Melody Beattie - Finding Your Way Home: A Soul Survival Kit

This book is for Light Workers and Light Children.

CONTENTS

The change which is upon us is not a well-kept secret in the Universe.

BRIAN LUKE SEAWARD IN THE GOOD REMEMBERING,
by Lyn Roberts-Herrick

Part of my job as a spiritual journalist is to try to listen, be aware, then capture the energy, feelings, and intent buzzing around in the ethers and turn it into a story. If Im lucky, it turns into a story about healing that a few people can use to help them on their way.

If I get real lucky, it becomes a story that heals me, too.

People are talking a lot lately about the idea of going home. In different ways, shapes, and forms theyre expressing the desire to return home. The idea is in the air. Look around. You can see and feel it, too.

Theywewant to go home.

Theyre not talking about returning to the home of their childhood days. Some dont even know exactly what the desire is theyre expressing. Its an idea emanating from the soul, from the deeper part of us, an idea thats found its time.

We want to go home .

Its an itching, a longing, a yearning, a desire bordering on urgencyalmost a cosmic movement.

We want to find our purpose, our right place, the right people to live and work with, the right work to do. We want to do more than discover why were here; we want to be doing and living what we came here to do with the people we came here to do it with. We want to come into alignment with our highest good and destiny.

We want to discover and live our souls purpose.

We want to bring out and use all the parts of us weve kept denied and tucked away. We dont want to hear anything more about what we cant do. We want to know what we can do, and then we want to do it well. We want to stop exploiting, and start exploring our gifts and talents, bringing them to the world.

And we want to enjoy doing it. We want to have fun. Wed like to make a little money, too. Maybe a lot. Its not that money is the most important thing. We dont want to be bought or sold. Selling our souls is what we want to stop doing. But we want enough. And maybe a little extra at the end of the month. We dont want to worry about money anymore.

Wed like to feel good, do our art, be of service, be with people we love, people of like mind, maybe experience some joy, bliss, and euphoria, too. We want to be part of a team of high-minded soul mates on a similar mission at work; we want a few friends who are truly friendsbelong to a tribe of kindred souls; and we want more than a relationshipwe want a passionate love relationship with our twin flame soul mate.

Or we want to be happy and comfortable being alone.

Were tired of feeling afraid and confused. Wed like to take some risks, but wed like to feel safe, too. Protected. We want to live in a way that feels natural and right to us.

We want to be who we are, to be all that our souls came here to be.

Were tired of straitjackets, limitations, and selling our souls for money or security. We want to bust looseset our souls free, be in the right place at the right time, fulfill our mission, dance with destiny, and watch the universe unfold at our feet.

We want enough drama and excitement to keep life interesting, but we want an abiding sense of peace underlying it all.

Karma and gravity have kept us bound and gagged long enough. We want to return to our spiritual roots. We want to learn to fly.

We want heavenright here on earth.

Thats what Ive been hearing. Thats what Ive been saying, too.

We want to go home .

Its time to go homeon a cellular, physical, and soul level. Our souls, and the universe, are demanding it.

This is a book about finding your way homefrom wherever you are.

Its for homesick people, eager and restless to find that place called home, evenespeciallyif theyre not certain where home is anymore.

Its for people who still believe in angels; in light, color and sound; and in higher beings who come to help. Its for people who believe in music and stories; wishes; destiny; babies; pets; lifeafter and before death; the holy and the sacred; the sensuous; laughter; themselves; God; this planet; and the rest of the universe, too.

Its for people who believe in a little magic and a lot of love.

Its for people who believe that we, and the world we live in, are multidimensional and that these dimensions are shifting at an intense and determined pace, taking us to a place we havent yet experienced on this planettaking us home.

Tucked neatly away under the sink in my bathroom is a small blue polyester bag with a red strap. Inside it is a pair of scissors, gauze, aspirin, an aluminum foil blanket, a make-do shelter, three days of water, and a handful of food supplements. Its an earthquake survival kit, a little something to help me get by in the event of a worst-case scenario (something fairly common recently) in the Los Angeles area, a location Ive come to call home in the past few years.

Finding Your Way Home is a soul survival kit, a little something to ease the discomfort and help us get through these times with our souls intact and our hearts opened.

I suggest reading the book through, cover to cover, to awaken yourself to the ideas contained in it. Then, I recommend using chapters as necessaryprophylactically, routinely, and in the event of spiritual and emotional worst-case scenarios.

At the end of each chapter you will find activities, including guided meditations. You can do these activities when you finish your initial reading of each chapter, to associate and lock in the ideas while theyre fresh. Or you can scan them and come back to them later, when youve finished reading all the text. Some activities will appeal to you more than others. Trust yourself about which ones you need and when to do them.

The book is divided into three parts. The first part elaborates on the concept of going homewhat that means and how we get there. I wish I could include a map, but I dont have to. You have one in your heart and in the DNA of your soul. It is my hope that reading this book will help release it.

The second part of this book focuses on the doctrines necessary to help us find home. People love rules, step-by-step instructions, concrete guides. What are the rules for that? Ive been asked, when I suggest opening the heart, freeing our soul, or dancing in harmony with universal love. Im not certain there are rules, at least not the kind our logical, rational minds would like so we could control things and devise a plan. But we all have doctrines, a set of basic beliefs that become our rules, the laws that we live by. The Doctrines part will help us examine our rules, and change them when change is desirable.

The third part is the fun part. (Actually, all three parts are fun, because going home is fun and feels goodmost of the time.) The third part is devoted to remedies. Reading each chapter will help you recall and create the specific mood, climate, or energetic intent of that chapter. Many of you are familiar with the concept of burning a candle to create a particular energylike tranquillity, creativity, passion, abundance. Some of you may have used aromatherapy, oils, or homeopathic remedies to enhance a particular energy in your life. Each chapter in this part will function like a candle, oil, or homeopath. Read and use the chapters in the Remedy part the way you would burn a candleto help illuminate what you need at any moment.

For a long timethe better part of my lifeI believed (as did many of my peers) that we had to wait passively for the energy we desired to manifest in our lives, whether that desired energy was an insight, a revelation, creativity, tranquillity, love, surrender, emotional healing, joy, bliss, or relief from stress and anxiety (all necessary tools for the homeward bound).