“David, How do you deal with dying?”

Recently a friend asked me how I deal with dying. Since I’ve watched the slow death of a friend over the last year of lung cancer, I’ve had the chance to watch death’s approach and experience my own feelings and the unexpected and profound sense of timeless love found therein.

However, there is a normal fear in first facing the reality that these bodies will end, or rather return to mother earth. There may even be a tender heart knowing that this dream life will be over for us as individual stories. I feel this tenderness is okay, even beautiful in its way. We mourn what we appear to lose. This being said, I also know nothing ends. It’s impossible. There is nowhere to go. Energy and consciousness only transmute, transform, like a river endlessly changing shape yet eternally remaining water.

And there is no here, then after death, a there. How could there be within the oneness of existence? So the only way to “deal with death” is to realize and let go of our fear based in our perception that we’re only this temporary body. That is our only fear, losing what we believe we are. As if “we” end. Perhaps instead, there is a tremendous freedom beyond being confined in this form. Perhaps the animating force, the light that illumines all life, welcomes our seeming individuality back to its boundless arms. Countless instances have been reported of this warm comforting light experienced while bodies appeared to be medically dead, then the person returns to the body to report.

How do I deal with death? Well, the absolute truth is that in this moment we are not dead, nor facing it in this exact moment, so the more appropriate question is how do we deal with the mind’s imagination about death in some imagined future, near or far. If you bring your attention back to here and now, death is not here, nor real. Take a deep breath and let go of focusing on the mind’s concept of future death, and directly experience that radiant life is permeating this very moment. Don’t miss it. Take another breath, and relax here…..rest now. Drink of the now, let yourself be bathed in the now. Let yourself be fully alive. And finally, be present as the infinite awareness that is beyond both life and death.

David Ellzey is a Coach and one of four global Sedona Method Instructors, a Best-Selling Author and Noted Speaker. Find out if Conscious Coaching is right for you.

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