Matters Of Life And Death

"We're all just walking each other home" ~ Ram Dass
Matters Of Life And Death
  • Blog
  • Tag: Peace

    • Letting Go Of The Struggle…

      Posted at 9:54 AM by Krista Gorman, PA-C, on January 26, 2018

      So, yah.  Today started out rough.

      It seems like all the little things that I perceive as challenges have built upon one another and feel like a mountain to climb…and changing my perspective, focusing on the good, begin grateful…is tough.

      Life, with all of its requirements and demands are weighing on me and I’m finding it difficult to shift my energy and let go, to allow for what is to be as it is.  I “know”, in my brain, what I “need” to do to feel better but I feel unable to do it.  It’s like my feet are stuck in mud and I can’t get them out.

      It’s a struggle.

      How do I let go?  How do I relinquish the struggle?

      (Pause…breathe in deeply….exhale slowly…)

      I do it by releasing the desire to hold on.  Like exhaling slowly, releasing breath to the space around me, I release the tension that represents the resistance and allow…allow for what is to be.  Allow for everyone and everything to be.   Allow for me to just be, even for a moment.  To have compassion for and love for me, feeling the way I’m feeling, not wishing to change it, just allowing.  And allowing.  And allowing….to keep allowing and breathing as the seconds tick by.

      I’m already feeling better.  More centered.  All is well, no matter what.

      Love to you.

       

       

       

      Posted in acceptance, appreciation, forgiveness, how to live in the world, instructions for living, life, love, loving ourselves, meditation, relationships, self help, Uncategorized | 2 Comments | Tagged breath, buddhism, inspiration, life, Peace, resistance, struggle
    • How To Live In This World…

      Posted at 7:01 PM by Krista Gorman, PA-C, on November 28, 2016

      This is a topic that came up in conversation today around my NDE and coming back…how did I continue living in this 3D world knowing what I knew?

      It wasn’t easy.  I spent so much time going around and around in my head about what I knew happened and what my ego wanted to tell me didn’t.  The ego-aspect of myself was fearful of the fact that if I consciously acknowledged my experience in the afterlife, I’d have to change…drastically.  It wasn’t an option, it was a necessity.  My “old” life wasn’t what my higher self, my ego-less self, desired and required to exist in.  So imagine:  a newly graduated Physician Assistant, a brand new mother, a cardiac arrest patient trying to recover, and the wife of a touring musician completely changing their life because of a near death experience…

      It didn’t happen.  Not for a while, anyway.  So, I had to adapt and assimilate and figure out how to live in this world knowing what I knew.  I actually remember making the decision to forget about my NDE and focus myself on my life.  I had to live rather than simply exist  but my soul’s purpose was higher than just existing yet, I couldn’t reconcile the two no matter how hard I tried.  And boy, did I try.

      Many unhappy years later I found myself miserable and basically alone.  I had my beautiful daughter, whom I absolutely lived for.  I  wasn’t living for myself, or my husband.  My NDE was a constant through many ups and downs and changes in my life, always there, nagging at me to pay attention to it.  Finally, one day when I’d had enough, I decided to revisit it and wrote my experience down.  The whole thing, from start to finish and actually felt it through.  I found myself in tears wanting desperately to be able to carry the incredible infinite love of the universe with me, to feel it permeate every bit of my soul, to merge collectively with it once again.  I remember being angry at myself for digging it up again, feeling the frustration and pain of not knowing how to use it in my life  when something hit me.  I became acutely aware of what I needed to do.  It was very simple, the message of my NDE.  Love.  Love is all.  All is love.  I am love and loved beyond measure.

      Love was the answer and it was where my work began.  Learning how to live in this world as that love was one of the reasons I came back.  The other was to meet the person who would help me on my path back to myself.  Overarching it all was being a mother and guide to my daughter.  I’m doing all those things and will continue to do all these things until my last breath is taken once again.

      It’s truly a journey.

      Love to you on yours.  Lots and lots of it.  xox

      Posted in appreciation, how to live in this world, life, loving ourselves, Uncategorized, understanding ourselves | 2 Comments | Tagged ego, life, loving each other, loving ourselves, Peace, self acceptance
    • Gratitude Challenge…..

      Posted at 8:04 AM by Krista Gorman, PA-C, on February 18, 2015

      What would happen if we nurtured the feeling of Gratitude for everything that happens today…  Gratitude for all the wonderful things, the annoyances and frustrations, all of it!  How would having Gratitude for everything alter our experience of ourselves and the world around us?  Try it!

      xoxo

      Posted in Uncategorized | 3 Comments | Tagged contentment, existence, God, gratitude, happiness, Jesus, letting go, live and let live, love, Peace, religion
    • Oh, Sweet Life!

      Posted at 10:39 PM by Krista Gorman, PA-C, on September 23, 2014

      I witness a lot of suffering in my daily life, not my own mind you, but that of others.  I’ve come to the awareness that if I am to survive in this world, I must live in it objectively.  Objective awareness.  I love, but in a detached kind of way.  I am unattached to ego when I am unattached.

      I love, but I do not possess.  I appreciate and observe and admire, but do not grab hold of and cling to anything.

