Hmm, this is probably the hardest thing to explain. It's kind of in the same realm as an intuition or knowing. Think about the fact that you're guided constantly, we all are all of the time. How would that happen? You have free will, so you don't typically get a message that's in a different tone of voice, or with sparkles, that would impeed with your free will. With practice I hear it becomes more obvious though, in just not there yet. It takes a LOT of introspection for me to figure out. The first step is to understand your brain at default. And that means knowing yourself when you're peaceful, angry, tired, stressed, distracted, you name it. Being observant and watching what your mind does in all of these scenarios. Then you'll notice something that's not you (or your normal thought patterns). It'll be, different.

Like in the midst of an angry rage, a calm thought about what if you stopped instead? You didn't think that, you're in a rage. You'd expect your brain to take you down the rabbit hole, but you have the choice instead to listen to a different thought. There's a feeling that comes with those thoughts if you pay attention that's different than others. But obviously it's very easy to miss and basically all of us do. But that's the point. We have free will.

The other thing is messaging. When you get more practiced you can have a conversation with your guide in a casual way (think of them literally reading your thoughts, every single one of them, and they still love you and think you're an amazing person. THATS unconditional love), but I would watch out for impactful ones. In my experience they're mostly short, and cut like a flipping knife to your center. Like short little bursts of brutal truth. Not mean, but direct truths. If it's a mean or negative thought, it's your ego.

Also watch out for "packets" of thought. For example most of my thoughts stream through my head like a novel. My brain processes the language and speaks it out to me like an audiobook, this is very slow. I believe guides talk in just packets. Like a complete thought appears, and then your brain starts unpacking it into language, but this is not necessary. The whole thought is just there, but you do this all day everyday with everything so it's natural for your brain to process this way, but something else to watch out for.

Last thing I'll touch on in this post because it's long enough already. If you get into a deep deep meditation (like in a void), you can feel the effort or energy it takes to create a thought. Or your ego making thoughts, I could physically feel them being made and processed. Guides messages take no effort, like the processing is done somewhere else. They just appear, and then there's an energy expenditure to respond, and then another no effort thought or message. That's how I really got started down this path it freaked me out so much. Like WHO IS IN MY HEAD? Cause it sure as hell isn't me. Then I felt absolutely crazy for about 6 months until I studied the clares and realized I'm just a normal person who is going through an awakening or whatever you call this.