Channeling Erik

February10th

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Enlightenment

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I’m still under the weather with influenza, but busily wiping down the phones, door handles and keyboards with disinfectant to protect our boy, Robert. He’s on Tamiflu, doing well, happy to have his staples out! I’m not going to edit this entry, so can y’all let me know if you see any glaring boo-boos?

Channeling Transcript

Me: Okay, now. Erik, does the term “enlightenment” have a different meaning when applied to the physical existence here and when it’s applied to the spirit realm where you are? In other words, does the physical experience of enlightenment differ from the spiritual experience of enlightenment?

Erik: Yes, Mom, and what a great question! Yes. The physical enlightenment is really to be human but not to be bound by it.

Me: Okay.

Erik: Most people feel like the human enlightenment is more about trying to get out of the body, away from the body and get into this spiritual living. But c’mo, you still gotta body! How’re you gonna get around that?

Me: Um hmm!

Erik: Then you’re living a life full of disappointment, because you can’t achieve what you think you should be achieving because you have a body.

Me: Yeah.

Erik: Why do people hate their bodies!!

I chuckle.

Erik: Well, I’m one to talk. I didn’t like mine when I was there.

Me (sadly):Aww. Erik.

(Pause)

Me: It’s so limiting, I guess.

Erik: It is limiting. It is. But it should be enjoyed. It shouldn’t be squandered away into believing that enlightenment is dissing the earthbound joys, going for something almost destructive.

(Pause)

Me: And what about the spiritual experience of enlightenment?

Erik: Ah! That deals more with pure openness, about being able to obtain all information without getting in the way.

Me: Hm.

Jamie: Can I ask, Erik, what do you mean by “all information?”

Erik: From other galaxies, from other places, other dimensions, other universes. You’re not as separate from the collective so you tap into all of the information that collective consciousness provides. You can access anything you want and that you can based on your vibrational level.

Me: So you don’t sense that separateness as much the more spiritually enlightened you are?

Erik: Right.

Me: Okay. So can you give me a recap? And please try to dumb it down a little for your ol’ mom, Sweetie.

Erik (chuckling): Okay, so the more spiritually enlightened a person is, the more connected his or her feels with the whole. That illusion of separation becomes weaker and weaker. And the more you sense that oneness, the more information you can recive from the collective consciousness that  you’re a part of. It’s so funny how the so-called boundaries of that separation illusion can just totally wall you off. It’s all a matter of perception and perspective. Now physical enlightenment has to do with embracing the joys of being human, of being in a human body, of living the human experience.

Me: Ah, I’m beginning to get it. Thanks, Baby Boy.

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  • Be Free My Angel

    Content Vs. Embracing, I would love to know more about this from Erik. We can be content with our bodies, be ok with them. Then we can embrace our flaws and our gifts and use them to the fullest potential, but we are human we are going to make mistakes so is the line between content and embracing our bodies how hard we push ourselves? What does learning to live to our highest possible self mean, constantly striving for perfection, something more, being a doer vs a slacker. What about those who live life for the love and joy but don’t do amazing things in life, are they then not living to their fullest potential?????? Just more stuff floating around in my head. Peace ♥

  • Patrick

    Rolling blackouts from the cold have closed the office but I live outside that grid and I’m home with power,reading the blog!

    This shows a little of what I mentioned about movement and grids in my prior “brain flatulences” – we are able to move along the infinite grid lines of the universe and gain access to galaxies in an instant. As Erik says, the limitation is the vibrational level…listen to your own vibration; sit still in a perfectly quiet room and think of your ears; listen to them and you’ll hear the hum in the background….you’ll hear the very high pitched and smooth sound, ever so faint and steady, in the background.

    This is our universe “electronic access card”; we can’t get into every “database” in the universe until there’s a match. Think of each person, planet, solar system and galaxy as a giant (or less giant sized) snowflake, whose branches, spars and tentacles reach out in every direction, up down, right, left front and back…we approach and “plug in” just as if we were inserting a cable into a computer port…but the connection is instantanteous….the huge crystals we approach are blue, red, green, orange, yellow, purple, white, violet, gold and silver. Each is unique and different just as the snowflakes are, billions and billions of them and no two alike.

