I created a Transition Blanket in preparation for my father’s imminent demise. To today, this sacred object continues to bestow life-altering blessings on my complete household. I am satisfied that this divinely impressed reward is supposed to succeed in far past my circle of relatives after witnessing what this blanket didn’t just for my collect, however for all who skilled its therapeutic energy. That is the story of how the primary Transition Blanket got here into being, and the exceptional influence it had on everybody it touched.
When my father died, he died with an expression of horror frozen on his face. His eyes bulged; a masks of stark terror twisted his visage as his remaining breath escaped- a deeply distressing picture that haunted all of us who witnessed his passage. My stepmother immediately succumbed to a wrenching concern that one thing terrible had simply occurred to her beloved husband on the Different Facet and that he was now trapped in a horrible place, for eternity. She was inconsolably distraught.
In my very own coronary heart, I knew how a lot my father had at all times dreaded demise and his final passage into unknown realms. As soon as this inevitable second was upon him, it was not possible for Dad to hide his terror any longer. I felt sure what we might seen on my father’s face was merely a lifetime of concern ultimately releasing itself; although realizing this introduced little solace. I, too, felt overwhelmed at this second, imagining what the longer term can be like as I struggled to make peace with this remaining horrific scene, and in some way carry consolation to my household within the days and years forward.
The Transition Blanket proved to be the beneficiant purveyor of the energy and luxury all of us wanted to seek out. Its miraculous powers quickly reworked our household’s expertise from considered one of tragedy and struggling into an expertise of profound therapeutic and peaceable acceptance. But this miracle, like this very particular blanket, took some time to unfold… Our final opening to the inevitable demise course of might characterize considered one of life’s richest experiences. In reality, historical Tibetan traditions train that demise is life’s most vital occasion. One’s personal impending demise, or the demise of a beloved one, holds nice potential for shifting priorities and reframing relationships extra profoundly than some other earthly occasion. Renewed and reshaped perceptions have the ability to change each bodily and non-physical realities in shocking methods that may contribute enormously towards an conscious and woke up life. But the looming sense of loss and finality that fills the center and thoughts as demise approaches can precipitate both nice therapeutic or emotionally devastating outcomes. Dying turns into the Grasp Trainer throughout such deeply transformational instances. And so it was for my household…
I’ve spent my complete grownup life in a profession of service, serving to individuals in tough life conditions. As a licensed psychologist, I’ve labored with 1000’s of people through the years. I’m a seasoned different healer as properly, primarily in shamanic practices, having acquired formal coaching and intense particular person instruction from highly effective medication individuals. I train shamanic lessons on demise and dying. I am a licensed Reiki grasp and have been actively merging my shamanic coaching with Reiki disciplines for ten years. But none of this intensive expertise had absolutely ready me for this time once I can be known as to usher my circle of relatives via the gates.
I felt an amazing private sorrow about quickly dropping all bodily reference to my dying father. We lived 1000’s of miles aside. Understanding I might assist him in so some ways, if we lived nearer left me annoyed and eager for deeper connection. I known as upon the spirits and different compassionate energies for help, as is my shamanic approach.
It’s not possible to completely clarify the religious beliefs I maintain, or the character of my private interactions with the divine realm, within the scope of this temporary article, but I need to provide not less than just a little background so you possibly can higher perceive the fixed sources of my inspiration, and the way the Transition Blanket finally got here to be.
Whether or not we’re conscious of it or not, an unfathomable useful resource of knowledge and love, in lots of kinds, exists simply past what we all know as our actuality. This different universe is usually known as non-ordinary actuality. On this parallel realm, all is feasible. Non-ordinary actuality is the place to which a shaman journeys in an altered state to acquire info from the spirit helpers. Reiki can be sourced from this sphere.
