GARDIAN ANGELS

Definition of an Angel as per the Encyclopedia:
Benevolent spiritual beings who mediate between heaven and earth. They often serve as messengers of God or as guardians of an individual or nation.

What Are Guardian Angels?

Guardian Angels are spiritual beings that are "assigned" to assist you here on Earth in various ways. Whether there is one angel per person, one angel for several person or several angels for one person is open to question. But whether you believe in them or not, or whether you want one or not, believers of angels insist that you do have a guardian angel.

What is their assignment? "Angels intercept at many junctures in our lives and help wherever they can to make our lives run smoothly. Sometimes this is by inspiring a thought to spur us into action, at others it is to lend us super-human strength, such as in the case of a woman being able to lift a car long enough to free her trapped child. Or we hear of a runaway truck, with an unconscious driver at the wheel, inexplicably swerving sharply at the last moment to avoid a bus stop queue of people. In fact, there are many instances, which are often put down to luck, coincidence or even a miracle, but which have the touch of a hand of light behind it."

How Do We Know Angels Are There?


Even those who believe in the existence of angels concede that they rarely make a physical appearance. However, there are other ways guardian angels can make their presence known, they say.
Some people say that they hear angelic sounds totally beyond human description, others have a feeling of sudden warmth or comfort, or, in times of sadness or grief, a gentle cloak of feathered wings wrapping softly around them. Sometimes angel energy may feel entirely different - like a sudden rush of air created by the passing by of an 'angel on a mission' at the speed of light. This is often noticed at times of impending disaster. At other times, simply an inexplicable presence is felt.

Do We Know Who Our Guardian Angels Are?

Some people do know who their Guardian Angels are, but not all of us. I think also that our Guardian Angels change over time. As their job or role is completed I feel they move on. I also believe that Guardian Angels are different and have different roles then our Sprit Guides.

I know that when I was young and through out high school my Guardian Angel was my great grandmother, Maw’ maw Helen. There were just things that happened that I was protected from that have no other explanation. When in high school my father and step mother were fighting, and she (the step mother), refused to make sure I was up for school. Every morning my Maw’ maw Helen would start at my bedroom door calling my name, Sarah honey, Sarah honey, until I would sit up. As soon as I did, she would dissipate into thin air. This went on for years.

Anther times my step brother and I got into a fight, he was 10 years older then I, my great grandmother’s picture hung on the way by his bedroom door. After that fight her picture flung off the wall and went sideways to hit him, and every time they would hang her picture on that nail by his bedroom door, it would fall. My dad had to find another place to hang it. Even though it has been 19 years since my step brother passed away, that picture will not hang on that wall. I haven’t see or felt my great grandmother since I was in high school.

There are so many other examples in my life that I can refer too, there is not time nor space now. I am grateful for the Guardian Angels in my life, where would I be with out them?

~ MERRY MEET ~

MEDITATION

Meditation: deep thought, to reflect deeply, to spend time in the spiritual exercise of thinking about some religious theme, to contemplate, to plan.

Amidst the hustle and bustle in this high-tech, fast-paced world we live in, there is an ever-increasing need for meditation; a quiet time to calm the nerves, while gaining a sense of peace, focus and direction. Finding time in a quiet place to meditate can often be a bit of a challenge. For many people in this day and age, the demands of one’s daily work load keep increasing to the point of overload. Due to rapid technology, it seems virtually impossible for one to stay attentive to the present, as moment by moment drastic changes may occur. Added to this stress are the demands of children, family, personal relationships, friends, organizations, community service, etc. The list goes on and on. Finding time and space to meditate may seem difficult, but it is not impossible.

Remember the saying, "where there’s a will, there’s a way." It is important not to let the demands of the world we live in override the demands of the Soul. If the Soul’s demands are overridden, one’s sense of identity begins to diminish. The Soul struggles in torment and it becomes increasingly difficult to accomplish anything. Some of the signs of this override are burn-out, brain fade, depression and exhaustion.

The word meditation conjures up a number of images. First, there’s the Yogi, sitting in a lotus position, deep in trance. Then there are those individuals that perform such feats as walking on coals of fire, or laying on a bed of nails while experiencing no pain or physical harm in the process.

One does not need a Master to meditate. The average person does not spend hours on end in forms of meditation to accomplish such acts. There are many approaches and levels of meditation. The state of one’s mind as you approach meditation is of the utmost importance. If one is harboring feelings of malice, anger, hate, fear, resentment, revenge, lust or anything else negative, these feelings, if not released constructively, manifests into thought form. If you day dream, or fantasize about hitting someone in the face, the next time you are confronted by this individual you might just pop them without any provocation on their part. The mind has begun to plan; thus we have premeditated action.