    They shift and rotate in an instant to present the proper point of access, if the vibrations match. If we cannot gain a connection, we an remain and observe and drink in the beauty of the object and see the deepness of the color (gold comes to my mind right now) which exists down to an infinite depth. The light reflects, sparkles and dances off every edge as we move about the outside. If we are to have a link, it flows to us in an instant and we have full insight and understanding into the new information.

    En route, we move along the gridline and step off as if departing from a constantly moving train, exactly at the spot we need to reach. There is no blackness around us as we believe exists in “space” above our atmosphere, as we see light spectrums our human eyes cannot.

    The scene before us extends left, right, up and down and infront of us and behind us in the three dimensions we know on earth, but there are more dimensions that open like folding sheets of glass within the flat planes of the three dimensions we perceive on earth. These are seen and acknowledged in Heaven just as on Earth, but they themselves open into more dimensions with a new set of up, down, left, right, front and back within that new opening.

    Each new opening unhinges in instant silence where we have a match and our access card is recognized. The knowledge, experience and history, past and “to be” is understood completely and we dance through it with the joy of a a child discovering a magical wonderland that was unimaginable just a few moments before.

    This experience of enlightenment is just as it is on earth; we all recall a moment when we saw something when we were young that we didn’t understand, but we remember the feeling of that observance. Sometime later we came to understand that moment and the source of the feeling. Now we know what it was about and we feel its meaning and purpose. We may remember fear or concern but no longer feel it.

    When we gain access to a new dimensionality in Heaven, we rather experience joy, almost glee at the wonderment of it, and understand it as our synchronicity with it engages and provides the bond.

    I almost cannot wait for that time again; it is a long time off for us now on earth…but as we re-enter home, we will marvel at our current experience and be thrilled to tell all about it, as our audience sits with eager, rapt attention as the story is recounted for them, and Erik pops a balloon at the quietest moment and scares everybody!

  • GeorgeN

    Elisa, sending you healing energy. I hope you feel better soon 8-)

  • Petrus

    “It shouldn’t be squandered away into believing that enlightenment is dissing the earthbound joys, going for something almost destructive.” This resonates deeply with me, although due to my transgendered condition, my bodily excistence has been somewhat challenging. But after some adjustments, this particular body is my home, my connection to the world. I have a hunch that this is one of the main themes of this lifetime for me. I’m working on it. :)

    • http://drmedhus.com Elisa

      Petrus, have you read the post “Ask Erik: Ty’s question” from August 24th? Also the one entitled “Erik on Gays” from AUgust 13th–he gives lots of insight on why some choose the LGBT route.

  • amy cavanaugh

    this is what I think today. We are on earth to learn lessons, the more lessons we learn, the more we evolve as a person and from our ancestors, the less work we have to do on the otherside. From what I have heard and read, those who pass with a great deal of unfinished business-hover at a lower level of heaven until they wrap that all up. You know the term 7th Heaven-well that refers to the highest level of heaven. The lower levels still see earth-visually as opposed to experience it vibrationally. Who knows-again this is what I think-based on what I know today.

  • http://www.supernaturalsensitives.com Only4Love

    Elisa, I hope you feel better real soon!
    Kathy

    • http://drmedhus.com Elisa

      Gettin’ there! Thanks Kathy!

  • JoAnn Nichols

    I have been reading the blog for about 2 weeks now i have read almost all the entries,,,and I want to thank you and Eric and all the members that help with Love and Understanding,,,I have been wanting to ask Eric a couple questions for about 3 days now but I just don’t know where to ask it. I am a very spiritual person and have believed on my own much of what Eric is teaching us,,I would start by saying I am bi-polar and have been diagnosed with it since 1992 I used to take the meds they gave me but i am a very sensitive being and can not tolerate the drugs they prescribe me. For years i have had alot of problems with my reality and for the last 6 to 8 months i have been truly at my lowest GAF (general ability to function)I don’t know what happen

