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2. Listen to the sounds you make while breathing. Don’t judge, just listen attentively. Notice whether the breaths are shallow or deep. What moves when you breathe in, your diaphragm or belly?

3. Connect the inhaled breath with the exhaled breath, so that your breathing is one continuous movement. Continue doing this for several minutes and notice how you feel.

Breathwork can heighten your mental concentration. After doing breathwork, hold the image of numinous angels before your mind’s eye, and call to them. Broadcast your desire for them to join you now that you have prepared a calm, serene mental state and a slower beating heart. Ask them to meet you in the temple of your heart. Sit quiet for some time just in awareness.

22: Invite Angels Into Your Life Using the Law of Attraction

The law of attraction is a New Age belief that like attracts like. So if you think negative thoughts, they bring more negativity into your life. If you embrace positive thoughts, you are attracting positive influences into your life. It is not wishful daydreaming. It is not fanciful thinking. Meditate about angels to attract their positive influence into your life. Study the different angels from Part 1 of this book, and consider how each angel makes you feel. Record these feelings in your journal. If one particular angel makes you feel safe and protected, you are inviting that energy into your life. When you feel in need of protection, revisit your journal and attract the feeling of protection into your life.

Some say this ancient law has been around since the beginning of time—or possibly at the beginning of human consciousness. Your thoughts never really stop. You can slow them. You can change the quality of them from negative to positive, but they are always freely associating; that is, you jump from one thought about a particular subject to another thought (maybe on the same subject, maybe different), and so forth. But these thoughts are energized to attract people, circumstances, and material items. When you use the law to call forth something, it will come to you provided the thoughts are not half-hearted wishes. With the law of attraction, anything is possible. This is the same idea that’s true when working with the angels. Anything is possible. Use your mind. Focus it clearly on what you want. Have a feeling of worthiness to have what you want. Cultivate the intention to have it. Believe that the manifestation of what you desire is already possible and in the works to come to you. Know the law of attraction is continually responding. It responds to what you think, desire, and feel. In keeping with the law of attraction, try using an affirmation to call the angels to you.

Raising your vibration is empowering yourself by changing your thoughts from the negative to the positive. You can do this by writing or saying an affirmation. An affirmation is declaring the truth through a positive statement. For example, if you are continuously saying, “There must not be angels because I cannot see or feel them,” change that statement and affirm, “I know there are plenty of angels here for me. I am willing to see and feel their loving presence.” In essence you are raising your vibration to experience the possibilities of the angelic realm. If your thoughts are filled with fear and doubt, you will continue to experience the same. As you think so shall it be. In essence, you need to fake it until you make it through the use and power of affirmations. When you practice using affirmations, you shift your thoughts to experience what you want versus what you don’t want. It creates a power that opens the gateways to experience miracles.

AFFIRMATION TO ATTRACT ANGELS

State your affirmation in the positive and in the present tense. For example, you do not say “I will see the angels someday.” This statement keeps it in the future tense. Instead, speak the truth: “The angels are here and I am opening myself to perceiving them. I can ask of them anything for my highest good, so I request (state your request, such as, their visible presence or a sign), and I give thanks, knowing that my angels are already in the process of manifesting my request.”

23: Send out Your Soul Call to the Angels

Your deep, abiding desire to meet the angels can magnetize your summoning them. You have heard the old phrase, “When the student is ready, the teacher appears.” Just so, when you are ready—that is, when your heart is open and your mind is available to not only take in new information but to process what might come from the angels—that is when the angels are most likely to respond in a way that you can know they are definitely hearing you.

Have patience as you cultivate a relationship with the angels. You may desire specific results to occur in an instant, and because of factors that might be beyond your control, reaching your goal takes longer. Eschew the need for instant gratification. During restless moments, pray for patience, keep the faith, and believe the angels are working behind the scenes. Ask the angels to empower you with patience and perseverance, and trust that your desire is coming to fruition.

If you want to increase your intuitive abilities so you can communicate with the angelic realm, study and learn as much as you can. Your desire and motivation creates the energy of enthusiasm that is like a magnet, drawing to you everything that you need to develop your skills.

It’s important to understand that the angels communicate with you through your database of information and knowledge. So as you expand your knowledge and you enhance your intuition, they have more ways to communicate with you. For example, if the angels see that you are paying attention to coincidences and synchronicities, then they will use this method of communication to get your attention.

When you ponder a focused desire (such as calling the angels in meditation or even writing them a letter), the angels will make things happen. Start by having a heart-to-heart dialog with your angels to open the lines of communication. Talk to the angels as if you were talking to your best friend and share with them your deepest desires and wishes. Remember, they already know who you are and everything there is to know about you. They are excited to make the connection with you and to help you in any way they can.

By now, you have learned that the number one priority in working with the angels is to ask for help. Once you do this and your request is made, you need to trust and surrender your prayer to God and the angels. This can be hard for some people who have a hard time letting go of control. If this applies to you, contemplate this thought: Do you trust that God and the angels have your best interest in mind? If so, it’s time to surrender.

