Honoring and Connecting with Your Loved Ones During the Holiday Season

In this heartfelt episode of the Awakening to Yourself podcast, host Cristina Loureiro, an Angel Reiki Master Teacher and Angel Messenger, shares ways to honor and feel connected with loved ones during the holiday season. Cristina discusses personal traditions, offers insights on interpreting signs from departed loved ones, and guides listeners through a meditative exercise to connect with their spirit. She emphasizes the importance of acknowledging emotions, sharing memories, and staying open to messages from angels and loved ones. Cristina also encourages listeners to share their own traditions and reminds them of the support available through angel readings and energy healing sessions.

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Transcript

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Hello lovely souls!Welcome back to the Awakening to Yourself Self podcast. I'm Cristina Loureiro, your host, Angel Reiki Master Teacher, and Angel Messenger. I apologize for not posting an episode last week. My real life job has just been really busy and I just didn't have the capacity to make a podcast episode, so I apologize. Here's an episode for the holidays. This podcast episode is about missing and connecting with your loved ones during theholidays. Friends, I wish you a blessed happy holidays. I know that the holidayseasons can bring a bittersweet feeling. I've been starting to feel this myself. I'm recording this on the 22nd of December. I've been really feeling my loved ones, but I'm also have been missing them a little bit more and just feeling their presence a lot more. And I think that's because of the holiday season where, especially for my family, we celebrate Christmas and it's a big holiday for us. We all get together and it's not about the gift giving. It's just about connecting with one another since we don't always see each other on a daily basis. So I want to talk about different ways that we can honor and remember also our loved ones but also feel connected with their loved ones even though they're not here on earth. But also for loved ones that are not able to experience the holidays in the samelocation as you. Or even for loved ones that are in here on earth but you don't have a a relationship with them anymore or there's just something there is what the angels are bringingthrough to me. I want to start off with a couple personal stories I think might help you resonate but the angels are really kind of stopping me at the moment and saying that if somethingresonates with you within this podcast episode. That's a message from your spirit team, either from your guides, your angels, or even your loved ones during this episode. So take what resonates with you. So every year we um make our Christmas tree and both my grandparents have passed away, my grandma and grandpa, and when they passed, I felt really called to get an ornament to remember them from. So, for example, my grandma comes through to me a lot as a cardinal, so we have a cardinal ornament representing her. For my grandpa, we have a grandpa ornament. And we always put them near the top of the Christmas tree. Kind of front and center. And also this year I was called to uh put little poinsettia, little candles in front of their pictures that we have in the living room. I've never really done that before, but I just felt really called every time I looked at my loved ones corner where we have pictures of all our loved ones that have passed and are still here, group photos, things like that. So I putthe loved ones front and center on the little table with little poinsettia candles to kind of honor them. How you experience your traditions is beautiful no matter how you do it. It's important to kind of incorporate your loved ones. You might not do what I do. But I'd love to hear what you do to honor them for the holiday season, because the holiday season can be very bittersweet. For me, I've been missing them a lot. This time I'm kind of holding any memories, any feelings that I feel. So lately my loved ones have been showing me memories together. My great grandpa is actually coming through and he's he passed away when I was very young, but I just know him from conversations with my family, but also the little memories that I have. And he would also always, always, always laugh at the littlest things and he would get the whole family to crack up because he was laughing. His laugh was so contagious. So he's bringing me through this memory of. Whenever we're all cracking up for absolutely no reason, we know he's with us because he just brings that sense of joy and love and peace with him. So I think this message is really for all of you, that if you're having a memory of somebody, just honor it. Even talk about it with your friends and family. I always will say, oh, grandpa's around, we're all laughing like crazy. But also, it can be just a sign. Yesterday, my family and I went to Rhode Island. We wanted to do something different to kick off the holiday season. And for me, I know that Cardinals are big during this time of year, but I just saw these group of cardinal ornaments, and that just was like, oh, grandma, I really feel you. And you might be saying, but cardinals are so popular. How did you feel that it was asign? I can't describe it. I just like had this gut feeling that I knew it was her. And I took that sign and I said, thank you, grandma, for coming and being with us today. I also felt my grandpa around a lotyesterday. His wife, my grandma is here in the States. She's normally in Portugal, so I've been feeling him a lot here because um he was supposed to come here five years ago, but unfortunately he passed. So he was really with us yesterday, providing love and peace and just making the dayreally go by. So some holidays