Spiritual Helpers, or our Spiritual Team as I prefer to call them, are spirits who assist us in our physical life. Just as we have friends, teachers, and loved ones who help us here on earth, we also have people in Spirit who are friends, teachers, and loved ones. Each of these Helpers may play various roles at various times in our lives, and if we desire it, we can have a meaningful relationship with these souls.

Working with these various spiritual friends, teachers and loved ones requires cultivating a relationship with them. It requires not just getting to know them but also mutual respect, care, and love. However, like any relationship, it tends to go through “stages,” and knowing these stages can sometimes help us to move through them more swiftly.

I share this post under the ‘Inspired Inisghts’ category because these stages were given to me by my Spiritual Team. They were provided many years ago, back when I was still in the Stage 2 Phase. Today, my relationship with my Team has evolved. As you read this post, examine where you are with your Team (if at all), but also take the time to discover how you can deepen that relationship in order to take it to the next level.

Stage #1 – Parent/Child

In the early stages of a relationship with our Spiritual Team, we often expect a great deal, perhaps even taking them for granted – much like a child. We typically do all the talking, do very little listening, and constantly ask for answers, guidance, and communication. When we do receive answers or guidance, we may dismiss it and/or ask for a different or better answer.

Trust may also be an issue during this phase. We may doubt the presence of our Team and frequently ask for evidence and proof of their existence.

Anger towards our Team may also be a part of this stage. Like a child, if things don’t go our way or we don’t understand, then we may get upset. Perhaps we get upset because it appears they aren’t responding. Maybe we feel they are not offering the guidance or answers we want or need. Or, maybe we’re upset because our life issues aren’t being resolved and we naively hold them accountable.

In this parent/child phase, we turn to our Team believing they are here to serve us and meet our demands. It is a natural stage in the relationship, although an immature one.  Like parents, these spiritual beings are there to provide steady, unyielding and loving support. In the beginning, they will lovingly treat us like the children we are – always reassuring us and providing guidance based on our current level of understanding. While they are happy to serve and support us as spiritual “parents,” we are the ones who must eventually grow-up and allow our connection with them to mature.

Stage #2 – Teacher/Student

With maturity, the parent/child dynamic slowly fades and evolves into the teacher/student phase. At this point in the relationship we have developed confidence in the presence of our Team. We realize they are always with us and we no longer need their constant reassurance. In addition, we recognize how they communicate with us, both internally as well externally, and trust the source of the communication, as well as its content – even if we don’t always agree with it, or understand it.

At this phase, we have lessened our demands. We have discovered that our Team is not going to solve our problems or tell us what to do. We have made the realization that they will always allow us to make our own choices and will never offer information that violates the all-important Universal Principles of “Choice” and “Free Will.”

No longer a child, we now recognize that WE hold the power. As a result, when we call on our Team, we look to them to provide us with wisdom and advice. They have become our teachers and trusted advisors. We don’t expect them to resolve our issues, but we do respect their wisdom and perspective. From this phase, we accept the relationship with our Team as one where they are still above us. We are no longer children: Now we are students.

Stage #3 – Partnership & Co-Creation

As we evolve past the first two stages of the relationship, we start to embrace our Team on an equal level. Not only do we trust their presence, guidance, and support, we also trust our own inner guidance and divine power. At this stage, we view our Team as partners and confer with them as equals. Like a trusted friend or companion, we invite their perspectives and insights, but then carefully weigh their input before making a final decision on how to act. We acknowledge that our own inner power is as great as theirs, while fully respecting their suggestions and advice. We also know their perspective comes from a higher point of view that it is free of ego and is always for our highest good. As a result, we work in partnership with our Team to create solutions and outcomes that serve the higher good. We honor their participation in our life and are deeply grateful and humbled by their presence.

At this highest level, we also take on a role that allows for co-creation. All beings, in flesh or spirit, have the desire to create and express their innermost self – this includes our Spiritual Team. Creation happens in both dimensions, each supporting the other, and in this phase we are now in a place of cooperation!

Here, we have finally come to know who we are. We implicitly trust spirit and have a strong sense of discernment. This does not mean our life is perfect. We still seek guidance – but perhaps we also give it! We not only ask for ourselves, but have reached a point of desiring to give in return. In other words, we see our Team not only as parents, teachers, or even partners, but other independent living beings that also have desires and goals. Just because they have chosen to be present in our lives does not mean they are devoid of their own purpose or intent. By seeing them as equal co-creators, we honor their goals and desires as deeply as we honor our own, and since they are our Spiritual Team, the relationship is one that is designed to be mutually beneficial.

At this stage, we acknowledge our desire to create and express who we are. We also invite other connections with those in spirit who support our goals, and in return, offer to be of service to them. We acknowledge their desires and work to assist them as much as they assist us. At this stage of the relationship we have become equals – the Team simply standing in the world of spirit and we as a Helper standing in the world of the physical – but both are one and the same.

Once we achieve this powerful stage in our relationship, we have developed a deep sense of love and gratitude, as well as purpose. We have seen the God in ourselves, as well as those in spirit who serve us – and in return, we endeavor to serve them.

Summary: Having reviewed these three stages, I encourage you to take a look and ask yourself where you are with your Spiritual Team. It’s also important to realize that you may have one level of relationship with one or two Team members, while having a very different level with others. This is much like our relationships with people here on earth. Some are dear trusted friends and companions while others are teachers and mentors or perhaps even healers. And don’t get hung up on names or who is who on your team. It’s certainly a natural question we all want to know but it is the relationship that matters most of all. In time, if it is in your best interest, certain Team members may step forward – but this is not a neccessity. Their ego is not tied to recognition that way that ours are here on earth. Just work towards the relationship and connections and let it all advance from there.

If you want more out of these spiritual relationships, then take a look and see what you can do to move to the next level. And don’t forget to ask your Team for help! Everyone benefits from a stronger relationship – even those in spirit.

Cheers & Wellness,

Carol

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