The Essential Doreen Virtue Collection Part 1

The Essential Doreen Virtue Collection.

Virtue, Doreen.

ANGEL.

THERAPY.

Preface from Doreen Virtue.

Late at night, as a little girl, a strong and loving force would sometimes awaken me suddenly. In my darkened room, I'd see sparkling lights and feel surrounded by an unearthly love that let me know my angels were near. Then, I'd fall back into a sound sleep, a.s.sured that I was safe and protected by great, gentle beings.

Over the years, as I pursued my doctoral degree, got married, and had children, I lost contact with the angels. While I still loved everything about them, I stopped talking to them. Occasionally, I'd hear a spiritual voice directing me to make changes in my life. Yet, because my life was so hectic and busy, I often ignored the wisdom of my angel's guidance.

That all changed on July 15, 1995, as I was dressing for an appointment I had at a church in Anaheim, California. An angel's voice outside and above my right ear said, "Doreen, you'd better put the top up on your car, or it will get stolen." I was in a big hurry, so I considered the voice as more of an irritant than a help.

I don't have an extra five minutes to put up my car top! I thought. My white convertible car is ordinary looking when its black cloth top is up, but with its top down, the car is a bit showy. Clearly, the angel wanted me to be un.o.btrusive so as not to attract the attention of a car thief. The voice continued its warnings about car thieves, but I stubbornly insisted that I had no time to spare.

On the way to my appointment, I felt a negative energy surround my car like a thick fog. Something told me, "Someone has just spotted my car with intentions of stealing it." I was certain that someone would steal my car, so I prayed for protection as I pulled into the church parking lot for my appointment. I parked close to the church, and as I got out of my car, a male voice behind me screamed at me to give him my car keys and purse. My angel's warning had been accurate!

I followed an inner directive that told me to scream with all my might. My shrieks caught the attention of a woman sitting in her car across the parking lot, and she leaned on her horn. All the noise caused the people inside the church to come outside, and the car thief and his accomplice ran away. I was unharmed, and I still had my purse and car. When I called the police to report the crime, I learned that the car thieves, armed with a gun and a knife, had been on a crime spree that day.

That was the day I learned my lesson about listening to my angels! Not only did I begin listening to angels, but I also actively solicited their guidance and help. The more time I spent conversing with angels, the more easily I could hear their loving wisdom.

In my therapy sessions, I began helping my clients hear their own angels. Today, I often act as an intermediary who delivers messages to my clients from their angels. The healing power of the angels exceeds any form of "man-made" therapy I have ever witnessed. The angels have wonderful gifts from G.o.d to impart to us. So, I am excited that many of us desire to connect with these divine messengers.

The angels have a different way of seeing ordinary situations. Their messages help us heal our beliefs and thoughts by offering us empowering, loving viewpoints. They teach us how to use our spiritual senses to see, hear, feel, and know the real world that transcends the illusory world's problems.

The angels' style of speaking and vocabulary often seems different from our own. This is partly, I think, because they see the world differently than we ordinarily do. They view everything with love and compa.s.sion, and their priorities can differ from our own. Since angels have full use of their spiritual senses, they can see, feel, know, and hear things beyond the physical world. These are some of the reasons why the angelic messages in Part I of this book may, at first glance, seem difficult to read. However, if you spend time reading and meditating upon the words, I think you will soon become accustomed to the angels' unique cadence and point of view. Allow yourself to be swept away by their beautiful perspective, and you'll find the healing power in the center of their messages.

The angels really do offer a great deal of practical wisdom, which we can immediately put into practice. They teach us ways to heal our relations.h.i.+ps, our careers, and our health. Seemingly, no problem is too small or embarra.s.sing for the angels. Their message to us is clear: "Give everything to us, and we will give it to the light of G.o.d, where Love purifies all seeming problems."

In this book, I hope to fully immerse you in the healing energy of angels on earth and in heaven. This book has two parts: In Part I, the angels channeled the entire text. After praying for their guidance, I would lose consciousness of my body while The Angelic Realm transcribed through my mind and hands directly onto the keyboard of my computer. Often, I would hear their words as they would enter my hands and become typewritten on the screen. Other times, the words completely bypa.s.sed my conscious awareness and directly became written sentences on the computer screen.

Rarely was I aware of what the angels were writing through me. In fact, at times, I firmly believed I was typing gibberish. I would set the writing aside, fully expecting that I would see meaningless letters instead of coherent words and sentences. Then, when I'd later read the channeled material, the angels' profound and sweet messages deeply moved me. I learned a great deal from these angelic messages!

