Extraordinarily Ordinary: Eyes Wide Open to Wonder

By Julia Anais

Julia Anais chronicles her inspiring journey from being a shy girl to someone focused on spiritual enrichment in this memoir.
As a young person, she always felt as though she could foresee things, but afraid of being ridiculed, she chose to ignore the knowing. However, her intuition still guided her.
As she grew older, she began to meditate, which showed her how to be still. The rest took flight like magicher consciousness and daily wisdom grew.
In sharing what shes learned on her journey, she reveals important truths, such as:
We are in this life to have adventures and experiences, and it is our job to show up, trust, and enjoy all that life can offer.
Theres something in the universe controlling our waya greater force dragging us along.
Within we hold the power to transform ourselves.
The collection of defining moments the author shares will help you realize that as long as you trust yourself, what is meant to be will be.
Embark on a spiritual journey that celebrates what it means to be Extraordinarily Ordinary.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press AU
• Release date: Apr 10, 2018
• ISBN: 9781504312707

Julia Anais

Julia Anais was always shy and felt herself to be unremarkably normal. She has found her way through life feeling an unexplainable greater force driving her. Her imagination and curiosity have kept her looking on the bright side of life. She shares her heartfelt story and brings a message of hope in Extraordinarily Ordinary.Julia currently lives in Queensland, Australia.

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Balboa Press rev. date: 05/29/2018

Contents

Foreword

Dedication

Introduction

Ordinarily - Extraordinary

1     The Beginning

2     Childhood Days

3     Golden Threads

4     Fairy-tales and Magic

5     Outback Adventures

6     Becoming Educated

7     Growing Pains

8     Stars Collide

9     Creating Our Own Family

10   Times of Change

My Spiritual Sensibility

1     Inklings

2     Harsh Realities

3     Circle of Life

4     Hearing the Messages

5     Eyes Opening

6     Power of Manifestation

7     Everyday Angel and Spirit Encounters

8     Dis-ease

9     Three Wise Men

10   Warts and All

The Great Book Of My Life

1     Power in Words

2     Guidance to Write

3     Raising Good Humans

4     Reconnecting the Inner Child

5     Blessed are the Children

6     Manifesting Change

7     Doubts

8     Lessons and Signs

9     Responsibility

10   Feeling the Way

The Darker Side

1     I Am Enough

2     Role Models

3     Disconnection

4     Temptations

5     Expectations and Masks

6     Reflections

7     Sharing the Love

8     In The Shadows

9     Beliefs

10   Lightening Bolts

Revelation

Epilogue

Acknowledgements

Author Biography

Foreword

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Every life is grand. Too many people think that they have to be something special or someone famous to be worthy in life. This couldn’t be further from the truth!

In the course of my wonderful work as a psychic medium, I have the enormous privilege and honour of working with countless numbers of beautiful, ordinary, everyday people who have extraordinary stories to share!

The thing that strikes me about hearing peoples’ stories is the common thread of them being drawn to a particular purpose in life. This is commonly referred to as ones dharma, a Sanskrit word for a law that governs the universe and its perfect order.

At one of my psychic flower reading parties a few years ago, I was fortunate enough to meet Julia. From the very first moment we met we just clicked. Like most of us, Julia is on a journey to further awaken her sense of purpose and the wonderful thing about life is that all the right people always appear at precisely the right time! It’s always Divine timing!

We never know why we meet the people we do, why our paths cross or what the potential outcomes of those sometimes serendipitous meetups may be.

In this book, Julia takes you on her life journey and chronicles many of her own personal experiences with the spirit world. We often think the word magic is a word that belongs to the world of illusionists and magicians, but the reality is that magic is all around us and is a beautiful universal force of energy that we can all tap into and use.

No matter who you are, the universe is always waiting to work with you and support you in your endeavours. Your ‘title’ in life makes you no grander or lesser in the world of spirit and has no bearing on how successful you can be. There are no titles in the spirit world!

When you read through Julia’s book you’ll be surprised how often you might be thinking how very similar your own spiritual experiences have been. You see, we all come from the same home and at the end of the day we all continue on our journey back to that same magnificent home when our life’s mission has been fulfilled on the earth plane.

Believe it or not, each and every one of us has the potential to do and be something very special. We were all born with a set of gifts and talents unlike any other. Once we take the time to tune into those incredible skills and abilities our life can take major leaps ahead, therefore creating a wonderful and extraordinary life!

Have the courage to explore your spiritual path in whatever form that may be. The beautiful thing to realise is that no-one is ever on the wrong path! We are exactly meant to be where we are at any given moment, experiencing everything we are.

