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How Protected Are You?

 


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When I leave home, or if I’m feeling a little vulnerable in my home, I turn to one of my favorite exercises that I learned from Doreen Virtue, Ph.D.  She said to ask the angels to surround you, or to surround your home.

What happens for me is that I ask the angels to please stand guard over my home, to stand at each window and door, and at each corner of my property.  I ask them to ride with me in my car, on each bumper, and in the passenger’s seat.

 

And, when I’m flying somewhere, I ask them to lift the wings, to guide the pilot’s hand’s, to protect each and every one of us on the plane.

 

I regularly ask the angels to watch over my family members, but in particular if they are traveling.

 

What happens when I ask the angels to do this is that I end up breathing a sigh of relief.  I relax into my life.  And I realize that I don’t have to worry or stress about my safety or my loved one’s safety.

 

Where can you turn over some of your fears to your angel friends?  Try it today and see how you feel.  I think you will be delightfully surprised.

Thank

You

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How Are Your Angels Protecting You?

 


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“I don’t feel safe,” Jenny said. “I’m worried about not only myself, but my family, too.” After the recent gas explosion in San Bruno, California, Jenny’s sister called her to share that their aunt and uncle’s home had been part of those destroyed by the fire.  Tears ran down her cheeks as we began tapping on the trauma.

 

She felt vulnerable.  We tapped on the situation and the feelings of vulnerability for some time, and nothing I said made any difference.

 

Then she began to share another trauma where she felt very vulnerable.  On 9/10/01, she was in New York.  She and her friend had visited the Twin Towers, and it was raining.  The visibility was awful.  They decided to return the next morning, 9/11.

 

Somehow they overslept.  As they were leaving their hotel to head over to the Twin Towers, they heard about the airplanes flying into the Towers.  This was the reason for an even deeper sense of vulnerability.

 

And then another, even larger, trauma surfaced.  One that happened 15 years ago.  One that she hadn’t thought about in quite some time.  And this was the one that initiated her strong feelings of vulnerability.

 

As we continued to talk (and tap) through her memories, Jenny began to feel more and more like she could relax and begin to trust again.  The tapping began to soften the intense feelings of vulnerability.

 

She began to realize that she had been protected during each situation she relayed.  In every one of these shocking events in her life, she realized that she – and her loved ones – had been protected.

 

I shared with her that I, too, used to feel very vulnerable in my home.  Growing up, I never felt completely safe.  I would jump from my bed to a throw rug in my bedroom because I sometimes imagined the wood floors were water filled with alligators ready to get me, and I would run as fast as I could up the steps from our basement because I imagined lions were chasing me.  And I frequently wondered whether people outside were watching me through the windows of our home.

 

In 2001, before 9/11, I trained with Doreen Virtue, Ph.D., as an Angel Therapy Practitioner.  What I learned with Doreen was that we can ask the angels to protect us.  We can ask them to stand guard at our doors and windows.  We can ask them to ride on the bumpers of our cars and protect us as we drive.  We can ask them to fly along with an airplane and guide the pilots’ hands, and protect the airplane.

 

When I learned this, I began to feel safe in my skin.  I also began to realize how many times I had been protected.  And as I noticed close calls being nothing more than that, I began to thank the angels for guiding and protecting me.

 

Jenny decided right then and there to begin to use this tool to help her feel safer.

 

This act of asking the angels for guidance and protection is good not only for yourself, but you can also ask for the protection of your loved ones.  You can ask them to protect your business, your bank accounts, your computers, and your clients.  Asking for, and allowing them, to offer their love and light of protection is a beautiful thing.

 

The one thing Doreen emphasized over and over was this:  you must ask for help from them.   You cannot expect them to do these things all of the time without your participation.

 

So, today, ask your angels for help.  Ask them to help guide you.  Ask them to protect you.  Ask them to protect your loved ones.  And watch what happens.  Notice how you feel.  Notice if you feel calmer and more provided for.  Notice if you have more clarity of thought.

