Servet Hasan - The Intuitive Heart of Romance: Finding Your Own Path to Lasting Love

Paul Gregory

About the Author

Servet Hasans varied career began in fashion, writing, and event planning, but her thirst for spiritual knowledge grew, eventually transporting her to Tibet, and later India, where she met the Sai Baba. Encouraged to seek the path of enlightenment, she spent years studying with the mystic masters of the Far East. She has made it her lifes work to share these powerful messages with millions through television and radio appearances, live seminars, workshops, and books.

Servet is also a clairvoyant and medium, a gift passed down to her through many generations. She is the author of Exercises for the Mind and Tune Him In, Turn Him On, as well as a monthly column, Inside His Head, that runs locally in Orange County, California.

Born in Pakistan, Servet is also a citizen of Great Britain, Canada, and the United States. She considers herself a citizen of the world. For more information, please visit www.servethasan.org.

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The Intuitive Heart of Romance: Finding Your Own Path to Lasting Love 2011 by Servet Hasan.

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The power of intuitive understanding will protect you
from harm until the end of your days.

Lao-Tzu

Contents

Part I

Sacred Self: Staying in the Center of Your Own Life

Part II

Sacred Joining: The Divine Dance of You, Me, We

Part III

Sacred Union: The Spiritual Path to True Love

To my parents, for not only giving me the gifts they have given me, but for teaching me to use them wisely and trust them. I love and appreciate you both.

To my daughter, Sabrinamay you continue to reinvent romance for the rest of eternity. I am so proud of the strong, independent woman that you have become. I love you more than words.

Most especially, to the love of my lifeI thank you for giving me the greatest gift of all your heart. I will forever hold you warmly in mine.

To my best friend and soul sister, Sandy Rodrigues, for her wise insights, endless sense of humor, honesty, and her profoundly generous and loving heart. I am honored to have you in my life. To Mark, her husband, who has been hijacked into my family whether he likes it or not. Thank you, Mark, for being there.

To Paul Hooks, just for being Paul Hooks. You will forever keep me grounded and humbled. I bow to you, my friend.

A special heartfelt thanks to Carrie Obry at Llewellyn Publishing for her invaluable detailed suggestions when helping to shape the manuscript and for allowing me to blossom as a writer. Carrie, your enthusiasm was, and is, positively contagious.

And, a humongous bouquet of sunflowers to my teacher and dear friend, Terry Cole-Whittaker, for being the guiding light and road map on my spiritual journey. Your vision brought me to where I am. I hope that I will forever make your heart smile, as you do mine.

Last, but not least, to anyone seeking love on a spiritual path: may you love and be loved.

Servet

When I began writing my first relationship book, Tune Him In, Turn Him On , something amazing happened to me. I met someone new. Yes, the book really does work! In case you need further proof, this was after some statistics stated that at my age I had a better chance of being struck by lightning or killed by a terrorist than finding true love. Lovely. But not only did I meet a man, I met the man. The man of my dreams.

I saw him coming, but I didnt trust my intuition and doubted if he would make it to my side. But somehow he did, and he quickly set about awakening me from a deep, dark sleep. With every embrace my nightmares disappeared and with every kiss my soul smiled. I found true love.

Did it scare me? Yes! So much so that I was paralyzed with fear. I said I wanted true love, but at the same time, I had done everything in my past to avoid it. Lurking somewhere in the dark corners of my subconscious mind, I held the insidious belief that if I allowed someone in, I might lose everythingI might lose myself. I had made my own life, you know, and I hesitated on the edge of this precipitous cliff, wondering if I could go to the moon and keep the stars. I used to think I didnt have enough time to do everything I wanted to do and still love a man. To me, surrendering to love meant that I would have to give up myself so he could shine.

However, the landscape of relationships has changed drastically over the past few decades. More and more women are choosing not to marry, and many opt to remain childless. A womans role in this world has far surpassed the dynamics of predefined societal parameters to include much more than was previously acceptable. As a result, women have had to renegotiate their terms of partnership, especially after centuries of suppression. But men have to figure out the new setup as well. We are both learning our new roles, in marriage and in society. This being the case, we have to show up enough to give the guy, and ourselves, a chance. Theres a whole new world out there now, with new possibilities for union and equality. The emergence of true feminine power and glorywhile not easy and very much a work in progresshas made it less complicated to love a man. Yes, to some degree, a relationship does force us to surrender our sense of separateness, but not in a bad wayin a more enlightened way that actually makes us stronger and more powerful.

When it comes to union and equality, limitless possibilities exist, each as unique as the people involved. A kind of renegotiation for partnership has come into play where we can rethink, redesign, and recast our romantic ideals from a spiritual perspective rather than a worldly one imposed on us by society. And from this new paradigm emerges a whole new definition of commitment.