Cultivate the practice mentally of surrounding people that aggravate you with white light (or the Christ Light). This light can appear in a variety of ways, such light encompassing someone in a form of an egg, a cylinder of light, a beam of light, or a room full of light. Next mentally send this person the love of God, or the Universe and ask God, or the Universe for a peaceful resolution.

There is an instant comfort when walking into a holy temple to meditate. This is because it is a place where people gather regularly to pray and meditate, invoking the presence of God. You can also create your own temple for meditation in a place that contains your personal vibration, your own little haven where you can block out the world and just be yourself. Each of us carries our temple everywhere we go, for the body is the temple of God, housing within it the soul.

To awaken the spirit of God that is inherent in each soul from the moment of creation one must go deep within the recesses of the mind, the heart, the inner sanctuary and ignite the Divine Spark. This is the spark that shines through the eyes of an infant or a young child. Reach inward to regain a sense of innocence and purity. The love of God and the love of a child are both unconditional.

If you feel as though you have no time or space in which to meditate, invent the time and space. First thing in the morning when your feet hit the floor, say in your mind, "I walk in the light of Jesus Christ. He is my salvation. He protects me all throughout the day and night." Reflect on the day ahead and ask for God's guidance. Say prayers while driving yourself to and from work. Find a quite corner at lunch where you can read and meditate. Reflect on the day as you get ready to retire at night and use a few moments before you drift off to sleep for meditation. You will be amazed at how much time you can get in for yourself each day.

It is important to have a focus when entering into a meditative state. Do not completely blank your mind, or allow just anything to enter. Focusing your thoughts upon a single image or idea prevents unwanted thoughts which touch upon anything and everything access to your mind. You are opening yourself up to distracting forces if you don't protect yourself, or have a positive focus. While meditating, direct your mind into positive channels. Ask that Jesus/the Universe surround you with His white light of protection. Try to sense a loving, soothing and healing light surrounding you. In your mind's eye, also try to see a glimmering white light surrounding you, extending thru you, all the way down your legs, out of the bottoms of your feet, anchoring you like roots on a tree. You may not be able to visualize this at first, but in time you may begin to see it. Make sure that your focus is positive. Ask for positive solutions to daily situations.

Focus on things that will bring positive changes into your life without bringing negative effects to anyone else. Things may come to you in ways you would never expect them to. One person's fortune may be someone else's misfortune, and it might be the last thing in the world you would want. Remember the saying, "Be careful what you wish for, you just may get it!" What we pray for or wish for may be much more than what we bargain for. Remember, if your intentions are pure of heart and of the light, you will be protected. Faith is your armor.

When you have completed your meditation, always remember to ground your energy. It is not productive to be a continuous, open circuit, receptive to anything and everything around you. To ground yourself, cover yourself with the sign of the cross, and imagine a protective shield covering your mind's eye. If you have found inspiration in your meditations, recall them, use them, and test them to see if they are useful to you. Give thanks for the opportunities to grow through these experiences, and look forward to your next meditation with hopeful expectation.

~MERRY MEET ~

KARMA

Cause and effect, whatsoever a man sows, that he shall also reap. For each action there is an equal and opposite reaction. There are a lot ways to describe karma, but it is essentially the belief that your present circumstances are the product of previous actions, and what you do today will affect what happens tomorrow. Karma is also associated with past lives -- each time you're reborn, the energies from your previous lives influence the conditions of your current life.

The Natural Law

The theory of karma harps on the Newtonian principle that every action produces an equal and opposite reaction. Every time we think or do something, we create a cause, which in time will bear its corresponding effects. And this cyclical cause and effect generates the concepts of (or the world) and birth and reincarnation. It is the personality of a human being or the jivatman - with its positive and negative actions - that causes karma.
Karma could be both the activities of the body or the mind, irrespective of the consideration whether the performance brings fruition immediately or at a later stage. However, the involuntary or the reflex actions of the body cannot be called karma.

Your Karma Is Your Own Doing

Every person is responsible for his or her acts and thoughts, so each person's karma is entirely his or her own. Occidentals see the operation of karma as fatalistic. But that is far from true since it is in the hands of an individual to shape his own future by schooling his present.
Hindu philosophy, which believes in life after death, holds the doctrine that if the karma of an individual is good enough, the next birth will be rewarding, and if not, the person may actually devolve and degenerate into a lower life form. In order to achieve good karma it is important to live life according to dharma or what is right.

Karma is sometimes referred to as a "moral law of cause and effect." Karma is both an encouragement to do good and to avoid evil, as well as an explanation for whatever good or evil befalls a person.

