Our body is so much more than a physical, mental and emotional Being. It’s also contains subtle energies that we’ve known about for thousands of years, yet still barely understand. Our chakras are part of this subtle energy system. The word Chakra is a Sanskrit word meaning wheel or cycle. This makes sense when we understand that the chakras are spinning wheels of light that reflect various energy centres or vortexes in our body. In short, they occur where we have a complex intersection of energy meridians. Whether the chakras feed the meridians or the meridians feed the chakras is not fully understood. But suffice to say that the chakras, although subtle and not “felt” in the way that we...
What if we were given lessons on how to live? Lessons from someone who has seen the highs and lows of life, from someone who has gained love and lost love... From someone who could share the best of their learning, from all of their lived experiences? Today’s inspirational sayings are taken from ‘Tuesdays with Morrie’ by Mitch Albom. As the cover of this book rightly states, Tuesdays With Morrie is ‘the story of an old man, a young man, and life’s greatest lesson’. The book is a magical chronicle of the author’s life-changing conversations with his old University Professor, Morrie. In the last month's of Morrie’s life, the two men spent sixteen Tuesdays together, exploring many fundamental issues; from...
This is a condensed version of the Eulogy that I read out at Mum’s funeral yesterday. It completes my series of blogs about my journey with Mum in life and in death. Enjoy! Make sure you’ve read Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 first... Nothing ever prepares us for a moment like this. Although we could all see that Mum was slowly declining, I never allowed myself to think of “that moment” when she’d leave her body and spread her wings. I wanted to think that she’d be here forever, never changing, always there for us, as she has always been. And I hoped that by not thinking of it, maybe it would never happen. Yet here we...
If you’ve been following my journey over the last 2 blogs, you will know that my Mum has been preparing to leave her body. Where I thought that it may still be weeks or months, death came to visit far swifter than that. 10 days after I shot her with my arrow of truth and told her that I love her (read “I killed my Mum”), she was gone. She had spent her last 48 hours firstly in the Emergency Department at her local hospital. The doctors ran all sorts of tests, which showed simply that her body was shutting down. Her blood pressure was very low, not enough oxygen was getting to her organs, and her kidneys were inflamed....
In last week’s blog, I shared about how I killed my Mum. I shot her with an arrow of truth, from my heart to hers….and it hit its mark. But it wasn’t her blood that I was feeling – it was my own. How do we watch someone who was once so strong and independent and dignified, become a walking corpse? How do we watch that, and not feel something moving deeply within our own Spirit. Watching Death begin its slow and grim dance for someone we love is not easy. This is powerful change at its most visceral level. I’m not saying that a swift death is necessarily easier. Unexpected death is a shock in its own right, and...