Spirit Matters: Gateways to Healing and Higher Dimensions

By Connie Howell

Have you ever wondered what it is like to be on a spiritual path? Do you sometimes wish you could see into the invisible world of spirit guides and celestial beings? You already communicate with higher consciousness through intuition but you may not realise it.

Everyone has the capability to tune into other dimensions but doubt and disbelief will cloud the mind causing frustration. The thoughts that others can do it but not you are a barrier to receiving guidance. The idea that you have to be specially gifted to “see or hear” prevents you from opening up to the often subtle messages that spirit beings are trying to convey.

Signs from the universe come in many forms and until you attune to a higher awareness you may be oblivious to most other than the “hit you over the head” kind of information.

It isn’t easy to stay focused on a spiritual life when we are regularly presented with everyday challenges but when we know can turn to a higher consciousness it helps us deal with life in a more informed and understanding way.

Instead of playing small and thinking that there is nothing special about ourselves we can learn that we are powerful and strong. It is only conditioning and belief that hold us down and keep us in the illusion that we are simply physical entities. The fact is we are spiritual beings having a human experience, rather than human
beings having a spiritual experience.

We come from the spirit world with a plan to learn certain lessons and to hopefully master them, these lessons can include learning how to be powerless or powerful, healthy or disabled, rich or poor. Every one of us has lived before and will live again in a physical existence but these are things you have to discover for yourself to make them meaningful. There is nothing more convincing that direct experience but even then the mind will want to make you doubt the things you cannot explain in rational and logical terms.

You are not alone in your struggles. Spirit Matters, Gateways to Healing and Higher Dimensions offers you the opportunity to look deep within and decide how you can best connect with the spiritual dimensions and the loving guides and teachers that are there to help. That is of course if you have the desire or inclination to do so. The choice is yours to make.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tellwell Talent
• Release date: Jun 11, 2019
• ISBN: 9781925959154

Connie Howell

Connie Howell lives in the Blue Mountains, Sydney, Australia with her husband, Walter. She is an author and mentor. Her great love is to disseminate spiritual truth to those willing and able to hear it.Connie spent many years studying and experiencing techniques in body work and energy healing which she then offered in private practice. She also gained experience as a counsellor and welfare worker before venturing into alternative methods of helping clients such as hypnotherapy, colour therapy and shamanic healing.At the age of 28 she experienced a spiritual awakening and found that she had clairvoyant and mediumistic abilities. For a time she gave clairvoyant readings but found that she wanted to empower people to find their own answers and insights, which she now does through her books and private coaching consultations.

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Spirit Matters

Gateways to Healing and Higher Dimensions

CONNIE HOWELL

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Copyright 2019 © Connie Howell

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Other titles by Connie Howell

Portable Snippets of Wisdom

Perfectly Imperfect: How to be Imperfect and Remain Lovable

Walking Between Two Worlds: From the Known to the Unknown

Lifting the Veil: Raising Consciousness

In the shadows my music waits

to be played when the time is right.

Will you like it? I don’t know,

but I will compose it even though I may not have an audience.

I will hear it in the night

as it caresses my brain with starlight

and the joy of creation is expressed

from my soul.

Acknowledgements

Thank you to my family and friends for their continued support and interest in my writing. Special thanks go to Jenny Richards, Jane Bevan and Annie Falconer. Knowing that you are always there for me to mull things over is a blessing and I cherish your friendships greatly.

My deepest gratitude to Jenny Mosher and the team at IndieMosh who take my manuscript and transform it into a polished book. Ally Mosher Taylor always manages to transport the cover for my books from my imagination and make them a reality.

As always my dearest husband Walter supports me in my quest to bring truth and wisdom as I know it to you through the written word, and my son Jason continues to support me and spread the word about his mother’s books.

Thank you all from the deepest part of my heart.

Introduction

Being on a spiritual path can be both exhilarating and exasperating. There are no guarantees or failsafe ways to get to enlightenment other than by doing the necessary work. The lessons we need to learn can be tough and may feel like walking through fire. Frequently they require introspection, dedication and the commitment to go on when frustration hits with the force of a sledge hammer. Having a good sense of humour can help us get through the more difficult times, like when we’re racked with doubt or when we simply need to have some fun. Sometimes the ability to laugh out loud and lighten up the load is a welcome respite from the earnest desire to move forward. Spiritual growth can be a serious business and often throws us curve balls that we would prefer to dodge.

The troubles we face when working at reconnecting with the universe and the spirit world start with the recognition that we have become disconnected at some point in our life. Then we have to discover the best route to reconnect in a meaningful way. Your route may be a different route to mine, and different again to that of other aspirants. There is no right or wrong way.

