Awakening

Awakening

From business in the city, to business for herself, Elizabeth Villani is an ordinary woman with an extraordinary message. Having journeyed through the average life of a 1970's child, parental divorce, teenage rebellion and now into motherhood, her upcoming book leads you into the revelations of what she has discovered along the way and gives us a glimpse of what is beyond what we think is our reality. In December 2008, Elizabeth Villani lay on a bed in a beauty salon for a massage and her life changed forever. As she lay there she was shown the truth, in a mystical experience that concluded in her being directed to write.

This is a book of our time. We have spent the last decades collecting the cars, the house, the image, and now we are reaching for what's next. We numb our worlds with wall to wall TV and an endless busyness that exhausts and shadows who we really are. When we stop, we long to maintain the stillness and enjoyment that we find. We are asleep.

The world is changing. Awakening is the answer to human happiness. It's easy, we just need to wake up, remember, and look to our future. From modern Mums to business high flyers we are homogenising our existence. We have the opportunity to harness our human psyche, build upon our past and present and create an amazing future.

Whether you have been made redundant, are looking for the answer or are simply looking to feel and have a brighter future, you have the power to awaken to conscious living right now and in doing so feel the astounding spirit of source within you.

"A little book with a BIG message." - Jacky Newcomb, Dear Angel Lady: https://www.female.com.au/dear-angel-lady.htm
"The work of Liz is a blessing. She is truly inspired and brings an important message in our turbulent times. Make the time to read her wisdom and let it touch you deeply." - Ben Renshaw, author of Successful but Something Missing and co-director of The Happiness Project

As part of the launch of Awakening, Elizabeth has incorporated a non profit social enterprise www.fundsforyou.com. The fund exists to warm up the world by bringing joy and happiness to us all whilst also providing the opportunity for those in need to gain support in bringing out their own inner light through free coaching, workshops and experiences delivered by herself and other joy providers. A percentage of the books' profits will go directly to the fund.

Elizabeth Villani is a qualified coach and Reiki Master, who delivers workshops helping factory workers, managers and directors, to find themselves and transform fear and conformity into happiness, kindness and joy through her business Courageous Success.

Awakening
O-books
Author: Elizabeth Villani
ISBN: 9781846943386
Price: $12.95

Interview with Elizabeth Villani

Question: Tell us about Awakening?

Elizabeth Villani: Awakening is about lifting our consciousness to a new level by waking up.We all have a tendency to numb our world with activities and wall to wall tv, internet surfing, tweeting, reading, doing. All of this activity when taken to switch off closes down our consciousness. We need to wake up. When we do we will experience a whole new way of living. We also tend to put ourselves down alot and live in a negative thought cycle - especially when we are with others - we even bond through negativity sometimes, a collective moan! All of this numbing and negativity causes us to believe that we are not good enough and because we are loving beings at heart we can't bear this so we put ourselves back to sleep by building up more negativity and numbing some more. At this time in our world there is a need to lift our personal and collective consciousness to bring more loving vibrations and feelings into our world. The more of us that wake up the sooner the world will wake up with a positive impact on us and our environment. A new world will awaken if you like.


Question: What do you hope readers take away from reading Awakening?

Elizabeth Villani: "Awakening" shows us our true reality and what we can ourselves do to awaken into it. It providers the reader with the answer to "there must be more than this" through lifting everyday consciousness and inner openness, whilst knowing that yes, there is more to this life. The book provides the answer to redundancy, unhappiness and drifting through life, laying out steps to a happier inner and outer world. Readers will awaken and open their minds and hearts to realising that there really is more to life. That we aren't alone and that they can take positive action to live a better life. My belief isthat we will all be given the chance to awaken. But if we ignore the choice to awaken now then our bodies or life circumstances can awaken us and for some that can be quite painful. In the current times of economic uncertainly many will be forced to question their jobs, and ways of life, to awaken. "Awakening" takes them through the steps that they can take right now to believe in themselves, stop the drifting and move on, finding a greater happiness and depth of experience to their life.


Question: Where did the idea for the book, Awakening come from?

Elizabeth Villani: In 2003 I woke up and jumped off the London treadmill. I had a senior wellpaid but stressful job and had had to take my team through a few rounds of redundancies. A new round came up and I became speechless...literally. I opened my mouth to ask a question as it was announced and nothing came out! I resigned. My body and soul had woken me up.

I retrained as a coach and reiki master and started my own development business, Courageous Success, which I still manage to this day - www.courageoussuccess.com. Then in December 2008 I lay on a bed in a beauty salon, just down the road from my home, for a massage, and my life changed forever. As I lay there I had a life changing experience. I was shown the truth. In a mystical experience that concluded in me writing "Awakening". During the massage I had a mystical vision. As clear as sitting and watching a play unfold, eyes closed, I could see only the picture presented before me.

This is what I was shown...
The world is a place where souls are sent to remember to learn lessons, to develop. There is a world of angels and spirits (souls) that mortal human's cannot see. They are here to help us to learn and thrive. This place that we live in, our "reality", is like a playground where our souls are sent to experience the lesson's that will bring us centred in love. That will allow us to be completely open hearted, good and inspirational in all of our thoughts and interactions. Some of us are sent here as teachers and messengers to help us all, whilst at the same time the teachers enhance their own development further.

Up until the vision I was busy pulling Angel Cards every day and loving spending my leisure time playing with astrology and my intuitive friends. Then I went for the massage and my world changed. What I now see is that there was a method to opening up your spirit to divine connection. If I can do it anyone can do it. And so I have listed below the stages that I believe that I went through to open up the channel. I have put these on my website for peoplewww.elizabethvillani.net. I have also added some of my favourite daily reads and tools to the shop www.elizabethvillani.net/shop. If people play with angel cards and affirmations and use inspirational reading to heighten their vibration they will open their channel.