I knew the angel channeling was not of my own making for several reasons. First, many ideas and viewpoints that came through were entirely original to me and did not reflect any reading, learning, or introspection I recall personally undertaking.

Second, the vocabulary and syntax choices were different from my own. Often, the angels chose words that were foreign to me. Or, they dictated words that did not make sense. At these times, I'd ask them, "Are you sure this is the word you want me to write?" They would then either give me the go-ahead or correct my understanding of their intended words. For instance, once I wrote the word ring, when they had actually channeled the word sing. I also checked the angels' unfamiliar words in my unabridged dictionary. Invariably, I'd find that their grammar and word usage was not only correct, but also reflected deliberate choices to convey specific meanings.

Sometimes, as I'd reread the angel channelings, I'd find that it wasn't any specific word or phrase that moved me; it was the overall tone of the pa.s.sage. The angelic energy has a soft, velvety feel to it. If you measured it on an oscilloscope, its vibration would undoubtedly top the charts in high-frequency ranges.

Jill Kramer, the editorial director of Hay House, and I have left the messages intact (largely unedited), so you will read the words exactly as the angels delivered them through me. The only editing to the original messages consists of adding punctuation, breaking up run-on sentences and paragraphs, and making spelling corrections. Occasionally, I decided to eliminate redundant or ambiguous sentences from the messages. I also reworded some phrases that were unclear because of archaic vocabulary. For example, I changed "Think not . . ." to "Do not think. . . ." Along the same lines, I deleted some words and phrases, which, to me, made sentences difficult to read; for instance, I changed "at this very time" to "at this time." I made these changes only after the angels communicated their approval, and when rewording led to greater clarity without losing the message's meaning. At other times, when I asked the angels to reword the sentences in a more modern way, they readily helped. The angels also asked me to leave in some sentences that confused me, a.s.suring me that in time, these messages would make sense.

When I first channeled The Angelic Realm, I couldn't withstand their high frequency for long periods. After about 15 minutes of channeling, my head would feel numb. Like rich chocolatey fudge, the angels' energy was too rich, too sweet to consume more than a little morsel at a time. Gradually-through the steps described in Part II of this book-my own frequency was cleared and raised so that I could channel for longer periods.

The angelic messages vibrate at such a high level that you may find it difficult to digest more than a few pages at a sitting. Partially, this difficulty comes from our lower-self egos, which do not want us to communicate with the angels. The ego knows that if we fully listen to G.o.d and the angels, fear will be eliminated. And the ego's whole life force is fear. So, your ego may try to dissuade you from angel communications. Some of the ego's "tricks" include having you get sleepy, hungry, thirsty, or distracted as you read the angels' messages or attempt to communicate with them.

The angels have presented comforting, healing messages about various human conditions such as fear, addictions, and finances. You may want to read specific pages related to a current situation in your life. It's also helpful to simply flip through the book and read the page that opens naturally for you. Notice how perfectly this page fits your current questions and desires.

In their messages, the angels don't always suggest specific things to "do" to feel better. The healing in their messages is on a deeper level, where it triggers changes in our outlook or decisions to rid ourselves of painful beliefs. The angels' words emanate from love, and so just reading the messages elevates our thoughts and feelings from fear frequencies to love frequencies. We vibrate at the angelic level as we allow our thoughts to ascend and soar to their heavenly energy rate.

In Part II of this book, we have offered specific guidance on ways to create closer relations.h.i.+ps and communication with the spiritual realm. Whether you desire to talk to angels, G.o.d, Jesus, some other spiritual being, or your dearly departed loved ones, you certainly have all the tools available for divine communication.

The angels have asked me to emphasize that their communication in this book is but one of many steps in a healing path of spiritual growth. Use their words to open a portal of light in any area of your life where darkness seems to reign. Then ask the angels to help you to widen this beam of light until it fills your entire consciousness and permeates your life.

Preface from The Angelic Realm.

You are indeed an earthly angel sent here by G.o.d to perform miraculous deeds of love and sharing. You are beloved and loving, and we heavenly angels are here to support and guide you. We will help you to purify your life and life vessel to bring you in harmony with the infinite symphony of earthly music that you can share.

This book is a vehicle of our sharings to you who desire to raise your internal vibrations so that more and more light can enter your sphere. We know that you suffer at times needlessly, because you believe you are alone and friendless. Let us a.s.sure you that you are not! We are always available for guidance and comfort and will s.h.i.+ne the light of love upon any problem with which you wrestle. Let us share your pain, and we will s.h.i.+ne it away.

