Book Offers Spiritual Openings

I just finished reading a great book. It's called "You Don't Have To Die When Your Doctor Says." It's written by David Elliott, a New Zealander who has been given a terminal diagnosis of cancer, but is living in the belief that nothing is inevitable, the future is unwritten and the statistical data on his condition is really all about the past, and doesn't necessarily apply to him.

This book should be required reading for anyone who has a life-threatening illness, certainly. But I think it should be recommended reading for everyone, and especially anyone who wants to grow spiritually. David builds his arguments around some basic beliefs, among them the belief that we are responsible for our own lives, that we create our reality. He is particularly interested in how our beliefs about ourselves can create health or illness, and the distinct possibility that belief is decisive in healing. I personally find this to be a very encouraging notion. There is no place for a victim mindset in David's concept of recovery. On the contrary, what is needed is to take responsibility for your own condition and your own healing.

The principles and ideas David explores are relevant for anyone who wants to have more power and freedom in their life. Even many healthy people live as though they haven't got a choice about many aspects of their lives. Whether you have a short time to live or many healthy years ahead of you, that is no way to live them.

Why wait until you are facing the likelihood of imminent death to discover your personal power? Read this book now, and enjoy living more for the rest of your life, however long that may be.

Reiki Master

Hands full of energy.

Rules to be Happy

1. Free your heart from hatred.

2. Free your mind from worries.

3. Live simply.

4. Give more.

5. Expect less.

The soul chooses to take this journey in partnership with the body.

Free Will

We choose this life. We choose to inhabit a physical and mortal body and take whatever comes with this physical partnering. We contribute to our physical, emotional, social, material, psychological and mental reality within this physical plane of existence. We come here to learn. We don't learn much when the grass is green and the sun is warm, but when the storm winds blow and the tree falls on our house, we are awakened into learning mode. It is for this, for adversity, that we have come into this plane of existence.

Our souls seek balance. We remember the imbalances of previous lives in our soul self, and we live this life in a clear determination to set things in balance again. I was self-centered in a prior life, talented and successful and spoiled. I used other people to entertain myself. Now in this current life, I have been abused and used by others to meet their own needs, and I have learned the empathy that I lacked. The adversities I have faced in this life have been gifts to my soul. It has grown in love and wisdom through every hardship.

In a previous life, I was an herbalist. I knew the plants and combinations of elements to heal the sick or calm a troubled heart. i remember doing it, but not the knowledge of those things. In this current life, i have the gift of healing. I work with the energy, and the energy works with me. The energy guides me, and I am guided when I am channeling the energy by my spirit guides, who plant suggestions in my mind. I can sometimes hear them talk.

All through our life, we are creating what is coming next. We see it and then we claim it, and before we know what has happened, it is ours. But we do not get to control the physical plane in a perfect or absolute extent. The processes are so great that all we can do is yield to them.