The Essential Doreen Virtue Collection Part 4

We love you, dear one, and we send you comforting rays the instant we feel the trembling from your antic.i.p.ation of trouble. The signals that come from your fear are a whistle that calls us angels to your side. So you are never alone during your hours of fear.

There seem to be some in your midst who gain enjoyment from fear. Does this surprise you? Yet, a part of you knows that it is true. The practice of fear in your society puzzles us, yet we must address it within this pa.s.sage because it is a good beginning point in our message to you.

When you shout because you are afraid, where does the depth of the emotion come from? Does it not seem to move from a bellow down and deep within? This shout is an escaping of long-felt energy, what you would call "catharsis" in your terms. The calling-forth of fear in entertainment places: your movies, books, and conversations, is but the same movement of venting away a pent-up steam. The pleasant feeling that accompanies some afterward is this release and freeing of the heart.

We bring this up to you because we want you to know that your world is spinning much faster in its evolutionary scale. There will be times coming to you quite soon when you may feel overwhelmed by the breakneck speed of changes in your midst. We angels want to a.s.sure you, though, that nothing moves at a faster speed than the beating heart of love. Your love and G.o.d's love are perfectly synchronized in beautiful rhythm, now and forever.

This rhythm of eternal love is, in fact, the anchor that will save you from additional fear during the coming times ahead. Like the ticking beat of a mother's heart that calms and cradles a baby, your essence already contains the antidote to fear. Use this time now for preparation, by adjusting your mind and body to the rhythm in gentle practice periods that you can use and call forth during periods ahead.

So, what we ask is this, gentle children: Move forward fearlessly, not by ridding yourself of it through cathartic means of entertainment. Instead, use this time for peaceful sojourns inside the uncharted territory of the great beyond that lies within. Fear not that you will see, hear, or feel an essence that is uncomfortable, simply by sitting still alone with yourself. Allow us to intervene by sharing your fears with we angels. Give them to us!

These practice sessions are essential remedies for the coming times ahead. Get used to dealing with fearful thoughts through these early practices now, and these lessons will serve you very usefully in coming times. What we pray for you, in our angelic intervention, is that you will monitor your thoughts much more carefully than you have in the past. Like a resolved gardener who stands ready to hoe weeds at the instant of their birth, we urge you to tend to your mind in similar fashion.

Get used to purging your mind of thoughts that spring forth as you contemplate ideas of aloneness on this earth. And say, "I am not alone, now or ever" as you imagine yourself handing the thought-form of fear to our outstretched hands. Refuse to contemplate yourself as a trembling being, alone in the elements of fearful surroundings. For as things around you change, you will know that your core connection to G.o.d and us angels is steady and immovable.

Fear can be used in many ways, dearest being. Use it wisely and with grace! Call upon your friends, the heavenly angels, and we will whisk all images of fear from your mind. Do not save one bit of horror, in thoughts that you would want to seek solutions of your own imagination. Give it all away!

There is one solution to fear and that is this: Call upon G.o.d's heavenly creations for help and a.s.sistance, as soon as you become aware of your inner pain. A wise homeowner who smells smouldering smoke does not wait until the home is engulfed by flames before telephoning the fire department. At that point, such a call feels almost useless. Do not wait until you are overwhelmed by monumental fear before calling upon G.o.d's name.

At that moment-as in all times-He will send help and comfort to your side. Even so, you may not feel His loving arms for several minutes as you feel barriered between many layers of fear and heaven. Smarter still is one who learns to monitor his own well-being, and who hesitates not in calling upon a heavenly creation of any form for a.s.sistance and comfort.

Learn this lesson well, then, sweetest child, and remember always to care for your inner being by calling forth help whenever needed. In that way, your ebb and flow of fear has not sharp divides, but gentle swellings that do not erode your peace of mind.

Food.

Would it surprise you to know that human life can be sustained with a sharp reduction in food consumption? Perhaps this would not surprise you, for you are of the knowledge that beliefs surround reality. It is only your belief in hunger that creates sharp pangs and seeming needs within your thought systems.

There is no morality within food, yet we see many of you seeking comfort with utensils that hold morsels of food dangling into the mouth that instead hungers for a reunion with G.o.d. These beings we seek to comfort with our healing presence, yet it is at times tough to get through! For this, we remind you of a condition that you at one time called "Saying Grace." We like to think of this tradition as not something that is retired, but perhaps a new trend upon your horizon.