Each of you is different, yet in so many ways you are exactly alike. In the pages of this book, we have guided Dr. Doreen Virtue's hands and mind to share with you some of our thoughts about earthly problems common to you all. We also want you to know that we are available for individual consultation as needed. So when you are alone and blue, reach up and above you. There is always an angel in the room with you, an angel who-if not able to bring the whole of heaven into your consciousness-can at least settle the score in your own mind and heart so that you may be at peace.

Pull down the shades on sorrow, and flip through the pages of this book whenever you feel lonely or depressed, or in need of inspiration. Each topic is in alphabetical order, so you can look at the Contents section to see which inspiring note would be a blessing to you that day.

Might we also suggest that you allow your mind to wander and simply open the book to a page. Trust that your guidance will allow you to find the page that will best impress upon your mind for this day. The radiation of your vibration will magnetically draw you to just the right words for settling your score.

As you read, have faith about what you hear within. For your own angels will sing in harmony with our words in this book. The beauty of your own internal choir is cause for you to rejoice, if you will stay with it in stillness with yourself as you read our words within this book.

Our greatest joy is lighting the candle flame of G.o.d's love within your heart, causing you to thirst and hunger for even greater joy. This drive for love, we know, will draw you away from earthly concerns and will put you on the well-worn path of golden light leading straight to heaven. This path within you awaits your desire right now, and we are here, always patient and glad to a.s.sist you whenever you feel unsure of your foothold. Just one thought, one cry for our help, and we are there with you.

We are here with you always, beloved. We ask that you enfold us in your heart wings, and cry upon our shoulders until the tears flow no more. You are home with us here, and you have never left our side. You are truly a thing of beauty to behold, and we wash away your tears of sorrow with reminders that there is nothing to do but rejoice, because G.o.d made you always and forever our brother and sister in cause.

Acknowledgments.

G.o.d, the angels, and some very angelic people all worked together to create this book. Eternal grat.i.tude to you, Beloved Creator and heavenly angels. Thank you, Michael, Raphael, Gabriel, and Uriel! Thank you, Frederique and Pearl! And heartfelt appreciation to Emmet Fox and The Wise Council.

I wish to thank Louise L. Hay for her kindness, wisdom, and love; Reid Tracy, for his warmth, guidance, and support; Jill Kramer, for her incredible intuitive work with words, love, and angels; Christy Salinas, for her artistic and creative talents, as well as her loving nature; Kristina Tracy, for her awesome dedication to spreading the word of G.o.d's Love; Margarete Nielsen, for her wonderful and enthusiastic help with my workshops; Barbara Bouse, for her limitless energy and enthusiasm in support of all the Hay House authors and the wonderful Empowering Women conferences; Jeannie Liberati, for her courageous travels inward and outward for tremendously healing purposes; and Ron Tillinghast, for being instrumental in the support of my books and speeches.

I am also grateful to Lisa Kelm, Adrian Eddie Sandoval, Gwen Was.h.i.+ngton, Drew Bennett, Joe Coburn, Janice Griffin, Polly Tracy, Lynn Collins, Dee Bakker, and everyone else at Hay House.

In addition, I want to thank the seminar coordinators of churches, conferences, and expos that have invited me to speak about communicating with G.o.d and the angels. Thank you to Debra Evans, Ken Kaufman, and Gregory Roberts of The Whole Life Expo; Michael Baietti and Mecky Myers of The Health & Life Enrichment Expo; Dr. Carolyn Miller, Dr. Richard Neves, Robert Strouse, Dr. Susan Stevenson, and Dr. Leticia Oliver of the American Inst.i.tute of Hypnotherapy; Robin Rose and Karen Schieb of The Universal Lightworker's Conference; Shanti Toll and Stella of the Metaphysical Celebration; Ken Harsh of the Universal Light Expo, and many others for giving me the opportunity to commune with the angels of so many people!

A bouquet of grat.i.tude to the editors of metaphysical magazines for their support, love, and light, including David Allikas of Psychic Advisor; Donny Walker of In the Light; David Young of The New Times in Seattle; Gary Beckman and Insiah Vawda Beckman of The Edge in Minnesota; Cindy Saul and Gerri Magee of PhenomeNews in Michigan; Joe and Shantih Moriarty of Awakenings in Laguna Hills, California; Sydney Murray of Vision in San Diego; Andrea DeMichalis of Horizons in Florida, and the many others who have been instrumental in spreading love and light through the printed word.

PART I.

The Healing Messages.

Addiction.

