You are Love: The Discovery of Happiness

By Sara Spowart PhD

While on her own unique journey through life, Sara Spowart has come to the enlightening realization that the highs and lows of life have been blessings in disguise that pushed her perspective beyond the usual way of seeing the world and towards a greater, more expansive understanding of reality.

With the intent of improving global happiness levels, Spowart shares insight into her varied experiences, both good and bad, as well as lessons learned to help us either begin or grow our understanding of our true nature and interconnectedness with everything and everyone around us. Through a step-by-step road map, Spowart guides us inward to shift our perspective and begin living authentically, use pain as a helpful tool, become an observer, move through several stages to transform into a love-centered being, implement daily wellness practices, and eventually embrace and present our true selves to the world.

Realizing Love shares experiences, life lessons, insights, and step-by-step guidance to help others feel happier, no matter the current situation or mindset.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Release date: Jul 6, 2023
• ISBN: 9798765242971

Sara Spowart PhD

Sara Spowart, PhD, LMFT is a world traveler, therapist, social worker, humanitarian, advocate, professor, and Happiness Learned, LLC owner. Her life goal is to help individuals experience greater levels of happiness to help make the world a happier place.

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ISBN: 979-8-7652-4296-4 (sc)

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ISBN: 979-8-7652-4297-1 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2023910976

Balboa Press rev. date: 06/09/2023

Contents

Foreword

Chapter 1 Shifting Your Perspective

Chapter 2 Pain

Chapter 3 The Beauty of a Human Life

Chapter 4 Going Higher: Stages 1 and 2

Chapter 5 Going Higher: Stages 3 and 4

Chapter 6 Opening Up

Bibliography

Author’s Note

Dedicated to everyone everywhere.

You are me and I am You, I see You in Me

and I see myself in You…How can there be

separation there?? Only the center I is there.

—Gajraj Delbehera

Foreword

Overview of My Story

This book is about experience, discoveries and insights that have come to me during this life. My hope is that sharing these can be helpful to others and support them in their life journeys and challenges. Pain and struggle have been my biggest teachers, as well as love. Love in all its variations and the spectrum across which it exists are incredibly powerful forces. There is nothing quite like experiencing love in friendships, families, and relationships, as well as the pain from these relationships. However, instead of pushing against pain, you can accept it and send love to it. Some of the best things and greatest positive transformations only come about because of pain.

The insights in this book have also come from many illnesses and multiple near-death experiences I’ve had as well as many terrible things I’ve seen and experienced. The highs and lows of life have been blessings in disguise that pushed my perspective beyond the usual way of seeing the world and towards a greater, more expansive understanding of reality. This isn’t a perspective I share with anyone except the very closest people in my life who I feel understand and have some similar insights and understandings. I suppose the main reason for this is it didn’t feel appropriate or feel like it made sense to discuss the things I talk about in the book until now. However, I feel this perspective is ongoing, ever deepening and evolving, and might be of some help to others to make others’ lives better. So, it is now time to share.

Overview and Goal of This Book

The aim of this book is to help assist you in beginning or growing your understanding of your true nature and interconnectedness with everything and everyone around you. My hope is that after reading this book you will have a deeper understanding of the way we are all one. There is a universal energy that flows and makes up absolutely everything, and also manifests into infinite forms. That energy that is in you, is also in me. We are all connected. Understanding this brings about a deeper level of joy, empathy, harmony, happiness, peace and love in our lives. This positive shift flows over and positively impacts everything we do.

CHAPTER 1

Shifting Your Perspective

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The difference of enlightenment is just one perspective shift.

Shift Your Perspective: By Being Thankful

I ’m thankful for everything, including the so-called good and bad, because it has all served a purpose. When we allow it or can detach enough, everything can be used for our growth and expansion. The more you expand and grow, the better you feel and the better life can be. Growth can be painful but, in the long-term, we always feel best when we grow, learn and expand. Life becomes lighter, more loving, kinder, and more peaceful, and you begin to see