Healing with the Angels: How the Angels Can Assist You in Every Area of Your Life by Doreen Virtue

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Chapter One

Blessings and Challenges of the Spiritual Path

What drew you to study spirituality? A desire to explore the truths of life? A search for happiness, fulfillment, and inner love? A tragedy or miraculous happenstance that pushed you to explore the spiritual side of existence? Or were you intrigued by someone's example; perhaps a spiritually minded person whom you admire?

    Whatever attracted you to this path, the common thread was your desire to improve your life. Whether you sought enlightenment, answers, new skills, or peace of mind, you believed that spirituality had something positive to offer you.

Happiness Is Holy

    Some of my clients were raised in religions that promote suffering as a virtue. These belief systems applaud martyr lifestyles; and they create breeding grounds for guilt, fear, and resentment. So, when these individuals hop on to a spiritual path that promises happiness and abundance, they get nervous. Are happiness and abundance "correct" goals? they secretly wonder.

    Those raised in Christian ideologies learn Jesus' teaching that it's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Yet, in other passages, Jesus emphasizes that we should knock, and doors will open. Repeatedly, he urges us to have faith that our material needs will be met.

    Most spiritual seekers understand that Jesus didn't mean to say that money was evil. Instead, he meant that the obsession with money was a deterrent to happiness in this life and the afterlife. Yet, obsession with money is a two-way street: Those who chronically worry about whether they'll have enough funds to pay their bills are spiritually identical to those who obsessively hoard their dollars. Both types of money obsession are rooted in the fear of not having enough. And this underlying fear robs us of happiness.

    When we believe that suffering and lack are normal, or if we believe they are tests from God, we accept pain as a part of life. However, when we believe that God is 100 percent abundant love, and that God's creations are in His image and likeness, it follows that He didn't create pain or limitations.

    In my long discussions with God, the angels, and Jesus, I'm convinced that God doesn't want us to suffer in any way. God, like any loving parent, wills for us to have happy, peaceful, and safe lives. God wants us to focus our time and energy on helping others, using our natural talents and interests. While we help others, He'll take care of supplying us with enough time, money, intelligence, creativity, and anything else we need. God knows that if we worry about having enough, we'll waste time and energy that could be put to better use.

    So, God and the angels truly want to help us! However, because of the law of free will, they are only allowed to help us if we ask. This is a book that will help you know the rich experiences available to those who do ask.

Angels and the Millennium Shift

    You are very fortunate to be alive at this time in human history. For that matter, any time we are alive, it is a miracle. The angels have taught me that more souls want an Earth life than there are bodies to accommodate them. Souls actually stand in line, awaiting Divine assignments on Earth. The fact that you are here, in a human body, signifies that you are a winner. God chose you to come here, knowing that you have many gifts and talents that will benefit His other children.

    The angels write this to you:

"You, like everyone else who is incarnated at this time, are a holy and perfect child of God. We realize you may not always feel perfect and holy, and we also realize that you often don't act that way. Nonetheless, God created your soul as a literal `chip off the old block.' It contains God-essence, or Divine light, that can never be extinguished, soiled, or taken away from you. Nothing you could ever do would eradicate your Divine heritage."

    The reason why this is a good time to be alive is because we are nearing the end of an era in which humans behave like aggressive animals devoid of spiritual awareness. We are at the edge of a time when we will collectively recover our spiritual gifts of intuition and healing. When intuition becomes accepted as a normal human characteristic, watch out, because the world is going to change drastically!

    Think, for a moment, about a world populated by highly accurate intuitives. The more we accept this skill as innate, the more we will open our channels of Divine and psychic communication. Scientific studies conducted at leading universities such as Princeton, the University of Nevada, the University of Ohio, and Cornell already show evidence that each of us is potentially gifted in sending and receiving telepathic information. I say "potentially," because like any gift, we have to be aware of and practice it before we can truly master its usage.

    Many people are becoming intuitive and opening themselves to Divine guidance. In my private practice, I'm awestruck by the number of high-level professionals—both male and female—who ask me for angel readings. These are folks who may have never thought about life after death, God, or spiritual issues three or four years ago. But now, in this spiritual renaissance in which we all find ourselves, the collective consciousness is looking heavenward.

    Think for a moment about what our world will look like when we all regain our natural intuitive awareness. No one will be able to lie to another person ("little white lies" will fade into distant memories), which will definitely create shifts in our legal, educational, and political systems. Also, we won't need technological devices to communicate with each other.

    I believe that a number of us have a life purpose that involves teaching others about their true spiritual origins. Many people, I believe, are still asleep with respect to the knowledge of their inner Divinity! They see themselves as a body, floating like a hapless cork, dependent on the current to tell it what to do. God and the angels know differently, however. They are aware that we create our reality through our conscious decisions and intentions.

