Kyle Gray - Raise Your Vibration: 111 Practices to Increase Your Spiritual Connection

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Text Kyle Gray, 2016

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I started my spiritual journey young. I was 15 when I officially delved into the universe looking for answers and the meaning of life. Every day I would dedicate time to reading, writing and meditating it just seemed the most magical thing to do. Today I am frequently asked how Im so psychic or how I maintain my upbeat nature, and the answer is the same every time: daily spiritual practice.

Having a daily spiritual practice is the key to developing your spiritual skills, gifts and qualities. When you take the time to acknowledge who you are, focus your mind and meditate, you create room in your life to grow and you encourage your heart to open up and connect deeply with the flow of life.

I like to imagine the mind as a garden. If you leave a garden untended, it will begin to grow wild in certain areas. There will be weeds, and many of the beautiful flowers will wilt and fade away. But if you take the time to look after the garden by fertilizing the soil, planting new seeds and encouraging growth in the areas that have been bare, you will begin to see the rewards of your commitment.

Its just the same with your mind when you plant the right seeds, they will begin to grow. Your mind is the space where you can cultivate a spiritual practice and connect to your body and soul.

So often people who have read my books, come to my demonstrations or participated in my workshops have asked me which books, tools, card decks and crystals are the best for maintaining a spiritual connection. Its almost as though people believe there are tricks or short cuts that will help them get there faster, but really thats not true in fact its an illusion.

One of my favourite yoga masters, Sri K. Pattabhi Jois, once said, Yoga is 99 per cent practice and 1 per cent theory, and he was absolutely right. The same goes for spirituality: if you want to create a deep and meaningful spiritual connection, you must do the practice. So this book is a response to all of the questions Ive been asked and an encouraging kick in the butt to help you develop your daily spiritual practice.

Over the 12 years since I started my journey Ive explored many schools of thought, energy therapies and types of meditation. Now Ive brought together all Ive learned to create a daily spiritual practice for you, so all you have to do is follow in the footsteps I have created.

The truth is, as sages past and present have said, that you have the answers you seek. You have the magic, the miracles, the power and the tools theyre all there right in the centre of your heart. Thats where youll find what youre looking for. My prayer is that this book will act as a map guiding you back to the core of your being so that you can experience the love that sits gently within your heart.

May you tend the garden of your mind and may the sunshine of your soul help your seeds to grow and create a life that is filled with joy and love.

KYLE GRAY
Mysore, India
January 2015

I'm super grateful to be in this position sharing my fifth book with the world and it feels so good. I'd like to thank everyone at Hay House for giving me this wonderful opportunity to share my vision with the world and ultimately live my dream.

Special thanks to Michelle Pilley, my incredible commissioning editor and the MD of Hay House UK, for creating a space (and supporting its growth) for people like me to do what we do. Michelle, you are a huge blessing.

Also shouts and bundles of good vibes to Lizzie Henry (my editor/general words magician/Earth angel), Leanne Anastasi for the incredible cover and internal design (those lil vibes around the title of each lesson as sooooo cool) and Julie Oughton for helping all suggestions meet in the same place and bringing the whole thing together.

Love and thanks to Jo Burgess, Ruth Tewkesbury (love u) and Tom Cole for the publicity and social media support I love that you all give me a kick in the butt when I need it. Also thanks to Jessica Gibson for helping me create and cultivate my speaking platform you da bomb.

I also want to use this space to thank Greta Lipp and the whole Wrage family for really helping me share my vision and ideas in the German-speaking countries I have a whole new Euro family whom I absolutely adore.

Thank you angels for gracing me with your presence daily, for reminding me of the light and for helping me shine as bright as I do. You are my spiritual homies and I will never not be obsessed by how much love you share in this world. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

To the universe I humbly bow. You are my essence; you are the light within the light and the everything that is. Thanks for blowing my mind like every-effing-day. It's so cool.

Finally thanks to my Mum for rocking the business with me for doing everything you do and helping me be who I am today. I love, love, love, love you!

Theres one thing that psychics and scientists can agree on: everything in the universe is made up of energy. That includes you. Right now there is energy moving through every cell of your body, every atom of the air that youre breathing and every part of the chair that youre sitting on. Energy is alive. Its here and its now. Its what were made of and it connects us to everything that was, is and ever will be.