Have you ever become aware of the presence of someone you lost?
Spirits can and do communicate with us.
Visitations from lost loved ones is not uncommon. We just need to learn to become aware of their presence.
I have an aunt who visits me and when she comes around I smell cigarette smoke. My father likes to stroke my hair when he stops by and my grandmother speaks to me in Greek. Each of them has their own way of communicating their presence.
Today is the third anniversary of my father’s passing. Before I woke up this morning I was dreaming about a ring my father had given me when I was eleven. It was a star sapphire ring with two diamonds set in an ornately carved gold band. He brought it back with him from Germany after being stationed there in WWII. I loved that ring and wore up until a few weeks before he died.
A bad omen
In August of 2009, I took a vacation with friends to Asheville, North Carolina. For some inexplicable reason the ring I’d been wearing for decades suddenly became very uncomfortable. I took it off and put it in a zippered compartment in my make-up bag. I remember that when I took it off I felt a chill and was very careful to remember where I put it not wanting to lose it.
After that, I never saw the ring again. When I got home the ring was gone from my make-up bag. I looked high and low and searched every inch of my suit case and all the pockets of the clothing I’d taken with me but, I never found it.
Losing someone you love
My father passed away on September 23rd just a few weeks after my return from Asheville. I always wondered if somehow my taking off that ring had been an omen? Was it a sign that I was about to lose my father? If I had kept the ring on would he have lived? Probably not – he was gravely ill but, still I wonder.
Spirits communicate through dreams
So this morning just before I woke up, I was dreaming about the ring. I saw it so clearly. In my dream I had the ring and had never lost it. I was so happy to be wearing it.
I believe the dream was saying that while I don’t have the physical ring any longer, that it will always be a part of me and live on in my memory. Whenever I wish to recall the ring all I have to do is close my eyes and see it on my hand – just like all I have to do to feel my father’s presence is close my eyes and recall his smiling face.
Maybe what the dream was trying to tell me was that nothing is ever really lost; not rings nor our loved ones.
***As I was writing this I felt a familiar presence and a slight pressure on the back of my head as my hair was stroked. Thanks for saying hello Dad.
You can learn to become aware of the presence of your lost loved ones too.
Here’s how to open up to spirit communication:
1. You must first believe that they can hear you and respond to you. To help bolster your belief watch some of these videos.
2. Speak to them often. Develop the habit of speaking and then waiting and listening for their response.
3. When in meditation ask them to come close and make their presence known to you.
4. Be patient. It could take a while for your abilities to attune to the spirit level. Spirit communication is very subtle.
5. Don’t lose hope if nothing happens. Keep trying. Your loved one may prefer to make themselves known to you on their schedule not yours.
Have you ever felt the presence of someone you lost? How did it make you feel? What did you experience that let you know it was them?
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Angela, I appreciated this post very much. My father’s passing devastated me, and I ached for him to visit me, somehow. One of the many things I always enjoyed was watching him tinker in the garage. I can remember the smell of axle grease and the sound of him whistling. He had quite the Midas Touch with motors of any kind.
A while back, I had auto problems of my own, and I was quite puzzled yet determined to figure it out. But as the day wore on the frustration mounted. At one point I passed by a painting of him I’ve got hung on the wall, and for some reason I just said, “Dad, I could sure use your help.” I went on about my business and a short time later, the answer revealed itself to me, as if the problem simply jumped out at me and offered its own solution–and it was a complicated rare problem that turned out to be an easy fix.
Another time I had lost something dear to me and foolishly went out looking for it in the dark of the evening, desperate to find it. Something in me felt moved to ask again: “Dad, please help.”
I just started walking, not really paying attention to where I was going, and ended up finding the item nowhere near where I’d expected it to. I’d simply walked right up to it! I was incredulous at what had transpired, and I certainly made sure to say thanks! It gave me the assurance that, just as you said, although he’s not around in the physical realm any longer, Dad is certainly still around. I have felt it other times too. What I find to be the most helpful in sensing his presence is first of course to calm myself and all the cacophony in my mind and secondly, to be open to receive it.
Ayla,
Thank you for sharing these incredible stories with us. Your father is coming through for you loud and clear!
It’s great for others to read this too and to know that they too can ask for guidance and get it.
What a wonderful post Angela! I’ve often felt the presence of my grandmother but it’s been less and less over time. My husband has always felt his father’s presence in dreams, very vivid ones where they felt real. I like the idea of talking to the Spirit instead of waiting to be contacted. I’ll give that one a try.
Hi Betsy,
I’m so glad you enjoyed the post Betsy. Talk to them – they can hear you and will respons.
I avoided a terrible car accident once (another car ran a red light). The details are too long to recount, but there is no rational explanation for why that car didn’t ram right into my driver’s door. It seemed to go right “through” my car and hit the car in the lane next to me. I had an immediate sense of my mother’s presence. Thanks, Mom.
Hi Galen,
OMG! Galen, I can’t believe you said that. I had the same thing happen to me when I was 25! My girlfriend was driving in a terrible rainstorm and her care hydroplaned. The car we hit – went right through our car. We both saw it. I always believed it was a miracle and attributed it to the protection of a guardian angel.
Angela – enjoyed your post and it resonated with me reminding me of times with my grandmother as a child. She was psychic and some of the events that occurred and stories she told would freak me out early on but then I came to realize this reality isn’t all there is. There is a spiritual world.
She came to me in a dream a few days after she died in the early ’70’s and had a message for me. Something about it scared me in my subconscious to where I started screaming although I couldn’t hear it but everyone in the house did. I didn’t know until they shook me and I woke up.
I still wonder what she was trying to tell me. I was very close to her and to this day still feel her love and presence close by. Maybe she can still tell me what she wanted me to know. I hope so.
