A spirit guide is something we all have. We might not all be able to communicate directly with our individual guide, but they are there guiding us in some capacity. Some refer to them as nothing more than guardian angels and in some ways that is just what they are.
Spirit guides are there to guide us, as the name might imply, threw our lives. Giving a helping hand where needed. Their guidance might be felt as that gut feeling that something is wrong or that whispering voice that feels like something more than just your conscience. Psychics communicate with their spirit guides getting information from them beyond what they get in visions and threw clairvoyance. Some psychics talk directly with their guides, while others are just shown pictures. It has been my experience that not every psychic has seen their guide some just talk to the voice that seems to be inside their head and yet somehow outside it at the same time.
By now you may be wondering where spirit guides come from and how they get their information and wisdom. Well spirit guides were once people like you and I, and still are in some respect of the word. They are people who lived once and died just like you and I will, after they died they passed over to the other side. Once on the other side they made a choice to either stay on the other side performing duties like being a spirit guide or reincarnating. They obviously chose to stay and become a spirit guide for someone else. To be a spirit guide you have to have some sort of "training" to learn to be a guide. The "training" can be learned threw a sort of learning program on the other side or the more common way it to keep reincarnating and learning threw life lessons. Either way in the end you will come out as a spirit guide and thusly with help people after you have learned all you need.
Spirit guides get their information from the Akashic records, which is said to be where all the information, thoughts, and action of every thing to ever happen are stored. By tapping into this information they can help a person to make the proper choices in their life. Spirit guides can also help give a person information about the future, information that will help them to move forward in their lives.
In the end spirit guides are something that helps keep up sane in a world that can give us more problems than solutions. So next time you get that gut feeling just know that someone is looking out for you from the other side.