Self Love as Spiritual Practice

Ani Colt

Description

Self Love as Spiritual Practice is an opening to more
love, compassion, passion, purpose and expanded
consciousness. Self love, as presented in this lovely
and wise book, is a means to a stronger connection
with Spirit, what Ani calls GODD. This is the all-loving
GODD. The Keys start with knowing GODD as a friend,
move to the process of intention, loving your whole
self, accepting your feelings, healing, growing and
having better relationships. These help us be poised to better participate
in the great shift, the need to bring heaven down here to heal our planet.
Self Love as Spiritual Practice provides an interactive process to help
you on your personal path. Ani's own story inspires and brings life to this
book. After meeting a spirit guide by a remote stream in California, she
totally changed her life. The book carries love you can feel.



Through Self Love as Spiritual Practice --Ani Colt reveals how the
messages she received from Spirit can empower your life, evolve your
consciousness and bring self love to a high level. What greater gift at a
time when self love is so desperately needed! Daphne Rose Kingma,
author of The Ten Things To Do When Your Life Falls Apart



Self Love as Spiritual Practice is a profound call to the most important
practice of all practices·spiritual self love. Give yourself the gift of this
book. Suzann Panek Robins, author of Exploring Intimacy: Cultivating
Healthy Relationships through Insight and Intuition

Sujets

• Santé et bien-être
• Développement personnel
• développement personnel
• Self-help
• Personal Growth

Informations

• Publié par: Xlibris US
• Date de parution: 05 juillet 2011
• Nombre de lectures: 1
• EAN13: 9781456885014
• Langue: English

Extrait

Copyright © 2011 by Ani Colt, Co-Created with GODD.
Cover and interior design by Ani Colt
Graphics by Bruce Paul Fink in collaboration with Ani Colt
www.AniColt.com
www.BPFink.com
 
Library of Congress Control Number:       2011904002
ISBN:         Hardcover                               978-1-4568-8500-7
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Contents
 
Part I Introductions
 
Preface: A Message from GODD
Acknowledgments
Prologue
The Language of This Book
How to Use This Book
 
Part II The Desire for Love
 
Why Love Yourself?
Why Don’t You Love Yourself?
 
Part III Nine  Keys  for  Loving  Yourself
 
Preview of the  Nine Keys for Loving Yourself
Thoughts on Thought and Energy
First Key: Know the All-Loving Godd
Second Key: Intend to Love Yourself
Third Key: Love Your Whole Self
Fourth Key: Accept Yourself and Your Feelings
Fifth Key: Use Self Love to Heal and Grow
Sixth Key: Practice Self Love in the Now
Seventh Key: Receive Your Self
Eighth Key: Practice Self Love in Relationships
Ninth Key: Feel and Heal the Planet
 
Part IV Afterword
 
Having Friendly Conversations with Godd
Ani’s Epilogue  A Divine Journey
Godd’s Epilogue
 
 

 
 
To love thyself is
To love Me embodied in
The human life form
My creation, My desire
To share Spirit in you
To know knowing in you
To love with you.
 
Love thyself and you love Me.
We are One, you know.
 
— GODD
  Part I
 
  Introductions
 

 
…you all can benefit from learning
to truly and wholly love yourselves.
This is the starting place.
All will follow from this in your path
back to remembering who You are,
We are, All is, and Oneness.
 
—From GODD’s Preface
 
 

  Preface: A Message from GODD
 
This book is an example of conscious co-creation, Ani’s experience of co-creating with Me and Mine with her. Ani started listening more acutely when she heard the message “Listen” as she sat in a vesper service one Sunday afternoon in Dobbs Ferry, New York. Listening to her own mind and her own negative thoughts paved the way for her to let at least some of them go. Oh, Ani has worked hard to change her mind.
 
After a time, she began to hear Our voices. I say Our because—as she says in her introduction—sometimes the voice is in My name; others are in those of spirit entities who share My domain, so to speak.
 
An important message Ani heard, and has worked on, is the message that she must love herself first and all else will follow from this self love. Truly, I have had to help her in this process. And so amongst the messages I have given her, many are about how to love yourself and what this means in the world of her god liness and what it means to Me.
 
During this process, Ani became inspired to change the spelling of God to Godd . Having many names, this tickled Me because of the suggestion of god/goddess. Surely, it is time for you on the planet to recognize Me as more than a male, dominating god.
 
So I give you all these messages and the lessons Ani has developed from them. Love yourself, and you truly do love Me. Love yourself, and you will find that many other wonders open to you, including knowing yourself as Love and knowing Me as Love and knowing all is Love in our oneness of being. In our magnificence of manifestation, in your illusion of the material world, and in the world of the spaces between the “material,” it is all Love.
 