During this moment of bowing your head and remembering your heavenly origin, you allow us angels to become your dining companions. We join you with sweet music and keep the spirits soaring at the table. You can use our intervention on these occasions, and grace is but a formal way to call us to your side. Use any method that appeals to you, dear one. But this we urge: Invite us to your meals.

In coming times ahead, your body will adjust to energy vibrations that will bombard you from s.p.a.ce outside the earth's immediate atmosphere. Food is a conductor of energy, and so your body a.s.similates it in many ways. One way is the transmission of information from the earth's soil to your mind's awareness. Earth speaks to you through her offspring, the living plants that you eat.

Think of it this way: Your dinner meal is a meeting in which messages and ideas are exchanged, even without your awareness. We speak of that which is on the invisible plane, and yet we feel it is time to share this with you. For Mother Earth calls you to hear her cries, and yet her ways of calling out to you are diminishing as you eat plenty-but not plenty of foods drawn from her living soil.

In the time that it takes for you to market her plants in endless variations, you could be calling her home with tender care. A walk in the gra.s.s with your shoes off, a sitting spell beneath an oak, or a gentle swaying in the wind of your body, can reconnect your energy vibrations with the transmissions sent to you at this time.

Water, too, conveys essential messages. Drink it more than you do, and consume it holistically in as natural a format as you can fathom. What we mean is that your pure sources of plants, minerals, and essential vitamins come from nature in its rawest form. There is no stew that can give you more than the Earth Mother herself.

So conserve your ancient heritage by returning to your plants, and as you eat of them, listen. Listen. Listen still. Hear the plant's loving message given to you from its root, its stalk, its seed. Please pay careful attention to what you hear within your heart and mind, and honor its message with love.

You may be drawn to fulfill your mission through this gentle form of eating. We know that this may create some initial turmoil for those who are seeking security, comfort, and safety through more traditional means. Yet, we tell you the truth, dear ones: Seeking security in old-fashioned places is not the means to the end!

Your safety, your children's safety, is ensured by careful attention given over to the plant kingdom at once. Spend more moments in gentle serenity, and if you hear nothing, ask us angels for help! We want you to hear earth's cries, not out of blame or guilt for what the human race appears to have done. No! That would not help at all. We want you to hear and see what we angels know to be true: that it is not to late to save Mother Earth. She seeks fellowship with you in her great expanses of beauty and her barren landscapes. She will tell you what she needs, which itch to scratch. Yet no one can be told who decides he does not want to know. That is your right, your free will.

We ask you only that you would go within your heart, and in love, reconnect to the divine being who truly loves you: your mother and your planet. As you follow her lead, all your ways will evolve back to something more natural for you. And you will seek foods that mirror this image of yourself as a natural being. It is your essence. It is your life.

Forgiveness.

When a b.u.t.terfly soars unfettered, it is a beautiful sight to behold. When a child runs, laughing through a field while pulling upon a colorful kite, heaven is near. These visions of grand beauty upon your earth are small examples of freedom and grace that exit without boundaries beyond your imagination, dearest ones.

All who would listen, please then hear our words. Even now as you read, if you will breathe very deeply and allow us to enter your heart, you will see our meaning even clearer, even sharper still. Yes, that is good, continue breathing and feeling. Feeling love, love, love upon your breast. And trusting us to take very good care of you as these words dance across the page.

For it is not words that take your hurt away, dearest loved ones, but the emotion of love. You see, love is an ancient electrical impulse that travels along the circuitry within your being. It travels freely and tells its tale of light and laughter. It sc.r.a.pes away all error residue left along the circuitry as it goes along, and yet you often short-circuit this gentle messenger for reasons that are still unknown to many among you.

Let us fill you in a bit, so you will see this topic of "forgiveness" from our vantage point. Maybe then you will understand our message at a deeper level than before. You say you forgive, and yet still within you a little nick of anger remains upon your circuitry. It is visible and palpable to even the naked eye, who wishes to see the landscape of love.

Even now, you can close your eyes and with a short breath and a prayer, behold your inner landscape of circuitry. Do you see the navigation upon which love carries its heartfelt message? These circuits are more real than you may ever imagine, and they are constantly working to carry away the realm of errors.

All that error "is" is a lack of love in consciousness. Yet, even this is impossible, as we believe you will readily see. For where could love not exist, except in your imagination? And where your consciousness resides, there you are as well. You are a thought, and a great and powerful thought at that. Your mighty decision to exist in imagination, where s.p.a.ces without love could be, is as a child who designs a superior world to the one of his own. And is the fantasy superior to that which is real? Again, only your decisions contain the answer to this important question. And how you answer yourself determines the direction you next must take.

