Fear of Death
Many people find themselves ruminating on the future scenario of their death with such great trepidation that it robs them of any current happiness. While this may appear logical and a reasonable thing to do, a little more insight will grant us more effective ways of being that will allow for our current state to remain undisturbed by threats of the future. Think for a moment back to your school days when you imagined what being an adult was going to be like. How you thought it would be turned out to be nothing like the reality once you had “matured” into a grown up. That is because we are capable, in the normal course of events, only of perceiving what our existing state of understanding (consciousness) allows. As our awareness expands, which happens as we grow and mature, we perceive things from an ever shifting perspective. We develop the tools of life as, and when, we need them. An analogy may help understand this.
Imagine life as a long plain stretched out in front of you. At the end of the plain, made blue by the distance, are a chain of mountains (death) which, eventually, you will have to climb. This, however, will only happen after a long and convoluted journey, the navigation of which will take all of your considerable skills. Only after negotiating the complications of the journey to the foothills of the mountains, will you start preparing for the climb, and only then will you collect all the equipment you need for the ascent. To try and carry it throughout the whole journey would be an unnecessary burden if everything is available at base camp; equally, concentrating on mountaineering technique while the journey requires long distance exploration and navigation skills shows poor planning. We need to focus on the requisite skills for the job at hand.
The timing is always exquisite. We will be given the tools as and when they are required. “ to everything there is a season and a time for every purpose under heaven…”
Namaste
Rod Briggs is an International Lecturer in the Mind Sciences. He has taught government departments, universities, Olympians and peak achievers in the corporate and private sectors from all over the world. He spends half the year in Europe and the USA on lecture tours but resides on the Dolphin Coast. Contact the Mindlink Foundation for one on one or group Stress Management Therapy or get Rod Briggs’ new e book Simple as Breathing at www.mindlinkfoundation.com
Many people find themselves ruminating on the future scenario of their death with such great trepidation that it robs them of any current happiness. While this may appear logical and a reasonable thing to do, a little more insight will grant us more effective ways of being that will allow for our current state to remain undisturbed by threats of the future. Think for a moment back to your school days when you imagined what being an adult was going to be like. How you thought it would be turned out to be nothing like the reality once you had “matured” into a grown up. That is because we are capable, in the normal course of events, only of perceiving what our existing state of understanding (consciousness) allows. As our awareness expands, which happens as we grow and mature, we perceive things from an ever shifting perspective. We develop the tools of life as, and when, we need them. An analogy may help understand this.
Imagine life as a long plain stretched out in front of you. At the end of the plain, made blue by the distance, are a chain of mountains (death) which, eventually, you will have to climb. This, however, will only happen after a long and convoluted journey, the navigation of which will take all of your considerable skills. Only after negotiating the complications of the journey to the foothills of the mountains, will you start preparing for the climb, and only then will you collect all the equipment you need for the ascent. To try and carry it throughout the whole journey would be an unnecessary burden if everything is available at base camp; equally, concentrating on mountaineering technique while the journey requires long distance exploration and navigation skills shows poor planning. We need to focus on the requisite skills for the job at hand.
The timing is always exquisite. We will be given the tools as and when they are required. “ to everything there is a season and a time for every purpose under heaven…”
Namaste
Rod Briggs is an International Lecturer in the Mind Sciences. He has taught government departments, universities, Olympians and peak achievers in the corporate and private sectors from all over the world. He spends half the year in Europe and the USA on lecture tours but resides on the Dolphin Coast. Contact the Mindlink Foundation for one on one or group Stress Management Therapy or get Rod Briggs’ new e book Simple as Breathing at www.mindlinkfoundation.com
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