Perform this meditation for about ten minutes once or twice a day as you like.
Sit in a comfortable chair, at a time when you will not be disturbed. You should be completely relaxed and comfortable and should not have taken any kind of drug, including coffee, tobacco, or even large amounts of sugar. Morning is often the best time for this, though evening is also a good time.
Relax and breathe deeply and rhythmically, sometimes counting in and out. Focus on your breathing and release your mind, letting thought processes and ego-babble simply run their course without attachment until your mind is quiet. You can sometimes achieve this through a single-minded focus on one specific thought, image, prayer, or sound to the exclusion of all others. When your mind is quiet, pray to the divine in whatever way you wish, in whatever tradition you are comfortable. Pray for the removal of obstacles, for self-knowledge, and for greater awareness.
See a ring of pure white light about you, protecting you from all harm and filling you with pure, white light that banishes all stress and negativity. Sit and breathe quietly. Breathe this white light into your body and feel yourself filled with it until you are completely at peace.
Relax and meditate like this for a couple of minutes. Let the normal mental babble and millions of stray thoughts flow through your mind. Do not seek to stop them, but withdraw from them, let them go like eddies on a river, simply ignore them and hold yourself as still as possible. Let your mind go but hold to the center of your being. This sounds strange, but you will experience what I am talking about. Relax, relax. If you are in any way uncomfortable, stop what you are doing and try again at another time. You cannot hurt yourself or in any way endanger yourself if you are meditating surrounded by divine light! Relax! When you are ready, breathe in deeply and silently say to yourself:
Guardian Angel, come to me.
Then exhale slowly and say to yourself:
With Love and Will, so may it be!
Pause, then repeat this breathing exercise for as long as you like—five minutes is wonderful—then let it fade away. Continue the slow breathing in and out and open your mind, heart, and body to your Guardian Angel. It will come. No matter what your see or feel, stay relaxed and centered. Do not become emotional or try to force the experience. This is meditation; you are passive and are not doing anything, simply accepting the experience.
When the communication is over—and you will know it when it is—simply pray in any way you feel comfortable to the divine, thanking God (or however you see the divine) for this gift and experience and asking for a constantly growing awareness of the divine and of your Guardian Angel! It is important that you let go of your desires and worldly thoughts during this meditation.
When you are done, again see yourself surrounded by white light and see it disperse or fade into Mother Earth. Slowly come back to the physical world and, before you forget, record your experiences in your journal!
Can you believe that only ten minutes have passed?! Isn’t that amazing? This simple meditation will prepare you for connecting with your angel like nothing else. If you can manage to do this every day, you will gain remarkable results in just a week. The effects are cumulative, so persevere!
Do Guardian Angels speak in thunderclaps and grand visions? Read more on page 2 >>
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As you do your meditation exercises—and you may find yourself doing them in different places at different times as the mood strikes—you must follow up by doing what is sometimes called "walking meditation" with your Guardian Angel. This simply amounts to being mindful of everything around you, to appreciating the beauty and joy of your world, clearly seeing and accepting the challenges that face you. Go beyond and behind the experiences of your daily life while walking to school or driving to work or taking the kids to soccer practice. Start really looking and listening for the presence and communications of the divine in everything around you!
Do not think that your Guardian Angel will speak to you in thunderclaps and grand visions. Guardian Angels guide gently. They communicate and (always) teach with the ultimate classroom materials: reality and perception. Become open to these communications by looking at everything and everybody as a possible means of communication between you and the divine, no matter how trivial it may seem. These communications may come to you as sudden urges, hunches, intuitive flashes, or coincidences. Examples range from the silly to the serious, but if you look you will see a pattern of guidance that reaches into all parts of your life. Think back on all the times that intuition and hunches have helped you, and all the times you knew you should or should not do something—and ignored that instinct to your sorrow!
The best way to open up to communication from your Guardian Angel is to really pay attention to your inner voice and to your reality. You must become more aware of the inner and outer ways that your Guardian Angel communicates with you. Start by really paying attention to sudden urges or unexplained feelings and intuitions that seem to pop out of nowhere. Learn to recognize the distinct quality of those hunches and inspirations that are indeed true and helpful. After a while, you will begin to recognize the touch or voice of your Guardian Angel, as opposed to mere stray thoughts and ego-desires. For one thing, these instincts are never mean or controlling; they are always simple and clear urges or suggestions that leave behind a distinctive flavor. Learn to recognize this and you will have become truly aware!
Coincidences and seemingly unrelated symbols or things are important. Your Guardian Angel will use any and all means to communicate with you. Angels speak using the language of reality, if you just observe! Aside from your inner voice or intuition, your Guardian Angel is always tossing you all sorts of clues in order to teach and guide. Sound silly?
Mystics from many religions speak of the divine speaking to us through the world. Reality is very much what we think it is, unconsciously and consciously. If you assign value or meaning to certain objects, symbols, or images, your Guardian Angel will use them to communicate with you. If this seems silly, remember that your Guardian Angel is using what is in your reality to communicate with you. This may include all sorts of mundane ideas and symbols. You will recognize the authenticity of the message by the characteristic "tingle" or "feeling" that accompanies it. This feeling—that certain "touch of the Guardian Angel" feeling—is something you will experience for yourself as you learn to trust your angel more and more.
Finally, your Guardian Angel speaks to you all the time through the words and actions of other people. How can this be? Are these people being controlled by your angel? It is an interesting question and one that is not so easy to answer. More likely your angel is simply helping you see or hear something someone else says or does in a certain way that is only meaningful to you, using your awareness or perception to show you something. Still, it cannot be denied that the divine often guides you through the inadvertent actions and words of others, if you are but aware enough to "get it!" The divine does move in mysterious ways!
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