Here are your Angel Messages for September 5 - 11, 2016
with Doreen Virtue

https://youtu.be/aNblUSd1FuQ


It's a powerful week of change, especially in your career. Letting go of your old job or career is a strong possibility, leading to self-employment in your chosen field to gain more freedom, meaning, and stability.


World change also comes up, and always God and the angels remind us of the blessings, spiritual growth, and life lessons which can accompany any experience if we chose to look for it.

We pray that everyone going through changes receive the support, protection, and guidance that they need this week and always. If you ever feel nervous about changes, be sure to pray extra hard.


Doreen is working with the Butterfly Oracle Cards for Life Changes, available at bookstores worldwide.
You can preorder Doreen's new Messages from the Unicorns Coloring Book at Amazon.


Here's the full reading:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNblUSd1FuQ

Mon/Tues: Grief Work (release what no longer serves, make way for the new)
Wed/Thurs: Welcome the New (new opportunities, positive change)
Fri/Sat/Sun: Self-Employment (changes in career/work situations)

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Doreen Virtue
22 hrs ·


I'm speechless, really, because we just uploaded this week's angel card video to the front page of AngelTherapy.com and it's all about changes happening this week.

In fact, the angels insisted that I work with the Butterfly Oracle Cards, because some changes would be occurring this week.


Then this card for you today . . . all about changes.


Now, our egos automatically think the worst-case-scenario about the word "change," but the angels are reassuring us that this is a Blessed Change. That means two things:


1. This change is divinely ordered, meant to be, and happening for a bigger reason and purpose.
And


2. Blessings, spiritual growth, and important life lessons will come of this change.


In this week's reading, the messages about change were clear: one door closes, and another one opens. So it's a time of letting go and moving forward, even if that means leaving the old behind.


In particular, career change to self-employment is coming up strong. Working for yourself gives you more freedom and stability.


There may be a world event creating big change, as well. We can all pray that everything's in divine and perfect order, and that any negative energy is lifted and healed away.


Today, give any fears about change to God, and pray for support, protection, and guidance for yourself and everyone else experiencing change.


Please join me in holding a positive vision of happy changes.


From the Magical Mermaids and Dolphins Oracle Cards


This reading is for the next 24 hours in all time zones. I draw and post cards daily after I first I pray about and tune-in to the current world energies which affect us all.

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4 Enlightened Tasks of Grief and Loss | OM TIMES

4 Enlightened Tasks of Grief and Loss | OM TIMES
by Georgi Y. Johnson

When someone we love dies, a process is initiated beyond our control and choosing, a process which will transform who we are and who we were about to become. Just as each birth and each death is unique, so each process of grief is also individually unique and hardly comparable to any other.

Such is the impact of a death on friends and family, that it is almost too clinical to label the resulting acceleration of transformation as a “process”. As such, this is a subject to be handled with great tenderness and care.


The Four Tasks in Grief Therapy

Classically, the grief process has been divided into four tasks of grief – which can happen in any order and simultaneously, continuing until a sense of peace is found. These include:

To process the shock or denial that a loved one has passed away.

To feel the feelings – including unwelcome feelings such as anger, guilt or a sense of abandonment.

To adjust to a daily life without the loved one.

To relocate the love for the other in the heart/heaven/ or other dimension according to beliefs.

For those with a strong spiritual inclination, the tasks of grief are no less challenging. Regardless of beliefs or spiritual attainment, these tasks seem to broadly fit the basic human emotional and psychological processes in facing loss. However, precisely for these people, a sudden death of a loved one can add to the loss a significant breakage in belief systems together with an even deeper faith crisis revealing core issues with physical existence or with God, the absolute, or the universe.

Enlightened Grieving

Grief processes potently reveal the circulation of existence through form – a core circulation in inner growth and self-development. The cycle of coming into physical life, leading to physical manifestation, followed by a letting go and returning to source ready for the next cycle is part of every moment of human living.

Yet we have issues not only with the “death” or release/letting go stage, we also can come into difficulty with the agreement to move outwards again into manifestation. We think that death is our greatest fear, yet for many who suffer extreme loss, the greatest challenge is to go on living an anyway finite physical life without the loved one.