    ed but i have been homebound and terrified .I remain in constant panic /anxiety and truly am fighting every day to stay in this world . IT is so hard for me to Do anything i don’t even take care of my own self and if i didn’t have my boy friend here to help me I truly think i would of already been gone. My question to Eric Is about my loved ones that have past I have 3 cousins all close to my age that have passed. My cousin Bonnie passed at age 24 in 1990 she was born 5 months before me and we were very close as we grew up. My question about Bonnie Nichols is did she have anything to do with the “pink rose” on the day we buried her December 24th 1990, and also did she see what we did with the rose? also i wanted to know if she is in heaven or if she has been reborn to a new life already. my other cousin that passed is Kimberly Nichols she died on her 21st b-day,,, i am pretty sure she was born in 1969, i wanted to ask if she was murdered or if it was an accident and my 3rd cousin that has passed was born in 1966 same yr as me His name is Marshal Thomas Duncan (Tommy) an he commited suicide by hanging a couple yrs ago ,i would like to ask him what drove him to do that? and also to help me not be so lost in this life. everyday i have to tell myself there are alot of good reasons for me to be here but truly i can not think of one thing that makes me feel,,anything except a constant and crippling fear of living. I have sooo many personality conflict problems going on in my mind that i have lost my “feelers” and am going on everyday like an empty shell and I don’t know WHY. oh Bonnie was born and died in Baltimore,MD and Kimberly the same Tommy was born in New York I believe and passed away in North carolina. I have alot of other things to say and ask of course but i believe that people on the site here would have alot of those answers,,, and also If I can get out of this “LOW” I have had ideas of helping people and I have thought of several good ideas myself but I also want to get involved more on here. I think what is going on here is awesome and brings so much healing and understanding to people in need . Thank You for the help you are giving to all.

    • http://drmedhus.com Elisa

      Hello JoAnn and thanks for becoming part of our family. Know that we here have each other’s back and when you need us, we’ll be there for you. Lot’s of things to say here. First, I am in awe of the courage you show sharing your challenges. This is no easy task. Also, people who come to the earthly plane with mental illnesses like BPD usually are very advanced and choose this challenge to tie up loose ends and propel themselves into enlightenment. That says a lot about you. Now from the perspective as a doctor, have you tried Omega-3. like 4000 mg a day? It can work great in people with BPD. One of my kids is like you–can’t tolerate meds–but she’s perfectly fine on her Omega. If you read “The Omega 3 Connection” by Dr. Stoll, you can look at the reasons and the research behind it.

      As for the Ask Erik questions go, I’m finishing up the book questions first, but RObert and Jason sometimes help with these. ALso, if you ask Erik directly, he might be able to give you the answers you seek. Go to the media gallery, watch some of his videos, and memorize his voice. Then, at night when you go to bed, just say hello and listen for his voice. Sometimes he can be a chatterbox, though. And once you start this interaction with him, he often brings your departed loved ones to you in the form of lucid dreams, etc. And he may pull some silly pranks, leave behind some stinky smells, etc. He’s kind of mischievous, but oh is he full of love! He loves, loves, loves women.

      I hope you become more involved with our journey too. Hopefully, if we can publish the books, we’ll make enough money to start that foundation we’ve written about in one of the earlier posts.

      Anywho, glad you’re with us, connected forever, girl. XOXOXO ((((((HUGS))))))

  • Candis

    I have been wondering lately about the animals that we eat for food. All these years I just eat whatever, whenever and I never even think about it. A couple of weeks ago, I was driving behind a big chicken truck – It was freezing out but for some reason the back of the truck was opened (maybe because it was only going a short ride) and I could see all of the fully grown chickens huddled together in cages. They were headed towards the chicken “processing” place a few miles away. At one point the truck stopped at a redlight and one of the chickens spread out a wing to kind of cover the other chicken in one of the cages. They were on their way to be slaughtered, what a miserable exsistance – what a sacrifice these creatures make for us!!! I never realized it. Someday, maybe you can ask Eric, what is in it for those chickens – why do they give themselves over to us like that – and we hardly appreciate it? We eat buckets of them in front of the TV and we never even give it a second thought. Well, I will never take them for granted again. I would love to hear what Eric says about these creatures – I truly hope that they are somehow very well rewarded for what it is that they do for us. If you think about it too hard, it is heartbreaking. I still probably won’t become a vegetarian at this point in my life – but I sure am going to start saying a prayer before I eat!

    • http://drmedhus.com Elisa

      Erik has shared a whole lot of things about our agreements with animals and plants. Have you done a search of the previous entries?

