We can do it! That is what my angels have to say about shifting the energy on this planet.
It starts with us. And they want to help us.
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We can do it! That is what my angels have to say about shifting the energy on this planet.
It starts with us. And they want to help us.
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As part of a business coaching program recently, I was encouraged to claim my big vision as helping people live heaven on earth. This is years after being cautioned by other well-meaning advisors that it was too big, too ephemerous, too vague. I was told by some that it would put off those who felt “heaven” sounded too religious. Or others said most people would not know what I meant by “heaven on earth”.
Somehow the coach this week caught my vision that I tried to describe in a whole string of descriptors and wordiness even though he says he is not a spiritual guy and only has one reluctant foot in the world of woo because of his colleague and resulting clients in this coaching biz.
He suggested that those who do not understand what I mean are not my ideal clients. My ideal clients know exactly what I mean by “living heaven on earth”. Not only that, they know they want my help in doing exactly that.
My ideal clients may have different definitions for “heaven,” but they know what it means to them personally.
So today, I feel energized and focused to begin again on my mission – given to me 20 years ago by my angel team – to bring heaven on earth – to my clients, students, readers, friends, and family – and through them to the world.
I am making a commitment to myself and to all those who understand what I mean when I say “live heaven on earth” - to write about it, talk about it, practice it, and help others practice it.
So now, I am curious. What does it mean to you to “live heaven on earth”? Do you want to join me in exploring what this could mean in your life? Let me know by leaving a comment below.
This morning I wanted to fall on my knees in deep gratitude and thanksgiving.
I felt a tenderness. A sense of preciousness. I knew that the moment would fall away as all moments do, but I felt called to appreciate it as fully as possible.
I felt held in this delicate balance between pridefulness and a sense of insignificance, of not being worthy. It is in that space between the two that I experience true humility - knowing the value of me being me and sharing my unique gifts. It is an exquisite place in which to reside.
What led me to that state was that I had just shared some channeled messages with a friend. These messages came through me. I knew their source - actually, in this case three different sources. It was a felt knowing, a skill I have developed in the last twenty years since angels first came into my life. It is hard to explain how the knowing occurs, but when Archangel Michael shows up in my life, I can distinguish that energy from the energy of other angels. When a new Spiritual being shows up, they somehow indicate to me some clue as to their identity. I can hear a name or feel or see something that gives me an idea. I feel a bodily sensation of a yes, no, or maybe. Then I hear or sense a message or inspired idea. It is a lot easier to do than to explain.
The messages that came through today helped my friend attain a greater sense of peace and clarity. This is where emotions and feelings around humility came in for me. I was helping someone very dear to me through using my gifts. Wow!
The experience brought tears to my eyes. Not tears of sadness or joy, but of a deeper emotion, a sense of amazingness, awesomeness, that sense of being a clear vessel or conduit for truth and love to flow through, knowing it was not me, but my allowing for it to be.
On Valentine’s Day I had another experience around this concept of true humility. On that day I channeled a message for myself. I wrote about it in a blog called “A Funny Way to Spend Valentine’s Day.” I shared how I was trying to describe my work to other participants in a conference. I knew I was to say more than author or Reiki master. What I heard my angels say was “you are a messenger for the angels.” For some reason it felt huge, maybe even pretentious. After wrestling with the concept for a while, I chose to accept the description. As I wrote about this experience in the blog, I said I would accept the role “with true humility – that place between pridefulness and unworthiness - that place where we best share our unique gifts.”
I guess my angels really want me to understand this concept of true humility, since it came up again today. Yes, it is how we can best share our gifts, open ourselves to divine inspiration, and allow the goodliness of the Divine to flow through us.
My angels tell me that being humble, truly humble, helps us hear and experience their energy and wisdom. It is a virtue that assists in our personal evolution. Yet “humility” as a word has such mixed meanings.
There is the honorable meaning that I know is intended by my angel advisors - the opposite of being arrogant or “haughty”. Haughty almost sounds like what it means - expressing contempt for people or things perceived to be inferior.
Yet humility also includes a sense of submissiveness and limited self-worth. That is a negative connotation - a feeling of being less then – just as being haughty would make others seems inferior, being humble could cause oneself to feel inferior.
What a mixed bag of messages contained in the word “humility”.
But don’t many spiritual concepts have that quality of the Tao, the holding of opposites in a whole - not just a static whole as the symbol for the Tao might first reflect, but the flow of the opposites in the whole?
