This step-by-step guide to making soul contact and awakening your heart centers was given to Sanaya Roman by Orin, a wise and gentle spirit teacher. As you read, you will be taking a wonderful journey of adventure and growth. You will prepare your personality, journey to the soul plane, and receive energy from the Enlightened Ones as you meet and blend with your soul. You will learn how to make your soul a part of your daily life, tapping into its strength, light, love, and other powers to assist you with daily living. You will culminate your journey by creating wheels of love to transform your relationships with friends, family, colleagues, and groups you are a part of. You will join in a call to the Great Ones, to ask for love to be sent to awaken the heart centers of humanity, volunteering, if you choose, to become a shining light for others. You will experience the power of love, the most powerful energy in the universe.
Sanaya Roman channeled Orin, a wise and gentle spirit teacher, for many years. Orin, a timeless being of love and light, has assisted thousands of people to awaken spiritually through his books, seminars, and audio courses. Orin teaches us how to reach the Divine within us, our true self, so we can grow through joy and release struggle, and experience love, peace, and abundance in our daily lives.
Orin, through Sanaya, has created over 200 audio journeys and courses in spiritual growth which are available at www.orindaben.com. You can also visit our site and enjoy free articles, Orin audio meditations, music, weekly book excerpts and written meditations, and daily affirmations.
Sanaya authored of six Orin books, including Living With Joy, Personal Power Through Awareness, Spiritual Growth, and Soul Love. Sanaya and Orin have co-authored with Duane and DaBen the books: Creating Money, and Opening to Channel. Their books have been translated into over 24 languages, and have sold over 2 million copies worldwide.
Sanaya's formal training included graduating Phi Beta Kappa from the University of California at Berkeley. Much of her study and interest was in mathematics, in addition to sociology. She studied metaphysics for years, and found great value in the Seth books by Jane Roberts, and in the Alice Bailey books, as well as books by Joel Goldsmith.
I am so inspired by this. And so grateful. Thank you for coming into my life with your wisdom, your images, your healing. I am encouraged and deeply moved, feeling the seeds of change in me, through me, reaching me from beyond and through me in unknown ways. My light shines brighter, my flame has been kindled and it will bring warmth to the souls in my path. Humbly, I thank God and the Beings of Light and Love for assisting in manifesting this book and placing it on my path.
This is a strange book and I freely admit it's not for everyone. I had no idea what this book was when I picked it up. I figured it was a book about finding your soulmate, but that's not what it is. This book is about raising your vibration and increasing your capacity to love.
It's written more in prose than essay form, written in such a way as to provide a meditative experience. It's powerful, beautiful, and rich with symbolism and imagery. It's basically an upper chakra meditation (heart, crown, third-eye) that incorporates working with spirit guides and other souls.
It's long been one of my all-time favorite books because it was an introduction to a wild and completely different spiritual path for me at the time when I read it back in the late 90s. I was going through a spiritual crisis, and it was one of a handful of books I'd read around that time that changed the way I look at spirituality and religion in general, so it will always hold a special place for me. It's the first book I read by this author and since then I've read and enjoyed the rest. But you always remember your first, am I right?
Looking back 20 years later, I've become more jaded and cynical. I've been let down and disappointed by groups and individuals who claim to walk the spiritual path, whether they follow traditional Judeo-Christian faiths or if they're more aligned with New Thought, Metaphysics, or New Age beliefs. This book makes no assumptions, it just speaks in simple language that hits you right in the soul. It represents a time in my life that was simpler, and yet at the same time, was a tempest of confusion and desperation.
This book was highly repetitive, but I guess that's the point. I didn't resonate with some of the mediations in which you go to heaven and hang out with a bunch of souls and "The elders" or whatever they're called. But, some of the stuff in this book was actually helpful for a person trying to find self love.
Perhaps my heart chakra is super blocked but I found this book to be extremely repetitive and annoying. Also, it was not written with any sensitivity towards people coming from backgrounds with abusive families and barely any friends. Yes, I forgive my family, but it is simply not possible for those people to actually be loving and supportive of me so certain passages made me sad. I felt like the author was so "love and light" that they lost touch with the reality where not everyone is surrounded by super close, loving friendships. I don't even have anyone (friend or family) who checks in on me/ talks to me on a frequent, regular basis.
HIGHLIGHTS: 1. PREPARING YOUR PERSONALITY: - Soul Plane: meet and blend with your soul. Learn a language that is composed of images and is transmitted telepathically, and use a currency of love. - Sub-personalities: obedient self, fearful self, rebellious self, parent-like, childlike, confident self. - Ask your sub-personalities to assist you in creating your goals.
