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Energy Cannot Be Destroyed – Only Re-Purposed

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Energy Cannot Be Destroyed – Only Re-Purposed
An Inner-World Exploration

Energy cannot be destroyed, but it can be dismembered, then rearranged, refigured, and reassembled.

That is very powerful knowledge.  It means that negative energy can be turned into positive energy. You don’t have to stay stuck, you can simply dismember the negative energy and reassemble into positive energy. 

That’s a powerful concept to embrace. 

Do not focus on the negative energy

Transformational thinkers all over the world see their contribution to the well-being of the world as personally raising their own vibration so that it affects the collective consciousness. Changing the vibration of our own energy is the cornerstone of all change. 

While I work daily to raise my own vibration, I looked for ways to assist in the dissemination of the negative energy that’s so dense, so destructive.  

We do dismemberment – reassemble work through intention

There are several ways to create change. Somethings have to be leveled in order to build anew. We have to destroy, remove, clear, clean them out.  Then something new can be planted and nurtured in the clear energy that remains.  

For our own growth, we need fertile ground that we’ve prepared through our spiritual practice and sometimes we have to clear a space of unwanted thoughts and energy before we can plant and grow something new.  

The intentional inner work we are to do is to disassemble the unwanted energy and then use our intention to build up a new form,  bringing the energy together in a new harmonious design. 

It’s a process and we each have to find our own ways to dismember and reassemble, but I’ve figured out a few ways to begin. 

Identify the energy you want to change

You may want to change a negative attitude within yourself, a negative situation you experience in your life, or yes, a negative experience in your world that feels beyond your control. 

Choose the focus for your dismemberment. 

What is the current purpose of the energy you desire to change?

Even negative energy has a purpose.  It may be there to force you to examine your personal values, make a different choice, deepen your conviction, or rearrange your beliefs.  Once you have used thoughtful self-awareness to identify what you want to change and why, mindfully begin to change your responses and your actions.  

There’s a purpose for whatever situation we find ourselves in.  It may be blatantly obvious or patently subtle. We need to be willing to change.  We need to be willing to release what’s no longer useful. 

What are the messages you are receiving in your life and how will you dismember the negative energy you see around you, then rearrange, refigured, and reassembled it in a positive form?

 All healing/change begins within you.

Negative energy is sneaky

Negative energy is insidious.  It creeps up on you and gradually takes up more and more space until suddenly you’re pretty much immersed in the negativity.  A very important first step is to notice your own energy and the energy that you’ve allowed to surround you in your life. 

This negative energy might be as simple as a judgmental thought you have about someone you meet during your day.  It might be a feeling of anger at something on the news. The next thing you know you’re sitting there upset and angry and rather full of negative energy.  It creeps in and builds up. 

Be aware of the negative energy you come across in your day.  Be aware of any negative energy that you create in the course of a day.  And begin to make changes by 1) being conscious of negative energy and 2) creating a spiritual practice that helps you not just notice the negativity but clear it from your life. 

Why that negative energy is there?  

What’s the lesson of negative energy? It highlights where your attention is focused and what you expect to be present in our life.

That’s easy to change.  Shift your gaze. 

Dismember the negative energy in your life 

Once you have identified the negative energy you wish to eliminate, thank it for its service, for its lesson.  You will see it immediately begins to lessen in strength.  Then invite that energy to transform into a happier, lighter form.  Keep looking for scraps of negativity in the corners of your life and allow all the negative energy to dissolve and disappear. 

Dissolve your personal attachment to the negative energy

Why has this negative energy been important to you? Why did you need it in your life?  What did it make you do – or not do? How did it make you feel? Perhaps identifying with the negative energy made you feel right, or part of a group consensus.  What are you personally getting out of being attached to or focusing on this negative energy? 

Once you identify it, let it go. Then simply walk away.

Create a level playing field

The practice of dismembering in shamanism is to take the energy you are changing completely apart so it no longer exists in the form it was in. Reduce it to “unformed” energy.   

Create a level playing field.  Simply visualize the dense energy changing.  You can feel a wind come through to disperse it. You can see a rainfall come to put wash it away, or a flame to burn it up. You can feel the earth move to cover it up.  I like to see negative energy simply becoming lighter, joyfully happy to be lighter. It becomes white light and simply dances off.  Dancing formerly-negative energy – ha!  Use your imagination to see the negative energy disappear or grow lighter, or…you are dismembering it so that it no longer exists in the negative form.

