The Varied and Creative Ways
Our Loved Ones Communicate with Us
The varied and creative ways that those on the other side employ to get our attention is limitless. We often desire direct intuitive communication with our loved ones; however, communication between the physical and spiritual realms is not always as straightforward as we would like it to be. It can be tricky to know with overwhelming certainty when a loved one is present. So be alert and open to some less common ways that they let us know they are with us.
Communication with the spirit realm is more art than science. It requires an open mind and heart and the adaptability to let go of expectations of how you think they will communicate.
Here are some common strategies that the other side tends to employ to get our attention:
Memories
When a loved one passes over, it is common to remember and review our past experiences with them. Our memories bring us comfort and can help us to feel closer to our loved ones. They can ease our grief and reignite within our heart the love and special magic that we shared with another. We can learn from our memories and understand another person or our relationship in new ways. As we process our grief and deep sense of loss, memories can help us cross the bridge from sorrow to peace.
Memories can also be a powerful form of communication with our loved ones on the other side. After a loss it might feel like all we have left are our memories. Crystallized within our memories is the joy, love, and laughter that we shared with another. Remembering good times with our loved ones can help us to feel close to them and have gratitude for all that they brought into our lives. Reminiscing about the past can also help us through the grieving process. When we recall and feel the positivity of our time with a loved one, we are often better able to understand and feel blessed by our journey together. However, we might also unconsciously resist remembering positive memories because we fear that recalling happy times might make our loss feel so much greater.
Another aspect of remembering the past to be aware of is the tendency to hold on too tightly to our memories. Reliving positive events from our time together might stall our ability to move forward in the grieving process. If you find yourself recalling past events over and over, remember that the joy you shared with your loved one is always in your heart, and their soul is alive and with you.
Along with good feelings, we also have memories that provoke feelings of guilt, regret, or sadness. At times, a particular memory might surface over and over, causing us distress. As we look back, we might wonder why we didn’t do things differently, apologize, or better communicate our thoughts and feelings to our loved one. These kinds of memories can be common after a loved one passes. Extreme grief and the stress and anxiety of loss can stir up uncomfortable regrets and recriminations. If this happens it can be helpful to recognize that troubling and regretful thoughts may be a smokescreen, shielding us from feeling the profound depth of loss and sadness that we feel.
Memories As an Intuitive Tool
As our loved ones on the other side move through the soul review, they sift through past memories. While they are actively involved in this process, we might simultaneously remember memories similar to the ones that they are experiencing. This might seem improbable, yet it is more common than we know. Connected through our heart, soul, and energy field, we are one with our loved ones. When two people come together through love and devotion, the synergy creates a presence and being that is greater than either one. When a loved one passes over, our connection transforms and changes, but it doesn’t dissolve.
Memories can be a form of intuitive communication that is more common than most realize. When a memory of a loved one makes its way into our consciousness, it is not always obvious that someone on the other side is transmitting this message to us. For instance, spontaneously recalling a memory of a time when a loved one comforted us or when we felt loved and safe might be an intuitive message. A loved one may be close and aware of a difficulty or challenge we are confronting, and they are letting us know that they are with us.
Sometimes a memory of an event from the past that involved a painful or confusing situation with a loved one might unexpectedly surface. Often our loved one is reviewing the past and might be requesting forgiveness for any hurt that they may have caused us. They might also be extending forgiveness for one of our past actions, or it may be a bit of both. Pay attention to the feelings and thoughts that occur while remembering the past. Memories can also provide insight for better understanding a past event or our loved one. If you recall challenges from the past, take a deep breath, open your heart, and allow yourself to feel the warm, soothing love that the spirit realm is sending your way.
One of the identifying qualities of a shared intuitive memory is the effect it has on us. Shared memories may include the recollection of positive and uplifting events that help us to feel our loved one’s loving presence. Recalling times of joy and laughter can ease the sadness and grief of mourning and fill our heart with the most positive aspects of our relationship. Shared memories during the soul review might also include remembering pivotal events in our relationship. These memories provide us with the opportunity to look back at our journey with a loved one and better perceive how we supported, influenced, grew, and evolved together.
