Clarify and affirm your intention.
 

Purify your motives for receiving guidance.
 

Release ego needs such as pride, greed, fear, anger, and also any doubts that you can actually receive clear guidance.
 

Relax and take a few deep breaths to calm your body, emotions, mind.
 

Align yourself with the highest source within you (God/Spirit/Universal Mind, etc.).
 

Invoke your soul or higher self and ask your question(s).
 

Avoid becoming too passive – stay conscious and aware.
 

Listen quietly for the answer from your soul and write it down.
 

Be aware that the answer may come in many forms: direct knowing, words, pictures, symbols, inner light, energy sensation in the body, synchronistic events, a message from a friend, or a passage in a book.
 

Challenge the guidance as to its spiritual source and authenticity—make sure it is coming from the soul, not from the unconscious or lower psychic (astral) planes.
 

Make a commitment to follow through on the guidance you’ve received (use it or lose it), and take full responsibility for it.
 

Dedicate yourself to living a life of service to others.