| A woman we'll call "Lynn" was at her wit's end. | | | | Our angels remain with us anyway, sending us |
| Her business was failing, she owed the IRS a huge | | | | their love and guidance, hoping to reconnect in a |
| sum of money that she did not have, and her | | | | more direct manner. In times of crisis, we call out |
| long-term partner had just ended their relationship. | | | | for help, and they provide it to the extent we will |
| In the small hours one morning she hit bottom, in | | | | allow ourselves to receive it. The voice Lynn |
| a crisis of despair. "There has to be something | | | | heard, for example, was an angel who calls |
| more," she said out loud, even though no one was | | | | himself Yaqui. |
| in the room with her. | | | | Angels/guides have different functions on our |
| “Are you asking?” a voice said clearly, | | | | behalf. Yaqui is Lynn's spiritual growth guide, the |
| outside of her head. She was too stunned to | | | | one who is most focused on her spiritual |
| respond. | | | | well-being. Another role for a guide is that of |
| "Are you asking?" the voice repeated in an even | | | | protector. In our world full of cars, buses, trains, |
| more urgent tone. | | | | planes, boats and other forms of mechanized |
| "I guess I am," she answered finally, and from | | | | travel, protectors put in plenty of overtime paying |
| that moment on Lynn knew she was not alone in | | | | attention when we are distracted. |
| this world. She had just met one of her angels, | | | | Many guides take on the function of jokester. |
| also known as guides. | | | | Humor is the easiest and best way to tune into |
| Even though at times we may feel isolated and | | | | our own hearts' wisdom, so helping us find and |
| bereft, none of us comes into this world entirely | | | | appreciate the hilarity and absurdity in life also |
| on our own. We always have help and friendship | | | | helps us keep our spiritual connection alive and |
| right by our sides in the form of loving, invisible | | | | healthy. Guides are also healers, teachers, legal |
| mentors who want nothing more than to play an | | | | experts, even business consultants! One of Lynn's |
| active role in supporting us before, during, and | | | | guides is a handyman who invariably astonishes his |
| even after our physical sojourns on earth. | | | | physical counterparts, who cannot understand |
| All we need do is ask for their help--and then be | | | | why Lynn is able to tell them the actual |
| ready and open to receive their guidance. | | | | mechanical problem even before they inspect the |
| In the days following that dramatic encounter, | | | | broken machine. |
| Lynn learned much about guides in general and | | | | |
| her angels in particular. As vibrating eternal | | | | Angels or guides present themselves to us usually |
| essences (also known as souls or spirits), we | | | | in a form we can relate to--human--but some |
| choose to experience each physical lifetime. We | | | | guides have shown themselves as comic book |
| usually have a purpose for the life we have | | | | figures, like Wonder Woman or Rocky and |
| selected. Such purpose is general, such as | | | | Bullwinkle, if that's what helps us to connect with |
| teaching, healing, inspiring, creating, and so forth. | | | | them. The forms and names they take on are |
| Our life purpose attracts to us other spirits who | | | | simply a matter of making them, their love, and |
| want to share that purpose but do not | | | | their guidance readily available to us by matching |
| necessarily desire to do so in a physical body. We | | | | our needs and expectations. |
| then select a group of souls to help us along the | | | | Is it possible to for all of us to meet our guides, |
| way. Often we make our choices based on the | | | | up close and personal? Yes, provided we are |
| fact that we know these spirits already from | | | | willing to relearn how to trust our intuition. Since |
| other physical lifetimes on earth (or elsewhere). | | | | guides/angels do not have physical bodies (except |
| We trust these beings and they trust us. | | | | in rare cases of extreme emergencies), we |
| Sometimes we include souls who have a particular | | | | cannot sit down with them for a cup of coffee |
| expertise that we believe will be especially helpful | | | | and a chat. We need our intuition--our hunches, |
| to us or because we just want to try something | | | | gut feelings, visions, and inner hearing--to be able |
| new while on earth. | | | | to receive their messages and send ours in return. |
| Then we arrive in our physical bodies. As very | | | | The next step is taking the time and space to |
| young children, we interact with our spirit friends | | | | get to know our angels via a meet-your-guides |
| as the invisible companions we play with and who | | | | meditation, which we can do on our own or with |
| comfort us. Well-meaning adults, however, inform | | | | help if needed. The energy and effort we put into |
| us that these friends are "not real." We start to | | | | getting reacquainted with our angels will come |
| distrust our intuitive senses, the means by which | | | | back to us many times over in the form of |
| we communicate with our angels, and eventually | | | | increased feelings of love, acceptance, safety, and |
| give up our angels so that we may "grow up" and | | | | well-being. |
| become "well adjusted." | | | | |