My Mom, My Sister, & Me

Meghan Don
1 hour ago
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“One last breath. We all have to take one eventually."

— Alexander Gordon Smith

TODAY...I am remembering and honoring my sister, on her birthday. She had the most gentle heart of anyone I know. She died suddenly, eighteen months after my Mom died. My Dad died many years before in 1980. See my favorite photos of my sister (she on the right and me on the left) and my Mom and Dad's wedding day below.

I would like to share with you an experience my sister and I had while releasing my Mom's soul from her body immediately after her death.

It is called "Freeing the Life-Force"

“I will get the others,” I said to my sister. She laid her hand on my arm and said, “Not yet, do your thing first.” I hesitated, but realized the wisdom in her words. Helping to free my mother’s soul was not something to be done amidst family members coming and going and phone calls being made to doctors and funeral homes.

I stood at my mother’s feet and grounded myself in prayer, asking for assistance from the other realms. While living in Arizona some years previously, I had a Native American Elder as my otherworld guide. There was a great love between us; I called him Grandfather. It was he who answered the call to help.

When working with the dead in this way, all manner of things can happen as the portals to the other realms are open. To us, certain events may seem miraculous or even unbelievable, but in such circumstances, anything can happen.

And so, I found myself holding an eagle feather (in spirit form), moving it in rhythmic circles over my mother’s body, while chanting words I did not know. I had become the physical conduit for Grandfather, and so I allowed and followed. There was a slow working up my mother’s body with these feather circles, and I was aware that this action, along with the chants, was releasing my mother’s life force from her body.

My sister stood with one hand on my mother’s shoulder, her other arm and hand were extended into the heavens, and she was saying, “Go to the light, Mom, go to the light.” She looked like a warrioress of the Light, standing in her full strength, opening the way for my mom’s soul to travel onward. After doing this for a while, she dropped her arm and said, “Oh, I don’t know what I’m doing, you do it.” I told her, very firmly, “Keep going, you are helping.” She took up her stance again.

Doctors are mistaken. Death does not occur at that last exhale. It takes a little longer, generally 20 or 30 minutes. This is the time of the soul’s unwinding from the body, and of the life force beginning to remember itself without its physicality. Take the time, after the last breath, to assist your loved one. Do not make calls, not even to the necessary authorities. This is a time to bask in the calm and sacred silence that is almost always palpable at the moment of death. Everything else can wait. There is no urgency."

This is an excerpt from the new book coming out, PRESENCE: BRINGING THE SOUL INTO DYING AND GRIEVING, A MEMOIR AND GUIDE and it continues with a Meditation and Soul Reflection. You can listen to these in the upcoming Podcast on Thursday.

Yes! Almost at release date, June 1st, for the book - I will send the link once available.

But you can join up now for a Virtual Masterclass based on the book at The Sophia Institute on June 24. It will be a beautiful class where we will explore your Soul Presence Wisdom, access the energies of Comfort and Tenderness, and learn simple ways to help those who have died. See more here.

And a Virtual Book Launch on June 11. See more here.