Meet Your Guides and Grow with Spirit

When I talk about Spirit, I am referring to all divine spirits in the Heavenly realms, including God, Christ, the Holy Spirit and angelic spirits and Ascended Masters of Light. When you take your first tentative steps in your spiritual evolution, and start to seek truth and enlightenment, you can connect directly to the divine and receive guidance from the Source.

Communicating with lower spirits is exceptionally easy, and when you first begin to develop your spiritual gifts, you will probably experience several interactions with lesser spirits. These are spirits you should ignore and banish from your presence because there is no true value available in communicating with them. Working with and inviting lesser spirits into your life is definitely not recommended!

In the beginning of your spiritual evolution, you are at very high risk of deception from lower spirits if you do not test the spirits and make sure that you know precisely what type of spirit you're dealing with. When you know how to defend yourself spiritually and can be certain that you're working with divine spirits, then you can move onto the next level and meet your spirit guide or guardian angel.

Your guardian angel has been with you all your life and knows you better than you know yourself. Your angel has the benefit of God's perspective on you as well as the perspective gained by observing and subtly guiding you throughout your life. Your guardian angel will be eager to interact with you more, and you can easily develop a strong relationship with your guardian. Your angels can advise you in your spiritual and emotional growth, help you see the best solutions to your troubles, and guide you to the right opportunities to enhance your spiritual evolution.

Start by aligning and balancing your chakras by using The First Alignment meditation song, or meditation techniques you've mastered. Once your energy is aligned and purified, you can open your Crown Chakra to connect directly with Spirit. When you've made the connection and can see your angel or spirit guide with your Third Eye, you can ask what name your guardian or guide prefers. Most often, your mind cannot fully comprehend the language of angels and you probably cannot speak your guardian's name, but you can give a nickname to your angels that's easy for you to say. Angels don't care so much about names and labels that people do, and they are just happy to have a stronger and closer relationship with you.

During your meditations with Spirit, you should talk and ask questions normally, just as you would with a human mentor or guidance counselor. You don't have to speak out loud if you think your family members might look at you funny, but if you feel comfortable you can talk to them with your regular speaking voice. You can also talk to Spirit in your thoughts by directing your thoughts and questions directly to your angel. If you use telepathy to communicate with Spirit, it may take longer for you to interpret and understand the telepathic answers you'll receive, but if you keep at it you'll get the hang of it in no time!

Keep a meditation notebook for writing in during your daily meditation sessions as you work with the Divine Alignment Meditation Method (you can download the sample edition and read the first two chapters for free). Write in your notebook before entering your meditative state, and make notes about the questions you want to ask your guardian angel. After you finish your 10 minute meditation, you should make notes about your communication with the angels and record any sense impressions, emotions, intuitive ideas and visions shown to you during your meditation.

When you're finished with your meditation, take a deep cleansing breath and relax for a few minutes afterward. Take in everything that you experienced and just let the emotions and enlightenment linger for a little while before you work to write it all down in your notebook. Your spiritual guidance will come through during your meditation as new ideas and inspiration, clairvoyant visions and remote viewing data, emotions, and even clairsentience. If you don't fully understand everything you saw, felt and experienced during your meditation, you might develop a deeper appreciation for it over time, so always make a point of recording everything from your meditations.

Feel free to share your experiences with transcendental meditation and angelic communication!

~*~Monica Who~*~

Healing Our Wounded Souls

Lately I've been struggling to cope with a family crisis that is not unlike the death of a loved one, except that my loved one is very much alive and is lost nonetheless. It feels impossible to grieve for someone who's been lost yet is still living. How can we bring the powers of emotional, physical, psychological and spiritual healing to our families, our friends, and even our whole world? How can we heal our wounded souls?

Prayer and meditation is the key to healing a broken soul, heart, mind or spirit, but sometimes an individual may not be able to use these powerful tools themself. When a person is cut off from their own spiritual wisdom and their Higher Self, or Spirit, it can be impossible to formulate the necessary words for a prayer. If you have a fractured mind or spirit, you may not even be aware of your dire need of healing! This vital task of healing your injured spirit, mind, or heart must sometimes be passed onto an experienced lightworker or spiritual healer, who is able to work with your spiritual energy and lead you toward your highest good once again.