  • http://www.channelingmyself.com Todd

    What I find ironic is that some of us on here have mentioned how we look forward to getting out of these physical bodies and getting to the spiritual realm. I wonder if we will miss the physical realm when we get back there?

    I remember before my dad died he always said he didn’t want to live in heaven but wanted to live here on earth forever (he was a Jehovah’s Witness) I’ve always wondered if he feels that way now that he has crossed over.

  • Skoshi

    Wonderful session, Elisa. Have cut and pasted it into a file for easy reference in the future. By “embracing”, I think Erik means “grasping” as used in Buddhism. No matter what our circumstances…bad AND good…we don’t grasp for them. We know who we ARE…spirits who aren’t going to stay here. We can let go both our dearly loved ones who have died and the bad memories from mistreatment.

    Carol, so sorry you lost your son. Young people just don’t understand the dangers they’re playing with.

  • Skoshi

    It’s like Erik said before: The key is, when you get to the earthly plane, no matter what happens in your life, to find joy and peace with what IS.
    That’s enlightenment.

  • Shannon

    Elisa, today’s message “From the Universe”:

    “Sadness, illness, and despair, are less conditions than they are decisions – to see yourself as less than you really are.

    Good thing that’s all, huh?

    Yours,
    The Universe

    P.S. There’s truly nothing that need keep you from seeing the truth, and choosing joy.”

    Sent you healing energy, hope you feel better soon.

    S.

    • http://drmedhus.com Elisa

      The universe hates me! (hee hee) I also heard that illness is a protest of life. Makes sense.

  • guitarlinda

    dear JoAnn………I have bi-polar as well. I wonder if you really think your current state of discomfort is better than taking meds. I don’t like the side effects either but I don’t want to ever be hospitalized again or live with constant anxiety and depression nor do I ever want my family to go thru another breakdown. My shrink helps me think of my disorder as akin to diabetes i.e. a chemical imbalance. I am happy to say that my life is very good these days. I am on omega 3 and have successfully reduced my lamactil dosage but if I start having trouble, I will surely return to my regular dosage. Best wishes to you whatever you choose and perhaps there are no wrong choices. hugs

    • http://drmedhus.com Elisa

      Lamictal and Abilify is a good combination, but if I were bipolar, I’d sure try the Omega 3 first, then add whatever meds little by little. Just sayin’ from the doctor with bipolar kids viewpoint.

  • Jane

    Elisa hope you feel better very soon! Love and light to you.

  • amy cavanaugh

    I am reading a book called They Dont See What I See-How to Talk with Loved Ones Who Have Crossed Over. It is fascinating-easy read full of practical examples of how to connect. It is written by Ruth Berger

    • http://drmedhus.com Elisa

      Sounds awesome. Just ordered it!

  • Steve

    Hi Candis -
    I struggle with the concept of eating animals, especially since we treat them so poorly when we raise and then slaughter them. Every time I eat pork, I feel especially guilty, as pigs are smarter than dogs.
    Erik and other channels say that we should move towards vegetarianism for many reasons, but these animals made a contract to come to earth to be part of the food chain, so it’s just part of a bigger plan. I do wish we’d treat them better, though.

    • http://drmedhus.com Elisa

      I know. Mankind can be so arrogant to think they’re superior. Where’s the respect?

  • http://www.supernaturalsensitives.com Only4Love

    Finding joy and peace is what I am working on right now and it is very difficult but I am learning to love what ever is that I have to meet that challenge.

    But, what I have found through my time living here is this. When we are young some of us are born highly connected to spirit and very aware. I do not know the reason why and in my mind it does not matter. The road is diffiult for all of us.

    The difference is that when we are this connected to spirit and knowing this complete unconditional love at such a deep level we can easily become separate from the body and when we are little we think our parents and “the adults” no best, and maybe some of them do but…when you are more aware of spirit and love than your parents than it is time for those parents to listen to the childs message.

    The problem does not lie in just the fact that the person is so sensitive, and that is how he becomes damaged and separate from the body, it is t when you are so young and innocent because of only remembering this complete unconditional love and you are naive to the fact (because of the pure heart that these innocent children have)that this world is not of a heavenly world it is of a polarized world. You become disillusioned and fall into the physical senses and become addicted to what ever it is that comforts you forgetting to stay in balance to live spritually in the physical body.

