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    • On Being Selfish

      Posted at 11:32 AM by Krista Gorman, PA-C, on March 17, 2019

      “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”—E.E. Cummings

      Many of us hide under a veil where we reveal only some of ourselves to the world as we yield the rest to the expectations of others…it takes courage to remove the veil and step out into the world as who we really are. Those of us who choose to remain veiled choose a life that is, ultimately, under-lived.   The veil of ego is what ties us to it.

      For me, ego is the same as resistance, or the building of walls.  Walls can exist anywhere, at any time.  Anything that blocks us from the trueness of who and what we are, is ego.  Ego is a reflection of that trueness, it’s equal and opposite and without one, we wouldn’t know the other.  Ego, therefore, is not to be rejected or eliminated.  It’s absolutely essential for our existence here as it allows us to accomplish what we came here to do, which is to grow into the Love we are in our very essence.  

      We’re all trying to accomplish that, in different ways and to varying degrees.  All of us are on this meandering path to our bliss-state, our state of ideal being, whatever form that may take.  For one person it’s through becoming a teacher, another a gambler, yet another it’s…fill-in-the-blank.  The point is, it doesn’t matter how you get there.  The journey along the way reveals more and more to us about who we are.

      To make the choice NOT to do this or that because of the expectations of others is a choice made from the vantage point of ego.  We tell ourselves it’s for the best that we do not follow our heart, or our bliss (as Joseph Campbell said).  We believe it’s too hard, too risky, etc. The bottom line is, we lack the self-love it requires to step forth into our best life.  The emphasis on self-love (i.e. whether we’re following our bliss) and this is a reflection of the present state of our ego.  Now, ego can be very small, as in having the belief we don’t deserve what we desire.  Ego can be very large, as in believing what we think is the only way to think.  There are varying degrees of ego-presence based on the energies activated within us in any given moment.  When we’re able to examine our emotional state and assess the amount of fear present in our perceptions and thoughts and felt in our physical body, that is equivalent to the amount of ego present and is a great way to gauge where we are in relationship to the amount of Love vibration activated in that moment.

      Joseph Campbell has also said one reaches maturity when they become the initiator of their own life.  This takes courage, intention of love over ego and embedded within that is love of the Self, above all.   Being self-ish is not selfish, in the popular sense of the word.   I highly encourage it!

      Happy St. Patrick’s Day all, may you allow for all the love and good fortune of the universe to shine upon you today.  xox

      Posted in acceptance, appreciation, Uncategorized | 0 Comments | Tagged buddhism, creativity, energy, existence, feelings, health, home, inspiration, life, new age, physics, relationships, religion, science, space, spirit, spirituality, St. Patrick's Day, truth
    • Put Dis-ease Into Perspective

      Posted at 10:33 AM by Krista Gorman, PA-C, on January 4, 2015

      “The doctor I would want for myself or for anyone else I cared about would be one who understands that disease is more than just a clinical entity; it is an experience and a metaphor, with a message that must be listened to“

      Bernie Siegel, MD
      Posted in Uncategorized | 0 Comments | Tagged chronic illness, disease, healing, health, illness, love, medicine, sickness, wellness
    • Attitude of Gratitude

      Posted at 9:06 AM by Krista Gorman, PA-C, on November 16, 2014

      Several years ago when my husband was very ill, I was in the midst of my own sort of illness.  It had started many years before after my near death experience I had during labor with my daughter.  I’d spent the years since then wrapped up in this internal struggle where I was afraid of being the love I learned I was in the afterlife, yet knew I had to be that person in order to live the Iife I came here to live.  I was miserable.

      For 8 months we didn’t know what was wrong with my husband, and I spent that time caring for him and our daughter while also working on my self.  I knew that I needed to figure out a way to be happy, to live in better alignment with who I was and therefore be able to be there more fully and completely for my family.

      During that process, that 8 months of uncertainty, I’d never felt more alive in my life.  The inner work I was doing helped me be present and fearless and accepting and confident in knowing that no matter what, everything was going to be just fine.  I was the rock my family stood upon when they had nothing to hold them up.  I created that rock, and I wasn’t alone in that creation.

      I took what I learned in the afterlife and applied it to my life here.  I began living my life differently, every moment of every day I focused on positive change and began to experience those changes not only within myself, but in my husband and daughter as well.

      The Twelve Principles For Daily Living were the things I practiced.  They were the conduits for healing in my life and the lives of my husband and daughter.  I present them in my book, I Died And Learned How To LIve, and am working on a book that is just about the Twelve Principles.

      There are no words that can adequately express the gratitude I have for the experience of going through 8 months of, what could have been, emotional torture.  I was given that opportunity so I could get real and get serious about figuring out how to live my life better, how to practice being the person I knew I was but didn’t know how to be.

      Today, I practice an attitude of gratitude.  There is so much to be grateful for.

      Posted in Uncategorized | 0 Comments | Tagged acceptance, appreciation, gratitude, health, how to live life, love, positive thinking, self help, wellness
    • Loving The People We Meet….

      Posted at 12:10 PM by Krista Gorman, PA-C, on October 2, 2014

      My job is in medicine and I meet a lot of people every day.  I love everyone.  Everyone is deserving of my love, especially those who seem to suffer more than others, like the homeless alcoholic who I later learned had been a Obstetrition at one time, or the distraught young woman who cut her wrist after her boyfriend broke up with her.  My words to her were simple, “You don’t have to live this way, and you know it.”  I could feel her energy shift at that moment.  I cared for a middle-aged obese woman with high blood pressure who obviously wasn’t taking care of herself.  As I left the room, my words to her were “Do what you know you need to do for yourself.  You’re worth it.”  She and her husband’s jaws dropped at that, literally.  I laughed a little, knowing she’d remember it and maybe get back in touch with the love she is.

      I’m not bragging or blowing my own horn, I just believe we need to focus on and talk more about love.  When we do, it carries that love energy outward, all around us.  In the presence of love, there can’t be hate.  No fear.  Just Love.

      Lots of Love to You!

      Posted in Uncategorized | 0 Comments | Tagged acceptance, afterlife, alcoholism, awareness, drug addiction, fear, health, life, love, obesity
    • Ego = Discourse + Disease

      Posted at 2:04 PM by Krista Gorman, PA-C, on July 12, 2014
      Posted in Uncategorized | 0 Comments | Tagged awareness, disease, ego, fear, friendship, hate, health, kindness, love, religion, spirituality
    • The F-word

      Posted at 2:52 PM by Krista Gorman, PA-C, on May 5, 2014

      Fear.  Such a powerful four-letter word.

      It holds us back from fully expressing our divine nature, and is the exact opposite of what we are in our essence, which is love.

      Ego and fear are the same thing.  Where there is fear there is ego.  Where there is ego, there is fear.  Love cannot exist where ego and fear exist.  Where love cannot exist, our divine nature cannot be expressed.  When our divine nature cannot be expressed, our lives are under-lived and their full potential under-realized.  

      Live from love today.

      xoxox

       

      Posted in Uncategorized | 0 Comments | Tagged abundance, afterlife, cosmos, death, ego, f-word, fear, God, health, human potential, life, love, near death experience, self-expression, wealth
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