For instance, as soon as I started the session with Abby, I felt her mother’s presence. As I described her and shared a few messages, I could feel Abby’s heart open. It was clear that they had a close and loving connection. Before we ended the session, I asked Abby if she had any questions for her.
“I don’t know if this question is for you or for her. Why don’t I feel her close to me or get signs from her? I want to believe she is with me, but I can’t feel her,” she said.
Immediately, her mother replied. “Your mom says that she doesn’t want to interfere. She shows me you, busy with work and your children, and she doesn’t want to take your attention away from the many day-to-day things that you’re doing.”
“I would love to feel her presence,” Abby said.
“Your mom is showing me you as a little girl, just a toddler. You had beautiful curly dark hair, and in this image it looks like you’re outdoors. Maybe at a small pond or river. You’re feeding ducks and your mom shows me you running after them … I’m not sure why she is showing me this. It doesn’t seem to be answering your question.”
“It is … I know why she is bringing this up. On my way to work last week, I had the same vivid memory. I was at a stoplight and this image popped up out of nowhere. We used to go to the lake near our home in the mornings to feed the ducks. It was a special time for me and my mom. We did it for years. Whenever we needed to talk or just be together … As I was remembering this, I felt a bolt of energy opening my heart, and I started to cry. I could feel how much my mother loved me, and it felt like she wanted me to know how much joy I brought her … I guess she is close.”
EXERCISE
Receiving a Message from a Loved One Through a Memory 
Memories from the other side often invoke deep emotions and open our heart with love and joy. However, even those memories that recall a challenging situation can lead to a new understanding of ourselves and our loved ones by giving insight into our present circumstances. If you suspect that a loved one has sent you a message through a memory, try this:
• Allow yourself to fully feel and embrace the memory. If you can, lie down or sit back, relax, and close your eyes. Recall the memory in as much detail as possible.
• Imagine yourself in it. What is happening? How do you feel? Fully feel any emotions and feelings that surface.
• At times, the memory might become more like a dream. It begins to change and unfold differently than what you remember in the original event. If this happens, trust the process and allow it to continue.
• As you recall and feel the memory, become receptive and allow any intuitive insights to surface. Your loved one may be using the memory as a way to convey a specific message.
• Even if the memory doesn’t necessarily seem significant, take your time and savor it. Let it live in your heart and continue to unfold and speak to you. Pay attention to feelings of peace, comfort, and resolution. Quite often, messages from our loved ones are not intellectual but more emotional and comforting.
Dreams
Dreaming of loved ones after they pass over is common. Some of these dreams are created by our subconscious mind and support us in processing our emotions and working through the intensity of loss and grief. Over time, dreams of our loved ones can help us come to closure and move forward in rebuilding our lives.
Sometimes our loved ones who have passed over visit us in dreams. While we sleep, the conscious mind is no longer active, and we are often more able to receive messages from the other side. However, we don’t always remember them. If you wake feeling comforted, more peaceful, and with the sense that a loved one may have visited you during the night, they likely did. Dreams of our loved ones can also be clear and vivid and feel more like a visitation. It might feel as if we can touch them, smell their perfume, and know their thoughts.
For instance, late one night, a hospice worker called Jeff to let him know that his mother’s death was imminent. A short time later he was on his way to her home, a three-hour drive from where he lived. He had visited the weekend before and had thought about staying with her but decided to go home and take care of his cats and get a few things.
As he turned into his mother’s pebbled driveway, he had an overwhelming feeling that he was too late. He knew in his heart that she had passed over. Sitting in his car watching the sun come up over the distant hills, guilt crept into his heart. He beat himself up for going back home and not staying with his mother after his last visit. She had passed over without him there and he couldn’t forgive himself.
