Even though feeling not good enough is common, we each react differently. The effect it has on you will depend on how much power you give thoughts of inadequacy. It can hold you back and keep you from reaching your full potential and enjoying the life you have.

The good thing is, you can change your thinking so you feel good about yourself no matter what.

Stop Believing Marketing Ads About What You’re Lacking.
Sometimes low self-esteem started in childhood. That conditioning may have unknowingly played in the background as you grew up. Critical inner dialogue may have continued into the present. It’s an unhealthy habit that really needs to stop.

Even if you had a wholesome, thriving upbringing, it’s difficult to maintain a healthy self-esteem with the images you are constantly bombarded with. Marketing deliberately blasts you with imagery designed to make you feel you’re not good enough unless you buy their product or service. You are continually exposed to an endless array of images of things you’ve got to have to be happier, skinnier, richer, more successful . . . It never ever stops. How in the world are you supposed to believe you’re fine just the way you are without all this stuff?!

Social media doesn’t help. Almost everyone is addicted to it. On a daily basis, you’re subjected to other people’s extremely filtered comments and photos about how awesome their lives are.

Release All Judgmental, Negative Thoughts.
Your harsh inner critic rails against perceived imperfections. You beat yourself up whenever you make a mistake or fail to meet your expectations. Try seeing any “mistakes” or failings as growth opportunities. They are unavoidable. It’s all part of the human experience. And it’s why you’re here.

You have bravely chosen to incarnate on this challenging planet for the purpose of growth and evolution. You are specifically designed exactly the way you need to be for your soul’s unique journey. If you needed to be smarter for this particular lifetime, you’d be smarter. If you needed to be taller, better looking, more ambitious, you would be.

Do yourself a HUGE favor and stop comparing yourself and your life to other people. Each of us are at different stages of soul growth, experiencing what we need for where we are in our soul’s evolution. No two paths are going to be the same.

You definitely aren’t going to fit into mainstream. The more you become enlightened, the less you fit in. Popular food, lifestyles and entertainment are no longer of interest because your perspectives and belief systems are evolving.

Don’t Believe Everything Your Mind Tells You.

You don’t feel good enough because you believe your mind, which is incredibly clever and will convince you of a lot of things that aren’t true. Just because you think it, doesn’t mean it’s real. (Psst. Your mind lies to you frequently.)

Your mind’s distortions, judgments and negativity are third-dimensional tendencies. Our current third-dimensional vibration creates a level of limited, skewed, lower consciousness.

Recognize that a thought is just a thought. Don’t let it define you. Instead of thinking, I’m not good enough, think I’m having a thought which is telling me I’m not good enough.

Pay attention to what pulls you into self-criticism and negativity. Whenever you get triggered into anything fear based, realize that’s your homework for your soul’s intended growth.

It’s time to clean up what keeps dragging you down into lower frequencies.

The most effective way to deal with the feeling of not being good enough is to realize that it comes from within, and to train your mind to quit engaging in these negative thoughts. It’s simply a habit.

Whenever your mind thinks unloving, judgmental thoughts (and it will), don’t get pulled in emotionally. Let them go right on by like the hundreds of other thoughts you have every day. When you don’t latch on to them, they generally disappear within 90 seconds.

Never Allow Others to Define Your Worth.
Discover the hidden message behind your not-good-enough thoughts. Are you looking for love and trying to find it through others?

“Stop looking for happiness in the same place you lost it.” —Anonymous

If you need the validation of others to prove your worth, you’re setting yourself up for heartache. It’s all too easy for others to keep you small. Stop ascribing your worth to what others believe. Start nurturing self-love.

Don’t let your mind or anyone else ever convince you’re not good enough. You are an extraordinary Divine luminous being—a fractal of Divine Source currently experiencing life in a human form.

You are more than good enough. You always have been. You’re actually quite glorious. Now own it.

Because you have expectations of how they will respond, you often miss how you’re being helped.

Here are eight signs you’re being helped from the other side of the veil.

#1  You Aren’t Triggered.
When you’re getting help, triggers are softened and you unhook easier. You don’t go down the rabbit hole of fearful thoughts as often or as long.

A few years ago, my life-long friend had become increasingly critical of her co-workers. In our phone chats, she often complained that she had to compensate for them not pulling their weight. After several months of listening to her complaints, I resented our conversations becoming so negative. I started avoiding her calls.

