We will round off our Inner Guide series by presenting two more important guidelines:
#2 – Follow your guide’s advice
Becoming a more powerful and evolved spiritual being is only possible if you learn to follow your guide’s advice. Often what your guide suggests may challenge your existing beliefs, attitudes or habits. Your guide may tell you to quit smoking, lose some weight or get a new job. Your guide may tell you to follow a different spiritual path or to break out of a restricting pattern of beliefs. He or she may advise you to be a little nicer to your colleagues, to show more compassion towards those less fortunate than yourself, and so on.
You will only grow if you follow all of this advice. It might not be comfortable to do this, and often it will be downright challenging, but if you follow through you will grow so much that when you look back at how you used to be, you will be amazed at the progress you have made.
#3 – Record your conversations for yourself and others
You should consider keeping a spiritual journal in which you can record the conversations you have with your inner guide. This will enable you to look back in a few weeks, months or years time and see what kind of progress you have made. You will be able to reflect on how following the advice of your guide has helped to change your attitudes, your outlook and your life.
Recording your conversations has another use too. Your journal can be passed on to your children, and then to your grandchildren, and so on. Or, if children are not a part of your life-plan, your journal can be passed onto others who you care for. It might not seem likely that your journal will be valuable to others right now, but your experiences with your guide could well help another traveller meet his own guide and thus evolve his own spiritual being.
Think about it for a moment. Don’t you take great pleasure in reading about the spiritual and metaphysical experiences of other people? Don’t you enjoy learning how another person used his inner resources, universal laws and spiritual insights to improve his life? Of course you do – all seekers do. So why not put your own experiences down in writing? Why not record your own spiritual development – including your conversations with your inner guide – so that someone else can benefit at a later date?
Get a notebook and a pencil and take it with you when you go to meet with your inner guide. Make notes, record particular phrases which help you, write down anything which you think that you or anyone else will find useful to study at some point in the future. Not only will this help someone else further down the line but it will also help you to take your inner-world conversations out to the physical world and really start applying the lessons your guide teaches you.
This brings us to the close of our Inner Guide, but your relationship with your inner guide is only just beginning. Visit your inner guide often, and just watch how your attitude and your life changes. We assure you that you will be genuinely amazed.
