Enter into a state of deep relaxation. Now imagine that you are standing in a beautiful place in nature where are trees, flowers, butterflies, birds, sunlight and various images and even sounds and smells which you enjoy. Walk through this place in nature and enjoy what you are seeing and feeling. Now you will find a mountain in front of you and will begin to climb up it along a very easy and comfortable path which stretches out before you. Continue climbing at your own rate enjoying the beings of nature all around you. Continue even higher and notice that you are going so high that the trees are becoming less dense. Continue upwards going higher and higher until you are very high above the world. On the top of the mountain you will find a small plateau. There you will find a being who is radiating with peace and light. This is your spirit guide (or higher self, if you like). Approach him (or her) and sit down by him. He knows you well. He has lived every minute of your life with you. He loves you and accepts you totally just as you are. Feel his love and acceptance and peace. Sit and be with him. Ask him his name so that you can know what to call him. Ask him if he will answer some questions. Ask your questions and listen to the answers. You may hear them coming from him or they may simply pop into your mind from nowhere. Accept the first answer that comes to your mind. Go on to the next. Ask important questions, like, Çwhat is the purpose of my life? What is it that I have come to learn? What is it that is preventing me from being healthier, happier? What must I do in order to overcome the obstacles in my life at this time?È Ask these and other questions which have to do with your spiritual development, and with your health, if that is an obstacle to you at this time. Also ask how you can maintain this contact with him so that you may receive messages and guidance on a continual basis. Ask also if he has any other specific advice that he would like to give you.

Some will experience this being as a known figure like Christ or mother Mary; others as a wise old man or woman. Others may see some other form, and others still may simply feel the presence of this being without actually seeing it. All cases are fine and beneficial. Once you have developed this contact through a number of deep relaxations, try to maintain the feeling of the presence of this being in your life at all times, while engaged in your various activities.