Keenly conscious of my human limitations, I typically journey out to ask my clever spirit helpers and guides for recommendation and help. Now I requested the spirits to show me how I would finest serve my father despite the bodily distance between us. Throughout this astounding journey, not solely did my trusted allies present me highly effective methods to assist my elders, however in addition they tended my very own grieving coronary heart in probably the most loving and intimate approach. I emerged with a transparent sense of function and renewed confidence that each one can be properly as quickly as I adopted the detailed steerage I used to be given. The spirits had been definitely answering my pressing wants, however it additionally felt like they had been utilizing me to “start” one more highly effective therapeutic technique into strange actuality, a technique I’d quickly really feel compelled to share with others. They had been instructing me how one can create a ravishing transition expertise for my father, which included one thing I did not but perceive… a Transition Blanket!
The primary process my spirit helpers assigned me was to look at and outline what I personally believed in regards to the demise course of. They needed me to evaluation how my Western tradition had ready me, or not ready me, for the eventuality of a beloved one’s demise.
I used to be shocked by what I found. Whereas my very own uncommon path of exploration and studying supplied m with highly effective beliefs and complex highway maps for navigating via the end-of-life expertise, Western tradition, basically, basically ignores this complete “uncomfortable” topic. Fixated on perpetual youth and feel-good-now pursuits, Western tradition acts as if demise won’t ever come.
It turned painfully clear how ill-informed and ill-prepared our society is for the ineffable end-of-life occasion that may certainly contact us all. On this fast-moving tradition the place elders are sometimes pushed apart, seen as burdens relatively than treasured reservoirs of knowledge, the traditional rituals and ceremonies that really honor getting old, and the sacred transition to the afterlife, have all however disappeared. Is it actually any marvel we really feel shocked, and misplaced, and totally terrified when Dying’s exhausting knuckles lastly wrap upon our door?
My very own father was considered one of these misplaced and terrified individuals now, dealing with probably the most profound, unknown expertise of his life. Like so many others, Dad’s pure concern of the unknown was magnified as a result of he had so little actual data about the place he was going or how he was speculated to get there.
In my a few years of counseling and demise work, I’ve seen that those that’ve led an basically “unexamined life” appear to expertise far better nervousness and struggling as demise approaches. They discover themselves with none significant strategy to relate to the life they’ve lived, or to the nice thriller that now unfolds earlier than them. Their end-of-life wrestle and confusion creates HUGE emotional misery, and their exit, which could possibly be and needs to be an elegantly peaceable course of, is severely hampered. What a horrible travesty that is!
Sadly, “pat” spiritual dogma that usually preempts private questioning and introspection can by no means substitute for a mild, actually significant, and deeply explored expertise when the tip of life attracts close to. Unsupported by historical beliefs, the highly effective demise rituals and ceremonies that when safely guided our forbears into the afterlife, how would possibly we higher put together our “trendy” selves for this inevitable end-of-life expertise? What can we count on and what ought to we consider? The place is our roadmap? Maybe the Transition Blanket had come to indicate us the best way…
I hardly knew the place to start, however enduring love for my father held my toes to the sacred hearth. I used to be speculated to create some form of “transition blanket.” However past this, what precisely was I anticipated to do? If I really supposed to assist my father, I wanted to behave NOW.
Lengthy conscious that our beliefs in the end create our actuality, it was time for me to fastidiously evaluation my very own beliefs in regards to the demise course of, simply because the spirits had already suggested. I wanted to acknowledge which of “my beliefs” had been really borrowed, and which had been authentically mine. This may assist me uncover and discard any previous, outmoded beliefs that now stood in my approach. It was a frightening however needed process if I hoped to supply my father a peaceable transition.
My head swirled with infinite questions. Even with “freshly cleaned” beliefs, even when I had been allowed to unravel the demise thriller for myself, would my private discoveries actually translate to assist others with very completely different beliefs? (like my very own father, for instance!) May my intense need to assist him, together with some form of “thriller blanket” really bridge the massive hole between our private beliefs about demise and the afterlife… might a Transition Blanket in some way carry each ends of my father’s life circle gracefully again collectively once more? Was there nonetheless sufficient time to seek out out?
In my father’s remaining moments, did I want to visualise my model of what the afterlife promised, or his? What precisely does my father consider about demise anyway? An uncomfortable topic, to make sure! Like most households, we might by no means actually talked about it, and I might by no means bothered to ask. How might I ever assemble a correct Transition Blanket for him, or create a ceremony that would really assist his transition expertise if I did not know these solutions? Floundering in an infinite sea of questions, I made a decision to hunt extra steerage from my trusted spirit helpers.
