Anna Sayce

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  • Enmeshed Earthbound Spirits — What Are They & How Do They Affect us?

    Enmeshed Earthbound Spirits — What Are They & How Do They Affect us?

    In this article, I want to cover a topic that isn’t very well known, but it is something that I teach to healers in my Professional Intuitive Healing Program, and so I thought it would be interesting to talk about here on my blog, too.

    The topic in question, is the enmeshed earthbound spirit.

    What is an enmeshed earthbound spirit?

    You may have heard me talk about regular earthbound spirits on this blog (as opposed to enmeshed earthbound spirits, which is the topic of this blog article.)

    In order to compare and contrast enmeshed earthbound spirits and regular earthbound spirits, I first need to briefly cover the definition of a regular earthbound spirit.

    Regular earthbound spirits are the souls of the deceased who have not fully crossed over to the other side after death. Their mental or emotional body is still on the Earth plane. Ideally, that would not be the case. When someone dies, it is optimal for that soul to cross over 100%, rather than leave a part of their emotional/mental body here on Earth.

    For this reason, because these earthbound spirits are kind of stuck and often in pain, they do not have a lot of useful information for us, and so this is a spirit that we should not attempt to channel. And it fact, it’s better to actively keep this type of spirit away from us, because when they’re hanging around us they can give us unhelpful intuitive guidance, affect us emotionally in a negative way and even affect the way our home feels, if they’re hanging out in our space.

    Just a note that these regular earthbound spirits are not evil or horrible — they’re mostly a lot like you and me, but for whatever reason upon death they did not choose to cross over fully to the other side. And so they’re carrying around the energies of stuckness, fear and pain with them, and they need to let those energies go, in order to move on. These souls are in limbo.

    Regular earthbound spirits are attachments that sit on the outside of your auric field and they are pretty common, especially among cannabis users, reiki practitioners and unskilled psychic developers. (As an aside, I provide a prayer in my book the Empath’s Toolkit for clearing them from your energy field and home.)

    Now, in order to compare and contrast, I’m going to go into some information about enmeshed earthbound spirits.

    All About Enmeshed earthbound spirits

    An enmeshed spirit situation is a bit different from the regular earthbound spirit. Regular earthbound spirits (the type I discussed above), are attached to the outside of your auric field, whereas the enmeshed earthbound spirit is attached to the inside of your auric field, and it typically occupies a small portion of your life force energy.

    This sounds scary, but it’s not. It just means that a stuck spirit is with you, and trying to help you out in some way (this situation never occurs without our permission on some level.) I’ll give you an example of how this sort of arrangement might play out:

    Let’s say that you have a tendency to talk too much and share other peoples’ secrets. And as a result of your oversharing, you say too much to someone which causes that person to reconsider their relationship with you, in a way that has a negative impact on you.

    An earthbound spirit (often one that is already attached to the outside of your auric field) approaches you on the subconscious level and says to you “I can help you keep your mouth shut. I will repress your throat chakra energy so that you avoid situations like this in future.” And on some level, you agree to this.

    This can often happen when you’re asleep and dreaming (in the astrals.) Sometimes it can happen when you’ve used cannabis or some other drug. In the case of a child, it can happen during play, while the child is in the alpha state.

    This is just one example of what an earthbound spirit may propose to you. I’ve also seen earthbound spirits offer to repress an aspect of someone’s sexuality, and to help a person shut down emotionally to deal with emotional difficulties more easily.

    The effects of having an enmeshed earthbound spirit with you

    People who agree to this kind of situation (AKA having an enmeshed earthbound spirit with them) are not usually aware of what it actually entails. When they agree to it, they may not realise the drawbacks of such an energetic situation, and they may overestimate the benefits.

    It can also mean the spirit who is attached gets even more stuck as they find it hard to leave the person they’re enmeshed with.

    How to clear an enmeshed earthbound spirit situation

    Having an enmeshed earthbound spirit with you is not that common. I used to offer healing sessions to the general public and in my estimation, only about 2-3% of my clients were affected by an enmeshed earthbound spirit.

    These situations can end spontaneously when the client is ready, or they can end when a healer spots one and asks the client if they would like it to be cleared.

    Clearing an enmeshed earthbound spirit is a bit involved and needs to be done very carefully.

    In my Professional Intuitive Healing Program I teach healers how to achieve this.