A wonderful way to surrender is to find or create a surrender box. Another name for it can be your “let go and let God box.” Place all your desires, wishes, and intentions into this box and then affirm, “I am letting go and letting God. I am open to my highest and best, better than I could ever imagine.” By performing this ritual, you release your intentions from your control and you give them to God and the angels for miracles to occur. You break free from your human limited thinking, and you open up to the unlimited possibilities of divine resolution to occur. Once you surrender, it’s your job to trust. Release your expectations and trust that everything is in divine order. God will take care of the all the details.

A final word about expectation is to expect the best outcome. Always. It is your natural birthright to connect with God and the angels. When the veil is lifted between heaven and earth, there is no separation between you, the angels, and God. You are a child of God, and because of your heritage you always have access to the divine. You can receive clear communication with God and the angels, and you can tap into the divine wisdom where all knowledge is found.

Your senses are extremely important in the development of your psychic or intuitive powers. They are also important to your ability to detect paranormal activity, and your ability to participate in spiritual practices that develop a greater receptiveness to supernatural phenomena. An archangel or enlightened master could appear at the foot of your bed in the middle of the night and exude an exotic incense aroma as he or she draws near. If you have been attentive to various scents in the months, weeks, or days preceding the nighttime visitation (and perhaps also burning incense, meditating, praying, walking in nature, or summoning angels or others from the higher celestial realms), you may in fact be getting what you asked for. If you awaken to the scent, you might move toward the spot where the scent seems to be emanating, and discover that shifting your head to the left or right a few degrees means you can no longer detect the scent; moving back, you rediscover it. This type of scenario of an angel visitation is not unusual when you have fine-tuned your sense of smell. But such a visitation could also manifest as a being of light, or soft and repeated brushes against your skin, or other unusual physical sensations.

There are numerous techniques to develop your receptivity to psychic phenomena. One way is to use breath and visualization techniques combined with meditation.

A MEDITATION ON LIGHT AND PEACE

When doing any of the meditations throughout this book, it’s a good idea to record the session. Then you can easily let go to experience the meditation, versus opening and closing your eyes to read the next step. This will enhance your meditation and allow you to go deeper into the experience. Take your time recording, and remember to pause between each step.

Find a quiet place to sit where you will not be disturbed. You can do this meditation in silence, or play soft meditative music in the background.

• Get as comfortable as you can, and close your eyes.

• Inhale deeply, and with the exhalation, let go of every concern or negative thought.

• Take another deep breath, and release all the tension in your body.

• Now breathe into the present moment, and just let go.

• Form an intention in your thoughts to have the angels come and surround you in a circle of light and protection.

• Imagine the room filled with divine white light and energy.

• Breathe that divine light in and out.

• Affirm that your angels are present, encircling you.

• Remember you are never alone, and you are loved.

• Imagine the brilliance of the sun before you. This sun is the energy of the Divine and the Heavenly Host.

• Imagine that you have a plug in the region of your solar plexus (just like a lamp has a plug to connect to an electrical source), and you are plugged into that brilliant, spiritual sun.

• Inhale the energy and light from this sun into your body, and imagine every cell illuminated with the sun’s light.

• Imagine that you can then breathe the divine wisdom and guidance that you are searching for into your mind. The light illuminates your interior and exterior worlds.

• Feel enlightened, as if it were possible to merge with the divine mind as you merge with light and peace.

• Remain in the light of God. Be still. Feel at peace. Experience the love. It is yours and it always has been. (Pause.)

• Think of a question you would like answered by divine guidance, and ask it.

• Wait expectantly and patiently for the answer from the angels.

• Say thank you. To return, just take some nice deep breaths and begin to feel your body; feel yourself back in the room.

Remember, you can plug into this holy place of divine light and guidance any time you choose. Each and every time you do, you reconnect with the divine wisdom and healing that’s rightfully yours.

For centuries, Indian yogis have concentrated on spiritual development, engaging in penances; doing charitable deeds; meditating often and deeply; performing
anusthans
(special spiritual practices to gain a boon or blessing); chanting (sacred chants, most often in Sanskrit while keeping track on a
japa mala
, or string of holy beads); and performing daily
pujas
or rituals of worship—all toward the goal of spiritually evolving. In the process, they have discovered that the time spent in such practices awakens the latent power inherit in a person’s etheric or spiritual body. As the energy centers or chakras are awakened, meaning vibrating at a higher speed, these centers’ powers are activated, opening the way for the expression of a heightened level of intuition. The development of intuition is desirable if instant access to such incredible powers keeps you anchored on the spiritual path to enlightenment. The yogis, however, know that the blessing can also be a curse if the powers are used for non-spiritual, purely selfish, and negative purposes (which bring bad karma).

It is important to always stay focused on the higher beings of light and love—the angels, archangels, and other beings whose affinity is for the divine and whose purpose is to do the will of the Divine.

27: Practice “Noticing”

Before addressing the ideas you might pick up as part of divine guidance, it might be helpful to think about the differences between spirituality and religion (as they relate to interpreting divine guidance). Religion offers a specific set of beliefs and rules for people to follow and be inspired by. Spirituality is more about your own personal relationship with the divine. Religious dogma might dictate an avoidance of all things psychic or paranormal. Certain spiritual practices will incorporate a suspension of disbelief about the celestial world and contact between beings of that world and the human species. Religion and spirituality can merge or diverge; neither is right or wrong, good, or bad. There are many pathways that will lead you back home to God, where you can feel a deeper connection with the divine.