Practical Spirituality and Healing

Forgiveness, Love, Poems and Prayer

This blog gives advice on spirituality and healing.

It aims to encourage you (and myself) to go deeper with your spiritual practice of choice, whether it be forgiveness, prayer, silence, or the conscious sending out of blessings.

Spiritual poems and articles on faith, self help and psychology share my journey of accessing a source of Love and Strength beyond myself while living with very severe ME/CFS and then milder ME/CFS.

My healing journey unfolds through a contemplative spirituality that removes the blocks to my awareness of Love's presence. As old patterns show up in my world to be released, the process often feels painful, yet the rich reward is a deeper sense of connection, belonging and unity with God.

My name is Katherine T Owen. Thank you so much for being a visitor to A-Spiritual-Journey-of-Healing.com.

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Spirituality and Illness

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

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

Are you exploring spirituality while living with chronic illness or another life challenge?
Are you interested in accessing Peace and Love regardless of your cirucmstances?

Know that you are not alone. Many are exploring spirituality alongside you, and God is HERE and NOW.
God is the love, the Presence available in the present moment.

Why Pursue A Practical Spirituality?

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

Nothing in the world has ever given me the Love or sense of completion I find in the contemplative spiritual path, where I sink more deeply into the truth of my Oneness with God.

We can learn to use the circumstances and feelings we most resist to develop a very practical spirituality.

We can receive the gifts of Joy, Love and Peace that lie behind the problems.

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Spiritual Practices

I give advice on the spiritual practices that have helped me.

Many are shared by different faith traditions.
These include

• forgiveness exercises

• a powerful prayer life

• extending blessings to others

• knowing God's love

• meditation

• finding peace in God.

Please let Spirit guide you to what is right for you on this website.

Spirituality Quotes

This website includes inspirational faith quotes from the spiritual book A Course In Miracles and The Bible.
Spirituality quotes and verses are powerful words we can confess over our lives to shift our perception and build our faith.

A Universal Spirituality

I am interfaith Christian - many  paths

I am an interfaith Christian. I am inspired by the holy book of the Bible. I follow Jesus but also recognise many different paths to God.
Whatever 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.

A spiritual explorer

I ask questions of everyday life, so I also ask questions of my faith. I am a spiritual explorer, walking the path one step at a time. I take my beliefs and practices and apply them to the next problem, the next joy, the next person.

As the disciples walked with Jesus, they were asked to update their beliefs. I find the same. 
I resist change, but I am willing to stay open and trust God to guide me. My willingness is enough. 

I recognise that I do not know the truth.
As the Bible says:

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not my ways, says the Lord.” (Isaiah 55:8–9)

A Course in Miracles expresses the same humility:

“I do not know what anything, including this, means… I will not use my own past learning as the light to guide me now.”
(T-14.XI.6, A Course In Miracles quote about not knowing)

My aim is to keep refining my beliefs and practice, becoming a clearer channel for the truth of Love to be received.

A Course in Miracles – my psycho-spiritual journey

The book, A Course in Miracles, has deepened my contemplative practice, helping me meet Jesus in a new way.

My journey is both spiritual and psychological, and ACIM speaks to both.

A Christian mystic - faith pursued in silence and isolation

Christianity, the New Covenant of Jeremiah 31:33, says God speaks to our hearts and minds.
And the premise of the New Testament of Christianity is that we are children of the Spirit of the Law, not the Letter of the Law.
My faith went deep in the silence and isolation of a room, calling out to God to guide me.

In that sense I am a Christian mystic - more concerned with spiritual practice and spiritual experience than with doctrine or dogma. I share a personal yet universal spirituality, finding God in 'all that is' and allowing God to talk to me.

It is my happy experience that many who are religious and many who are spiritual-but-not-religious do the same.

Christian AND a student of A Course In Miracles

To be someone who follows both Christianity and A Course In Miracles seems to be unusual. But one of the labels that now fits me is non dual Christianity, and the book, A Course In Miracles, is a wonderful companion.

It is through A Course In Miracles that I returned to calling myself a Christian. The book allowed me to set aside my then-prejudice of the word God, and refamiliarized me with the language of Jesus, Holy Spirit and the Trinity.