2. JOURNEY TO THE SOUL PLANE: Everything is made of light. - You can sense the soul plane in your soul by expanding your consciousness. - Reaching the soul plane: meditation states, using sound, enchanting, and working with a guide. Achieving states where your body is relaxed your emotions are calm and your mind is clear - Strategy: Your intent to reach the soul plane and your sense of the solar light. - Solar light: soul of the physical sun. - Everything in your world is vibrating light. - Draw solar light into your DNA to evolve your body. - Think of solar light as often as possible, it increases your ability to radiate light.
3. MEETING YOUR SOUL: - As you call in your soul, you give it the power of energy it needs to reach its level of evolution. - You are requesting that your soul become a part of your consciousness and establish more presence in your life. - The note that you can sound that calls your soul saying “I’m ready”. - The Beings of Light assist you by amplifying your call to your soul. - Your soul will know your intention to it. It will hear your call and come. - The light of spirit has the power to transform you at every level.
4. BLENDING WITH YOUR SOUL: - Let your souls higher frequency light blend with the light of your personality. Your soul energy is so powerful that it will change your life as it adds its energy to yours. - If you do not feel ready, work with your sub personalities until you can answer “yes I am ready.” Your soul is aligned with your higher will. - It knows the higher purpose of your life. You can absorb this knowledge every time you blend with your soul.
5. LIVING AS YOUR SOUL: - Meditation: Your most powerful experiences of your soul initially come when you contact your soul in a state of meditation. - Make contact often so your soul presents power, light, love, will, and other qualities can become a part of your daily life. - What seems important to your “personality” may seems insignificant when your soul is present. - Join with your soul when you are planning or thinking about your future. - I deserve love. - I now allow unlimited love into my life. As you accept love from your soul, you develop the ability to receive. - Gratitude draws even more good things to you from your soul and the universe.
6. PREPARING TO AWAKEN: - As you learn to love, your soul can give you many of its other gifts, for you can be trusted to use them to create good things for yourself and others. - With awakened heart centers, you can receive the love of the “enlightened ones” who broadcast love to humanity. - You can become a source of love and attract to yourself many opportunities to make a difference in the world. - The seven (chakra) centers have many functions. They are composed of streams of energy that come from your soul. They act as receivers and transmitters of your souls energy. Some give life and vitality to your physical body. Other centers develop your higher consciousness. - blend with your soul to awaken your heart centers. - You awaken your heart centers by expressing love through inclusiveness, forgiveness, and unconditional love. - Group work, love of humanity, and serving our powerful ways to awaken your heart centers. - The way you live your daily life, relate to people, speak, act, and live gradually and definitely awakens your heart centers. - Make yourself and your soul an authority on what is right for you. - Rapid growth is not necessary. What is important is to grow at a pace that is right for you. - Open to receive your soul’s love for you during these times, calling upon your soul to assist you in releasing the past and opening to love.
7. SOUL LINKING: - Radiating solo is always a gift of energy that can strengthen, empower, and offer others an opportunity to awaken their heart centers, and no more love if they choose.
8. SERENITY OF LOVE: - When you love as your soul, you love unconditionally, not needing to receive anything in return for love. - When you are magnetic to love you stop doing things you do not want to do so others will love you. - Feel the serenity of love when you accept and allow.
9. ONENESS OF LOVE: - feel your souls compassion as you view peoples lives through their eyes. - You will not want to save people from the consequences of their actions, or take away the lessons they are learning. You will work as your soul does, radiating and offering solo. - Rather than wandering what people can give you, wonder what you can give them. only volunteer information about yourself if the information serves the other person in someway. - Serving an empowering others is a joyous expression of soul love flowing out from you to the world. You want to serve because it feels natural, brings you joy, and gives you a way to express the love that is overflowing than you. - Acknowledge all the way you are already adding light and making a contribution to others in the world. As your soul contact increases, you will draw to you even more opportunities to make a difference.
10. WILL TO LOVE: - Love becomes your natural response. - Observe as your soul and light to stimulate the hidden point. - Love offers you new ways to be, it lets you decide if you want to follow these new path and choices. - Your soul is committed to love. Its love is persistent and persevering. - Happy intent to be more loving and take small actions every day to express soul love. - Spread goodwill wherever you go, be loved in action. - Be the ray of sunshine bringing loved everyone you meet.
11. SURRENDERING TO LOVE: - Your solar Plex is like a receiving station, picking up information about the energy that exist in the physical world around you. - You will grow much faster if you love yourself as you are right now. - Once you connect with your soul, you can fill your soul’s compassion. - People sometimes say or do hurtful things because they do not feel good about themselves. Your soul never takes offense. - Release irritation. Offer love instead - Honor yourself by setting boundaries.
