Overcoming Your Fears of Spirits: 5 Ways To Make Speaking To Spirit Less Scary
Updated 2024.12.10
How to release your fears of communicating with Spirits. In this post I discuss connecting with The Spirit World without fear -
One of the biggest barriers preventing you from opening up your ability to receive guidance from those in Spirit is fear:
Fear of what might happen when you connect
Fear of who you will connect with
Fear of what you will welcome into your home
Fear for your own safety
Fear of public perception for doing so
Fear of your own self-perception in doing so
The fear something dangerous happen as a result
While I’ve written articles on releasing fear, stepping into the unknown is often scary, regardless of which unknown it is that you are stepping into.
Spirit communication is the process of learning how to apply your intuitive senses (your innate spirit communication tools) to receiving and interpreting messages that you may already be receiving from those on The Other Side. In a way, it can be an unknown.
Before you can even begin to apply your intuitive ability to a connection with Spirit, you have to be able to feel comfortable in doing so.
Without feeling comfortable in moving forward, you continue to stand on the ledge, without ever jumping fully into something.
When fear gets in the way of connecting to Spirit, it can be much harder to clearly receive a message or be able to calm down enough to receive anything at all, preventing any forward movement or from feeling the excitement of a full connection with the Divine.
Here are a few ways you can begin to make the process less intimidating, and open up your connection to Spirit -
5 Steps To Release Fears Of Spirits
Step 1. Start by learning about the light, bright souls of The Spirit World
The Spirit World is more than just shadow spirits lurking in the darkness.
It is. There are Angelic Beings and all the Spirits who’ve ascended to the Light on the Astral Plane that can support you on your journey.
You can learn the differences between Spirits by learning the differences between Spirits by starting here and then, you’ll have a better ability for how to stay away from what might hurt you. Both positive and negative entities have distinct qualities. Once you’ve gotten a sense of how these qualities manifest, it’s easier to identify both.
Step 2. Lay out what you are afraid of
Believe it or not, you have a built-in security system in The Spirit World.
These individuals are called your Spirit Guides and Angels. Once given jobs to do, they will do them, and you can put them to work.
Begin by writing out a list of all the things you don’t want to happen when you start communicating with Spirit. Write out who you don’t want to come through, what you don’t want them to do, and all the things that would cause you to feel fear.
Address this on a written list to your Spirit Guides and Angels, and they will help to keep you feeling safe, by not introducing you to these experiences while you begin to open up or by introducing you to them when you are ready.
This list is called your Spirit Boundaries and no one can obey them, if they haven’t been enumerated as to what they are.
However, once you let The Spirit World know what you don’t want to happen, they can do a better job of helping to facilitate only the actions and actors that you are comfortable with.
Step 3. Identify what you do want
There is a reason you are reading this article. The reason being - you want to learn to communicate with Spirit - but you feel nervous about it, and don’t worry - I’ve been there, too.
There are reasons why you want to communicate with Spirit and connecting with Spirit can be helpful.
What are those reasons to you? What do you want to receive? Do you simply want to learn about how it can benefit you?
Want to learn how to manage what’s already happening in your life safely and abundantly? Want to reunite with Loved Ones? Want to meet your Spirit Guides and Angels?
Write down what you do want out of your communication with Spirit, and include the methods of communication that you would be comfortable with - such as signs, symbols and cues that Spirit could use to get your attention, that wouldn’t frighten you in the slightest.
This is the list of tools that those in Spirit can use to get in touch with you safely. Here’s a list of a few types of passive Spirit communication techniques to draw upon for potential ideas.
Step 4. Acknowledge media portrayal of The Spirit World is not always balanced
Just like most of human civilization isn’t well portrayed by the media, the same goes for The Spirit World.
What you see on the news, on television and hear on the radio is sensational, thrilling and often frightening information for excitement. We all need a little passion sometimes.
Sadly, it’s often the criminals that make the evening news, not the nice guy who gives up his seat on the bus for an older man to have his seat instead. It’s the one person who hurt thousands, not the 30 people who spent their entire lives donating to charity.
Most people are well meaning, kind-hearted and intentional human beings, yet, they often don’t make the spotlight - even though this is most of society.
There are those on The Other Side with kind hearts, performing healing and helpful acts are abundant in number, but they may not be hired for the next big paranormal hit in every cultural climate.
So, unfortunately, you may rarely hear about them at times, making it seem like ‘the dark and creepy type’ is more abundant, when they may just receive more media attention right now.
The good news is it is us who get to decide where the attention flows, consciousness dictates it, so to return The Spirit World’s portrayal more balanced-wise, if enough people agree that it needs to be done, it will be done.
I’ll still love a good mystery story, but told in another way besides sinister is also something I’d be open to hearing. So if you’ve only read or watched spiritual stories with evil-twists growing up, there may be some spiritual de-programming that’ll be unwound in the spiritual opening process.
Step 5. Start small and safe
You don’t have to dive into Spirit Communication by attending a development circle, getting a reading or opening a portal right up in your living room.
You don’t have to get up right now and have a face to face confrontation with the Spirit who has been hanging around in your mudroom in the evenings.
You can start communicating with those in Spirit using a pendulum, dowsing rods or oracle cards - and receiving information indirectly, through physical world objects.
You can ask questions out loud and those in Spirit can reply to you, delivering their messages to you by manipulating the cards, the swing of the pendulum or the shift of the dowsing rods. Spirits can communicate using physical world tools.
The key to safe Spirit communication is learning how to steer clear of what causes you fear, move toward spiritual energies that feel good, and letting those in Spirit know what you are comfortable with by defining your boundaries.
Once you can do that, you’ll receive the interactions and communications you wish for, keeping you happier, safer and more efficient in the type of interactions you receive.
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