Begin to reassemble

Reassembling is like having a fresh ball of clay before you that you can make into anything you desire.

What do you want to build with it? How do you want to reassemble it?  

Remember, we cannot destroy energy but we can change its form.  

Give careful thought to how you want to reassemble the energy before you.  It’s not about creating the opposite of what was just there.  It’s about moving forward in your thinking to shape that energy into something better than before. Perhaps something not thought of until now. 

We cannot see into the future so your request to your helping spirits may be to reassemble that changed energy into the form that’s most useful for you and your evolution.  Then simply see what shows up. 

Keep flexible.  As the energy shifts, you may want to repeat this visualization to clarify your intention in order to continue to lighten and reshape the vibration in a positive form.

Create a ceremony of continued reshaping

Each day, in your spiritual practice, release your connection with any negative energy you see around you. You may simply see the energy gradually grow lighter, or begin to dissipate or drain into the forgiving earth.  You may release it in a breath. You may be at the point where you easily see the level field and begin to reassemble, to construct what you need next in a positive form.  

Although this will probably be a gradual process, it will be hastened by your focused attention and your intention.  Work with this process of disassembling and reassembling energy.  

Be aware of what changes

Sometimes change happens simply because we shift our focus.  We start focusing on the good that’s happening.  Make the act of looking for the positive a part of your daily spiritual practice.  Cultivate gratitude and awareness.  And encourage a willingness to let go and change. 

Change the negative energy as it shows up

Create your own physical act that reminds you to send positive energy toward – whatever you wish.  Maybe you blow a breath over the top of your index finger at the negative that you hear or see.  Perhaps you hold your palm up to halt it or mentally send a stream of energy from your third eye. Just make up some gesture that reminds you to intuitively send positive energy to a person or situation emanating negative energy.  

The power is in the awareness. The power is in noticing the negative energy and sending it positive energy through thought and intention.  And it’s about becoming aware of the negative energy and taking steps to shift it in the moment. 

Create your own technique to alter the negative energy that comes to your attention. 

Keep your own energy positive

Each day in my spiritual practice, I simply sit and vibrate light.  I see my light energy moving out into the world to make others aware of the power of their own light. I send my vibration out to heal and comfort and support the planet and all who live here.  You, too, can simply sit and radiate your glorious inner light out into the world. Become more aware of your own goodness, your own power to simply gaze upon and thus change the negativity you come across.

Deeper Song Affirmation

I nurture and support the positive energy in my life.

Deeper Song Process

  • Identify a form of negative energy you want to transform.
  • Identify the thoughts, beliefs, reactions that are behind it. See if you can understand its reason for its existence.
  • Through your intention and any ceremony you wish to create, begin to disassemble your attachment to the negative, your belief in the negativity, and your fear of the negativity.  Cultivate a willingness to have that negative energy disassemble into neutral energy. 
  • Watch the negative energy begin to shift.  Does it change color? Does it grow smaller?  Does it melt into the ground?  Notice how the energy changes. 
  • Sit quietly in contemplation at the level playing field you’ve created. The blank slate. The energy is still there, it’s now neutral energy waiting for its new shape.  What will you invite it to become?
  • Use your imagination and intention to begin to reassemble the energy into a positive form.  It doesn’t have to be specific, it can be greater awareness, deeper conscious behavior, a willingness to act for the highest good for all.  
  • Notice how the world changes with the reassembling of the energy into a positive form. 
  • Repeat as desired.

To Sing a Deeper Song, Consider:

Another Part of You-The Unseen World

How to Interpret the Messages from Within 

When I See Myself As Light

Do You See and Hear and Walk in a Sacred Manner?

 The Power of your Imagination

What Core Beliefs are Guiding You Today

How Do You Make Your Actions Lasting and Meaningful?

Raise Your Vibration and Change the World.
I help transformational thinkers raise their personal vibration so that we, collectively, can raise the consciousness of our planet.  

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Raise Your Vibration With Serenity

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Raise Your Vibration With Serenity
An Inner-World Exploration

One day I simply found it, that stillness, that deep peace, that serenity that takes you deep within to the Green Nothingness, the Emptiness That Holds Everything and lets you simply be there.  

And I understood that anchoring serenity within yourself is where we are to begin to change our vibration, to raise our vibration, to send our light out to join with other light vibrations in order to heal our planet. 

It begins with the serenity within.