Finding the best lightworker for you can be a challenge as well. How can you know that a particular practitioner can facilitate spiritual healing for you or your loved one? You will need to begin by having an open, honest conversation with the lightworker you're considering. Ask her or him to explain how they can work with your loved one's spiritual energy in order to facilitate spiritual healing. Ask how she will lead you or your loved one toward the healing love and light of the Creator. Ask what results you or your loved one might experience within the first days or weeks of the lightworker's service. Ask how long it might take for you or your loved one to achieve complete healing, and ask what else you can do to help your loved one through this challenging time or situation.

If you or your loved one requires medical treatment as well, it is absolutely imperative that you seek medical intervention as soon as possible. Your loved one might not be able to recognize the need for spiritual healing, however, and if this is the case for you then you must ask your lightworker to assist your loved one in recognizing the need for healing so that he or she can also accept the help that will be provided. This will be the first step with the lightworker you have chosen, if you are looking for a mystic, healer or lightworker who can help your loved one.

When you seek a lightworker for one of your loved ones, you can also dedicate the love and light of your own spirit toward his or her deep spiritual healing. Begin by holding your loved one up in prayer to God and ask for His healing miracle to touch your loved one. Ask God to work through you and your love for the person who requires healing, and invite Him to reveal Himself to your loved one. Pray for God's love, protection and guidance for both you and your loved one, and spend time meditating on your loved one. Visualize him or her and visualize the spiritual, mental or emotional trauma or injury that needs to be healed now. See your loved one surrounded in warm white light, which flows outward from your heart and wraps around the aura of your loved one. See God's love and miraculous energy pouring down into your loved one through his or her Crown Chakra at the top of the head, and see your light combining with the energy from God and your loved one's aura. Visualize these three energies working together now to heal your loved one completely, instantly, and miraculously. See your loved one healed now and thank God for His blessings and His mercy.

~*~Monica Who~*~

Spiritual Protection: The Armor of God

Many people have expressed to me that they're very interested in developing their connection and communication with angels, but they also have fears about opening contact with the spirit realm. It's normal, healthy and wise to be concerned about encountering evil spirits--they do exist and do try to trick people. In 2 Corinthians 11:14, Paul writes, "Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light." It's important to take contact with the spirit realm very seriously--this is not a parlor trick or something to do for amusement. With that said, I would like to teach you the most powerful and effective spiritual protection prayer and visualization I know: The Armor of God.

The best way to protect yourself is described in Ephesians 6:11-18, where Paul writes about the Armor of God.

• The Belt of Truth: Satan is a great deceiver and that will be his first line of offense. He will try to trick you and will lie to you about yourself, your life, the people you care about, and worst of all he will try to lie to you about God and try to make you lose your faith.
• The Breastplate of Righteousness: Sin leaves us open to attacks from evil forces. While we are by nature sinful, we must always strive to avoid sin and live a holy life. Confess your sins to God daily to receive His forgiveness, and keep your thoughts focused on Him. Avoid temptation and be strong to the lures of the enemy.
• The Boots of Gospel Peace: Keep your feet firmly planted in the truth and you will feel at peace with God, and you can stand strong against Satan's attacks. Walk with the truth and you will not lose your way.
• The Shield of Faith: Trust and believe what God's Word says, and your faith will repel evil and temptation. Keep the faith in all areas of your life.
• The Helmet of Salvation: Remember that God's people will inherit the kingdom of heaven. Think of how glorious that will be! Keep your perspective on that future and the everlasting life that is to come. You are a beloved child of God, don't ever forget it!
• The Sword of the Spirit: The Word of God is your weapon against all evil. Study the scriptures and pray for discernment and understanding. Memorize scriptures as you study, and you can confidently use the Word of God to rebuke evil and defend yourself.

