New Online Archangel Reiki Daily Circle

I felt inspired to create a new yahoo group today for the purpose of having a group share of archangel reiki energy. It’s my own variation of reiki, but I am attuned to Usui Reiki Level II and a Kundalini Reiki Master.

This is a group open to anyone interested in opening their channels of communication with the archangels and who would like to join in a daily energy sharing circle. It is my intent that you will be able to join with the group energetically whenever it is convenient for you and we will all benefit. You don’t have to send archangel energy daily to the group, but you will certainly receive it daily.

You do not have to be attuned to Reiki to be in the group. I will attune each person who joins the group to my own variation of Reiki which comes through the archangels.

I’d like to keep posting to the group confined to positive-toned messages, mainly about your experiences with the group’s energy and the archangel energy. It’s very easy for a group like this to turn into a giant whine and sympathy fest. None of us has time for that because frankly, the archangels have bigger plans for us!

If you want to do a brief check-in each day and let us know where you’re at that’s great, but no petitions for reiki or energy for any specific purposes. You’re getting help from the archangels just by being in the group and that’s enough.  You are getting what you need the most right now.

Click on the button below to join the group:

Click to join archangelreiki

How Angels Can Help With Depression and Anxiety

I’ve been trying to figure out depression and anxiety for most of my life. I think I may have finally identified a key piece in releasing some of both states of mind.

(UPDATE: This post is not a call for help on my part. This is about angels and depression, not angels and “professional help” and depression.  Don’t bother  spamming the blog disguised as a comment with links to your cure for depression.  I’ll delete it.)

I believe that it is the constant tape of critical and judgmental thoughts about ones self running all day in the background of the mind that does more harm than anything, even biochemistry. Then, after a certain point, a person can’t take anymore from themselves and they start criticizing and judging everything and everyone around them because they are overflowing with negativity about themselves. Then everyone and everything around them starts to mirror the irritation and anger back, and life really does become hell. It’s a vicious cycle.

Problem is, most of this is going on so automatically that you may not hear it at all, or you may just accept it as the way it is. Lately I keep running into the theory that depression (and the anxiety that often comes with it) is best handled with a combination of talk therapy and pharmaceuticals. The problem with talk therapy is that it’s usually just for an hour or two a week and you still have that negative tape running in your head all the time you’re awake. Sometimes the drugs take care of the “tape”, sometimes they don’t.

Saying affirmations, listening to subliminal recordings, doing self-hypnosis can help, but sometimes your negative self-talk is so deeply ingrained it prevents you from trying them in the first place. It’s the Eeyore syndrome on steroids.

This is where the angels come in. They can be asked to reprogram your subconscious and unconscious minds from a negative outlook to a positive one. It’s likely they will lead you to outside help as well. Perhaps you’ll be inspired to make an appointment with a doctor or a therapist, or order some affirmation recordings. In the meantime, believe that they can help you where you can’t help yourself. Every time you start to feel sad or anxious, ask the angels to come in and help you. You may still feel bad for a while, or you may feel relief right away. Hang in there and believe that they are helping you.

Some people would say that you should envision feeling great right away and you will – like that! *snaps fingers* Well, I know how this depression thing works and I’m sorry, but it just doesn’t happen like that all the time. Not until you have had a chance to build up your self-esteem muscle. So, ask the angels to help. Imagine them throwing you a lifeline and you’ve been in the deep, cold, water for such a long time that it’s perfectly okay if it takes you a little while to recover. If you are deep enough into negative self-talk you’ll likely beat yourself up about not feeling great right away. Give yourself a break while the angels do what they do.

Another reason for doing this this way is that the part of you that makes constant judgments tends to think it’s god. You could hand over your depression to God, but for many, many of us God is indelibly imprinted in our minds as an incredibly harsh and judgmental being. To get out of this cycle it’s better to get away from any mental connections to judgmental emotions and into unconditional love. Angels NEVER pass judgment on people. EVER. They are completely focused on their specific purposes to help people (and the earth and everything in it).

