Mystic Nook

The things that keep me awake at night are probably a little different than the average person. Last night it was the question, “Why do those who have just vacated their physical body always come to their new awareness in a standing position?”.

When I see a “playback” of a soul’ crossing, they are always in a standing position, regardless of their position at death. It doesn’t matter if they died peacefully in bed, in a chair, by the side of the road after a car crash, they all are in a standing position when they become aware that something has changed. They are flooded with a fullness; transitioned to a state of awareness that cannot be contained in a physical body.

Standing is the closest energetic equivalent to “neutral.” It’s the baseline from which the soul begins to understand its new state. Lying down or sitting are the positions of waiting and immobility. Posture is not just physical, it’s symbolic, energetic, and directional.

When souls become aware that something has changed, what they notice is not what you would expect. They don’t speak of the absence of pain, fear, infirmities or even death, they speak of an incredible lightness of being. A feeling of something so familiar, as if they had never been “away”. When the physical body falls away, the soul doesn’t begin by noticing what is gone. It’s not that they don’t remember any of those experiences, it’s that they are no longer relevant.

Souls don’t notice what has stopped. They notice what has returned. They don’t speak of death, as death is a physical event. The soul doesn’t experience it as an ending. It experiences it as a shift in orientation. The restoration of what was always there.

Souls stand with their backs turned to the physical body just vacated. They have zero connection to a collection of bones and skin. They are connected to the love that caused the arms to reach out to hold another, not to the actual appendages. The soul doesn’t reject the body; it simply no longer fits inside it.

Those who remain behind will often project their fear, suffering and loss on the one who has left. When someone dies, the living rarely see the one who has crossed. They see their own rupture. If we are suffering, how can the departed not be in the same state? Because we are not yet able to stand in our own fullness, we project our fragmentation onto the one who has just stepped into wholeness. The soul is not carrying what the living are carrying.

Projection is a form of love trying to find a place to land. It’s a very human emotion. Grief is love’s calling card. It asks us to resolve the unresolvable. Heal what we fear cannot be healed. Grief is not the opposite of love. It is the echo of love. Grief is the evidence that love existed.

Maybe the question came to me, because in these confusing times, perhaps we should simply stand to gain greater perspective. Souls stand when they awaken. Humans collapse when they are overwhelmed. Maybe the invitation is to remember that standing is not a posture of the body, it’s a posture of consciousness.

You may ask about the little ones, whose legs have never stood. They are carried on the wings of angels and Beings of Light, to rest in the arms of Love. In the end, Only the Love remains.