I found immediate inner serenity with the help of a crystal wand 

I have many crystals that I’ve collected over the last 50 years –  160 or so.  A few years ago, I learned a very elaborate process to create a shamanic “altar”. My altar overflowed into the living room of my apartment. As I identified more and more “special” rocks, one tray of specially chosen crystals eventually ended up in a pretty container on the floor along with my drums and rain sticks and other members of my spiritual practice.  

I was playing a game on my iPad and watching TV when a very loud inner voice said, “Look down!”.  I did and there was this small collection of crystals and shells and my eyes went to one wand. The message was clear and instantaneous and loud: “Pick me up!”

So I reached down and picked her up and found I couldn’t let go of the crystal for a very long time.  I didn’t stop to experience her at that moment but I also did not put her down.  I continued to play my game and watch TV and kept the crystal in my hand – for maybe an hour.  Then I put it on an end table and did other things. 

The next day, when it was time to journey, I received a very clear message.  “Get the wand.” I did, and that’s when I experienced deep, deep, deep serenity, a contentedness, a being-ness, a feeling of being cared for and loved and protected. It was a serenity that I had never experienced before.  I simply sat and experienced the gift. Eventually, I journeyed for the message of the crystal wand and among other things I was told that the first step in raising our vibration is to find, experience and cultivate deep, deep, serenity within.  

For me, that means to go within and listen and feel and be present with whatever shows up.  As I held the crystal wand, I felt a powerful and all-encompassing sense of serenity that stilled my body and took me deep within.

And I knew that cultivating this all-encompassing, ever-deepening feeling of serenity was the cornerstone of my spiritual practice and my desire to work in the invisible world. 

This feeling of serenity is not about being tired, or sleepy, or relaxed. It’s about feeling centered and serene and at peace.  And very, very present. Content.  No striving.  Just conscious being.  At peace.  Still. Aware. Vibrating in harmony. Serenity is an experience of the entire body. 

Anchor serenity into your life

In order to anchor this feeling of serenity, to establish it, I need to practice it. This has taken two forms.  My personal daily experience with the Serenity Crystal Wand, and the development of a practice, a sequence, a physical series that brings me into this remarkable place of serenity. It’s a work in progress and I will share it with you when it’s completely revealed to me. 

Although my desire is to help the world, I have to first find not just peace within, but deep, tranquil serenity.  Serenity, like the serene, unfolding cycles of nature. Becoming attuned to the energy of the messages of the elements.  Being attuned to my own body and life cycle. That means I am to listen and feel and cultivate stillness.

Establish serenity

My first experience with this deep profound serenity was mid-day, right before I began a shamanic journey. As I develop the physical movements that help me establish serenity in my body, and add it to my morning spiritual practice, I find it creates a flowing transition into my work choices for the day.  I will also use this cultivation of serenity as a transition at the end of the day, perhaps turning and watching the sunset and repeating the sequence of physical and visualization practices that are evolving. 

Begin now to take deliberate pauses to identify serenity and bring it into your state of being. 

Use serenity to raise your vibration

I’ve come to understand that our work as transformational thinkers is to raise our personal vibration and then join that vibration with others who are doing the same.  That’s how we raise the collective consciousness.  Each day in my spiritual practice, I send energy out to those fellow transformation thinkers and holders of the inner flame so that they may know there are many of us doing this work.  Now I will also send them serenity.

First yourself – then others 

Sharing serenity begins with cultivating it for ourselves. 

There’s a natural tendency for things to be in harmony.  I have to find that serenity within me and begin to radiate it out.  That will help all around me to find and feel the serenity in themselves.  Like a flame of a candle shining out to all consciousness, holding out hope and inspiration and connection.  We want to experience the serenity of deep alignment with the energy of our cosmos. 

My work with my crystal wand of serenity has deepened.  She will teach me to find the serenity in myself and to use that as my foundation for my life. 

Simply ask to experience serenity when you meditate and allow it to embrace you. It will come in many forms.  Explore them all. 

Deeper Song Affirmation 

I invite serenity to fill my life. With conscious care,
I take that serenity out into my world.

Deeper Song Process

  • Find a quiet place, in your home or in nature.  Sit quietly and ask to experience deep serenity.
  • Notice what happens. What changes? How do you feel?
  • Using serenity as a foundational vibration, begin to expand that feeling more deeply into your body and into your etheric field.  Sit and radiate as your energy expands and your vibration organically rises.
  • Take that core awareness of serenity out into your world.
  • Repeat often.

