There are a great many sources throughout the vast and wide spiritual community that speak of the presence of and the guiding hand of angels in peoples lives. Guardian angels, personal angels, messengers to mankind, the messengers of God, God’s vice-agents, good angels, evil angels, angels of intervention and so on and so on all encompassing a great variety of a choir of spiritual beings from the archangels to the cherubim. Suffice it to say that these spiritual presences have been recognized as so present in the lives of people, cultures and societies of so many different belief systems across the globe, that most claim that there are truly guiding presences in their lives and these spiritual connections are attributed to the angels and its no different than when in meditation.
Many say that they would like to find some manner of identifying or even simply “feeling” these angels in the course of their daily life, while also releasing these wants in that they must leave the details of these wishes to the meanderings of the universe as it spins about working its wonders.
There are certainly enough spiritualists about who assert that there are very true and guiding connections in everyone’s life attributed to the angels, and these connections aren’t a static quantity at all but a true and dynamic quality that sometimes making itself very real and apparent should one take the time to stop and open that eye of awareness long enough. Almost as the shadow in some household room that scoots along just outside of someone’s field of view, “just about” making itself known, but not long enough to offset the convenient mechanism of self-denial to pass it off as a floater in the eye, or some dust speck making the blinking eyelid appear as something its not. How marked a thing the thinkers mind is, in that the most natural and present of spiritual qualities in our lives, tends to be so easily passed along as a physical anomaly much as a burp, a passing of something through the digestive system, or a reaction of the light against the retina. One then questions as any child might, “was there something really there, or was it my imagination?”
Heaven knows that the history of these presences goes back far enough for there to be a track record to detail people’s footprints in this area of spiritual belief. As most ecclesiastically acquainted people know, the presence of angels in the testaments of old, although somewhat removed of the fiber of character in many ways, they do still remain present in its literature. The influences that Semitic belief seemed to at least in part cast itself into the Sumerian belief systems of Babylonia and then this transient effect over into the Persian cultures, and vice-versa, has allowed for a far reaching stamp of spiritual belief that over the ages has entrenched itself into many of the cultures and societies of the world today. This effect has now, as then, presented itself as a messenger of resolution and for some cause in life and the events of life. Many skeptics and even those of the theologically trained community acknowledge the influences onto the archtype of the angel in the domination of the Semites by Babylon and the influences by Persia. There are examples in and throughout history where such can be espoused and not without academic cause for argument. There are however today as there were so long ago, connections and spiritual presences that aid people, helping to guide them through bad and better times in life and that give some a sense of some spiritual sustenance where else there might be little to none.
To those who remain in a firm sense of some personal spiritual conviction, these angels, along with the spirit guides and spiritual presences that make themselves pleasingly known when ones awareness allows, holds the same captive enamored affection for people as they seemed to have for choice souls so long ago. Here is where the old argument of belief versus factual proof parts company and those who align themselves with a spiritual sense of the self portray their beliefs as they are without the need for that spiritual fingerprint to place into some angelic mug-book to show to any modern day detractors.
Many wish to make real their awareness to their angelic spiritual benefactors of the substance of life as well as to their spirit guides. This isn’t a forlorn or a fleeting process at all, no matter the judgment of the skeptic or the absolute atheist of any belief in anything beyond the fingernail or the toe. The substance of a spiritual connection can be attained through the very easy process of opening ones awareness, much as one opens their eyes as they awake every morning from their evenings sleep. This is through easy and simple meditation practice.
As has been discussed elsewhere, if not here, in many other spiritual sources, one can open the doorway of awareness by setting ones feet on the path of meditative practice. This doesn’t have to be a long and drawn out hour by hour practice but it can be walked towards in much shorter durations for sure. For those with the toleration for an hour’s worth meditation at a time, more power to you! If you can tolerate the ten to twenty minute period of sitting with yourself in a quiet setting, there’s no reason for this time to be any less qualitative. The time spent isn’t as important, but rather the intent one places behind the practice that is the usual determiner for someone’s result. If one sets out to close their eyes and think on the latest episode of that television program they watched the other night, that’s what will probably be experienced more than anything else. If one has these sorts of thoughts rising to the forefront of thought without due desire, simply let the thoughts come and then go again as easily as they came up. It really is that easy with any thought or passing glance into ones inner awareness. Its how the mind works and so are the details of the meditative experience.
Try this:
Find a comfortable and rather secluded quiet setting where you won’t be bothered for at least a half-hour and if necessary, make it known that this time whatever it is, is your time, and your not to be bothered.
Once placed into your chair, on your sofa or what have you, set out to stretch your muscles, your arms, chest, neck and legs so they won’t cramp on you too frequently setting your body into the ready for a short times sitting.
The most desirable setting would be to shut off the stereo, the tape player and the television. As much as one might want to hear that ocean, that choir or that melody that they find fills them comfortably in quiet times, it might not be the best filler for such meditative moments. The best setting really is a quiet one where ones inner awareness has a chance to come to the surface and can sharpen itself with the senses. Just think of how easily you can hear another person speaking softly in a roomful of buzzing and clattering conversations going on around you. How often have you asked someone to repeat themselves because what they present just couldn’t be absorbed in all of that noise?
Once set comfortably into your place, place your hands on your side on an armrest, or even your lap and close your eyes.
Breathe in through the nose filling your lower diaphragm, holding the breath for several seconds, and then release the breath slowly out through the mouth. Do this three times in even periods, and at each series of breaths further relax yourself allowing your mind to both wander and come back to a centered spot where you can begin to view what’s before you in your mind.
After the breaths are done, now continue to breathe evenly and without undue effect. If you have to cough, swallow or clear your throat, by all means do so. It’s all a natural part of the body rhythm as is setting ones feet or legs in place.
Now that you’re in your meditative rhythm, this is how you remain. The reason ones breath is such an important factor to meditation is due to its integral part in the rhytym of the body and thereby affecting the rhytym's of the mind as well. When the breath is calm and easily flowing, so is the mind and its influences.
Allow your mind to view what comes before it, taking notice of everything that’s comes forward and letting it pass along just as easily. Try to get into the practice of not judging yourself or your reactions to your feelings or what you perceive during meditation! Just keep everything in its perspective for what it is. These things are what they are, and have been in your past, and in some cases might be in your or someone else’s future. You have to be the determiner of what you see, feel and in some cases inwardly hear during your meditations which is why many who have practiced for some time will allude to the necessity of not overreacting to anything and remaining calm giving yourself the convenience of some objectivity.
If you’re a believer of such in your life, ask your spirit guide(s) to help to clear your channels to allow for things to come to you much easier.
Make whatever questions you might have about what you see and feel known to your guide(s) by asking them out loud. This cements the perception into a tangible place within you and makes it all the more a very real experience.
As you visualize what comes before you, look, experience and don’t be afraid to articulate what you visualize.
In the course of your meditation, if you wish, make questions known to your angel(s). They will hear you and of course always do, but this course of contact increases the connections between your perceptions and what becomes known to your perceptions.
Once you have experienced enough in your meditation, make some thanks known to your guide(s), angel(s) and connections and then withdraw from the meditation while slowly breathing deeper and deeper, then opening your eyes slowly allowing yourself the moments to begin to shift about and come back to be where you are.
Practice this again and again as you will. Eventually you’ll find the experience so gratifying; it might just become a desired retreat for yourself when in and amidst your busy life giving you even more to look forward too.
As Always,
WD
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