Ben's Journey: Telephones When I was a kid we didn’t have dial p...

Ben's Journey: Telephones

When I was a kid we didn’t have dial p...: Telephones When I was a kid we didn’t have dial phones. In fact, we didn’t even have a private line; we had a party line. Only rich people...

Valerie Harper Again

Valerie was on the Today Show and The Doctors this morning. And it was terrific to see and hear her being so grounded and open and generous with her journey. As the purpose of my former blog had been to take the fear out of the air for her and encourage us all to uphold her with positive healing thoughts, she herself shared this morning that she went so public with this to dispel fear. Despite what would be called a most difficult diagnosis, she ended the Today show saying she was open to a miracle. On both shows she had wise thoughts to share with us. I'm paraphrasing here:

Live while you live.

Don't go to the funeral before the funeral! 

No one's getting out of here alive - we're all terminal.

She ended The Doctors telling everyone to embrace themselves and know that they are magnificent. We are all magnificent, flawed, yes, but nonetheless, magnificent.   

I'm going on a Talk Show in Minneapolis today to speak of Valerie and how we can assist her energetically. Everything in the Universe is energy, and our thoughts are most powerful. Whenever we're dealing with critical disease, our own or someone else's, it behooves us to stay optimistic so that the thoughts we've hosting and the energy they're eliciting will be constructive and empowering. I feel that's our job now - to empower this beloved woman. 

Thank you, Valerie, for sharing so much Joy with our world.

Valerie

When I heard about Valerie Harper yesterday, I was immediately into my ‘facilitating the journey’ mode. I wanted to reach out to assist her in some way by sharing whatever was appropriate from my own challenging experiences. We were in theatre together years ago, and though our paths have taken us on different routes, I’ll always remember her as a delightful woman with an immensely caring heart. It was thrilling to watch her richly deserved successes throughout the years. 

Now she’s hosting critical disease, and I’m here to lend support to Ed Asner's statement that he's not convinced she's running out of time. In a NY Post article he said:

 “Valerie Harper is a century plan and I have come to know her much better in my latter years and have every confidence in the world that she will shock the hell out of us and survive to keep functioning as the great talent and human that she is,”

Harper promised she’d hang around as long as possible.

“Life,” she said, “is amazing. Live it to the fullest. Stay as long as you can.”

Life is amazing. It’s a sacred mystery and we never know what’s going to happen.  So for now, I’d like to encourage everyone to drop any negative thoughts  about Valerie’s diagnosis and see her well and happy and getting better & better everyday. Valerie’s spirit is enormous, and she has innate healing power within her. We all do. So while bowing to the marvels of modern medicine, let’s also put into the equation what Hippocrates said over two thousand years ago: “Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.”

Our heart-felt thoughts of radiant well being for Valerie are the best gifts we can offer her at this time.

A Precious Gift

Dr. Julia Assante’s brilliant new book, “The Last Frontier”, is an invaluable gift to our world. She takes on humanity’s profound and all-pervasive fear of death. And with erudition and great humor, she demystifies it and relaxes our body/mind/heart and soul into a state of welcoming acceptance. She draws on years of study, culminating with a PhD in Archaeology from Columbia University, as well as from countless personal experiences as a professional intuitive, psychic, and medium. I admit that reading an entire book about death may seem bizarre, but strangely enough this is not the case. The experience is life enhancing and very liberating. Julia’s writing is easeful and most accessible. Her philosophy of the beneficence of the Universe resonates powerfully and her wisdom supports us in calmly looking at death and the afterlife for ourselves and for our loved ones. She’s covered every aspect of the ultimate journey even to counseling us on how to converse with the dead. With this richly multi-faceted work, Dr. Assante is illuminating the preciousness of life here and on the other side. This is a great service to us all and I am most grateful. Thank you, Julia.   

Wonder of Wonders

“A willingness to be still and feel the Wonder, works wonders.”

These words came to me the other day. I was very Greatful* and knew I was to share them. 

We’ve all been given this wondrous gift – the ability to choose. And the gifts that emerge from our choice ‘to be still’ are boundless. Choosing stillness and dropping into Wordlessnss within, as Martha Beck encourages in her fabulous book “Finding Your Way in a Wild New World”, are two of the most salubrious and delicious things we can do for ourselves. In our tenaciously raucous world, this is not always easy, however, it is simple. Sit or lie down, making yourself as comfortable as possible, close your eyes, and notice your breathing – the inhale, the exhale – and choose for the breathing to be more and more easeful. As you’re letting the breath relax you, feel your beating heart and slowly become aware of the pulsations all through your body as the result of your beating heart.  Really allow yourself to feel these pulsations. What a Wonder is this Life Force within us that simultaneously pulses throughout all space. Now, for as long as you choose – Be inside yourself – Be still – Feel as though you’re listening to silence. Keep relaxing more and more into the stillness. Feel the Wonder. Say “Thank You”.

*I've begun to spell grateful – Greatful – because when we're feeling gratitude, we're full of The Great. 

Heaven

In response to Barbara Walters’ comprehensive report on Heaven last night, I whole-heartedly agree with Richard Gere who, at the conclusion of the piece, articulated that: “Heaven and hell are here now”. Just seeing footage from Iraq/Afghanistan, the havoc created by suicide bombers, awareness of the wars that have plagued humanity for millennia is to know hell. And, in my experience, Heaven is ever available within us.

Whatever happened to “the Kingdom of God is within you”? That was one of Jesus’ main messages. And we must “Be still and know that I Am God” is the key to finding that Kingdom. The Divine Presence that permeates all space and pulses through every cell of us is right here, right now, always and forever. The trick is the "be still" part in the midst of our relentlessly cacophonous world.

Years ago, I was extraordinarily blessed to be guided to Hilda Charlton, a masterful spiritual teacher, who inspired my physical healing and led me and thousands of others to the Kingdom within. Her religion was Love. www.hildacharlton.com/

With all the intellectual study and talk of God and Heaven and how we get there, there’s not a doubt in my being that allowing ourselves to be still and subsequently to feel the Peace, the Joy, and the Love within, is the antidote to all our distress and dis-ease. A near death experience is not a necessary prerequisite. http://www.tm.org/benefits-of-meditation

The adage “Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and all else will be added unto you” is as perennial as the rain. Heaven is within us all – it is natural for us – it is delicious to experience. Though not easy, it is simple and requires only our commitment. Love is always the answer. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QshPsO-eP5o&feature=youtu.be

Greatful

For many years, I've held that the value of the two little words "thank you" is inestimable. Thank you - feeling and, more importantly, expressing gratitude. And today I'm noticing the word 'grateful' and I'm hearing and seeing the word 'greatful'. Hmmm. That's what makes us feel so good when we're full of gratitude, we're full of the 'Great' - The Good, Love, God. It's been said that gratitude is the ultimate heart opener and now, to me, this is why. Consciously or unconsciously, when we’re feeling grateful, we're directly connecting with the Divine, the very essence of us, of Life. What could be better! I invite you all to join me now in becoming ever increasingly aware of our Greatfulness.