The EZ Secret: Tips on Living in EZ, from Anne Sermons Gillis, 01/15/2013
Published: Tue, 01/15/13
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Most of you know that my good friend Judy died suddenly the day after Thanksgiving. Since then I’ve had two Facebook friends die and another friend had a massive brain aneurism. This is on the heels of three deaths in my family. It looks like death is my current teacher. There are so many sides to death. Death of the body,
immortality, and near death experiences (NDE). I read Raymond
Moody’s book, Life
After Life Proof of Heaven Recently a speaker mentioned the book Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife by Dr. Eben Alexander, MD. Kindle just makes it too easy to have books at my finger tips and, after reading the sample, I had to buy it. I figured if it wasn’t interesting to me, my husband would enjoy it. But it was interesting to me. I cried in several places. Alexander, the author, had a life-changing NDE. Two things were distinct in his experience: he didn’t know who he was, as in he didn’t even have a concept of “human”, and the part of the brain that makes one human was "flat" for a week. He was virtually brain dead for a week, and he not only survived his death, he recovered. In his NDE, he wakes up in an underworld. Language, emotion, and logic were all gone. Eventually he gets to a higher, more heaven-like reality. Somehow he returns to the lower world and finds that when he focuses on heaven (or this love-filled space), he can bring himself back there. He undergoes extensive learning from a nonmental level. The three important things he learns are:
Even though these ideas might seem impossible to believe – please, not Hitler – in the level of eternity, I believe they are the principles that rule the universe. There are no shades of gray. Everyone is loved unconditionally, regardless of belief or behavior, and fear is irrelevant to the vast love that permeates all levels of earth and heaven (consciousness). Waking Up Too often we try to make up for what we believe to be our deficits. We strive to be better people. This continuous striving and learning make us somber, serious people. We forget the joy of life and make life a burden. It is unnecessary to almost die to begin the ascension from fear and pain into love, ease, and safety. Being near death is a wakeup call, but for me, I think I’ll wake up now. We can wake up by taking our attention away from the fantasy world we create and focusing on the eternal truths of the present. Let’s allow the mind to become the receptacle of unconditional love, rather than a venue for horror. Byron Katie says, “Stress is a signal that you’re asleep. Question your thinking and wake yourself up.” A woman is about to be married. As was normal for someone in this condition, her head was filled with thoughts, plans, and ideas for the future. She was walking through the forest and a lion jumped in the middle of the road. In that moment, where was her mind? Where was her past? Where are her thoughts and plans for the future? The future is dependent on the past. The mind is a grave digger digging up bones from the past to chew on. So welcome the lion in your path. (Sorry I can’t remember whether this story came from Ramana or Papaji.) Many of us live in a near death experience in our day to day lives. I don’t mean the extraordinary soul filling experience like the one mentioned above. I mean we are dead to life already. The only way to come alive is to wake up, snap the mind back to its home in the present, and immerse ourselves in the joy of living. We can’t start the next chapter of our lives if we keep re-reading the last one. Let's wake up, welcome the lion, and make our lives EZier and EZier. Here is the Oprah interview with Eben Alexander, MD: Creating More Wellness Through the Practice of Conscious Breathing by Dan Brulé I heard of Dan Brulé from my former coach, Phil Laut.
Every year, Dan sponsored Phil’s money seminar. If he was a friend
of Phil’s, I wanted to look him up. I signed up for his
newsletter. Dan’s newsletter was impressive. He had a deep
knowledge of breath work and an ability to bring words to life. I
met Dan in 2007. He drug a scraggly group, including me, around
India. Dan looks like a wild man, talks like a mystic, and lives
out of a suitcase. He has some kind of sustainable community going
in Baja, Mexico. Thanks, Dan, for allowing me to share this
amazing article on breathing. Dan makes this easy enough for
anyone to do.The New Year is a perfect time to start developing a
practical and mystical relationship with your breath. Sunday at Creative Life Center, our leader coughed a number of times during his talk. Finally he mentioned his malaise and my mind went off into a little ditty. Ode to Jesse's Cough Bacterial expressions; NOTE: If you are viewing this on a cell phone, be sure to scroll right to see the second column. |
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identity. Our Good oversees every situation. Make a mistake and
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, on NDE, but it
wasn’t a topic that fascinated me. My husband is into NDE, but for
me, I’ve had so many other-worldly experiences, that I work to
stay in my body and be present to life. Until now. It's funny how,
when surrounded by death, one’s interests change.
