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Living Differently is a newsletter of tips, ideas and information about grief, life and living after grief.
Grieving, like living, involves all areas of life; emotional, cognitive, physical, spiritual, social, relational, nature and universal. We delve into all these areas plus offer messages from the other side to help you in your journey.
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Note From Chris
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Changing You, Your World, Your Future
There is so much chaos in the world, in our communities and in our lives that this may cause you more overall upset, confusion and fear.
We'd like to change our lives, we want our world to change and we'd like to live in a different world. Perhaps if the added fear disappeared, maybe we would be able to feel more comfort and peace?
Now we are aware of our wants but what can we do about them?
What can we do to change our situation, our environment, our world?
Do we need to look at our world differently or is it our inner world that needs a new view?
Let's take a look at "problem-solving" from a different perspective.
Let's look beyond the physical eyes and mental mind. Let's explore beyond this.
Also, last month's
Living Differently newsletter gave you one of the top two ways to encourage your communication with your loved one. This month, as promised, we'll discuss the other top way you can enhance your communication with your loved one.
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The following is from my ongoing messages/lessons/guidance shared by and received from the non-physical perspective ...my Guides, aka. Maxx
This message holds a mini-lesson for all of us...
(usually I hear a phrase, a subject or they make a comment and then they explain their lesson...)
A Journey of Steps
What do you want? Do you know or have you even addressed that question? Difficult as it may be, that is a first step to recognizing your path. It's like seeing the previews before the movie. One cannot be led down a path without coming to the beginning. Once you identify your direction, you will be able to place your feet on your path. Much will follow: a compass to determine your directions, your senses to read the landscape, nourishment for continuance and the choices along the journey's trail. You are that journey and you alone (your inner composition and free will) will create your path and journey. Seeing you seeing you will ease the ongoing learning and build your endurance. Stopping to re-enliven yourself necessary but stopping, stalling and straying not recommended. It's your question, your quest and your response necessary to blaze your trail.
Zac Comment:
Mom, this is one we've addressed often before in your journey. You have to decide what you are headed towards, what you want and how badly you want it. It's not a one day hike. It has to be a planned journey with preparation including many personal choices. Accomplishment is possible where vision is changed not completed. Openness, choices, awareness and inner strength creates new you as you design your new path.
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Your spirit helpers are with you all the time they want to help you and they have a way of letting you know in a way you will understand...
Your job is to learn to trust them! You can have the comfort of your spirit guides and loved ones to ease the burdens of your physical life. I encourage you to embrace your connections.
Do you have questions? Please let me know..
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Steps Of Change
Are You Grieving On Autopilot?
It is an interesting phenomenon to step back from your grieving to recognize that you usually do not actually see your grieving while you are in the process of experiencing it.
Like many activities, functions and routines in our life, we move through them as if we pressed the autopilot button.
We allow ourselves to move through the activity without thinking what we are doing, how we are doing it and if we are actually choosing how and what we want to do in the situation.
Perhaps, we might want to proceed in a different direction than we are currently heading?
Decisions, Changes and Shifts
Many of our life routines have been learned from others; observing parental behavior, family, friends and school customs, community expectations, church traditions, all of which we accept and assimilate as appropriate. We accept as appropriate until we learn that there just might be a different course.
There is a different way that is IN us. It comes through us.
The grief process can begin to move differently when you become aware of you in your process. It is through your awareness of you that another option, a possibility within your life arises.
Realizing that you are rotely processing an activity is the first step in the possibility of seeing that activity differently. When you identify a different possibility for dealing with your pain, you are faced with a choice. Do you want to continue your current path or do you want to change it?
Weighing your pros and cons becomes your gauge. If changing feels overwhelming, then you may choose to remain in your current grief processing. If you feel this is not the way you want to experience your life for the rest of your life, then the crossroad you have met will propel you to choose to move beyond your comfortable uncomfortableness.
After making this decision, although you may not immediately notice, a major shift in your life will occur. You have altered your grief journey into your healing journey.
Your decision has set your intention toward healing. Your Guides, angels and loved ones understand this so, although they will NOT interfere with your free will choices in your life, they can now shift their position in helping you from their perspective.
Although this will not be your final healing journey decision, many others will be necessary. Luckily, you will gradually become aware of them over time as this too, is a process. What am I going to incorporate into my life now? How am I going to change my life? At what speed am I going to change my life? Who am I going to change with? When am I going to make my changes? What kind of support do I need? How am I going to take care of myself differently?