    "Your intentions create your experiences" is one of the angels' favorite phrases. What they mean is that our expectations, deep down in our heart and mind, are the scriptwriters of the movie we experience and call "life." If you ask yourself before entering any situation, "What do I truly expect to occur here?" you will become the world's greatest psychic. That's because your expectations will literally predict what will happen to you.

The Refining Process

    Our tastes shift as a result of our spiritual study. We lose the desire for mood-altering substances, we're repelled by violence in the media, and our attraction to friends and lovers changes. The angels explain a lot of these changes as being a result of our "frequency shifting." They say that each person has a vibrational frequency that is visible to them, much like when we view a car's system on an oscilloscope or a person's brainwaves over a monitoring machine.

    The angels say that our frequency adjusts according to our thoughts and emotions. Those who worry, fret, and obsess have slow frequencies, while those who meditate and pray regularly have higher frequencies. As our frequencies shift upward, we become attracted to higher-vibrating situations, people, food, and energies. This also means that we won't be attracted to some of the friends and events that once captivated us.

    Vibrations surrounding ego issues, such as anger, violence, a lack mentality (believing there isn't enough to go around), a victim mentality (believing that other people control you or are to blame for your unhappiness), competitiveness, dishonesty, and jealousy are extremely low. High vibrations surround spiritual-mindedness, such as meditation, prayer, devotion, selfless service, volunteerism, healing work, teaching, sharing, and expressions of love.

    The angels suggest that we avoid lower-vibrating situations as a means of pulling up our spiritual frequencies. They are particularly adamant about avoiding reports in the print and broadcast media that promote negativity.

    Here are transcripts from two of my angel therapy sessions, in which the angels asked my clients to avoid this type of media:

Doreen: There's a message coming in from your angels. They're saying that when you read, watch, or listen to the news, it is upsetting to you and is negatively shifting your energy in a way that is counter to what you want. This is a very strong cautionary message to you. The angels say, "Don't take this casually."

Barbara: That makes sense. I listen to the news a lot on the radio, and it does upset me, so I guess I'll reduce how much I listen to it.

    During another session, the angels explained how my client's low self-esteem was exacerbated by the negative images and messages she received from watching soap operas and other dramas:

Michelle: At times I feel like a total let-down or failure, not just to myself, but to my husband and daughter. Have I done something wrong, or what am I not doing? I love my family very much and would do anything for them, but when it comes to my husband, things have changed (I think). Something is missing, and how do I—or we—get that back?

Doreen: You have done nothing wrong, although the angels show me that there is the influence of the media around you, affecting your thoughts and therefore affecting your life. Are you watching a lot of TV? [Michelle confirms that she is].

It looks like you are absorbing negativity from TV shows, and this is influencing your thoughts and life. Can you try shutting off the TV for a week and see if that makes a difference?

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    Michelle took her angels' advice and found that within one week, she no longer ran "worst-case scenario" films in her mind. She dropped the habit of viewing her life through a negative soap opera lens, and she was able to see the gentle beauty in her family life.

Shifting Your Frequency

    The angels are here to help us heal in many ways, from issues and challenges that are seemingly mundane, to those that seem urgent or spiritually profound. One of the angels' healing tasks is to help us shift our vibrational frequency to its highest and finest rate. They want us to make this shift for two reasons. One is that this is a process of "ascension." We are all on the pathway of discovering that we are one with God. When we truly understand and live this knowledge, we are in the state of ascension.

    That sort of knowledge profoundly affects your every interaction with others. Think for a moment how your life would be if you were consciously aware that everyone with whom you talked was a Divine aspect of your God-self. You would feel complete and total love for these individuals and for yourself. You would experience life as a heaven-on-earth experience.

    The second reason why the angels want us to increase our frequency is because we will be better suited to our changing material world. The millennium shift is going to bring about significant positive changes in our educational, government, legal, and telecommunications systems. Our eating habits will drastically change, and our life expectancy will significantly increase.

    The higher our frequency, the easier it will be to adapt to these shifts. We will be intuitively aware of pending Earth changes, in the way animals can foresee earthquakes and storms. Our high-frequency bodies will be able to teletransport, dematerialize, and withstand events that would traumatize a denser, lower-frequency body. Higher-vibrating minds will be able to manifest any required foods or other supplies.

    So, the angels want to help you adapt to a changing world by giving you energy and guidance that will shift your frequency. The angels help you do so by giving you signs and signals, Divine guidance, and by intervening into your life and body. In this way, they help you maintain peace of mind. After all, peacefulness is one of our primary goals in life, and the angels are here to help us attain that end. Our angels sing with joy when they see us feeling peaceful and happy. In the next chapter, we'll look at how the angels play a part in our romantic relationships.

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Excerpted from Healing with the Angels by DOREEN VIRTUE. Copyright © 1999 by Doreen Virtue. Excerpted by permission. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

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