I asked the angels to help me heal my relationship with my friend. I felt a wave of compassion for her move through my body. The next time my friend called, instead of feeling annoyed by her complaining, I felt more compassion and I stopped judging her behavior.

#2 Random Thoughts Suddenly Come to You.
Angels are telepathic. They communicate by placing thoughts into your mind. Ideas, inspiration, ah-ha moments, clarity, guidance are common ways they assist you.

They love you far beyond human comprehension. The angels and benevolent spirit guides help you with tremendous love. They honor your free will. They would never force you to do anything, especially anything unloving.

#3  It Gets Uncomfortable So You’ll Let Go.
Your spirit guides and angels lovingly encourage you to let go of what doesn’t serve you. They will show you the better path.

When I was younger, the needs of my family and demanding career often left me stressed and physically exhausted. I felt guilty taking time for myself. After I asked the angels to help me take better care of myself, I felt motivated to nurture myself. Over time my life became more balanced.

#4  Things Aren’t Flowing.
When your mind ignores the intuitive guidance from the angels and spirit guides, you are often faced with continual obstacles and blockages.

When I was searching for a home, I found what I thought was the perfect place. But every time I tried to contact the seller, something kept us from connecting. I followed my intuition which led me to a newly listed home with a yard I loved. Because of the difficulties with the first home, I ended up with a better home instead. I now realize the obstacles were a way for my spirit guides and angels to lead me to a home that was much better suited for me.

#5  Things Are Flowing.
When you’re following the guidance from your spirit guides and angels, it feels right. It requires less effort and isn’t forced.

Opportunities open. An ideal office setting becomes available to you. Things fall into place. Clients who need your services find you.

When you get in the supportive flow, you enjoy what you’re doing and feel fulfilled.

#6  Synchronicities Happen.
It’s child’s play for your spirit team to create synchronicities and coincidences. A serendipitous event is a sign they are deliberately bringing something to you.

Within a short time period, if two people suggest reading the same book, you’re being divinely guided to helpful information.

Synchronicities are a validation your spirit team is working on your behalf.

#7  Your Consciousness Increases.
Like perfectly placed breadcrumbs gradually leading you down the path to your desired goal, you acquire little bits and pieces of info.

A friend or coworker may say something which sparks an ah-ha moment in you. You have an insight upon immediately awakening in the morning.

As more pieces are revealed, your awareness of the bigger picture increases. You eventually realize how being on crutches for several weeks from a broken ankle helped you become more compassionate toward people with disabilities. Your enlightenment now generates more loving responses to other people’s challenges.

#8  The Guidance Feels Loving, not Fearful.
Your spirit guides and angels never guide you with fear. They offer suggestions and assist you with love.

You’re guided through your instincts, intuition, sixth sense. It feels right. You have a knowing.

If you are doing something because you feel you “should”, you “have to”, or you’d feel guilty if you didn’t do it, that’s your fear-based mind.

To know whether guidance is coming from the angels and spirit guides or your mind, ask yourself: Is this coming from a place of love or fear?

They love helping you.
Know that your team of spirit guides and angels walk by your side 24/7 . . . helping you every step of the way.
Over time you’ll notice how much loving assistance you’re getting.
All the time.
Every day.

“What we often fail to realize is that even though a dead person’s body is

gone, their spirit is not. Their soul lives, not just in heaven but on earth.”

                                                                                                                          —Bill Philipps

Departed Loved Ones Remain Aware of Your Daily Life.

Upon physical death, the soul leaves the body. A soul is an etheric animating force that inhabits the body and acts through it. It’s like the hand in a puppet. When the hand (soul) is removed, the puppet (body) collapses. When a person dies, the soul leaves the physical body but continues as an eternal spirit.

At death, the deceased are sometimes initially greeted by their guardian angel(s), followed by their decedent animal companions, and finally, their departed loved ones. It is a joyous homecoming and reunion.

Having shed the physical body and now resting on the other side of the veil, their vibration dramatically rises. Like a spinning airplane propeller, they are unable to be seen by earthbound beings.

In this higher-vibrational etheric state, your loved ones have the ability to see and hear you. They can visit us on Earth and interact with the living if they choose.