All of these questions relate to one or more of the many healing practices of grief. Through these practices: Acceptance, Letting go, Awareness, Noticing, Trusting, Practicing Presence, Self-Care, Gratitude, Using Your Spirituality, Knowing etc., you are going to create your new healing journey, your new living and your new life.
An Ongoing Healing Journey
Moving through your healing journey you will discover a variety of activities to promote your desires, your healing and your growth. Therapy, support groups, journaling, meditation, online activities, courses and groups, reading, writing, poetry, art, church and spiritual groups, embracing nature, creating memorial activities/refocusing your energy or time are all options for filling the hole in your still grieving heart.
These actions will become parts of your journey. They will be the stepping stones for learning about you, the changing of you and the redesigning of you.
The changing, learning and redesigning of you will not occur all at once nor will it be completed within a one-stop shopping trip. This is a continual recreation process of living differently. You are viewing you IN your life and making choices about your life. You may see new parts emerge. You may let go of old parts of you that you previously thought were necessary for your living and breathing. And, you may discover new parts of you that were waiting to be discovered.
This redesign of you is not a replacement but an enhancement. It is the opening, the discovery of what has always been present. It is through your process of you that your being unfolds itself to you.
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Himalayan Salt Lamps
Himalayan Salt lamps have many health benefits besides just looking cool!
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They purify the air by attracting water vapor so it traps indoor air pollutants like mold, bacteria and allergens.
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They balance the negative and positive ions thus reducing radiation and airborne infections.
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As Himalayan salt is use in inhalers, it helps in the relief of asthma and allergies.
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They can improve sleep and promote positive mood because of their calming and happy glow
I love mine and have several because you can get them in lamps, votive holder, night lights, USB powered, bowls and other different shapes.
(I know, Lumiere recalled 83,900 units of three lamps sold in Michael's, Bed, Bath and Beyond and Amazon in January but no injuries were reported regardless of the fire hazard risk from possible overheating. Also, there are many other brands to purchase)
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The Present Moment with Eckhart Tolle
Eckhart Tolle always weaves his words into understanding.
He invites you to relate to this very moment explaining that this present moment is your life. He suggests when you notice and align with your present moment, to find something to be grateful for because gratitude is an essential part of being present. He concludes that when you accept the aliveness of your present moment, your actions (and ultimately your living) will be inspired and empowered.
Living in the present is simple, but not easy but, it is certainly something to strive for.
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Why Breathe Deeply?
So does this picture and thought totally convince you of how important your breath is? And we don't mean that it's only important for your physical body but also for your grieving.
Did you know that when you breathe, you are taking in molecules of spirit energy? Spirit energy travels on the molecules of oxygen so therefore, you are increasing your ability to communicate with your loved ones by breathing deeply.
So, combining last month's tip with this month's tip:
by taking deep breaths in the shower: 1. you will have the greatest opportunity to communicate with your loved one because spirit energy will be traveling with your deep breaths fortifying your intuition and your clairs (your spirit language) 2. This process will be amplified by the water. In addition, drink water before and after your shower to enhance your possibility and ability.
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Chris Mulligan is an intuitive grief guide, teacher and author of Afterlife Agreements: A Gift From Beyond who is passionate about inspiring and guiding others to choose to live differently after grief, to change their pain to hope and their suffering to living on. Her passion is fueled by her own transformation when her youngest son, Zac died in 2000 and she found herself enduring a shattered world she did not expect to inhabit. Receiving guidance through signs and communication from her son and other spirits, her life path shifted from living in grief to living on. She discovered her truth when she chose to open her heart and live life differently. From that place, she fearlessly created an abundant life full of gifts, gratitude and grace. A MS in Clinical Child, Youth, and Family Work, 25 years of Adoption Social Work, hospice volunteering, facilitating grief support groups and being her parents' end of life and transitional caregiver have taught her about pain and peace. She frequently speaks on panels and workshops for the bereaved and those working with the bereaved. She loves spending time with her husband and family of two dogs, Nina and Sam, four children and four grandchildren. She has been receiving images and messages from those on the other side for over 16 years and is currently writing a book incorporating their teachings. Go to http://www.Afterlifebooks.com to learn more.
With much gratitude, Chris |
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