To Sing A Deeper Song Consider

How to Walk a Path of Inner Stillness

Expand Your Spiritual Heart

When I See Myself As Light

The Power of a Ceremony of Releasing

How to Interpret the Messages from Within 

Another Part of You – The Unseen World 

Raise Your Vibration and Change the World.
I help transformational thinkers raise their personal vibration
so that we, collectively, can raise the consciousness of our planet. 

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How to Walk a Path of Inner Stillness

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How to Walk a Path of Inner Stillness
An Inner-world Exploration

All our work is done on the inner plane.  It happens whenever we think and imagine and choose and formulate plans and ideas.  But to do all that we have to develop the skill of stillness. We need to question our mind and emotions in order to examine, feel, absorb and finally choose.  

Awareness and insight require stillness. Inner stillness follows outer stillness.

Quiet your Body

Pause throughout your day, and notice.  Notice how you feel.  Notice what you have drawn into your experience.  Is this the life experience what you want?  What needs to change?

Quiet your Mind

Take a slow deliberate breath in, hold it a few seconds, then allow that breath to emerge through your nostrils or slightly separated lips.  Pause with empty lungs and notice the serenity that begins to form. Repeat.  With each slow, conscious, deliberate, mindful breath, notice how calm and serene you become. 

Repeat this often throughout your day. 

Cultivate a quiet mind

Stillness means quietening our mind.  First, you have to notice how rampant the mind is, then you have to choose to quiet it. Turn to the window and look at nature. Absorb the gentle unfolding, the deep patience, the simple waiting for the perfect time.   That aware and mindful, focused pause will eliminate your mental chatter.

Let nature be your guide

We are nature and a major lesson of nature is that everything unfolds in cycles. We are always at a beginning, middle or end.  Pausing to look out the window puts you in tune with how the day is unfolding with the grace and serenity that is nature. 

Place yourself in tune with the harmony that nature shares with us. 

Stillness is simply being.  Not doing is being  

Simply “being” takes some practice. We are very busy in our body suit lives. As I pause to look out the window at nature, the changes I see are subtle.  The unfolding is minuscule.  But there’s a pulsation that stills and settles my humanness. The experience of serenity can be found in nature.  

Stillness is about being present

When we are still, we don’t daydream or visualize or even meditate.  We simply sit still and feel and embrace and absorb and become present in that stillness. Let yourself be drawn into the minuscule, the detail. Feel yourself as a part of something larger. 

Simply be with the object you’re contemplating.  As you sit in mindful stillness, let the energy of the object touch you, speak to you, offer you insights.  You will hear and understand. Feel yourself become a part of what you’re embracing as you cultivate the art of stillness.   

Stillness allows you to experience your soul

Only in stillness, only with focused mindfulness, can you become aware of your soul, the core of you, the essence of you, the reason for you, the message of you, the purpose of you. Those answers are in the stillness, the knowing, the acceptance of the call from deep inside you.  

Cultivate Stillness

To know Soul You, to hear your inner voice, to figure out what you want/need to do next, you must cultivate inner stillness.  

In that stillness will arise the guidance you seek for the focus of your attention and actions. 

As you learn to maintain that inner stillness throughout your day you will become aware of a powerful innate inner knowing that guides you in selecting from the choices and opportunities that appear. 

Do you heed the voice within?

My inner voice speaks in both subtle nudges and loud shouts.  I have learned to listen and heed them both. 

Sometimes my inner voice is simply a knowing.  Like an instant decision that you know is exactly right.  Are you aware of those unexpected ideas that pop in, and do you examine them? They’re there to guide you. To open new doors. 

Do you notice the unexpected opportunities?

We have to be prepared for surprises, the unexpected ideas or opportunities that nudge us in a new direction.  New opportunities can be subtle or they can stand in front of you and shout.

Not everything that shows up is for you to act upon.  The better you know yourself, the more accurate will be your choices.  Simply notice.  In your stillness, notice the opportunities that present themselves for our examination.  Let your inner voice guide your choices. 

Do you know your purpose?

This path of inner stillness allows you time to explore and examine and cultivate your illumined purpose. Notice the doors that open.  Check out what they offer.  See if it is aligned with what you need and want to do next. Then choose – or not. 

Cultivate mindfulness

When you’re still and give yourself time to become aware and allow your inner self to offer nudges and messages and guiding insights to your life, you’ll organically move more readily into an understanding of your inner world.  What it is saying.  What you want to unfold next in your life. You will experience your oneness with the greater whole and respond with the knowledge of that support that is within you as you express your soul’s purpose.  

