As someone who almost automatically connects with others’ energy, I have found Archangel Michael to be especially helpful to call on when I am having a hard time disconnecting from that energy and tuning in to my own energy once again.

You know how sometimes you have a conversation or other interaction with someone, and you just can’t seem to stop thinking about that person’s life/problems/personality, even when you need to get back to focusing on your own? I sometimes have that problem, especially after very carefully and intentionally tuning in to that person’s energy to perform a reading or healing. I have practices to disconnect from others’ energy, but it’s not always easy, so I started calling on Archangel Michael to cut the ties more effectively after I have gone through my usual processes. (Michael has a very strong, powerful presence and is often envisioned as carrying a huge sword with which he destroys evil—or, more specifically, our fear.)

Around this time last year, after I’d been calling on Michael for his assistance for a while, he let me know that he wanted to speak with me. It was an interesting encounter that carried across two days and brought my attention to some things about myself and the world that I hadn’t previously realized. Here’s the first day of our conversation …

***

Archangel Michael, thank you for coming to speak with me. Yesterday, as I ended my Reiki practice and called upon you for assistance, you made it clear that you wanted to speak with me today.

Yes.

Do you have anything in particular that you would like to say to begin this conversation?

(He is saying nothing, but I hear a long, deep “grinding” noise, like he’s thinking or like the language of the Ents from J. R. R. Tolkien’s books. It’s rather like he’s trying to find the words in my brain.)

Shall I come back another time? Shall I prepare better?

No. That is not necessary. We have now attuned ourselves to each other. [Think of this process like old friends seeing each other for the first time in months or years and simply sitting together in silence for a few minutes, getting reacquainted without words first, maybe with a hug or smile, before beginning conversation.]

(I feel a bit of a buzz throughout my upper body, kind of like a sugar buzz, but it hums like electricity through me. I know this is Michael’s energy.)

So, dear Michael, what would you like to say?

(I’m not getting words, only small waves of that feeling of electricity rolling over me. I know there’s a message here, but I don’t know what.)

Michael, you help me cut the ties of energy connecting me to those people I am performing Reiki and intuitive sessions with. Thank you for that. Your help is most efficacious.

(He laughs at me, his mouth twisting in something like a [wry] grin, at my formality.)

Yes, I’m apparently always formal with those I don’t work with a lot or whom I don’t know very well. But I get the impression that you enjoy this more than the other archangels do.

It is true, I enjoy it, but because it is so entertaining, the way humans bow and scrape, believing that the more you act obsequiously, the more likely I am to help.

I could see that. I’m simply using my manners, falling back on those until I know how you prefer to be addressed.

“Michael” will be fine.

Well then, Michael, thank you for your assistance. What message do you have to share with me or my readers?

(He laughs again. It’s strange to me that, for acting so serious, he laughs a lot—though it is rather an ironic laugh.)

 

I tell you to hold firm in your beliefs and your habits. You are protected by God because you do the work of God.

Aren’t we all protected by God? Or, said another way, aren’t we all as unprotected as the others, then?

I’m not the messenger. That’s Gabriel’s job.

(I’m laughing.) Yes, I know, but you indicated that you wanted to speak with me. Is it the feeling you’re trying to give me, rather than words? Or do I need your protection now this morning more than I typically do? Is it something like that?

No. I wanted to see if you would be open to my energies. You have long had a resistance to me.

Have I? (I’m a bit surprised. I have always understood Michael to be a protector and an aid for those who felt alone, but I don’t recall ever having felt particularly drawn to or repelled by him.)

Clearly, you can sense me, and I am welcome.

Yes, of course you are.

Good. I protect your home.

I just got a glimpse here. … Could you tell me, have you always protected my home, [as in] when I put in my requests [doing my energy work/spells of protection around the home], or are you now lending extra “oomph” to them?

A bit of both. I have always lent a bit of extra strength when your home has been threatened directly, though of course you rarely knew about it.

Thank you. Truly.

And now that [I know] you are welcome [open] to it, I can add my protection even more strongly to your home.

(A bit surprised, I ask if that’s necessary, if my home is more at risk now than it has been previously.)

Yes and no. A bit more at risk from “this side,” but no more at risk on your side. Of course, you also have a powerful little army of gnomes, faeries, and nymphs protecting your home.

 

(He grins, again wryly, as if amused by them.)

They are certainly powerful, in a way different than I am, but they are no doubt effective. They like you very much.

And I like them, and extend my thanks to them.

They protect you very well from the things of your world.

You mean the physical plane?

Yes. They dwell more firmly on your physical plane, even though you don’t see them, whereas I dwell at a different frequency and can therefore guard against different entities better than they can.

I thank you, again, for your protection. But can you tell me why I am slightly more at risk than I used to be? I’m not a huge believer in conspiracy and dark energies.

No, of course you’re not, because you’ve never needed to be. Your guardians do a very good job of keeping you safe, at your request.

I don’t understand—at my request?

Yes, before you entered the Earth plane for this life, you requested assistance from your guides. They keep you safe. You shine brightly. You are a beacon to shadow beings, as well as to other humans. You have “bodyguards” protecting you at all times, per your request.

(I have to pause to absorb this information. It feels right, yet, again, I still have a problem acknowledging/recognizing “other forms” [dark energies] that might be attracted to my light.)

So, Michael, have I become more attractive to such entities, or …

(All other options, what I was going to ask, leave my head, and I can’t remember any of them.)

Yes. But you have nothing to fear. I guard you. (He stands up straighter and puts his hands on his hips, as if trying to lighten the mood.)

Thank you, Michael, but I think I need some more time to digest this information.

***

At this point, I asked if we could speak again later so I could consider this information, and Michael agreed.

By the way, nearly a year later, I’m still coming to terms with this idea. For most of my life, I believed that dark energies weren’t real at all, were simply an excuse for people to blame their bad behaviors on, or, as an excuse, something people could blame their fear on. Then I slowly began to believe that, just as there are energies running the gamut from neutral to perfectly “good”—in this case, meaning wanting the highest good for all creation—there are probably the same gamut of energies running in the opposite direction, reveling in harm happening to others, or at least in utter chaos. I really do still have a hard time mentally accepting that dark energies are drawn to me, though I nearly instinctively have always thrown up energetic shields around myself and my homes; I’ve always reasoned that this was to protect me from “ordinary” mischief and evil.

A few weeks ago, I was warned by several guides and angels that malice and darkness were being directed my way. I still have a hard time believing it, really. But of course that didn’t stop me from asking my guides and angels and the archangels for further, stronger protection. (One of the maxims I live by is “Expect the best, but be prepared for the worst.”) I don’t like to dwell upon fear or paranoia, as I have seen firsthand how that can be a sure way to being surrounded by negative energy (whether you’re transforming your own or drawing it in from elsewhere is irrelevant, in my opinion).

In next week’s blog post, I’ll come back to the second day of conversation with Archangel Michael. For now, you can consider what you believe about positive and negative energies in the universe and the world. As you do so, if you feel yourself connected to energies or people that you don’t want to be connected to, remember that Archangel Michael makes himself available to all of us, and you can call on him at any time for assistance. Here’s a nice simple way to get started:

Archangel Michael, please come to me and sever the energetic ties to[person/place/situation that you no longer want to be attached to]. Please cut the bonds that tie me to those people and things that do not serve my highest good, those that harm me, and especially those who would intentionally do me harm.

 

 

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