    To release an enmeshed earthbound spirit from a person’s energy field, you need to go through a number of steps. Firstly, you need to be able to diagnose where an earthbound spirit is enmeshed with a client. Secondly, you need to bring in Divine being to help you with this type of healing. You need to cut a cord of attachment between the enmeshed spirit and the client. And you need to ask the Divine being to help the enmeshed spirit leave your client and cross over. Then you need to have a direct chat with the spirit and explain what is going to happen during the healing and that it’s OK to leave the client and cross over.

    This is the most complex type of healing that you can do, and it definitely does need to be done quite carefully in order for it to be effective.

    As I mentioned earlier in this article, it’s not that common to find that an enmeshed earthbound spirit is with your client, but releasing this kind of situation can make a difference to your client, when you spot it. And it can definitely make a difference to the spirit who is stuck with your client.

    If you’re a healer who would like to learn how to help clients with this type of situation, you might like to check out my Professional Intuitive Healing Program.

  • How to Connect with Your Higher Self

    How to Connect with Your Higher Self

    Your Higher self is the spirit part of you that is said to ‘reside’ in the Ether (the non-physical realm). It’s your Divine spark. This part of you helps you to keep on track with your life purpose, and in touch with your passion and joy.

    Is my Higher self the same as my Soul?

    Yes. It’s the part of you that has access to all the wisdom amassed over the course of the many lifetimes you’ve lived, past, present and future.

    What does my Higher self do?

    Your Higher self is like a pure background consciousness that offers forth its wisdom and directions about where to go now. Sometimes these directions can take a while to come through into your mind consciousness. However, there are ways to access the wisdom of your Higher self directly by bypassing the mind.

    Your Higher self is not ‘out there’ in the Ether. I want to put forward the idea that your Higher self is you, your consciousness, in your body.

    It’s you who set the course of your life and the things you came here to learn about before you even got here. It’s you who is whispering guidance to yourself about your highest path and purpose. It’s you who set that up as a mechanism by which you could use those as spiritual feedback about where you’re headed in your life.

    Am I ever separate from my Higher self? I don’t feel connected to my Spirit

    You can sometimes be alienated from your Higher self when you have limiting beliefs which block you from the truth of who you are as a spirit.

    Have you ever caught a glimpse of all the possibilities that exist for you? Have you ever had a feeling that you’re here to contribute something unique? Those are background input from your Higher self. We mostly drown out such input with our thoughts and fears, and when we listen to our fear, we feel disconnected from our spirit.

    How can I be more connected to my Higher self?

    Connecting to your Higher self means living your Spirit. It involves three things.

    1. Empowerment – remembering that you are a child of the Universe, with the power to create your world

    You came here to be incarnated in the physical and to keep a connection to your Spirit intact. You want to keep a connection to your Higher self because that’s the part of you which knows where to go, what to take on the journey, and also what to do to get there. Many souls who are incarnated here already do not have that connection anymore. They’ve lost it because they see themselves as separate from God or from the Divine energy that is the Creator of all things. People often treat themselves as if they’re at the mercy of an outside force that controls the course of our lives. This is the ‘normal’ way to be and behave.

    Living your Spirit means remembering that you are God energy or Source energy in a physical body, and you are also the co-creator of your world. The power inside you to create your world is the same power that creates worlds. You can utilize that power to create the world you want.

    2. Intuition – talking to yourself

    You don’t need to contact your Higher self as an entity outside of you – it is you! And you don’t need to get an intuitive reading in order to contact your Higher self (although you can if you’re particularly alienated and don’t know where you’re headed or what you want). The wisdom is inside of you, if you will access it.

    Listen to your desires

    Above all, pay attention to your desires. Your truest, heartfelt desires are feedback from your Higher self about what you want to do now.

    Living from your Higher self means not sacrificing or ignoring those desires. It also means listening to those desires on a daily basis.

    I manage my day by asking myself ‘what do I really want to do now?’

    You might think that asking myself that means that the stuff I don’t want to do never gets done but it’s not the case. I actually regularly become inspired to overcome the challenges and the difficult tasks also, when the time is right, or I bring in someone to help me. I take my desires as feedback about the direction I want to go in. And when I remember to do it, it allows me to live in an inspired way.

    Meditate and quiet your mind

    The quickest way to practise accessing your truest self is meditation. It quietens the mind and the chatter which tells you who you are and what you can and can’t do and be and takes you straight to the quiet and calm which is your Higher self. Start meditating by just focusing on your breath or the tip of your nose. Every time your attention wanders, just bring it back to your breath (or the tip of your nose, depending on what you’re focusing on.)