Listen. Look. Interpret.

Deeper Song Affirmation
I cultivate stillness.

Deeper Song Process

  • Notice how busy you are.  How you are pulled to do several things at once.
  • Stop where you are and take a slow, deep breath, hold it a moment and slowly release it.  Then pause to notice the emptiness that is left.
  • Repeat.
  • Sprinkle this simple breathing practice throughout your day, noticing how often you do it and what the circumstances are that remind you to do it.
  • Shift something. Make new choices.  Release what you truly don’t need or want in your life.
  • Breathe again and see how you feel. Then turn and look out  the window and immerse yourself in nature.
  • Repeat until you find stillness.

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

Are You Sacred Space?

The Power of a Releasing Ceremony

Tune Into the Calendar of Nature

Life Messages from a Potter

Can You Let Your Life Unfold?

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The 7 -7 Vibrational Healing Drumming Day 

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The 7 -7 Vibrational Healing Drumming Day 

On the 7th of every month, wherever you are on the planet, you are invited to create a wholing vibration for seven minutes at any time in your day with the intention of balancing our planet. It can be drumming, toning, chanting, using any form of vibration that calls to you. 

We are vibration and vibration can heal and whole.  When we raise our own personal vibration, it radiates out to enhance the vibration of others. The idea came when I learned to drum to heal myself in a class with drummers in over 30 countries.  It felt awesome to think of all of us drumming for wholeness on one particular day.

As participants in the collective power of this world-wide vibrational energy, we can focus our drumming on very specific intentions – a population in crisis, a species of animals in danger, an environmental unbalance. However we frame our own intention for healing will be magnified by the collective vibrations sent out in that 24 hours in which it is possible that someone somewhere in the world is drumming for wholeness. As more people begin to drum, we will certainly create a ripple that will be felt and heard!  

Drum for healing

Sound healing is powerful.  Whether it is a drum, a flute, a chime, a bell, two stick struck tougher or your voice, vibration is a powerful balancer.  Feeling and hearing a sound attunes our whole body and radiates out into our world. 

The ripple effect

Will you join us? As more and more people choose to drum to the planet for 7 minutes on the 7th day of each month, it is possible that there will be drumming somewhere on the planet for 24 hours on that day.  What a powerful effect that will have on our world consciousness! 

Drum with intention

You are to drum with the intention to heal.  The focus will be an individual choice.  You might drum to one of the elements – more water, less water –  your choice will determine the sound and rhythm and perhaps even your drum choice.  Let the focus of your intention to send wholing vibration suggest the rhythm.  The one uniting element in the 7-7 Vibrational Healing Drumming Day is drumming with the intention to raise the collective vibrational consciousness of the planet. 

Experiment with sound

As I began to work with my drums for personal healing, I found a rhythm that resonated to me and I began to repeat it.  I played it with my mallet. I played with my hands.  I held the drum so the back faced my heart and let the vibration move deep into my body.  I played it with the sounds of the different elements. I played on the rim. I played in the center.  I used fingers and palms and the edges of my hand.   My body began humming with healing vibration.  

All sound creates vibration

This is a vibrational healing. You can use chimes and Tibetan Healing Bowls and tuning forks and rattles –  whatever sound instrument calls to you, including your voice.  You can sing and chant or tone.  The focus is that for seven minutes on the seventh day of the month you will send a vibration of wholeness that will join with the vibration of others with the same intention in order to create a thick layer of an intentional wholing vibration that will raise the vibration of all of us – those participating and those unaware of the vibration. 

7 minutes on the 7th Day to raise the collective consciousness of our world

Notice what changes.  In you.  In the world around you  You will feel serene, connected, empowered, and know that you are an important contributor to the  healing our world.

7 minutes on the 7th of the month to raise the vibration of our planet. 

Will join us?

Deeper Song Affirmation

I lovingly send a healing vibration out into our planet. 

Deeper Song Process

  • Mark your calendar for the 7th of the month.
  • If you have a drum begin to experiment with it to find a healing rhythm that resonates with you.
  • If you don’t have a drum, experiment with sound, a spoon and a pan, a pencil against a desk, your hands clapping on your knees.  Use your voice or other sound instruments that call to you. Find how you want to participate and begin to experiment with rhythms until you find a pattern that resonates with you.
  • Begin to practice with your healing rhythm.  If it is a Buffalo or frame drum, hold it so the back vibrates against your body.  If it is a bell or a chime, move it around your body. However you hold and play your chosen instrument, notice the vibration it offers as well as the sound.
  • Be aware of what changes take place in your body. 
  • Become aware of what changes in the world around you.
  • On the 7th day of each month, create a positive vibration for 7 minutes with the intention to raise the vibrational consciousness of our planet. 
  • Forward the link to this post to any friends who might want to be a part of this international vibrational healing. 