What is substance, really? Deep in the back of your mind, you remember being in the heart of G.o.d. You recall that feeling of total fulfillment, like being in an embryonic sac in your mother's womb. Feeling your wholeness breathing with her breath. That feeling of synchronizing with another is the essence of love that you miss with your heart and your soul.

Substance is a ma.s.s of inert energy crystallized into form. In a sense, substance is wooden or lifeless, but in another sense, substance is comprised of remnants of G.o.d's love, since the thought-form is but a divine spark of inspiration leading to creation. You who turn to substance to alleviate your loneliness for G.o.d are making the choice for a subst.i.tute of lesser quality, but nonetheless the same in origin of your original memory of closeness and warmth.

Think of it this way: You are joining with the substance in an internal cuddle with the desire of ending the nightmare of the external movie. You want an internal change that will bring you closer to the heaven you are craving for yourself and your family. Yet, you are choosing an external source to create an internal state. The two can never be reconciled, so you have set yourself up in an impossible situation. You are, in essence, caught in a limbo of eternal frustration because you cannot force the round peg to fit into the square hole, although you try and try again.

Addiction to substance is best burned away in the same eternal flame of desire that originally ignited it. Use the energy of your longing for love to quench your endless cycle of chasing love. Here is how: Ask to build an internal station of love and light. As you enter your dreams, ask that this flame burn brightly while your subconscious mind takes over for the night. Ask this flame to burn away the dross of your attention; in other words, that which is unneeded in the world.

Your dream time is the best time to ask us to take over, and we will do our best to rearrange your thoughts so that the pyramid of your attention is rebuilt in sequential order. As it is for most of you presently, G.o.d is only a small tip of your attention-something you have put as a future priority. We ask and we will help you to rebuild this pyramid so that G.o.d comprises the most basic and the biggest rung of your ladder, the basis of your structure and your pyramid. We will help you if you will but make this your intention.

Give us all of your thoughts concerning your addiction. Whether this addiction involves another person or not is of no importance. What we want you to do is give all of your attention to us while we rebuild your thought structure around G.o.d and loosen your thoughts around your G.o.d-subst.i.tute of addiction. We will do this for you if you will let us. But you must hold nothing back, because the entire structure of your thoughts must be rebuilt and reborn in its entirety. If you hold back some thought, say, out of shame, we cannot rebuild the core of your structure.

Give it over entirely to us angels, who even now surround you, and we will construct an empire within you worthy of G.o.d and His angels. You will be glad to awaken to dawn with the sunlight bathing your beautiful new structure, built so solidly that there is a glad welcoming of the empty s.p.a.ces between the pillars. You will no longer desire to fill these empty s.p.a.ces with substance, because they will instead be filled with light, golden-yellow like the morning sun upon the most promising of days.

Anger.

When you are hot with lava-red anger within, it would only turn into a smoldering rage were we to tell you to extinguish your true feelings that someone has done you wrong. You feel injured, little one, and who are we to tell you that you are wrong? In truth, you who are a holy child of G.o.d are never wrong. However, you may be momentarily mistaken in the perspective you have taken about the truth.

Let us explain: You may have believed that another could take love away from you, or withhold their approval or love of you. This, as you know deep within, is impossible. There is no love to take away from one who shares all holiness with all the world. You are having an argument only within yourself when you feel touched by anger. The lava flows within you over the rocks upon your consciousness, and the hurt and pain seethes with deep sorrow that another could cause you such pain.

"How could they not know how much they are hurting me?" you cry out silently within the chasms of your chest, crying, wanting, desiring for a resolution to your pain. You want the other to know the very depth of your pain. Perhaps you want the other to even feel your pain for but a moment to truly understand the depth of your sorrow.

Yet, again, we emphasize that this battle is with yourself and within your own mind. Do you truly want to live on a battlefield, you holy child of G.o.d? Of course you don't, as no angel sent here to earth was ever meant for conflict. You are meant to fly above rage and to see it as if it were a raging river, a flow of constant energy below you, not within you.

You can create a s.p.a.ce within you presently where peace can reign. Even if you aren't ready to let go of your rage, you can easily agree to create a pocket of s.p.a.ce alongside the anger. See this pocket, like an air pocket under water, dance to its own tune of peace. See it filled with a delightful color like an air bubble swimming in circles in its own playful way. As you delight in this playfulness within you, you may want to visualize yourself swimming inside this bubble in your internal playground.

