While browsing through magazines at the Portland airport
waiting for my daughter’s plane to arrive, I was attracted to a periodical on The
Animal's Mind. Beautiful, I thought, as I thumbed through the pages. Good
articles. Then as I reached the last of the magazine, I was hit with a picture
so horrible I dropped to the floor in shock.
I sat on the floor waiting to recover. How do I rid my mind of what I just saw? How
do I change the way people treat animals? While sitting there I pulled another magazine
from the shelf, Oprah’s. In it I
read an interview between Oprah and Paulo Coelho* (author of The Alchemist).
This will help, I thought.
It didn’t.
That night horror lifted me from sleep. That picture popped
into my mind over and over again. I wanted to save all the animals of the
world. I wanted that cruel man dead. I tried to think of something else. My new
focus would work for a time, then the picture would come in again. I attempted
to change the picture. I tried to create a happy ending.
This caused me to think: “What purposeful good can come of events
such as these?” People want to see you happy, not sad. Don’t talk about it. I
don’t want anyone else depressed. How, then, does one then rid their minds of
horror?
I did write to someone. It was a wonderful friend who
identified with me, who didn’t turn a deaf ear or a blind eye. Instead she
offered help, identifying with me, telling me what she did in times such as the
one I was experiencing. She offered a
link to Mira Kelley’s past life
regression tape.* Listening to Kelley’s soothing voice, I thought, I ought to create
such an event that for my Grandson when he is overwrought and can’t go to
sleep. Guide him to a beautiful place, allow him to create a helper, or another
image of himself. Give him the tools to sooth himself and know that he has
access to the beauty and wisdom of his own body.
This very morning Grandson had such an occurrence. He
couldn’t go to sleep, He was over wrought. He wanted his Mommy to come home—she
goes to work in the early morning hours. We sang, we counted sheep, eventually
he quieted and slept, but next time—I hope there won’t be, but if there is—I
will create a guided meditation.
*The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. Coelho coined the phrase
“Personal Legend. “ One’s personal legend is
“What you have always wanted to accomplish.”
*Link to Mira Kelley’s meditation, Introduction by Wayne Dyer http://www.youtube.com/watch?
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