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3 Things You Can Learn From Ghosts About How to
Live
I've interacted with ghosts for as long as I can remember. They
were my playmates when I was younger and as I got older, in an
odd sort of way, they became my teachers. Ghosts have followed
me everywhere I've ever lived and have haunted me at all hours
of the day and night. For most of my life to date I never knew
why. And then I met a shaman who showed me why they came to me.
They were lost and they needed my help. They needed a guide to
help them find their way home.
As I began guiding them home, many of them told me their
stories. They didn't consciously choose to become ghosts. But
their fears, their limiting beliefs and their unwillingness to
change got the better of them.
Ghosts give us valuable insight into the predictable results of
a certain way of life. By their very existence ghosts teach us
what not to do just as a drug addict or an alcoholic shows us
the inevitable end of misery and loss as a result of their
ill-fated choices.
Below are three powerful lessons that I've learned from
my interactions with ghosts:
1. Depression must be faced and resolved, there is always an
answer and a remedy to our suffering - Many of the ghosts I've
met were so depressed and isolated in life that they committed
suicide in an effort to end their suffering. They endured their
grief and their suffering and hoped against reason that the
next day would be different. Often without reaching out for
help, and certainly without persevering to find the answers,
they simply gave up hope. But what they found, is that there is
no death, there is no end. And what they eventually learned, is
that the depression was something they were meant to figure out
and move beyond. After their death they saw that it wasn't as
bad as they thought it was and that it was going to get better.
There is always a reason and a remedy to our painful emotions,
and we are the ones who are responsible for finding these
answers.
2. Hanging on to Anger and Resentment Will Ruin Your Life...
and Your Death - I've met several ghosts who held on to their
anger and resentment over betrayals and injustices right up
until their dying day... and beyond. They were so immersed in
their own anger they couldn't manage to move beyond this life
when it was time for them to do so. They didn't want the peace
that the after-life offered. They wanted revenge. (In my
experience, these are usually the ghosts that haunt - in the
truest sense of the word.) Resentment is most often a
resistance to move ahead, to change and grow in the ways we are
called to. As ghosts often do, particularly the ghost brides
I've met who were still angry over being left at the altar, we
can fail to see the true meaning within a failed relationship
or opportunity. Most often it's a doorway that leads us on to a
deeper desire, and an answered prayer as long as we're willing
to evolve in the way we're called to.
3. Suppressing Your Authentic Self will Keep You Afraid and
Angry for the Rest of Your Life - Many of the ghosts I
encounter are deeply mired in their own illusions. Many of them
lived lives where they denied their authentic identities in
fear of judgment and persecution. One religious woman who
denied her homosexual identity was too afraid to cross over
because she feared being punished in the way her church would
have judged and shunned her. It took me a while to get her to
see that the judgment was on this side of the veil, not the
other way around. Limiting beliefs and self-judgment will only
keep you angry and afraid in life, as well as in death.
Regardless of society's ability to accept you as you are, you
need to find your own loving self-acceptance and self-support.
From there you will begin to find others who can share with you
what you've learned to first give to yourself.
Not everyone who lives their life without awareness will become
a ghost. But everyone who fails to embrace this wisdom, does
become a bit ghost-like in that they lose a bit of themselves
every day.
by Melissa Van Rossum - 16th September
2008
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Melissa Van Rossum is an accomplished psychic, empath and
author. Her life's work is to help people realize their dreams
by finding their Divine Guidance. Their Way Home shares stories
of her encounters with ghosts, who searched her out to guide
them home. To learn more, visit http://www.allyouveeverknown.com
and http://www.theirwayhome.com
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Article Source:
http://www.creativewriter.me.uk
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