So what were the events that triggered you to start your spiritual journey?
Did you have a feeling there was something more out there, but didn't know what it was, or where to look?
Did you see signs from other entities, guides, or your higher self?
What about synchronicities, did you receive these to help you attract the tools you needed?
And what are the tools that helped you - which books, movies, sites, channels, workshops did you find that really resonated with you?
Did you face resistance from yourself or your friends/family - how did you overcome this?
Posted on: 9 November, 2006 - 06:02
How did you start your spiritual journey?
I went through a period of deep questioning for a year or so when some problems I was facing with my health and business/finances were needing to be resolved.
The thing really helped me start to shift the victim energy feeling was reading Louise Hay's book "You can heal your life".
It was my mum's book, which I noticed while on a family holiday and felt compelled to read it. And I read it solidly for a few days and I really felt something shift inside, like a big let go. Afterwards I started to accept responsibility for my health and financial situation and released the big blame game for myself and others.
Once I got back, things really started to shift and within a few weeks I was all booked on a 6 week trip to New Jersey in the US to see a specialist about my back. It all happened so quickly and smoothly it just felt like things were in tune with the universe. There was no time to fear it, despite being my first trip overseas alone and it was for a whole 6 weeks!
The treatment itself wasn't that effective, but the whole experience of the way things had happened, how i felt safe on the whole trip -like someone was looking after me, and finally being somewhere completely different with the time and space I needed, really made it a hugely transformational and wonderful time.
When I got back, things were different and continued changing, i went through a period of releasing of old hurt and anger with family members, my living arrangements changed. Some things flowed but others were stuck, I'd had a glimpse of something else while i was away - but it seemed difficult to bring it into to my regular life.
I knew i was looking for something but didn't know what happened, and one day I went into a book shop when i was really questioning what I should do with my life - and in the Mind, Body and Spirit section a blue book 'jumped out' at me - I went over and picked it up and knew I had to buy it.
The book was "Conversations with God Part 1" by Neale Donald Walsch and it really was what I needed at that time, it felt like it was telling me the answers I really wanted to hear. I also realised I knew many of the answers anyway just didn't trust myself enough.
From there everything followed, now I had a starting place to look, to find similar books and websites with similar information - and there is so much of it. Like a whole world i didn't know existed
The biggest resistance for me was finding the space in my normal life for it - it was too full of other things. Everything seemed easier when i was away, like on my trip to US, but when i was back it was harder again. I thought there was resistance from my family, but have since realised the resistance was from me and how I felt I should be with them. They've all turned out to be very open with things. ;D
Yeah, I never did read Kryon or any of the others before I stumbled upon the Crimson Circle. I got into the Conversations with God books one day when my mom started to read them....and I just ate them up! I read one after another, and then eventually got an email out of the blue about the Crimson Circle group having a meeting in my town, and I never even heard of them before....so after checking them out on-line, I attended that meeting and have been a part of that family since....and that has been three years now....
Gosh, it seems like thirty years instead of three years because SO much has changed for me in my life....
Anyway, good thread!
ok, I always felt very sensitive and questioning about things we know ^-^, but I think I started the spiritual journey when a friend gave me some photocopies of Saint Germain's materials. I found out later when I finally got a computer that those were part of the I AM book.
Since I was able to be on the internet I began to search all the time, trying to find answers. So I started reading really a lot!
My first books were Ramtha's ones and Louise Hay...they really changed my life!
With the years lots of other important authors came out of the blue to ease and challenge at the same time my path...like James Redfield with his Prophecy .....of course Kryon was there too so AA Michael, Tobias etc....all of it was always with amazing serendipities and perfect timing ;)
As you say Breatheitin seems ages ago...so much changed you are right ....and so much still has to change I think....but I'm happy about how I've done so far
Mariu
Well, it started way bak in 1995, I think, when I read a few stanzas from the Gita. Had a dream where I saw something which made me search more. Ended up reading the Gita regularly, followed by other books.
Now I do a lot of practices which I picked up on the way, over the years ... Yoga, Chakra Meditation, Art of Living, Raj Yoga Meditation and some selected books. I also visit Kryon and Lifepositive sites regularly.
I always feel something is up, about to happen, someone is smiling at me, standing by me ... just within my reach.
Vithal