February 2017
Close your eyes and be in your meditation space
Say Hello to yourself
Be in the Center of your Head
Be grounded
Say hello to the presence of God
About 6 years ago, my mother died. For several years before her death, her health and memory had deteriorated. At times she was in quite a bit of pain and took heavy pain medication; the pain medication greatly exacerbated her memory loss.
She knew she was losing her memory and she hated it. She didn’t like being dependent on people to take care of her, and she felt she no longer had a purpose in her life. Before she had had great purpose, and was extremely active in her community and helping others. My mom was in a lot of resistance to aging and all that went with it.
I had spoken with her about it several times. At those times she would seem to accept the situation, but then the next time I saw her she would be in resistance again. Because she resisted so much, she would get depressed at times and be in a sort of victim mode, and angry at her situation. When she came out of it, she could enjoy things again for that period of time.
But when she discovered that she had pancreatic cancer that had spread and she would not be living much longer, she totally accepted it. She told me that her mother and father and sister had all died of cancer, and that she guessed she fit right in with her family. There was absolutely no resistance there.
A friend of hers made her favorite Persian dinner two days later, which she and my Dad and sister ate out on their patio; the next day was Sunday and she and my Dad went to church. After that she went downhill fast; she died in her sleep the following Friday. So within a week of her diagnosis, she had died.
The difference between her when she was in resistance and in acceptance was amazing. In resistance things were difficult and she was unhappy, and she even resisted her own resistance; in acceptance, things went smoothly and with no effort.
My mother could have been in resistance to her diagnosis. She chose to accept it. Even though it was could have been perceived as a worse situation that before, she had a totally different behavior and a different feeling. She transformed the energy of her situation.
We were down there a few days before we knew what her diagnosis was. The previous day a friend had taken her to the doctor, because my father was in the hospital, so he wasn’t there to hear what the doctor had said. My mother told us that she knew the doctor had said she had something bad, but she couldn’t remember what it was. She said that it didn’t really matter because she couldn’t do anything about it anyway. So she just accepted her situation even though she didn’t remember what it was.
Say hello to how you resist or accept your circumstances and issues. Are you in resistance, or are you creating non-resistance and acceptance?
Be aware of how much you already know how to transform your own energy, just like exploding a rose and transforming the energy. Remember that it is only through acceptance that we can create healing and change.
One of the gifts we have given ourselves is to learn how energy works, to learn how to transform energy.
- Say hello to something that you’re resisting. Allow yourself to accept that it is what it is.
- Be grateful for this circumstance or issue.
- Ask yourself what you’ve learned about energy work, healing and transformation.
- How can you be a friend to yourself?
- Notice if you’ve transformed the energy of resistance to acceptance. If not, allow yourself to do so.
- Validate what you’ve done.
- Let go of the issue or circumstance.
Say hello to yourself again, to the presence of God within you, bend over and balance.