traditions that we have on Christmas nights, we do not put away the dishes. We leave the table set as is. And we've just had the tradition for many, many, many, many years. And we believe that the loved ones will eat our leftovers, and kind of honor them as not being here in person, but having a seat at the table. I can just see it in my third eye, even though we feel them when we're experiencing Christmas lunch, Christmasdinner. It's just a nice gesture that we do is we just leave it and then the next morning we just. Clean everything, but we just honor them for that. I know that there are other cultures that honor their loved ones. I've heard lighting candles for loved ones next to a photo. I don't like the candles. I'm just a little weary that it might damage the photo, but others do things like that. Some people might cook their favorite dish to honor them. For us, we also bring up memories of our loved ones. Just our favorite places that we experience with them. Sometimes we will pull out a photo album. Many years ago, I took all of my p arents VHS types of my brother and I and I made CDs and just give it to them one Christmas. So we'll play that because that will feature some of our loved ones. Now, your loved ones love when you remember them for their happier moments. Not for the sadder ones where you know, they were sick or they on their last days. So we always remember the happier, fun moments. Reach out to friends and family that want to share stories, share stories with with your loved ones. They're with you when you're sharing those memories. You might think of a memory just out of nowhere, and that's your loved one coming through and being like, I'm with you right here right now. This is my favorite memory with you. And I think that's really cool for loved ones to do is to be like, here, here's this memory. Think of me right now and how much fun we were having and the joy and peace that we were feeling. So think of those memories and even get into a meditation and bring that memory back and see if you can feel your loved one. Use your clairsenses. See, feel, the knowingness of, hear. For me, I hear it in my inner voice, so I don't hear like my grandpa's voice or my grandma's voice. Um But just you get to learn what their energy feels like. So trying that this holiday season is. Connect with only one loved one. and see what their energy feels like. It's a very fun exercise to do. We'll share that in a in a further episode. Talk about what you miss with about your loved ones. I think that's also important. Not only the memories, but what you miss about them. Certain characteristics, for example, my great grandpa is t he laugher of the family. So when we all start laughing, we know it's him. Allow for self-care. Give yourself some self-care this um this year. Allow space for you to experience your emotions. Maybe you want to cry because you're missing your loved ones. Your loved ones want you to know that that'scompletely OK. Just don't go too low vibrational with your feelings. Some activities you can do to enjoy the time, so whether that be going to multiple holiday events, t hat might be your simplest thing at home and getting cozy and watching your favorite movie and asking your loved ones or your guides or your angels to bewith you. Now, you might also beexperiencing um some feelings of missing loved ones that are not able to be in the same space with you. With technology now, you can FaceTime, you can um do voice notes, Skype and FaceTime, and Facebook Messenger, you can even make a shared album, you can make a playlist, there's so many different waysthat you can do that. Um I know for me a good portion of my family's in Portugal so we'll do Facebook Messenger video, video calls. So think about that this this holiday season. Now the angels want to bringthrough that even though your loved ones aren't here they're going to be with you during this holiday season they're going to bring you some love, some comfort, and some healing. So what your angels want you to know for missing your loved ones is that your loved ones are here or they're in spirit, but they're never really truly far away. Love is such a high vibrational energy that it can go worldwide. It's kind of the same concept of my A ngel Reiki sessions, my distance Angel Reiki sessions. Energy travels far and wide. You don't have to physically touch somebody or be in the same room to feeltheir energy. Love is internal, it it just is so big it can reach anyone and anywhere. That's why prayer is so important. It's okay to feel sadness and to grieve. But I want you to listen to the whispers of love that are in your heart. I want you to honor these emotions. So if you're feeling sad or you're feeling grief, it's okay to feel sad and grief during these times. But I want you to think about the happier moments with your loved ones. Talk about them. Bring up memories. I know in my family that always brings us happiness is to remember our loved onesthe way that we want to remember them, so not in their last days or when they were sick. So a simple prayer that I want to give to you is, angels, please surround mewith your love. Please help me feel the presence of my loved ones in any way possible that makes me feel peace and joy. And that's just so powerful. Because the way you phrase it in any way possible is really powerful because we all have our clear senses, our clear gifts, and we want to make sure that we feel that love and that joy and feel the presence of our loved ones. So however that resonates for you, that might be smell, hearing, seeing,healing, get a knowingness of. I know my grandpa was a smoker. Every once in a while I'll smell cigarette smoke and I'll know it's him. Not always. He doesn't like to always show me that, but when I'm not receiving his other signs, he'll he'll give that to me. Or I'll see