“EXPANDING INTO LOVE:
A Handbook for Awakening to Who You Are, Raising Your Vibration and Creating Enlightened Relationships.”
THE SYNOPSIS AND CHAPTER BY CHAPTER DESCRIPTION OF CONTENT.
Expanding into Love:
A Handbook for Awakening to Who You Are,
Raising Your Vibration and Creating Enlightened Relationships.
Who am I, really?
What is the meaning of my life?
Why are my relationships so challenging and often painful?
Why am I attracting the same kinds of people and problems into my life?
In this book, the answers to these questions and others are revealed in a compelling paradigm of spiritual reality. It provides a meaningful context through which to interpret our real life experiences and to reduce our pain and suffering.
It turns out that everything that happens is a necessary part of our soul’s journey and the spiritual evolution of the human spirit. Once we awaken to this truth, we can begin to live in alignment with the true purpose of our lives which is to expand into our divinity (Love) through relationship with each other.
As a handbook for Radical Living, this book gives solid, practical advice and specific tools to enable you to raise your vibration, remain awake, enhance your existing relationships and create satisfying new ones that will be right and perfect for living the new shift in consciousness – ONENESS.
But, really, this is more than just a book. There are QR codes located at many points in the text giving you instant access to a number of videos, audio and pictures that greatly enhance the reading experience and add a great deal of value. These additional resources are located on a special, password protected website, www.expandinginlove.com, available only to readers of the book.
CONTENTS
The Introduction
This lays out the main assumptions underlying the model of spiritual reality, advanced by the author, on which most of what follows in later chapters is based. It is a model that is challenging to the mind but comfortably accepted by our spiritual intelligence. It is also one that, when applied to everyday human problems, works well enough for us to assume its validity.
PART ONE — LOVE AND RELATIONSHIPS
Chapter 1 “Love Is.”
This gives a number of common-use definitions of Love which helps us understand how certain kinds of Love (as well as certain perversions of love), determine how we relate to others, to ourselves and to God. Love is also defined as Divine Energy which means that to love means to see the spiritual perfection in what is – as is and to perceive the divinity in the person who is the object of our Love.
Chapter 2 “The Purpose of Relationship”
This is a discussion about how, prior to our Awakening, the purpose of relationship is to provide lessons in separation according to our soul’s need to experience sufficient separation to bring it to the full understanding of what Oneness really means. However, after we have awakened the purpose of relationship is to help each other expand into Love in the full meaning of that term — which is, of course, the title of the book.
Chapter 3 “Relationships Once You Have Awakened”
This chapter looks at how we conduct ourselves in our relationships once we have awakened. Moving from an “I-T” orientation to an “I-Thou” orientation.
Chapter 4 “Your Relationship Now”
This offers an opportunity to assess your current relationship, to spot any patterns and to evaluate where things stand between you and your partner. This will be very enlightening for you .
Chapter 5 “Practical Considerations”
This chapter confronts some of the practical difficulties and challenges in taking your relationships to the next level, understanding it now to be a predetermined soul-to-soul agreement being played out as a dance between two human beings. What do we do if our partner is not yet awakened and of the same mind?
Chapter 6 “Renegotiating the Relationship”
This gives you some pointers about how to negotiate what you want in a relationship, what the rules need to be going forward and what your boundaries are.
Chapter 7 “Breaking Up”
In this chapter you are invited to look at ways you can bring a relationship that is definitely over to a close in a way that is loving and supportive of everyone involved, using the tools of Radical Forgiveness and Radical Self-Forgiveness.
PART TWO — THE AWAKENING
Chapter 8 “The Wake-Up Call”
This is a discussion of what might have been the event that caused you to wake up. Was it the dark night of your soul? Some event? A book?
Chapter 9 “A New Paradigm Emerges”
This is a more in-depth discussion than was in the Introduction, of the spiritual principles and assumption of the paradigm being advanced in this book.