If you want specific angels to ask for help from, I recommend Archangels Raphael, Metatron, and Michael. Raphael is a healer and is also a gatekeeper, opening the way for other angels. He can attune himself to anybody very easily. He really pours on the unconditional love, too. Metatron is a master of communication and you need to relearn how to communicate with yourself. Michael is for protection and is the chief negativity buster. And just really cool.

BTW…am I a health care professional or certified counselor? No. Am I qualified to give medical advice? No. I DO know about angels and depression from years of personal experience. If you are currently taking medication or getting counseling or other health care for depression or anxiety, stay with it. Let the angels use the help you are getting now to help them get you beyond this cycle.

A Drawing of Archangel Raphael

I did this drawing last week for my Squidoo lens about Archangel Raphael. I let my intuition do its thing, which means I never know how things will turn out. I think my drawing is somewhere in between full channeling and my ego wanting things to turn out the way I see the image in my mind. Sometimes the end result is a little strange. However, as many other creative people have said before me, sometimes the “art” you create is really intended for somebody besides you.

It is colored pencil on Bristol board and an “ACEO”, which means it’s 2.5 x 3.5 inches in size.

You can see more of my art on my heArt-a-Day blog.

Angelic Healing While You Sleep

I’ve just been tuning into the “angel channel” and I’ve been inspired with a visualization to help the angels help you while you sleep. I was thinking about the periodic nightmares I have when I saw with my inner eye exactly what to do.

Here’s what to do:

Anytime during the day that you can close your eyes and meditate or daydream for a little bit, or even just before you go to sleep at night, visualize yourself sleeping as though you are looking through the angels eyes. See the angels around you as beings of light surrounding you, perhaps even resting their hands on your chakras, or energy centers.  You don’t have to know exactly what the angels are doing.  Simply watch as though you are watching a movie.

And that’s all there is to it! Enjoy.

All You Have to Do Is Ask

I have a squidoo “lens” about communicating with angels, and own several books on the same topic. It came to me this evening, in what I guess I’ll call a “muse moment”, that the easiest way to make a connection with the angels is a simple two step process that goes like this:

1. Ask to connect. For example, say you want to know that Archangel Michael is around you. All you do is say something like “Michael, I want to talk to you” or “Michael, show me you’re here”.

2. Expect things to start showing up in your life that make you think of Michael (or whichever angel) , sometimes in odd places. You’ll probably hear the name more than you’re used to. Perhaps it will be the name of the author of a book that has an answer to a question you have. Perhaps you will repeatedly see swords (a common Michael symbol) in the world around you as you go about your day. Perhaps you will see things that you privately associate with Michael.

That’s all there is to it. Once you do that, and feel confident you have a solid “link”, you can ask for guidance on specific things. The only hard part is waiting. It’s not the same as Googling Michael (although that might be what brought you to this blog entry), but I’d say within 48 hours you should have at least one sign that he’s paying attention. Or any other angel you want to talk to, including your own guardian angel.

It’s just like when you learn about something for the first time and then suddenly you seem to be hearing about it everywhere. Could be that your mind starts filtering through all the stimuli around you to find references about what you’ve just learned. Or it could be that the angels wanted you to know about this thing and are bringing the references into your range of attention. Or both. By using this technique you’re using that same mechanism to help the angels communicate with you.

Ah…already I can hear some of you saying, “but how do I know it’s really an angel”? You will feel unconditional love and happiness. If there’s something specific you need, then ask for the angels to give you the inspiration or courage – or whatever you need – to do it yourself. I wouldn’t worry about “evil spirits” interfering, but it’s really easy to trick yourself with your own mind. If it feels good and is beneficial to all concerned, then whether it’s really angels or some hidden part of your Self at work doesn’t really matter. Communicate with the angels for inspiration and support – and the occasional miracle.