12. SOUL LOVE: - Your soul since your heart sent so much light that light rises up to your head center. - Serve people souls rather than their personalities. - Every time you express solo, you awaken your heart centers.
13. ATTRACTING A SOUL MATE: - You may want to help people in your life with whom you are deeply connected, share a common path and purpose, and build a soul relationship. These are soulmates. - Attract soulmate when you feel that this is the next step and the right step for you. - Ask your soul to use this wisdom in trying to use the soulmate who is the best one for you to meet and grow with at this time. - A soulmate will not make you whole. A soulmate will mirror any vacuum within you rather than fill it. - If you want a friend, spouse, or child to give you more love, bring more love into your life now.
14. DISCOVERING THE HIGHER PURPOSE OF A RELATIONSHIP: - Joy exists when peoples hearts are in harmony, and when they are aligned in higher purpose.
15. CREATING THE RELATIONSHIP YOU WANT: - State what you want as an essence quality of love. “I want to experience more joy between us.” Radiate that quality to the other person as you soul link. - View other peoples actions as mirrors. Discover what their behaviors are telling you about yourself. - You have the power to change yourself. - Great relationships are not created through one big event. They are built through a series of small daily choices to be kind, to love, and to forgive.
16. DISSOLVING OBSTACLES TO LOVE: - Start dissolving obstacles to love by feeling your souls love for you. - Praise and acknowledge people when they demonstrate qualities and behaviors you like. - Picture the other person’s negative energy as a gift, pure energy you can circulate among your heart centers to further awaken them. - Trust your soul and the other person’s soul to work from a higher level to bring solutions. - When you are able to be vulnerable, you let go of pride so you can create more love between yourself and others. - Assume people have the ability to solve their own problems, even if you cannot see how they will. - Your soul knows that taking responsibility for themselves and their lives is one of the most important ways people can grow and become stronger. - Saving people makes them weaker rather than stronger. - Soul love is not always soft and accommodating. Sometimes the highest action you can take involves being firm rather than giving in, or allowing others to find their own solutions rather than solving or taking away their problems.
17. EXPLORING NEW WAYS TO LOVE: - circulate energy and light among your heart centers, and move into a state of soul love. - Turn your daily activities into your spiritual practice of expressing love. - One of the greatest gifts you can give others is to hold a vision of their becoming enlightened. - Study and learn relationship skills.
18. CHANGING OR RELEASING A RELATIONSHIP: - as your heart center awakens, you begin to heal the places within you that have felt unloved and unacceptable. - You will want to be around people whose lives are working, who are making a contribution, and who are growing and making soul contact.
19. CELEBRATION OF LOVE: - The great ones can create enormous good. You always have free will. The great ones cannot do anything for you. You need to choose to use the energy you receive from them to bring about changes.
20. MAKING WHEELS OF LOVE: - As your soul links and creates wheels of love, you are planting seeds of love that will emerge and blossom in their own timing. - Be patient and know that all the soul love you are radiating will eventually bring about important and positive changes in your relationships with others.
21. RADIATING LOVE: - Inner work does not take the place of outer action with action is indicated. - Join with the being supple to radiate love during a world crisis. - Expressing love opens the door for your soul to give you it’s a gifts of vision, insight, revelations, and knowledge. - You can tap into the higher powers of your soul.
Many helpful exercises and uplifting thoughts. I did a quick read through and I will definitely begin a second slower read through. I very much appreciate that the book recommends accept what works and makes sense for you, leave the rest. Doesn't try to push views/opinions that may not fit with your path or beliefs. I also appreciate that the work points out, making changes takes time and practice, won't happen overnight. Also it doesn't mean that once you get it, everything comes up roses, we all continue to have good and bad days, make mistakes which help us learn and grow. Not woo woo like some books, realistic and exercises that you can easily do to move forward on your personal path. Definitely well worth the time to read and many points to ponder and consider for a more joy filled life.
For those interested in connecting with higher channels, perhaps give Sanaya's book Attracting Money a go before Soul Love. I suggest because Soul Love lacks detailed, specific instruction on how to prepare for and magnetize / connect during this type of exploration. Attracting Money, however, covers every step in the preparation process. Therefore, I found Soul Love by itself a bit flat and lacking in direction, especially for those completely new to the work. I enjoyed Soul Love, and will do some of the sessions in my own fashion, but this felt a bit rushed in comparison to other texts about the Teacher Orin.
My advice to anyone reading this book is to let timing unfold as it needs to. It took two years before I could start reading the book. Followed by over five years to finish reading it. Each section read over the period of time coincides with interesting life events. The book is an experience rather than words to read.
This book helped me so much with becoming more energetically loving, less judgemental, more forgiving, graceful and free. I took a long time to read and work through sections....it was so worth it!