Spirit & Soul

I cry out loudly to GOD, loudly I plead with GOD for mercy. I spill out my complaints before him, and spell out my troubles in detail...

I have unfortunately been on both sides of this article. I have spent time visiting friends and family when they have been sick, but I have more often been the patient everyone is visiting. Many of the visits went very well, but unfortunately others didn't go so well for them or me. Hopefully my mistakes or my tips from experience will help you. Visiting someone who is sick isn't always easy, but it can be an enjoyable time and it should primarily be a comfort for the patient.

While war and poor economic conditions begin to affect people allover the world, more and more people suffer with depression. The more we focus on news events and the business climate, the more we are depressed. Whatever the reason you feel is the cause of your depression, the following five simple tips guarantee you reduce it significantly.

Preparing for approaching death can be terrifying if you have no idea what to expect, both physically and emotionally. As the dying process enters its final stages there are two different dynamics at work.

The physical aspect concerns the body as it begins its final process of shutting down; this ends the physical system's functioning.

Barbara was driving her six-year-old son, Benjamin, to his piano lesson. They were late, and Barbara was beginning to think she should have canceled it. There was always so much to do, and Barbara, a night-duty nurse at the local hospital, had recently worked extra shifts. She was tired. The sleet storm and icy roads added to her tension. Maybe she should turn the car around.

Thirty-six years ago, when I was carrying my first child, Doctors didn’t know as much as they do today about Eclampsia, a potentially deadly condition during pregnancy. By the time my doctor discovered it, I was in my ninth month and gaining a pound a day. If he was alarmed it wasn’t apparent and when he casually suggested we induce labor, I was thrilled. Little did I know labor would take four long days and include convulsions and a coma.

The hardest philosophy for any human to understand is the idea there is no such thing as death. They say death is the second most feared thing. The first being public speaking. ( I guess I do not understand the concept of fear as I have become a public speaker on finance, philosophy, motivation and inspiration and love it.) The “death” bit is just a doorway back home. If we do not enjoy our life on earth, then we have wasted a journey of a lifetime.

I had the intention of writing about soul mates, but it occurred to me to write more about a soul on its own beforehand. I believe we need to address what we mean by a soul before we get into anything else.

Some people may sometimes express the desire to recall past lives either out of curiosity or as a proof of the concept of reincarnation. As we all know, most people do not have vivid recall of their past lives. In fact, the concept of reincarnation is foreign and unimaginable to some people. But we do reincarnate, not once, but many times, and it is for our own good that we don’t always have vivid memory of our past lives. We all know how difficult it is sometimes to deal with the experiences of current life.