Remember your death and your life will magically unfold

Dear friend,

Today I want to offer you something that we very often try to forget.

You, I and everyone else we know, will die one day. Others will come instead.

This is in no way an attempt to stress you or provoke any fearfulness in you.

It is just the truth of our lives.

As children we all have a phase of consciously realizing we and our parents or loved ones, will die.

It is an important phase. One where our eyes open up to our own life and a more conscious motor is lit on. But then we join the rest of society and try to forget all about it.

When we try to forget about our mortality we suppress with it a healthy sense of livelihood. Being alive the fear of losing (the vibrancy of) life is natural to us. It can be a sweet call for our attention and deep longing. Fighting this inherited human fear, it turns ugly in us.

As we try to ignore it, it acts out. It becomes the fearfulness we are busy with today.

It becomes an inner torture and suffering. We start to be afraid of what we (may) experience or do. We run away from it and try to control how much of life may touch us. We do it to the extent of unconsciously choosing to die a little inside; We may tense up to feel ourselves less. We may even numb ourselves, using different substances, attitudes and obsessions.

We may become cold to ourselves and to others. We use our mind to dissect it control and judge it and everything that may touch us.

But dear friend, if we manage to stop suppressing that notion of death, it can let us better connect to who we are.

Remembering our death, allows us to find our personal freedom quicker. It lets us move beyond some petty moments of repetitive conflict within ourselves and with others.

It cuts through the chains of the past that our minds may be eager to keep.

It lets us walk into the unknown of our possible life, with a gentle ease and confidence. It even milks our compassion and lets it pour into our relationship and ourselves.

We are still in the beginning of this year. We have a chance to step out of the repetitions we dislike and at times hide behind. It is a chance to re-choose what we commit to be.

We have a chance to leave the known (that is already dead) in the past.

Remembering our death is the best starting point to allow new. To sharpen our attention and exercise more of our conscious choices.

With this awareness, fearfulness evaporates and the natural courage emerges.

So dear friend, for just a moment close your eyes, breathe deeply few times and remind yourself you are mortal. Remind yourself that the people you love are mortal.

Stay with this reminder and the experience it brings as long as you can. Simply feel whatever comes and moves with in you. It may move through different emotions, sensations and perceptions. Give yourself the time to see what can unfold for you.

See what are the connections that you will want to strengthen. What grudges will suddenly seem irrelevant. What commitments or relationships you would like to end?

What choices and decisions will arise and or what are the things you hold back that need to finally be expressed.

Try for a week to remind yourself of death daily.

Remind yourself the mortality of different people you engage with.

In these days see what may happen with your commitment to life and your sense of fullness and joy.

I do hope dear friend that with taking time to practice recovering that notion in you, it will return to be a natural part of your experience. Now, more than ever, abundance of new life can pour into your experience and you can pour yourself without hesitation into life!

Yours,

Anna

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