Birth and Death: Why Be Afraid of This Transition?

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I have never understood people's fear of death. Birth and death are part of the natural life cycle so why be afraid of this natural transition. We die to things everyday and start others. It's called change.

When we make love and have an orgasm it's called "la petite morte" the little death.

It is natural to grieve when a loved one dies; it provides the space to accept the departure. 

Although a child's death is probably the hardest to bear, those left behind forget in their pain and despair that their children are no longer suffering. They are peaceful and happy in their new lives wherever that is and the only hell being experienced are those created by the living.

The same goes for adults when they die. And it doesn't matter if they made the transition through illness or accident, they are all well!

Let go of the pain and resentment of the loved ones disappearance which some hold onto for years, destroying the lives of other family members in the process. The memories of those gone are alive and well and will always be so. Use that as comfort. Their souls are alive and magnificently well.

Sometimes someone will be sick, and a daughter or someone who loves a sick person will say, "Abraham, I'm wanting to help this person."

And we say, just hold the image of them in a place of utter Well-being, and trust that through the path of least resistance, either they will recover and Well-being will be restored here, or they will withdraw and Well-being will be restored there.

But in either case, whether they stay or whether they have what you call death experience, the Well-being is always restored.

Whether it is someone who has just been bipping along in physical experience who has been meditating, who knows the sweetness of Connection on a day-to-day basis, who says, "Ah, this life experience has been so wonderful and I think I will now turn my attention to another aspect of my life experience," closes their eyes as they put themselves in the bed, make the transition, and they are discovered as having made their transition in the night.

Or whether they have some violent experience, where at the gun of an enemy, or the gun of someone violent, or a car crash they make their transition. As they make their transition, ultimately it is still the same experience.

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