Jenny Smedley: A Train Ride to Transformation

Jenny Smedley discovered her purpose in life during a train journey when she had a surprise encounter with an Angel, and no one was more surprised than Jenny herself because she hadn’t expected ever to be called on by the Angelic Realm to work with them and for people. However, the call was accepted and answered and now Jenny is a well known international author who writes for six magazines around the globe.

She describes herself as a ‘seed planter’. “Basically this means planting a seed or nurturing one if it’s already there. I can do this by turning ordinary photographs into aura pictures, or creating original portraits of peoples’ Angels. I use both to read into them answers to what’s puzzling my clients.”

This rather unusual method of working lead to Jenny securing a presenting role on local television, which in turn led to her becoming a published writer and author.
She has written eleven books so far, the last four of which were published by Hay House. She writes both fictional and factual books, and all her books are all designed to plant the seeds she believes she was meant to plant. Her writing includes work about past lives and animals.

She has been married for forty years to a husband she credits with giving her his total support, and also with coping with her “spiritual epiphany”. Jenny says that she knows “Of many couples who have split when one of them has any kid of spiritual epiphany, and I know I couldn’t have coped or progressed as far as I have without him.”
She describes the transcendent encounter, which took place on a train between Norwich and Somerset, as being taken over by a presence so loving that it transcended human experience. It took the form of “Into one of the deepest trances I’d ever experienced. I could literally feel my vibration increasing, leaving the train far behind in another reality. I could still hear the sound of the train in a peripheral sort of way, but it really didn’t exist in the same plane as me, and if it had suddenly caught fire I could well have been impervious to the knowledge.”

This obviously goes to prove that when you are called upon to begin your life’s work you can be reached by your Guides in the simplest and most down to earth places. So those worrying that they don’t meditate or train enough should take note; they’ll come and find you when the time is right.

Jenny says that “It isn’t easy to connect with angels – not the powerful ones that can change your life. If I handed you a guitar for the first time you wouldn’t expect to be able to play it without a lot of practise, and it’s the same thing with angels. Angel Whispers – out now – is a sort of manual for people trying to get help from their angels. It isn’t something you can learn overnight, but I have had countless demonstrations of how they can help you if you do manage to get in touch.”

We asked her what advice she would give to beginners wishing to start sensing the Angelic Realm and what she sees as the benefits of this particular voyage of discovery. “The most important and the most difficult thing is to be positive. I tell people to liken themselves to a little boat on the sea; negative emotions make the waters choppy and stormy, positive emotions make the water calm. Your angel is like a raft trying to get to you. The more negative waves you make the more you push your angels away. The best way to start building positive energy that I’ve found is with the use of a focus picture.”

“ You create an image and words that represent how you’d like your life to be and focus intently on it each morning before you rise (“Angel Whispers” has the full instructions). Once you’ve done this for at least a month, start watching for signs – feathers in unusual places, scents, cobweb touches on your skin, messages from animals and birds, letters in number plates or hoardings that mean something to you, orb photos, butterflies. The list is endless as Angels are not lacking in imagination! Ask for something small that you’d really like to come to you. Then let it go, make like a sheep and be led, take the path of least resistance.”

Jenny feels that a connection to the Angelic Realm is vital if you want to fulfil your life plan. “That fulfilment is the only way to true inner happiness that can’t be destroyed by outside influences.”

Apart from her work as seed planter for the Angels Jenny is also an animal intuitive, she says that she doesn’t communicate as such; it is more that she is able to feel their emotions and energy. She is very much an animal person and wants to help them to “Get a better deal” in this world. She has written a book on the subject called “Pets Have Souls Too”. However, even this work is inspired and aided by the Angels. Her best known area of expertise is in past lives and past life therapy – she is a qualified regression therapist, but sadly she has very little time to do it nowadays.

She is well travelled with her work and we asked her if there are differences in belief systems, approaches or acceptance of her work in different countries. She says that wherever she goes she finds people with very similar beliefs. It’s good to know that there are belief systems that resonate throughout the world and don’t cause conflict and anger.

