Chapter 81. Trust.
January 23, 2015
… it is not, so much, that we are human beings having a spiritual experience; rather, we are spiritual beings having a human experience… ~ Dr. Wayne Dyer
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I returned home last Sunday from a 5-day retreat I had attended to experience and learn Shamanic healing. I use the term “returned” loosely, because I’m not 100% sure I’m really back. My physical body is here, but my mind (or some part of me) is definitely somewhere else.
For those that might be unfamiliar, Shamanic healing is spiritually-based, and is a belief that by utilizing the powers of “Spirit” (i.e., God or Divine Spirit, angels, spirit guides, ancestral souls, animal spirits, plant spirits, etc.) which we ALL have at our disposal, that we can enhance, facilitate, contribute to and aid in our own healing by releasing the bad energy we hold within our bodies and replacing it with good.
It’s you asking and allowing spirits to help you get rid of the baggage you’re carrying with you as you walk your path in life. It’s about choosing to lighten your burden. Learning how to walk with grace. Living a life in harmony with all living creatures and all spirits.
So how did this Parkinson’s patient fare?
I can sum it up in just three words.
I was healed.
I know. Strong words. But I can honestly say my Parkinson’s is no longer a part of me. It can’t hurt me anymore.
It’s been replaced by trust. The trust that comes from knowing that everything in life has a purpose. Everything. Every event, every joy, every sadness, every hurt, every suffering, every life, every death. It all has meaning and it all has a Divine purpose.
How do I know that for myself?
I was shown.
My healing came in the form of awareness. Having my eyes, my mind and my heart opened to the truth. The truth that there most definitely is a plan, and there most definitely is a reason for all that happens. I was shown that the promise that has been made to us since the beginning of time is still true today. We all are loved. We all ARE love. We just continually struggle to remember.
I was shared this gift because of my willingness to go deep within my soul, to the darkest places where doubts and fears and emotions stand guard over the curtains that keep out the light of our true Spirit. The light that illuminates the truth that “All is as it should be.”
There are spirits all around us who are with us, watching, supporting and are able to help us on our journey, if only we would ask. But they are powerless to do anything, because God gave us free will. They can’t intervene without you asking.
When I attended this retreat, I asked. And the spirits heard me.
I faced three separate fears that I’ve carried through this lifetime and a few of them possibly more, and with each I was shown the same answer—that all that happens and all that would or could happen comes from the same source of love. That all of my life’s challenges are for the purpose of my spirits growth, and that when I allow the darkness to overtake me, it is from my inability to remember. I was shown how my spirit chose to sacrifice its light so that another spirit could ultimately grow. What we often see and deem as suffering is done by choice and out of love.
The only way we can possibly experience our own light is to be thrust into the darkness. Darkness that I discovered comes from the shadows of angels wings.
More to come.
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