I believe that the following steps will increase the chances of connection with source, with God, with Angels, with guides, with other dimensions.
Step one - Surrender, stop controlling and directly throw your life with love at source. Let go and let god.
Step two - Ask. Ask to receive direction. Tell source that you are ready to be a channel for peace.
Step three - Don't push. Let go. Listen. Get on with enjoying your life.
Step four - Be happy. Work to follow your joy. Do what you want, not what you should.
Step five - Work on your issues. Forgive yourself and others. Set them and yourself free. Step six - Love who you are. Be who you are. Know that who you are is the all. Accept who you are.
Step seven - Be grateful. See the positive in everything. Open up to receiving.
Step eight - Work on boosting your intuition. Meditate. Train in Reiki. Use Angel cards. Remain open.

Here is an extract from "Awakening" describing more about my journey leading up to my mystical experience;
"It was May 2008 and I had received a call from my Father saying that my Grandmother wasn't well and probably that "this was it". As you can imagine I was upset. I managed to pull myself together long enough to attend the christening that I was that day to attend. During the drive to the church Isent Reiki Healing to my Gran and I could sense that she was holding my hands. I focused on what help I could offer at a distance. During the service the hymn "Make me a channel for your peace" was sung. Its words chorused through me and brought tears to my eyes. My beloved grandmother died during that night. At her funeral a week or so later my daughter wiped away the ocean of tears that washed from my soul as the same hymn rang out in memory of my grandmother. From that moment on it was all I could hear. I hummed it in the shower, it stayed with me throughout my days and nights, always present.

A few months later I was sat at my kitchen table pondering my next work steps and the words "Caroline Myss" (myss.com) sprang into my ears. I looked her up and spent the next two days transfixed by her words of grace and connection that lay on her website. I immediately felt drawn to her book "Entering the Castle" and when it arrived I almost fell off my chair as I realised that the book was essentially written to open up a human soul as a channel for grace. The song had been answered.

My journey through the book was easier than I had expected having spent many years gently cleansing my spirit. I sat, waiting with baited breath, for the details of where the universe, grace would direct me. Immediately the world started to change. Synchronicity was everywhere to be seen. Insignificant details fell into place and the flow of my life became calmer.

What happened next has changed my life forever. I have heard about people being called and after reading Caroline's book I longed for the kind of experience such as those that had happened to others. A calling beyond all human experience and expectation. A message so real that it picked up my soul and gently transformed it into light. Even as I type these words there is a part of me that knows that there will be people, that I know, who will think that I have lost it and gone to la la land but I can't help but wonderwhat will happen for those who don't. That if I share this experience and write this book that there will be lives and countries that will glow a little warmer than they do right now."

I am now working on my second book, Love. Which leads the readers on from "Awakening".


Question: What did you find out about yourself whilst writing Awakening?

Elizabeth Villani: Gosh this is a good question... Alot. Firstly I found that I love writing. As I typed the book into my laptop the laptop keys felt like a piano keyboard. I found that I could write quickly and feel love all inside and around me at the same time. I wrote the book in six weeks. I didn't worry about a publisher as I trusted that following the vision it would all just happen. It did. I sent it off to the only publisher that at a glance would take an email submission and six days later I had a book contract.

Writing "Awakening" surprised me because I had never really seen myself as a spiritual person. This side of my life is completely new to me and yet feels right. I am not a fan of religious institutions, but love and peace and connection. It has also made me very conscious of the present moment, I choose not to watch violence on the television and I protect my young daughter from negative media and tv wherever possible. Your subconscious mind cannot tell the difference from what you watch on the TV and your real world. So it's very important to surround yourself with positives and good vibrations.


Question: How can Reiki help females in their everyday life?

Elizabeth Villani: Reiki is simply our life force. The channelling of life energy into ourselves and our environment. You can become attuned to it but I sense that we all have it to a certain extent anyway running through us, as we are it.

Healing energies become stronger if we open ourselves to awakening and living a loving life. If you are in pain or a member of your family or a pet is, place your hands on the part of the body or even just over it and hold the intention to give love to it. You can bless your food before you cook. I use the reiki symbols all of the time.

I even draw them between me and my husband when debate gets a little heated to maintain a positive loving communication! You can draw symbols on your house, in your doorway on your beaty products, on your boss (not literally perhaps - but using your imagination!) You will be amazed. Reiki masters are now all over the world so you can train in the symbols very easily and there are lots of books available on reiki. I include reiki attunements in my "Awakening" courses.

Question: We are motivated by possessions rather than who we really are, how can we change or neutralise this?

Elizabeth Villani: We have spent the last decades collecting the cars, the house, the image.We believe that we are what we have and what we do. This is because we all think that we are not good enough and so we reach for success by collecting "stuff" including reputation professionally and comparing who we are and what we do for a living with other people. We get something and still we want more. Financial security gives us a feeling of being safe and yet we are never satisfied. The way to neutralise this is to wake up and realise that you are not what you have or what you do for a living but who you are in your heart. The route is to wake up consciously and then work on the mind. I lay out the steps to cleansing the mind and riding it of the need for all of this showing off and collecting in "Awakening". We need to believe in ourselves and that who we is good enough and then be it. There will always be a place for material needs and even comfort but without the unhappiness that the striving to achieve it all can bring.


Question: Why do you sign off with 'Love and Light'? What does the light part mean?

Elizabeth Villani: We are all love and we are all light. I send you the most beautiful essence of yourself that you can awaken in peace and see yourself and your world with wonder and delight.