One of the responses to last week’s newsletter article, “Depression,” asked how Spirit and I define the term “higher self.”
Here are some excerpts from our reader’s response, and her question.
Hi John:
Thanks for today’s newsletter. I enjoyed it as always.
I’ve got a question for you. How do you define your “higher self?” I’ve heard it defined as your God self, but do you communicate with yours? Is it something you should be in touch with every day?
Our recent newsletter articles, including “Should Healing Be Easy?” from last week, have brought feedback from both ends of the spectrum. Some folks resonate with the messages while others are turned off. I suspect this week’s article will be another of those.
I recently read a short article by Andrew Weil, M.D. on depression. Dr. Weil said “Depression is rampant. The World Health Organization estimates that major depressive disorders will become the second largest cause of disability worldwide by 2020, exceeded only by heart disease.”… Read more
Last week’s newsletter article, “The Rut of Earthly Reincarnations,” generated a lively discussion at our discussion group.
The discussion turned into an interesting conversation about healing. I’m paraphrasing here, but one of the participants said she was sometimes reluctant to use a healing tool called EFT because “healing should not be that easy.”
The response from another member clearly articulated what I think, judging from the work I’ve done with Spirit over the years, is a common perspective:
I have a hunch there are those of us who, no matter how much we understand that life is not “supposed” to be hard, at some level believe that nothing comes without effort and sweat equity.… Read more
We received mixed feedback on our two most recent newsletters, “Feeling Good” and “All Roads Lead Home.”
The feedback ranged from “unsettling” and “maybe you are after feedback from conflict” to “Thanks to Spirit for never wavering.”
Then there was the letter from my good friend of many years, George Ball. Here’s George’s letter:
John,
It’s nice to hear from the Spirit group that we will all return safely home. I don’t doubt that there is truth to that.
Many of us, especially when we were young, had a hero or heroine in our lives.
Sometimes, we had more than one. These were people we looked up to, people we wanted to model ourselves after.
At various times in my younger years, my heroes ranged from cowboys to politicians (believe it or not!) to religious figures, and so on.
Who have been some of your heroes and heroines? I think the answer to that question can teach us a lot about ourselves.… Read more