Being Ease with Illness & Death
Written by Kim Dietrich, kimdietrich.ca
Being Ease with Illness & Death ~ Dr. Helen Gitlevich
In a recent Creating Abundance with Ease radio show, Dr. Helen talked about the suffering we experience coping with illness and death in those around us and explored ways to shift our perspective to find relief. While we may not always be able to change the circumstances around illness and death, we may still be able to find some ease.
Unconscious Creation
We are powerful creators who create our own reality through our points of view. In fact, Helen says, we often bring things into being without being aware of it – something she calls ‘unconscious creation’. Although it may seem surprising, we can create illness and death in our lives this way. Helen explains how: someone who is very unhappy with their life circumstances might say “This is so hard, I don’t want to live like this”, and in doing so, cause their body to begin creating illness that leads to disease and eventually death. To escape the misery of their life, they create a way out.
Someone living in an abusive relationship – as Helen witnessed her mother endure for decades – may choose death over divorce. Though her mother’s choice was not a cognitive one, it was a conscious choice, Helen explains. Death was a more acceptable option for her than divorce. For many, death may be an easier way out than dealing with their present circumstances.
Death as a Transformation
When we create an illness for a particular reason, we are essentially choosing death as a transformation – moving from one state of being in the body to another state of not being in the body. Our disease or death arises out of our thoughts, feelings, and emotions – from our points of view. We may choose to move out of our circumstances into healthier, happier ones, or we may choose to leave entirely. Looking at it this way lets us reframe death and illness as a choice and not a wrongness.
Through this shift in the way we look at the world, we open ourselves to endless possibility. In fact, Helen asserts, there is no solidity in the world at all. Everything is made up of atoms vibrating at different frequencies. The entire world is a big collection of energy and we are the consciousness that binds it all together. Anything is possible.
Creators of Our Own Reality
Helen talks of reading Mark Twain’s Mysterious Stranger at a young age. The protagonist tells the younger character “You are not you – you have no body, no blood, no bones, you are but a thought. I myself have no existence; I am but a dream – your dream, a creature of your imagination.” The sentiment rang as true to her younger self as it does today – we all create our own reality. And if we take that same perspective on illness and death, we can move towards approaching them with ease rather than suffering.
Looking at illness and death this way can also help us release our grip on loved ones who are suffering from illness and disease. If they are ready to go, we can release them. Helen mentions an Access Consciousness tool that can be powerful helping our love ones suffering from terminal illness. Exit Stage Left, which is both a body process and a clearing statement, offers people stuck in illness a choice. They choose to get better or they choose to die – either way, they are released from suffering. While we may not be able to change the circumstances surrounding their illness and suffering, we can help them approach it with more ease, and we can choose that for ourselves as well. After all, in both life and death, there is no right or wrong choice, only choice.
Kim Dietrich is a content writer specializing in personal and career development.
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