Do you ever feel adrift, untethered, as if the very gravity that holds you to the familiar has somehow let go? Of course the experience is terrifying, but the view from that dangerous place can be amazing, giving you a whole new perspective on your world.
What familiar thing might you let go of in order to gain a different view of your life?
What familiar thing might you let go of in order to gain a different view of your life?…
Life. More specifically, “this” life; because “Life” is Eternal – Death is just a gateway, a portal, a doorway into the next stage of whatever “Life” is.
Namaste!
Dwayne
Are you talking about letting go of life as in suicide or as in coming to peace with a natural death?
Greetings, Martin! Dwayne, here!
Suicide has been an option all my life – especially during the years of childhood/adolescent abuse. It messes with a person’s sense of self-worth. But that is why I became a healer, a shaman – I forgave all my abusers, and made peace with that long ago. But I still carry the wounds – and I remain open and vulnerable; so that others who are wounded (in whatever manner), will be attracted to my daily habit of putting one foot in front of the other, and continuing to take that next step.
I always have a plan to die – but I never plan on dying. I just know that, when I do … old Brother Grim is not someone I fear … He is a Gate-Keeper, standing at Deaths’ door, ready to let me know “it’s time”, or “it’s not time, yet”. As long as I have lent purpose to my life – through my teaching and healing – I do not fear Death.
Namaste!
Dwayne
That makes a lot of sense, though I myself am afraid of dying. Not always of death, but of the actual process of dying as it sounds unpleasant to put it mildly. That’s one of my major suicide deterrents.
I’m glad that you do have the daily habit of going on.
Greetings, Martin! Dwayne, here!
I suffer constant, daily, chronic pain from diabetic neuropathy, arthritis/bursitis throughout all my major joints, scoleosis affecting the entire lumbar region of my spin, various heart/respiratory problems, and stress/anxiety-related & PTSD-related pains, headaches, etc. … every single day. Plus I’ve put myself through the pain of “cold-turkey” withdrawals from drug addiction twice in my adult life. And, two heart attacks, plus a series of heart arrhythmias. And the pain of three near-drownings, over my lifetime. And I’ve walked/stumbled through all that.
Death/dying cannot possible bring me any pain that would be beyond what I can handle. It’s just another inevitable process that is going to involve a bunch of pain … maybe.
Namaste!
Dwayne