Consider love. As I evolve in understanding love, I find that my love cannot extend to another unless it begins with love for myself. Self-love is not selfish in the withholding and constricting way that most of us understand selfishness. Self-love is the most expansive and gracious way to be in this world because it is in loving our self and appreciating that we are love itself, that we can then radiate that out to others. We untether our love and set it free by loving our self. It is a difficult concept to fully appreciate yet bringing the concept of the Tao to it helps me.
So back to my experience this morning. What it taught me is that by my being able to hold my presence in the space of the two opposites, the space between haughty and submissively humble is true humility, through which gifts of the most holy can flow through. I did not second guess or doubt myself as I allowed the guidance and wisdom to flow through. I could have said, “not me. I am not skilled enough, talented enough, holy enough to allow these messages to come through.” Or I could be in true humility and allow, speak, and share the love, wisdom and other blessings flowing through.
My angels asked me to stay with this in the afterglow – after the moment had passed and the messages given, to allow my understanding of what had just happened come into my awareness at a deeper level. This is what they had been speaking to me about for years. This is what they had me write about as true humility being a condition that would help people connect more easily, consistently, and confidently with their angels. They asked me to take it in fully into my body and really feel it. And then they asked me to write about it in this blog.
I hope this sharing helps you bring your unique gifts through in the space of true humility. The world needs you in your most awesome humble beingness.
Please leave a comment below about these ideas around true humility and sharing your gifts.
Here I am alone.
In a hotel room three thousand miles away from home.
Having the spaciousness of a day with no plans.
Valentine’s Day. A day for me and whatever inspires me.
Outside is one of the dreariest days I have seen. Wet, cloudy, barely 60°. I can see the heated pool and hot tub from my window. Steam is lifting off the surface of the pool indicating the water is warmer than the air. Not too tempting.
It makes my laptop and a blank page more enticing. Time to settle into the silence and see what inspiration arises.
My angels remind me of their message in the shower this morning. I have learned to pay attention to messages I receive when showering. That was where my angels gave me the title to my book, The Art of Listening to Angels. It was a message I could not ignore and by acting on it, I have a book in print and available to the world on Amazon.
They tell me that they chose that title mostly to remind me to listen to them. I ignore them often. I forget to ask for their help most of the time. That is why they have me teach classes on the book. We often teach what we most need to learn.
My angel team’s message this morning is a bit more disconcerting. I am here in LA to take some next steps in my work to teach spiritual seekers and lightworkers how to develop and enhance their connection with angels.
In preparation for this event, I was pondering how I would describe myself to other participants. Author, yes. Reiki master teacher, yes. “Messenger for the angels”?? That is what popped in. I knew it was from my angels. What am I to do now?
I want to ignore them. The description feels too pretentious. However, I realize there is some truth to the statement. I did include messages from angels in my book. I do share messages from them in healing sessions and classes. I know they want me to spread the word that they are available and accessible to everyone and want to help us.
Claiming myself as a messenger for the angels still sets off alarm bells in my head. Will I seem like a fraud? Can I live up to it? What if someone expects me to receive a message for them, and I get nothing?
These are questions I struggle with as I stretch into my soul’s purpose, my calling, what feels like my reason for being.
Do these questions sound familiar to you when you stretch into your life’s purpose?
This is exactly the kind of angst that angels say they want to help us with. They know that life on earth is hard, particularly when we start following a spiritual path and begin to work on ourselves, no longer believing the lies of our past and the deceptions of our fears.
Angels want to help us.
How do we access their help? The steps are easy to describe: Act. Open our hearts to them. Listen. Thank them. Act on their guidance.
Ay, there’s the rub. Act on their guidance.
It can feel scary. It can feel huge. We can feel unworthy or unready. I am feeling all of that right now.
Yet, I know my angels have never guided me wrong. The only wrong steps I have taken have been when I put my hands over my ears and refused to listen. Even the wrong steps, with angelic help, have turned into launch pads into a new direction.
Today, I choose to follow their guidance. I accept the role, with true humility – that place between pridefulness and unworthiness - that place where we best share our unique gifts.
What they want you to know today is that they love you. Even when you go off track and ignore them. Even if you don’t believe they have your back. They love you, and they will help you love yourself enough to share your gifts.
So, happy Valentine’s Day. Allow yourself to open to the love and wisdom of the angels. They will guide you on your path so that you can bring more love and light into this world. What a gift.
And if you want to learn more about how to connect to your angel team and develop your relationship with them, check out my book, The Art of Listening to Angels.