Your deceased loved ones like to be here in spirit for significant events such as weddings, birthdays, holidays, births and deaths. They sometimes remain a part of your life. They are aware of what is happening and will sometimes serve as a type of spirit guide for you.

Decedents Commonly Use Dreams to Communicate to Loves Ones.

The spirit world communicates through telepathy, so they are aware of your thoughts and feelings. Your deceased loved ones can bilocate—they can be in several dimensions at the same time. When you call to them, you are not bothering or keeping them from something else due to their bilocation abilities.

Your departed loved ones can communicate with you in ways similar to angels and spirit guides. One of the most common ways for deceased loved ones to communicate with us is through vivid dreams. These dreams are different than your usual dreams. You retain the memory of them.

Deceased Loved Ones May Manipulate Energy to Get Your Attention.

The deceased are energy. We are energy, too. Our passed loved ones like to manipulate energy. They might turn on and off the computer, TV, radio, appliances, and lights. Maneuvering energy is one of the most effective ways of getting your attention.

They can also use their energy to be with us through animals, birds, and insects such as butterflies, ladybugs and dragonflies. If an animal or bird hangs around your yard, stares at you through a window or squawks at you, it could be your loved one conveying their presence. Your departed loved one is not the animal, bird or insect. They are using them to convey their messages to you.

Your departed loved ones are not trying to scare or harm you. If you do become frightened by their means of communication, ask them to tone it down or stop.

They are conveying their presence and are here to help you. Tell them how they can be of assistance.

We are in the beginning stages of the biggest collective awakening ever seen in the history of mankind.

COVID-19 is an effective means to rapidly shift us into an enlightened, higher consciousness.

We Live in a Multidimensional Universe.

Earth and most of her inhabitants are living a three-dimensional existence. Dimensions are not located in a specific place. They are degrees of consciousness that vibrate at a certain frequency. Each dimension vibrates at a higher frequency than the dimension below it.

In each higher dimension, there exists a greater level of knowledge and a clearer perspective of reality. The dimension you are a part of, and your level of consciousness, depends on the frequency you are vibrating at energetically. For example, when you feel compassion, you vibrate at a much higher frequency than when you feel shame.

You enter the next higher dimension when you vibrate in resonance with it. When you shift into the next higher dimension, it means you now vibrate at that level of consciousness, of awareness. You do not get pulled back into the lower frequencies.

While those living in a third, fourth, or fifth level of consciousness are experiencing the same reality, their way of perceiving it is completely different. You can experience multiple dimensions at the same time. You may have some belief systems still rooted in the third dimension while other viewpoints are embedded in a higher dimension.

Judgment and Fear Are Prevalent in the Third Dimension.

Humans and the higher animal kingdom currently vibrate at the third-dimensional frequency. Here the level of human consciousness is extremely limited and restricted. We believe this is how “reality” is without realizing it is a very skewed perspective.

A person in the third dimension is energetically aligned with a vibration that holds third-dimensional, narrow viewpoints. For example, you believe in duality, where you see yourself as separate from other people and the universe. You have belief systems where you judge people based on their gender, ethnicity, financial status, religion, appearance, etc.

Third-dimensional tendencies are fear, depression, anger, greed, materiality, service to self, vanity and guilt.

Higher Consciousness Begins to Awaken in the Fourth Dimension.

You are in the fourth-dimensional frequency when you vibrationally align with fourth-dimensional perspectives. You briefly experience the fourth dimension when you feel extreme gratitude or love.

The fourth dimension is where some of us are now. Here we begin to awaken. As we move into higher consciousness, we realize the third-dimensional belief system is irrational.

The fourth dimension is all around us. You enter the fourth dimension when your mind is in an altered state of consciousness, which is sometimes reached through meditation.

Earth is Becoming a Fifth-Dimensional Planet.

The fifth dimension is an energetic frequency band that vibrates higher than the third dimension we currently occupy. Many angels, benevolent spirit guides and deceased loved ones vibrate at this fifth-dimensional level.

The fifth dimension is the realm of love, where you respond from your heart and not your conditioned, egoic mind. Someone in the fifth dimension is energetically aligned to the frequency with fifth-dimensional views. That means you have no negativity. None whatsoever. No fear, judgment, shame, hostility or guilt. There is no emotional suffering or belief in separation.