Her Spiritual beliefs clearly come from the bedrock of personal experience and been formed from what she knows rather than what she chooses to believe. The most touching story of proof of our Spiritual existence revolves around the death of her beloved father who was struck by Motor Neurone disease. She describes her feelings of seeing her previously strong and healthy father reduced to a shadow of his former self, and her frustration at knowing that because at that point times were tough, she could only afford one visit to see him towards the end of his life; something that was obviously deeply wounding. Doing the best she could to judge the timing she eventually made the train journey to Norfolk to say goodbye to her father.

She describes her feelings of seeing her previously strong and healthy father reduced to a shadow of his former self, and her frustration at knowing that she could only afford one visit to see him towards the end of his life; something that was obviously deeply wounding. Doing the best she could to judge the timing she eventually made the train journey to Norfolk to say goodbye to her father. “Dad was fading, and we settled in to wait. At about 5am I was sitting in the chair across the room from the bed, not comfortable enough to sleep, but letting myself drift. I’d been praying hard to my angels, and his angels, and any angels that might be listening, to let me have just one more special moment with the Dad who had given me so many of them. Suddenly I was astonished to see a ghostly shape rise up from my own body and walk to the bed. I was transparent, in spirit form, and as I approached the bed, Dad’s spirit sat up, which his physical form was incapable of doing. I reached him and we hugged. I sat in the chair watching myself and my Dad, totally amazed. I got that hug I had been wishing for! After a few moments, my ‘ghost’ walked back to the chair and sunk back into my body. I felt wide awake and happy!”

“I looked back at Dad and his ghost had risen to a standing position. He was still attached by his feet to the body in the bed, and although the spirit struggled it could not break free. I felt so happy because I knew then without any doubt that Dad not only wanted to go, but that he had somewhere to go to, somewhere he couldn’t wait to be. Death wasn’t going to be the end for him at all! Two hours later Dad breathed his last. I saw a flash of movement out of the corner of my eye, and knew that Dad had gone to the light.” A heart-warming and hopeful story if ever there was one.

However, to further the cause of laughter being the best medicine we asked Jenny whether she had a funny story to share with our readers, and indeed she had. She tells of actually managing to irritate an Angel – which one would think to be completely impossible. Apparently this brave endeavour (well you have to be brave to try the patience of an Angel don’t you?) came during a flight to America. No fan of air travel Jenny had braved the flight to visit a country that she had always wanted to visit, and because she needed to meet a past-life husband. At first she was doing well, but then they flew straight into a storm complete with lightening whizzing round the aircraft and the crew strapped in within in an inch of their lives. Naturally Jenny began to panic.

“Just then a blue haze appeared right in front of me and before my very eyes stood a beautiful blue angel complete with white feathered wings. The scream died in my throat. The angel leaned towards me wrapping his wings around me. I looked to see if anyone else was amazed by this apparition, but it was obvious I was the only one who could see it. The angel spoke to me and he said ‘Do not be afraid, I am holding the plane.” Then he vanished and I became totally calm. After a while my euphoria wore off as the plane showed no signs of stopping its aerial rodeo and I started to panic again. Back came the angel. This happened a third time, and by then I think he was getting annoyed with me. He leaned in again and said quite forcefully, “You will not fall. I am holding the plane.” Unspoken were his un-angelic thoughts, ‘so for goodness sake let me get on with it and stop wasting my time!’ Needless to say we landed safely, and I have never been scared of flying since then.

As our regular readers will know, we always ask our famous subjects if they have some special advice to contribute that has helped them to change their lives for the better. Jenny’s advice is “Go for past life regression, you have nothing to lose and literally everything to gain. If you don’t know about the lives you’ve lived before you have amnesia of the soul.”

Apart from the eleven books she has already had published Jenny has two more books coming out in March 2010 – “Soul Angels” – and autumn 2010 – “Angels in the Wings”, and having read “Angel Whispers” we’d certainly recommend that you look out for them.

It’s clear from the titles and subject matter of her books that all life is important to Jenny whether in human or animal form, or nature itself. Her warmth and compassion radiates from the pages into the reader’s heart and mind, and conveys a hopefulness that is often missing in this cynical old world of ours. Long may she grace the bookshelves with her messages of hope.

© Deb Hawken - First published in Eternal Spirit Magazine, Winter Solstice 2010