Some people pray to their guides and feel let down by their guides when they go through a challenge in life.

Sometimes people run out and read a lot of books, but they don't absorb anything from them. They want to read the next popular book.

It always comes back to the fact that it is best to listen to that inner voice, whether you're in a relationship or not.

I think of the inner voice as a compass or as a wayshower to guide our path.

We have a lot of controlling people who are trying to tell us how to live our lives, and a lot of co-dependent people around us. We bump up against these people, too, when we're trying to get on the spiritual path.

We think we have to prove our allegiance to God by being poor. Many years ago, my own psychic development teacher taught me that to be on a spiritual path meant that you needed to be poor, because that was proving your allegiance to God. So growing up with that kind of teaching from her was a real struggle for me, also.

What we have to realize is that when the inner voice gives us guidance, it's always going to be for our highest good - and it's always going to bring us more joy than we think.