For if there is a fear of turning away from the imagination and returning to the "real" world of love, light, and creation, then you will hide endlessly under the seeming shelter of your imaginings. Yet, if you were to imagine an even better hiding place than this, would you come out and check to see if it is so? The shining world existing eternally beside your imaginary world of fear and danger, awaits you patiently. Your invitation stands carved and glistening, engraved with the love that beckons you to come.

Everything you've ever wanted is here, loving child! It is a place within and without, simultaneous in all dimensions. And we will lead you to this reality, if you will but show us the slightest interest in establishing a new residence for yourself.

There is one thing you say to us, we know: You must protect yourself by abiding within a shelter. Yet, what in truth can endanger you who are the eternal one? Do you accept that there is only one possible "danger" anywhere for you, and that is through a hardening of the heart; a turning away from love's shining light? And even that so-called danger brings not blisters to the skin nor punctures new wounds. Merely, the forgetfulness that enables a sensation of pain in this world, coaxes you with images of protection that you do not need!

Do not clothe yourself in armor, nor arm yourself for battle, dearest holy one. Surrender to the truth, instead, and feel the ease of stepping away from stiff, metallic fittings that blind you to yourself.

Your power is eternal and shall not be eroded by mind or men. Call up this power that dwells within you, at once, holy one! Ask for purification steps that cleanse your mind to inspiration, which once again draws you forward to your perpetual home. The dawning of your mind upon forgiveness will be given you, one holy step at a time.

Now you will shed yourself of burdens that you do not need. Your steps will tread quite lightly as you bare your heart for all to see. There is no danger outside yourself, and you will drop your arms. This message of forgiveness is quite ancient, yet it is capable of being well learned this day.

Ask for help always, sweet child, and rest a.s.sured that we are near. If in a quandary as to how forgiveness unlocks a prison cell, lose not sleep or time in seeking understanding. Seek instead to take speedy advantage of our offer to a.s.sist you. Call upon us angels with your breath, your mind, your heart. Unify your desires into one sincere effort, and ask us to whisk off your cloak of anger and trembling fears of danger.

Your requests are readily answered, and your open heart stands ready for cleansing. There is no rush for this to happen, yet there is no time beyond this moment now. So clear the s.p.a.ce within your mind and call us now, dear one. Let us rejoice together as we laugh away your fears. Let us free your heart and mind. And as you follow the gentle laughter of your lightened heart, you find that moments of escape no longer hold your attention. For you are fully awakened and immersed within the love that we share with you, and with our Creator Who is G.o.d.

Friendship.

We see many of you feeling alone and friendless, feeling disconnected from the rest of us. You view yourself as lonely, as misunderstood by the majority of beings who roam upon this earth. And those of you who are disappointed by a friend take solace in the situation by viewing yourself as in a higher position of authority than the One who bestowed the friendship upon you.

There is a need to tell you this, dear friends: that we angels outnumber you in so many ways. The numbers of us are staggering, and we propel in and out of each realm. This heavenly display of affection we bring is yours for the asking, and yet you insist that you must be alone. This insistence creates your loneliness, dear one. You carve this view of yourself romantically, perhaps, yet the image is one who has no mirror image to stare back at. You, who are cut of the one mold, view yourself as separate and alone.

Yet, this viewpoint shards your experience into sharpened slivers that chill the very essence of your soul. For as you divide the world into elements that connect and conquer, you isolate yourself, tucked in a cavernous corner with no one to share.

There is a time and place for aloneness; of that you can be sure. But this is what is so essential for your mind to capture, while you walk upon the planet earth: that everyone you look upon is but another example of who you are. There is no difference between you and he, he and we. The fragments you see are but optical illusions, as you'd say, that create solitude pictures for you to hold or share.

It's the same for everyone, everywhere you look. Always, it's the same experience. And as for choices, you are left with the single greatest choice that one can make! As you seek union, the goal seems to eternally slip away. Further and further ahead in "time" does it seem to go, until you finally protest in frustration that you have had enough.

We angels are here, though, to share the glorious news of awakening in your midst. And at this awakening, you hold the sure and certain knowledge that the union is not in s.p.a.ce or in time. Not forward, up, down, or backward in any dimension. The union is here, with you, starting now.

Be glad that you are home here on this ready planet for the duration of your mission, for the times ahead are fun. Yet, you can wallow within misery for this short duration if you believe you are missing some element. And that thought brings you fear. Do not seek union in ways that bring you to fear, but see the shining rays within each other and witness the magnificence that appears everywhere you look.

