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Ask Your Guides

Connecting to Your Divine Support System

Sonia Choquette | 4.47 | 2,896 ratings and reviews

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Publisher's summary

Revised and updated edition: Renowned spiritual teacher and New York Times best-selling author offers an extensive guide to connecting with your spirit guides so that you can enjoy more love, abundance, purpose, support, and joy.

This newly revised edition from world-renowned teacher Sonia Choquette features brand-new stories, channeled meditations, and other tools and techniques.

We're all spiritual beings, with a spiritual support system on the other side that oversees and helps guide our lives from the moment we're born to the moment we leave our physical bodies. Some people call them guardian angels, others call them spirit guides or divine helpers. These spirits are everywhere, ready to assist us in our life's journey - whether we realize it or not.

Best-selling author Sonia Choquette comes from a line of intuitives and has communicated with spirit guides from a very young age. In fact, many children are able to see guides and angels, although they're usually referred to as "imaginary friends". When we learn how to reconnect with our guides - with a little bit of effort and cooperation - our lives naturally fall into a pattern of ease and flow during which we grow our souls, fulfill our life's purpose, and make our time on Earth endlessly entertaining.

This fascinating and inspirational book provides all the information you need to help you connect with your spirit guides so that you can enjoy all the love, abundance, and joy you're entitled to. In it, Sonia takes you through the obstacles to experiencing divine guidance, developing trust in your inner guidance, and inviting your guides into your heart and mind so that you can accept their help.

"As spiritual beings, we are unconditionally loved and supported by our Creator. We are never alone, nor do we ever face more than we can handle without first being given all we need to succeed." (Sonia Choquette)

This audio product contains a PDF with supporting material, and the PDF is available to download.

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• Ntando Kunene

Amazing book, an awesome reference about spirit guides!

I loved everything about this book, it taught me so much I needed to know about spiritual guidance, everything is very well explained in an easy to follow manner. It has become my daily companion on my spiritual journey. The only thing I do not like is the fact that the meditations are jumbled up with the chapters. I wish the meditations were separated so that when you want to do a meditation you just click on it without having to go to the middle of a chapter to see where it ends and then play the meditation. If it was not for that, the book is an excellent resource.

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• Eduardo Hernandez

Wonderful Audiobook so soothing

I have enjoyed every moment of this audiobook. It has been soul soothing experience . I recomend it amply.

• Robert P Schellinger IV

Eye opening to the light

This is my first reading of this book, but there will be many more. It will be a very useful tool in ones spiritual growth.

The best book on spirit guides I’ve ever listened to.

I love that it is narrated by the author. Sonia has a fantastic voice. I love her down to earth nature and how easily she shares the spirit world in ways that makes sense and are grounded. I also like this edition because of the meditations that are included and the actions Sonia gives you to take in your daily life to bring spirit into your world.

• Anonymous User

Fantastic introduction to meeting your guides

I loved the simple techniques. The chapters flowed along and made sense. Very easy to read.

My go to guide about Guides 🌟

I love everything about this book! Wish I found it years ago. This book is incredibly comprehensive has great guided meditations and details about all the archangels, helper guides and many more I didn’t even know about. This book deserves thousands of 5 star reviews. I’m so glad I found this book! Thank Sonia & divine guides. I Will be recommending this to all my friends. 💖

• Jennifer Santiago

Absolutely loved this book!

I thoroughly enjoyed this book! The narration is lovely and really kept me engaged the entire way through.

Life changing guidance

I am eternally grateful for the wisdom shared in this book and I look forward to experiencing the meditations I skipped over! Thank you Sonia!

• Maria C Gordillo

Wow. What an absolutely beautiful book! I always knew I had a guardian angel but never did I know I and we have so many! This book warmed my heart so much. I am sharing with everyone how much I’ve learned reading this and how blessed I feel. A lot of the beautiful support I have had in the past now makes sense. It was my guides! Thank you so much Sonia for sharing your light and love. This is how I learned about you and I must read all your books!!! I also picked up the ask your angel oracle! I love you! Thank you

So simple and understandable. Sparked a new interest in me to continue to pursue a path of communicating with my higher self thru guides. Now I know where to look online.