As I journeyed this time, a wierd calm came to visit me and a plan abruptly emerged. An entire tapestry of demise transition teachings already existed for me- threads of readability woven all through the varied faiths of the world. I might look there for my solutions!
There was no time to waste. I used to be already accustomed to Methodist and Baptist variations of Christian doctrine from my childhood, although I might left this path a few years earlier than. Now my perception system is steeped within the Lakota traditions, although I am not a traditionalist by any stretch of the creativeness. I started researching the demise transition practices from many different cultures of the world.
The widespread thread unifying all these variant variations of the demise transition at all times led the soul into a brand new existence. Nonetheless, in these different traditions, with out exception, every particular person was fastidiously ready upfront, receiving clearly outlined details about the exact actions needed to realize a profitable transition to the afterlife. Someway, this important piece was lacking from “trendy” Western tradition’s puzzle and plenty of souls had been now paying the agonizing value.
For some unexplained motive, I abruptly discovered myself pondering the biblical idea that “wherever two or extra are gathered” there’s energy and energy. Aha! Maybe believing is the vital half — perhaps the “particulars” of what we consider actually do not matter a lot in any respect. Within the remaining evaluation, might it’s that the generic energy of believing (in something!) provides all of the power the human consciousness wants to flee the bodily physique and gas the soul’s journey to the “believed in” afterlife? Wherever two or extra are gathered. Propelled by the loving assist of others who genuinely care about us, it doesn’t matter what their private beliefs- might this further gas ease and pace our demise transition course of? These sudden insights landed like rock-solid fact in the midst of my being- I used to be onto one thing right here… I might really feel it!
My new understanding indicated that no specific religious perception system is superior to some other. It additionally advised that we’d very properly proceed to observe our personal fact, no matter it’s, even after we die.
I used to be ecstatic! Oh, we’re all such magnificent beings, crammed with such unbelievable everlasting energy… however how simply we neglect!
Hungry for even deeper understanding now, I journeyed many times. With every journey, I mentioned one other layer of my emotions and my intense need to supply highly effective transition assist for my father. My spirit helpers had been wanting to actively take part on this course of. They confirmed that there’s, certainly, a sacred preparation for every soul, to assist it on its approach. I realized that correct care of the soul is important for properly being each right here on the earth aircraft and within the afterlife. To my delight, the spirits had been now keen to show me this transition preparation!
Throughout subsequent journeys, numerous spirit helpers introduced themselves. They had been keen to supply assist not just for my circle of relatives members, however for humankind basically. I’ve discovered this to be true at different instances in my work as properly. That the benevolent spirits of non-ordinary actuality are simply itching for humankind to hunt their recommendation and ask the right questions. They will lastly provide us the strategies, the ceremonies, the rituals that may assist us, as a nation of human beings, to take higher energetic care of ourselves. That is exactly why they’d been instructing me to make a Transition Blanket for my father. Now I used to be lastly able to do it!
My spirit helpers instructed me to purchase blanket materials and to stitch small objects on the blanket, objects that I’d imbue with energy in shamanic phrases, “imbue” signifies the act of “blowing energy into” an object). I purchased some attractive woolen blanket materials on the Pendleton Woolen Retailer and sewed a wealthy binding across the borders. I made it a manageable dimension so a sick particular person might simply carry it to cowl himself or herself as they lay in bed, rested in a chair, or stretched out on a sofa in entrance of the TV.
With every step of building, I journeyed once more, asking for extra element in regards to the objects I ought to use for my father’s blanket. I used to be given a number of choices and determined to make 4 purple prayer tie bundles within the Lakota approach. My spirit helpers instructed me that every bundle was to carry completely different information- energy objects, religious helpers, and Reiki symbols. Every time I used to be given new info, I introduced this info again from non-ordinary actuality into strange actuality by holding my intention after which actually blowing this power into the person objects as I completed my journey.
