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Awaken the Spirit Within: 10 Steps to Ignite Your Life and Fulfill Your Divine Purpose
From the star of Lifetime's The Last Goodbye .
With a unique and refreshing blend of self-help, wisdom, and spiritual insight, Rebecca Rosen helps us “wake up” and start living our lives with divine intention and purpose.
We all want to be happy and fulfilled. We want to understand the very point of our lives—why we’re here and what we’re meant to do. Yet, when we think about how to get from here to there and answer life’s “Big” questions, so many of us don't know where to begin. The advice from so many different people and sources can be overwhelming, but it doesn’t have to be. In Awaken the Spirit Within , acclaimed author and spiritual medium Rebecca Rosen offers us an inspired and invigorating prescriptive program to give our lives clarity and deeper meaning. With Rebecca’s down-to-earth and conversational style, this book will help you learn how
• Create more peace and fulfillment in your personal relationships
• Gain confidence in your natural talents and abilities
• Succeed in greater degrees at your job
• Develop financial abundance and prosperity
• Conquer addictions and negative thinking
• Find freedom from weight struggles and poor body image
• Gain the clarity to make the “right” choices and decisions for your life
Bold claims? Yes. But when it comes to Rebecca Rosen, you’ll understand just after a few pages, why Time.com has told its readers to “Take her advice seriously.”
With a unique and refreshing blend of self-help, wisdom, and spiritual insight, Rebecca Rosen helps us “wake up” and start living our lives with divine intention and purpose.
We all want to be happy and fulfilled. We want to understand the very point of our lives—why we’re here and what we’re meant to do. Yet, when we think about how to get from here to there and answer life’s “Big” questions, so many of us don't know where to begin. The advice from so many different people and sources can be overwhelming, but it doesn’t have to be. In Awaken the Spirit Within , acclaimed author and spiritual medium Rebecca Rosen offers us an inspired and invigorating prescriptive program to give our lives clarity and deeper meaning. With Rebecca’s down-to-earth and conversational style, this book will help you learn how
• Create more peace and fulfillment in your personal relationships
• Gain confidence in your natural talents and abilities
• Succeed in greater degrees at your job
• Develop financial abundance and prosperity
• Conquer addictions and negative thinking
• Find freedom from weight struggles and poor body image
• Gain the clarity to make the “right” choices and decisions for your life
Bold claims? Yes. But when it comes to Rebecca Rosen, you’ll understand just after a few pages, why Time.com has told its readers to “Take her advice seriously.”
304 pages, Paperback
First published August 20, 2013
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About the author
Rebecca Rosen
22 books110 followersREBECCA ROSEN, the author of the national bestseller Spirited, is a spiritual medium and has served as a bridge between the living and those who have crossed over to the other side for the last ten years.
Known for her ability to provide accurate, quantitative, and detailed information, Rebecca’s graceful and healing delivery to those she reads is a testament to her accessible style and unique approach.
Due to the high and growing demand for spiritual truth, Rebecca has committed herself full time to serving as a medium, and her clients often wait over three years for private readings. At her audience readings, attendees have the unique opportunity to witness profound validations of spirit communication and experience Rebecca’s presence and gift.
Rebecca also educates thousands of people around the country with her seminars, lectures and workshops, always with the intention to offer guidance in one's present life, as well as opening minds and hearts to the knowing that our souls are eternal and our deceased loved ones are at peace and with us always.
Known for her ability to provide accurate, quantitative, and detailed information, Rebecca’s graceful and healing delivery to those she reads is a testament to her accessible style and unique approach.
Due to the high and growing demand for spiritual truth, Rebecca has committed herself full time to serving as a medium, and her clients often wait over three years for private readings. At her audience readings, attendees have the unique opportunity to witness profound validations of spirit communication and experience Rebecca’s presence and gift.
Rebecca also educates thousands of people around the country with her seminars, lectures and workshops, always with the intention to offer guidance in one's present life, as well as opening minds and hearts to the knowing that our souls are eternal and our deceased loved ones are at peace and with us always.
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April 16, 2014
I was 'guided' to pick up this book after I watched Rebecca Rosen on Dr Oz's Show. In a very lucid style, Rosen lays outs the secrets to living a more fulfilling life, one that's more in tune with our divine contract. Rosen works as a spiritual medium, which means she's in direct contact with the 'other world' and in her years of working with these spiritual energies, she's found that most people in this world are not able to accomplish their true life purpose. Most get stuck in a nine to five job. They lead unhappy lives, make wrong choices, live in guilt, and never really realize their sacred contract. In this book, Rosen guides us that if we start believing in our deepest instincts, meditate and pray and keep following the signs that the higher powers are laying out for us at every step, we could all lead very happy lives and may not even need to reincarnate. We reincarnate because we've still not learnt all our lessons, that's why we need to come back to Earth in the physical form again and again.
