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Someone asked me if I believe in heaven and hell after you die.

They were having a difficult time with life’s transitions and confusion and brain fog was setting in.

My belief is people don’t have to wait till they die to experience states of consciousness described in spiritual texts as heaven or hell. It’s all accessible now.

No need to wait for another day. Let alone till you die.

What control we have over experiencing these states of being is another matter.

I’ve observed the ability to shift my mind and therefore my body’s reaction to thoughts away from difficult states of being to more regulated and aligned states of being, to something more pleasant.

Truth is life is pretty good most of the time!

My physical environment is safe, easeful and filled with grace. Most negative experiences I’m going through I observe coming from thought forms rather than an external factor.

For this I feel blessed and grateful to have a safe, easeful environment to attend.

The process of mindfulness and meditation is building the skills of observing the mind and the body’s response to internal factors. It sounds simple yet ask any experience meditator and they’ll tell you, it’s not as easy as it sounds.

I’ll be teaching a six week systematic approach to harnessing the power of the observational mind and turning the internal process into a pleasant condition.

This can help with grief, sadness, depression, anxiety, procrastination, complex traumas, common sufferings, sparkling suffering (which come from a specific region in France), physical pain, emotional swings, addictions, confusion, self worth, and a host of other states of being which may be considered living in hell or samsara. I

The process of mindfulness and meditation is said to be a path of liberation from these states. So whatever your belief is in heaven and hell there are techniques of working with the human condition.

I’ll be teaching a 6 week in person series at harbin hot springs starting in August every Tuesday. Visit Harbin.org for more info or DM me for more details.

I’d love to see you there for this community offering on a Dana basis.

Pondering Grief as my mother’s birthday approaches:

To sit with grief is to delve into the heart and the lungs. Become still, listen to your breath and feel the beating in your chest.

To allow grief is to cry a sea of tears to farm one oyster containing a pearl.

To be with grief is to reflect it back to and within another.

To get over grief is to pass away from this body and offer the gift of grief to the next generation who longs only for your presence to return.

To cast out grief smell a flower and laugh with a baby.

To touch grief, share a breath with a loved one who is taking their last.

To honor grief love someone with all your being and allow them to depart this physical realm with dignity.

To know grief count your ancestors by name back to the beginning of the first inception.

To shun grief is to close and harden the heart and turn away from the sun.

To accommodate grief is to joyfully bask in the glory of the folly and of the suffering of love. Allow it to fill you up and expand your capacity for even more love.