When you truly surrender to the majesty of the universe and align your energy with its magical power you’ll be as pleasantly surprised as I was to discover how extraordinary your life’s experiences can become!

Enjoy Julia’s wonderful book, it will reassure you that we are indeed connected to an incredible life force that is ever so subtly ushering us towards our ultimate destiny!

David Laws – The Famous Flower Man and Psychic, Mentor, Speaker

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I am grateful for the life that I have and embrace my spirit and gifts I am given to enhance the life of myself and others.

Artist credit B. McNally

Dedication

To those who’ve held my heart through this journey and been there to catch me when I’m falling

Mum and Dad for bringing me into this world; showing me trust and courage to find my own way, and for teaching me the best they could every way in every day

My beautiful guiding grandmother’s

My sisters who always believed with me

My bffl who shared the perils of my youth

Don for dancing through the largest part of this life with me beyond the ordinary

My three boys who are my truest treasures and most valued teachers

I am truly grateful

for all that they each are and all they have helped me to become

in this crazy adventure of life!

-and-

thank you to JS for the music and reminding me

life’s too short not to feel it

Introduction

Life can be extraordinarily different when viewed through the lens of gratitude

My story begins at the start of my earthly time - when the clock started ticking - when the unlearning begins.

Even our breath we come in with is twisted inside-out, as we navigate this journey of conditioning.

We get busy creating our world and let go of our soul yearnings to become so human we nearly break ourselves.

And then the real journey begins - back to the light.

I have always known there is a greater force in this universe and the mind is more powerful than anyone can comprehend.

My life has shown me over, and over that everything will work out, if you trust yourself and your circumstances.

In fact there is a common phrase I often use - what is meant to be will be.

I believe I became consciously aware of my spiritual journey when I was given greater emotions to deal with.

I say consciously aware, because we all are on a spiritual journey, whether we are aware or not; however, there is usually a deeper tragedy that sparks something more in us.

When we begin to question everything we thought we understood.

When the heart and mind are pushed to a deeper despair.

This is where the opportunity arises to reach within for more.

I found as a young person I always knew things; however, I found the suggestion I could feel, and foresee things caused me to feel vulnerable.

I felt afraid of ridicule, and to be shunned by others. Fear of opinions and risk of judgement held me back. I chose to overlook the knowing, although in hindsight my intuition continued to guide me.

I experienced signs and synchronicities after my father passed, which reminded me again of this knowing.

This sparked my curiosity and I decided it would be interesting to gain more knowledge and enhance these gifts.

Finding my way to a spiritual development course, I was shown the tools to access a deeper understanding of the incredible power within.

This was where my mind unlocked.

Learning meditation showed me how to be still, the rest took flight like magic!

The growth of my consciousness has continued since then, now almost four years. I have found a powerful knowledge, which has become much more than I ever expected.

As there is a great deal to understand, my discovery of wisdom continues daily.

This is a whole new way of accepting life as a human.

The soul journey is a complex and amazing one, and the love and light I have unearthed has expanded my open heart, and my courage.

I have learned this life is to be felt and emotions are the guiding factor in all we are here to learn.

We are in this life to have adventures and experiences – it is our job to show up, trust and enjoy all that life can offer!

I never had a dream to be a writer, in fact I never really had a dream at all.

I believe all I dreamed of was to be normal like other kids and to figure out how to be a grown up when I got there!

I didn’t want to feel different and I didn’t want to stand out-I was happy to be ordinary.

I always had an appreciation for the experiences life brought and locked them into my memories like precious treasures.

When I grew up I sought to create the normal life I had craved as a child.

Finally, as an adult with a family of my own, I realised life wasn’t ordinary at all.

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary. Blaise Pascal

ORDINARILY - EXTRAORDINARY

Story 1

-how it was-

I AM THE PEN TO MY OWN BOOK

"Riding the waves; made life my own

Through grief and loss I have grown

Enriched by love; my Soul has shone light

Leading me forwards to know I am alright"

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The Beginning

I always felt I was a fairly ordinary girl who was shy and unassuming.

I believed it was only my rather big, blue eyes that stood out.

I was unaware then that these were the windows to my soul and in them were the depths to greatness, which I would not discover until much later in life.

I seemed to go under the radar for most of my early years, quietly treading and minding my own business in my safe, little world.

Somehow, I always seemed to land on my feet and considered myself lucky in life, believing it was filled with adventures and rainbows.

As it turned out, my world wasn’t so little. The experiences from constant change in fact made my world very big and over the years helped my mind to be open to so much more than the ordinary.

It goes without saying our parents are where we begin, as we move through the