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Ask Your Guides: Connecting to Your Divine Support System Paperback – March 31 2006

• Print length 288 pages
• Language English
• Publisher Hay House
• Publication date March 31 2006
• Dimensions 15.57 x 1.93 x 22.86 cm
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• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Hay House; 1st edition (March 31 2006)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Paperback ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1401907873
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1401907877
• Item weight ‏ : ‎ 460 g
• Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15.57 x 1.93 x 22.86 cm
• #755 in Spirit Channeling (Books)
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Sonia choquette.

Global author and speaker, Sonia Choquette is the most highly regarded expert in the field of intuition. Over the course of forty years, she has become a world-renowned intuitive guide and spiritual teacher. Author of 27 New York Times or International best sellers, her books have been published in 37 languages and 40 countries and have been read by over one million people.

Sonia’s work has been featured on Hay House radio, Oprah radio, Inc., ABC, FOX, Shape, Gaiam, and Wall Street Journal Live. Her teachings have attracted the love and admiration of nearly 500,000 social media followers and over 100,000 course students from all over the world.

With a unique melding of compassion, humor, and tell-it-like-it-is-ness, Sonia brings all of her intuitive experience and human understanding to help her global audience reconnect with their Spirit, Guides, and inner vibes. Her mission is to help others feel whole by using all of their senses to create a life that is intuitively guided, empowered, authentic, and meaningful.

Visit her at soniachoquette.net

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This Ask your Guide follows along in the same tradition as the Magic 8 Ball. So if you have a question for your guide and you’d like a Yes/No type of answer then this is the place for you. Concentrate feel the connection with your own spiritual guide/angel/protector, (and when you feel the connection – perhaps a tingle, a sound, a sensation or even just a knowing), click the card to see your answer .

How do you actually connect though?...

I got an email the other day asking me how do you exactly connect with your guide? In fact here is the email and the answer (which Clara has graciously agreed to me sharing – ty!)

Hello Jen Thank you for replying to my first question about the sign ups. I love your site and did not realize it was just you, you are really busy I am sure. I have one other question I am hoping you can answer for me. I love your ask your guide section, however other than just clicking the button and hoping for the answer I want to hear, is there anything else you can suggest?

kindest regards Clara

Hi Clara! You’re more than welcome, and glad we got your sign-ins all working! Thank you for taking the time to write in again with such lovely words and hopefully I can help re the Ask Your Guide section too! This really is a good question and not surprisingly one I have had several times.

What I will do is answer how it works for me and then you can trial it and see how it fits. That is the best advice I can give for any spiritual path. Sure, read books, visit sites, study blogs but at the end of the day you need to find the “isim” that resonates most with you. For example I have read that say you must always choose a crystal with one hand only, your left one. For me I will hold them in both hands as I narrow down my selections, and occasionally I will feel that comforting tingle in my right hand and voila I find my new crystal! Whilst we are all made of the same “stuff” we get to be unique on this journey and that’s where finding and blazing your own trail will lead you to brighter and more brilliant destiny’s.

Connecting with your guide is the same principle, so remember, read what I write, study what others say and then find your place and way to connect that sits perfectly right with you.

If I have a question that I really need insight into, the first thing I do is actually set aside a dedicated time, rushing in, clicking on a button and tearing out the door, says to the Universe (your guide, your angel, your connection)”look I’m really busy, so just give it to me quick!” Taking the time and approaching this tool with intent and respect sends a completely different message.

Firstly I quiet my mind, I have spent years learning the art of meditation, so it is actually a very quick process for me, if you’re new to this, perhaps consider listening to some of the meditations available here . Once you have quietened your mind (and your surroundings – as best you can!) Focus on your question, then when you are ready click the card.

If you agree that we are all energy, then we are all made of this same stuff, you me, the desks we sit at and even the monitor, we all came from this one infinite place and happen to be put together slightly differently. Some people have written in to say that they place one hand on the monitor as the click reveal – perhaps that will work for you also!