Your friend is you, dear one, and you and you. All over this earth, your friends await you. Do not push them away in the midst of your planetary change, which now calls you to a.n.a.lyze your deeds. Spend this time, instead, in calling to your sibling who also longs for the love. Bring him home by your love. Heal him with your truth, and drop all swords that rob you of sweet richness. Call yourself friend first, and you shall be friendless no more.

Fun.

Frolic and play is the angel's way! That's why we tell you on the earth so often to have fun! You think this is your subconscious nagging away at you, telling you to relax, take time off, and rest. Yet who do you think is telling your subconscious to tell you this, dear ones? It is us, laughing all the while that we see yourselves taking it all much too seriously.

It may surprise you to hear us say that to you, since we incessantly implore and beseech you to take care of important matters. But do you see, earthly children of the most Holy One, that time is of the essence in all ways? There is no room to discard yourselves in ever-increasing circles that push you to succeed, succeed, succeed. For at the end of the day-in earth life-you will count your days of success as some of your greatest personal disappointments. It was when you had your eye on the ball, so to speak, that you missed out on life's greatest challenges and rewards.

We do not mean to frighten you at all, sweetest ones, yet hear our words in your hearts as we speak. There is no time to waste on burning out your engines excessively. Hear our chantings to laugh and to take time to pull back and get perspective upon your lives. All the while you are in the midst of something great upon your earth time. Do not miss the forest for the trees!

Savor your time on earth and listen to your self very closely. Shhh...do you hear that, ancient one? That sound you hear within your heart is very dear to you, for that is you, the inner you speaking through your closest feelings. The feelings you often ignore and push away, in ignorance to their source and the information that they carry. These feelings come on angel wings and light the path for you ahead. Do not take them lightly, and do not trod upon them with your decisions to move onward, upward, ever higher in your world of make-believe.

Take time to, ever slowly, breathe in and listen to your heart. By that we mean not the drumbeat, but the singing of your longings and your likes. What do you dream of for someday in your future, dear one? Think back and review all that has captured your attention and which you have set aside for some year in your future. Are these, not in fact, your ancient stirrings propelling you forward in a way that is so captivating that you barely allow its existence within your attention span? Could you not, instead, listen to these stirrings as you would to the excitement of a child?

You can trust this voice to not steer you wrong, humble child. Its ancient wisdom carries you along a path that you have long forgotten. Sing its ancient melody now, sweet one! Whisper its tune, which you carry within your heart. And you will feel a stirring rouse within your depths, the likes of which have never happened this side of heaven in your time.

Listen to your inner stirrings, and give voice to the longings of your soul, which cries out for solitude on a restful plane. Give it this nourishment that it needs, sweet child. Fear not that you shall endanger your belongings and responsibilities by calling for some rest and relaxation a little while. For do you not earn your rightful keep by your very holy heritage? Who among you is greater or lesser than another man? And who could contain the spirit of man within his earthly flesh?

Sit down and rest, then, earthly child. And listen to the melodies of your heart as they stir. Follow its ancient story, and test its waters a little while. Come home, sweet heavenly child. Come home by these heartstrings that draw you nearer and nearer.

The playful nature of your soul stirs restlessly within, and we tickle its growing awareness that causes it to explore this playground that we call "Earth." The soul stretches its arms with delight at its release into the sunlight of play and of fun!

Grief.

A heart wracked with pain as the missing of a loved one is endured: For this, we are specialized to minister and heal. The darkness that overtakes a grieving soul is lightened as we pull energetically upon the soul's awareness of eternal life.

Yet even grief has its place within the universe and is due its honor as part of your emotional scale. There is a mourning among all beings for the cycles of life, the ebb and the flow. A mourning for what might of been. A sadness and anxiety captured within the heart, and a longing for a return to home.

We even hear of those bereaved who seek to return to the holy home to be among their loved ones. This, we a.s.sure you, is not within G.o.d's design when the plan calls for a continued stay upon the earth. There is a moment when home will call you back, and yet your loved ones are destined to arrive at different moments than your own. For as you walk side-by-side along earth's way, your footsteps also travel and traverse the ground at private intervals. Do you see that your earthly beloveds may arrive at their destination at a moment in time that is different from your own? And do you choose to acknowledge that your journey takes you a little while longer upon the earth?

You will reunite with your beloved ones in many ways, dearest being. Of that we can a.s.sure you heartily. Your love is eternal and even growing as we speak. For love that is created between two holy ones has an independent life of its own. There is no wasted love in all of life, and that which you call "your love" is shared with all the universe in all its ways. For this you can be grateful, for your own creation of dualistic love is pluralized and captured, and brought back to form. The tender core of love at the center of humanly love is extracted and used as a natural resource for worldly good.