As soon as imbued with energy, the thing now contained the precise prayers, religious helpers, Reiki symbols, and so forth. is tied onto the blanket. Despite the fact that the imbuing course of appears to be directed towards the objects, the complete blanket quickly turns into imbued with love and therapeutic energy. When the dying particular person lies below the Transition Blanket, the Reiki symbols and spirits immediately turn out to be activated (because the recipient would possibly quickly report!)
With my father’s Transition Blanket, the primary spirits to take type and motion had been the Spirits of Extraction and the Reiki Usui energy image. They entered the primary object I made. These specific spirits activate a clearing course of, eliminated any international power which may intrude into an individual’s pure (genuine) power system. Such intrusive energies are dangerous to an individual, inflicting hardship due to their low vibratory frequency. These dangerous energies embrace concern, doubt, nervousness, fear, unhappiness, and different low frequency feelings. The extraction course of permits an individual’s power system to shortly return to its pure radiant, magnificent nature- the very best vibration frequency, which is most pure for this specific soul. This immediately restores stability to the particular person on an lively degree. What a profound blessing for somebody whose physique is so gravely unwell!
The second object hooked up to my father’s blanket contained the Spirits of Soul Retrieval and the Reiki Distance Image. These spirits carry again misplaced soul elements or any divine essence an individual might have misplaced all through their lifetime. Soul retrieval restores the particular person in probably the most sacred approach, in order that when the soul begins its subsequent journey exterior of the physique it should achieve this in its most intact and full type. The Reiki distance image facilitates the soul retrieval course of. By interfacing with these benevolent spirits, misplaced soul elements or divine essence can way more simply discover its approach again dwelling to the unique host as they relaxation beneath the comfy heat of their Transition Blanket. The qualities of calmness, serenity, peace, pleasure, belief, and knowingness may also return, for these are the pure emotions of wholeness each intact soul enjoys.
I then imbued the third object with the Grasp Healers and the Reiki Grasp Symbols, opening the channels to the Common Life Power of unconditional love. A number of of those specific symbols and spirits may also assist with ache discount and encourage emotions of well-being regardless of how tough the final “bodily” days might turn out to be.
The ultimate object held the spirit helpers of Transition and Psycho Pomp (a Greek phrase for taking souls to the sunshine) and the Reiki Distance Image. The Distance image prompts what I name the angels (spirits) of transition. These angels escort the soul after it lifts from the physique. They midwife the soul to the opposite facet, to heaven or the equal realm, in keeping with that particular person’s private beliefs.
All of those sacred symbols might be activated into better energy by saying or drawing the image every time the particular person lies below the blanket. But when the recipient is just not a Reiki practitioner and even conscious of Reiki or shamanism, love and energy will nonetheless be activated just by the presence of a physique type mendacity below the blanket.
Many different small objects could possibly be used on a blanket to carry religious energy. One would possibly sew on strips of fabric, feathers, beads, or ribbons, draw photos of energy allies on cloth, later attaching these to the blanket. Shamanic journeys and data out of your allies will provide your finest steerage about this. Let your instinct encourage you. The spirits are at all times keen to assist their human family!
The Transition Blanket, now absolutely imbued with spirit helpers and Reiki symbols, will shield the person each on this world and the subsequent. As a person lies below the blanket, all of the spirit helpers might be activated and dealing with the person energetically (besides the transition helpers, which can activate solely as soon as, on the precise second of demise). The sentiments and energies that a person receives from the blanket needs to be distinctive. However remember- as with all religious therapeutic being supplied to a different, at all times ask their permission first and by no means assume they might need assist corresponding to this.
I attempted the blanket myself earlier than I mailed it off to my father and I beloved it! I might really feel the ability pouring from it. When Dad acquired his Transition Blanket, he was in stage 4 of esophageal most cancers. He skilled rapid discount in his ache degree each time he positioned the blanket over himself. He instructed me it introduced him peace and he might really feel my love.
I spoke virtually day by day with Dad by cellphone. After he acquired the blanket he typically talked about the consequences it had on him. He stated, “I really feel so a lot better. I’ve much less ache. It makes me really feel good. I really feel your love. I really feel extra at peace. It calms me.” In reality my step-mom quickly refused to depart Dad alone in the home except he had his particular blanket close by, as a result of she knew if issues received dangerous whereas she was gone, he’d have it as a prepared useful resource for immediate assist and ache administration.