At this higher consciousness, you have gained mastery over your thoughts, which is imperative, since when you think something it manifests. Telepathy is the main form of communication, allowing you to easily read other’s thoughts. There is no distinction between the past, present or future.

Our goal is to reach the fifth-dimensional consciousness. After we have reached the fifth dimension, we will continue to ascend into higher dimensions.

Angels and Guides Are Helping Us Become a Fifth-Dimensional Planet.

Earth and all its occupants are currently transitioning into a higher consciousness where compassion, love and peace prevail. Everyone is moving into these higher-vibrational states of consciousness at their own pace. When your vibration is high enough to match the frequency of the fourth or fifth dimensions, you gain a higher consciousness. You awaken to more advanced perspectives and find peace.

Hundreds of thousands of people worldwide are now experiencing an awakening into a higher consciousness at an unprecedented rate. As their vibration rises into love-based frequencies, they respond with love rather than fear.

There is unparalleled assistance from the other side of the veil to help us rise into these higher frequencies so that we can become a planet of fifth-dimensional mentality and love. We have never had this level of help available to us.

“You cannot be the light and hold another in darkness.”     —Paul Selig

Powerful, loving aid is here to assist you through these auspicious, challenging times. Ask and allow them to help you move into more heart-centered living. That is why you are here.

People being prejudice is in the forefront now more than ever. Prejudices long buried under the surface have erupted with tremendous force. No one is impervious to it.

By definition, “A prejudice is a preconceived belief, opinion, or judgment toward a group of people or a single person.”

Everyone is prejudiced to varying degrees. We often judge others with no basis other than the fact that they are different than we are.

We prejudge people according to their gender, race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, mannerisms. The list goes on. Political beliefs, economic status, education, social class . . .

If you’re prejudiced in certain areas and you want to overcome those limiting perspectives, read on.

Regard Someone on an Individual Basis, not as a Group Member.

To overcome your prejudices, it’s helpful to understand the reasons behind them. Some prejudices are innate. Babies instinctively crawl towards those similar to them. Beginning around age 3, we start categorizing people into groups as either like us or unlike us. People comprising your in-groups feel comfortable to you because they share the same behaviors and beliefs you do. Those in your out-groups are different than you which can create fear and insecurity.

Some prejudices are learned. Your parents may have held lifelong prejudices against certain ethnic groups which they have passed on to you. What you’ve learned, you can unlearn. Challenge whether your parents’ prejudices are your own. Once you discover where a prejudice originated and the reasons behind it, it’s easier to change your viewpoint and reaction.

Pay attention to your thoughts when you encounter someone from your out-group. We tend to judge a whole group of people by the actions of one person. Reflect upon everyone you meet on an individual basis. When you make automatic assumptions about someone, remember this is a knee-jerk reaction from a learned response that’s likely not based on reality.

Develop an Expanded Worldview.

Unfamiliarity is the root cause of a lot of prejudice. When you aren’t exposed to different cultures, religions and races, it’s harder to fully accept the diversity that exists in the world. When you have only experienced a single culture, you believe your culture is the normal and appropriate way to live. When you travel to a vastly different culture, you are exposed to alternative ways of living and thinking. What’s perceived as “normal” in the US will be very different than what’s considered normal in Japan or India.

“Prejudice is the child of ignorance.”      —William Hazlitt

Expand your horizons. Travel. Read. Watch diverse movies and documentaries. Attend service in a different religion.

When you broaden your worldview, you become more familiar with different customs, ways of speaking, dressing, and sexual orientation. Then they become less threatening.

Become Familiar with Those Different Than You.

One of the best ways to cure prejudice is to reach out to people who are different. When you connect with someone different from yourself and start listening and learning, you’ll stop judging. The more you get to know someone, the more you’ll see your prejudice is not rational.

Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton noted, “If you looked and looked at all the solutions proposed by scientists over the years to combat prejudice and racism, you’d be hard pressed to find a more effective antidote than intergroup friendship.”

Don’t ignore the differences between yourself and others. This isn’t about colorblindness. It’s about multiculturalism. Acknowledge and embrace the differences. The diversity will greatly enrich your life.

I don’t use their assistance just for finding parking spaces—I solicit them for anything and everything.

It was always intended we would have help available to us from the other side of the veil. In fact, it’s a symbiotic relationship between us and the angels and guides. When you ask for their help, it enables them to evolve because they are serving you out of tremendous love—a love far beyond human comprehension. As you grow, they grow. It’s a win/win for everyone!

