Living with Spirit is the name of my blog. I use it because I like the play on words when we live with Spirit in our lives our lives are full of Spirit - fun, laughter, insight etc. I thought it was time to talk about what we really get when we have angel or spirit presences in our lives. Apart from the obvious direct guidance that is associated with 'spirit' and psychic work, you can also attain a deeper sense of peace or compassion in yourself.
If you have an awareness of there being spirit guides or angels around you, you tend to think a little differently about yourself. You may find a deeper confidence or a willingness to step into unknown territory. You may simply feel safe and secure with their presence.
Whether we are conscious of their presence or not, Spirit are usually working with us to ease the load of our 'modern' lives - time pressures, stress, anxiety. If we ask them to,they can replace these with a sense of 'ok-ness', happiness and even spirituality. However where we can get confused about Spirit's presence is that they often work under the surface, where we don't always feel what they are doing. For example, if we are unable to face particular pressures they can move them aside for us so that our lives become easier to manage. We might just suddenly feel different, but not have a conscious awareness of what has happened.
Th other thing we need to bear in mind is that as time passes and we become stronger with Spirit's help, and they may bring back these pressures to release them properly! This can be surprising or even a little shocking to us. We need to remember however, that it can be hard to see what is really going on when Spirit are around us! We tend to have expectations that if we ask for their help they will do something in particular and we will be ok. But they sometimes want us to face our fears head on and them let go. When times like this come about we can feel alone or trapped. However, it is here that we are being asked to step up to the mark, get some deeper guidance and allow ourselves to move into this moment.
If we ask for Spirit's guidance they are there, unquestionably. Yet we cannot allow ourselves to believe that Spirit will let us get away with not facing our fears! What does happen when we are confronted with something we don't want to face, but Spirit is guiding us to, is that we let go faster, with less pain and more love or support. Just so long as we don't fight it, and continue to ask for guidance!
We can, if we choose to see it, allow ourselves to know that Spirit is guiding each move we make and assure ourselves that whatever outcome is produced is for the best regardless of how it may look in the moment. When we do this, we can also overcome must greater challenges than previously and come to a new understanding of how strong we are!
Another time it is important to reach a hand out to spirit is if you are already in the midst of change or challenge and are not sure what should come next. At these times we can interrupt the flow of the situation and allow Spirit to step in, unwind and unravel the pain or frustration with us so that we can move on with bigger leaps!
As I said above, many people are asked by Spirit to face their fears - especially if this will bring the strength this person is asking for. So I need to point out here that whilst having help may sound great, not everyone believes in Spirit's capacity to guide because they expect something else. There are many people I work with who assume that when they ask Spirit's for help, Spirit will just make things easier for them. However, Spirit sometimes has another plan, a more insightful one, perhaps! So, the easing of pressure doesn't happen right away and they are required to take action, dig deeper or request even more help to get through that challenge they are facing, they just let go and assume that it doesn't work or that Spirit isn't really there at all - worse yet, they become disappointed that Spirit just wont do what they want Spirit to do!
One of the issues of our current life era is that we have many expectations about what life should be - easy, rough, too much to handle, upsetting, enlightening and many other things. We each have a different perspective and often a combination of perspectives that do not match up at all! We have been taught that life is mean to be something... when it doesn't work that way or we are asked to change our perspective we become very scared and want to let go of control. We can assume, for example, that someone is working against us or we aren't worthy of what we want so we throw in the towel and no longer, actively, define our own lives.
When we want ease or expect hardship, we are telling the world what to bring us. We can tell the world to not bring challenges to us and allow life to be quiet, or we can tell the world that life is hard and allow it to bring us more hardship. Yet if we want change and we want to bring Angel presence into our lives, then we need to assume that we will get whatever we most need now. This may bring more hardship if you need to roll out that pathway, but it comes with a hand of help too and a deeper insight into what you are doing down in the subconscious mind which might be preventing you from getting ahead.
Do not be fooled, they tell us, into thinking that they intend all 'good' things for us. Because goodness from where they stand is freedom, empowerment and courage - these things do not come when we stand still and assume an easy life is what we need. Real commitment to self comes through understanding our lives, what we are here to do and what our past experiences might mean. It also means having the time and drive (something else Spirit can help with) to come to a deeper understanding of ourselves, our actions and our thoughts because these are what makes our lives what they are - angry, happy, sad, nuanced, beautiful or otherwise!
We cannot assume a position anymore of having an easy, careful life because our world doesn't really work that way, they tell us. If we can carve this space for ourselves this is wonderful, yet many of us need to work hard to get there! And this is where Angel guidance really comes into play for us. They can help us move through the challenge, uproot old thinking and fit neatly into what we really want from life.
Though this pathway is not easy, it is not meant to be either. Real life satisfaction, fulfillment and joy comes from living out our situations, not hiding or expecting more ease but allowing ourselves to fall into the waves of our lives and be carried, hopefully without too much fear, into our future. The way that we put our feet on the ground and move with these waves is to assure ourselves that we know where we are going and don't try to stop that - joy, peace, love... Every life is headed in this direction, it is our minds that assume otherwise and attempt to bring more hardship.
That said, if we are in the midst of hardship then there is usually more of the same to get out of it. The cure is usually the same as the poison. Though this may defy what you have been taught in the past - just get out of the situation - the situation you are in has its own wisdom for your greater life learning and needs to be played out, most of the time. The caveat here might be personal or physical danger, though even this has at times played out in each of our lives because it bring us something to learn about ourselves.
Personal obstruction, at the hand of another person, always has the meaning of helping us to let go, overcome and see through the so called 'damage' that others can do to us. If you overcome a physical assault of some kind, you are likely to know the real inner-strength that exists in this world, or that we each have the capacity to reach. And if you don't know it yet, you can with a little Angel help!
I thought I would expand, this week, on the How to Channel article and have divided it into two sections - how to talk to angels and how to channel as they are both slightly different and useful for different purposes. Click here to read!
I hope this helps you to see that if you want to make real change it is worthwhile living with an active and knowing spirit presence in your life. And to remember that whilst Spirit is here to help us, they will help us talk through our danger, fear and hurts too. So don't be surprised if they show you the way through pain, rather than just taking it away. This is the way we come to be the people we want to be.