    Lots of these children see the spirit in everyone ….they remember these family members and friends as they were in spirit form and the love they have at a soul level. The love that these very sensitive and highly intelligent children have is not of this world. It is not an intelligence that this world knows of as of yet. I always say “Only love is real” I have the “only4love” username for a reason. It is not some fluffy name to not take seriously it is a truth. This love business is really not about earthly love it is the love we all need to attain to and it is the all accepting and all encompassing unconditinal love.

    I feel we all have high hopes when we decide to take human form because of the freedom in heaven. We all are free of our bodily concerns and are well aware of the impact we can have on each other. It is clear as day and the power we have over there is alot stronger than here. We are pure energy and who would not feel we could take on the world. I get a glimpse of it from time to time and thanks to Eric I am able to experience that feeling more frequently. But, it is a trap and it would be wrong for me to use these frequent flyer miles to just sit therer and not do anything with it whether it ber expressing it to help others or incorporating it into mylife habits or making an impact on the world as Eric and Elisa do. It does no matter as long as you areliving in your truth and staying in alignment with your higher self to stay grounded and productive for your own well being and contribution to your soul living in bodily form.

    Kathy

    • http://drmedhus.com Elisa

      In your 4th paragraph, you described Erik. The polarity of the world was difficult for him to grasp. He said he just couldn’t understand why people, the world, would say one thing and do another. Too much conflict and polarity. I wonder if that has anything to do with the term, bipolar? (On a spiritual basis)

  • juan

    Hi Elisa;

    I read in a previous post, that Erik explained that in previous two lives he’d been a warrior in times of Vlad III “the Impaler” (Years 1431-1476) and later in World War II was a Jew prisoner of a nazi concentration camp (Between the years 1933 and 1945).

    I want to know if he can give some examples of his lives “parallel or simultaneous” now?. (I don’t know if a spirit can talk about this);

    Thanks in advance!

    juan

    • http://drmedhus.com Elisa

      I’ll Ask!

  • GeorgeN

    This post caused me to think my being here in this or any life is akin to a High School student that has applied to a University that will provide them with the education that they need to pursue their lifes goal. We did the same thing in spirit before this life. We chose a place of higher learning and your attending that school now everyday.

    Then the student attends their HS graduation and shortley thereafter leaves for college. There is much change, fun things and some not so fun things at the university.

    Our spiritual self gets homesick at times just like the new university students. Sometimes students become so focused on how good it felt to be home with family and old friends that it causes the student to drop out, forgetting their reasons for choosing the school in the first place.

    When we long to leave this life, aren’t we simply being homesick? If we give in and “return home”, we will lose the opportunity for growth we so carefully planned for, just like the university drop out.

    And yet, if we can get past our “homesickness”, focus in the moment and look for what we can do to make it better, make new friends, enjoy the learning, we get the chance to “graduate” and go on to even more rewarding experiences.

    Just the ponderings of a sometimes homesick soul.

    With love and blessings to all,

    George

    • http://drmedhus.com Elisa

      From one homesick soul to another, George: what a great analogy. School can sure suck sometimes. There are days I want to go home with all my dirty laundry for my mom to wash and sit down for a home cooked meal…figuratively speaking.

  • amy cavanaugh

    in the book I mentioned above which is a real easy read-devoid of complex spiritual or scientific babble it spoke of 4 levels of heaven-I had also heard 7-hence 7th heaven. Level one is where murders and SOME suicide victims go (refer to Erik’s message about how some suicide victims ready to go. The next is what the book called the Couch Potato-often a resting place for people who were very ill and need some time to sleep-3 is where teachers, healers and caregivers go and service the earth bound it says that they study and “read books” and 4th is evolved souls-saints so to speak. It also says that some people do not know they are dead and hover for about 72 hours until “paramedics” come to assist them. This supports my understanding that the more work we get done here-the less we have to do on the otherside-perhaps going straight to level 3 which appears to be what Erik did. This morning I was over on Huffington Post reading some of the comments that people made about Elisa-wow very judgmental. While they would couch their negative comments in sympathy for Elisa there were a few that were cruel. I dont understand how there can be so much evidence-in the bible and other religious writings-scientific writings-near death experiences and from direct messages and people can write it off as the delusions of a grieving survivor. Oh well-its there loss, I only hope that in the days ahead we continue to make advancements in these types of communications. It seems to be the next step now that the internet has made it possible to create communities made up of people all around the world.