      These things make my life sweeter.  What’s the icing on the cake?  The love I receive in return, simply for loving in the first place.  We are each a mirror for the other.

      xoxo

      Posted in Uncategorized | 0 Comments | Tagged awareness, compassion, detachment, lady gaga, love, madonna, Peace, war, winnie the pooh
    • Discussion of the Twelve Principles For Daily Living at the International Association of Near Death Studies, August 2014

      Posted at 10:07 AM by Krista Gorman, PA-C, on September 9, 2014

      Posted in Uncategorized | 0 Comments | Tagged afterlife, angels, beauty, compassion, connection, consciousness, courage, create your life, creativity, death, Divinity, faith, fear, God, happiness, healing, heaven, human potential, IANDS, inspiration, joy, life, life after near death experience, life's purpose, love, meaning of death, meaning of life, near death experience, Peace, present moment, purpose, reason for being here, relationships, self help, spiritual, spiritual experiences
    • People will for…

      Posted at 10:12 PM by Krista Gorman, PA-C, on May 28, 2014

      “People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”

      The Elegant Maya Angelou

      I first read I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings then Heart of a Woman when I was in my 20’s.  I was searching for myself out there in the world, and Maya taught me that I needed to go inward to find what I was looking for.  Each day I wake up and breathe deeply and remember who I Am.    There is one more bright, shining star in the sky tonight.  Look upward, and know, it is you who also shines. Thank you, Ms. Angelou, for your eternal gifts.

      Posted in Uncategorized | 0 Comments | Tagged death, harmony, inner light, life, love, Maya Angelou, Peace, stars
    • Meditation Saves Lives.

      Posted at 2:31 PM by Krista Gorman, PA-C, on April 11, 2014

      My own practice of mediation helped save me.  It helped save my husband, as well.

      Several years ago, my husband became very sick.  It’s a long story, but ultimately he had no choice but to drastically change his life.  He’d been living one of self-destruction, and it was taking its toll.  The source of the destruction was his thinking.  He began to meditate on a regular basis, and that was critical in his personal transformation.

      Prior to this, I had begun meditating.  I’d done so to really save myself.  We were going through a difficult time as a family, and only in meditation did I find my solace.  I found myself again.

      I know this sounds a little abstract, but in the silence lies the truth of who we are.  

      In my NDE, I was reconnected with it, and it was loving silence.  The only senses I had were the feeling of emotion and vision.  The eyes are the windows to the soul.  That statement took on a whole new meaning for me after my experience.  

      In meditation lies ourselves.  Do it regularly, and your life will transform.  

      Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments | Tagged afterlife, light, love, meditation, near death experience, Peace, truth
    • Be Light Today :)

      Posted at 7:20 AM by Krista Gorman, PA-C, on January 26, 2014

      Be Light Today :)

      Posted in Uncategorized | 0 Comments | Tagged adulthood, afterlife, beauty, childhood, harmony, lighthearted, love, near death experience, nostalgia, Peace
    • The Wisdom of Joseph Campbell

      Posted at 1:41 PM by Krista Gorman, PA-C, on January 20, 2014

       

      I saw this quote recently, and felt compelled to share it today.  To me, it means more than just the maturity that comes along with growing into adulthood and being able to support and take care of yourself.  It holds more of a spiritual meaning for me.

      “You become mature when you become the authority for your own life.”

      Joseph Campbell, “A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living”

      When we become the authority of our own life, we move into a state of being that is transcendent of the circumstances around us.  We are able to create the life of our choosing by allowing for its unfolding while using our creative intention to guide and direct ourselves.  The universe matches whatever we wish for in our life, and does so in its own time.  All it requires of us is to hold the intention, practice patience, and enjoy the ride ;]  This, to me, is maturity.

      Lots of love to you all!

      Posted in Uncategorized | 4 Comments | Tagged afterlife, creativity, joseph campbell, life, love, maturity, patience, Peace, spirituality
    • January Beach Day

      Posted at 9:55 AM by Krista Gorman, PA-C, on January 12, 2014

      Yesterday, I walked a crowded beach, digging my toes into the soft white sand as I made my way past the clusters of sun-worshippers.  I hadn’t been on this particularly beautiful beach for (I’m embarrassed to admit) years.  I live only 20 minutes away, but have allowed my thoughts come between me and my true nature.  The ocean, the sand, the sun, are all me, and I them.  They have remained ever-present, a constant stream of the energy of the universe, while I distanced myself, preoccupied with thoughts about other things that separated me from this beauty right in my backyard.

      I relinquished those thoughts and chose, instead, to connect with my self through the beauty of divine nature.  It revived and realigned me with who I am.  Today, on this Sunday morning, I am feeling connected and peaceful.  Approaching my world from this place allows me to be of better service to those around me, because I have first nurtured my self.

      I wish all of you a peaceful Sunday morning.

      xox

      Posted in Uncategorized | 0 Comments | Tagged acceptance, beach, connection to ourselves, ego, fear, law of attraction, life, love, moon, near death experience, Peace, self love, sun, water
      • Krista Gorman, PA-C
    • Follow me on Twitter

      My Tweets
    • Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

      Join 453 other followers

    • Top Clicks

      • otrazhenie.wordpress.com
    • Pages

      • Blog
      • Home

Blog at WordPress.com.

Privacy & Cookies: This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use.
To find out more, including how to control cookies, see here: Cookie Policy
  • Follow Following
    • Matters Of Life And Death
    • Join 453 other followers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • Matters Of Life And Death
    • Customize
    • Follow Following
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar