Walking with Spirit: Consciously Continuing Your Spiritual Journey

By Cynthia Maddox

Walking with Spirit has been spirit guided since its conception. As a collective consciousness rises, more are waking from their states of sleepwalking and are being called to begin their conscious spiritual journeys. Walking with Spirit is a guide to assist and encourage those beginning their journeys, as well as those already on the way.

You will learn:
The importance of meditation and being in the moment, along with techniques for this
Why there is a need to heal your inner child and how to do this
The importance of paying attention to your emotional guidance system
How to hear and connect with your guides and angels
The many ways spirits speak to you
How to follow your intuition
How to release old, limiting beliefs that have held you back from becoming all you have chosen to be in this lifetime
That you are enough, of everything
The importance of being your truth and shining your light for all to see

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Release date: Feb 9, 2015
• ISBN: 9781504325622

Cynthia Maddox

Cynthia Maddox has been studying spirituality for over thirty years. She is in contact daily with her guides and angels, who encouraged her to write Walking with Spirit. And there are more books to come! Cynthia recently moved from Florida to North Carolina to place her full attention on writing and on developing the Spirit Healing and Wellness Center and Evolving Spirit Theta. She is certified in LifeForce Energy Medicine, Theta Healing, life coaching, and health and wellness coaching.

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Chapter 1

Consciously Beginning

Your Spiritual Journey

Awaken to the now; you have been sleepwalking long enough. Become conscious and aware of the now in everything you do. Live and love in the light of Spirit. These are wise words given to me by my guides when I began walking with Spirit. I share them with you today, along with my prayer that this book will find its way into the hands of those ready to begin their spiritual journeys or those on their paths who may need a little encouragement or a hand along the way. I discovered long ago that there are always people ahead of you or farther along on their paths who are willing to help and guide you. Likewise, there are people behind you who may need your help and guidance on their journeys. That is where I am now—a fellow traveler, walking with Spirit, just as you are.

So, who am I to write this book? I asked the same question when first asked to write, and I heard, "Who are you not to write this book? You are a child of God. You are loved, protected, and guided." Who am I? I am just like you. I could be your neighbor or coworker or the person sitting next to you at the dentist’s office or standing behind you at the checkout line in the store. The roles I have played have been daughter, sister, friend, wife, and mother. However, what is important is that I am a spiritual being having a glorious human experience and loving every minute of the journey. Not that they have all been exactly wonderful, but they have all been wonderfully exact as to what I needed at each moment. Each experience has helped to make me who I am today.

I consciously began my spiritual journey over thirty-five years ago. However, I realize that I have always been led in that direction. As long as I can remember, I was drawn to the religious, spiritual, and mystical parts of life.

Being raised as a Methodist, and church was a thing I did as a young child. My parents took my brother and me to Sunday school and church each Sunday. My father loved to tell Bible stories to us when we were little. I would not call my parents overly religious, but they certainly walked the walk, to use the old phrase. My father was the kindest, most generous man I have ever known, and my mother was a guiding light for me until the day she passed. Actually, they both are still my role models. I, however, only learned organized religion during my childhood. I did not learn spirituality.

As a teen at a church function, I had an amazing experience. I was told I had been saved, and when I left, I felt different and everything seemed different. Colors were more vivid, sounds were somehow sweeter, and I saw details that before I had missed altogether. I felt connected to everything. It was my first taste of being fully awake, and I know now it was an early initiation into Spirit.

As time and busy life continued, I fell back into the same routine and did the things most teens do. I also got into my fair share of trouble but survived as most of us did. I married at age nineteen, went to nursing school, and had two beautiful children.

By the time I was twenty-five, I unfortunately found myself in an uncomfortable, emotionally abusive marriage that was becoming physically abusive. I realize he was not fully to blame, since I allowed it. An emotionally and physically abusive man raised him, and that was what he knew. I cried myself to sleep so many nights and was constantly praying for an answer. However, like most abused wives, I felt that it was something I had done to deserve the abuse.

At the suggestion of a friend, I started counseling, which began to open my eyes to the inner world of self. I learned that I was so much more that I had ever even dreamed. I found that I had an inner strength and a connection to the Devine and in fact, I was a spark of that Devine creative energy. I realized that my physical expression of self was only a small part of what or who I was. Just as the visible part of an iceberg is only a small part of its true size.

I saw that like many women, I had given up myself to be a wife and mother. Starting counseling was very difficult, but one of the best things I have ever done and may have saved my life. I was five feet eight and weighed fewer than a hundred pounds, I had a peptic ulcer, and I had been entertaining suicide. Shortly after starting counseling, my husband threw a toy at my two-year-old daughter because she was making too much noise. It hit her, and she screamed and cried. Luckily, it was only a small toy, but it made me realize that he might hurt our children. He was hurting me, but I would not allow him to hurt our children. I left the next day with them.

If I had stayed single, truly found myself, and become stronger, my story would be so different. However, I did not. Instead, I met someone and, shortly after, began a serious long-term relationship with an older man I thought would take care of my children and me. Wrong move but, of course, I did not know it at that time. It was during this relationship that I returned to the church to take my children, or so I thought. I now know it was I who was being drawn back to Spirit.

I began working with the youth group and felt called to go into the ministry in some way. I returned to college to study world religions and Christian education. What a wonderful experience. There were so many amazing professors. I not only learned about religions but also learned about life and that spirituality is not separate from who we are but a vital part of who we are.

I graduated with honors and accepted a position as the program and youth director in a large church in the town in which we lived. I thought all was well until my significant other became controlling, demanding, and was, in a sense, suffocating me. I also found that he had not been treating my children lovingly. He was not abusive but withdrawn and indifferent to them when I was not around. When I asked them why they had not told me, they said they wanted me to be happy. I blamed myself for being so involved in my studies that I had not seen this, so I added more guilt to the already considerable amount I carried.

I again began counseling, this time with a spiritual counselor. This is when my spiritual journey really began moving faster. My counselor, a wise woman, helped me to look at my life, my choices, and my actions and ask why. She helped me find my inner strength. I tried to work through the issues in my relationship. I really wanted to salvage it, but it takes two working together for there to be success. We spent many months in counseling. Then, in a heated discussion, he said, I have been this way for fifty years—why should I change now? I knew at that moment that we were not going to make it, that there was no future for our relationship or us in any way.

This split was a major catalyst for me to continue working on my own spiritual journey. It was then that the minister learned I was not married and told me I had no right working with the church or teaching youth and that I was going to hell. He demanded my resignation. It almost split the church. Many wanted me to stay and felt it was my heart, commitment, and love of God that was important. I was not going to be the cause of a major problem in the church I loved, so I quit. It was then I began my inner walk with Spirit and found I did not need the church as the provider of my spirituality. I found I was as close to Spirit outside of the church as I was working in it; in fact, even more so.

One evening, I was crying and praying that all I wanted to do was serve God. I thought working in the church was where I was supposed to be. I heard, maybe felt is a better explanation, My precious child, you do serve me in all you do wherever you are. I felt as if God held and cradled me in his arms. That was only the second time I had heard Spirit speak to me. The first time I blew it off, thinking I had made it up.

I am now much more spiritual and much closer to God, the Universal Spirit, the great I Am, the collective consciousness, or whatever name you would like to call our Creator, than I was when I had worked for the church. I love where I am, and I love the journey. I believe the hardest times are our best lessons, and the people hardest on us are