Grief and loss, even if it happened decades ago, always reveals a crack in our normal ‘reality’, This crack shines like a light to remind us of our mortality and the preciousness of life. As such, grief and loss does bring a silent gift: the opportunity for refining our spiritual awakening and integration of that light within all planes of life. As spirituality becomes more recognized by psychology, it could be worthwhile to add four spiritual tasks to support the spiritual practitioner in processes of grief and loss.


4 Spiritual Tasks for Processing Grief and Loss

1. Feeling the feeling into reunion

Human emotion and feeling as it arises in pure form in our awareness is a natural part of the shock and grief of losing a loved one. There is a freeze in energy which creates quite a shield and can lead to long-term shut-down or depression. Some grief processes can be stalled like this – effecting all aspects of living – for decades.

Allowance of the feelings is the first stage, and spiritual practitioners can be of service to themselves be being loyal to the existential – to whatever is there in the here and now – without holding, defining, naming or repressing. Through allowing the existential, perception through awareness – the window of being through which we “feel” – becomes a carrier of love and peace. This means the pain of loss is experience and welcomed into the aware arms of inner love. This love meets the love frozen within the pain of grief. Pain is composed of love: if we did not love the other so much, the grief would not be so strong. In this remembering, the pain is able to loosen and return to its source which is the love for the one that is lost.

The same principle applies to anger or feelings of abandonment. These feelings are the energy of “home” – (a fine and intimate blend of love and peace) which emanates from around and below the navel. In meeting these feelings with the welcome of the inner home, by allowing that home to exist unconditionally, the transformation to source is simpler.


2. Wishing well for the loved one

As spiritual seekers, we live our lives committed to transformation and liberation. We learn through experience that to truly wish well for the other is to truly be of service to ourselves. We learn that the more we are able to let go of false identities and of the “person” that limits us, the more we become happy, fulfilled and free.

Yet, when someone near us die, the bottom falls out. Around us and within us, we try to find the form of the one that has passed – albeit “on the other side”. We picture them as they were, we hold onto the flavor of their love as we knew it, we hold onto the story of their life –beginning, middle and end.

Yet, if they were still alive in the form that we knew them, we would be wishing for them to be liberated! From our love, we would want them to be free from identification with the body; free from limiting patterns, and at one in seamless unity with the divine/existential absolute.

Did the reality of death make hypocrites of us?

It is a high task of grief to be able to truly wish the one that has passed to become free in seamless unity with the source of all existence – that is, to be truly free of form. This involves more than acceptance of the loss of the form of the loved one – and moves us into a passionate wishing for the highest transformation possible.

The secret in this is that just as the old Indian wisdom says “to find yourself, you must first lose yourself”, such a way of connecting to the loved on who passed over actually brings them more intimately and existentially close to the peace and love alive in our being.


3. Issues with existence

It is not only by divine grace that many of us became meditators and spiritual seekers. To be honest, it is because difficulties in living in this world as it is drove us inside for comfort, release and freedom. Those who have found a way to live here through “transcending” the world, or drinking deeply from the pools of cosmic unity in order to bring strength, might find that a significant part of a grief process involves the agreement to come back to life. For many there can be an emerging fatigue with the service of human life and even a hidden jealousy towards the loved one that has passed over at being “free” from the trials and challenges of physical existence.

These feelings can reflect deep issues with incarnation and even a long-term resistance towards truly accepting physical form. In other language, it can be anger with God or existence, trimmed with a sense of shame or guilt connected with a belief that physical life is a kind of fall from grace or punishment.

It is highly worthwhile to allow these feelings all the space is to emerge. Within them is the possibility of a deep passion and a deepening compassion which could bring enormous benefit to the world.


4. Emptiness

Outside of the workshops and the meditations, the rock-bottom reality of death, legacies, funerals and the sheer absence of the one that has passed over forces open the perceptive window of emptiness. Unmasked, the spirituality that has sustained us for so long can feel as if it lost its being, as if it has been exposed by a far more “real” truth at the basement of being.

