Hearing Your
Angels' Messages
From the angels:
"We aren't that difficult
to hear, if you will listen for us with an open heart. Most
of the time, we are closer to you than you can imagine. A
whisper, a thought, is the only signal we need from you to
get a conversation started. We have enormous respect for what
you're going through here on planet Earth at this time. We
never seek to interfere with your lives, only to bring you
blessings of insights and new ways of looking at yourselves."
Angel Messages
Not everyone "hears" angelic voices as an audible
sound. Many people receive divine messages through nonverbal
means such as visions, feelings, or a knowingness.
Hearing the voice of God and
the angels is called "clairaudience," which means
"clear hearing."
The voice may sound like your own or it may sound different.
The voice can emanate from within your body, within your mind,
or sound as if it's outside your head. When an angel warned
me that my car was about to be stolen, his voice sounded as
if he were talking through a paper towel tube, just outside
my right ear. An hour later, when I found myself in the middle
of a carjacking, the same angel guided my life-saving actions
by speaking to me through an inner voice. While receiving
the angel messages in my book, Angel Therapy, I heard the
words both inside and outside my mind.
You might hear a faint voice
and wonder what it said. In such cases, go ahead and ask your
angels to repeat their message. Say to them, "A little
louder, please." The angels appreciate your feedback,
as they want to deliver clear and understandable guidance.
At first, you may believe
that the voice is your imagination and wishful thinking. This
is especially true when you begin consciously interacting
with angels. You think, "This is a fantasy. I wish it
were true that angels would help me, but I'm probably doing
something wrong and the angels won't notice me." We heal
this type of thinking through faith, trust, and practice.
If your faith in angels is uncertain, ask God to help you.
Pray, "Please help me to have more faith. I am willing
to release all of my fears which keep me from having full
faith." The Divine universe always fulfills requests
for more faith.
Angelic voices are consistently
loving and supportive, even when they warn us of impending
dangers or wrong turns. As a psychotherapist, I was trained
to believe that hearing voices was a sign of insanity. Yet,
the voice of the ego is the only source of "insanity."
Ego voice messages are always destructive, abusive, and impulsive.
For example, the ego may try to convince you that you'll fail.
The ego also changes its mind constantly, so it will tell
you to do one thing Monday, another thing Tuesday, and a completely
different thing Wednesday. If you listen to the voice of the
ego, your life will be chaotic and fear-filled.
Angelic voices, in contrast,
patiently repeat the guidance to us day after day, until we
finally follow it. You may hear your angels tell you for years
that you would be a great healer or author, for example. Or
your angels may repeatedly ask you to take better care of
your body.
You know that guidance comes
from angels when it is loving, focused, not hurtful to you
or your family, and consistent.
Clairaudience is just one-fourth
of the ways we receive angelic assistance, however. Your angels
may speak to you in pictures and visual mental images. We
call this "clairvoyance" or "clear seeing."
Angelic messages may come
to you as single snapshot images, either in your mind or outside
your mind. Or, you may see miniature scenes, as if from a
movie. The images may be black-and-white or full color. Angelic
visual messages can be symbolic, such as seeing a stop sign
as a signal that you should take a rest, slow down, or stop
what you are doing.
Intuitively, you might readily
understand what the visual images mean. For instance, you
might see an image of a trophy and instinctively, you know
this means that success is ahead for you. If you have trouble
understanding your angelic visual guidance, be sure to ask
for assistance. Ask your angels to clarify their message,
and continue asking for clarification until you are completely
certain of their meaning.
Sometimes we shut down our
angelic channels of communication because of fear. You might
see an image of your future that frightens you, and you turn
off your clairvoyance by shutting the third eye's eyelid.
One of my clients shut down
her clairvoyance when, as a young girl, she saw a visual image
of her parents divorcing in the future.
Another client closed her
third eye because she foresaw herself having an affair with
a married co-worker, and she wanted to continue her interactions
with him while wearing blinders to the truth. One of my other
clients was trying to ignore a steady angelic voice within
which counseled, "It's time to look for work at a different
place," because she didn't trust God to fulfill her material
needs during the job transition.
You might also shut off your
clairvoyance if you are afraid of what you might see. As much
as you want to see your angels in person, you might harbor
a deep-seated fear that seeing a "ghost" would be
terrifying. Your angels honor such fears, and you won't see
angelic apparitions until you feel confident that such a vision
would comfort — not frighten — you.
The third way we receive angelic
guidance is through our emotions and physical sensations.
We call this, "clairsentience," or "clear feeling."
Clairsentients get divine guidance through bodily sensations,
such as a tightening of the jaw, fists, stomach or sex organs.
They intuitively know the
specific meaning of these tightening reactions. A clairsentient
feels air pressure and room temperature changes that warn
him of negative situations.
Each of our five senses has
a corresponding spiritual sense. Clairsentients receive angelic
guidance through an etheric sense of smell, taste, and touch.
You may know that your beloved deceased grandmother is near
when you smell her perfume or favorite flower fragrance. An
angel may shower your room with the aroma of orange blossoms
to tell you of an impending wedding.
Clairsentients receive a lot
of guidance through their intuition, gut feelings, and hunches.
Much of our intuition comes from the stomach region, and the
stomach flutters, relaxes, and tightens according to the angelic
guidance. Instinctively, the clairsentient interprets the
meaning of these gut feelings and a wise clairsentient follows
these internal directives without hesitation.
Clairsentients get angelic
messages through their heart and love emotions, as well. If
a thought of doing something swells your chest with warm feelings
of joy, this is a directive from God and the angels. You may
think, "Oh this is too good to be true; I am just dreaming,"
but the joy that your thought has brought you is a roadmap
leading you to the life you are meant to have.
We call the fourth means of
angelic communication "claircognizance" or "clear
knowing."
Men are frequently claircognizant, and may not even realize
they naturally receive detailed and accurate information from
God and the angels. You can ask a claircognizant a question
on almost any topic in the world. Within minutes, he will
give you an accurate answer, completely supported by facts
and figures. You might say, "How did you know that?"
and he'll answer, "I don't know! A few minutes ago, I
didn't know that information."
A claircognizant knows, without
knowing how he knows. Consequently, he may doubt the validity
of his knowingness. This is a mistake, because when Divine
wisdom enters our mind, it is a gift we can use to improve
our life, and to serve the world.
We all have access to all
four channels of communication. Usually, we have one primary
means of receiving angelic guidance and one secondary —
or lesser — channel of communication. With practice,
you can become adept at receiving messages in all four ways.
In the beginning of speaking to your angels, though, most
people concentrate upon their natural means of communication.
Naturally visually oriented
people will want to pay attention to their mental visions.
If you tend to focus upon sounds, then listen for inner or
outer words, voices, and auditory messages. If you tend to
be a touchy-feely type, your emotions and bodily sensations
are the instruments, which relay Divine guidance to you. And
if you are intellectually inclined, or a person who constantly
searches for hidden meanings in situations, then you'll want
to monitor your thoughts for those heavenly moments of "knowingness"
which bring you certainty in guiding your actions.
| Authors Details: Doreen Virtue Ph.D.
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