Dear Visitor,

This is a site that helps you deepen your spirituality and thereby receive healing in many areas of your life.

My name is Katherine T Owen. And I thank you so much for being a visitor to A-Spiritual-Journey-of-Healing.com. You are welcome.

Please take a look around the site. Content is added frequently. If you want to follow this site as it grows, please sign up for the ezine in the box to the right. You can also subscribe to the RSS newsfeed, by clicking on the RSS button to the left of the screen and down a bit. Or you can get news of the latest pages on the site by following me on twitter.

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A Journey Through Pain to Joy

My journey of faith was prompted by chronic illness. I spent 14 years bedbound with severe Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME). I had a poor level of assistance and I lived life at survival level.

In the natural world, my life was not worth living and I became very motivated to put my roots down into a reality beyond this world.

Are you living with illness or other life challenges?
Do you want to walk the spiritual path and find the peace of God within your life now?
If so, this website is for you.

Know that you are not alone. Many journey with you and God is HERE and NOW.

Why Would We Wish To Deepen Our Spirituality?

I did not find the answers to my problems in the physical world.

I have never found in the world the Love and sense of completion I find in the spiritual experience.

We can learn to use the circumstances and feelings we most resist to deepen our spirituality. We can receive the gifts of Joy and Love that lie behind them.

Spiritual Practice

I share with you the practices that have helped me. What helps you may be different. But many practices included here are shared by different faith traditions. These include the practices of forgiveness, prayer, meditation and relaxation techniques that allow us to rest in God. Please take what works for you.

Spiritual Quotes

This site includes quotes from A Course In Miracles and The Bible. (See the navigation bar on your left.) These are powerful words we can confess over our lives to allow us to shift our perception and our world.

The Bible can be a trigger for some. If this is true for you, I invite you to read the quotes in the way you would read those from any other book. The bible quotes may speak to you or they may not.

The Bible successfully underpins so many cultures in the world, and has also at times been used to justify causing trouble to others. As part of our spiritual journey, it is a great thing to find a God of Love within this book.

Spiritual Companions

Whatever devotional practices we follow, in a moment of awakening we know we are united. We know we are all part of God, the Divine, Source.

The words don't matter. They really don't matter.
Go deep enough into God and We Are One.

When we are not in that moment of awakening though, things can feel lonely, perhaps more lonely than ever.

We may initially have few friends who are following the same path.

We may actually feel less happy in the world after we have touched another richer world.
We have questions and we have doubts.

One of the ways to make sure we keep communicating with God is to ensure that we expose ourselves to spiritual ideas and the energy and company of others who are walking the path.

This site gives company, validation and guidance on this journey of spiritual awakening.

A Journey of Forgiveness

This is it. This is the path to joy.

Forgiveness is what kept me sane.

Forgiveness is what allows me to be more and more joyful living with myself and with the people in my life.

Forgiveness allows me to heal from 14 years of being bedbound.

Forgiveness is the path to God.

Most of my poetry (and dialogue work) is accompanied by a practice of forgiveness called "the release". I developed this practice to keep my heart open in times where I might have otherwise been overcome with fear and anger. A FREE ebook on the Release is available. See the top right of this page.

This site contains prayers, poems and quotes on forgiveness. As it grows, it will contain many more.

Spiritual Poems and Thought-Bites

As I surrendered to God, my head started to fill with what I now call inspirations - poems and thought-bites on the journey of holistic healing.

I could physically write very little at the time, and used a dictaphone to record them.

Now, well into the process of recovery, I have collected these into a number of books, of which IT'S OK TO BELIEVE, Moving From Head To Heart is the first to be published.

Another purpose of this site is to give me the opportunity to promote my work and share it with you.

The site is also a financial venture. If you see adverts or books that interest you, please do click on them. There is no extra cost to you, and I receive a commission. This will help me to be able to share the knowledge that helped me survive and learn from the years of living with chronic illness - severe CFS / ME.

My inspirational poems are weaved throughout this site.

Holistic Healing

My journey involves holistic healing - the healing of mind, body and spirit.

The word “heal” has the same root as the words holy and whole.

The journey of healing through spirituality is the journey of waking up to the knowledge that we are part of God, that we are Love, that we all have access to the same Unity Consciousness.

As we explore our spirituality, many wonderful changes can also take place in our physical lives and our experience of the world.

As I develop this site, I will share what I have learned of

• spiritual healing
• emotional healing
• physical healing
• learning to quieten the mind

I will also look at

• how I lived with the illness severe CFS/ME
• what I did to manifest health
• how to use our minds to manifest a life of abundance
• how to learn to learn so that it becomes easier and easier to gain any new skill

With the Love we are,

Katherine

(Katherine T Owen, Writer, Poet, Webmaster)