Spiritual A-Z for Teens

By Gail Christiina Barnett

From Acceptance to Zen, Spiritual A-Z for Teens, by author Gail Christiina Barnett, offers narratives to inspire teenagers, encouraging them to think outside the box and empower them to trust themselves and their intuition.
Touching on purposeful topics, Barnett offers advice and inspiration to propel teenagers into a journey of discovery of themselves and the magical world of spirituality. It’s meant as a guide of suggestions, questions, and permission to open a window into another form of thinking.
Spiritual A-Z for Teens encourages teens to start believing in themselves deeply, and to allow them to access their own wisdom and knowledge to create their own life.


Praise for Spiritual A-Z for Teens

“Although this little volume is meant for teens, it is a valuable resource for anyone! The reflections are on important aspects of life with meaningful and simple illustrations! Because each item is short, it is in a practical twenty-first century format which can be used in a classroom, a train, or on a veranda or porch swing.

These golden nuggets of insight are perfect queuing mechanisms for meditation and/or discussion. I use them in the quiet of my own meditations but find them effective before a meeting, or to begin an Energy Circle, or to begin the school day on a positive note, or even to begin a day in the hospital as a morning or midday reflection.
This little book is a treasure that will never be out-of-date! Try it, you will love it.”

— Father Justin Belitz

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press AU
• Release date: Nov 11, 2021
• ISBN: 9781982292034

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Illustrations by: Gail Christiina Barnett

ISBN: 978-1-9822-9204-1 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-9822-9203-4 (e)

Balboa Press rev. date:  12/15/2021

Contents

A dedication

Preface

Acceptance

Alone

Angels

Appreciation

Attention

Authenticity

Awareness

Balance

Beauty

Being Present

Belief

Buddha

Candles

Chakras

Cheerfulness

Clarity

Comfort

Community

Compassion

Confidence

Connection

Contentment

Courage

Creativity

Crystals

Devotion

Divine

Dreams

Emotions

Endurance

Energy

Enlightenment

Enthusiasm

Equality

Eternity

Faith

Fear

Forgiveness

Freedom

Friendship

Fun

Generosity

Gentleness

God

Grace

Gratitude

Harmony

Healing

Heaven

Honesty

Humility

Imagination

Infinity

Integrity

Introspection

Intuition

Journey

Joy

Kindness

Knowledge

Laughter

Light

Listening

Love

Loyalty

Mindfulness

Non-Attachment

Nurturing

Oneness

Patience

Peace

Perseverance

Play

Positive - Thinking

Power

Qi

Receiving

Rhythm

Service

Shadow-Side

Silence

Simplicity

Soul

Spirituality

Strength

Surrender

Time

Timing

Transformation

Trust

Truth

Unconditional Love

Unity

Virtue

Will

Wisdom

Xany

Yoga

Zen

About the Author

A dedication

I feel overwhelmed, blessed to have had the gift of my beautiful soul sister, Tina Meyer, whom I met in India four years ago. I know we were meant to meet, to birth this book together, and what is more amazing is the timing now, December 2020, to complete it.

I also would like to thank Kyah Owens for her amazing wisdom. Her input, from a teenager’s point of view in putting this book together, has been invaluable.

I have had my family and my friends encouraging and supporting me all the way.

To my dear reader,

As I write my introduction to this beautiful book that I have been given guidance to write, I feel so much love, joy and happiness, so much that it is so overwhelming. It’s like I am sitting in divine love and it’s wrapping itself all around me.

My purpose is for you to start to believe in yourself more deeply. It is also to allow yourself to touch upon your own wisdom, your own knowledge, without judgement. After all, you are your own creator through this life.

Preface

My goal in writing this book was to inspire teenagers, you, to think outside the box and to empower you to trust yourself and your own intuition.

As I sat to write it, I first looked at what each letter meant and began by writing the meaning from the dictionary. This didn’t feel right and I became aware that this was not how this book was going to be written. Its source had to come from an inner knowing, wisdom, a passion to share with you, simple ways and insights that has made my life so fulfilling in so many ways. So, as I sat at the computer and the words just came, as if I were talking to you.

When it came to editing it was so challenging as I wanted so much for you to be able to read it, like I was talking to you.

It might not be grammatically perfect as some may expect, but it is written from my