Try it. Let me know how it goes.

Angelic Healing Meditation

This afternoon I found a great “Angelic Clearing Healing and Blessings” guided meditation, free to download. It was recorded during a workshop given by Kevin Core. I had the sense of actually being in the group while listening to it. Although I don’t see the angels in exactly the same way as outlined in the meditation, I still think it’s a powerful thirty minute visualization nonetheless, and with no cost to boot.

Here is the link to it: Angelic Clearing, Healing and Blessings.

I had a strong sense that if more people did this meditation it would actually raise the vibration of the planet as a whole. It is also an attunement. Good stuff.

Guided Visualization to Attune with Archangel Raphael

With the help of Archangel Raphael I have just crafted a guided visualization for you to read and enjoy as a way to help you align your energy with his. If you have requested a free attunement from me you can read it as a way to intuitively “download”the attunement.

Do you need to ask me for an attunement at all, then? Not really. But sometimes it helps to have somebody else to pass the message along, and I know how.

Below is the link to click on for the page with the visualization.

Guided Visualization

Free Archangel Attunements

What’s an attunement, you ask?

And what’s the catch? There isn’t one.

An attunement is a term I’ve picked up from being a Reiki practitioner. It means that you are spiritually and psychically brought into alignment with a certain energy or vibration. It is exactly like tuning two or more musical instruments to the same pitch.

In this case, by asking me for an attunement, you will be attuned to the frequencies of Archangels Michael and/or Raphael, depending on what you need. And why would you want to do that? I’ve listed some reasons here at my Archangel Michael Squidoo lens and also my Communicating with Angels lens.

One of the main benefits is that it helps strengthen your connection with angelic energy so that the angels can help you more easily. It’s a lot like cell phones. You can be talking to somebody and suddenly get cut off when you get out of range of a tower, right? Our own psychic gunk often gets in the way and cuts our lines of communication with the angelic levels. You can be asking for help, get cut off in the middle and the angels can’t find their way back to assist you. The attunement is like adding more cell phone towers in your service area.

You may be wondering if it’s brainwashing or some kind of hypnotic induction that will make you do something against your will. Nothing of the sort. It is purely a way to add “bandwidth” to your angelic connection.

So how does it work? Again and again I am amazed at how angels are like the ‘Net. It’s as though the ‘Net has existed for millenia out there in the unseen world and is just now manifesting in our world. Basically your asking for the attunement starts the process. The angelic “server” is always there, just waiting for you to access it and download your attunement. One way to dial-up the server is to ask me for an attunement. Then you can download the “file”. The archangels themselves actually do the attunement, I don’t. I’m really more of a service provider. I plug you in and away you go. All it takes is my intention for it to happen.

What should you do to actually “download” the attunement, then? Honestly, you don’t have to do anything. It’s helpful to sit down for a few minutes and get into a receptive state of mind, but you don’t have to. You might feel more if you do, such as a nice warmth or tingling in your body, your muscles may relax more than they do normally, or you may find yourself taking deeper breaths. But technically, the minute you ask for the attunement, you’re getting it. There’s something about asking another person for help that makes the angels job easier.

Some of you may be wondering how an angel attunement is different than Reiki. Ultimately it’s all Universal Life Force, right? Angelic energy is a specific kind of channel for that energy. I sense it as pink and pearly energy, time and time again. Reiki is often seen as purple.

Finally, then, what’s the catch? There isn’t one. As you can see, I don’t really do much in this process, so I don’t feel like you owe me anything. I’m doing this for the angels, and they help me in other ways. It would be great if you’d buy some of my art or rate my Squidoo lenses, leave a nice comment perhaps, but really you don’t have to do anything but ask for the attunement. Just send me an e-mail at….. UPDATE, August 4, 2007:  I will no longer be taking personal requests for attunements.  For more about what to do instead see my latest blog entry by clicking here.