Take a nice couple of deep breaths in your own rhythm.
Relax a bit.
Just breathe in.
Let your day and your thoughts fade away for a moment.
Come with me today on a journey to the idea of death.
This is a concept that we hold on to dearly.
Somehow we're here and then somehow we're gone.
And the same with other creatures.
Perhaps there's another story.
I want you to imagine that you're walking through a forest in the fall.
And it's a deciduous forest.
Leaves are turning and wiggling up.
The wind is blowing them off the branches.
You're watching them fall down to forest floor.
And we might say in our normal way of thinking,
Hmm,
That leaf has died.
But if you look a little more closely at the forest floor,
You realize that that leaf and all the other leaves before it,
When they fall to the forest floor,
They transform.
They become,
In fact,
A critical part of the food and the fuel for more growth.
Flowers,
Bushes,
More trees,
Perhaps the same species.
So while the leaf clearly changes,
Does it really just disappear?
Does it really just go away?
Perhaps it just changes its shape,
Changes its form,
Transforms in ways that we don't quite understand.
Think of all the leaves falling off all the trees every fall season,
Feeding the earth.
And without them feeding the earth,
The earth would suffer.
And perhaps for ourselves,
We don't just disappear into some imagined afterlife or some story about it or into nothingness.
Perhaps rather our essential energy,
Our life force,
Transforms itself.
Think of someone you know who has passed away or someone you've heard about.
And language is often the past and the new time.
Yet many,
Many people report connecting with loved ones after the fact,
After the so-called death and disappearance.
How could that be?
Does it make sense?
People report this particularly about loved ones all the time.
Feel yourself considering the possibility that if you live in the moment,
Death as we think about it may not really exist.
So many stories,
So much cultural conditioning,
This may be hard for you to do,
But imagine that you're like a leaf.
Having finished your work here,
You settle in,
Gently,
Happily to the forest floor to transform to something that is also helpful and perhaps good at it.
Imagine that the moment of your death,
The death of a loved one,
Is a wonderful transformation or something essential about you and your life force energy may actually continue in ways that are hard to imagine.
The death is not an ending,
But yet another beginning of an eternal cycle.
Imagine that death is not something to fear,
But something to embrace when the time comes.
And if this may be true,
Think about how it removes that fear from your life.
That's just a part of the natural cycle of things.
When you're ready,
Give thanks and back into the room and have a wonderful day.