We might have truly believed that “we are not the body”. Yet, when the body of one we love has broken down, we feel our imminent fragility in physical form. Within this deepening, a perception opens of our inherent helplessness together with the transience of all things. The body passes; the mind breaks down; the future we thought we had can collapse; our feelings and emotions change like waves in a turbulent sea. Even the way in which we perceive the world is suddenly purely subjective.

Within this, that which does not change can come forward with enormous strength. The existential “us” behind all perception – witnessing our thoughts, observing our feelings of pain and love, breathing with softness through our flesh and bones as we move through our lives – this existence is a constant. It is the source of our freedom and the source of our ability to be of service to others.

When we allow the awakened source of who we are to express unconditionally through whatever form is arising – be it sadness or joy – we become a source of light to others, if not now, then as an imprint for some distant time.

This has tremendous value. No-one is free of birth and death. We are all abandoned, bereaved and fragile in physical flesh. No one is exempt. This means that there is a tremendous opportunity of service in allowing ourselves to be fearless, vulnerable and open in every given moment.


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About the Author
Georgi Y. Johnson
https://www.facebook.com/georgina.johnson
is a spiritual teacher and author of I AM HERE – Opening the Windows to Life & Beauty.
http://www.amazon.com/Am-Here-Opening-Windows-Beauty/dp/1782794263

Personal Reflections on Robin Williams and Why Life is Worth Living by David Wilcock\ Divine Cosmos

If you only read only one more article on Robin Williams..make it this one...A powerful reflection on David's earlier days working on a Suicide Prevention hotline....

Personal Reflections on Robin Williams and Why Life is Worth Living

by David Wilcock\ Divine Cosmos

August 13, 2014, 12:35 pm

Many people have written in saying our work stopped them from killing themselves. Though we cannot change what happened to Robin, we do have control over the choices we make in our own lives. Life is worth living and is a beautiful gift -- no matter how it may seem.

PERSONAL REFLECTIONS
Like many, if not most people, I was shocked and deeply saddened by the news of Robin's loss.
This is no ordinary tragedy. It strikes to the heart of everyone. Robin's presence lives on in so many wonderful creative works that have touched our lives.

He brought us happiness, laughter and deep insight. The pain and triumph he could convey as a character was utterly believable and in the moment.

You always felt, when seeing him in a film, that everything he was feeling was absolutely real. He threw himself into each role utterly and completely.

As far as film actors go, he was a true legend -- a star among stars. And he had managed to completely avoid the paparazzi hate machine tearing him down in public.

One central theme that keeps coming up is "Everbody loved him. How could a person loved by so many want to take his own life?"

Even now, two days after hearing about it, I still feel a variety of different emotions. I spent a good bit of time yesterday reading many different articles about him.


WORKING ON A SUICIDE HOTLINE
I worked as a staff trainee for the OASIS suicide crisis hotline through my entire senior year while getting a degree in psychology.

We were trained, through role-playing exercises, in how to handle a wide variety of worst-case-scenario situations -- every Wednesday night.

A whole team of 12 people were crammed into a single dormitory room in Deyo Hall, knee to knee, as we learned how to talk people out of killing themselves.


On one special occasion, a much larger crowd was gathered -- including people from other nights besides Wednesday.

It was very hot, crowded and claustrophobic. There wasn't really enough oxygen, making it also a light-headed zone between living and dying, waking and dreaming.

I was singled out to do a grueling, one-hour-long role-play with the director. It was the worst experience anyone had ever had that year, by orders of magnitude.

He chose to make an example out of me in front of everyone.
 

YOU CAN'T WIN 'EM ALL
In this role-play, his character was a man who had the opportunity to save his severely disabled sister from a house fire, but let her burn to death.

He was savaged by his own guilt. He let her burn because he didn't want to take care of her anymore -- as it had been ruining his life.

We had a whole formula of what you were supposed to do in a role-play -- and we always followed it.
Every role-play ended in us running through the ten Suicide Assessment questions in some order, and then moving the caller in to Stage 3, where you make a referral to get them more help.

Every role-play ended in the would-be caller deciding not to commit suicide and accepting the referral. That was the script. That was what we did.

No one ever even imagined that there would be a role-play in which this formula wasn't satisfied.
It was always just a question of how long you would take to "get to stage 3" -- and how well you got there.