Later that night he dreamt about the day he left home to go to college. In this memory-dream, a couple of his friends who were attending the same college pulled into his driveway and honked the horn. Eager to get going, he almost forgot to say goodbye to his mother.
After running back into the house to give her a hug, he felt his mother close. He knew that she wanted him to be free and pursue his new life in college without worry or stress about her.
Waking from the dream, Jeff continued to feel his mother’s spirit close. He felt that she was trying to tell him through this dream that it was time to let her go. Just as he rushed out the door ready to take on school and a new life, she left this earth ready for her next adventure.
Mimicking her encouraging words after he left for college, he said, “I love you, Mom, thank you. You go have fun, be free, and don’t worry about me.”
Dreams from Loved Ones During the Soul Review
While our loved ones are going through the soul review, we might also intuitively connect with them through our dreams. The content and emotional intensity of these dreams are different from a subconscious dream and usually involve the memory of a past event. However, the images and other characteristics may be more symbolic and not always resemble what actually happened. If a dream involves a loved one on the other side and stirs up emotional intensity from the past, it might be connected to a loved one’s soul review.
For instance, my friend Larry had a dream that he was in his childhood home, only it didn’t look much like the house he grew up in. Walking through the house, he came to a room that was empty except for a pair of worn slippers near a television set that was on but out of focus. Something about the slippers reminded him of his father and how he liked to watch TV while relaxing in his recliner in the evening. As an overwhelming wave of sadness came over him, the dream scene changed, and he found himself alone walking on an empty shoreline. In the distance he saw a man who he thought might be his father.
Waking up from the dream, feelings of sadness flooded Larry’s heart. The intensity of his feelings reminded him of how during his childhood his father was usually too busy to show much interest in him or go to his games. Now that his father had passed over, he realized he would never get the time and attention from him that he had always longed for. Thinking about the dream, he wondered if the man in the distance was his father.
After tossing and turning a bit, he fell back to sleep and slipped into another dream. In it, his father stood on the ocean shore with an uncharacteristic and infectious smile. Larry could feel his father’s regret for not making more time for him. It felt as if his father was sending him the message that he knew how lonely he felt as a child. As he continued to feel his father’s remorse, he heard him ask for Larry’s forgiveness. Warmth and love spread through Larry as he quickly and without reservation forgave his father.
EXERCISE
Invoking a Loved One’s Presence in a Dream
If you would like to feel a loved one’s presence and communicate with them through a dream, try this:
• Place a photo or other personal item of the loved one you would like to communicate with close to your bed. If you don’t have a photo or personal item, write their name on a piece of paper.
• Before you go to sleep, fill your heart with loving feelings for them and imagine sending it their way.
• As you send love to the other side, send a thought message asking your loved one to visit and be with you in a dream. You can send them this thought message by speaking out loud or simply through thinking the thoughts. You can also imagine writing your request on a slip of paper and sending it to them.
Sometimes a loved one comes to us in a dream, but they don’t look like they did before they went over. They might be older, younger, or may not appear anything like they did in the physical world. If you get the sense, feel, or know that a person or image in a dream is a loved one, don’t overthink it, just assume that it is. Dreams from loved ones on the other side, especially dreams that are intuited during the soul review, tend to invoke deep emotion. This includes feelings of love as well as feelings of hurt or confusion from the past.
Although a dream may be inspired by a loved one, it may be more symbolic and not include realistic images from the past. However, even though a loved one may not look like they did in the physical world and you don’t recognize the scene in the dream, that doesn’t lessen its healing potential.
If you wake and feel that a dream may be noteworthy, even if you are not sure why, write it down. Sometimes just writing down a dream invokes and stimulates more intuitive information. Pay attention over the next few days and weeks, as more information and insight may spontaneously surface as well as a more tangible connection with a loved one in the dream. Even if you cannot decipher and adequately interpret a dream, it can still have a positive impact. Sometimes dreams stir up buried emotions that we need to release and let go of, or they can help us feel the kind of sublime closeness to our loved ones that we long for.
