On a long car ride home by myself recently, I had a vision.
It was a vision of the possibility that when I die I could be so calm and so relaxed that the process of going over to the other side could be just the same as driving my car down the road.
There would be no screaming in fear, no doubt or terror in the resistance to ending my life, but instead just me, calmly driving a car from this human incarnation to being in the afterlife.
I would move through the transition from one world to another as if it was the most natural thing I could do.
It would be as if I had made the journey many times before.
Because what if when die we are not gone at all?
What if instead our soul just moves locations?
And in this move we don’t take our hair or clothes or bodies with us, but instead the only thing that comes along for the ride is the inner state we have cultivated.
This vision really had an impact on me.
What it did was make it crystal clear that the only real thing we need to cultivate in this human journey is self-love.
This is why I am starting to see that the only real protection we have is self-love.
How long we will be in this present incarnation is unknown. How comfortable or easy this present incarnation will be is also unknown.
But how much love we generate inside of ourselves is a known factor, and self-love can support us now in the difficult journeys we will inevitably face, and then can also support us in the future, as our soul goes forward into other journeys after we die.
How do we know how much self-love we are generating?
We know by how we are talking to ourselves with our hearts and minds. Are we telling ourselves we suck and aren’t enough all the time? Or are we feeling soft and easy with the mundane decisions of our day?
Cultivating self-love in the form of internally treating ourselves with support and refusing to be abused by our own fear, will carry us far in this world and the worlds we will experience in the future.
We just have to remember it is a practice.
Self-love is a training.
It is preparing us to die.