The Good or Bad Effect Is Neither Reward Nor Punishment
The so-called good effect or bad effect is not a judgment nor is it given as a reward or punishment by a superabundane authority such as God. The good or bad effect produced by good or bad Karma is purely and simply a natural phenomenon governed by natural laws that act automatically, with complete justice. If God has anything to do with it, then God must also act according to this natural law. This cause produces this effect. That cause produces that effect. God would not change this natural path because of his like or dislike of a particular person.


~ MERRY MEET ~

Wonderful Quotes by Barbara de Angelis

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change. Barbara De Angelis

No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.
Barbara de Angelis

Men are just as sensitive, and in some ways more sensitive, than women are.
Barbara de Angelis

A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does.
Barbara de Angelis

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make - not just on your wedding day, but over and over again - and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.
Barbara de Angelis

I just want to get a Ph.D. in love.
Barbara de Angelis

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.
Barbara de Angelis

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.
Barbara de Angelis

No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.
Barbara de Angelis

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.
Barbara de Angelis

In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body Barbara de Angelis

Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.
Barbara de Angelis




Love is a choice you make from moment to moment.
Barbara de Angelis

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.
Barbara de Angelis



Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.
Barbara de Angelis

Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.
Barbara de Angelis

The moment in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place.
Barbara de Angelis

We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.
Barbara de Angelis

When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship.
Barbara de Angelis

Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.
Barbara de Angelis

You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.
Barbara de Angelis

Thoughts From The Seat of The Soul

Thoughts from the Seat of the Soul is a beautiful collection of carefully chosen excerpts from Gary Zukav's celebrated bestseller The Seat of the Soul. Read the excerpts as you are drawn, you can be inspired every day or once an hour, or you can meditate on your favorite thought all month. Use them as an oracle, or to stimulate deeper insight, joy and appreciation of your life and the lives of others. This is powerful for those who are growing in consciousness and for those who want to. It is perfect for someone you love or for yourself.

Thoughts From the Seat of the Soul
Meditations for Souls in Process

by Gary Zukav

Are you comfortable with the thought that the Universe is alien and dead and no more then your five senses can detect? How does your heart respond to the thought that the Universe alive and compassionate and that with it and with other souls of great power and Light you learn through the process of co-creating the reality that you experience?

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We were taught that the organism that that is best able to control both its environment and all of the other organisms in its environment is the most evolved. "Survival of the fittest." But our deeper understanding tells us that a truly evolved being is one that values others more then it values itself, and that values love more then it values physical world and what is in it.

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While you are here you participate in the creation of both personal reality and impersonal reality. Just as you can participate in the creation of a building that will remain long after you are gone, you participate in the evolution of group energy dynamics that will remain after you are gone.

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From the perception of the five sensory human, we are alone in the universe that is physical. From the perception of the of multi sensory human, we are never alone, and the Universe is alive, conscious, intelligent and compassionate.

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Every physical form, as well as every nonphysical form, is Light that has been shaped by consciousness. No form exists apart from consciousness.

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You create your reality with your intentions.

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When we align our thoughts, emotions, and actions with the highest part of ourselves, we are filled with enthusiasm, purpose, and meaning. Life is rich and full. We have no thoughts of bitterness. We have no memory of fear. We are joyously and intimately engaged with our world. This is the experience of authentic power.

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You are a dynamic being of Light that at each moment informs the energy that flows through you. You do this with each each thought, with each intention.

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A thought is energy, or Light, that has been shaped by consciousness.

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From the perception of the five sensory human, the physical would is an unaccountably given in which we unaccountable find ourselves, and we strive to dominate it so that we can survive. From the perception of the multi sensory human, the physical would is a learning environment that is created jointly, by the souls that share it, and everything that occurs within it serves their learning.

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Reverence is an attitude of honoring life. You do not have to be authentically empowered to be gentle with Life or love life.

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At each moment you choose the intentions that will shape your experiences and those things upon which you will focus your attention. If you choose unconsciously, you evolve unconsciously. If you choose consciously, you evolve consciously.

Here are 12 excerpts from this awesome little book. I'll add more in the next few days. To be continued .........

~ MERRY MEET ~

CHAKRAS

The word chakra means wheel or disk in Sanskrit. A chakra is an invisible, (to the normal human eye), center of spinning energy.

Through the chakras, we are able to receive and transmit social, sexual and spiritual energy.

In some since, everything you do or don’t do influences you energy and your chakras. It is important to balance the flow of energy of your chakras.