Since my Dad had no prior expertise with energetic therapeutic of any variety, his phrases could not actually replicate what was occurring to him energetically. The balancing (I really feel higher), the extraction of concern (it brings me peace), the soul items returning to him (I really feel love, it makes me really feel higher) had been all clear indicators that the therapeutic spirits and Reiki energies had been working powerfully with him. What I took with no consideration and knew to be occurring on an lively degree, my father was expressing in his personal fantastically easy approach.
I earnestly consider the Transition Blanket ready my father properly for his transition. Throughout his sickness, he managed his concern and confirmed wonderful life vitality. He barely appeared unwell only a week earlier than he died His voice, coloration, and character had been robust virtually to the tip. I consider this was all a present from the blanket. When Dad’s time lastly got here, he crossed over shortly. I stay satisfied that the ultimate horror that swept over his face in these final moments was simply the dread he felt about his imminent “life evaluation” (or as he would say, “His Judgment Day”). Maybe we’ll all tremble a bit when it is our flip to have each “shortcoming” identified, one after the other?
I used to be instructed to maintain the Transition Blanket over somebody for 4 hours after demise. For an individual to “die in a great way” the time after passing should not be rushed. 4 is a sacred quantity to the Lakota and this period of time provides the soul time to transition. The quantity 4 displays the 4 components of earth, hearth, air and water, and the 4 seasons of winter, spring, summer season and fall. The 4 components of earth, hearth, air and water contained within the bodily physique should additionally transition. This, too, takes time.
If prayer ties are used on a Transition Blanket these ties needs to be faraway from the blanket to allow them to be burned or buried with the physique as soon as the demise course of is full. The blanket can then turn out to be a household heirloom, maybe for use once more when different members of the family are able to transition. The Reiki symbols and spirit helpers will reunite you shortly with family members on the Different Facet!
On the time of my father’s demise, all that I had been taught by the serving to spirits proved true. His Transition Blanket was pulled over his physique and face, the place it remained for the subsequent 4 hours. All of us breathed a sigh of reduction when the blanket mercifully hid Dad’s horrified expression.
After the designated period of time, my father was uncovered. Because the blanket was pulled again, we had been shocked by what we noticed. Dad’s face was now utterly serene, relaxed and peaceable with a slight smile on his lips. My stepmother fell to the ground in weeping gratitude. I’ve witnessed many miracles in my life however this one tops the listing.
Trying again simply 4 hours, I questioned if the spirits had orchestrated this profound change of my father’s expression simply to awaken my household. A lot stays a thriller.
This sacred blanket served us all miraculously and nonetheless brings day by day energy and luxury to my stepmother. With the blanket close by, my step-mom feels strongly related to my Dad and well-protected by the spirits. In reality, she sleeps with it each evening compact camping blanket B07QGR9CWF!
The Transition Blanket did excess of anybody anticipated. Moreover getting ready my father for his transition and subsequent incarnation, the therapeutic power of the blanket touched every of us in probably the most profound and private approach. It appears as if the spirits and Reiki power knew precisely what every of us wanted and supplied particular person healings for all of us as properly. This magical blanket definitely proved itself to my stepmother and my sisters! The tangible proof we acquired shortly erased any doubts in regards to the energy of a Transition Blanket.
My intuitive guess is {that a} Transition Blanket will possible yield completely different experiences for every particular person it serves. Compassionate spirits and Reiki energies know exactly what to do in each state of affairs. Fairly actually, we will belief them with our lives!
By sharing this story, my final intention is fulfilled- to make the highly effective idea of a “transition blanket” accessible to everybody who needs it. The way you select to use this info is left to you, and the steerage of Common Love.
The primary Transition Blanket introduced my father peace when he wanted it most. It brings me peace now. Might it do the identical for you and everybody you cherish. I invite you to arrange for the inevitable, for certainly it should come. As my circle of relatives realized, conscious preparation can shortly transmute concern into religion, fear into compassion, and nervousness into peace. That is apparently the sacred mission of the Transition Blanket. Is there any better parting reward to wrap round somebody we love?