Hope this helped you Clara and I wish you much happiness on your future journeys.

Blessings Jen

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Inside the Ask Your Guides online course, I’ll teach you how to call in your Angels and Spirit Guides and allow them to help you experience greater joy and success.

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delivers the simple steps you need to Ask Your Guides to help you live a life of greater ease, flow and joy!

We’re all spiritual beings with a divine support system on the other side—one that oversees and helps guide our lives. Not knowing this leaves you feeling alone and unsupported. Not any longer.

When you learn how to connect with your Divine Spirit Helpers, Angels, and Guides, your life becomes immediately easier. From finding a parking space to your purpose in life, your angels and guides are here to help you in every way.

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This 5-week, move at your own pace online course, gives you simple steps to connect with your Spirit Guides

Reconnect with your true spirit., experience safety and happiness, every day of your life., relax knowing the universe has you covered., feel connected to others and know you are never alone., connect to the helpers and support you’ve been wanting.

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The course is yours forever—5 weeks, 35 video lessons, totalling over 2.5 hours. You can retake the course as many times as you wish.

– YOUR GUIDE’S NAME EMAILED DIRECTLY TO YOU! ($400 value)

Once enrolled in the course, I will personally email you your spirit guide’s name! That is right, anyone that signs up today will get their spirit guide name directly from me!

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I recommend that you work through a lesson a day for 30 days. Each lesson is only 8-10 minutes. The important thing, is how you apply it!

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Where to read, when to read and why you need a pencil in hand: The Post’s Michael Dirda offers some advice from his years as a critic.

How do you read a book? Like most people, I still decipher the meaning of words printed on sheets of paper bound together, but you may prefer to peer at pixels on a screen or listen through ear buds to a favorite narrator. They are all reading, in my book. Each of us, I think, seeks what the critic Roland Barthes called “the pleasure of the text,” though finding delight in what we read doesn’t necessarily mean a steady diet of romance novels and thrillers. Scholarly works, serious fiction, poetry, a writer’s distinctive prose style — all of these deliver their own kinds of textual pleasure.

As someone who has been lucky enough to earn his living in the rarefied world of book reviewing, I’ve gradually developed reading-related habits as part of my work. Some of them — listed below — may even be similar to yours. At the least, I hope a few of my customary routines and practices will be useful in your own reading life.

Be choosy, but not too choosy

I spend a lot of time, often way too much, dithering about what to read next. A book has to fit my mood or even the season. Spooky stories are for winter, comic novels for spring. What’s more, I like to mix it up, the old with the new, a literary biography this week, a science fiction classic the next. I can adjust my expectations up or down — you don’t read Thomas Mann’s “Doctor Faustus” in the same way you read Ian Fleming ’s “Dr. No.” — but the book must be, on some level, exciting. I try to avoid wasting time on anything that leaves me indifferent. As Jesus memorably told the Laodiceans: “Because you are lukewarm, neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth.”

Editions matter

In my youth, I could read paperbacks printed in tiny type on pages you could see through. No more. These days, I opt for hardcovers whenever possible, if only because they’re generally easier on aging eyes. For classics, I want a good scholarly edition; for translated works, I try to acquire the best English version. This just makes sense. As a reviewer, I often work with a galley or advance reading copy of a forthcoming title, but these are simply tools of the trade. I generally don’t keep them. I want the finished book.

Check the small stuff

Before turning to Chapter 1, I glance at a book’s cover art, check out the author’s dust jacket biography and photo, and read through the back page endorsements. Unlike many people, I pay close attention to copyright dates, introductions, dedications, acknowledgments and bibliographies. All these provide hints to the kind of book one is dealing with.

When to read

Mine is a simple system: I read from morning till bedtime, with breaks for my job, family, meetings with friends, exercise, household chores and periodic review of my life’s greatest blunders. On the days I don’t read, I write. As I say, it’s a simple system. Many people complain that they have no time for books, yet somehow they manage to spend three or more hours a day watching television or scrolling through social media on their phones. You pays your money and you takes your choice.