 

I am certain you will.


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Do You Bloom Where You are Planted?

 


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“I feel like I did something wrong,” my client, Sarah, said. “I tried and tried to think myself healthy, but somehow I ended up back in the hospital!  I don’t understand!”


She had recently come home from the hospital, after being seriously ill.  She wanted to feel better, and was trying to will herself to be better.  But one evening, she knew beyond a doubt she had to go back.  And so she did.

As her story unfolded, she shared that one evening her husband left, she was feeling a bit sorry for herself.  Flipping through the channels on her TV, she came across Joel Osteen, a well-known minister, giving a sermon.

 

“Bloom where you are planted, “ he said. “Appreciate what is going on around you right here, right now.  Trust that you are exactly where you need to be.  Be happy about it.  Give thanks for everything you can see.  Offer your faith to God that your life is just what – and where – God needs it to be.”

 

She said she felt he was speaking directly to her.  In that moment, she relaxed.  She stopped trying to will something into being.  She just decided she’d appreciate what was going on in her life.  She decided to bloom where she was planted.

 

And so she began, “I’m grateful for the drugs I’m getting.  I’m grateful for the nurses.  I’m grateful they are figuring out what’s wrong with me.  I’m grateful for the care here in this wonderful hospital.  I’m grateful for how clean it is here.  I’m grateful that I don’t have to worry about taking care of anything.  I’m grateful that my husband and my sons have come to see me.  I’m grateful that I’m so loved.”

 

And in her relaxing and just “being,” she began to heal.  She began to get better very quickly.  Within a few short days, she was well enough to be released.

 

When we talked later, she shared this story with me.  She wanted to understand why she hadn’t been able to will herself into being better.  And even more, she wanted to understand why she hadn’t been able to avoid it to begin with.

 

She told me how she had been upset with herself for getting so sick.  She couldn’t understand why she had done this to herself.  She was healthy, she had a good relationship with her husband and her sons, she had sufficient abundance.  What was going on?

I suggested that maybe she didn’t need to know right now about the “why” of it.  That, perhaps more than anything, her job was to do just what she learned in the hospital … to simply appreciate what she had right here, right now, and let go of her desire to know why it all came about.  And to trust that the “why” would be revealed in time.

 

Hearing this softened her.  She was able to return to a soft state of allowing and trusting, and let go of needing to understand all of the bigger reasons, which often don’t show up in our lives until time has passed.

The irony here is that in the appreciating of those around us, and appreciating the things that are going right and well in our lives actually gets us more of what we want.  It acts as a magnet for us to see more – more wonderfulness, more health, more joy, more love, more abundance.  But we have to do the work of appreciating. We have to do the work of being grateful.

Our work is to get out of our heads and into our hearts, to stop trying to figure things out and to stop worrying about them.  Our work is to just simply be.

Be gratitude.  Be appreciation.  Be love.  Be joy.  Be humor.  Be peace.  Be kindness.  Be compassion.  Be grace.  Be abundance.

 

Because it is in the being that we then are in the space to manifest what we want.  More health, more joy, more peace, more love, more abundance, more ideas, more happiness.

And that is what we all want.

Your Action Steps

1. Look at your life and answer these questions:

a.      Where are you spending time and energy?

b.      What are you worrying about?

c.      What are you making yourself wrong for?

d.      What can you appreciate right here, right now?

2. Decide you will start appreciating your life – even the little things that believe me, if you didn’t have, aren’t so little … like your feet carrying you around, or your fingers picking things up, or your teeth for chewing.

3.      Say “Thank you!” to everything you can see and to everyone you see (even if you say it in your heart and not out loud).

4.     Choose today to be grateful.  This moment, right here, right now.  Be grateful even for something that you are struggling with.  Be grateful for the parties involved.  Be grateful for the challenge to learn and grow (because you are learning and growing through it!).  Just say “Thank you!”

5.       Have fun with it!


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