This may seem like a silly question but I was wondering how you really know if you are communicating with your guide. Do you hear there voice or see them? If not how do you know when it is your ego or your guide? I am not doubting anything just seriously interested and I don't think I am at that level just yet as I am only just trying to piece things together.

Well, no I personally don't think its a silly question at all seeing as how for the longest time I would question my own sanity when it came to the matter of, "Am I really having this conversation with my spirit guide?" Lol When I go to my "level" lets call it, like a meditative state, I can see and (sometimes) hear my guide. When I am out, I will speak and recieve and answer back (in my head) with practice though, I think you can "tune" yourself in better, little by little. A few days ago, I was doing a "practice" reading for someone (I am still in my learning state myself) and I was afraid to be wrong or misinterpret something important, so I said to my guide, "I need you to help me..." but I couldn't finish my thought because the response I got was, "I am helping you."  
Try practicing talking out loud and in your head as well, and I am sure that in time you will suceed.

Love and Light

~storry~

The tool for mediumship is meditation.  Practice attuning to your own spirit guide through good working exercises.  In my practice I use a meditation for peace on a peaceful place then invite my spirit guide to come by a symbol of connection and placing a seat for them in my scene that I am meditating upon.  This works well.  When the symbol is touched by spirit the energies change.  We can be sensitive to these energies and work with them in all that we do in attunement.  This is a good attunement exercise.

When doing material work, it is important to not be connected and attuned to spirit work.  'Give unto Caesar what is Caesar's (material) and unto God (spiritual) what is God's'.  The more you protect and focus your own energies to receive spirit energies in an attuned manner, the strong the energies become between you and your own personal spirit guide.  Give them a time and place in consistency and constancy and they will recipricate.

Thank you both very much for taking the time to reply, your responses have been very helpful.

Everything that is said above is true. I will add that myself, I have been meditating and have felt the same way as you.

Do not doubt that when you meditate, something is happening. Because on a higher level there is communication going on.

Let intuition be you guide. If you think you felt something, a feeling, a vision or a thought. DO NOT DOUBT it. It important to know that your FIRST thought or feeling is usually the right one.

Have no expectations as to what will happen during meditation.

The KEY to success in contacting your spirit guides is meditating daily.

You can achieve inner guidance through PRACTICE. Optimum results will
come with daily practice.

Meditation in the beginning should be 10 to 15 minutes once a day.
Then you can increase it to 20 minutes once a day.
You can even do it twice a day for 10 minutes each time.

The more you Practice, I promise the more comfortable you will feel and the more you will begin to know and learn to contact your inner self and your spirit guides.