Where to read

Even though I know better, I still read more often than not while sprawled in an overstuffed armchair or on an old couch. You probably do something similar. Not only ergonomically bad, these soft options invite dozing. Realistically, the best place to read is at a table or desk with lots of good light. Other good locations include the public library, an outside table at a coffee shop away from background music and other customers, and the quiet car on the train to New York. In truth, though, don’t expect to find an ideal place to read. Trust me: You never will. Instead, as the Nike slogan says, Just Do It.

Don’t read in a vacuum

To read any book well often requires knowledge of its author, context, history. So I surround myself, when possible or appropriate, with collateral texts to help me better appreciate the writer’s artistry or arguments. These can be biographies, volumes of criticism, competing titles on the same subject or, most basically, other books by the same author. For example, if I’m reading E. Nesbit’s “Five Children and It,” I want to have the sequels, “The Phoenix and the Carpet” and “The Story of the Amulet,” close at hand for possible comparison. This is one justification for building a personal library. I also keep within easy reach a notebook, magnifying glass and Chambers 20th Century Dictionary. Other reference books are shelved near where I type these words.

Attention must be paid

As I read, I do all I can to live up to Henry James’s dictum: “Be one on whom nothing is lost.” This vigilance means that I seldom lose myself in the story, which is the devil’s bargain I made by becoming a professional reviewer. As it is, I track the clues in whodunits and the symbolic events or objects in literary fiction. I note oddities of style, repetitions, possible foreshadowings and anomalies that might be meaningful. I frequently flip back to previous pages to check details. In every way, then, I try to make my first reading as intensive and comprehensive as possible, knowing I may not pass this way again.

Be prepared to take notes

I can’t open a book without a pencil either in my hand or nestled conveniently in that space between my right ear and skull. For a long time, my weapon of choice was a No. 2 Ticonderoga pencil, but it now tends to be a Paper Mate disposable mechanical pencil. As a boy, I took to heart the lessons of Mortimer J. Adler’s essay “How to Mark a Book.” I place two or three vertical lines next to key passages, scribble notes to myself in the margins, sometimes make longer comments on the blank end papers. I never underline words or phrases — this seems too much like sophomoric highlighting, plus it just looks ugly. All these practices serve one end: to keep me actively engaged mentally with the words on the page. For the same reason, I scorn bookmarks: If you can’t remember where you stopped reading, you haven’t been paying close enough attention.

Make some noise

I don’t skim or speed read, though I envy people, like the late Harold Bloom, who can zip through a novel in 20 minutes. When I try to pick up my own reading pace, I end up constantly flogging myself not to slow down. Where’s the fun in that? Woody Allen once said that he’d taken a speed-reading course and had finished “War and Peace” in half an hour; he gathered that it was about Russia. As an exceptionally slow reader, I mentally murmur every word on the page, which allows me to savor the author’s style and to remember what he or she has said. Sometimes I also pause to copy a striking passage into my commonplace book. Here’s a fairly recent example from the poet John Ashbery: “I am aware of the pejorative associations of the word ‘escapist,’ but I insist that we need all the escapism we can get and even that isn’t going to be enough.”

Find a shelf

After finishing a book, I tend to keep it. While not a frequent rereader, I do like to refresh my acquaintance with old favorites, if only by opening one up occasionally to enjoy a page or a passage. When I look at my living room’s bookcases, while sleepily sipping coffee in the morning, I see not only my past laid out before me but also my future: Someday I will read David Cecil’s “Melbourne,” a biography of the Victorian prime minister that was said to be John F. Kennedy’s favorite book. Someday, I will get to — hangs head in shame — Willa Cather’s “The Professor’s House.” Other shelves remind me of the books I want to reread: Angela Carter’s “Nights at the Circus,” Dawn Powell’s “The Locusts Have No King,” Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man,” Frederick Exley’s “A Fan’s Notes.”

Long ago, one of my teachers in high school told me that he didn’t feel right unless he spent at least three hours a day reading. This seemed incredible to me then. Not anymore.

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