The combination of Christianity and A Course In Miracles may put some of you off, and appeal to others.

My aim is to find those who are not too bothered by labels, but interested in reading the work of someone who has spent over three decades of my life receiving poetry whilst walking a spiritual path. My poetry shares the joys and also the challenges of the spiritual journey.

Of course, as well as those who don't care about labels, I might find those who actively like the combination of Christianity and A Course In Miracles. :-) 

Spiritual and religious

I moved away from religion for many years. I guess you could now say I am both spiritual and religious. I go to church each week and very much find God there. 

Whether you see this website as expressing Christianity will depend on your perspective. I am certainly inspired by and profoundly grateful to the Christian faith.

Be Loved Beloved

On kindle (and on lulu.com) you can find my small book of spiritual poems on a journey to let God love me. I have many more spiritual poems yet to share!

Be Loved
Beloved

15 Spiritual Love Poems
God Love Self Love

(by the author of a-spiritual-journey-of-healing.com)

For 14 years, Katherine T Owen was severely disabled with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, unable to walk, with little speech, and with inadequate care.

Katherine's small beautiful collection of poems take the reader with her as she journeys to know both self love and
God's love.

If you don't have a kindle, you can download FREE software to read the kindle book on your computer.

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"One thing that struck me was the stripping of ego in the work. Most of us have a comfy ego façade, but weakness and disease tore Katherine’s away. The poems in Be Loved Beloved come from the heart."

Dana Taylor, Author of Ever-Flowing Streams: Tapping into Healing Energy

Spiritual Guidance

When we are not in that moment of spiritual awakening, things can feel lonely, perhaps even a kind of loneliness that we haven't felt before.

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

We may feel less happy in the world after we have experienced the richness of knowing ourselves as Spirit.
To overcome doubts, we need to persevere and engage in an ongoing spiritual practice.

One way to keep communicating with God is to expose ourselves to the ideas, energy and companionship of others on the spiritual journey.

This spiritual blog offers companionship, validation and guidance on this spiritual journey of awakening.

A Journey of Forgiveness

This is it. This is the path to joy.

Forgiveness exercises kept me sane.

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

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

Forgiveness is the path to God.

Most of my poems (and self-talk work) are accompanied by a forgiveness exercise called "releasing judgment". I developed this method to keep my heart open to God in times when I might otherwise have been overcome with fear and anger. A FREE ebook on these exercises for releasing judgement is available via this website. Search this page for the bookcover, or any of the other pages.

This blog contains quotes, poems and prayers on forgiveness.

Spiritual Poems and Inspirations

My journey is one of poetry and healing. As I surrendered to God, my head filled with what I now call inspirations - poems and thought-bites on the journey of holistic healing.

When I had more severe Myalgic Encephalomyelitis I could physically write very little. I used a dictaphone to record the poems in my head.

I have collected these into a number of books, of which IT'S OK TO BELIEVE, A Journey with Faith and Reason was the first to be published.

Poetry has become one of the main ways I explore and share the spiritual journey. If the poems on this website speak to you, my books invite you to travel that journey more deeply.

Move here to read about my little book of poems, Be Loved Beloved.

My spiritual poems share the insights that helped me survive and learn from the years of living with chronic illness - severe ME/CFS.

My inspirational poems are weaved throughout this blog.

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 spirituality and healing is the journey of awakening 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 spirituality and healing, many wonderful changes can also take place in our physical health and in our experience of the world.

I share what I have learned of...

• spiritual healing
• emotional healing and the stages of acceptance of illness
• psychology and healing
• physical healing
• how to relax: finding peace in God
• how to build faith with scriptures for healing

I will also look at

• how I lived with the illness, severe ME/CFS
• what I did to manifest improved health
• how to use our minds to manifest a life of abundance
• guidance and poems about learning, to support us in how to learn any new skill

May God bless all who come here.
May He always guide us on our spiritual journey.

With the Love we are,

Katherine

(Katherine T Owen, Spiritual Writer, Poet, Webmaster)

Thank you for reading this article.
And thank you for being here.

With the Love we are,

Katherine

Katherine T Owen, webmaster at
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Author of Be Loved, Beloved (£1 or $1 approx on Kindle)
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