Feel yourself having fun with the freedom of soaring through your inner s.p.a.ce. Take yourself on a wonderful adventure where concerns of safety take a backseat to a sure knowingness that you are eternally safe. Feel how right this freedom seems to you, how natural to be swimming in oceans of safety. When you immerse yourself in this consciousness of freedom, you are also free to choose other thoughts that buoyantly float with play and delight.

Your freedom comes from seeing that you swim through life-not surrounded by sharks-but surrounded by angelfish. You are swimming in circles of like kind, and you are surrounded by others who are exactly as yourself. Have compa.s.sion upon those in your circle, knowing that they tread innocently like yourself.

If one or more of those around you occasionally swims in your way, will you forgive them and continue your freedom swim? Or will you become dazed and hypnotized by their seeming lack of order, and allow yourself to become transfixed by the gaze on the past? You want flow and harmony, and this absolutely requires a station of attention on the here and the now.

We are here to help you to bring your dance of life and all your relations.h.i.+ps back into divine order and harmony. Look around you with your internal eyes right now, and you will realize that we angels swim with you in perfect harmony like a beautiful school of fish. We are divinely connected by mind thoughts that orchestrate our synchronized movements without effort or concern.

Flow with us ceaselessly, and we will catch your occasional lapses of memory as to your true ident.i.ty. We will encircle you and guide you in a continuous ballet of glory to G.o.d and all mankind.

Anxiety.

When your mind is focused upon thoughts of the future, it is natural for you to become afraid. You are wanting to peek over the fence of tomorrow, and glimpse into the time just ahead with rea.s.surance that everything will be okay. Let us do this for you, now, oh perfect child of G.o.d.

You have no thing about which to worry, and you have our gentle a.s.surance that everything from now until tomorrow is in perfect array. Give us your thoughts about disorder, and we will reorganize them for you until they are captured in a perfect display of faith. You really have no thing to worry about, holy child, as you are master of your day. There is no problem you cannot surmount today or tomorrow, and we are always around you to catch you any time you should fall.

When you were a child and you sc.r.a.ped your knee on a fall on the sidewalk, who do you think it was that pushed your face up toward the sun so that your tears would dry in the kiss of G.o.d's love? It was us, dear child, and we shall never leave or forsake you in all your adult lifetime. We can instantly immerse within your thoughts to help you find your way home to heaven.

Should you begin to worry about letting another person down, we ask you to leave those thoughts to us. Could an angel ever let a loved one down? Remember that you are an angel, you holy child of G.o.d. You are an angel sent to earth by Him who loves you in His deepest essence. It is impossible that when your thoughts are right and your intentions heart-centered, that you could let a loved one down.

We will support you in all ways, and even when delays are sometimes inevitable and you wonder if G.o.d hears your prayers, never fear. We are near. We hold your hand invisibly and guide you to the exact places and people that will cause joy to stir in your heart. Your desire to provide for your family is so sweet and love-based that G.o.d hears your prayers no sooner than you have thought of them in your heart.

G.o.d, in His own way, weeps for His child's worries. He asks only that you let Him draw nearer and nearer to your heart so that you will recall that you are not alone on this earth. He asks that you allow Him to flow His unearthly love through your heart and bodily vessel, so that you may carry this precious cargo into the marketplace and exchange it for your needs to be met.

The way to heaven is within. You may wonder whether "within" is locked and how you may enter its shelter and safety from the turmoil of life. You need look no farther than your thoughts, my dear. All you need to do to calm the flames of anxiety is to put your intentions upon calmness. Extinguish the belief that anxiety is a sign that you care about a solution. G.o.d knows that you care, and He asks that you clear the way for His intervention into your life.

So right now, take three deep breaths and center and clear your mind for us angels to take over. Let us do the driving for a while as you rest your weary mind and body. You work so hard for so long, and you do deserve a rest while we clear your heart of clouds of worry.

If this seems simple-"Just ask"- it is because it is that simple! Simplicity is the heart of G.o.d, and the answer to your worry. Do not allow your mind to wring itself out of shape by wondering, "What if this happens?" or "What if that happens?" All those "what ifs" are exhausting, and for no good reason!

We, the angels, sing a song of harmony in perfect grace. The reason for the beauty of this song is its simple melody. Let your mind be in harmony with this melody by concentrating on just one thing: love. Let this be your mantra while you breathe in and out deeply, and feel your mind clear like the suns.h.i.+ne beams away fog.

You are meant to enjoy sunny days free of worry, dear child. Let us wipe away your fears with our gentle hugs. Turn your frets over to us, and we in turn will deliver them to the Creator where you will never see them return to you again. This angelic amnesia is our gift to you, and your freedom from worry is your gift to us.

Arguments.