something in the corner of my eye and I'll ask, Who is it?And they'll say, Oh, it's XYZ. Which actually is bringing me to a really good point is ask if you feel something, ask who?Thank you for giving me that sign or message. Who is this from?And just sit in silence for a moment and see if you can get that answer. I know that's helped me a lot finding out what or who gave me that that signor message. So your loved ones and your angels can give you subtle signs. For example, feathers are a big one, a specific song that resonates with your loved one, um numbers, angel numbers. Sometimes it's not even angel numbers but it could be like their birthday or the year they were born or the the year that they passed or their date that they passed, but you might also feel things. So just stay connected with that and um listen to your heart and yourintuition. So the angels wanted me to give you a angelic exercise to connect with their loved ones. So if you're driving or operating any machinery, pause here and when you're in a safe quiet space then you can dothis exercise. So, if you're in a safe quiet space, I want you to closeyour eyes. I want you to take a deepbreath in. Deep breath out. Deep breath in. Deep breath out. And one more to just ground us. Deepbreath in. Deep breath out. I want you to imagine yourself in your favorite outdoor location and you see that there is a bench there. Don't change your location, just the first location that you imagine. You see this bench and I'd like you to go and sit onthat bench. And just take in the scenery. If you know this location, great. You should, it's going to be your favorite outdoor location, but if it's not your favorite outdoor location, there's probably a reason that uh you wentthere. Now, I want you to visualize or imagine your loved one, just one, imagine just one loved one, and they're walking towards you. And they're going to sit next to you on the bench. Now you might have an aha moment and realize why you went to that location. That might be a location where your loved ones have many memories with you or they just might want to experience your favorite outdoor location with you. And your loved one comes smiling, filled with joy to see you. They might give you a hug. I'm going to give you a moment and your loved one is going to share a message with you or a thought. And I want you to trust what that message is. Now, remember, you might not see their lips moving. That's because they're communicating you with their energy or telepathic energy. So I'm going to give you a moment just to receive any messages that your loved ones have for you this holidayseason. All right, friends. I want you to hug your loved ones, thank them for the message or messages that you received. If you did not receive a message, don't get discouraged. I think just feeling their presence ishuge. Imagining them is huge. But if you would like, you can ask your loved one to give you a message during this holiday season. You might be specific. You might say, I want to see XYZ on Christmas Day. And go with the first thing that comes to your mind, because that's your loved one wanting to connect with you with that specific sign or message. So go ahead and ask. Alright friends, let's wrap up with giving them a hug. It is not goodbye, it's see you later. We can always connect with our loved ones. And I want you to slowly start to come back to yourbody. Wiggle your toes and wiggleyour feet. And we're going to slowly start to wrap up this episode. So I hope you were able to get some messages from your loved ones or even just the message itself of feeling or seeing your loved one or even hearing from them. I think that's really important. Do your angels want to talk to you about r eceiving signs and messages from even strangers through conversation, or even just the feeling of opening a door for somebody, or even just receiving a call from a friend. Maybe they just want to check in and and see how you're doing because they know the holiday season is hard. Or if you get an intuitive hit and want to call somebody um that you're thinking about, that's probably a sign as well. I encourage you to just remain open this holiday season to any signs and messages that come through with the angels or through your loved ones. Umm I just like to do a soft reminder that I do offer angel Reiki sessions which I connect with your loved ones and spirit team angels as well as doing energy healing. I also do angel readings, which I connect with your spirit team to delivermessages as well. I just encourage you to share your traditions that you how you honor your loved ones on my social media, Cristina Angel Messenger. Please share this podcast episode with your friends and family. I hope this episode resonated with you. I hope you got some messages embedded in this episode. Please send me any messages, any comments. Please leave a five star review. Any and all reviews help the podcast get to a wider audience. I'd also love to hear how you honor your loved ones, because there's so many different cultures. There's so many different families here on Earth that. I think it's really important toshare that. So in closing, I'd like to thank you all for tuning into this episode. Like I said, I apologize for not posting an episode last week. And I can't wait to work with all of you in 2025 if any of my sessions call to you, Angel Readings, or Angel Reiki, they're both in person and distance. You can also book an Angel R eading party for a group of eight. Some takeaways from this episode is that there are many, many different ways to honor your loved ones during the holiday season, that it's OK to feel sadness and grief, but just to take in the spirit of the holiday where you're with friends and family, but you're also reminiscing on loved ones. As always, friends, thank you and have a blessed, blessedday.