communicate with you in the form of dreams, which are meant to provide insight into your career, relationships, issues, health, safety, abundance, and even past-life experiences.
Think for a moment about the dreams you’ve had that have been particularly memorable or repetitive. Along with recalling past-life experiences, your dreams bring clarity to what is happening currently in your life and even furnish an awareness of what is to come in the future. It may also prove very comforting for departed friends and family members to maintain a relationship with you by making an appearance in your dreams, often to share some very necessary information that they feel will be spiritually or emotionally constructive.
Guardian angels initiate an open dialogue with us when we arrive on the earthly plane and continue to provide unwavering support throughout our lives, even if we remain unaware of their existence and our inborn ability to communicate with them. You’ll build a more cohesive and tangible relationship with them every time you practice your communication skills. Developing the ability to channel with your angels will dramatically improve your quality of life.
The process of channeling is incredibly simple. While it may sound grandiose to communicate with heavenly beings, it is your birthright as a full-fledged member of the same community. Don’t forget that you, too, are a spiritual being who lives in heaven between each of your earthly lifetimes. You are only here on the earthly plane for a short spiritual pilgrimage to accomplish a number of very specific goals. You are a spiritual being yourself and have guardian angels already assigned to work with you to assist in the accomplishment of your spiritual agenda. Your guardian angels have been providing intuitive information to you since you were an infant. Because this communication has already been occurring, there is no question about your ability to be able to do it.
You have already been channeling from the time of your birth, whether you realize it or not. The ability to continue doing so will remain intact no matter how much you ignore or deny that the process is taking place. With just a little practice, you can develop communication skills that will allow you to have a two-way conversation with your guardian angels or departed loved ones, whenever and wherever you wish. Imagine how life-changing it would be to have immediate access to the wealth of information available from them—as well as from your soul’s memory bank—and how you might use those insights to build far greater success in your life.
“I think immortality is the passing of a soul through many lives … such as are truly lived, used, and learned, help on to the next, each growing richer, happier, and higher, carrying with it only the real memories that have gone before.”
Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888; author)
Chapter 2
Spiritual Destiny
ARE YOU AWARE that the secret to creating inner peace and happiness is directly linked to carrying out your spiritual destiny? Think of your destiny in terms of a spiritual to-do list. You are currently living on the earthly plane to accomplish a very specific set of goals and objectives that you planned while you were still in heaven. Fulfilling your destiny is the reason you have been reborn on the earthly plane, and your entire quality of life hinges on how you pursue your spiritual objectives.
The secret of creating a satisfying quality of life is twofold. It involves developing an awareness of your spiritual destiny and employing daily effort to achieve it.
This task isn’t as difficult as it sounds. In truth, spiritual destiny is a very simple concept. Imagine that you’re in heaven and you’re planning to return to the earthly plane for another incarnation. You must tailor the unique itinerary, or spiritual agenda, for your upcoming earthly lifetime. Your spiritual agenda is your destiny, which represents a series of emotional, spiritual, mental, and physical challenges that you plan to experience, typically one right after the other, on a particular schedule. You’ll experience some of the challenges alone and some of the challenges with other people.
Your time on earth may be enjoyable and triumphant, despite the fact that by its very nature, the earthly plane is a destination that is certain to offer difficult encounters and intermittent hardships, providing the opportunity to prevail over adversity and, in turn, allowing you to earn spiritual advancement.
The Keys to Unlocking Happiness on the Earthly Plane
• Center your concentration on the present moment rather than on what has occurred in the past or what may happen in the future.
• Develop an awareness of your specific spiritual agenda.
• Remember that all events and circumstances occur for specific reasons that are meant to be spiritually beneficial.
• Accept that all events and circumstances occur in perfect time frames.
• Maintain an initiative to accomplish your specific destiny, step-by-step, undeterred by inevitable hardship.
Like your inborn ability to communicate with your soul and your guardian angels, securing happiness on the earthly plane is a birthright for every human being. Regardless of how miserable, confusing, or empty your life is right now, you still have the ability to create true happiness. And I don’t mean the kind of misguided happiness that comes from kidding yourself about your circumstances, denying your problems, or enjoying a false sense of well-being with the newest pharmaceuticals. I am referring to attaining a profound, penetrating peace that you feel every day and that can only be achieved by understanding your specific destiny and by mustering the determination to fulfill it.
The notion of a bliss-filled existence isn’t a new concept. For centuries, countless books, speeches, paintings, songs, poems, films, operas, ballets, and plays have celebrated the existence of true happiness. If you’re an optimist like I am and you reveal to others that you believe in earthly bliss, you might be regarded as naive and misguided, and other people may argue that true happiness cannot exist on the earthly plane.
There are many people who regard enduring happiness as nothing more than a fairy tale, wonderful to ponder but unattainable in practice. The individuals who discount or dismiss the possibility of creating true happiness will argue that bliss cannot be achieved when other human beings are suffering. How can happiness be experienced while others go hungry and want for simple necessities? While there is so much rampant violence, hatred, and cruelty in the world? While there is so much prejudice, distrust, and suspicion? While the world has become too complex and jaded to even conceive of such a concept?
When people choose to become resigned to this limiting philosophy, they often surrender their ability to make a positive impact on the earthly plane to alleviate the need and the suffering of others. Instead, they often find themselves pessimistically focusing on their own day-to-day, bleary-eyed survival. If someone considers the earth to be such a negative place and uses that hopelessness as an excuse not to make improvements in his own life, he certainly is not likely to contribute to the welfare of others. Rather than mustering the initiative, strength, and courage to light a candle, he finds it easier to wallow in the darkness.
Many years ago, my entire life revolved around surviving each day as miserably as I endured the day before it. Although I was incredibly busy, I was not setting any new or different goals, so I had nothing to look forward to. My philosophy at the time was reflected in these statements: “If I can just get going this morning, I’ll be okay.” “If I can just make it to lunch, I’ll be okay.” “If I can just make it to the end of the day, I’ll be okay.” “If I can just get back home to eat dinner, relax, watch TV, or get on the computer, I’ll be okay.” “If I can just make it to the weekend, I’ll be okay.” “If I can just meet my bills this month, I’ll be okay.”
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