Do not think, then, that your love was for nothing as you hold your broken heart in tender embrace! There is a holy meaning behind the love the two of you shared, and G.o.d thanks you for your beaming contribution to His heavenly realm. And as your love creates even still, He shines His loving rays of compa.s.sion upon your life. Never believe that the pain you endure is a "test" of any kind, dearest child, but look upon it as a moment when you set your decision to continue loving in this incarnation and the next.

For it is not that the "price" of loving is pain. But this is a moment of deep consideration about the meaning of love, which, for some, moves you slightly sideways of the center of love. That stepping aside, away from love as if it is an explosive powder keg, is the core of hurt within you.

Revel, instead, at the moments of joy that surround your holy partnership with another. The living and the dead can rejoice together by a recentering within the love. Honor your emotions, yes, it is true. And give us your burdens to carry this day. Then when you have committed to this truth and this help, give pause to the great joy of your loving relationship, and know that it can never cease to be!

Guilt.

This topic is of great importance to us, as we see all who suffer at guilt's whims. The arrows that spring from the hardness of guilt's brittle covering over fear, wound many, many hearts without cause. For there is no cause of suffering, but only a Cause of love. Let us go back a moment, though, and as you listen to our words, allow us to pry open your hands, which grasp to guilt as tightly as one who wishes it for his very survival. Be a.s.sured that your survival depends upon its release.

The hardness of guilt stems from a survey, in your mind, of victimhood. You sense approaching danger and suspect, "It must be for me!" The heart of fear within guilt is this sense of approaching danger, and an acknowledgment that punishment must be near. The child who is swatted at a misdeed feels wounded with shame, and imagines that he must be very bad indeed. For this he is told by the being whom he most loves in the world. The shame is carried forward into the adult life, on top of which it is built, covered over, and then built upon once more. These layers of grime that you call "guilt" can crumble in the instant that you recognize their flimsy foundation, dearest ones.

For even mountains of earth will tremble before the mighty power of man's wishes. Your wish, this very day, to be rid of guilt, is met the instant you wish for its release. We angels are nearby, awaiting your hand-off of the thought-forms that tell of your "badness" and shame. We send forth rays of truth, which prescript the truth instead: that G.o.d's sons and daughters are guiltless, through and through. You have done nothing wrong!

For how could you impact that which G.o.d created eternal and whole? Our power does not exceed He Who is all-power-full. There is but one power in the universe, and none who stand in its stead have a separate power with which to compete with the One Who knows.

The insistence, in your mind alone, that you have a separate power is your root of guilt, sweet one. At the instant you perform separation fantasies, you right then must feel alone, vulnerable, and afraid. For a parentless child, lost in the wilderness, cries and imagines the sights and sounds of horrifying monsters. When all along, though, the "monsters" are but trees, rocks, and innocent hollows. There are no monsters coming to find you, dear one, and you have done nothing wrong for which you must expect punishment.

Know this, in your heart! Drop the string you pull in aching at your heart, and release the fantasy of guilt to He who knows your eternal innocence. The only "crime" for which you must be rehabilitated is that which you spoke to yourself of, in your heart. For you were insistent that you must be alone, and therefore, must be separated from your Holy Creator and His children. This view, alone, has brought you all your terrors, precious child. This view, alone, is responsible for all the seeming "evil" that you believe you have experienced in all of your lifetimes upon the Mother Earth.

And yet, not a moment sooner than you have been ready, can we release you from its hold upon your gaze. You focus upon guilt as a child who toys with flames of a fire. You linger a while, testing the limits of your queer dimension, and all the while knowing there is safety and a peacefulness in the very next room.

Come join us, our beloved, and release your cares and worries about this small world. We surround you with peace and good news that solutions lie within your heart. Let us amplify the voices of rejoicing, which shall lead you in safety to the meadows of heaven within. Your love shines out into the world, where it now awakens others to your call of peace. Let it shine, dear one. Let it shine!

Happiness.

We know many now seek that which you call "Happiness," yet we also see much confusion surrounding what can bring this condition about! Let us spend some pages, then, contemplating this important situation that you seek. For in these pages, we can resolve much confusion, which-in truth-is the only barrier that bars you from your holy goal.

Some will tell you, "My way is the only way." Do not follow one who leads you away from the Source of all the prizes. Walk with the angels who sing, not of folly, but of "Holy, holy, holy." Shelter yourself under our wings of love, while you contemplate further what we are about to tell you.