Because Earth is a free-will planet, we need to ask before they will intervene. So, ask away—big, small, vague, specific, as often as you like.

Here’s a simple guideline for engaging their powerful and loving assistance in restoring your physical and/or emotional health.

Ask. Yes, it’s that simple. Ask in your mind for their aid otherwise they aren’t allowed to step in and intervene. Delegate the healing process to them and let them guide you to health. Release your mind’s controlling desire to know how and when you will be healed.

Get to the root. Your spirit team won’t fix the alarm system (illness) going off in your body until you have gotten its message and rectified the reason the alarm (emotional and physical pain) went off in the first place. Solicit their help to discover and release any emotional cores.

Focus on what you want. Stop focusing on what you don’t want (pain, anxiety) and focus on what you do want (a healthy mind and body). Allow the angels and guides to help you use your mind more powerfully.

Take action. Ask them to help you integrate their guidance. For example, if you’re guided to exercise but need motivation, request they help you find an enjoyable way to get moving or provide a walking partner.

Love yourself. Don’t fight the disease which is a messenger. Request your spirit team help you love yourself more than ever before. Let them intuitively guide you on ways to nurture yourself.

Stay tenacious. This is where a lot of us get in trouble. Many people fail to sustain their thoughts and actions long enough to see results. Your body is casting off and creating millions of cells every second. Ask your guides and angels to help you remain steadfast, positive and patient on your path to wellness.

Angels and spirit guides are governed by specific laws, like Spiritual laws and Universal laws. That means they will respond according to the highest good of all and according to your soul’s intentions. They will not heal you unless it is your soul’s desire to do so at that time. Ask them to help you heal as much as possible. Your soul usually intends for you to recover, find peace and lasting happiness. Ask your angels and guides to help you do that.

Being around intolerant people is no picnic. One common strategy is to avoid them. But that won’t work very easily if that critical person is inescapable like your spouse, boss, family member or coworker.

It’s important to remember that you have a choice on how you choose to react to them. Getting defensive or argumentative with them only aggravates the situation.

Intolerant people aren’t usually aware they’re being critical because their criticisms are a projection of their “stuff” onto someone else. If they’re not engaging in self-awareness, your pointing out their intolerance isn’t going to make any difference.

What do you do? Read on for helpful ways on how to deal with intolerant people.

Find Compassion Because They are Suffering.

An effective way to handle ignorance and intolerance is to stop focusing on their ignorance and intolerance. Shift your agitated mind to a sincere desire that these people become happy and feel loved. No one deliberately chooses to be ignorant. It’s likely that their ignorance and intolerance originated from their own suffering and conditioning.

It’s similar to how an abused dog wants to bite people. You feel sorry for the dog because it’s been abused and is suffering. Instead of focusing on how the dog wants to bite people, your attention is on your desire that the dog find peace and happiness because then the dog won’t want to bite.

“When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply

within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need

punishment; he needs help. That’s the message he is sending.”

                                                                                                                –Thich Nhat Hanh

When you find compassion for someone, it eases your frustration with them. Embrace the differences between you, and be grateful for the lessons they’re teaching you and the opportunities to develop deeper compassion.

Extend Kindness to Them.

Even though your egoic mind will vehemently argue against it, show them kindness anyway. There’s a powerful quote in the Peaceful Warrior movie: “The people who are the hardest to love are the ones who need it the most.”

Chances are they are intolerant toward others because they are intolerant toward themselves. They probably aren’t aware of it, but the people they can’t tolerate are a mirror. If they unconditionally loved themselves, they would have tolerance and acceptance for others.

They aren’t giving themselves what they need and deserve like love and acceptance. So, send them a little love. Give them a smile or a hug. As you open your heart to them, it makes it easier to crack open their hearts a little bit.

They Are in Your Life as Growth Opportunities.

“I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from

the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind;

yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.”

                                                                                                 — Khalil Gibran

Everything and everyone you encounter is an opportunity to grow. The bigger the challenge, the greater the growth opportunity. Intolerant people are smack dab on the middle of your path for a reason. They are intentionally in your life to help you grow, especially those you can’t escape. Look for the lesson they offer you. What are they here to teach you?

Remember, we are each souls in this challenging Earth school. Some are in the primary classes while others are at university levels of enlightenment and love.

