A Chocoholic's Sacred Journey

A Chocoholic’s Sacred Journey is for those who are just turning toward or taking your first step in search of your spiritual road, you will find that your life’s path and spirituality have always been there, waiting patiently for you to glimpse the flashing green light that urges you to progress forward. There may be many winding, straight, curved, and unpaved roads with U-turns, oil slicks, potholes, or just easy, smooth walking. The details of the topography are not important, but what is key are the lessons, self-awareness, and expansion experienced during your unique journey.

A Chocoholic’s Sacred Journey reminds us that the most important thing is that everyone’s path looks, tastes, sounds, and feels different, so hone your senses and emotions to see what resonates with you and ask to be guided to your highest path of light. If you take a moment to pause and be quiet and still, something, someone, or someplace will beckon you. My suggestion is to follow whatever calls, excites, and inspires you, as it could be your first step or another turn that will lead you deeper and further along your spiritual path. There will be no signs along the way with the wording “The Road Stops Here.” Your journey will be as long and as expansive as you choose and allow it to be. I like to remember sage advice from Abraham, that is “You will never get it wrong and you will never get it done,” and most important of all is “Follow Your Bliss.” From my sacred journey in this lifetime, I have learned enough to practice, implement, and incorporate over several lifetimes. I was fortunate not to have been forced to look within; my expansion and evolution did not happen because of some tragedy or great loss - and that itself is a great message. Even if your life does not have any obvious bumps or blemishes, on a subtler level there is always more fine-tuning to do. You are always expanding, and the more opportunities you give yourself for spiritual expansion, the more you support your endless spiritual growth. I have discovered and realized: God is within and not without. Do not give your power away. You are what you think. You do not have to believe everything you think. Energy work is key to removing emotional and mental obstacles. You are responsible for your own happiness. Giving makes you the receiver. Monitor your emotions. Teach by example. Ask and it is given. Spirituality is like a muscle that needs to be exercised every day. Everyone is born with a special light inside and it is up to you to keep it shining. But the most important lesson I have learned, which has changed my life, is: Live in gratitude and joy!

Amanda (Mandy) Horst gracefully transitioned from twenty years of professional hula dancing in Hawaii into her heartfelt practice of spirituality. She is a yogini, meditator, connoisseur of psychic readings, and a forever seeker of spiritual knowledge and self-expansion. As a world traveler from the very beginning, her journeys of enlightenment have spanned the earthly plane to the multiple outer-dimensions of the cosmos. Amanda is among 47 of the worlds most acknowledged writers whose work is highlighted in Dawson Church and Stephanie Marohn’s book Optimism. She is the creator of Sacred Journey, a television show pilot highlighting healers and healing modalities all over the world, and author of A Chocoholic's Sacred Journey: A Tale of Spiritual rags to Riches.