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First Rate Practical Wisdom on Love and Relationships, May 3, 1999
This review is from: Soul Love: Awakening Your Heart Centers (Sanaya Roman) (Paperback)
Some of the most beautiful and powerful experiences I've had in my life have been through practicing exercises in this book. The experience of "soul love" that Sanaya/Orin describes is for real and it is the single most incredible thing I have ever experienced. It is almost indescribable but I'll try anyway... It was if my heart opened up and began to shine like the sun, first filling my chest then my body, then the whole room and as it did, I had the most wonderful and blissful feeling of love I've ever experienced. Many orders of magnitudes beyond what you feel for loved ones. It was so powerful it wiped out all thought... nothing else mattered. I was aware of time passing to a small degree but it didn't matter. Every breath, every beat of my heart was ecstasy, every moment was bliss. I realized and experienced that I *was* love and so was everyone else. I experienced all physical matter as being made up of love. In this way I saw that we and everything that exists are all connected and the saying that "We are all one" became an experiential reality to me. All life and physical matter is made up of the same stuff and we are all connected in this way- there was never a point where I ended and another object or person began. It was all an endless continuum of love/energy that showed up as physical objects or other people where concentrations of energy was higher... but there was never an "empty space" between myself and someone/something else. I was still aware of all of the suffering in the world but knew that from a higher perspective that it was all ok, it was all perfect. I was able to love all of the negativity and suffering as well as the good. The state probably lasted for about 20 mins and even as I could feel it fading and knew that it was coming to and end, I loved that too... Nothing I experience in ordinary daily life compares to even the smallest degree. Once you have a taste of it you *know* first hand what mystics have been saying since the beginning of time... Love is the answer. Love is who we are. This book covers so many topics which I feel are extremely important. Among other things, it teaches how to transform and evolve negative emotions, how to deal with things that are blocking you (evolving subpersonalities), spiritual laws of relationships, soul contact and blending, soul linking, attracting soulmates, transmitting love, and joining and working with others as a group to radiate love to those in need. The method taught for working with chakras (energy centers in the body which are related to states of consciousness) is best I've ever seen or used (and I've tried lots). Although it was taught in a certain context (working with the solar plexus, heart, and crown chakras), the same method can be used to work with any chakra. Although Sanaya's books are not known to the general population they are among the clearest, wisest, most lovingly written and most practical books I've ever read. She is one of my top 3 all time favorite authors. I enthusiastically recommend both this and all of her other books.
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50 of 51 people found the following review helpful:
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Finding Answers Within Yourself, June 24, 2003
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This review is from: Soul Love: Awakening Your Heart Centers (Sanaya Roman) (Paperback)
This is a book that shows us how to find the answers within oneself. Why do we feel stressed? How do we alleviate it? How can we feel more joy, instead of feeling neutral or numb? Why do certain people treat us the way we do and how can we deal with it? And most important, how can we bring more love in to our lives and in to our relationships. All these topics are explored in Soul Love. The ones who have the most abundance in their lives are the ones who love themself in a deep, intimate way and this book uses guided meditations to bring that out of the reader. This book is not for everyone. If you don't believe that your soul exists, or don't have the desire to open up to something that could elevate your level of human understanding and if you don't believe in God, angels or spirits this book is not for you. The non-secular people should stick to 'Dr. Phil'or your basic psychological self help books. But for those who do believe, your life will change from the moment you begin reading.
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44 of 45 people found the following review helpful:
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Dedicated To My Beautiful Wife, Tracy..., October 24, 2006
This review is from: Soul Love: Awakening Your Heart Centers (Sanaya Roman) (Paperback)
I am not big on "channeled information"...not that I don't believe that there are certain people who can channel the wisdom of ancient masters, but I believe that all of the wisdom, all of the guidance, all of the power that ever was, is, and will be is already within us. The only reason that the vast majority of us don't access this wisdom, however, is because most of us identify with our small "s" self rather than our Large "S" Self.
After saying that, I do enjoy the 'Orin' series and have read quite a few of "his" books. The reason why I like these books is because there is a very nice, easy going style to them. There is really nothing too preachy in them. Most of it is all common sense...and after saying that, is there really anything common about common sense?
Before I met my wife I had gone out with many women and yet they were all the same. Not only did they all bare an uncanny resemblance to each other, but they all acted the same. I seemed to attract women who were very selfish and aloof and cold. The last girlfriend I had before my wife was the last straw. I was determined not to go out with the "same" woman again. I decided to get to the "brass tacks" of the situation. I made up a list of everything I wanted in a future mate. This was recommended in this book. And then instead of looking for this in another, I had to "become" what I wanted to attract.
I dated people who were very unattached and very aloof and very unappreciative of me because this is the way I thought I deserved to be treated. Not consciously, but unconsciously. I attracted women to me that were "unavailable" to me because I was unavailable for myself. I attracted rejection and abandonment because I rejected and abandonded myself on many occasions and so I had to really heal the relationship I had with myself. This is the real secret of relationships; the only person we are ever with, is ourselves. It may look like there is another person standing there, but every person that is in our lives (whether a positive or negative influence) is simply an extension of who we are on some level.
I had a friend at the time that was there for me when I was going through my last breakup. No, she wasn't a short,exotic, dark haired Latina (the type I usually went out with). She was a cute, Irish redhead. She always supported me. She always appreciated me. She was just always there for me and the only reason I never saw her is because I was too busy looking at my own wounds, as soon as I began to heal, I saw this woman...this lovely, down-to-earth, spiritual woman and I asked her to be my wife.
Despite all of this, however, she is not my soul mate and I'll tell you why, because when you really, really get this stuff, you won't be looking for one person to be your soul mate, the world becomes your soul mate. Every pair of eyes reflects back to you your light or your darkness, every person becomes a potential friend, every moment you share with another is either helping to heal the illusion of separation or helping to perpetuate it. This book will really help you to see how very, very important it is that you work on you so that you can be the best you can be. The world needs another "wounded victim" like we need another Bush in the Whitehouse.
This book is a Godsend. Is it really channeled information? Y'know, what...who cares...just listen to your heart and it'll guide you to the very best.
Peace & Blessings.
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