We are in different classrooms at various stages of development. When you’re intolerant of those at elementary levels, it pulls you back into the classroom on Acceptance 101. Didn’t you already pass that class?

Don’t get dragged into other people’s classrooms. You’re got your own classes down the hall.

When you encounter someone who is bigoted or narrow-minded, think of it as a pop quiz in acceptance of others at their level of growth. Ignore them. Let it go. Recognize they are providing you a chance to grow. Blessings sometimes come in the strangest ways.

Everything around us seems to be incredibly chaotic and falling apart these days. The world is engulfed in one crisis after another. Our planet appears to be heading toward disastrous consequences because we continue to foul our nest. Governments and economies around the world are crumbling. Inequities are expanding at an alarming rate. It’s hard to stay out of fear and hopelessness with all this chaos.

Despite what appears to be overwhelming challenges, you can find peace and serenity. To do that, you need to change your perspective.

The Planet Is Shifting in Consciousness.  

It’s important to keep in mind there’s a bigger picture at play here and things are not as they appear. Everything is happening exactly the way it is for a reason.

Our planet is going through birthing pains. Gaia is becoming a spiritual planet and that means change is necessary. Big change.

To accomplish this, more of us need to become enlightened. That’s why the curtain is being pulled back. Darkness is being exposed by light. Lies and deception are surfacing. People are waking up.

Many of you deliberately chose to incarnate at this auspicious time to help with this planetary transformation. You incarnated to add specific energies and knowledge to the collective—the oneness that we are each a part of. As you awaken in consciousness, it contributes that knowledge to this unified field we all belong to. Your awakening makes it easier for others to awaken.

Some of you deliberately chose to add more energy of acceptance to the collective. You do that by accepting circumstances and people. Others are seeding the energy of forgiveness. Many others worldwide are contributing more love and peace by feeling those emotions.

You are also seeding love-based energies into the collective.

What you’re doing is important work and it’s no small thing (we currently could use more hope if you want to volunteer for extra credit.)

There Are Tremendous Reasons for Hope.

And speaking of hope, there are plenty of reasons to have more of it. Around the globe, people in very large numbers are quietly shifting into higher consciousness. They’re remembering that we’re interconnected and one.

When you’re in an increased consciousness, you think and act differently. You live from a state of more love, strong desire to help others, deep respect for our beloved planet and everything on her, and acceptance of others just the way they are.

One by one, people are shifting out of their fearful, conditioned minds and into their compassionate, loving hearts. It’s a gradual shift that doesn’t happen overnight but we’re definitely in the midst of it. The more things are shaken up, the faster we move into enlightenment. That’s why there’s massive shakeup worldwide.

You’ll discover greater consciousness all around you if you look for it. But you won’t likely hear about it on the popular news channels. They’re selling something else.

“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking

we used when we created them.” –Albert Einstein

Awakening to higher consciousness is what’s going to save us. It’s happening right now on a grassroots level. And you’re a part of it—one of the forerunners. You are at the forefront of the bell curve. We are a couple of generations away from a world in harmony, peace and love.

You came here to help shift the consciousness of the planet away from fear, and into love and a higher consciousness by living it. As you do that a little more each day, you’ll find inner peace and happiness no matter what’s going on around you.

Here are some of the ways the angels and spirit guides might convey their messages to you:

