The High Heeled Guide to Enlightenment - Excerpt from my book...

So my last journal told you a little bit about why I wrote my book, here is a little sample from the Intro to give you more of an idea. Excepts and look inside available on Amazon if you find you would like to learn more. Alice x

The High Heeled and Glamorous Guide to Enlightenment is a modern Woman’s introduction to a world of spirituality and alternative thought. This is no doubt a subject that calls to you, but between work, partners, kids and a hectic social calendar you rarely find the time to dig that little bit deeper. Unlike some of your contemporaries you know that Enlightenment is not the new blonde shade by L’Oreal. You would love to seek it out, but any attempt at meditation has ended in a mental mediation between plans for supper, sorting out the next crisis in your love life or fretting over the bills/promotion/boss (insert your own personal foible here). You may have toyed with, or even attended a spiritual evening held in the local wine bar, and you are more than likely to consult your horoscope on a daily basis (in several publications). Maybe you have ignored your gut instinct to your distinct disadvantage or had psychic experiences you cannot explain away.  Perhaps you simply feel an overwhelming urge to connect with something other than your internet provider? 

As a modern, no doubt glamorous female, perhaps you feel like you spend all your time in a state of constant physical upkeep. Not necessarily by your own choice, but influenced and encouraged by the society around you, the magazines you read, the celebrities who just won’t go away and the friends who always want to be two pounds lighter? That, it seems to me is the modern woman’s burden, and no matter how you scrub up or how high flying, well educated, or career orientated you are, it is likely that these things impinge on you to the extent you have precious little time for the inner you. And I’m not talking about nutrition, stomach flora or the bones of you, I mean for your very inner soul my dear! You are starving, and it is not because of the newest fad diet, but because there is a massive neglect going on within yourself. 

You are not alone. Thousands of people are reaching out for some kind of spiritual cuisine to compliment or transform their lifestyle. At first you might reach out to externals to help launch this change - recycling, purchasing fair trade, becoming a conscious consumer and reading up on the goings on of planet earth. When the organic / free-range veggies no longer suffice it may be because your soul, so busy with the mundane day to day, is neglected, lonesome and stuffed full of empty calories! I have suffered this hunger myself. Everything in my life was generally pretty good and yet there was something missing, something that a bumper bar of chocolate and a night in front of the box could not touch. At first you may blame the people around you as a sense of general dissatisfaction begins to taint and impinge your daily routines. Your usual pick me ups, shopping, new shoes, fabulous new lipstick, great sex or girly chats are not hitting the spot. You wonder if you are depressed and a series of ‘what ifs?’ begin to form in your mind. My suspicion is that you have a case of the spiritual munchies. I strongly suspect that you are in need of some conviction and a search for your spirit that goes on beyond your favorite cocktail.

Excerpt from The High Heeled Guide to Enlightenment by Alice Grist. Published by O-Books. For further excerpts and chapter listing see Amazon to ‘Look Inside’ the book!