Hi Pat,
Thank you for sharing that with us.
I’m sure if you could go into a deep mediation or do some self-hypnosis on yourself you could find out what your grandmother was saying to you.
I’m sure it’s there in your subconscious.
I’m glad you still feel her presence.
Why not ask her to come to you in a dream again?
Thank you Angela. I’ve never done self-hypnosis but did do a guided meditation once on past-life regression. I found myself in a cinder block cellar (think I have some subconscious blocks to work out).
I like your idea though of asking her to come again in a dream. I’ll have to try that.
Pat,
Do ask her and keep asking until you get a dream.
Sometimes it can take a while. Don’t give up.
Hi Angela,
My dad has been gone 12 years and although I think of him everyday, every once in awhile I feel something that is a strong reminder and wonder if he is sending me a message or trying to communicate in some way. It is nice to know they are still there for you, just in a different form. Thank you.
Cathy,
I’m sorry to hear about your Dad. I’m sure the last 12 years have gone by so quickly.
Even if we don’t get any signs or become aware of our loved one they are still around us.
They may also be busy doing “other worldly” things too – whatever that is.
I don’t think they are with us 24/7. We have things to do and so do they.
xoxo
Angela, a week after my friend Rodney passed away in the USA, I felt his presence in my home.
He used to visit London every couple of months and stayed at mine for a few days.
That day I felt his presence and even the leaves on one of my houseplants were moving as if he was stroking them. It spooked me out at the time as all the windows were closed and there was no breeze going through the room.
It was comforting to know he was still around:-)
Arvind,
I do remember you telling me this. That is amazing but, it does happen to so many of us.
Why are we amazed that they want to come and say goodbye, or to say they are fine and thinking of us?
It is comforting to know they are still around.
xoox
I’m sending you a big hug, Angela. I’m so glad your dad (and all of your loved ones who have passed) come and visit you. When I was 15, my cousin (who was also my age) died in a car accident. A few weeks after she died, I was sitting at her grave trying to make sense of her death, and I asked her to send me a sign that she was okay. Out of nowhere, two kittens showed up and started playing right on her grave. It was amazing and sweet at the same time. It’s so true that our loved ones never leave us – they are just in a different form. So glad you have them around – showing their love.
Hi Jodi,
Thank you for the hug! I really appreciate it.
What a wonderful sign you got. Two kittens. One representing you and one her playing together just like you did growing up.
Wonderful symbolism there.
Yes, it’s so true they don’t leave us but are just in a different form.
Thank you dear Jodi for your support.
xoox
Hey Angela,
My mom had 36 grandchildren and numerous great grandchildren. Her favorite song she sang to them all was You Are My Sunshine.
I was at the movies this weekend and saw “Trouble with the curve” with Clint Eastwood. In one scene he knelt at his mother’s grave and sang the song. The movie ended with the song as well. Is this a sign that she was present or a conincidence?
Hi Tess,
I love that song too!
A lot of people attribute things like hearing songs on the radio to being “messages” from loved ones but, I’m not sure I buy that since most radio programs are pre-recorded these days. There are millions of people listening to the radio or watching that movie and hearing the same song so, I would just call it a coincidence. Now if you heard that song and then felt her presence I would attribute that to her visiting you.
Hi Ange,
Cannot believe it’s been that long already. Was an amazing year because my dad died in March, Sue’s dad in July and yours in Sept. And I remember knowing about all of them before they happened. But what you say is true, there are times I feel my mother’s presence so strongly or find a reminder that she’s near. At least we know they are watching over us.
Hi Roe,
I know – me either. I didn’t realize we all lost our fathers the same year? Wow, I guess I’d forgotten that.
I’m sure your mother is still very close to you since you were so close when she was alive.
Were you talking to me, Angela? Hugs 🙂 I felt all warm and fuzzy as I read this post. You know I was very close to my Mom and her passing away was unexpected (she was only 64) and even though she had health issues and the doctors tried to convince us it was best that this happened, or she would have suffered had she been alive. I wasn’t ready. My family wasn’t ready. We mourned, we were miserable and the three of us, openly spoke to her.
One day – this sounds so silly – I was feeling very upset that I hadn’t written the recipe for something she used to make very well. This disturbed me like crazy – one may think it was only a recipe, but that particular dish meant a lot to us. I think I must have gotten so worked up when I went to bed that night. What was amazing was, when I woke up at 5.30 am as usual, the first thing I did was to take a pad and pen and write down the recipe. She told me, you know? It was magic.
Now, today, two and a half years after she’s gone, I feel her presence strongly whenever I mull over something, or worry about an issue, or am looking for an answer, trying to make a decision. All I have to do is sit, close my eyes and focus. Sometimes I doze, you know? And when I open my eyes again, usually after 20-30 minutes, I feel much better and know what to do. When I read something and think of my Mom, I swear I hear her voice responding softly. I believe her spirit is with me, loving me as always.
I also dream of my Grandmother just as intensely, and on those days, wake up very happy. There’s always the feeling of loss, as she and Mom are no longer physically with me – but I am grateful for that presence, and for letting me know.
As I cook in the kitchen, on many days, I receive guidance for whatever I am in a dilemma about. I just feel gratitude for those days. There’s something in my being, coupled with my own Intuition that guides me along the right way and I believe it is my Mom.
Thank you. I have a sense of absolute happiness for reading this post.
Love, Vidya
Vidya,
You’re very lucky! I know your mother is still with you. It’s so obvious she loved you and has never left your side.
I do believe she is guiding you.
They are always with us – maybe not 24/7 as they do have “things” to do over there but, they never forget about us.
It’s more likely that our memories and connections fade over time more than theirs do.
xoxo,
Angela