allowed me to bake homemade bread for myself, which made for a good meal when paired with a light soup. One day, I was feeling ill, but I knew I needed to bake some bread because the dough had already risen for 18 hours. I started it in the oven, in a heavy, cast-iron Dutch oven pot with the lid on, as I usually would. I set a timer to remind myself to remove the lid from the pot after it had baked for a certain amount of time. Once I’d set that, Falcon told me to go lie down. After lying down for a while, the timer went off, but I was struggling to get up. Falcon told me not to worry about it and to reset the timer for the remainder of the bread’s baking time. I didn’t know how this would affect the bread, but I was wiped out, so I trusted him. When I later returned to the kitchen to get the bread out of the oven, I was stunned to find that the lid wasn’t on top of the pot, but instead had been completely removed from it! I have no idea how my guides did this, but I was extremely grateful, and I ended up with a beautifully baked loaf of bread.
This final story is the one I’ve been most hesitant to write about. My spouse was yelling at me and belittling me, basically telling me how stupid they thought I was. I was used to them speaking to me like that and calling me names and such, so I just sat there and let them keep going, as it was easier to shut down and take it than to try to stand up for myself. I felt the energy shift in the room suddenly, and I looked up just in time to see Falcon quite literally flying up behind my spouse with both hands outstretched, and he gave my spouse a good shove from behind, causing them to lurch forward in their chair. I wasn’t expecting it, so it came as quite a shock to me. From there, my spouse, although they weren’t hurt at all, was clearly surprised and flustered. Even though they’d been sitting down, they tried to claim they’d “tripped,” and they stood up and left the room right after.
I wasn’t crazy about sharing that last story, as I don’t want to make it sound like spirit guides are running around attacking people. I also want to add that this is not something I would ever ask any of my guides to do. More often, they’ll provide the means or confidence for us to remove ourselves from those situations. However, they will intervene physically from time to time if they deem it necessary. There have been quite a few other times when Falcon has physically intervened, but it was to protect me rather than to go after someone else.
I don’t want this article to seem like it’s just a list of examples where my guides have physically intervened, however. Rather, the purpose of sharing these things is to show that our guides are capable of so much more than we can imagine, in ways we can’t comprehend or wouldn’t expect. With these examples, even though I know what the results of their interventions were, that doesn’t mean I know how my guides accomplished them.
The point Falcon really wants me to drive home here is to not put the divine in a box. Spirit beings are vast, and they’re creative. They can make things happen and shift things in ways we couldn’t have dreamed of. We can ask them to do or help with things, but in asking, it’s best if we don’t try to dictate how they go about doing so. If we try to control the methods they use based on how we think things should happen, we may be thoroughly disappointed with the results, as things may not happen at all. However, if we release our requests and remain open to our guides’ interpretations, they can make things happen in ways we may not have thought possible.
With that, he’s telling me to close this out here, so I hope everyone has a beautiful, peaceful day.
