Hearing your Angel's Messages
by Doreen Virtue, Ph.D.
From the angels:
"We're 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."
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
car-jacking, 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, 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.
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