Working with my spirit guide Ortan I have been privileged to connect to all sorts of angels. Together, we have channelled some wonderful meditations and processes for connecting with angels so that it is easy to sense their energy.

I believe the reason that people are so interested in angels and are seeing and communicating with angels now is because more and more people are becoming attuned to a spiritual view. The angels can help us to open our hearts and to expand our capacity for love, this is the most important step you can take on your spiritual path. By turning to your angel for support you can steady yourself, by spending a few moments making that connection you can avoid reacting perhaps in ways you might regret later.

What are angels? Angels are very simple beings, they are very pure and very focussed. Every angel has a particular vibration or task or mission. So, for example, there are angels of healing, their work is to assist those of us who are working in the healing area to do our work. Healing angels are often sensed by spiritual healers as they work, they are often seen as distinct colours and they can guide the hands of a healer as they work. There are angels of courage, of truth, of discernment and lots more.

Everyone has a guardian angel just like the one I saw all those years ago as a child, many of the angel stories are about how these wonderful guardians protect and help those they watch over.. When we teach people to channel we often have at least one person in the group who is channelling an angel, this may be their guardian angel or it may not, but the energy of angels is very distinctive and very different from the energy of guides. Angel energy is very light and sparkling and uplifting.

Angels often do not speak a great deal, they communicate telepathically and through the frequencies of love. They are often described as God’s messengers because they are so pure and unblemished. I remember doing a reading with my guide Ortan for a lady about a couple of years ago now and she was put in touch with an experience she had had in a past life when an angel had come to her as a child. At that time she was very sad and lonely and one evening she looked out of the window into the garden and was astonished to see an angel standing there. The angel smiled and reassured her telepathically that all was well and in that moment of remembrance the blessing of the angel was increased because she both received that reassurance as an innocent child in that past life, and she received that reassurance in this life again as the memory of that past life connection came flooding back to her. It was a lovely experience, as angel experiences always are. It is their joy to help us and to bring us help and comfort.

How do you connect with angels? Become more sensitive, meditate, ask, experience. Angels say that one way they communicate with us is through what we think of as intuition, by making what seemed at the time as a chance decision. For example, when you think of someone and call them. Later you find that this was exactly the right time to call for one reason or another. Angels also communicate with us through dreams at night, bringing ideas to the subconscious mind whilst the conscious mind is unguarded. Another way they communicate is through revelations, such as when you are really working on something and you get stuck, the ego’s control of the mind can be weakened and then you can have a flash,an inspiring experience or idea. But the key thing is that you need to be open and allow such angelic communication. Angels are trying to help you, they want to help your soul move through its growth as efficiently as possible. The easiest way to connect with angels is to meditate regularly and to focus on your spiritual growth especially on working to open your heart and to become loving and open hearted. Some people say that they feel the angels’ encouragement through a sudden sense of well being, of calm, of feeling embraced and frequently they say that they smell their angel – suddenly a wonderful fragrance comes out of nowhere and disappears quickly.

Above all – lighten up, remember angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.

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Intuition can be consciously developed. One way to think about intuition is to consider the following proposition: deep within each one of us is the Real Self. This Self is wise and loving, kind and thoughtful, compassionate and patient; this Self is connected to the Higher Self and beyond to the Soul. When we come into incarnation the Real Self becomes hidden beneath all the armour we create as our personality and our ego. To live as the Real Self is part of the challenge of any spiritual path. One technique for doing this is the ‘as if’ technique. Hold a vision of your Real Self and then live your life ‘as if’ you are that Real Self.

So how does the Real Self live? The Real Self looks out onto the world around without making any judgements, without wishing things were one way or another way. It is the Personality Self that is riddled with wants and desires, the Real Self just is. Many traditions talk about the ‘Monkey Mind’ – it seems to be a very apt term, this Mind just flits from one thing to another, it is wily, cunning and uncontrolled. It resists discipline, it has opinions, it makes judgements, it chatters on and on.

Because the Real Self is not involved in that internal conversation about how things should be or could be or might be, it is able to be in the moment, simply observing, simply being. In the absence of the internal dialogue a space is created into which a real knowingness can develop and grow. Imagine that the internal dialogue of the Personality Self is like a veil covering the radiant being underneath. When you stop the incessant chatter of the Personality you become your Real Self and you open the very real possibility of connecting with your Soul. When you do that you immediately develop that ability we call intuition, because intuition is the small voice within that comes from the Real Self. That Real Self is the part of you that could be described as the Divine Spark, the consciousness that is eternal, all-knowing and deeply loving; a true reflection of the Soul.

The ‘As If Technique’
If we are using the ‘as if’ technique then, we simply observe everything that happens around us during the course of a day, we pretend that we are the Real Self living this life and act accordingly. This does not mean that you have to be false in the way that you live when you do this, actually you are being more sincere because this Real Self is who you really are when the personality shuts up! When you do this you may notice that thoughts come thick and fast at the beginning, especially thoughts about how silly this is, how it won’t work. These are the thoughts that come from the Personality Self, just notice them and try very hard not to get involved. Perhaps visualise these ongoing thoughts as being like a river, endlessly flowing. The river flows past you but you are not carried away on it. This technique is a form of ongoing meditation, because if you just let the thoughts arise without actually pursuing them, after a while they slow down and disappear. This gives rise to a delightfully authentic state of being in the moment.