Please know as you use these messages, as you meditate on their personal meaning for your needs, you are indeed finding your path back to all you are in the all of our oneness. You come to Know Yourself as Love . To Know Yourself as Love (what we see as a future title and the deep purpose of this work) is also to know yourself as GODD and to know yourself as One. GODD , One, and Love are interchangeable in a sense. However, in a way for oh-so-many of you, knowing yourself as Love means learning self love first. Indeed, learning to love yourself is a truly spiritual journey.
 
As you work with this material, know that I am with you always, all ways; and I am here with you to ease your way. All is well in that you all can benefit from learning to truly and wholly (holy) love yourselves. This is the starting place. All will follow from this in your path back to remembering who You are, We are, All is, and Oneness.
 
This is a divine process, or a divine journey, as I have said in the poems that follow.
 
Blessed be your journey with Me. I would have you know Love completely.
 
GODD Speed.
 
GODD
  Acknowledgments
 
Over the decades the work of many other spiritual teachers has helped and inspired me. While the list continues to grow, thanks to Shakti Gawain, Emmanuel, Bartholomew, Wayne Dyer, Deepak Chopra, Barbara Marciniak, Caroline Myss, Neale Donald Walsch, and David R. Hawkins. In the 1980s Shakti’s Living in the Light put into words the ideas that I always believed. This was a huge help for me. Caroline’s emphasis on understanding energy aligns with what I believe and how GODD speaks in some of these messages. Neale’s Conversations with God trilogy—as well as his later books, including Friendship with God —have helped me gain insights and confidence in tapping into the voice of a higher consciousness while encouraging me to get this work to you.
 
There are also groups that have meant a lot to me including Shalom Mountain Retreat Center in the Catskills and The Body Scared. Thanks to all I’ve shared time with at the gatherings and retreats with these wonderful organizations. Two personal small groups helped too. Scott Singer, Ki Johnson, Bill Cahill, and Vaughn Keller—my Root Group, thanks to you. Mary Jo Romano, you too. More recently The Geminis. For three years we met in my kitchen in Newton, Massachusetts. Thanks fellow Geminis: Rhea Slichter and Delwood Richardson.
 
Also, over the decades there are many other friends who have supported my work and growth. Kathy Woodruff, special thanks for your friendship and renewal in the magic of your farm. Rudy Ballentine, Elizabeth Broyles, Sue Stebbins, Daphne Rose Kingma, Henning Gutmann, and others who read earlier versions of the book for me, thank you so. Special thanks to Suzann Robins who encouraged me and edited an early manuscript. I am blessed in our friendship and shared passion for this work. Also thanks to Calvin T. Ranson who has been a great supporter in many ways. Thank you Nancy for asking me if I loved myself.
 
There are also those who helped with their sensitive and invaluable reading for clarity, as well as for errors. They include Marie Rowe, Paul Lynn, Meg Bishop, Judy Montigny, Sharon Hansen and Betsy Carson. I am grateful. Thanks to my Study Group in Woodstock, Connecticut, who read the book shortly after I joined the group.
 
My family, I thank my family. When I totally changed my life in 1991, mom—who passed in 2004—did her best to help out and cope with her out of the box daughter. Cope was one of her favorite words. Dad had passed in 1988, yet he has helped support me, too. As you will read, brother Tom stepped up when I had to make a sudden relocation, and he and his wife stored my furniture in their basement for a year. Five years later, Tom and his twin, brother Bob, helped with another move. There were several moves in between. Pretty wild years. My older brother, Bill, and his wife, helped see me through one of many shifts. We four siblings were blessed with good, loving, stable parents. In contrast, Karl and KJ—my son and daughter, have had no choice but to deal with a maverick, loving, moving mom. You are the greatest. I love you all.
 
Special mention and appreciation to Bruce Paul Fink who worked with me to create the cover, the keys, the look for this book and more. What a process. I love co-creating with you.
 
Finally, GODD , thank you. I am so blessed with our friendship and the amazing process of co-creating this book with you.
 

  Prologue
Learning to Love Myself
 
In 1985, a new friend asked if I loved myself. The year before, Nancy had run for mayor of White Plains, NY. I had run for school board in the small, neighboring town of Dobbs Ferry, New York. Both of us were glad to have had the experience of being up for election even though we lost.
 
Much to my delight, Nancy proved to be a very spiritually aware person. One of the first times I was at her home, we walked out to her backyard to enjoy the spring’s warmth and sunshine. Nancy turned to me and asked, “Do you love yourself?” The memory is vivid because I had to answer, “No,” which shook me. Immediately, I realized I was missing something vital and basic to being the person I wished to be.
 
Around this time, Whitney Houston’s rendition of “The Greatest Love of All” was popular. This song reaches