    Let’s have a look at the third and final step to help you connect with your Higher self:

    3. Healing – letting go of the clutter which stands between you and your truest self

    Most people who need healing don’t necessarily know what they need – they just know that they feel bad. So what can you do if you mostly feel bad? What if you don’t know what to do to heal that? You can just put out the intention to be as aligned as possible with your Higher self. Putting out that intention will put you on a healing journey back towards who you are.

    If you have the energy to be proactive, make it your work to clear away anything which is not aligned with who you really are.

    Here are some articles & resources for healing that you might find helpful:

  • Angels Defined & How They Can Help You

    Angels Defined & How They Can Help You

    Over the years, I’ve benefited greatly from the relationship I have with my angels and I want to pass on what I’ve learned about the angelic realm over time so that you too can raise your vibration with the help of the angels. In this article, I’m going to share some practical exercises you can use to call on your angels.

    Are You Calling on the Angels?

    A lot of people are open to the idea of communicating with their guides and see the benefits of doing this. But not as many people bother calling on the angels. I had one client this week who calls on his guides but finds angels too ‘new-age’ for him.

    It’s funny that my client thought that working with angels was too ‘new-age’, because angels are anything but ‘new-age’! If anything, they are ‘old-age’! They are featured in the Bible, in ancient/primitive literature and art of all kinds. They have been around helping humanity, literally since time began.

    But don’t think that because they’re featured in the Bible, they’re about religion. Angels assist all beings, without discrimination, whether you’re a Muslim, Jew, Christian or spiritual.

    What Are Angels Exactly?

    Angels are beings who are on a path of evolution that is entirely different from the human path of evolution. There are many different types of angel as there are types of human soul. Just to give you an idea of the variety — we all have Guardian Angels who protect us and guide us, angels that bring peace to sacred sites, there are angels of marriage who assist couples, there are Earth angels who protect natural landscapes and there are angels of healing.

    Angels specialize in embodying energies like love, peace, compassion and healing. They then bring these special energies to those of us incarnated on Earth so that we may access them when our vibration is very low, in times of sorrow, grief and pain.

    The angels also help us to dispel more minor negativity in our mind and spirit. They heal us, they protect us, they eliminate our fears and give us guidance (in much the same way as guides do.)

    Is There Much of a Difference Between Guides and Angels?

    Yes, there is.

    Guides are on the same path of evolution as human souls — most of them have experienced an Earthly incarnation before. Our guides are here to nudge us gently onto the paths that bring us the most learning and freedom, and they are spiritual helpers. By contrast, angels don’t guide. Your Guardian Angels (you often have two or three of these around you) fulfil many roles — they protect you, help to keep you safe, help you to heal and make you feel loved and cared for.

    How Exactly Can Angels Help?

    Angels can help you to:

    Feel good, feel protected, feel loved, feel comforted, remember who you are on the soul level, create positive life circumstances, heal yourself, heal others, take the paths which align with your highest path and purpose and raise your vibration so that you can contribute more of your positive energies to this funny old place which is Planet Earth. However, there is one condition to working with the angels:

    They will only help you if you’re perfect and good, all the time.

    Nah, I’m joking. The condition is that you must ask the angels to come into your life and help you. You have to do this because the angels will not make themselves known and heard by you, until you request it. It’s the rule of free will.

    In 2006 I first read one of Doreen Virtue’s books about the angelic realm and in it she reminds the reader that angels must be called on. So, I did this and was amazed at what happened. First of all, I met an angel in my dream spontaneously. I dreamed that I was waiting in line to buy a ticket at the local coach station. There was a woman right in front of me, with her back to me. In the dream, she turned around and looked me in the eye and said ‘you go in front of me’ and smiled. Looking into her eyes, it was clear that she was an angel. A wave of emotion swept me and I felt very nurtured and loved. The eyes of the angel were kind and gentle but also the kind of gaze that burns when you look at it. I woke up deeply moved from my dream and that feeling lasted for hours.

    Shortly after that, I began to see angel lights around me and around others. Angel lights look like orbs of coloured lights. You often see them moving or in the corner of your eye. Some people believe that angel lights are figments of our imagination. I don’t believe this because I never saw angel lights before in my life before I asked the angels to come into my life. I believe in angels, as I believe in all manifestations of Spirit. At really low times in my life I’ve seen my bedroom full of sparkling, coloured lights, dancing around, after having called on the Archangels. At times like those I’ve cried in gratitude at the playfulness and love of the angels.

