How do I get my Imessages to come to my Mac? There is no icon for messages at all that I can see

I have no idea where or how to alter all the icons that are on my Mac - there are some I would like to remove, but I would also like to add the ability for my Imessages to come to my Mac so I don't have to hunt down my phone when I am sitting on my Mac and a message comes in. Need all the help I can get

So on your Mac there should be an app called "Messages" that handles iMessages for your Apple/iCloud account. Open this app to sign into your account and setup iMessaging on your Mac.
If you DO NOT see this app, it may not be supported by your current operating system. To have the ability to run iMessages on your computer, you need to be using Mac OSX Lion or later.
Prior operating systems do not have this capability.

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