You Are Love

By Sara Spowart

If everyone is trying to get love, who is giving it? People are lost with how to be happy and how to feel loved and at peace. The epidemic of narcissism and self-centeredness that is promoted in our society is destructive and ultimately harms the self to be so self-centered and individualistic. As a society, we have become far out of balance.

 

Already winning the Publisher's Weekly, Person of the Year award for this book, it is about creating the experience of love and happiness within yourself through yourself, irrespective of outside circumstances. It discusses different stages of self-development including the Victim Stage, the Giving Stage, the Shifting Stage and the Infinity Stage. The overall theme is that the thing you are looking for outside of yourself actually comes from you. If you are wanting to feel love, you learn that you can generate love yourself, if you want peace you can generate it yourself. It is to help people be empowered and understand they are generators and bring awareness to what they are generating. The author recently published an accompanying workbook "The Happiness-Based Mindfulness Program" that is available for free online and can be used in conjunction to support the concepts in this book.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sara Spowart
• Release date: Oct 15, 2023
• ISBN: 9798223246343

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You Are Love

The Discovery of Happiness

Sara Spowart, PhD, LMFT, MPA, DMFT(c), RYT, CCHT

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Copyright © Sara Spowart

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Disclaimer:

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Copyright by Sara Spowart

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Dedicated to everyone everywhere.

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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

Contents

Foreword           5

Chapter 1:  Shifting Your Perspective      6

Thankful        7

A Deeper Knowing       11

Investing in Your Internal State     12

Clearing Away the Old      13

Authentic Living       14

Commitment        17

Chapter 2: Pain         19

Suffering as the Path       20

Experiences on Perception      24

Pain as a Helpful Tool       25

Chapter 3:  The Beauty of a Human Life      29

Uniqueness        30

Be an Observer       34

Levels of Realization       35

The Struggle of Shifting Perspective     37

Chapter 4:  Going Higher: Stages 1 and 2      39

Four Stages: The Victim Stage     40

Four Stages: The Giving Stage      41

Chapter 5:  Going Higher: Stages 3 and 4      44

Four Stages: The Shifting Stage      45

Four Stages: The Infinity Stage     48

Namelessness & Flow       50

Infinity Stage: Everything is Energy in Manifested Form   54

Infinity Stage: Shifting Up      55

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Chapter 6: Opening Up        59

Infinity Stage: Living in a State of Love-Centered Being   60

Daily Affirmations       60 

Mantra         63  

Meditation        63

Infinity Stage: Shift into the Amazing Feeling You!   66

Bibliography          69

Author’s Note          70

Foreword

Overview of My Story

This book is about experiences, 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 whom 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.

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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

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