Photos and Videos
Another common but often overlooked way that loved ones communicate with us is through photos and videos. Similar to memories, photos can help us recall past events and stimulate feelings of love and comfort between ourselves and those on the other side. They might also contain a specific message and trigger intuitive receptivity. Photos and videos also hold an energetic imprint of whoever’s image is captured.
For instance, before my mother passed over, she suffered for over a year with cancer. Once vibrant and full of energy, she became so emaciated before her passing that she couldn’t stand or eat without help. For weeks after her passing I continued to imagine her in the thin, frail, and weak state of her illness. Even though I knew that once in the spirit realm she came back into her full, vibrant soul energy, I couldn’t shake the images.
One afternoon my daughter found an old video taken years earlier that she wanted me to watch. In it my hair was made up in a popular style for that time and my daughter thought it was hilarious. After a little coaxing from her, I agreed to watch the video and see my ridiculous hairstyle. However, instead of my image, the video opened on my mother with a big pillow stuffed in the back of her pants dancing and singing a song with my daughter from The Jungle Book. She was having a great time, and in that surprising moment of seeing her, I knew that she was sending me a message. From then on when I thought of her, I saw her being her silly self and having a fun time on the other side.
Some mediums require photos of loved ones on the other side in order to communicate with them. Photos absorb our energy vibration, and we can intuitively feel closer and connect with another just by looking at a picture of him or her. Objects that we wear or use over a long period of time also absorb our energy presence. The psychic ability to intuitively connect with someone through a piece of jewelry, their keys, or their photo is called psychometry.
Randomly go through photos of a loved one, allowing your intuition to guide you. When you come to one that you feel or sense has a message for you, pause, hold it, and close your eyes. If the photo is digital, place your hand over it, close your eyes, and relax and breathe.
Pay attention to any emotions, thought messages, tingles of energy, sensations, or gut awareness that you experience. Continue to relax and allow any feelings, memories, or new awareness to surface. As you do this, you might also feel the presence of your loved one and receive a message.
Music
Music opens the heart and helps us relax and become more fluid—the perfect state to receive intuitive information. Those on the other side often send us messages through music. This might come in the form of inwardly hearing a song or lyrics or turning on the radio while a familiar and meaningful song from the past is playing. At times we might encounter familiar songs from our loved ones playing in a supermarket while we shop, during a concert, or in another public place. The music that our loved ones send us usually conjures up memories of a special occasion or events we shared with them. Shivers of energy might run up our spine as our heart opens and we breathe in the essence of their heavenly love.
On the other side, there is a constant soft and gentle, harmonic and soothing vibration. As a musician, Kenni, my ex-husband on the other side, was particularly sensitive to sound—so much so that we had to give up going to theaters. If the audio system was not balanced to perfection, he would wince uncomfortably in his seat until we went in search of another place to sit.
Since his passing over, I inwardly hear the harmonious music of the heavens drift through me every now and then. Music on the other side is not just heard but felt. It’s a full soul experience where waves of high-vibration energy move through us and we become the instrument. Moving with the breath of the divine is truly a holy experience.
If you feel that you may be receiving intuitive messages from the other side through music, try this:
• If you inwardly hear a familiar tune or song lyrics that remind you of a loved one on the other side, take a moment to relax and open your heart. If it’s possible, sit or lie down and close your eyes.
• Allow any feelings or thoughts to surface. Breathe deep, relaxing breaths and become receptive.
• Imagine that your loved one has a message for you. You might also feel a loved one’s presence as a warm feeling of love or comfort.
• You can also open the lines of communication to a loved one on the other side by listening to a song or music that had special meaning for the two of you.
• Become comfortable, close your eyes, and as you listen, send a message to your loved one. Continue to relax and pay attention to any response you receive from the other side.
Sometimes the response will not come immediately, but hours or days later when you are not expecting it, a loved one might send you a song in response.
