Introduction

Do you ever wish you could get a clear message from your guardian angels? Ask them for advice when you are feeling down, celebrate with them when you’re on top of the world, gain wisdom about life and Spirit from your angels?

Maybe the idea of angels has always resonated with you, but you don’t really know much about them. Or maybe you occasionally sense that you’re getting a message from an angel, but you want to feel a stronger bond to the angel realm and wish to communicate with angels frequently. Whether you want to learn more about angels, want to learn how to receive guidance from your angels, or are an old hand at angelic communication and just want to pick up some new tricks, this book will help you create a closer connection to the angel realm.

Everyone has guardian angels. They were assigned to you at birth, and they are devoted to protecting you and advocating for you throughout your life. Your guardian angels are a gift from Spirit, but they are a gift you do not have to earn—a gift that will never be taken back. The love and healing energy of your guardian angels is your birthright. This book discusses several different types of angels, but will often reference guardian angels, as those are the angels you will have the most intimate relationships with throughout your life. However, this book can help you create a closer connection to not only your guardian angels but the angel realm as a whole.

In this book you will learn more about guardian angels—who they are, what their commitment is to you, what they can do for you, and what they can’t do for you. You will have many angels come and go throughout your life, showing up to help you navigate certain situations, offering healing from physical pain or emotional trauma, or teaching you specific knowledge as it becomes needed during your life journey. But your guardian angels are your core angels, and they are with you, every moment, through thick and thin. Their love and devotion to you is like that of Spirit—it knows no bounds. In addition to guardian angels, we’ll examine archangels and helper angels and the roles they can play in your life.

This book also offers the angel realm’s perspective on spiritual topics such as fate, free will, divine timing, and soul contracts. These messages from the angel realm will help reveal the enormous part Spirit plays in our earthly journey, as well as the practical details of Spirit’s influence. Many of these angel messages will help explain how angels work in our lives, and what angels want us to personally work on and work toward. I hope you find these angel messages enlightening, thought-provoking, inspiring, and comforting.

Throughout the book you’ll be given many angel exercises to help you strengthen your bond with the angel realm. These exercises should increase your ability to recognize and receive angelic guidance. They will encourage you to seek the help, healing, and counsel of your angels more often. Many of the exercises are designed to bring you closer to the angel realm by inspiring you to see the world through the eyes of an angel, increasing your sense of compassion and tenderness, and encouraging you to act as a human angel in the world.

Each chapter contains several angel affirmations and angel prayers. These tools give you a quick, easy way to call upon the angels, or align yourself with the angel realm. Work with these prayers and affirmations anytime, anyplace. If a section in one of the chapters particularly resonates with you, or you find that section challenging, definitely spend some time working with the affirmation or prayer from that section. Affirmations help recalibrate our subconscious mind, which affects the energy we give off, what we attract into our lives, and how we feel about ourselves. Prayer enables us to call upon the angel realm for guidance and intercession.

I recommend keeping a journal, if you don’t already, while you read this book. Journaling is a wonderful way to express your feelings, set goals for the future, understand your past, and generally get to know yourself better. But it’s also a fantastic way to get closer to Spirit and the angel realm. There are several exercises in this book that require a journal. Keep in mind that you don’t have to spend a lot of money on your journal: It can be a plain, cheap one you pick up at the drugstore—although having a pretty journal is helpful, as that will make you want to pick it up more often. You can either spend a few extra dollars on a journal with a pretty cover, or decorate a plain journal by drawing on the cover or pasting pictures on it. For more about journaling, see chapter 6.

I’ve been working with angels for more than ten years—coming to them for guidance, emotional healing, grace, insight, and assistance. Some of the information in this book was intuitively given to me by my own guardian angels, helper angels, and archangels who were by my side as I faithfully typed away on my computer keyboard. This information was communicated to me through clairaudience, clairvoyance, clairsentience, and claircognizance. Clairvoyance, or being given information intuitively through pictures, is a skill that I only began utilizing a few years ago. I am naturally very clairaudient, which means I hear intuitive guidance, and I was thrilled when I began receiving pictures as guidance from the angel realm. I knew it meant my work on trusting and honing my intuition was paying off, and being able to receive pictures as guidance from the angels assisted me immensely in writing this book. Honing and trusting your own intuition will also pay off for you in the form of increased guidance from the angels. The angel exercises in this book will help you get in touch with and hone your own intuition.

I interact with angels—guardian angels, helper angels, and archangels—closely and directly on a daily basis. This is, and has been for some time, “normal” for me. Yet I have never felt the presence of the angel realm as strongly as when I was writing this book, and I have to thank the angels for giving me such precious insight to share with you. Over the past decade I’ve written about angels regularly and talked to hundreds of people about their encounters with angels. I’ve had folks share their stories with me about angels offering them healing, angels offering them guidance, angels giving them peace or encouragement, and angels saving their lives. Learning about angels is obviously a passion of mine—I devour books and videos that offer information on the angel realm and am always on the lookout for new insights. I also offer private Angel Readings, and have learned much about how angels operate by intuitively reading individuals of all walks of life.

Angels are constantly trying to reach us—through our thoughts, our feelings, children, animals, nature, music, and the synchronicities that show up in our lives. Communicating with angels is possible for everyone, but it does take some practice for most people. For you it may be just a matter of meditating about your angels or journaling to them. Or it might take a little more time and effort. In either case, I encourage you to get to know your angels personally. In the meantime, if you are struggling with a certain emotion, trying to make sense of a common situation, or longing for wisdom about your role here on earth as a spiritual being in a physical body, the angel messages in this book contain reassuring guidance from angels that applies to anyone’s life.

You can read the book in chronological order, look though the table of contents to find a topic that appeals to you, or (and this is my personal favorite) open the book up at random to see what message, exercise, or information your own guardian angels want you to utilize. (Your guardian angels will lead you to the page that will resonate deepest with you, or teach you what you most need to know in the present moment.)

Angels want to play a bigger role in your life, and they want you to feel closer to them. Your guardian angels in particular are always available to you and eager to strengthen your bond with them and increase back-and-forth communication. Angels are more like humans than you realize—they have hearts and souls, and they can understand your joys and your sorrows. As you read the angel messages in this book, learn more about who angels are, practice the angel exercises, and work with the angel prayers and affirmations that accompany each angel message, know that your own guardian angels are reading right along with you.

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