    • http://drmedhus.com Elisa

      I think we just need the closed minded skeptics as part of the duality–to test our faith and make it stronger.

  • amy cavanaugh

    ok call me crazy-but early this am-at exactly the time I was told he would arrive Keith came for a visit. Unlike his previous visit this was not a drive-by, rather he stayed for a while and we looked at photos-oddly some of them I did not recognize-I think they were photos from earlier lifetimes. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to remember these types of encounters with better clarity. I seem to lose alot of the details as soon as I awake. Also file this under call me crazier, but I have the pillow he used in the hospital-with the hospital pillowcase. This morning when I woke up-the pillowcase was on the floor-I thought that was a clear message that he wasn’t sick anymore and perhaps was ready to go to level 3. Feedback encouraged.

  • Be Free My Angel

    I sure do identify with both Only4Love and George. I got fooled into thinking that the human/spirits here were the same as I remembered. This opened me up for greater love, yes and greater hurt. Im homesick too. I accepted my daughter’s disability and did whatever I could to help her and love her and give her the best life possible, medically and spiritually. Now it’s my turn, to do the same with my life and my spirit.
    ♥

  • only4love

    As far as the illness of bi-polar is concerned I have realized since starting my own little investigation into understanding myself through wanting to know the answer to this question so badly (about why some people are more easily affected by life and then develope bi-polar and other mental illnesses)I have discovered that the sensitives who end up with a label who are trying to be helped cannot be helped in the way that some doctors at their level of understanding want to help them because they are not getting to the root cause of for the illness. Because we are not being taught that what we feel is more important than what we know.

    If you are someone who just follows what the norm is and never question any other idea than that is your truth and you will not even think of another way until you start feeling the strain of polarity on your physical body. Which causes you to move to the other end of the pole and eventually we change but…sometimes we do not.

    When we have developed the mental illness bi-polar we have gone to far in the negative direction and need to find our inner guide to get back into alignment and that is through understanding your emotions and feelings and deciphering what is real and what is not. We have to go all the way back to what caused the imbalance sometimes to heal.

    I am thinking that people in this world no matter how easy they have it physically, mentally or sprititually depending on how they feel emotionally will give them the balance at which they can choose to balance and stay in harmony with life.

    So yes….I feel that bipolar could be used for just about anything that is out of balance including the world we live in.

    I feel that this world is the opposite of heaven in the way that we all think. When we come into being on Earth it is almost like we go into overdrive to stay put here. So we over compensate for what we do not realized we already have.

    When we come to this planet I feel that the disconnection from God is the reason for this over compensation because we are missing part of the puzzle to understanding who we are. But the missing puzzle peice is really us just forgetting who we are which is God.

    The separation that is caused when we come here causes us to over think and this causes fear and fear caused more separation and more fear. It all comes down to worrying about our mortality and the forgetting about the fact that we are a peice of God and with this power we can be and do anything we want and when we gain this knowledge back we then start to feel God again which brings more love, happiness and joy into our lives balances the scales.

    Kathy

  • only4love

    Elisa you are a very smart lady!

  • only4love

    Candis,
    This is very sad…people need to have repect for all living beings.
    Kathy

  • only4love

    Candis, I have read that the emotions of the animals can actually become part of your energy. I have a book by Doreen Virtue that is called Eating In the Light and it discusses this and it is a good book for understanding the value of meat in our diets.
    Kathy

  • only4love

    Hi Joanne, I just want you to know that I have had the same diagnosis and I cannot agree with you more about the difficulties of this condition. When feeling so down in the dumps and being pulled from one emotion to another it causes you to lose energy and you become exhausted to even fight for your self anymore.

    The way out of this is to try to relax your brain everyday. If you can try to just take a moment and breath and try and clear your mind by focusing on an object or a word while your eyes are closed. Focusing on your breath is another good technique. If you can even do this for 5-10minutes a day for a week or two…you will see that the fog will lift enough to give you a little more hope.

    I know this sounds kind of impossible for some that are have this much difficulty but, I know that it works because it is what I use to clear my mind of the negative chatter that arises sometimes. It is also how I got my self to the stability I feel right and I have been feeling pretty stable for a few years now.

