Question: I have the will to live. Yet I am not enjoying living in pain, nor the dread of what dying on earth often entails. How do the infirmed tread the path when they are ill and chronically ill, where most if not all their attention is focused on healing the physical body? It has been said that dying is easier than being born. Yet, if in doing so it incurs years of pain, how does one maintain steadfastness to progress when the only comfort being sought is to be out of pain and not in the body? Some of the master’s students are aged and are no longer enjoying relatively good health.
Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2022 Webinar – The Resurrection of Democracy.
Naturally, I fully understand your situation, the situation of many people. And naturally, I have compassion. Yet the reality is that as the earth is today with a current density of matter and with the density of the collective consciousness, there will be people, including spiritual people, who will have various forms of illnesses in their later years. We have talked about this before at length, where there can be reasons for this not even your individual karma, but something you have taken on, you are holding a spiritual balance and so on. What I recommend that you do is that you release yourself from some of the expectations that you might have had about what it means to be a spiritual person. Some of you have put yourself in a situation where you feel you have to do so much, for example, do so many decrees or invocations and you will find it increasingly difficult to do so because of your body and its failings.
Release yourself from these expectations so that you do whatever you can do without it being a burden. You can also make a shift and realize that an illness, as painful and unpleasant as it can be, can be seen as an opportunity to deal with your entire consciousness around the physical body. When you look at people on earth you see that many people have an attachment to the body, to being young and healthy and strong and being able to do whatever they want with a body. And if you cannot do this, then I recommend you shift. You can look at our teachings that we have given. You can also find other teachings where they emphasize overcoming attachment to the body, dependency on the body, shifting your awareness about the body.
I also recommend that you take the tools that we have given for working with your psychology with the deeper issues. The books that you are now using to give this vigil, study them individually. Truly look at your attitude to the body, your physical realm, and see that in the end, whenever you are ready to ascend you are leaving not only this physical body that you are in right now, but you are leaving behind the very possibility of coming into a new physical body. If you are determined to make your ascension, it is very constructive for you to work on overcoming all attachment to the physical body. And the attachment it can, of course, only reside in separate selves that you have created, often in past lifetimes. Use whatever time you have, whatever attention you have to work on this. Ask for our help. Use the tools that ask for our help to see what you can see about the physical body.
Work on this shift in your attitude. Ask yourself: “What would prevent me from lying down not only this physical body, but the possibility of physical embodiment? Am I really ready to make my ascension? Or do I have some kind of self that is attached to being in a physical body that might prevent me from leaving the earth behind permanently and totally”. Work on this. Seek to expose these selves and then make yourself as free, as non-attached to the body as you possibly can. This will also make it easier to deal with an illness, to deal with pain and thereby give you a more comfortable life in the last years of your life.
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