Understanding and Connecting with Your Spiritual Self

By Lisa Gawlas

A perfect guide for anyone who has embarked on their spiritual journey. Includes meditation techniques designed to connect you with your Spirit Guides. Also includes detailed information on the spiritual void times, the dark night of the soul, why we fall in and out of love, as well as how to integrate your Kundalini energy to raise your vibration. A complete understanding to awakening!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lisa Gawlas
• Release date: Sep 11, 2010
• ISBN: 9781452429632

Lisa Gawlas

In 1962, Lisa (Parkhurst) Gawlas was born into a dysfunctional family fraught with neglect and abuse. Little did Lisa know that those tumultuous early years were necessary lessons guiding her toward spiritual awakening. Lisa put in a stint with the navy, had three children, married, and enjoyed excellent employment and income. But in November 2000, her world was falling apart, and she was guided to begin her spiritual healing quest. Since that joyous occasion, Lisa has deepened her spiritual awareness and earned her hypnotherapy and massage therapy certifications. In the last ten years, she has helped thousands of people around the world with their own spiritual awakening. As a spiritual/medical intuitive, Lisa is devoted to helping others illuminate their own divine paths through spiritual energy work. She has recorded numerous podcasts of her guided meditations, and written a wealth of articles on spiritual growth and raising your vibration, which are available on her website. Lisa currently resides in New Mexico, and blogs regularly about her ongoing journey.

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Understanding and Connecting with

Your Spiritual Self

By Rev. Lisa M. Gawlas, CHt

Smashwords Edition Copyright © 2010 by Lisa M. Gawlas

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Table of Contents

Introduction

Reading and Learning from the Heart

Developing Patience

Embracing Your Past

Ego vs. Self

Fear

There is no Evil

Release Fear

Prayer and Trust

Abundance

Trust

Meditation

Beginners Meditation Exercise

Spiritual Guides and Teachers

Body Signals

City of Light Meditation

Automatic Writing

Reclaim Your Energy

Building Your Own Energy Field Meditation

Your Multi-Dimensional Self Exercise

The Spiritual Void

The Dark Night of the Soul

The Side Effects of Spiritual Awakening

Healing

The Challenge of Self-love

Unconditional Love and Non-judgment

Communicating via the Love Frequency

How We Attract What We Need

Why do we fall in and out of love?

Kundalini and Sexual Energy

Chakras

Understanding the World of Energy

How Energy Communicates With You

Déjà vu

Living Library

Your Changing World

Weeds and Flowers

We Are All Equal

Spiritual Awareness-Choosing One-ness

Closing Thoughts

The Meaning of Namaste

Introduction

Ever since I opened a very sleepy eye to this crazy thing called my spiritual awakening everyone has talked about ascension. The planet is doing it, we are doing it, Christ did it… huh? Christ? But he died!!! Ah yes, but then he ascended.

Although I have spent most of my life (at least from age 13 forward) trying to get out of this body and go Home, I wasn't so sure that was the trip I wanted to take. Moving thru the levels and layers of meditation was actually making this life pretty exciting, so I figured I would ignore the whole ascension gig and just do my bathtub journeys and renew my life's understandings and experiences.

Believe it or not, meditation was my saving grace. Meditation was my life's motivation to wake up and do another day on earth. The days rushed forward into months like a river that just received a torrential downpour of heavenly liquid. The months quickly folded into years. I truly believe that the caterpillar has no real awareness of the amazing butterfly that will one day emerge from its own lifecycle; nor do we humans.

You and I could and probably should be very envious of the caterpillar. It never sits around thinking… oh but I have to give up so much. I have to go into a sort of suspended animation (the cocoon) and change." The caterpillar has no self-aware consciousness. It does what its own heavenly inner biology tells it to do. We humans have consciousness; We are blessed with a free will. We can choose to change…or not. We can choose to let go of one lifestyle… or not. Free will - treacherous!

I think somewhere deep inside of me I really had the DNA of a caterpillar. I had no real clue where I was going or what I was doing. I simply continued to move forward. Sometimes gracefully but most of the time stomping my feet, waving my fists in the air and releasing fitful breaths of air from within…I couldn't stop.

Each breath of meditation I inhaled took me deeper into myself. The first amazing change was the calming of the battlefield I used to call my mind. As my mind calmed, the illnesses that plagued both my mind and body ceased to exist. A connection to life started to weave its way thru the core of my spirit/heart. I developed an amazing trust in the unseen world of spirit.

Anyone who says that awakening to your true divinity is easy and effortless has not really been thru the journey! The awakening is designed to pull the very fabric of your self-imposed, self-imprisoning belief systems from the core of your being. Letting go of the myriad of false beliefs is painful, painstaking in attempt, and incredibly freeing beyond human comprehension. The moment you let one false reality go, there is yet another one already knocking on your door to be set free. Each release comes with a massive test from the Universe to see if you not only get it but how to live the new understanding. It requires that you give up any sense of self, so that means you will be saying good-bye to ego lead life and hello to the heart lead life. This journey requires years of programming be undone by unseen voices that assure you, YOU ARE NOT WHO YOU THINK YOU ARE while they push you further! Of course, we always have the choice to stop or go forward. Remember free will?

My desire is to join you, with confidence and trust, with that wondrous Spirit within, so that you may seek all that you wish within yourself. To offer you your own personal tools that you already possess within to invite Spirit into your vehicle (body) and gently move your ego over so that it equally welcomes the heart of Spirit. And, allow the ego to realize it is not being taken over, but working in harmony with the Source of all life!

In doing this, you will naturally learn to communicate with your spiritual guides, your higherSelf, and our creator (God). Not as a one-sided conversation, but as a two-way form of communication.

The more you get used to listening within, the more Spirit will merge with your life. As Spirit merges with your life, you will start to live in a state of unconditional love and non-judgment. Trust will become embedded in your heart, and fear will become a thing of the past. And your questions and doubts will cease to be.

You will notice as you start your journey through this book that I have added a few elements from my own past to help you relate and understand. It was in this place that I could ask my many questions and seek answers. Equally, I grew into me as I did this. I feel that sharing these milestones of my own spiritual unfolding with you in this handbook will help with your own understanding of what is to come.

I have also included channelings that I received as I attempted to understand unconditional love and trust as well as the whole concept of channeling (receiving information from unseen sources). The majority of these teachers that channeled through me came to me from the star system known as the Pleiades, also known as the Seven Sisters, which is located in the belt of Orion. If you want to know more about the Pleiadian beings that come selflessly to help humankind to awaken to their full potential, do a Web search. There is a lot of information out there. Remember to process all information from your heart, so that you can always recognize your truth in anything you read.

Reading and Learning from the Heart

You have learned to read books by now. You see the words on a page, process the information through your brain, and assume you know the intended meaning. Most books are okay to read this way because that was their original design. However, there are books written, both new and old, where you need to learn to interpret the information on the pages. What is real and true within the information? What is real and true for you?

When you learn to turn down or even, at times, turn off that logical part of your human makeup-your brain-you need to learn how and where to process information again.

It is at this time that you will learn to read with your heart. Your heart should be your central processor for information that you receive from any source or stimuli. It is where your Spirit is. It is the source of all your truth. The heart is born of love and does not know or accept lies, deceit, or trickery (such as the ego does to maintain control).

You look at a book as black and white, empty space, and the written word. You may tend to read the words and skip over the white space. When you do this, you are missing the

Reviews for Understanding and Connecting with Your Spiritual Self

[Patricia · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This was an excellent read that really struck many cords with me. It is a book that I will refer to again and again to clarify things when the path becomes tricky to navigate. Looking forward to the next book Lisa.