You may feel the energy of the chakras by using the hands. The size of a healthy, open chakra is about the size of your open hand. Place your open hand above ach chakra, (one at a time of course), being sensitive to variations of temperature, vibration and other subtle differences. Placing your open hand just above your chakra and rotating your open hand in a clock wise motion concentrating on your chakra opening, meditating, until you feel it open and clear. Repeat this for each chakra, starting with the Crown Chakra, and stopping with the Root or Base Chakra. As you are opening each one, concentrate on all the negative energy gushing out of your body, all the stress leaving, and only health energy flowing in.

I like to use a white, rich white, light flowing in through the Crown Chakra. I feel the white light flowing through by body filling up my head, flowing through my arms, down through my legs, and stretching far under me like roots of a tree grounding me.

There are too many uses for chakras for me to go into them all here, but this is a good start for opening, balancing and cleansing your chakras. I am including a list of Chakra and Color Frequencies to help you get started.

Chakra and Color Frequencies

RED
1st Chakra: Base or Root Chakra: Kundalini: Root Chakra:
Located at the base of the spine.
Earth, survival, grounding, stillness
contains the primary 8 cells that have all of the knowledge of
creation and remain the only cells in your body that do not
change in your lifetime. It grounds us in the physical world.

ORANGE
2nd Chakra: Spleen: Located just beneath the navel, and
related to our sexual and reproductive capacity.
Blockage manifests as emotional problems or sexual guilt.

YELLOW
3rd Chakra: Solar Plexis: Seat of Emotions. Gives us a sense of personal
power in the world. Blockage manifests as anger or a sense of victimization.

GREEN
4th Chakra: Heart Chakra: Blockage can manifest as immune
system or heart problems, or a lack of compassion.

Heart Center - Seat of the Soul in the hourglass of time - Zero Point

BLUE
5th Chakra: Throat: Tied to creativity and communication.
Feels pressure when you are not communicating your emotions properly.

INDIGO
6th Chakra: Third Eye Pineal Gland:
Often connected to the forehead.
Is a physical eye at the base of the brain
with the capabilities of looking upward.
Clairvoyance, psychic abilities, imagination, dreaming

PURPLE
7th Chakra Crown: Connects you with message from higher realms.
Can be experienced as a pressure on the top of the head.
Spiritual connection, understanding, knowing, bliss, God.

~ MERRY MEET ~

Reconnecting With “The Secret”

Most of us have heard of “The Secret” by Rhonda Byrne, I truly believe in this way of living life. But somewhere along the way I have lost focus and need to refocus, you know get back on track and stay there. That is how this post came to be.

I know that much in life is simply a matter of perspective, not that it is inherently good or bad, success or failure, and its how we choose to look at things that make the difference.

Your life has purpose and meaning, you are not here to just fill space or to be a back ground character in someone else’s’ movie (life). Consider this: nothing would be the same if you did not exist. Every place you have been and everyone you have ever spoken to would be different without you. We are all connected, and we are all affected by the decisions and even the existence of those around us, and by those around them and so forth.

Cultivate friendships, rekindle past relationships, and take advantage of opportunities at work or among your neighbors to expand your friendship base. Surround yourself with people like yourself, who want to live “like” you. People need to feel that they are a part of something bigger, that they care about others, and others care about them.

Be open to new ideas, never stop learning and adapting. The world will always be changing, a very dear friend once said to me, “life is a fluid situation, it never stops moving,” I have never ever forgotten that and never will.

I’ve been reading “Sacred Signs Hear, See Believe Messages from the Universe,” by Adrian Calabrese. This book is a wonderful addition to “The Secret.”

As a child, and growing into adult hood, I have always used the law of attraction. I just didn’t know it, or what I was doing. As a child I thought I had some sort of “power” all my own, pretty funny looking back on it. It wasn’t until “the Secret” came out did I even understand it, I just knew it was.

So why for so much of my life have I used it to bring on things that are bad or wrong for me? I’m not quit sure, but I do know I am ready for a change, and ready NOW.

I have both the book and DVD of “The Secret," so why haven’t I been using this? I know I have put a lot of energy into my life for where I am now. So I have started rereading my books, making notes of the “secret summaries” so that I can read them as often as I need to. I’m even going to start on a visual board, and a visual journal to keep me focused.

It’s all about tapping into the might of the universe on any everyday level, ask for what you need and want. Using this to create a better life, and better way to live.

The power of the universe is vast, when we live in harmony with our source, our lives improve, and we find joy and fulfillment in each moment. God/Goddess/Spirit/Universe, no matter what your personal preference is, is a loving energy that wants you to have all you want in this life and is willing to help you achieve it.

Always give thanks to your higher power, by what ever you chose to call him/her for everything you have received and will receive.

~ MERRY MEET ~