How to Talk to Your Spirit Guides | Gabrielle Bernstein

Key wellness, self-care, and productivity-style strategies from the video

• Adopt faith and “allowing” as the foundation

  • The connection is described as always present, but your free will determines whether you can create a dialogue.
  • “Disbelief” and not making room for guidance are framed as blocks.

• Use a structured prayer to open communication

  • Ask from a place of acknowledgement and receptivity (not force).
  • Example prayer language (as given in subtitles), centered on gratitude and support:
    • “Thank you guides of the highest truth and compassion…”
    • Ask to be led, shown what’s needed, and supported in healing/resolving resentment and releasing physical/emotional burdens.

• Move the prayer into meditation for receptivity

  • Sit in meditation as long as needed after praying.
  • Signs of presence/guidance mentioned:
    • Tingling hands
    • Warmth around the body
    • Breath relaxing
    • Feeling more at ease in stillness

• Listen for guidance through multiple channels

  • Guidance may come as:
    • Audible sound
    • Inner knowing
    • Information arriving during journaling

• Journaling as an activation tool

  • After prayer/meditation, write in a journal:
    • Start with a line like: “Thank you guides of the highest truth and compassion for writing through me…”
    • Then “let your pen flow,” allowing ideas, visions, stories, and inspired topics to come through.
  • Additional signs mentioned:
    • Possible handwriting changes
    • Feeling energy moving through you
    • Heat in the body indicating guidance

• Ask for clear “signs” to confirm you’re on the right track

  • Request specific confirmations, for example:
    • “If I’m on the right track show me a pink butterfly.”
    • “If I’m on the right track show me a sunset.”
  • Recognize these signs as evidence of ongoing support.

• Use visual/energetic awareness cues

  • Guidance is described as:
    • “sparks of light,” “tinsel-like” light in the sky
    • Often white light
    • Sometimes blue light, associated with Archangel Michael
  • Includes seeing these lights during healing or feeling “lit up” spiritually.

• Reduce “disbelief” by using children’s perception

  • Encourage asking children what they see (kids are said to have fewer internal blocks).
  • Suggests different home spaces may feel spiritually “activated” (e.g., an “office” space where a child associates fairies/guides).

• Get the names of your guides (trust the first name that comes)

  • During meditation, ask your guides to reveal their name.
  • Accept the first name that comes to mind without overthinking or questioning it.

• Follow up through a recommended resource

  • Points viewers to her book as a method for deepening connection by addressing “blocks” and using tools to strengthen the relationship with the universe/spiritual beings.

Presenters / sources

• Gabrielle Bernstein (speaker; referenced as author of Universe Has Your Back)