    How Can I Work with My Guardian Angels Straight Away?

    You don’t need to be psychic to do this (although psychic ability helps). Just call on your angels. Ask them to come into your life. Ask them to come into your dreams. Ask them to help you clear any resistance to manifesting your desires. Ask them to heal any issues from the past. Ask them to watch over your loved ones. Ask them to protect you. (Below I list some exercises to connect with your angels.) Ask, ask, ask.

    How Will I Know Angels Are Around Me?

    If you’re clairsentient, you’ll be naturally gifted in communicating with the angelic realm because angels communicate with us very much through our emotional body and clairsentients are usually very sensitive, emotionally. You know you’re in the presence of an angel when a feeling of unearthly love sweeps you, or when you feel deeply cared for or moved for no reason.

    Exercises to Connect With the Angels

    This exercise allows you to enhance the lives of others by sending loving gifts to them and it requires your visual imagination:

    Close your eyes and imagine your Guardian Angel in front of you (you can imagine your angel however you like). Imagine a beautiful box in front of you and feel the love, gratitude, appreciation, strength, peace which you desire to pass on to your recipient. Place that energy into the box and tie it up with a beautiful bow. Give it to the angel with instructions to pass it on to your desired person. This is especially effective if you need to forgive someone or want someone to forgive you.

    This may sound like a silly exercise, but it works. An older member of our family was nursing her terminally ill daughter this year and throughout all those times I sent love and strength on a daily basis (or when I remembered). She felt it because she kept telling me that her spirits would lift for no reason and she would feel comforted and loved, in spite of what was happening. In the end, I told her what I was doing and she said she felt the presence of the angels around her at those times.

    Meet Your Angels in a Dream

    If you’ve never experienced the presence of an angel and don’t know what it feels like, ask the angels to come to you in a dream. If you’re feeling very discouraged or depressed, before you go to sleep, ask the angels to heal and uplift you in the night. Again, I’ve had great results from doing this. I even dreamed of being in a place which looked like a hospital (but didn’t feel like one, thankfully), surrounded by angelic beings. After that dream, I woken up refreshed, renewed and feeling good, despite going to bed feeling downcast.

    Give Your Cares to an Angel

    If you’re in pain or grief and you need some serious healing, imagine putting all your cares in a big sack or bag and hand it to an angel, then watch the angel take your cares to the light of God, where the negativity is transmuted to love and returned to you in the same bag. Feel the love energy you get in return from the angel.

    ‘White Light’ Your Possessions and Ask for Angelic Protection

    Call on Archangel Michael if you’re in fear and in need of some protection. When I’m on the London underground or walking in the street, I imagine a bubble of angelic protection around me. I also imagine Archangel Michael putting a white light around my handbag to protect it. You can also ask the angels to protect your home when you’re gone by white lighting it.

    Further Reading:

  • Four Ways to Heal Yourself

    Four Ways to Heal Yourself

    I believe that healing (bringing ourselves back into alignment with love, wholeness and joy) is a big part of some peoples’ soul purpose here.

    Here are some methods/online resources for self-healing which you can use by yourself:

    1. Use EFT to tap on negative thoughts and emotions.

    For information on this, visit www.emofree.com

    EFT is an acupressure technique which clears the energy meridians of negative energy. I began using EFT last year to tap on strong emotions like anger and found it to be very effective. If you’re new to EFT, there are videos on there which show you how to tap your negative thoughts and emotions.

    2. My absolute favourite resource for self-healing is the work of Byron Katie:

    If you have not yet heard about Byron Katie, here’s a bit about her: Byron Katie spent ten years in a deep depression. She felt so unworthy that she slept on the floor even though she had a bed! For two years, she was unable to leave her bedroom because she was so depressed. One day, she came to the realization that when she believed her painful thoughts, she suffered and when she didn’t believe them, she didn’t suffer. Out of this, she developed a method of inquiry, to question her painful thoughts and end her suffering. She now dedicates her life to doing ‘the work’ as she calls it, with other people.