    Ther is also some techniques I have posted in the discussion section of this site for you if you want to take a look and try some of them.

    I hope this helps!
    Kathy

  • Denise

    Whenever I get disappointed or frustrated with how my life is playing out I try to stop and think the this isn’t temporary – life is eternal and the quicker I learn to deal with events on a reality level the better off I’ll be. There is no real separation of this life and the other side. When seers refer to the thin veil that separates us from the other side they mean that literally.

    It puts things in perspective to know that while I am irritated with, say, the economy or an annoying person this is but a fleeting moment in my existence. I remind myself I have already experienced more than I can remember and I will survive this, too. Not to say that this moment isn’t real to me, it is. I chose to experience this moment for a reason.

    It lessens the sourness of the experience to know the event doesn’t really matter; it matters how I perceive it and react to it. If I get my back up due to an undesirable moment then I taste that sourness, if I look at it with an underlying objectivity remembering who I truly am I can be more successful in letting it go and appreciate that others are working hard to grow just as I am.

  • john joseph

    Animals making a contract to be eaten…hmm…. Let’s suppose that’s “true,”. It does not address our willingness to eat them. That’s a decision we make. If everyone gave up pork, for instance, and there was no market for it, slaughterhouses could no longer profit from murdering pigs. I think it’s far more spiritually honest to say, my body is addicted to meat and I don’t have the passion or strength to detox and give up eating animals. Anyone see Food Nation? I will never get the image of a cow, completely taken by surprise, that it was about to be tortured and killed. The flailing body, fighting for its life, and the sounds of that cow, I will not forget. We are hidden from the reality of the savagery slaughterhouses (who have the highest rate of sick days from their employees).

    Eat meat, but realize you are not in the pre-agricultural world, dependent on animals and berries for food. You choose to eat meat. Accept your choice without indulging in the hypocrisy of “sacred contracts” helpless animals make as “sacrifices” to us. Go to a slaughterhouse, and then espouse this wisdom.

    • http://drmedhus.com Elisa

      Erik says something about how some human bodies require meat, but that we should raise and kill and eat animals with great love and respect. Can’t remember which entry, but just search “animal cruelty”?

  • Gwen

    Elisa……This is another great post…..On the definition of Embracing….My immediate thoughts and understanding: To embrace is about Acceptance …first and foremost and then what will follow is Gratitude……
    To Candice: Thanks for bringing the subject up about taking for granite the meat we enjoy…..And I really have never thought about the animal(s) that no longer “live”…..The first time I did have thoughts about what they may endure and bothered me was when I heard they “ring” chickens necks as their way of killing them….This was family I knew and they raised chickens on their farm….This was many many years ago when I heard this and I was astounded!! And I really felt for those chickens….Felt very angry….Barbaric was my view ……Thanks again for your comments and this has helped me appreciate and understand their role in our lives…..Wow…….

    Gwen

  • Skoshi

    Hi, All. I’ve been sending Reiki to the peacemakers and wise of Egypt, and am thrilled to see the news today. If you do Reiki, please join me in continuing to send them Reiki. Let this not devolve now that it’s come this far.

    Elisa…Mama…you take care of everyone else but no time for a flu shot! UGH! I’ll send Reiki to you and your family and Robert too. – XOXO

    • http://drmedhus.com Elisa

      Bad, Elisa! Bad girl!! (I’m getting a freakin’ flu shot next year though!)

  • john joseph

    flu shots are downright dangerous. My doctor, who shares an office with an allopath but is himself more of a naturopathically-inclined MD (with acupuncture license and advocate of an 80 percent raw food diet), was very receptive when I asked him his opinion on flu shots, since I had read how toxic and unnecessary they are. I was concerned that my 88 year old mother wanted one, thinking it protects her. He said, without further ado, “If it were up to me, they would be outlawed. Tell your mother to eat unpasteurized miso soup, with raw garlic grated in it and ginger root, and make sure she doesn’t boil the miso. She can take a probiotic too.” I thank God for these physicians who actually have a conscience, instead of just doing things by rote, and looking after their own profit margin.

    • http://drmedhus.com Elisa

      I’m also one of those docs who mistrust vaccines!

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