Emotions
When we lose someone with whom we shared a loving, trusting, and joyful connection, their love may seem gone forever. Without their warm touch, smile, and physical presence, we may feel lost and wonder if we will ever again feel the kind of closeness, love, and connection that we shared with him or her.
Grieving the loss of a loved one can take us into a depth of emotion that we didn’t know existed. Emotions are powerful, especially those that emanate from the pure recesses of our heart. After a loss, we can feel alone and adrift, tossed about by waves of sadness, confusion, and loneliness. When experiencing the intense emotions of grief, it can feel as if we have been plunged deep into the darkness with only brief respites from the pain.
Whatever you feel when a loved one passes over is natural. Some may experience a wide range of emotions; others may feel more shut down and depressed. The grieving process can take us into the depths of sadness and an inner emptiness that can feel overwhelming. The intensity and depth of our feelings may at times frighten us, and we may wonder if we can make it through the day or week and if we will ever feel like ourselves again.
It is essential to allow all of your feelings to surface, even the uncomfortable ones. For instance, many feel anger at their loved ones for passing over or for leaving before they had a chance to hear the words they longed to have them say. Some may feel angry at life or at God for the suffering that their loved one may have experienced. We may wonder if we did enough to take care of or help a loved one. We might be hard on ourselves for not visiting a loved one often enough while they were sick or before they passed over. Some tell me that they feel guilt for having an easy life, better health, or more positive experiences than a loved one who suffered.
Whatever you feel, let it surface. Your feelings don’t hurt your loved ones on the other side or cause them pain or discomfort, and it doesn’t create distance from them. Don’t repress, deny, or pretend you feel fine when you don’t. When we open our heart and feel our feelings, they begin to dissipate. The hold our difficult emotions have had on us loosens, and this allows our loved one’s warmth and love to drift in and enter our heart. Shutting down or repressing our emotions can keep us from feeling a loved one’s presence. Feeling the wide range of your emotions allows them to release and ultimately opens a channel for you to feel closer to your loved ones on the other side.
Along with difficult emotions, it is also important to feel the positive feelings you have for your loved one. Sometimes we don’t allow ourselves to feel the tender and loving emotions, afraid that these feelings might make us feel worse and cause us to miss our loved one even more. In trying to protect ourselves we may unknowingly not allow ourselves to feel the joy and happiness that we continue to share with our loved one.
Our emotions are like the wind, clearing out the path and leading us to the calm and peaceful shores where our loved ones reside. Surrender to the grieving process, and it will guide you into their presence. As we feel and accept our emotions without judgment, we release them and make way for the higher vibrations of love to come through.
Our loved ones might also feel an acute sense of loss when they leave us; however, it is only temporary. Soon they are cradled in the powerful arms of the divine, among family and friends on the other side. Their heart opens and love pours in, healing the dark crevices of grief and filling them with a love that we can barely imagine. From this state of divine grace, our loved ones see and feel our suffering and long to lift our hearts into the love that they are now a part of.
Although we may want to receive a concrete thought message from those on the other side, it is often through feelings of love and comfort that they first contact us. Unfortunately, our grief can muffle and keep us from feeling their love.
The following emotional experiences may be signs that a loved one is close:
• A surprising sense of inner peace or spontaneous joy for no apparent reason.
• Feelings of heart-centered closeness accompanied by the awareness of the presence of a loved one on the other side.
• A sudden feeling of being forgiven and comforted for something that you did or didn’t do in connection with a loved one on the other side.
• The heart awareness and comforting feeling that you are loved and adored.
EXERCISE Heart-to-Heart Communication
To feel emotionally closer to a loved one on the other side, try this:
• Relax, breathe, and imagine your heart as a closed flower bud.
• As you breathe, visualize the petals of the flower opening one by one until the flower is in full blossom.
• Imagine an image of this flower is in your heart, open and receptive.
• Imagine a ray of sunlight extending from your heart flower to your loved one’s heart.
