5. Your Guardian Angel
©Athene Bitting 1999
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Your Guardian Angel:
The Key to Safely Opening Clairvoyance
Questions
1. Loving Touch Exercise: Describe the sensation of connection to your Guardian Angel—colors, fragrance, temperature, texture. You can include information from past connections.
Your Guardian Angel sends messages to your brain through a specific nerve plexus, which runs up and down (longitudinally) the right-rear of the brain, which is one of the ocular nerve receptive areas. When she communicates to you, you do not hear words. You receive the whole thought in your mind and then your physical brain translates it into words for you.
When communicating, you may feel a slight pressure or warmth in the nerve plexus area described above. Sometimes you catch a whiff of lovely fragrance (Guardian Angels usually use a floral scent). Mine uses the perfume of the mock orange flower. Also, when you ask her to comfort you, you may feel a warm pressure on your shoulders, as though someone were placing their hands there.
There is no connection quite like that between the Guardian Angel and her ward. The linkage cable spans the Etheric, Astral, and Mental dimensions. It is indestructible and thick—approximately eight to ten inches in diameter.
Meditation: Sitting comfortable so that you do not feel your body distracting you, envision yourself surrounded by a lovely pink and golden glow. Your Guardian Angel is always there for you and is waiting for you to reach out and listen. If you have not made up a pet name for her, do so now, and invite her blessing and guidance. Now be still and allow yourself to be aware of her presence.
2. A) Recall an incident today in which the Still Small Voice of your Guardian attempted to guide you.
She speaks with a very quiet voice that is easily ignored, and there is a reason for this: she intends to train you to be a good listener. If she is loud and obvious, you would have no incentive to be still and receptive. You have heard her a million times in this lifetime. Hers is that thought of good advice that you wish you had carried through. You know it is her as the thought seems to be in the back of the head and is always concise, positive, and correct.
B) Did you respond to it, or did you discount it? What was the result of your choice?
C. What is an effective technique to becoming more consistently aware of such guidance?
The connection is so strong between the two of you that all you have to do is remember that she is there. Listening is like exercising a muscle. The more you do it, the easier it is to do. Eventually, you will have frequent dialogues with her and never feel alone again.
3. Describe an incident in the past when connection with your Guardian Angel flooded your consciousness. This is usually characterized by a strong floral fragrance. What was your conscious state at the moment of the event? What was your physical activity?
4. What is the most effective state of mind in which to address the Guardian Angel and receive a clear answer?
High emotions create interfering static in the Astral World, which makes it difficult for you to receive information sent to you. Therefore, it is easiest to understand your Guardian Angel’s messages when there is no music or television to distract you, no extreme emotional feelings, and when you are alone. As you gain experience in this skill, you will not need such special conditions, but it is a good way to start.
5. Scrying Exercise: Request for Information.
Your Mental Body is the active agent for this exercise. Sit quietly so that you do not feel your body distracting you. Invoke the Spirit of Truth so that you will only perceive what is correct and helpful.
Focus your mind on your question, the more specific it is the better. Clear your mind of all chatter and fill your sensibility with truth in listening. You may expect your answer flowing down to you from the above front left direction.
6. Why and how does this work?
The truth is all around us, waiting to be understood. When we invoke the Spirit of Truth, our auras and minds become receptive to this energy and the information that we need. It also helps us prevent misinformation from coming through, because we have given the command for only right and beneficial knowledge to enter our thoughts.
What would be the most appropriate use of this technique?
This is useful for any desire to understand something. The more specific the question is, the better quality is the assistance available.
7. Draw or describe one of your helpers.
We have hundreds of individuals helping us and waiting to help us. Angels, loved ones (both living and dead), pets, nature spirits, teachers, and Masters. Each contacts us with symbols, colors, mind pictures, telepathic words, and sensations.
Gratitude
I feel my Angel Teacher’s hands resting (softly as May) on my shoulders;
I am comforted.
A topaz kiss on my forehead and gloom shrivels away.
Her mist of love enfolds me.
My burdens dissolve into clarity. I fill with the light of serenity,
Fairer and sweeter than flowers, softer and gentler than July evenings.
My sweet strength:
Some while, my heart will reach the depths of your heart-world;
I will know your pain and ecstasy;
I will remember your tear on my cheek and your smile on my lips.
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The Governess from Heaven
The mission statement of a Guardian Angel is twofold:
1. Protect and nurture the soul during incarnation
2. Bring forth the latent gifts of the soul through indirect guidance, orchestration of lessons, and direct communication.
You will note that the first charge does not necessarily mean protection of the physical body, but of the soul itself during its sojourn through physical experience. The body is only protected when such a moment of physical Grace has the value of bringing home to the consciousness the reality of Divine Power. The imperative is to guide the soul away from choices of destruction and into choices of strength and wisdom. The tree-like branches of choice that the soul must take is intricate and subtle, requiring much inner and outer guidance before the consciousness assumes the mantle of illumination.
The second responsibility requires much creativity and watchfulness on the part of the Guardian Angel. From the timing of meeting traffic lights to encounters with influential people, from fated catastrophes to talents, blessings, and gifts, the Guardian Angel arranges a myriad of details in the mundane life of her ward. Each organized event is designed to teach patience, trust in the Divine, forethought, compassion, and other virtues. How the soul responds to each event determines what events will be required next.
There is no such thing as a dispassionate Angel. Every victory is supported with brilliant jubilation of color, music, and great feeling. Every time that we choose to act in accordance with the servants of Light, we are joined and fortified with the great collective of angelic presences. There is no such thing as an Angel with a sense of importance. Each steps in to do service, and steps aside to let another do his service also.
The higher level of the Mental Body is in constant rapport with the Guardian Angel. As we become more conscious and enlightened, the information becomes more accessible to our lower states of being.
The Guardian Angel does not act alone. She is part of a well-coordinated team of angelic helpers who are in constant communication with each other. A person also has a team of other helper angels. A Kindel Archangel, Awakener (Remliel) Angel, Enlightener (Firiel) Angel, as well as many other angels have interest in the soul’s development. These work together to create the optimum environment for a soul to progress through neurosis, weakness, and karmic debt. The Guardian Angel is the pivotal element in this team, always reporting to the others and helping to orchestrate the best possible combination of events to further the cause.