Angels 101

#3: Expand Your Awareness of the Paranormal

The strong intuition of a psychic, the ability to hear extremely high-pitched sounds, and the ability to sense pain or heal through touch are examples of gifts that some people might call paranormal abilities. While some individuals are born with those talents, others develop them through the study of yoga, meditation, and other disciplines in order to increase their receptiveness and sensitivity to paranormal phenomena. Paranormal phenomena and events cannot be explained by science, and therefore remain mysterious, often relegated to realms of a spiritual or religious nature.

Similarly, the meaning of vibration from the Merriam-Webster Dictionary is “a characteristic emanation, aura, or spirit that infuses or vitalizes someone or something and that can be instinctively sensed or experienced.” Meditation is one way to shift your vibration and expand your awareness of the paranormal. Meditation requires quieting of the mind and breath, for the two are intimately linked—when the breath slows, the mind becomes calm; conversely, when the breath is irregular or rapid, the thoughts in your mind jump around without focus or direction. In stillness, you find the gateway through which your consciousness, like a transmitter, can send messages and prayers or, like a receiver, accept divine inspiration, guidance, and love.

But you don’t have to meditate to tune out the world. Think of your senses as devices clamoring for your attention. One by one you can turn them off (or down) and enter silence. In silence you can sense, feel, and experience the angels. Other ways to connect to the realms of the angels are through affirmations, chants, guided meditation, and prayers that you say using beads of a rosary or japa mala.

Choose to surround yourself with people who are positive, encouraging, and lift your mood and energy, rather than people who are negative, critical, fearful, angry, or prejudicial and who dampen your mood and drain your energy. Release your own fears, as fear lowers your energy vibration and blocks the flow of divine guidance. Fear reduces your ability to tune in to the higher vibrations of the paranormal world. Fear binds you to a lower vibration, fills you with dread and anxiety, and can immobilize your efforts to break free. Letting go of fear becomes easier if you affirm that God and the angels are watching over you during your every waking and sleeping moment. Saint Patrick of Ireland used to pray that the Lord was before him, beside him, behind him, beneath him, over him, in him and outside of him—therefore, what is there to fear?