• Feel the love that travels through this beam of sunlight from your loved one’s heart to the flower within your heart.
• Imagine your heart flower absorbing the sunlight of love from your loved one.
Synchronicities and Signs
On the other side, our loved one’s energy body looks a lot like the physical body. However, they are young, glowing, and at their best. The energy body is psychic and can do surprising things that might have mystified us in the physical realm. Yet, in the spirit realm these new abilities and talents are normal. For instance, our loved ones are able to see and feel those they left behind and know our thoughts. Through energy intentions they can transport themselves at will and appear in other locations and influence activities, people, and the natural world. Although they are not always able to fully comprehend and know how to manage these new abilities, other souls in the spirit realm teach and guide them.
Unfortunately, in the physical world we aren’t always aware that our loved ones on the other side are now endowed with extraordinary abilities. Even though our loved ones are close and can see us, feel our emotions, and know our thoughts, feelings of loss and grief can cloud our intuitive receptivity. Those on the other side long to let us know that they are with us. They feel our concerns for them and want us to know that they are at peace and free of suffering.
Fortunately, the spirit realm is creative and clever and has provided another way for our loved ones to get our attention. Through utilizing signs, symbols, and synchronicities, our loved ones are able to break through the spirit-physical barrier and allow us a glimpse of their presence and love.
If our loved one’s desire to let us know they are present is strong enough, they begin to experiment. Manipulating electrical currents is often one of the first signs our loved ones have success with. This includes such phenomena as flickering lights; turning lights on or off, including streetlights; setting off buzzers, alarms, and timers; stopping clocks or making them move ahead or behind; turning the television, phone, or computer off or on; or ringing phones. When my mother died, the speaker phone in my bedroom turned on, and the loud sound of a dial tone woke me up at 4:05 a.m. This was the exact time of her death.
Some loved ones send text messages and emails, and they may fool around on our computers. Of course, their emails and text messages aren’t necessarily legible or signed by our loved one and are likely to appear to be random and nonsensical. Other common signs that loved ones place on our path are coins, feathers, or heart-shaped stones. They may also hide, move, or knock objects off a table or shelf.
Those on the other side often send us messages through the natural world, especially through birds. With their natural home in the skies, birds are often messengers between the heavens and the earth. Blue jays, cardinals, robins, and hawks tend to be the most common; however, the other side is able to send all varieties of birds our way. Another common companion of our loved ones are butterflies. They may appear soon after a loved one’s passing, at a memorial service, or during anniversaries and special occasions. Along with birds and butterflies, our loved ones might also have a fox, deer, raccoon, or other animal cross our path. We might catch a sighting of a visitor from the natural world in our backyard, or a friendly squirrel might continually come to our window and seem to watch us from the ledge.
In their desire to let us know that they are close, our loved ones might also do their best to appear to us as an orb floating by in the air, or a camera might catch an orb or streak of light in a photo. Although it seems pretty near impossible, our loved ones can create a comforting image in a cloud or encourage a rainbow to form in the distant sky.
When we catch the fleeting scent of a loved one’s perfume or another familiar fragrance, they are likely close. Our loved ones might call our name, appear to us in dreams, and create all kinds of synchronicities or unlikely coincidences that leave us spellbound.
The best way to know if a loved one is behind such phenomena as the bird who sits on your windowsill, or the dimes or pennies on your path, is to listen to your heart. There are no definitive characteristics within signs that will give the human-thinking part of us the complete confidence that a loved one sent it our way. Yet if your gut twinges, the hairs on your neck stand up to attention, or your heart opens with loving recognition, stop and listen. The best way to know if a sign is from your loved one, or what its meaning might be, is to listen within. Take a moment, be still, and open your heart. Hold on to the warm caress of love that comes your way or the inner thought or awareness that brings calm comfort. Don’t let anyone, not even your own mind, take from you this union of souls across time and space.
