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It has been a month since I went into work to quit. It seemed the only option at the time. I was needed to care for a friend/sister and had no idea how long it would take. The situation did not qualify for a family medical leave and it is so hard on the staff when a cna calls in all the time........and it is not fair to the elders. My DON would not let me quit. She created a leave for me and has been paying me for all my sick time........which is a lot since I don't get sick. My friend died a week ago......in my arms, on my couch. She was unafraid and at peace. I have spent the week charging my own batteries and contemplating.

Sheryl had cancer. She died from radition poisoning.....destroyed her heart and the veins and arteries in her neck. Her death certificate will say she died of cancer and her friends will say she died from radiation poisoning.........I say she just wanted to go home......her spirit chose to leave.

The Mr. was frustrated. He sent and gave many forms of healing yet her body got worse day by day. He had sent healings to our daughter-in-law for her cancer and when the surgery was to be done, the Dr.'s could find no cancer. Why was it he could not help his sister/friend??? I say he helped heal what needed healing. She received unconditional love from a man......no pain or abuse......only love.

During the past year, I have had the experience of seeing where the energy goes during a treament. I did Reiki on a man at the hospital. He was open to Reiki and had previous treaments for other conditions. When I started the treament, he was in great pain........he was still that way when I was done. The energy seemed to pool around him......could see it hovering all around. I sensed that he was saving it for a later time and that this pain was part of the experience he was suppose to be having. That to heal it at this time would only have it return. I saw him recently. He had ended up having surgery. But, after surgery he healed in record time to the amazement of his doctor. He also said how many wonderful changes had occured in his life since the surgery. Reiki had worked according to his need for it.

Sheryl died. But, healing did take place. Through Reiki, EFT and love she was able to let go of years of abuse and learn the pwoer of forgiveness. She was a kind gentle soul that had chosen the experience of pain and suffering through family relations......abusive father, abusive husband and 2 children just like their father. The transformation was awesome. Would have liked to had her longer......but, HOME is a wonderful place and I am happy she is there.

blackearth

blackearth,

/*\ Namaste :-}}

- my feelings and thoughts are with you as Sheryl encounters the Bardo and eventually moves into the next incarnation and her family and friends continue in the realms of the living.

- One view is that what is healing and what is curing sometimes becomes a matter of projection coloured by our emotional attachments.

Reiki All Around,

All Blessings,

Firekeeper

Blackearth,

I send you hugs and love and hope your past week has let you heal with your thoughts. You must have received much yourself this past month. A very loving way to share and say goodbye with a friend.
I am glad Sheryl was able to be held in loving, healing arms after those times she had endured such abuse.
What a wonderful gift to share with each other.
It is all about the healing on whatever level needs it.

All blessings to you and yours,
Donna

Can't believe I forgot to mention that I watched her spirit leave her body......rise up out of her skin like a bright white mist.....glowing, it hovered above me while I bathed the body. I asked her to go to the light, there was greater love waiting for her there. Her light lit up the entire livingroom and then she was gone.

Dear Blackearth,
What a different world this might be if each being passing over was held in love.
Your strength, compassion & generousity of spirit is a testament to the friendship you two shared.

It is good to be reminded that the results of Reiki and healing are not always immediate or obvious. Sometimes we can forget that there is more to a person than that which meets the eye.

peace & joy,
holobon

I have valued your sharing very much, blackearth. I too wish that more people had this kind of peaceful transition. I hope to be able to maybe some day voluteer at a hospice, when I'm retired from my regular job and when I've had more experience with both Reiki and people transitioning. It's just something I feel called to do.

What a blessing to be able to share that time with your beloved friend. And how blessed was she to have you there!

Namaste,
Lionheart

Dear Blackearth,
I feel deeply for you for the loss of your friend. It must be a great comfort to you, however, that you were able to help her transition from this existence to the next.
Thank you for sharing this with us.
Blessed Be.
Brian

Wow! *hugs you warmly**
That was a really touching posting honey. I'm touched by not only your dear friends story but also the transformation that took place within you and the love and acceptance you were able to maintain whilst watching someone you love choose the path of pain for enlightenment.

There are many opportunities abounding to help us on path when we send healing too. I think about the entities that I"ve encountered along the path in the last few months and I'm so grateful for their shadow in helping me move past the limiting beliefs I hold about good and bad.
My natural inclincation is to rise above the painful experience and will it into submission. It is only when I admit my own pain as the witness can true healing begin. Then I CAN be a healing blessing to the one I'm witnessing.

I was upset last month because of a beautiful buffalo bone necklace I wore. My intuitive friends told me that there was alot of anger coming from this piece and it wanted to control my life and get me on track. I didn't like its agenda and told it so. I was told this piece needed to be buried for an unspecified time in Mother Earth to heal.
I angrily thought I didn't want to do that, but if push came to shove, I'd throw it into the bay.

I went home and thought about the fear that this new awareness was bringing to me. What did it mean? How could I be manipulated or controlled? Did I want that as a form of protection for myself.. To let anything control my life? Was it possible without my permission? Fear has many forms and manipulates in many ways, perhaps this was just one.

I connected deeply with the piece the next day and decided to hold ceremony. Then I could feel the lonliness and the grief that this piece held. I saw how it imitated the grief within me. I cried for myself and the beautiful spirit in the necklace I'd come to love and had created from my own two hands and spirit.

I smudged it, poured light into it.. Talked with it.. Then felt the peace come over it.
When I spoke with the spirit within I asked if my light was accepted and did it help.

The Spirit replied that when I was angry and controlling of the energy ( ie, you will accept this energy!) there was no healing. But when I stepped into its shoed and walked a mile I saw the limiting behaviour and thoughts that created my anger in the first place.
It wasn't my anger from being controlled that got me. It was my anger at allowing myself to be led when I say I choose to walk my own path.
So, He said, it was your humility that healed me.

So, I see that in truth, it was the spirit of the necklace that helped piece together another part of my wounded self and it brought it back to me safe and sound.

I'm telling you this story because I recognized in the words you wrote about the Mr. sending energy to your friend and still she died.
You will not understand the miracle created whenever two or more or gatherd.. I don't think any of us can really comprehend the energy and blessings created at such a time and how deeply the healings take place.

His healing was complete. The healing is a circle and nothing is more beautiful than someone giving to another what they would choose for themselves. :}

Bright blessings to your friend in the higher realms. May she rest easy in the knowledge that she was loved by so many. How awesome you are to behold Black Earth.. I love your beautiful light.. How many would give up their living for another to witness something as powerful as transition??
I'm sure that in your life this will always hold a special place in your heart to have even been in the presence of such Love, and the miracles that this experience created within you.

Know I love you very much Sister and wishing you peaceful and amazing journeys on your path towards enlightenment!

Jahnavi

Otoharo!

Blackearth, I have just now noticed this post. Thanks so much for sharing this beautiful story and your part in it. Yes, it is always the Soul who makes the decision. When Soul has used all that a situation provides, it leaves. No need to stay around any longer. I have a friend and former student who healed herself of MS, turned right around and got cancer which did take her away. Just goes to show!

finality

Thank you for sharing. My thoughts with you on the loss of your friend in the physical. She will always be around. Love and light to you and yours.
Be

Otoharo!

I am just now reading this. I am so glad you could experience this. Thanks you sharing with us!

finality