Understanding Life After Death Frees You to Live Now

All of our lives here on Earth, we are learning lessons. In my life, I have learned from many teachers, both alive and dead. And I’ve always said that if everyone knew what I knew – how we go on in spirit form after we die our physical death, and how beautiful and perfect it is on the Other Side – they would not longer be afraid to die, or be afraid to live.

Here on Earth, all of our words and actions are subject to the spiritual laws of cause and effect, also known as karma. Anything we say or do has both a physical effect – on ourselves and on others, who may be near us or at a great distance – and also a spiritual effect.

The spiritual effect, I always say, is like having a bank account that we’re either making deposits to or draining away and we end up with either a full bankbook or overdrawn, depending on how we live our life. We all do this – make a deposit, make a withdrawal, based upon our words and deeds.

Knowing this, if we’re trying to learn our lessons and become a better person, it’s easy to get down on ourselves when we make a mistake. We know our karma account is getting drawn down and most often it’s like buying an over-priced dress on impulse – we don’t even really want what we got and won’t even wear it; we wish we’d never bought it – it was just a waste of our money!

But mistakes are part of the process, how we learn. Holding onto our errors, our sorrow or our guilt doesn’t actually do anything positive. It just keeps us stuck and prevents our going forward and making better choices.

It’s important that we forgive others if we’ve been hurt, and when we make a mistake it’s important that we forgive ourselves. (We can say, “I’m sorry, I made a mistake,” and just take that dress back.) I don’t mean that we should stay in a situation that is toxic, where someone is hurting us over and over and not even trying to change. They have to work out their own thing. We need to forgive them in our heart, but still step away from their negativity and do our own thing.

We can ask God and our guardian spirits to help us find peace with such day-to-day decisions. I use the power tool of prayer – I pray to forgive. I pray to be forgiven. I pray for peace in my heart – the thing all of us want.

None of us is perfect. We are all just trying to live our lives as best we can, facing what life throws at us with as much grace as we can muster, being the best person we can be. On the Other Side all is perfection, God is complete forgiveness, all is peace.

I’m sure you have heard the expression for death, “going to our reward.” That is the absolute truth. We have nothing to fear in death. On the Other Side our spirit lives on, enriched by our experiences and all the lessons learned here.