What’s Worse: Death or the Fear of Death? #facingdeath #Dallasmurders #psychology #spiritualadvice

I have challenged every significant fight concerning living in the past and facing the challenge of the future boldly. Ultimately, I believe that to face life head-on, you must first recognize that your life is ephemeral. Your physical body will eventually die. You don’t know when. You don’t know how. But there is no one who has conquered death. So, it would seem that facing this simple challenge would give you stamina to face anything on this earth if death is, indeed, the ultimate fear.

From the standpoint of those with a deadly disease or in palliative care, a dying person may tell me of the wonders of life lived with love. My father shared his disappointment of spending too much time wasted in fear or in unforgiveness. But the permeating reality from those who are dying is that a life worth living is not one that would include fear: fear of living, fear of reaching one’s goals, and definitely not fear of death itself.

Without getting into a religious diatribe about if there is life after death, you must recognize that any moment spent in anxiety and stress is a moment lost, especially for those who don’t believe in life after death. Positivity and love, peace and truth are what seem to enrich lives and produce productivity, prosperity and happiness.

I have wasted many days, months and years afraid of death, afraid of rejection, and ultimately afraid of facing pain. Worse still, this fear has kept me from sharing my gifts. I hide from the darkness only to discover that light wants to shine through me and guide me away from danger.

You cannot turn on the television, open up your web browser or walk outside without being hit with news of wars, destruction, and murders. It surrounds me even more today than anytime I can ever remember. Does it bother me? Does it flood my mind with fear that maybe I will be the next one and the end of an assault rifle? Yes, sometimes. But, mostly what happens in the face of death is a dose of harsh reality.

Life is for the living. If you waste the life you have on fears, not reaching your potential, walking in negativity instead of spreading positivity and love, then you have wasted the energy you have been put on this earth to share.

I will not let the Daily News tell me how to think. I will not let the presidential election overtake my life. I will not let terrorist get inside my mind and change my truth. Ultimately, my truth is what gets me through the day with a positive attitude. My truth—gathered from many days and nights of learning what is important in life—brings me joy, gives me the opportunity to spread love to those around me, and leads me to share light instead of darkness.

“Your New Story, Your New Life” The Metaphysical Mind.

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Pap’s Face: Shekinah Glory #spirituality #facingdeath #divinepresence #shekinahglory #livingintheNOW

In the summer after my freshman year of Carnegie-Mellon University, I went to spend the summer at my father’s home in West Mayfield, Pennsylvania. During some of the time during my stay, my father’s dad, Pap, we called him, joined us. Pap slept in my father’s bedroom, while my dad slept on the couch.

One evening, very late, I studied in the dining room, while my father watched television. Pap had gone to sleep hours before. I heard a loud sound, like a cry from Pap’s room. I jumped up to see if Pap was okay. When I reached the door of the bedroom, I could see a bright light shining from there, which stopped me in my tracks. I heard my grandfather speaking quietly. I waited for a few seconds to see if the sounds continued, but they had ceased.

Before I could enter the room, Pap jumped out of the bed to meet me in the hallway. One side of his face sagged as if he had just had a stroke. He spoke with a very broken Italian accent: “I saw Carolina (his deceased wife). She told me that God was not ready for me to come yet!”

Though his face was distorted, it shined with what the Hebrews called Shekinah Glory. This term came from a time when a cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night had led Moses and the Hebrews through he desert, so that they could travel in the day and night (Exodus 13:20-22). Pap had been in the presence of such a light. Everything about his body and face shined brilliantly. He almost danced in the hallway, as he spoke, even though he apparently had a suffered a severe stroke. When you are in the presence of God’s light, whether it is around death or you having a spiritual epiphany, you never stop believing in something greater than you.

I had breakfast with a healing practitioner who has worked a great deal with palliative care. She described helping people toward their deaths. We shared stories about how beautiful the road toward death could be, when someone is ready and spiritually aware, as I, too, had worked with people moving toward the light in my practice, as well.

Having experienced this light many times, I’m not frightened of death, at all. The sting of death itself has passed by me, which is why; maybe, I have become practically fearless in the face of so many new challenges. I know what I’m capable of as a human and as a conduit of Spirit flowing in and through me. I barely ever think of negativity anymore.

But, in those rare cases, when the past caresses my soul, I take the time to understand my perceived enemy and become friends with it. I find that the more intimate I become with my own humanness and its responses to life, the more I know God.

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A Single Session w/Bo Sebastian

What would you feel like if everyday you loved yourself a little more…

What would you be if you loved and gave compassion unconditionally… to yourself first and then to others?

If you could imagine yourself so connected to God Source that everything you thought and every action you completed you trusted could heal yourself and, ultimately the world around you?

Create a Better Life with One Healing Session with Bo Sebastian

Call 954-253-6493 (All Sessions are done via PHONE, SKYPE or FACETIME.)

www.bosebastian.com

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Bo works with people on SKYPE and FaceTime all over the world. He is taking new clients now. Call 954-253-6493 for information.

Take the time to look at Bo’s bookshelf of self-help books, novels, healing downloads, and yoga DVD. All of Bo’s books help people such as you, make SIGNIFICANT CHANGE with habits, find your SOULMATE, your PASSION, reach YOUR DREAMS, and dictate your own FUTURE.

Chosen to show his new hypnotherapeutic techniques on The Learning Channel (TLC) and also given the opportunity to teach at the world conference for Learning, and received the award of excellence for Helping Overcome Obesity in Nashville, Bo Sebastian is the writer and director of Finding Authentic You and Uncommon Gay Spiritual Warrior. Go directly to Amazon/Amazon Kindle to buy any of his wonderfully inspired books: ]

Eulogy to Nashville #Nashville #Nashvilleliving #death

Eulogy to Nashville
#Nashville #Nashvilleliving #death

“You would know the secret of death
But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heart of life?

I imagine myself behind a pulpit, facing a crowd of my dear, friends. Next to me, in a casket, is every memory about Nashville—good and bad. I begin to speak, my throat scratchy and my body ill at ease:

“When we came together, I thought she would never part, like soul mates. As it turns out, I’m the one who must say goodbye today. My heart breaks. My palms sweaty. My disposition, in a state of flux.

“I look out at all of you and see your heart-love surging toward me, hoping your compassionate gazes will help me find the words to speak. But, still, I find myself lost and without.

“We met because of a career move then fell in love. Not with the curves of your hills, at first, but with the humanity I faced daily. But, then, even your mountains and beautiful architecture found me; captured me, and kept me in your warm embrace for twenty-five, glorious years. You invited me in like an old friend. Now, I must say goodbye, and the words to describe the feeling in my heart are unspeakable—yet, I try.

“From the bowels of your warm southern nature to the influx of multi-cultured races, I began to see a city blooming with diversity. The state would stay still in its beliefs, but this thriving, centered city would change with the world. I so loved you for that.
“But, more important than all, I will always remember how you fed me and led me to the most amazing friends I would ever have. You kept me solid, authentic, and true to all that I pursued. When I would find myself going in the wrong direction, you would gently guide me back to wholeness.

“Lastly, my friends and surrogate family, I need you to know that, though I will miss the landscape from which we birthed our love, I will never forget, nor lose touch. Technology has made missing you so easy to bear. I will love you from afar, see and feel your timelines of successes, and know your heart’s longings. I will miss you, Nashville.

“With love, Bo.”