The intent of a recent hospice training exercise was to better understand what happens as we die naturally.
- The first part of the exercise was to list 24 things we love: people, places, things, foods, activities – anything – and then cut the list into 24 bits of paper. Obviously, everyone’s pieces were unique.
- The narrator read a story written from the perspective of someone in the latter stages of dying (in our case, cancer was catching up with them).
- There were several pauses during the story, one after each milestone: discovering the lump, the testing, the diagnosis, the prognosis, the treatments: a series of poignant experiences from which there is no recovery.
- After each sad chapter, we were asked to give up one or more of the things we love [trying to comprehend never experiencing them again]. After awhile, we even lost the ability to choose and the narrator began arbitrarily taking them away.
EVERY breath is a gift. Don’t wait until the end of your life to realize it.
Blessings, Skip
Tap into the source. Meditate.❤😊🕉