I’d love to hear how this evolves for you on my FaceBook Page.

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

The Creation of an Armchair Activist 

How to Activate a Tree Messenger to Send Your Healing Energy Out Into The World 

How to Use our Interconnection to Heal the World

How to Use Sound for Self Healing

When I See Myself As Light

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Dying and the Invisible World

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Dying and the Invisible World
An Inner World Exploration

I’m old, but I’m a long way from dying.  The most comforting, inviting concept I’ve found surrounding this process of death is the journeying I do in my imagination when I practice shamanism.

95% of our experience is in the unseen realms

I’ve been in touch with my inner world for years through meditation, intuition, hunches, simply knowing, but shamanism has taught me specific ways to explore the unseen world.  I find it very comforting now and I know I will find it extremely comforting when I die.  

For you see, I have many friends in the unseen world, the invisible realms, the parallel universes.  Helping spirits that I work with in my life today, that teach me and guide me and guard me. Today.  Every day.  In my spiritual practice. When I begin an inner shamanic journey I go to my Sacred Garden, and there they are, waiting to guide me and answer whatever question I have chosen.  

Those helping spirits and more will be in my Sacred Garden when I die, ready to show me my “next.”

Aging makes it real

When I first moved into the senior center I call home, I thought I had a really good philosophy of death.  Until I watched a steady stream of this population constantly going off to die.  It was then I realized that my philosophy of death needed to be more individualized, more personal, because I was closer to the actual process of dying. 

So I began to search.  It was when I began to perform Shamanic Journeys that I found my most reassuring path.  

It would be great if there were no pain when I die, but my helping spirits can help with that.  

There is no fear for me in dying because I have long been intrigued by the concept that Rumi calls “the nowhere that you came from.”  

As I explore the unseen world, I see how vast it is but also how easily I travel within it.  It’s a whole new adventure. 

And it will continue to be.  

Explore your inner life

Notice your dreams and take time to interpret them.  They are metaphors.  Look beyond their recognizable representation to uncover the meaning they convey.  

I now have many helping sprits.  They show up to offer different types of service, to take me on journeys for different purposes.  But they are always there, ready to assist, to be of service, to guide my steps. 

Go beyond your body suit

Whether you dream or journey or meditate, do your inner work with the intention of understanding “next”.  I’m drawn to concepts like the Great Nothingness, the All That Is.  The metaphor of the Web of Life is too individualistic for me; it still seems like we are individual threads in the web of life.  I’m more drawn to the idea of being part of the cosmic soup, there’s no separate flavor, it’s only the blended result of the combined seasonings.  I like the idea that my individual seasoning will join in the cosmic soup and blend with the total, the all that is.

Rumi says, ‘You are not a drop in the ocean, you are the ocean in one drop.”  We contain that cosmic soup even as we are the drop of our individual body suits.

Can you speak of dying to others?

I can speak about and explore my own ideas of death for myself, but approaching that conversation with someone who’s facing their own death is not something I’ve done yet. I have a friend who is on oxygen, whose doctors say they have now given her all the “big guns” they have in the form of treatment.  There’s no timetable for death, but the signs seem to suggest that she’s closer than she was.  And yet, I do not have the conversation with her about how she views death. It is probably not my place. I can only seem to do that for myself.  Perhaps it’s because she is not a close-up and personal friend with whom I regularly have philosophical conversations.  

There are people I could have the conversation about dying with but not many.  Not everyone is willing to even think about it.  They may be afraid because no one knows what it’s like, or they may not be doing the exploratory inner work that some people do.  

We each walk our own path of life – and of death.  I’m exploring my “next” by exploring my inner world, the unseen part of my existence, to make the experience of dying a positive passage. 

And I really like the support I’m finding there.

Deeper Song Affirmation

I do the inner work necessary to develop
a comforting concept of dying. 

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

Another Part of Me – The Unseen World

Unleash the Power of your Sacred Garden

 How to Be Nothing

How Effective Is Your Spiritual Practice? 

Come Out of the Protective Darkness of the Unconscious 

What is the Difference betweenSpirituality and Religion?

I Row My Boat Alone

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