Chapter 10 “Picturing Spiritual Reality”
In this chapter I use the device of story to illustrate the above ideas. It is a tongue-in-cheek, first person account of a soul named Jack being prepared for his upcoming incarnation by his Angel of Incarnation named Harley. You become party to that conversation.
Chapter 11 “Soul Contracts”
Here you find a deeper discussion of the idea that we make agreements prior to our incarnation (and during it,) with other souls in which we agree to provide opportunities for each other to experience the pain of separation.
Chapter 12 “To Serve or Suffer”
This chapter discusses how you continually have to make the choice to expand in Love or go back to Victimland. It looks at how the pressure to go back there is strong and what you have to do to resist it.
Chapter 13 “Life Goes On”
After the Awakening, life goes on just the same. The difference is how we respond to what life offers us on a daily basis and what tools should we use to stay awake.
PART THREE — RADICAL LIVING
Chapter 14 “Radical Living’
In this chapter the various strategies that constitute the Radical Living lifestyle are outlined: Radical Forgiveness, Radical Self-Forgiveness, Radical Manifestation, Radical Transformation, Radical Grieving, Radical Relationships, Radical Money, Radical Weight Loss, Radical Reconciliation. The 4-Step Emerge-n-See process is also featured in this chapter.
Chapter 15 “The Heaven on Earth Scenario”
In this chapter we look at the prophecies that have been made about 2012 and the shift in consciousness that people feel is imminent and how we can support it and participate in it.
Chapter 16 “Manifesting a New Relationship”
This is an in-depth look at how the manifestation process works and how Radical Manifestation differs from other methods, and in particular how this method is best deployed in creating a new relationship.
Chapter 17 “Radical Money Consciousness”
Money carries so much meaning in our lives that it behooves us to pay attention to our own money consciousness and how it affects everything we do. This chapter will show you how to analyse your money blueprint and how to overcome the limitations within it.
PART FOUR — CLEARING OUT AND CLEANING UP
Chapter 18 “Deconstructing Your Stories’
Even if you have awakened, your stories still live in your energy field. You have to go in and actively remove them. This chapter shows you how to do this so you bring your energy into present time.
Chapter 19 “Repudiating Negative Beliefs”
Our world-view gives us our belief system. If they don’t fit with our new reality we must find a way to change them. This chapter gives you a way to do that.
Chapter 20 “Expectations and Judgments”
Much of our pain comes from having unmet expectations and from holding judgments. Here you will find ways to filter out those aspects of your consciousness that were previously habitual ways of being so you can find peace and happiness.
Chapter 21 “Interpretations and Assumptions.”
What is true for expectations and judgments applies equally to interpretations and assumptions.
Chapter 22 “Loving Your Projections”
Understanding how projection works and how to lovingly take back your projections is a major key to both Radical Forgiveness, Radical Self-Forgiveness and Radical Transformation.
Chapter 23 “Reframing Your Stories”
This is a huge step because it involves applying the new paradigm to everything that happens to you in life. It is a completely new frame of reference. This chapter offers a great deal of support in making this shift with regard to everything that has happened to you in the past, everything that is happening now and everything that will happen to you in the future.
Chapter 24 “Writing Three Letters”
This is one of the most potent tools for forgiveness and reconciliation and in this chapter you will learn how to write these letters in exactly the right way.
Chapter 25 “Getting Yourself Off the Hook”
This chapter takes a very close look at the issues of self-forgiveness and self-acceptance and gives you the tools to lessen any guilt or shame you may be holding.
Chapter 26 “Grieve Your Losses
Grief is such a painful feeling but is made worse by the belief system of the old paradigm. This chapter looks at the illusion of death and how a Radical Grieving approach to death and dying helps everyone. The issue of abortion is also discussed in the terms of the new paradigm.
Afterword
Bridging the two paradigms with the tools appropriate to each of the strategies we use to carry us across the bridge, loving ourselves when we fall short of the ideal and doing our best to stay awake.