    ‘The work’ consists of four questions to ask yourself when faced with a thought that doesn’t feel good:

    1. Is it true?

    2. Can you absolutely know that it’s true?

    3. How do you react when you believe that thought?

    4. Who would you be without the thought?

    Why I Love ‘The Work’

    1. Our overall state of happiness is often so dependent on what we think is true about ourselves and our lives. The work is a reminder that just because we think it, doesn’t make it true. The work has helped me to find peace when faced with thoughts like: ‘I should have more money’, ‘I should be working more’, ‘I should be X or Y or Z when I’m not!’. I used to live my life in a constant state of stress thinking things should be different. Through questioning my stressful thoughts, compared to before, I now spend vastly more time enjoying reality than I do fighting with it and thinking it should be otherwise.

    2. The work also helps us to heal past events by putting a different perspective on them and showing you that ‘negative’ experiences are always blessings in disguise in that they have something to teach us or show us. I love the idea that as souls we always send ourselves the most loving experiences possible, even when they appear to be disastrous ones. Something in that strikes a chord of truth in me.

    3. The work takes the focus off mindless activity and a state of doing and helps you to shift to a state of ‘being’, where you can be fully present and enjoy reality. I know that one of my natural tendencies is definitely to pursue things that I think will make me happy. In giving in to this tendency, I miss out on enjoying where I am now.

    I think that to some degree or other, we all have a tendency to do that – we spend our lives going after something, whether it’s money, love, approval, success, essentially whatever we think will bring us happiness. We can’t find peace because we are attached to notions like ‘I should earn more money’, ‘my children should be more respectful’ or ‘my wife should not have left me’. Instead of being at peace, we see a huge array of problems and are so intent on solving them that we forget that we’re not stopping to smell the roses and enjoy life.

    The work is not just about healing, it’s also a tool for manifesting a future that you do want. If you can release your negative beliefs and stories about your present reality, that in turn frees up lots of energy to create more of what you do want in the future! All good in my book.

    If you’re new to questioning your thoughts and it seems a bit overwhelming, that’s a normal reaction I think. The fact that we may want to question that bad stuff is bad is definitely a revolutionary idea.

    3. Ask for the assistance of the angels to help you to release negative energies

    I can think about a negative past event or situation and turn it over in my mind for weeks, but if I do the below exercise, it’s gone within five minutes.

    So I personally use the following exercise to release anything in my past that creeps up on me and makes me feel sad/embarrassed/guilty/angry/fearful. I’m talking about the kind of memories which are so uncomfortable to think about, you stuff them into a corner of your brain. Did you know that repressing and burying memories or feelings actually uses up a lot of energy?

    Things you can use this releasing exercise on:

    • Hurtful things said to you in the past
    • Things you have done/said in the past which you feel guilty about
    • To release strong anger, resentment or other negative feelings connected to past events
    • To let go of persistent negative memories which won’t leave you alone
    • To allow you to forgive somebody or to ask their forgiveness

    Imagine a green light burning at your heart chakra. This represents your compassion for yourself. Call on Archangel Michael and Archangel Raphael (Michael is the protector and Raphael the healer). (The angels come if you call them. But they respect your free will and will not come without your express invitation.)

    Do a breathing exercise to quiet your thoughts and emotions and to raise your vibration. Inhale to the count of four, hold to the count of four and exhale to the count of eight, and repeat.

    Set an intention for the releasing process. For example: ‘I intend to put X out of my mind’ or ‘I intend to release this emotion which is draining my energy’.

    The releasing process is this:

     Say out loud (or in your mind):

    The anger I feel towards X for breaking his promise to me (as an example), thank you for being here.

    All the parts of me which are protecting this issue, return now to Source

    All the negative effects of this issue, return now to Source, never to return again or to affect me in mind, body or spirit.

    The anger I feel towards X for breaking his promise to me, return now to Source, I forgive you, Thank you.

    (Visualize the angels taking your anger to the light of God to be transmuted to love energy)

    If there are lots of different feelings and aspects to your situation, you may want to split them up and release them one by one.

    I am only just comprehending how powerful asking the angels to remove negativity really is. Using a method very similar to this one, I have seen amazing results with clients and myself. You may see working with angels as wishful thinking. It is really not. Ask the angels from your heart to help you and they will work on your behalf.

    4. Let go of the hurtful things you’ve heard from others

    Another way to clear words or actions that have hurt you: My teacher Anna Wolf (who is an angel intuitive and healer) recommends writing down any trauma/event or hurtful things that have been said onto a piece of paper and burning it. Another method to use is ripping up the paper into tiny pieces and putting it into a container filled with water. Then put the container in the freezer for three months.

    Further Reading on Other Ways to Achieve Healing: