Let go of Resisting...

Let go of resisting.  What you resist persists.  This has been the suggestion of many therapies and new age ideologies.   It is suggested that if you resist pain it will get worse and letting go of that resisting and allowing yourself to feel the pain helps with both chronic and acute pain.  It also is suggested in dealing with fear.  Allow yourself to feel the fear, the sensations associated with fear, feel them and let it go.  The fear will fade.  This is only an introduction to the idea of letting go of resistance but its an idea  worth looking at.

Dreams of Heaven...

In the movie, What Dreams May Come, heaven is shown as a bright, over saturated technicolor landscape of meadows, lush grass, beautiful flowers and green trees.  Our oh so inadequate languages have developed words for heaven; Eden, paradise, nirvana, more.  But no word can come close to the ultimate reality.  But we might ask, if the spirit world is so great what are we all doing here?  Believe or not we choose this sojourn on earth.  We forget when we come here, forget who we really are and where we came from.  But we are not lost.  Built in to humans and our cultures is the longing and the drive to remember who we are, that we are a spirit having an earthly experience.   We are also aware that no one is imprisoned on earth.  Sooner or later we all go back to where we came from.   We still make the choice to come here and have the experiences we have. 
We can make our lives better by paying attention to those longings to remember our spiritual home.  We just have to start letting go of the notion that this body and this life is all there is.   All we need is the intention to find out more and the willingness to let go.