The study of Angels and then the angelic realm can be long and exhaustive. The myriad of texts, archives, interpretations and ideas relating to the angels goes on and on and on. For the purposes of this article I'd like to give you the beginnings of historical facts, figures and events along with my own personal interpretation and experiences. I always encourage you to do your own investigation and research if that feels appropriate to you. Hopefully, this overview will help you to start a real relationship with the Angels.

Creating a personal relationship with the Angels is what we are after here. When I say a personal relationship, I mean for you to look at the angelic relationship very like a human relationships. Obviously, they are not the same, but when we invite or open up to the energies of these angels there will be a period of introduction, understanding and then a real trust and communication. This relationship, like human relationships takes focus and needs to take a priority if you want to go beyond a surface acquaintance, but instead create a true, real and loving friendship with the Angels.

Images, words, symbols and icons can all be very helpful in beginning our communication with the angelic realm. When we use these things it triggers within us an opening or a gateway for our communication with a particular Archangel or the Angelic realm. These things can be as obvious as a picture or portrait of an angel that we gaze at and contemplate a song that triggers a deep sense of connection with the Divine or even a walk in nature.  These gateways may vary with different Archangels.

I would strongly encourage you to look for these images, icons or symbols and how they make you feel in your gut or mind as they represent or “speak” for a certain archangel.

The other aspect which is very important, is how we begin to hear the Angels communicating back to us.  After all, if we don’t know that they are communicating back to us, then we will never develop a real relationship with them and be able to access all of their guidance.

I am a firm believer that the Angels communicate back to us in a wide variety of forms and those forms vary from person to person and situation to situation. With that in mind here are a few of the most common ways in which the Angels may be communicating back to you:

• Signs- Seeing a picture, finding an item, songs or music
• Coincidences- Things that seem to be just too much of a coincidence and your gut tells you that this is the answer to a question or a prayer
• Through People- A conversation that brings up the exact answer or idea that you presented to the Angels, Strangers that seems to point you in the right direction,
• Feeling the sensation of Touch- Such as a breeze across your body, something touching your face when no one is there
• Rainbows
• Cloud Formations
• Intuition- This is one of the most common and powerful forms.  When we have a very strong intuitive “hit” about something that we just can’t ignore, it is very likely the Angels pointing you in a specific direction.  This can come in your gut or your heart.
• White Feathers- Finding or coming upon white feathers in places that are unexpected.
• Miracles- Unexplained phenomena where a shift in the reality of a physical, spiritual or mental situation occurs.
• Auditory- Actually hearing a voice of guidance
• Feelings- Having a very strong physical or emotional feeling

 
Just as an example, when I communicate with Archangel Gabrielle I get an overwhelming feeling of warmth and calm throughout my entire body.  Also when I connect with Archangel Michael I can hear his voice in my right ear.  When Uriel speaks to me I have a hyper awareness around my left shoulder.
Before we go on there are a few points that are paramount in your journey with the Angels. Here are the basics that you need to know:

• We must ask for Angelic intervention or guidance in our lives.
• Working with angels is a subjective science and not an exact one. This is something that we have to accept as we embark on this journey.
• The Angels and the angelic realm have one overarching purpose; to help us.  
• The Angels always hear us.
• We are responsible for listening to their guidance.
• Angels cannot override our power of choice.
• We always have the choice to take an action or not taken action based on what the Angels are communicating or telling us.
  

I encourage you to begin to really apply and notice the things that I have addressed here. Working with and developing a relationship with Angels is all about consistency and tuning in to how they are communicating with you. Have fun and remember that whether you know it or not, the angels always hear us!

For more about angels, visit my website dedicated to angels www.AngelsHearUs.com

Goals. Goals. Goals. Here is the thing about goals. They are awesome. They help you move forward. They give you a specific direction. They refine what you really want. They are great in many ways.
I used to never use the word "goals" with people I worked with. You see, I saw how sometimes having goals could get twisted around and somehow become a horrible sense of failure for many people, myself included. What was once this awesome and amazing energy of positivity and challenge to manifest something became instead dread and a reason to give up and watch bad TV! Can you relate...?
I didn't understand why that was the case, but I did know that I had a passion to achieve my desires and help people do the same. Then, like a flash it dawned on me why this was happening. I saw that in the most traditional sense, goals are set up to focus on your lack. In many ways goal orientation implies that until you arrive at the goal, you have not achieved and you are a failure in some way. Traditional goals and goal setting emphasizes that you constantly measure the distance between where you are and the goal itself. Which most of the time seems so far away. It made so much sense! Goals viewed in this way are a sure way to keep you beating yourself up for not being at the goal yet. This also creates a kind of low level depression that many times leads to actually giving up on the goal.
Now that I grasp this flaw that is based on lack in traditional goal setting, what I always say to my clients and students is to look at it backwards. That's right, backwards. Don't keep looking at how far you have to go to reach the goal that you want to manifest in your life. Instead, measure and acknowledge how far you have come from the time that you decided to start moving towards the goal or manifestation.
Measure how far you have come instead of how far you have to go.
If you look at it like that your whole vibration around achieving the goal will feel that much more successful already, instead of feeling like you have so far to go. When you do this and you’re honest with yourself, you’ve probably come much further than you are giving yourself credit for.
Measuring how far you have to go is not only a way to keep beating yourself up; it is a way to keep yourself stuck.
Most of us are looking at goals as very far away from us. We are looking at something we want to achieve that seems, in time and distance quite far away. It may seem far in time, but in your mind and your imagination it is right NOW. It is closer than you think...
I know this idea may seem hard to really get into your bones and accept that's what you can imagine actually is real. But as you work with the concepts we are talking about here in this book you will start to realize the imagination is just as powerful as the real manifestation in your life. (More about Imagination in Day 18)
One of the ways to feel closer to the goal is to give yourself “pats on the back” for your progress.  Start doing that every day as it pertains to the goals that you are working on attracting into your life.  It will change the vibration of the goal and create a loving supportive environment within yourself.
 
Say YES if today you will measure how far you have come instead of how far you have to go!
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