1. Finding specific objects like feathers or coins, feeling a spontaneous gentle breeze, receiving an unattended phone call are just a few methods they signal their presence and say “Hello.”
2. Computer glitches, a broken pen, a dropped phone call are different ways the angels and guides may interrupt any unhealthy thoughts and redirect you.
3. Dreams are frequently used to communicate messages.
4. You trip, sneeze, drop something or are startled by a loud noise, these are all means your guides use to get your attention. Use your intuition to determine whether they are encouraging or discouraging what you were just thinking or doing.
5. Your intuition, sixth sense, gut instinct are your “internal compass” and the main way the angels and guides communicate to you.
6. Recurring birds, animals or objects in nature may convey a message. Refer to Animal Speak or Nature-Speak by Ted Andrews for clarification of animals and nature symbolism.
7. Thoughts when you awaken during the night or when you first arouse in the morning are predominantly guidance from your celestial team.
8. Numbers on a clock when suddenly awakened or recurring numbers may be messages. Angel Numbers 101 by Doreen Virtue is a good reference for interpreting their meaning.
9. Random answers suddenly popping into your head from prior questions are usually from your team.
10. Coincidences, serendipity or synchronicity are often the work of your celestial team.
11. Song lyrics spontaneously playing in your head may be guidance from your guides.
12. Muscle testing, dowsing or using a pendulum can help provide direction from the angels and spirit guides.
13. Aha moments are often placed in your mind by your celestial team.
14. The first instantaneous thought to your question to them is usually directly from your guides. The second or third thoughts are frequently from your now-engaged mind.
15. Ringing in your ears or tingling in your body, when not caused by a medical condition, are often used like a pager system by your angels to signal “Hi.”
16. Recurring thoughts or a repeated suggestion from different sources are likely prompted by your guides.
17. Automatic writing is another technique to get answers from your team. Ask your question and write in longhand as fast as you can with no direction.
18. Meditation or quieting your busy mind makes it easier to feel or sense their guidance.

Once you start gaining awareness of your angelic team, you will notice their messages all around you. They will always respond to your requests. Be patient since they will give you only what you need to know in each moment.

Send them gratitude for their help.

We’re in the midst of massive change. We’re shifting into a more loving and peaceful existence worldwide. It’s a grassroots movement that starts on an individual basis.

You’re deliberately here now to help with this tremendous global transformation. You assist with that shift when you have self-acceptance. As you accept yourself, you’re able to extend more love to yourself . . . and others. That adds to the collective consciousness and provides an energetic pathway which makes it easier for others to do the same.

How do you accept yourself just the way you are? It starts with an understanding of why you are the way you are.

It’s About Perspective.

If you’re having a hard time accepting a certain part of yourself, it is because it’s not something you want to be. You may not want to be impatient, occasionally dishonest and insecure about your appearance. But these perceived “flaws” don’t need to be fixed before you can accept and love yourself.

You’re already extraordinary: a glorious Divine luminous being.

Release your mind’s misperception that the shadow parts of you are bad and need to be eradicated before you are worthy of unconditional self-love.

Your Shadow Serves a Purpose.

The contrasts in a painting help illuminate and define the objects. Likewise, it’s the shadow within you that provides contrast to the Light so that you can see and understand more clearly.

Shadow is a partner to Light and necessary for soul growth.

Stop demonizing the shadow with black-and-white thinking. Cherish the shadow in you as much as you do the Light.

We’re all on the path to realizing who we really are. We’ll each get there eventually. Shadow helps you navigate the path to that self-realization.

If you want a detour or distraction from your soul’s evolution, shadow will help you with that. Your shadow says, “I’ve got things to keep you distracted—TV, busyness, food, laziness, Internet, judgments. Here’s an excellent distraction: You don’t deserve love.”

The design and execution of our distractions are breathtaking.

Your Egoic Mind Often Lies to You.

It’s easier to have non-acceptance when you compare yourself and your life to others. You’re on a different path. Your spiritual journey doesn’t fit in with mainstream and isn’t comparable.

You can’t be a person of depth without difficulty, pain, trauma, disappointment. It’s through these challenges you find your magnificence.

How do you want to live? How much are you going to abdicate to your shadow or to consciousness? You’ve stayed on the bench long enough. It’s time to get up and challenge your shadow. Is what your shadow telling you true? Shadow likes vague, broad statements. Shadow doesn’t like specificity. Use discernment, not judgment.

Self-Acceptance is Developed Through Practice.

Want to be a better friend to yourself? Stop judging yourself.

The best time to practice self-acceptance is when you feel judged. The next time you’re being criticized by yourself or someone else, quiet your mind for a moment. Take three deep breaths. Go within your heart to find the compassion that rests there.

If the critical, judgmental voice starts up again, quiet it with a gentle internal “shh” and take a few deep breaths again. Listen within for the kind words you need. That will help you feel more peaceful and accepted. Do this as often as you need until it becomes a habit.

 Loving Yourself Means No Self-Criticism.

Your mind is a powerful tool. It’s up to you how to train and use it. Allowing your mind to stand in the way of accepting and loving yourself just as you are needs to stop. Now.

Loving yourself is the absence of negative thoughts and judgment about yourself.

What have you not accepted about yourself that it’s time to embrace?