My client had just lost his father. He had passed over due to a 'heart' attack. Now isn't that an interesting concept? An attack of the heart? Does the heart attack the body? I don't think so yet that is the vernacular of the medical profession. When a heart is overloaded due to not accessing and communicating the emotional levels of the soul, then yes, the heart 'shuts down' and leaves the body stranded. If a person is to truly recover from such a trauma, then emotional work and Communication are the best prescriptions for health.
The real issue with my client was that his father had shut down emotionally years earlier, if in reality he was ever truly open. His wife had gone into a coma, ten years prior and had lived out her last decade, unresponsive, comatose and removed from society. My client had not been able to talk to her and tell her all the things that he had wanted to share. The burden of caring for his mother as well as supporting his aging father had taken a toll on his ability to communicate within the world of his own new growing family. That was the reason this individual had sought my assistance, however the story I am going to share is actually about his mother. In talking with her soul, the pictures she gave to me were amazing. It showed me once again, how little we truly know about the nature of reality.
The ten earth years she was incapacitated in the hospital were in many ways her most rewarding years of her life. She was able to help and assist others within the hospital in her astral body, moving from patient to patient, reassuring them, offering love, guidance, joy, humor from a more cosmic spiritual level. She decided to utilize the time while still connected to her body to do something useful and of 'service' to others. She communicated the best of her self to those in pain, fear and loneliness. She was able to move into the astral levels going as far as her 'silver thread' would allow, learning and growing as much as she desired. She'd return and offer her new found knowledge to those in need within the confines of the hospital. She felt that it was the best place for her to concentrate her energy as she felt it was a place of great need. When she finally left her body for good, she was happy, at peace and fully rewarded for fulfilling her commitment to making the world a better place, even if on some level it felt to the rest of the family as a form of abandonment. It wasn't. It was a part of the contract they had set up for themselves before entering into body.
Her story, her loving gift to others put into perspective once again how limited we are in our thinking as to what is 'sad' and what isn't. (When we envision someone in a coma the words that come to mind are usually "Isn't that sad.") It wakes us up to moving into non-judgment once again and to not put our own spin on someone else's choices.