Normally a role play was about 10 to 15 minutes. A long role-play was 20 minutes. This one went on for an entire hour -- and it was absolutely horrible.

The fact that I was going through this in front of a huge group of people, without enough air, feeling utterly humiliated in the process, only made it worse.


I WILL NEVER FORGET IT
The director was rude, hostile, interrupted me, completely refused to listen to what I had to say, and just kept saying "I want to kill myself."

He made violent, psychopathic gestures of self-harming behavior and could not sit still as he ran through his plans.

His character felt that the only way justice could be served was to set himself on fire -- for letting his sister burn when he could have saved her.

I was trying to understand what the heck was going on as this role play stretched on -- longer and longer -- and I couldn't "turn" the person.

It was absolutely emotionally exhausting -- and an incredible ordeal.


NOTHING CHANGED HIS MIND
Finally, after what seemed like countless hours of torture in psychological time, he ended the role-play -- by saying he was going to hang up and burn himself to death.

"Nothing you have said to me has made me change my mind," he said. "I am leaving now and I am leaving for good. I am going to burn myself to death."

At least 30 people were in the room, witnessing the "example" that had been exacted upon me with such excruciating intensity.

They erupted into a cacophony of shocked chatter as soon as it was over. Everyone was moving, talking, gesticulating and freaking out.

Whatever precious quantity of oxygen was still left in the room by that point was quickly being consumed in a furious eruption.

What the hell just happened?

QUITE A SCENE
The volume level in the room skyrocketed. Everyone was talking, all at the same time. No one could understand what the heck had just happened.

The director -- already a big and tall guy as he was -- suddenly jumped up on a table, ducking his head to avoid hitting the ceiling.

He shot both of his arms out to the sides like an umpire making a bad call that everyone hated... and said,

"EVERYBODY SHUT THE F- UP!!!"
[90 percent of the students in my school were from New York -- so "dropping the f bomb" was a fairly common occurrence in private conversation.]

It was quite shocking for the director of our program to jump up, flag us all down, scream and curse at us -- with the F word, no less -- after this grueling ordeal.

Although watching the role-play in that environment couldn't have been enjoyable, being the subject of the whole ordeal was undoubtedly far worse.

I was completely wasted, emotionally and physically -- and now he was up there screaming.
Everyone did indeed "shut the f- up." What was he going to say?

YOU CAN'T SAVE EVERYBODY
"If you are going to do this work, you have to accept -- deep down in your soul -- that you can't save everybody," he said.

"Some people, you will give them your all, 110 percent, and at the end of that call they are still going to kill themselves."

"You absolutely have to live with that fact. You have to be able to get on with your life."

"If someone does this, it is their choice. You can try to help them, if they will even let you -- but ultimately it is not your decision."

"You can't spend the rest of your life grieving about it or wondering what you could have done differently."

"If you can't deal with losing someone after doing your very best, then you shouldn't be in this profession at all. Leave now. There's the door."

No one walked out.

I had been used as the scapegoat for a very powerful example that stuck with all of us for the rest of our lives.


LIFE IS WORTH LIVING
The tragedy of a loss like this is personal. Robin is woven into the very tapestry of modern life.

I haven't seen all of his films. You probably haven't either. But we've all seen enough to know and love this man.

No matter how dark the road may seem, no matter how difficult things may be, never give up.
Life is a precious gift. Life is worth living.
You are a beautiful and wonderful person. You are loved.
Never let anyone or anything challenge that deep knowing within you.

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Here are your Angel Messages for May 12 - 18 from Doreen Virtue's weekly angel card reading

Here are your Angel Messages
for May 12 - 18 from Doreen Virtue's
weekly angel card reading

Published on May 11, 2014

Mother's Day seems to start the week on a sentimental note. Don't be surprised if you start receiving signs and messages from your loved ones in heaven, especially in the form of birds, butterflies, or significant animals.

You are guided to release all negative messages that you may be storing inside of you, and this week's video includes a guided meditation to help you to detox from any form of verbal abuse, including teasing, ridicule, or self-judgment.

The week may have intense emotions, but it's all for the purpose of healing grief and any blocks from painful past experiences.