Rosen minces no words in telling us that if we feel stuck, at any point of time of our life, all we have to do is to ask and we can get help from the 'other world' 24*7. The Archangels Akatriel, Peliel, Jophiel, Metatron, the Ascended Masters, our Guardian Angels, they are all there to help us in our journey. We each have a Guardian Angel who's there to guide us at all times. The spirit world knows that existence on Earth is not easy and so, a team of spirits is at our beck and call. All you have to do is to open up your mind and heart and accept their signals. For instance, seeing some particular numbers again and again or visitations from your deceased loved ones in your dreams are signals. The angels are the positive radiant beings of energy that are helping us and guiding us in our journey, while they make their own journey in the 'other world'. Rosen suggests that more often than not, while as little children we are very perceptive of these energies, as we grow up, we start blocking these energies, we stop trusting our intuition. She then suggests a set of meditation practices to open up the energy chakras in our body. Once we release all the blocked energy, we'd start to see and feel the world in a different way. The things, the people we'll attract to ourselves will dramatically shift and our life would be more fulfilling. At the very crux of it, we are all an extension of God, we've his DNA in our system, and our true life purpose is to spread love and kindness. Now, how we do it will differ from one person to the other, but if you could do that, your life will have true meaning. In the end, Rosen gives the example of Steve Jobs, who just before he died uttered the words 'Oh Wow! Oh Wow! Oh Wow!' You don't have to be on your death bed to say those words, if you could live your life in gratitude, life will present you with enough opportunities to say 'Oh Wow!' everyday of your life.
Rosen minces no words in telling us that if we feel stuck, at any point of time of our life, all we have to do is to ask and we can get help from the 'other world' 24*7. The Archangels Akatriel, Peliel, Jophiel, Metatron, the Ascended Masters, our Guardian Angels, they are all there to help us in our journey. We each have a Guardian Angel who's there to guide us at all times. The spirit world knows that existence on Earth is not easy and so, a team of spirits is at our beck and call. All you have to do is to open up your mind and heart and accept their signals. For instance, seeing some particular numbers again and again or visitations from your deceased loved ones in your dreams are signals. The angels are the positive radiant beings of energy that are helping us and guiding us in our journey, while they make their own journey in the 'other world'. Rosen suggests that more often than not, while as little children we are very perceptive of these energies, as we grow up, we start blocking these energies, we stop trusting our intuition. She then suggests a set of meditation practices to open up the energy chakras in our body. Once we release all the blocked energy, we'd start to see and feel the world in a different way. The things, the people we'll attract to ourselves will dramatically shift and our life would be more fulfilling. At the very crux of it, we are all an extension of God, we've his DNA in our system, and our true life purpose is to spread love and kindness. Now, how we do it will differ from one person to the other, but if you could do that, your life will have true meaning. In the end, Rosen gives the example of Steve Jobs, who just before he died uttered the words 'Oh Wow! Oh Wow! Oh Wow!' You don't have to be on your death bed to say those words, if you could live your life in gratitude, life will present you with enough opportunities to say 'Oh Wow!' everyday of your life.
April 3, 2024
I REALLY enjoyed savoring every moment of reading this. She tells stories of clients she reads, includes meditations, talks in depth about using her gift and gives guidance on how awaken your spirit and tap into your highest self. I had the most amazing full circle realization as I was about to finish this book...
A while ago I was in deep meditation and randomly, a gentle giant showed up and accompanied me as we walked through a small village, we then sat under a tree and enjoyed a picnic, he never said anything but being with him felt safe. He was wearing a short sleeve button down, pants, and he was barefoot. At the time I thought it was so weird and didn’t understand what it meant but on one of the last pages of this book Rebecca mentions archangel sandalphon and describes seeing him clairvoyantly as a GENTLE GIANT wearing a BUTTON DOWN and TROUSERS!!! He helps us stay grounded and stay focused on who we are and what we were meant to do. When I read this my heart skipped a beat.. did I really have picnic with archangel sandalphon? 🤗
Reading has changed my life and books like this keep reminding me how grateful I am for it.
A while ago I was in deep meditation and randomly, a gentle giant showed up and accompanied me as we walked through a small village, we then sat under a tree and enjoyed a picnic, he never said anything but being with him felt safe. He was wearing a short sleeve button down, pants, and he was barefoot. At the time I thought it was so weird and didn’t understand what it meant but on one of the last pages of this book Rebecca mentions archangel sandalphon and describes seeing him clairvoyantly as a GENTLE GIANT wearing a BUTTON DOWN and TROUSERS!!! He helps us stay grounded and stay focused on who we are and what we were meant to do. When I read this my heart skipped a beat.. did I really have picnic with archangel sandalphon? 🤗
Reading has changed my life and books like this keep reminding me how grateful I am for it.
September 3, 2015
Want a refreshing look at why you're here? Want to know why you've had struggle and strife in your life, and how you can work with challenges instead of against them? Want to create more abundance? Then look no more, Rebecca has done it again with her newest "down to earth" book, "Awaken the Spirit Within".
Rebecca does a great job giving instruction to all levels of mediums or non-mediums. She included in the book meditations and teach us to ask the archangels for help. These two things are very important because
1.) WE ALL NEED TO MEDITATE
2.) there are angels and guides around us to help us.
Meditation is as important to us as eating and sleeping and most people do not understand that. Also, we have access to the ultimate help-line...divine guidance. Most people don't access it. No wonder the world is the way it is. Bummer!
The other thing I liked was that each chapter was set up in the same format and she didn't go on and on about her readings. She brought experiential support when needed. The writing was clear, concise, and easy to understand. Her tone was loving and determined to have people understand that each of us has miraculous power.
I really love both her books :)
Rebecca does a great job giving instruction to all levels of mediums or non-mediums. She included in the book meditations and teach us to ask the archangels for help. These two things are very important because
1.) WE ALL NEED TO MEDITATE
2.) there are angels and guides around us to help us.
Meditation is as important to us as eating and sleeping and most people do not understand that. Also, we have access to the ultimate help-line...divine guidance. Most people don't access it. No wonder the world is the way it is. Bummer!
The other thing I liked was that each chapter was set up in the same format and she didn't go on and on about her readings. She brought experiential support when needed. The writing was clear, concise, and easy to understand. Her tone was loving and determined to have people understand that each of us has miraculous power.
I really love both her books :)
June 19, 2015
I borrowed this book from the library but it's a book I would buy for my bookshelf. It's based on the Kabbalah and energy chakras (but written so that anyone can understand) which I wasn't expecting but I love. The chapter's are organized by the 10 sephirot, energy centers, and she explains what they mean, where they correspond in the body, and what angel they are associated with. She also gives meditations to help you "awaken". This book is very organized and also very positive. It energized me after I read it but I would definitely have to reread it in order to fully absorb it all. I really like Rosen and I'm definitely going to check out her first book and her brother's books as well as they seem like pretty cool people.
September 4, 2013
I loved the first book and I enjoyed the sequel just as much. Thank you, Rebecca, for putting out such a positive book into the universe. I originally checked this copy out from the library, but I will read this again. So, I will purchase a copy.
September 28, 2013
I read this book to heal from my wounded heart. The book healed me, knowing the spirits are protecting us always whatever happens and the spirit never dies and only body perishes. It's exactly the same concept of Buddhism. I enjoyed reading lots of true stories in it.
October 17, 2015
Spectacular
What a book! I have learned more about spirituality in this book alone than the previous fifteen or so that I have already read. The entire book keeps you wanting more and I wished it lasted forever!
What a book! I have learned more about spirituality in this book alone than the previous fifteen or so that I have already read. The entire book keeps you wanting more and I wished it lasted forever!
January 14, 2014
The meditations are so helpful and her sharing of her clients' stories is so endearing and inspiring.
November 8, 2021
HIGHLIGHTS:
1. REFLECT:
- God is soft and simple. It doesn’t make a grand entrance. It shows up quietly and sweetly, and subtle feelings that ripple up from deep within you.
- An A-list team of angels is waiting in eager anticipation to work with every one of us.
- Angels are ready and willing to jump into our lives to support us as soon as we say “help!”
- Divine intuitive wisdom, strong feelings, whisper in your ear, listen up. Trust and stay solid and what you know.
2. RESET:
- Ask for guidance. Calling your guardian angels to help you see your life more clearly and find the answers you’ve been searching for. Ask them to show you signs of their presence and then be open to receiving what message they have for you.
- Enlightened spiritual beings communicate with most people through inspired thoughts and subtle feelings.
3. YOUR ROLE:
- We are simply not presented with the same transformative experience that is an opportunity that we have on earth, to accelerate our spiritual growth in a relatively short amount of time.
- Your contract is largely based on lessons you failed to learn in the past and new challenges you decided to take on this go-round.
- Our lives are a marriage between free will and pre-determination. We are born with a script, a contract based on what our spirit needs to learn to grow and evolve, but what plays out depends on our choices, our free will.
4. RESIDE IN LOVE:
- When you think loving thoughts and approach people and situations with kindness and respect, you’ll discover that the ineffable bumpy roads ahead will suddenly become much easier to navigate.
- Fulfilling our life‘s purpose hinges on making choices and taking action that is loving and kind. Taking action is key. It’s only when we act that we can effectively change the course of our lives in a significant way.
- Higher guidance is available to you at all times. All you have to do is make the call and request a little roadside assistance.
- When you make the delivery choice to treat yourself with love and kindness and then extend love outward through your thoughts, words, and actions, your life will begin to flow easily and on purpose.
5. RELEASE & REENERGIZE:
- What is not an expression of love is an expression of fear.
- Spread love to transform dark fear-based energy. Psychic shielding, the mental bubble of protection of white light around the body and to guard against fear-based energy. Call for backup, ask the unseen world to watch over, and protect your energy.
6. REJOICE IN GRATITUDE:
- Heaven is a higher state of mind. One we can send to you in this life by simply appreciating what we have. Stop trying to control or resist. Express gratitude for the beauty that surrounds us every day.
- In the absence of resistance and fear, our lives begin to naturally open up and flow easily and harmoniously. Harmony is what heaven feels like.
- Gratitude acts like a magnet, attracting more blessings and beauty into your life.
- Losing weight: stop thinking about the pounds and concentrate on what about their life they do feel good about. Focus on what’s working, both emotionally and physically.
- Everything in your life has shown up with the intention, to help you reach your divine purpose and potential.
- Our guides can’t take away our challenges, but they can offer us thoughts and feelings of comfort and clarity to best help us work our way through them.
- Gratitude works as a powerful energetic release. It removes resistance, doubt, and fear and stresses your energy immediately up toward love and light.
- What you focus on expands so when you put out the to the universe through your thoughts, feelings, words, and actions that you’re thankful for, you attract more blessings and beauty into your life.
7. REST ASSURED:
- When life feels hard, you’re either trying to control situations rather than allowing events in your life to naturally unfold, you’ve attracted difficult people and circumstances into your life by thinking that negatively. You’ve been presented with an important life lesson.
- Welcome life struggles and challenges as opportunities to learn and grow. Have faith that everything is happening just as it was intended. Our perception experiences a seismic shift and suddenly we're able to see the beauty and gifts in every situation, the desirable and the undesirable.
- Spirits may choose to remain near the scene of their physical death for a brief time to comfort their living loved ones, typically ascending within 48 hours.
8. RELINQUISH CONTROL:
- Surrendering resistance and relinquishing control over our day-to-day lives can be tough. Trust that you’ve been led and are being led exactly where you need to go. Put your faith in the divine plan, we start to feel a whole lot better.
- Don’t be surprised when the right situation of people begins to magically appear when you’re in the flow, synchronicity‘s become a regular day-to-day occurrence. When you relinquish control, your life will begin to effortless effortlessly and easily move forward.
- Your role in life is meant to be active and engaged, one in which you do your best to set yourself in exactly the direction you wanna go, and then, you let go.
- Polarity helps us clarify. When you know what you don’t want, you become clear on what you do you want. When you know who you aren’t, you know who you are.
- Whatever your unique talents, you have at least one permanent guy who also shares your gift and who inspires you to share it.
- When you identify embrace your unique radiance, and when you use your special gifts and talents with the pure intention of serving others and spreading love, you’re fulfilling your purpose, what you were born to do in this life.
9. RISE UP:
- Your ultimate purpose in life, is to serve God by embodying God. Small actions that express you are being God.
- We feel our best and shine brightest when we’re regularly empowered with and embodying God’s energy, to serve others.
- When you humbly show up every day with the pure intention taken by in your divine radiant and unique talents with service to others, you’ll build doing what you were born to do and happiness will be yours.
10. WRAP UP:
- It’s the fate of man to descend from the higher spiritual realm into the physical everyday world to learn who he or she is, a unique expression and divine extension of God.
- Put faith and trust in your divine wisdom in guidance. Except for responsibility and holding yourself accountable for your choices. Face life‘s challenges head-on, with the intent to learn from them.
- How you approach and live your life has enduring effects. The choices you make, along with the intentions behind your actions, reactions, and interactions, can either stall your spiritual growth or advance it.
- Daily devotion to living a purposeful life takes work. The hardest assignment is to remember day to day that you are indeed divine. Make the conscious choice today and every day to rise and express the love and the light within you, shining your unique and divine radiance into the dark corners of the world, there’s nothing to fear.
1. REFLECT:
- God is soft and simple. It doesn’t make a grand entrance. It shows up quietly and sweetly, and subtle feelings that ripple up from deep within you.
- An A-list team of angels is waiting in eager anticipation to work with every one of us.
- Angels are ready and willing to jump into our lives to support us as soon as we say “help!”
- Divine intuitive wisdom, strong feelings, whisper in your ear, listen up. Trust and stay solid and what you know.
2. RESET:
- Ask for guidance. Calling your guardian angels to help you see your life more clearly and find the answers you’ve been searching for. Ask them to show you signs of their presence and then be open to receiving what message they have for you.
- Enlightened spiritual beings communicate with most people through inspired thoughts and subtle feelings.
3. YOUR ROLE:
- We are simply not presented with the same transformative experience that is an opportunity that we have on earth, to accelerate our spiritual growth in a relatively short amount of time.
- Your contract is largely based on lessons you failed to learn in the past and new challenges you decided to take on this go-round.
- Our lives are a marriage between free will and pre-determination. We are born with a script, a contract based on what our spirit needs to learn to grow and evolve, but what plays out depends on our choices, our free will.
4. RESIDE IN LOVE:
- When you think loving thoughts and approach people and situations with kindness and respect, you’ll discover that the ineffable bumpy roads ahead will suddenly become much easier to navigate.
- Fulfilling our life‘s purpose hinges on making choices and taking action that is loving and kind. Taking action is key. It’s only when we act that we can effectively change the course of our lives in a significant way.
- Higher guidance is available to you at all times. All you have to do is make the call and request a little roadside assistance.
- When you make the delivery choice to treat yourself with love and kindness and then extend love outward through your thoughts, words, and actions, your life will begin to flow easily and on purpose.
5. RELEASE & REENERGIZE:
- What is not an expression of love is an expression of fear.
- Spread love to transform dark fear-based energy. Psychic shielding, the mental bubble of protection of white light around the body and to guard against fear-based energy. Call for backup, ask the unseen world to watch over, and protect your energy.
6. REJOICE IN GRATITUDE:
- Heaven is a higher state of mind. One we can send to you in this life by simply appreciating what we have. Stop trying to control or resist. Express gratitude for the beauty that surrounds us every day.
- In the absence of resistance and fear, our lives begin to naturally open up and flow easily and harmoniously. Harmony is what heaven feels like.
- Gratitude acts like a magnet, attracting more blessings and beauty into your life.
- Losing weight: stop thinking about the pounds and concentrate on what about their life they do feel good about. Focus on what’s working, both emotionally and physically.
- Everything in your life has shown up with the intention, to help you reach your divine purpose and potential.
- Our guides can’t take away our challenges, but they can offer us thoughts and feelings of comfort and clarity to best help us work our way through them.
- Gratitude works as a powerful energetic release. It removes resistance, doubt, and fear and stresses your energy immediately up toward love and light.
- What you focus on expands so when you put out the to the universe through your thoughts, feelings, words, and actions that you’re thankful for, you attract more blessings and beauty into your life.
7. REST ASSURED:
- When life feels hard, you’re either trying to control situations rather than allowing events in your life to naturally unfold, you’ve attracted difficult people and circumstances into your life by thinking that negatively. You’ve been presented with an important life lesson.
- Welcome life struggles and challenges as opportunities to learn and grow. Have faith that everything is happening just as it was intended. Our perception experiences a seismic shift and suddenly we're able to see the beauty and gifts in every situation, the desirable and the undesirable.
- Spirits may choose to remain near the scene of their physical death for a brief time to comfort their living loved ones, typically ascending within 48 hours.
8. RELINQUISH CONTROL:
- Surrendering resistance and relinquishing control over our day-to-day lives can be tough. Trust that you’ve been led and are being led exactly where you need to go. Put your faith in the divine plan, we start to feel a whole lot better.
- Don’t be surprised when the right situation of people begins to magically appear when you’re in the flow, synchronicity‘s become a regular day-to-day occurrence. When you relinquish control, your life will begin to effortless effortlessly and easily move forward.
- Your role in life is meant to be active and engaged, one in which you do your best to set yourself in exactly the direction you wanna go, and then, you let go.
- Polarity helps us clarify. When you know what you don’t want, you become clear on what you do you want. When you know who you aren’t, you know who you are.
- Whatever your unique talents, you have at least one permanent guy who also shares your gift and who inspires you to share it.
- When you identify embrace your unique radiance, and when you use your special gifts and talents with the pure intention of serving others and spreading love, you’re fulfilling your purpose, what you were born to do in this life.
9. RISE UP:
- Your ultimate purpose in life, is to serve God by embodying God. Small actions that express you are being God.
- We feel our best and shine brightest when we’re regularly empowered with and embodying God’s energy, to serve others.
- When you humbly show up every day with the pure intention taken by in your divine radiant and unique talents with service to others, you’ll build doing what you were born to do and happiness will be yours.
10. WRAP UP:
- It’s the fate of man to descend from the higher spiritual realm into the physical everyday world to learn who he or she is, a unique expression and divine extension of God.
- Put faith and trust in your divine wisdom in guidance. Except for responsibility and holding yourself accountable for your choices. Face life‘s challenges head-on, with the intent to learn from them.
- How you approach and live your life has enduring effects. The choices you make, along with the intentions behind your actions, reactions, and interactions, can either stall your spiritual growth or advance it.
- Daily devotion to living a purposeful life takes work. The hardest assignment is to remember day to day that you are indeed divine. Make the conscious choice today and every day to rise and express the love and the light within you, shining your unique and divine radiance into the dark corners of the world, there’s nothing to fear.
September 11, 2024
In this book as well as "Spirited" (whose review on this site has the same content as this one), Rosen (a spiritual medium) writes of her experiences of her God-given gift of communicating with souls who have passed on to the spirit world. Those souls who communicate with her include her own loved ones and those of her clients.
Such books could only be approached by those who already believe in spiritualism (like myself) or those who are somewhat curious and open-minded.
Rosen writes with the perspective that our loved ones are watching over us along with other spirit guides and angels. The purpose is to help us complete our life’s purpose as peacefully as possible – even during times that are anything but peaceful.
There are other concepts explored in these books. For example, before we are sent from the spirit world to this world, we make arrangements to choose certain situations in life including hardships. The intention is to work past the hardships to raise our souls to higher levels. We also lose our memories of the spirit world and past lives before being “sent down” to the current life. If we don’t finish all of our pre-arranged “assignments” during life, we can continue the work in spirit world or reincarnate and try again. This is especially true for suicide cases.
Speaking of suicides, this is especially personal for Rosen as she lost both her father and her paternal grandmother this way. Such spirits do not “go to hell” as some of us have been told; rather, they continue to work on spiritual lessons they missed in life.
As I have always been curious about life after death and other related issues, these books made me feel better for various reasons. One is the reassurance that our loved ones stay with us after they pass away and we do reunite with them after we ourselves leave this life.
Also, these books give the best explanation I know as to why bad things to people who don’t seem to deserve it. Even if I might have felt upset about some of the concepts explained, those concepts make far more sense to me than anything else I’ve learned in the past on this subject. - dbamateurcritic
Such books could only be approached by those who already believe in spiritualism (like myself) or those who are somewhat curious and open-minded.
Rosen writes with the perspective that our loved ones are watching over us along with other spirit guides and angels. The purpose is to help us complete our life’s purpose as peacefully as possible – even during times that are anything but peaceful.
There are other concepts explored in these books. For example, before we are sent from the spirit world to this world, we make arrangements to choose certain situations in life including hardships. The intention is to work past the hardships to raise our souls to higher levels. We also lose our memories of the spirit world and past lives before being “sent down” to the current life. If we don’t finish all of our pre-arranged “assignments” during life, we can continue the work in spirit world or reincarnate and try again. This is especially true for suicide cases.
Speaking of suicides, this is especially personal for Rosen as she lost both her father and her paternal grandmother this way. Such spirits do not “go to hell” as some of us have been told; rather, they continue to work on spiritual lessons they missed in life.
As I have always been curious about life after death and other related issues, these books made me feel better for various reasons. One is the reassurance that our loved ones stay with us after they pass away and we do reunite with them after we ourselves leave this life.
Also, these books give the best explanation I know as to why bad things to people who don’t seem to deserve it. Even if I might have felt upset about some of the concepts explained, those concepts make far more sense to me than anything else I’ve learned in the past on this subject. - dbamateurcritic
August 7, 2023
Having recently heard spiritual medium Rebecca Rosen on Rob Lowe's podcast, Literally, I was motivated to get one of her books from the library. I was glad I found this one, published in 2013, because although there were some anecdotes about readings she had done, the emphasis was on "living our lives with divine intention and purpose." It really boils down to finding confidence in who you are and spreading love and light in your daily life.
I wouldn't call the ten steps she identifies as a program, but rather a path you can follow to achieve this goal--everything from reflecting and resetting to rejoicing in gratitude to relinquishing control and reclaiming your power. Is any of this really new? Not really, but it is well-organized and well-explained guidance for those who want to feel fulfilled and purposeful in living their life. The section about how to address stress and fear issues was of special interest to me.
When it comes to spiritual mediums, I have an open mind. And I do enjoy reading and hearing about the ways Rebecca has connected individual clients to their loved ones who have passed. She also has a podcast, which I have started listening to. If you are not into self-help, this is not the book for you, but I felt I picked up some excellent advice from the author.
I wouldn't call the ten steps she identifies as a program, but rather a path you can follow to achieve this goal--everything from reflecting and resetting to rejoicing in gratitude to relinquishing control and reclaiming your power. Is any of this really new? Not really, but it is well-organized and well-explained guidance for those who want to feel fulfilled and purposeful in living their life. The section about how to address stress and fear issues was of special interest to me.
When it comes to spiritual mediums, I have an open mind. And I do enjoy reading and hearing about the ways Rebecca has connected individual clients to their loved ones who have passed. She also has a podcast, which I have started listening to. If you are not into self-help, this is not the book for you, but I felt I picked up some excellent advice from the author.
December 30, 2018
A fantastic reminder that we're all expressions of God and truly, we're all one. Our purpose is to extend our God-spark and radiate that truth. As so many spiritual teachers have proclaimed, we're here to learn certain lessons and then go back to Spirit. We're never alone and fortunately, we can change course in an instant if need be. Thank you Rebecca for adding your spark to the picture. I know there's way more to life than what meets the eye and your heart-felt, compassionate voice was warmly touching.
"We're all packaged differently, but our insides --our spirits--are made of the same stuff: divine loving energy and light." ~p. 4
"We are all energetically connected to one another and to God, the source of all energy, love, and light." ~p. 22
“While it’s true that roadblocks are an inevitable part of life, what Spirit confirms for me on a daily basis is that life is intended to be harmonious and synchronistic easy even, full of magical moments and joy.” ~p. 97
"We're all packaged differently, but our insides --our spirits--are made of the same stuff: divine loving energy and light." ~p. 4
"We are all energetically connected to one another and to God, the source of all energy, love, and light." ~p. 22
“While it’s true that roadblocks are an inevitable part of life, what Spirit confirms for me on a daily basis is that life is intended to be harmonious and synchronistic easy even, full of magical moments and joy.” ~p. 97
April 18, 2023
This book is right up there with The Body Keeps The Score. Please read this book!! I honestly feel like it's no coincidence it showed up on my doorstep even though I thought I was ordering a different book of Rebecca's. It answered every question I've been dying to ask her for the last year and what's even more surprising is it was written in 2013! I loved her book, Spirited, but I love this one even more. I just bought her latest book, What's Your Heaven? And cannot wait to dive into that one. If you're a regular meditator, this book helps take it that step further and Spirited helps with that too. If you're new to meditating and feel like you've lost your way or need a reminder of your purpose, this book is for you. Her examples of connecting people with their deceased loved ones is incredible. What a gift this was to read!
August 10, 2018
I really read it at the perfect time. It gave me real clear insight on a few things. I know most people don't believe in mediums and their incredible gift but Rebecca really knows what she's talking about. She's an incredible storyteller and through her writings you can tell she wants you to heal and live you beat authentic life. Definitely recommend to those who feel a bit stuck and want some extra techniques and real world examples to find their intuition and center themselves to awaken the spirit within.
July 2, 2017
A very enlighten book to help with the understanding of finding guidance where you do not know where else to look. Really appreciate her aspects of things. I took some notes for references which I believed helped me.
July 14, 2019
What an eye opening and inspiring book. From the first page I was hooked. I’ve had this book on my shelf for probably 10 years and I think I finally picked it up to read it when my spirit needed it the most. This book is a life changer. Highly recommend!!!
September 18, 2020
Page turner, you can feel the energy behind her words and get excited about life.
December 27, 2020
There are so many wise & thoughtful points throughout this book, which make you pause. It is such a well written book. Definitely will re-read!
May 10, 2021
I needed this to 'wake' me back up.
December 28, 2021
Digs more into meditations and is very long winded. The summaries at the end of the chapters and last chapter, "Angelic Review," is all you need to sum up the book.
April 5, 2023
Honestly, this book didn’t speak to me. Maybe it’ll speak to you.
March 14, 2018
This book played a dominant role in radically changing my life!
Out of all the Spiritual/Self-help/Awakening books in existence, I place this book in the top three. Rather than being one of those self-help books riddled with boring cliches and focused on conventional notions of success, Rebecca Rosen's Awaken the Spirit Within gets at the fundamentals of things in a remarkable way. The author is a professional spiritual medium and writes from the context of Spirit, the spiritual realm, and life in the physical world as an embodied being. Awaken the Spirit Within is a perfect balance of spiritual insight and motivational wisdom.
This book found me. Perhaps it has found you, too.
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Related books I've encountered:
<> Spiritual Growth: Being Your Higher Self Sanaya Roman -- A remarkable book. Because it's so dense with insight and info, I'll be finishing it over the course of many months.
<> Awaken Your Inner Fire: Ignite Your Passion, Find Your Purpose, and Create the Life That You Love HeatherAsh Amara -- I ended up abandoning this book.
<> You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life Jen Sincero -- Don't mind the title. So far it strikes me as being incredibly readable and helpful!
Out of all the Spiritual/Self-help/Awakening books in existence, I place this book in the top three. Rather than being one of those self-help books riddled with boring cliches and focused on conventional notions of success, Rebecca Rosen's Awaken the Spirit Within gets at the fundamentals of things in a remarkable way. The author is a professional spiritual medium and writes from the context of Spirit, the spiritual realm, and life in the physical world as an embodied being. Awaken the Spirit Within is a perfect balance of spiritual insight and motivational wisdom.
This book found me. Perhaps it has found you, too.
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Related books I've encountered:
<> Spiritual Growth: Being Your Higher Self Sanaya Roman -- A remarkable book. Because it's so dense with insight and info, I'll be finishing it over the course of many months.
<> Awaken Your Inner Fire: Ignite Your Passion, Find Your Purpose, and Create the Life That You Love HeatherAsh Amara -- I ended up abandoning this book.
<> You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life Jen Sincero -- Don't mind the title. So far it strikes me as being incredibly readable and helpful!
November 19, 2015
I loved this book. I came into this book with an open heart and an open mind. I felt this book led to an optimistic viewpoint of what life, death, and afterlife really could be and what Rosen believes to be true. I truly do hope that we are an extension of God and that our love and light energy is our true purpose in life. Much of these truths that she speaks of can be tied to any religion, but I really enjoyed taking the chapters, reading, and practicing in meditation her recommendations, and letting them soak in every step of the way. It added some internal brightness to my own belief system and it taught me of making a habit in sending light and love into myself through meditation daily and in my actions with others.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
June 15, 2015
I received a free copy of this book from Goodreads, but would have rated 5 stars regardless.
I have read many books in the genre, but like her book Spirited, I find Awaken the Spirit Within to be one that speaks clearly to me. Her suggestions and exercises are easy to follow and meaningful to me on a day-to-day basis. Her genuineness and her gifts flow freely through her writing, making this an enjoyable exploration of psychic phenomenon as well as a guide to awakening ones own gifts.
I have read many books in the genre, but like her book Spirited, I find Awaken the Spirit Within to be one that speaks clearly to me. Her suggestions and exercises are easy to follow and meaningful to me on a day-to-day basis. Her genuineness and her gifts flow freely through her writing, making this an enjoyable exploration of psychic phenomenon as well as a guide to awakening ones own gifts.
November 6, 2013
I liked this much more than I expected. She has a wonderful way of expressing lessons she has learned from her readings. I found that many of the lessons resonated with me. While it was new information, it felt like I knew it deep inside. If you are a devout anything, you may not enjoy this book. It does take a little bit of an open mind but if willing to learn, you will be happy you gave it a read.
April 18, 2014
Ok this book is kindof "out there" for me. The author admits what she does does seem kindof "woo woo". What drew me in is the author's down to earth writing, humor, and especially her message. Whether or not a person agrees that she can communicate with the deceased I found her message of living a spiritual based life very satisfying and meaningful.
June 24, 2014
Just couldn't get behind the anecdotes in this one. I had a scathing review to share before but in the spirit of what I did learn I'm going to keep it to myself and just go with this: it's better to keep it simple. The message would have had a stronger impact without the tall tales. I'm just not a believer in fiction.
December 29, 2013
A solid 3.5 stars. A clairvoyant's compilation of lessons regarding how to live better, happier, and with more dedication to being a loving being. Different from anything I'd read before, but a few good passages in here that really get you thinking.
March 8, 2022
WowO!!
All the things my heart knows are real, and explained in this book! Thank you Rebecca Rosen.
I love the helpful meditations. I will use the knowledge in this book to live my life more fully within my true purpose.
Thank you fantastic Universes!💜
All the things my heart knows are real, and explained in this book! Thank you Rebecca Rosen.
I love the helpful meditations. I will use the knowledge in this book to live my life more fully within my true purpose.
Thank you fantastic Universes!💜
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