Rebecca Rosen - Spirited: Connect to the Guides All Around You

Each of us is a unique, multilayered amalgam of wiring specifically designed for our particular souls. We all come to this planet as spiritual beings destined to experience a variety of challenges and situations in order to grow and evolve spiritually.

When we take the time to enter into a relationship with our inner selves and become aware or in tune with our spiritual heritage, we embark upon a special journey. This journey is a process of peeling away layers of conditioning, self-doubt, and self-imposed rules of control. By opening up to our inner guidance system, we experience insight and knowingness, which we may have never experienced before. Based on our natural heritage as the divine light of God, every one of us possesses intuitiondefined as the language of the soul. Once you develop this part of yourself, you can utilize this natural tuning fork and employ it in your everyday life.

Possessing intuition is having an absolute trust in yourself. It is the only way to fulfill your highest aspirations and desires. Everyone wants a life of happiness, health, and prosperity, but never seems to know the road to take for this to be realized. When you become aware of your intuition, you are delving inside and beginning to know yourself and becoming aware of your own personal rhythm. On this journey you must be willing to look at yourself objectively and clear away any judgments imposed on you by family, friends, or even society. I have found in many of my workshops that in order for people to really go deep within and discover their intuitive self, they will inevitably have to go through old tapesold patterns and programming they received earlier in life. It is very much like cleaning out your garage, going through boxes of stuff that you no longer need, because you are a different person. When you open up, you also must face certain emotions that you may have buried deep down and long ago. You cannot hear the inner voice clearly if there are emotional obstructions or fears in the way.

When you learn to access and follow this part of you, you gain control of your life and begin to understand your souls inner promptings, which will lead you to the right choices and the life you were meant to live. Soon, you find that your life will take you to places and through situations you never thought possible but inevitably knew were necessary.

This book is one womans journey of self-discovery. When you read through it, you will see how difficult it was for her to acknowledge or accept that she had a high degree of intuition, let alone to listen to it. But she followed her instincts and used it as an opportunity to discover her true self. Now she utilizes that part of herself to serve humankind. With this book you too have been given an incredible opportunity to step inside your own distinct sense of knowing. This might seem strange or weird at first, since you may not be used to utilizing this part of your being. But that is all part of the exciting journey of discovering yourself.

One of the most endearing parts of this book to me (I am sure it will be to you, too) is the candor with which Rebecca describes the psychic world and her very own abilities. She takes whats often seen as a strange and elusive subject and turns it into something that is relatable to everyone in this tangible and physical world.

Whenever the word psychic is used, many cannot help but conjure up images of gypsies in storefronts throwing down tarot cards and gazing into crystal balls. Although that type of individual does exist, this is not what Rebecca and I refer to in our work. We are talking about your sixth sense, the same sense you used when you were a baby. Some also refer to it as instinct. This is inherent in each one of us. As a matter of fact, you use your intuition every day without even thinking about it. For instance, whenever the phone rings you probably attempt to guess who is calling you. Or when you stand in front of a row of elevators, you intuitively wonder which elevator door will open first. We use intuition as a way to connect with our divine self. One does not necessarily need to be religious or spiritual or even to pray. Our connection with our intuitive self is ever present and always a part of ourselves.

As the great psychologist John Lilly once said, your only limits are your beliefs. It is true. Knowledge is power and being aware of your intuitive self is your key to unlocking the gifts of your soul. Ever since I became aware of my intuitive self and developed it, I began to see the world around me with a new and keen perspective, and my values, ideals, and awareness took on a higher meaning.

This book offers you the same chance to engage, question, and explore yourself through the eyes of a woman who has made the courageous journey to step outside her comfort zone and truly find the meaning of life. I wish the same for you and that the path ahead will forever change you, inspiring you to always reach for what you cannot see, beyond the physical self.

James Van Praagh

H i. Let me introduce myself. My name is Rebecca Rosen. Im in my thirties, happily married, a working mother, and a Denver suburbanite. I struggle with my share of good and bad days and how to juggle my career with the needs of my family. Sound familiar? Im a regular gal like many of you. Theres just one little twist: Im a professional psychic medium. I communicate with spirits on a regular basis you know , dead people who linger around to provide advice and offer relief to the living. Now, dont roll your eyesIm not your stereotypical woo-woo. No flowing robes, no lingering scent of patchouli. I look and talk just like many of my normal clients. In fact, you may have seen me explaining my uncommon job on TV or read about me in your local paper and thought, She doesnt look too out-there.

Most of the time, clients seek me out because they cant get past the death of a loved one and their grief is dragging down their spirit and getting in the way of their everyday lives. I can sympathize with this kind of debilitating pain because I, too, lost someone very near and dear to me not long ago and it wrecked me in a big way. It seemed like I wandered around for months and months asking the same question, Why? Why? Why? Why did this have to happen?

For nearly ten years now, clients have come to me hoping that I will connect them with a cherished loved one who has passed on, or at least provide them with the comfort that someone they love is no longer in pain. As a medium, its been my honor to provide solace and relief for thousands of grieving people. But a few years ago, I started to notice a shift in the familiar needs and requests of my clients. In addition to people who were grieving the loss of a loved one, others came to see me: those who were simply hungry for spiritual truth and a deeper understanding of why they felt lost and stuck in their lives. Initially I kidded with them, Well, you know Im not a therapist , but let me take a look and see what your loved ones have to say. Well, the joke was finally on me because after countless readings where I connected clients with Spirit, an undeniable pattern started taking shape that became the inspiration for this book.

After receiving validations, or proof, that their loved ones were at peace and still with them on some level, clients were also getting insights about how to get unstuck and move on with their lives. Thats rightin addition to offering closure around their deaths, spirits started coming through to help the living with their very down-to-Earth, daily problems! I remember thinking, So, the dead are the new self-help experts now?!