Sanaya Roman has been channeling Orin, a wise and gentle spirit teacher, for more than twenty years. All of Orin’s work assists people in unfolding their potential, finding their inner wisdom, and in growing spiritually.
Sanaya graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of California at Berkeley. She has studied metaphysics for years and now teaches graduate light body seminars with Duane Packer and his guide, DaBen. She lives in Oregon.
Website: www.orindaben.com
Table of Contents
Introduction
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I
Orin's First Appearance
1
II
Greetings from Orin
10
You are seeding the world with new thoughtforms
12
Who am I?
14
I am a Being of Light
15
Great love, compassion, and guidance are available
16
III
You Can Live Joyfully
17
Joy is an inner note you sound
17
Joy comes from operating with Inner-Directedness
18
The challenge is to create freedom
19
Value yourself and monitor where you put your time
21
What you love is what you are here to do
21
You will have joy only when you settle for nothing less
22
Every person has a reason for being on earth
23
All of you are pioneers, ahead of your time
24
Playsheet
27
IV
Changing the Negative Into the Positive
29
To be aware of your higher good enlarge your view of your life
30
Everything that happens is meant to move you into your greater self
31
Are you willing to believe in abundance, the inner world, and growing through joy?
33
You can release the past by loving it
34
You will not be the same in the future as you are now
36
Loving people is a commitment to holding a high vision of them
37
Your Higher Self will guide you in the right direction
38
Playsheet
40
V
The Art of Self-love
42
Loving yourself means accepting yourself as you are right now
42
Loving yourself means stepping outside of guilt
44
Your beliefs about reality create your experience of it
46
Only those who feel good about themselves can express humility
48
The greatest gift you give others is opening to their love for you
49
Don't take yourself so seriously
52
Playsheet
53
VI
Self-respect, Self-esteem, and Self-worth
55
Come from your power and not your weakness
56
How you treat yourself is how others will treat you
58
Every situation is a learning experience to teach you to gain more power and love
60
Self-worth is knowing you are choosing your feelings at every moment
61
Playsheet
64
VII
Refining the Ego--Recognizing Who You Are
66
It is important to develop positive pictures about the nature of power
66
Pay attention to your higher nature and your lower will wither from lack of attention
68
Whatever you pay attention to is what you create
70
The images you send out about yourself determine how other people see you
71
You may have been afraid to assert your power because of mistaken and negatives images of power
72
Playsheet
74
VIII
Subpersonalities--Uniting the Separated Selves
76
Your higher self looks over and observes your other parts
78
Every single part of you is your friend
80
Playsheet
81
IX
Love: Knowing the Wisdom of the Heart
83
People offer you the opportunity to know your higher self through their love
84
Love transcends the self
86
One act of love cancels thousands of lower acts
88
Playsheet
90
X
Opening to Receive
92
So much love is available
93
What are the requests of your soul?
94
Learning to receive is learning to ask for the essence of what you want
94
Be willing to do what your soul directs
95
There are ways to have more in your life
96
Trust yourself and believe you can create what you want
97
Playsheet
98
XI
Appreciation, Gratitude, and the Law of Increase
100
Whatever you give thanks for will increase
101
Write a thank you to the universe
102
Gratitude is healing to the emotions
104
Giving thanks opens doors into the higher levels
105
You can choose to think in a higher way more often
106
Will is the ability to direct your energy where you want
108
Playsheet
109
XII
Feeling Inner Peace
111
Inner peace comes from within, not without
112
Inner peace is a connection to your deeper self
113
Stop being affected by the world and affect it with your peace
115
You can choose to see the world any way you want
116
Playsheet
119
XIII
Achieving Balance, Stability, and Security
121
Your attitude determines how you experience the world
123
You create balance by visualizing balance
124
True security exists when all needs can be met by the self
127
To feel secure you need to feel you are enlarging and expanding your world
128
Playsheet
130
XIV
Clarity: Living in More Light
132
Clarity comes from mental concentration, focusing thoughts and paying attention
134
Careful communication brings clarity
136
Get clear on your purpose, intent and motivation
137
Playsheet
139
XV
Freedom is your Birthright
141
The only limits to freedom are those you place upon yourself
142
To create more freedom, look at the areas where you have already created freedom
143
When you put out a definite message you rarely have to fight for what you want
145
The degree to which you support yourself will be the degree to which you receive support
147
To have freedom, be willing to give freedom
148
Determine now that you will give freedom to everyone close to you
150
Playsheet
151
XVI
Embracing the New
153
Be open to having the new come from anywhere, anyplace, any person
155
Every time you embrace the new you bring in a sense of aliveness
156
There is a new you every day
157
Power comes from living in the present moment
159
Playsheet
160
XVII
Taking a Quantum Leap
162
Change those programs that kept you from having what you wanted
163
You can choose how quickly you wish it to happen
167
Emotional changes are often required for a quantum leap
168
The mind likes fixed reference points in its progress along the way
170
Playsheet
173
XVIII
Living in Higher Purpose
175
Spiritual growth means increasing your awareness of beauty, opening your heart, and experiencing more love and compassion
177
Life need not be hard
179
Higher purpose is always something you love
180
You learn and grow from everything you create
182
Playsheet
184
XIX
Recognizing Life Purpose--What are you here to do?
186
You live in a limitless world, you can expand beyond anything you know
187
It is only an illusion you do not have what you want
189
Fill your thoughts with what you want and you will have it
191
Life purpose is whatever path you decide, for all is free will
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With the guidance of this bestselling classic, you can learn to grow through joy rather than through struggle and pain. See immediate results in your life when you learn to:
• Love and appreciate yourself • Open to receive • Experience more self-confidence and self-esteem • Live in higher purpose • Take a quantum leap in any area • Change negatives into positives • Gain clarity in your relationships • Increase your sense of aliveness and well-being
This Living with Joy revised and updated 25th Anniversary Edition includes:
• New channeled information • Over 300 new Joy Affirmations • 18 new Daily Joy Practices for an uplifting day • Stories from our readers
In the tradition of Jane Roberts, Esther Hicks, and Edgar Cayce, gifted channel Sanaya Roman presents Living with Joy, given to her by Orin, a timeless being of love and light. This wise and gentle spirit teacher offers a systematic course in spiritual growth.
The spiritual truths and transformative meditations and exercises in these pages have opened millions of people to their greater potential. Sanaya and Orin invite you to choose joy, release struggle, and open to the power of your innermost being.