We don’t always understand why things happen the way they do because our understanding is often limited. Timing is difficult to gauge. It frequently feels like stumbling around in the dark and being completely disorientated when stepping out of our comfort zone into the unknown. The universe works on a completely different time schedule than our own and this can cause frustration. If you are anything like me, you want it all now.

Issues that have remained hidden deep inside us may come to the surface whether we like it or not. Usually it is not before our soul calls us to make changes, or before the universe thinks we are ready. When the clues start surfacing, nudging us into action, we may not feel ready to deal with the accumulation of emotional baggage that, so far, we have managed to avoid dealing with.

Held down by our defence mechanisms, the emotions that we would rather not face often erupt in the most astonishing ways. Some things are buried so deeply that it may take several attempts to reach the heart of the matter. It can require much effort to chip away until we reach the true source of our inner disquiet. Igniting the impetus and motivation to make changes can take a while, for it is often more comfortable not to rock the boat. After all who wants to risk ending up overboard?!

Emotions can be tricky because they are usually multilayered and may be cloaked in subterfuge that is hard to fathom. It is likely that just when we think we have everything sorted another layer becomes apparent. We are complex creatures by nature and are able to create drama and angst out of the simplest situations. We can be addicted to suffering without realising it and when we become conscious of it we have to begin the challenge of unravelling what is really going on inside us.

How do we reach the depths of who we are underneath all our conditioning and misperceptions about life and who we are? How do we sift through the debris built up and piled up by our inability to focus on what is really important and, how do we live a life without regrets?

I write about my personal journey in all of my books not to be indulgent but to give voice to things that you may be unable to speak about as yet. I have a platform to do so whereas you may feel impotent or simply don’t know where to turn. Or perhaps you don’t even know what is wrong or why things bother you the way they do. We have many ways of keeping things hidden even from ourselves.

Most of us share similar experiences one way or another and that is why sharing mine may help you in some way. That is my hope anyway. It is also my wish that you stay empow­ered on the journey through the chapters of this book. Take what feels right and leave behind what doesn’t. You are the real authority in your life but my experiences and skill set may help move you along a step or two where necessary. At times we all need a little direction to get us going again when we stall or have stayed inert a while.

So what exactly do I mean by ‘Spirit Matters’? Well, the title is twofold. It can be ‘Spirit, Matters’ meaning that our spiritual life matters as much as our physical life and it also pertains to matters relating to our spirit. For me both are equally important and completely intertwined. You and your loved ones never truly die, you simply transition back into the energy state that is your true self. The physical body and your personas are temporary. They enable you to experience life in the denser physical state.

I have spent most of my life exploring the spiritual side of my nature and have had some amazing experiences and insights. I discovered a completely different reality than the one I grew up with and it has kept me focused on going forward when I could easily have stayed in the illusion of the life that I was living.

I use the terms ‘higher self’, ‘true self’ and ‘greater self’ interchangeably throughout the book. I am not hung up on semantics – whatever speaks to you is what matters most to me. Your growth is as important to me as my own for we are all in this physical experience together. As each of us come to know ourselves as a spirit in a human body we can help those as yet unaware to see other possibilities and other realities. That depends, of course, on whether they have the desire to do so.

Meanwhile I wish you well on your personal journey. I have included some of my poems throughout the book which I hope you enjoy. I certainly loved writing them and I have tried to match them with the content of each chapter. That way the poems become even more potent and the contents of the chapters more meaningful.

Whether I am writing poetry or a book, the words come from my heart and deeper awareness. As I write I connect with my intuitive and inspirational side and I love the way in which wisdom is interspersed with my everyday experiences. I am in a different state as I write: I am more open and con­nected as the vibrational interchange takes place. Sometimes it feels intense and I can only write for a short while before getting up and going about my daily business.

In my previous books I have said that I am not a guru, mystic or expert but I have to own the fact that I have learnt a lot throughout my life and have grown wiser. There is also a wisdom that comes to me and through me while writing that I cannot claim as my own and that I am awed by as I feel its beauty and peaceful vibration.

I become a reader as I look back over the written words and I gain as much through reading them as I do in writing them down. So I am lucky in that respect as the blessings are twofold. I would love it if you find inspiration and comfort as you read on and that in some way your life is enriched by the process.

Though my name is on the book and it is my creation I have to say that I feel that it now belongs to the universe and as such it will find its way into the hands of those who will benefit from it in some way. If you have chosen to read it then feel assured that the universe has your back and has brought all of us together: