WHAT ARE GUARDIAN SPIRITS?
Since ancient times there is a belief that incorporeal beings or incarnated spirits inhabit a supernatural entity, these guardian spirits have the ability to protect and preserve human beings against the various dangers that threaten them. They can be seen as beings of light, Deities, Guardians, Guide Grandparents, or Guardian Spirits.
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Guardians in the different worldviews
In Siberian shamanic cosmology, these spirits are symbolized as a stooped old woman sitting before the flames of the hearth. For the North American Indians, it is a spirit that takes on the features of a woman, an animal, or a charge of mounted warriors who give us a vision. And for Mesoamerican shamanism, El Nahual or Guardian Spirit, is a companion entity that accompanies each human being during their life experiences and with which they connect through their powerful symbolisms or qualities. The shaman can even metamorphose with the animal that possesses him until he determines his way of being and acting.
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Guardian spirits in shamanism
According to shamanism, when a species learns the lessons that its guardian animals came to teach it, the energy of this species is said to be stored in the cosmos. In this way, when invoking an animal of power, we are at the same time invoking that energy that is in the universal catalog.
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There are several ways to invoke our Guardian Spirit depending on the message or lesson you require:
1.- Recurring dreams: spirits often manifest through repetitive dreams that contain keys or symbolic messages necessary to resolve certain conflicts in our lives.
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2.- Unexplained connection: it is said that each person is born with their Guardian Animal Spirits that accompany them for the rest of their lives. . And these guardians can present themselves from childhood, generating a special empathy or connection that you even feel before your birth.
3.- Through the visionary journey: it is possible to contact our Guardian Spirits from the intake of power plants or in contact with substances from animals of power, which take us to states of altered perception that are conducive to this spiritual encounter.
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4.- Going to their call: in many shamanic cultures, the animal spirits choose you to fulfill their life missions. This is how many shamans have gone through the interstices of their initiatory experience as healers of their community, always accompanied by their guardians.