Noticing and becoming aware of signs can assure us of our loved one’s love and devotion. Some signs and synchronicities come our way simply to let us know that a loved one is close. A grandparent, parent, friend, or other loved one is checking in to say hello and bring a bit of heaven our way. However, there will also be times when we receive a sign and it feels as if a loved one is attempting to send us more of a message. These kinds of signs and synchronicities are invitations to further communicate with those on the other side. As messengers, they encourage us to take advantage of this opportunity to reach out and connect.
EXERCISE Communicating with the Other Side Through Signs
When you notice a sign or synchronicity and feel led to reach out and further communicate with a loved one, try this:
• Following the observance of what feels to be a sign or synchronicity, find a comfortable and quiet place. This can be immediately after noticing a sign or even a few days later. Get into a relaxed position, close your eyes, and breathe long, deep cleansing breaths.
• Create an image in your inner mind of the sign that you received. It is not necessary to know who on the other side sent it. It is often more useful to simply imagine the sign and be open to the presence of whoever brought it your way. Send out a thought invitation to whoever this might be, letting them know that you would like to communicate.
• Continue to breathe long, deep breaths, exhaling any stress and tension, and become receptive.
• Try not to overly focus on logic or overthink. Open your heart and mind, continue to breathe and relax, and become receptive.
• Pay attention to your thoughts—not the linear thinking thoughts, but the more passive, observing-type thoughts. Notice the still small voice, the quiet murmurs and whispers, and the bits and pieces of any inner conversations that surface. If you suspect that you’re receiving thought messages from a loved one on the other side, stay receptive and listen.
• You can also imagine an image of your loved one or say his or her name and project a thought or emotional message to them. Pause and become alert to any inner repetitive thoughts, words, or phrases that surface. They are often subtle and understated; however, they don’t need to be loud or intense to be significant.
• Be aware of feelings of love, warmth, and comfort. Breathe into positive feelings and allow your heart to further expand. Opening our heart after losing a loved one may trigger any feelings of grief and sadness that have been buried deep in the heart to surface. The magnitude of love that the other side can shower on us has the capacity to dislodge any stuck emotions and wipe us clean. Receiving emotional intuitive energy from the other side can bring us comfort in times of loneliness and challenges and allows us to feel our eternal bond with the souls we love and cherish.
• If you experience sensations such as tingles of energy moving up your spine, the hairs on your arms or head standing up, or a warm or cool breeze moving by you, pay attention. These kinds of phenomena are a common signal that a loved one is close and that you’re intuitively open and receptive. When we receive intuitive messages from the other side through our physical body, it is not always easy to logically decipher the meaning of the message. If you experience unexplained physical sensations, close your eyes, breathe, become receptive, and ask your loved one to send you a message in the form of thoughts or feelings. This simple intent will activate other receptive opportunities from your loved ones.
• When you notice a sign or synchronicity, it might appear as if the air surrounding it is luminous or brighter. Orbs or streaks and flashes of light also indicate the presence of a loved one. If you perceive these and other manifestations of light, close your eyes and relax. Allow any images to emerge. Even if they are partial images, fuzzy, or quick flashes, pay attention. Sometimes it will feel as if you are not “seeing” an image but knowing, feeling, or sensing it. Images might also be symbolic, figurative, or realistic, and might include seeing your loved one, who may or may not look exactly like they did in the physical life. Pay attention to the thoughts and feelings that accompany the sign or inner images.
• Don’t expect to immediately understand the meaning of a sign or image, as it may take time to fully receive the message. Try not to overthink, and be patient. Eventually, the meaning, message, or sign from your loved one will easily sail into your consciousness when you least expect it.
Our loved ones are never far away and eventually become quite adept at sending us signs and messages. In my book Sacred Signs & Symbols, you can discover more information about how to better receive, understand, and communicate with a loved one through signs and messages.
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In the next chapter you will begin to learn more about the purpose that you played in your loved one’s evolution and growth and the role that they played in your life.