One More Beautiful Ghost Story

Over the last two weeks on this Blog/Video Log, I've shared with you how I've been blessed by spirit reaching out to help and protect me during some of the more challenging moments in my life.  This week, I'd like to share with you one more story where a gentleman who had recently passed away was protecting his wife by reaching across the veil between life and death. 

This particular event took place when my husband, Frank and I were traveling in New Zealand in 2005.  We had always longed to go there knowing how truly beautiful it is in so many ways.  For our accommodations we preferred farm stays and home stays as this gave us the opportunity to make friends and have more personal interactions.  New Zealand's people are bright, intelligent, creative and kind.  The landscape is spectacular.  And for me, as a working psychic, I was amazed and delighted to discover that my clairvoyant function was extremely heightened every day that we were there.  I was able to avert danger, interact with nature and sense the presence of spirit at a much more profound level.  

The story, that I'd like to share with you now, took place after we had crossed from one "island" to the next.  At the ferry station we decided to take a taxi van with several other travelers to our separate destinations in the area.  I helped the driver load our luggage into his enclosed trailer.  Then off we went.  After dropping off most of the other tourists, but with still a few to go, we arrived at our destination, the home of a woman whom we had contacted a day or two before.  

Frank jumped out to go to her door and be sure that we had arrived at the correct address and I got into the trailer with the cabby to sort out our bags and began placing them on the curb.  Frank came and got a load of our cases and took them in.  Then an older gentleman, presumably the husband of our hostess arrived on the curb full of appreciative and welcoming softly murmured comments.  After a quick little exchange of smiles, I resumed my activity in the trailer and emerged a few moments later with the last of our bags.  From the curb, I saw the elder gentleman enter the front door of the home and I then followed after him. 

Once inside, I met our hostess, who was just showing Frank to our room, right near the entrance.  I went on into the room to freshen up while she invited Frank to come upstairs and see the kitchen.  After showing Frank around, she then went up to the third level to resume watching a very exciting tennis match on the telly, and invited us to join her, if we'd like, once we had settled in.  

After looking around, Frank returned downstairs and I asked how he liked meeting her husband.  Frank was nonplussed by this and said that her husband and her two teen-aged children had all died the previous year in an automobile accident.  Our hostess had shown him a photo of them.  She also said that she was looking for a little more income and that we were her first home stay guests.  It was right after that that she had excused herself to go upstairs to finish watching the game. 

Hearing this I followed Frank up to the kitchen area to see the picture and there, in a photo, with two beautiful youngsters and our hostess beside him, was the older gentleman who had greeted me with smiles of welcome out in front of their home.  Apparently the husband, unbeknownst to our hostess, had reached across the veil to greet us at the curb to see if wee would be suitable guests in their home.  Evidently we passed his approval and received his welcome.

I am touched to know that our loved ones can help us not only in life, but also in death.  They watch over us, whether we are aware of it or not, just making sure that all is well.

© Josephine Laing, 2015

How Can I Clear My Head To Be Me?

Sometimes I get asked how we can tell which thoughts are our own and which are thoughts, images, or feelings from others.  And it's true, we do pick up on other people's thoughts and ideas.  The trick is how to clear all that static out.

Written in stone over the ancient city gates of Delphi were the words, "Know thyself."  When we know who we are, we can better recognize our own thoughts.  We are naturally influenced by lots of early subconscious programming. This is how we become socialized into our culture.  Unless we change them, these thought patterns will be with us throughout our lives.  

Years ago I saw a film where a newly married couple was in bed wearing their pajamas.  As the camera panned further back you could see that beside the husband was his mother and then his father, and beside the wife was her father and then her mother.  This was a wonderful graphic image showing how we all have other people's ideas present with us even in the most intimate of times.

There's a simple exercise that I like which children instinctively do several times a day.  For this exercise you just sit by yourself, and simply be who you are.  This has a very unique, signature feeling to it. It is the, "I am."  This exercise helps us recognize who we are and identify our own thoughts as distinct from the thoughts of others.

At 4 am there are very few thoughts in the air because most people are asleep.  This feels different from a busy street corner in the middle of the afternoon.  Perhaps you would like to practice seeing what it's like to observe the thoughts of others whizzing around and compare that to the quiet night air.

Another exercise that I like to do is to imagine a clear, bright, white light right in the center of my head.  I let that bright white light begin to expand until it fills my entire cranium, moving just a little bit beyond.  As it does, I let it push out all the thoughts of others, leaving only room for my own thoughts inside my head. 

One of my mentors, Jana Massy, taught me a lovely sound healing exercise for eliminating other people's thoughts from our aura.  We do this by clearing the psychic collar.  This is the space below the jaw and above the third rib.  Make the sound of a bee.  Part your lips and place your teeth lightly together and BZZZZZZZZ.  This light vibration dusts off any thoughts that may be lingering.  And so does a nice hot shower.  That's part of why they feel so good.

One more thing you can do is to imagine a golden disk or a golden halo over the top of your head.  Let this halo be a filter.  Your thoughts can come and go, but all the thoughts of others are naturally sifted away.  This lets us really focus on being who we are in accordance with our original blueprint, our natural self. 

I'll leave you with these few exercises to enjoy this week.  They have served me well in learning how to distinguish which thoughts in my head are my own and which thoughts belong to others. 

I wish you all insight, wisdom, and magic as you pursue the journey of inner knowing.  

Love, 
Josephine 

© Josephine Laing, 2014