Visualize yourself putting on these articles of holy armor, and say to yourself as you put on the belt, "I am putting on the belt of truth. I know the truth about my God. He is a loving God. Suffering is the result of sin; my God does not cause sorrow or doubt. I know the truth about my God and evil cannot deceive me." See yourself putting on the breastplate and say, "I have confessed my sins to God and He has forgiven me. I strive to live a holy life each day. I will constantly endeavor to do better and I pray for strength to resist sin in my life. My righteousness will protect me from temptation." Next, mentally put on the boots and say, "I walk in peace with God and keep the gospel message in my heart. I will not lose my way and I will stand strong against evil." As you pick up the shield, say, "I have unfailing faith in God. He hears my prayers and answers them in the best way for me. I know God will always love me and protect me. I have faith in all His works." Put the helmet on your head and declare, "I am a beloved child of God! I will live eternally with Him in heaven. This life is short, and I will not allow it to bring me down into doubt and despair." Finally you pick up the sword and say, "I have the Word of God in my mind and heart. I know and remember what God says about evil and about the ways He protects His people. Like Jesus, I will defeat Satan with the Word of God, and I will be safe from all evil."

To put on the full Armor of God, you must be well acquainted with the Bible and have very strong faith. It will provide you with the ultimate protection, surround you with the love of God and fill you with the strength of God. There is no greater spiritual defense than this.

~*~Monica Who~*~

Cleansing Your Aura

You are a spirit living inside a physical body, and your aura is a subtle, luminous energy field within and around your body that can range up to three to seven feet from your body. When you get a feeling of someone standing too close and invading your "space," this is actually another person's aura interacting with your own auric field and producing an uncomfortable reaction or impression. We are all born with a pure aura, but over time the aura can become "cloudy" from negative energy left over from trauma, illness, drug or alcohol abuse, toxic emotions and imbalances in your chakras. A clear aura attracts positive energy and allows the flow of abundance and blessings in your life, but a clouded or disrupted aura attracts only negative energy, conflict, struggle and loss.

An aura is typically only visible to those who are born with or develop the skill to see it, but every living person, animal, and plant has an aura. When the aura is perceived, the aura contains various colours reflecting the spiritual energy, emotions, thoughts, and even physical health of the person, plant or creature. Sometimes the part of the aura surrounding the head creates a halo effect, especially around awakened souls, saints and enlightened beings.

Signs and symptoms of a disrupted or cloudy aura in need of cleansing include fatigue, lack of vitality, energy or enthusiasm for life, negative or distorted thoughts, negative or intense emotions, feeling disconnected from your self, your emotions, your mind, other people, nature, or God (or other higher spiritual forces), sudden mood swings, panic attacks and intense anxiety, unexplained physical pain or discomfort not caused by an illness or injury to the body, and sleep disturbances*.

When your aura has come into contact with an incompatible aura, or has been bombarded with negative energy, you will want to cleanse your aura to release negativity and restore harmony. Cleanse your aura by showering or dancing in the rain, soaking in an epsom salt bath, smudging with sage (waving the sage smoke through your entire aura), meditation, or deep cleansing breaths. You may find it helpful to use meditation music or keep background sound to a bare minimum, and perform your aura cleansing in a dimly lit environment. Clear your mind and visualize negativity floating away from you with every breath you exhale. It might also help to visualize a beam of white light channeled down through your Crown chakra at the top of your head, with pure white energy moving throughout your entire body. Essential oils, holy water, and tobacco smoke (used for smudging, not inhaling) are other substances that can help cleanse the aura and release negative energies.

Another method for cleansing your aura is called "smoothing" and involves running your hands over your auric field, gently smoothing it out from above your head to the ground at your feet; power stones are beneficial for "smoothing" sessions--but take care if you're not accustomed to working with power stones because you could cause further disruption to your aura with particularly strong stones.

Keep your aura healthy with physical exercise, healthy diet and plenty of water, balanced and consistent sleep routine, breathing exercises, singing or chanting, connecting with nature, prayer and meditation, listening to music that makes you feel happy (raising the vibrations in your aura), and healing with colour therapy. Colour therapy involves visualizing a specific colour while meditating; green is a healing and calming colour and can be used effectively for clearing the aura and promoting good spiritual health.


*These symptoms are not exclusive to problems with your aura. If you experience these symptoms, please see a medical doctor in addition to clearing your aura. Clearing your aura unnecessarily will not harm you, but ignoring symptoms that might be related to a serious medical condition could be very dangerous.

~*~Monica Who~*~


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