About The Natural Soul
This book creatively defines and
describes our Soul in a number of ways, including by giving many
examples of what its author has learned from her and others’
ordinary and sometimes extraordinary life experiences. This includes my
life review in my near-death experience.
We read and hear so much about
the Soul. In this writing, we are being shown the Soul. We are being
shown how it works when we get our ego out of the way and let the Soul
live and express in its natural state. And, we do this by letting go of
our past wounds or what I call “toxic pain” and then
letting go of our need to control so our Soul can orchestrate our
lives. This book takes you step by step through this process. And, it
helps you to go through this process with your loved ones through
life’s ups and downs, through bringing Souls into this world and
then again at the end of this life, helping our loved ones’ Souls
leave.
I was a researcher for 6 years
at University of Connecticut School of Medicine and have written
and lectured extensively on natural spirituality and near-death
experiences. In this book, I explain evidence for the Soul's existence
before birth and even after the physical body dies. As
important, the reader is shown us how to live as our Soul and relate to
the Souls of others.
But to address the Soul we
have to go beyond the usual scientific methods and use ontology, which
is the study of being, existence, and experience. The way to
measure these include our shared experience, whether spoken, written or
expressed graphically through art. In this book I present numerous
such shared experiences that add to our collective documentation of the
existence of the Soul.
This book expands our
view of reality to show us there are more important things in
life than being a consumer or what the media tries to tell and
sell us. And in this expansion lies our hope that is
carefully laid out. Living a life with this constructive and enlivening
attitude that comes so easily from our Soul, we find peace and joy
because as is explained -- peace and joy are the natural state of
our existence when we live from our Soul.
An important part of Soul work
and spirituality is making meaning from our every day experiences and
conflicts. When we so make meaning we are able to rise above the
limited and often painful episodes in our life. This book gives us
several useful examples of such making meaning, including the creative
process of reframing. For example, in the chapter on grieving, I
address depression and reframe it as stuck grief. In this way there is
both movement and meaning. If we believe we are "depressed" there is no
movement or resolution. In the reframe, we can realize that
our stuck grief can be lived and worked through. This book takes
us step by step through the grieving process, showing us how this
healing movement works. It shows us how to eliminate our suffering
by embracing and metabolizing our pain. We learn experientially
that suffering comes from resisting our pain. When we let go and allow
our pain to come up we understand how bitter sweet grieving is because
we get relief.
If our grief work is because
we have lost a loved one, this writing even gives more of a positive
outcome then we have known before. I explain how whoever leaves
us, leaves us with a bigger Soul because we take in and can keep all of
our love from them and for them
The Natural Soul will open your heart and show you the way.
Endorsements for The Natural Soul
When a person has a near-death experience, he or she transitions from a
body-based to a soul-based consciousness, and in that soul-state is
granted for a moment outside of time a kind of all-knowing
understanding. Now suppose you could hold that state of consciousness
so that you could distill and communicate that knowledge to others.
Well, this is precisely what Barbara Whitfield has done in her
remarkable new book, The Natural Soul, which does indeed provide a
feast of soul-food for the mind
--Kenneth Ring, Ph.D.
Author of Lessons from the Light
Emeritus Professor of Psychology
University of Connecticut
Whitfield shows us what is missing
for optimum health and peace of mind. Going beyond the conventional
medical model of prescription pills for every ailment, she describes
how we can nurture our health through the innate power within our
natural Soul.
--Alan Gaby, M.D.,
Past President, American Holistic Medical Association
Author of Preventing and Reversing Osteoporosis
This book has a big theme that illustrates that the more we live from
our authentic Soul -- the more our Soul and the Souls of our loved ones
expand. And this may be part of the Divine Mystery of what life here is
really all about. Whitfield shows us how the deeply meaningful
experiences in life including our relationships with our children and
grandchildren will help them to remember that they were spirit before
they were born and will be spirit again after this lifetime. An
excellent read.
--Sandra Sedgbeer
Editor, Children of the New Earth Magazine
Inspired Parenting Magazine
Planetlightworker.com Magazine
A lovely and sensitive book, which will be very comforting to those who
have suffered a major loss, and enlightening to those who haven’t.
--Jennifer Schneider, M.D.
Author of Living with Chronic Pain and Back From Betrayal
Death is often swept under the rug or ignored due to the fear
surrounding it. Barbara Whitfield boldly opens us to a journey filled
with love and beauty in place of one filled with fear.
--Steve and Barbara Rother
Lightworker.com
Authors, Seminar Leaders, and Spokesman for the Group
The soul is limitless Life and Love Being, and the stories shared in
The Natural Soul leave you with a profound understanding of this truth.
Barbara writes that our Soul is who we are right now - not some kind of
spiritual concept or higher part of us ‘out there’. It is
who we really are if we only take a moment to look at and feel our real
self. It is who we are before life, during life, and after life.
Indeed, our soul is life itself; eternal, unbreakable, and in every
moment connected to all those we love regardless of distance or on
which side of the veil we or they reside.
--Dana Mrkich
Author of A New Chapter
Sydney, Australia
A work of art that helps us
shift from a fear based sense of death to one that embraces its
nature and opens the door of its Mystery. Barbara’s compelling
words weave a story of inspiration where the reader will find hope. It
invites the Soul to soar.
--Jyoti (Jeneane Prevatt, PhD) Co-author of An Angel Called My Name and The Power of Humility
--Russell Park, PhD., Clinical Psychologist, Co-author of The Power of Humility.