Death
How can I help someone who is suffering over a loved one's death?
Abraham: What we see around the subject of death is you
take, as humans, this nonexistent subject and use it as your excuse to pinch off the life-force. That is the true tragedy, you see, and that's really what you're trying to help these dear people about. You're trying to help them to restore themselves to the vivacious, loving, happy, joyous beings that they are capable of being.
We would do our best to provide an opportunity – in other words, we would stay as connected to the Stream as possible so that we are radiating as much light as possible, and serve as an object.... In other words, Esther remembers when the neighbor's dog came into their chicken yard and wounded, mortally, some chickens. It was a sad day because the chickens were pets, they all had names. And in Esther's sadness, she did not quite know what to do. Her despair was very great,
and in that moment it felt as great as any tragedy has ever been. Over chickens. She eats them for lunch almost every day. (Laughter.) Not those chickens – strangers' chickens. (More laughter.) Chickens without names. But her tragedy was real, her trauma was real. And we said to her, "Look at that chicken." In other words, give your attention to the chicken that lives as you would like them all to live, and take your attention from the one that does not. And she remembers
life-force returning. In other words, in that simple moment, she remembers life-force returning. We know it is not so easy when your son lies dead, but when you turn your attention to something else that lives, life-force must return. It really is that simple.
So how do you make someone understand something that you understand? You can't. All you can do is understand it. So your greatest gift to them is just know what you know about death, know that it is nonexistent, know that this man, this being exists eternally, know that he can come through the cat-door either way, know that he is constantly, consistently focused here, know that he has awareness about what all of
you are doing, know that his interest in what you are doing has not changed at all, know that you have the ability to interact with him, know that he has the ability to interact with him, and make that a real experience for yourself, and then talk about it as if it is a normal experience – that is the most important thing. Let it be the normal experience that it really is, and let's bring the subject of death out
into the light where it belongs and see it for what it really is.
Good.
(c) Abraham-Hicks
(Extract from a longer quote posted to the AbeQuotes message board, message #344, posted 9/29/01)
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Last update: 2005-07-02 09:55
Submitted by: Julie L.
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