Consider that when your energy moves from this incarnation into another one, your journey continues. Your starting point is where you left off. You do not escape your fate. Each time we leave we take with us our learning and when we return to adopt a new embodiment we face upon our paths further trials that will teach us to respect the mistakes we have made during the cycle of our lifetimes. Understand that should you be bound back to earth, or choose to return time and again, each time you come back to take human form you commit to a life of learning. This is no small undertaking. The only way to extract yourself from this natural cycle is to kill yourself, and the flow of life does not look favourably on those who patently refuse to learn. Life is not precious about who it teaches, what. It has plenty to show us, so much to share with us. You need to connect with your life, open to it, in order to receive its gifts. If you are closed, you receive nothing. You receive nothing because you are giving nothing. Life is an energy, a living force, a history in motion. We are the sum of our histories, the picture of our pasts. You are not a snapshot, happening. You are in continuum. It is important to remember that life happens for us, not to us. We should appreciate its show. Also, know that life is not personal and therefore it should not be taken personally. Death is not personal, either. It just is. When your due day is approaching, you may know about it, you may not. You should not know exactly your last moment. That is not for you to know. Think – if you know about it you are taking big risks. You are throwing down a gauntlet. When you take your own life you are stealing breath from Nature’s lungs. Nature does not like thieves. She does not understand how a human being cannot honour living by showing trust – no matter how drastic a depression or challenging one’s circumstance. Hers is the life-force and it does not know how to stop striving to keep us all alive. Should you cut short her transfusion to you, you will suffer the outcome of that severence. That outcome is a lonely place to be. Nature moves on with her business. She does not loiter in the shadows, begging for alms, pleading her case or yours. She takes stock and she moves on towards equilibrium. We should realise that we are all on her path to equilibrium. Each of us. We should sit back and happen, watch ourselves act, trust in her guidance, because it is what will get us to the other side. The other side is where we exist, at perfection. Each of us. That place perfection is real. There are those who have achieved perfection with their lives. Not many, but there are those. Utopia does exist. Living and dying are equally likely to find you a place there. It just depends how you live, and how you die. You must be sure when you die that you have all your ducks in a row. You cannot die with business unfinished. When you take your life you are taking yourself out of the equation and leaving unfinished business. Nature does not like unfinished business. She will insist that you return to pick up your own mess. No one is in charge of your life, but you. Nature was in charge of your birth. She is in charge of your death. Trust that she knows best your moment to go. Take that privilege from her and you will find yourself lost on the other side without a ready guide. That is Nature’s way. Should you wish to take her on, you will see that she will simply transform you. She transforms herself, all the time. To transform us is her job. She doesn’t take lightly to having her job dictated by humans. She will collect you when she is ready, not before.
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Life/Death – Blog No. 27
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Inspiration/Expiration – Blog No. 23
Inspiration is powerful. It motivates you to act. Feeling inspired does not mean sitting dreaming about possibilities. It means sitting and dreaming, of course, but it means more than that. It means doing something with the energy generated by your ideas. Good ideas create good vibes. Bad ideas do not. Bad ideas sometimes supercede good ideas. It happens. That is because a bad idea is usually disguised as a good idea in the head of the thinker. It is astounding what you can convince yourself of if you are determined. Use your inspiration to inspire others. What greater gift can you give the world? Inspire your colleagues by being the positive guy. Inspire your family by being real. Watching somebody be real is a privilege. It is a pity we do not do it more often. It is a good way to show respect for ourselves and regard for another person.
Expiration is equally powerful. It is the opposite of inspiration but it does not feel like it is. It does not feel like demotivation and it does not feel too much like breathing, either. To me, it feels like death. We expire, eventually. When we have done what we were sent to do on this planet, we die. Try not to be sentimental about death. It happens all the time. There is no point in fearing it. It is a freedom. It is a state we should learn to understand better, not dread. We have become a little too precious about death in the 21st century, despite our being bombarded with terminal facts and figures that defy reason and belief. Death is in our faces every day. What we learn is that we are alive, then we are not. Death is life. We should not hang on too tightly to the departed – as hard as that can be – we must let them move on without us because our possessiveness hinders their ability to leave this material plane. Do not cause your loved ones to have to wait forever for you to be over them, because they will wait for as long as you need them. Let them go forwards. They have a path that needs travelling, they have their own footprints to find. They have their own karmas to meet. Remember that when you are dead you do not feel sad for the living. You do not feel. Those of us left behind, feel. That is life. If we can realise that being dead is not a punishment, we can evolve. Dead is simply where you end up after being alive. How you die is what is important. We should all aspire to dying in our sleep – that is a treasure unlike any other.
We keep a spirit alive by letting it breathe through us. Do not be selfish with your breathing. When you speak of the dead, try to speak of them with love. It is a good thing for you and it is a good thing for them. The dead are best pleased to hear words of love. They are no different to the living.
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C.J. Birch
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