You are guided by the soul and Higher Consciousness at all times.  At all times.  It is when ego exerts its free will that you run into challenges.  Please note this may be the personal ego with whom you are well familiar or the ego of another.  You will know there is conflict by the body barometer.  Let us take the simplest of examples.  You know you have been advised not to eat this or that, and yet you reach for it anyway.  Perhaps you have become skilled at paying no heed to the body and you reach for that “forbidden” food anyway.  If you were to pause, you would note how the body speaks, and it would not be pleasant, that clenching.  What IS pleasant?  Breathing slowly and deeply.  Listening to inner guidance.  Loving the self.  We apply this not just to the example at hand, but in every case when ego exerts itself.  You are so very loved.  Feel that, why don’t you.