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| Bumps are sometimes fun! |
This email from a dear friend
touches on so many of our own fears and feelings.
Dear Dolly,
I seem to be giving
myself a bumpy time physically, mentally and moneywise!!!! I think I've sorted
something out and something else pops out of the wood work. I am up and down
like a yoyo very contented and almost blissful then down in a deep pool of
treacle mud. Spiritually I have no idea how I'm doing or where I'm at.
Death is in my mind
quite a bit but I think it’s more a fear of going into a hospital. We hear such
horrid things about the neglect of the old. This all sounds gloomy as a re-read
my writing BUT mostly I am very positive in my outlook. What I want is to
release all blockages and go to my next adventure free of all baggage. Blessings
E
Dear E,
Your journey through the muddy treacle is just one way of experiencing. We choose ups and
downs in order to compare and experience extremes on the continuum of life. It
makes life interesting. We might be bored otherwise. And we make more informed
choices.
We each do this to some degree. Hence one person’s life seems dull
and plodding. Others blaze through an incarnation like a fiery comet. Finding
balance between the extremes is the point of the journey. Some choices are
holdovers from prior lives influencing our desires for calmness or excitement
in this one. Other times they are simply this life’s choices.
When you are in pain or feeling down in the dumps, it is imperative
to continue your spiritual practice, even only ten minutes a day, but regularly.
If you don’t see daily gain you may wish to quit; but the overall result creates
both a safety net in times of distress and offerings of breakthrough and
growth.
As to death, your thoughts seem quite normal to me. I do not know
what I will think and feel when I am your age, but death might figure in my
thoughts more often. We dream ahead, peeking in at a possible future: after
college, after marriage and after life. They are important stages of transformation
and it is natural.
I am intrigued by your desire to release all blockages, as if that
were possible. Those on this planet who have attained something approaching
that live apart, outside of the consciousness of the masses. They are Lamas,
monks, or ascetics.
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| Neem Karoli Baba and Ram Das |
For me, occasional times of complete detachment suffice;
rather than a steady diet of separation.
Movement away from blockages is achieved by movement towards inner
knowing of ourselves as aspects of God. Thus conscious thoughts, words and
conduct become our daily practice in self improvement.
We are both human and divine. We can choose to see ourselves as
multi-dimensional, incorporating past life personality aspects as part of our
consciousness now. As multi-dimensional beings we exist not only in our limited
human body, but simultaneously as other selves with higher awareness. To live
more fully and embrace these grander parts of us is the goal, rather than to
release things as though they are holding us back.
To focus on releasing our problems keeps us focused on our
problems. To embrace our divinity keeps us focused on bliss.
When we die we will naturally and automatically have ‘released’ our
blocks! Such baggage will simply disappear in the light of our re-attained higher
vibrations. If we choose to re-experience these limitations we can take them on
again in another life or aspect.
Whether in a physical body or in our spirit form, our focus is best
applied in embracing our divinity. Love is the guide. Bliss is the result.
We are much more than we think.
