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one and the same. You are a body. That is the same with happiness. You are happiness and happiness is you! You two are never separate — but always one. Happiness is not something you do, think or search for. It is something that you already are and can feel and experience. Happiness is present in every cell of your body — and in every cell of the universe and beyond — and it is always with you and in you. It is given to you, just like your physical body, as a part of the package deal for you to experience this physical life right now. All you have to do is start believing that you are happiness, the same way you believe that you are a physical body, and then make it your normal way of being. So, believe that you are happiness! Commit to being happiness! Choose to feel happy anew and anew! Practice happiness again and again! Then be and live it — just like you are and live in your physical body! The result is that reaching the state of being happy loses any pressure or resistance. The search for happiness, especially when searched for on the outside, can end. The stress to reach happiness is nonexistent. Everyone can simply just be what they already are. Happiness. So, I want to ask you, “Are you happy?” I bet your answer will be very different. That is happiness! a
principle: That when we experience care, love and healing, the nature of our heart is to give back what we have received according to our own gifts and talents. In 2013 I founded the Conscious Dying Institute to give back this care, to restore the end-of-life caring profession to its natural place so that families and patients can receive the care they want most in all domains of life. The work of the Conscious Dying Institute renews the true purpose and calling of many people drawn to this work. They know it is connected to the spiritual awakening of self and others. As we grow and deepen in our own authentic presence, and become intimate with end-of-life desires and wishes, we are more able to inquire, understand and offer what is most important to others. Conscious Dying Institute is an endof-life doula education and health care training organization that expands the innate healing presence of frontline caregivers, medical and non-medical, instilling confidence to have end-of-life conversations, while preparing them to offer multi-dimensioned healing care to patients in hospices, senior communities and large healthcare systems across the United States and Canada. The End of Life Doula movement is a grassroots movement like the natural birthing movement was decades ago. It is a movement to elevate the current unsatisfying and long suffering experience of death. As we become less afraid of dying, understanding all life moves through cycles or regeneration, we have the potential to leave the body, the Earth, being more complete, with less baggage, less pain and suffering. We learn to die in a less costly, more natural, and more sustainable way. We are creating a new “careforce” of Doulas who are available to respond to
JACQUELINE PIRTLE, aka FreakyHealer, spent every day of 2017 devoted to her own happiness. She wrote every single day about the things she did to honor her joy and used those writings to create a 365 day stepby-step guide, 365 Days of Happiness. Her passion for happiness shines through in all of her work as an accomplished energy healer, mindfulness-happiness coach, and author. She has helped hundreds of clients shift into a “high for life” frequency where they can reach happiness anywhere at any time. She was born in Switzerland and now makes her home in the United States. Visit www.freakyhealer.com. COPYRIGHT © 2018. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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the next generation’s desire for a good, healthy, natural way to die. People are really getting on board to have death be the next wave alternative holistic way of life. Isn’t this is wonderful! At the very time our culture, nation, families, friends and health care systems need and want more comforting, holistic end-of-life care, less technical medical curative care, there is a massive wave of people ready to give this kind of care! At the very time the baby boomers and our parents are aging and approaching death, we are now learning to give the holistic end-of-life care we have experienced throughout our new aging boomer lives!! A magnificent force of amazing caregivers are showing up to “be the ones” — to remember how to do this sacred work — so we can all share the depths and beauty of who we truly are before, nearing, during and after death. My desire for the future of this work is that we all have more time to experience healing and care well before we die — to have support to explore and receive the love, care and healing we most want and need. Our goal at the Conscious Dying Institute is to provide the preparation needed to befriend death; to learn to surrender and trust deeply in each moment as we become supportive and effective end of life companions. Our training programs benefit all those involved in the care of life, love, family and healing. Please join us with the reach toward the evolution of human consciousness through our practices to restore death to its sacred place in the beauty, mystery and celebration of life. a TARRON ESTES is founder of the Conscious Dying Institute. She is an End-of-life Educator, Organizational Learning Consultant, Caritas Coach, an Associate Faculty with Dr. Jean Watson’s The Watson Caring Science Institute. She designs and facilitates “Sacred Passage: End of Life Doula Certificates” in the United States and Canada. Visit www.consciousdyinginstitute.com. COPYRIGHT © 2018. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.