Our fear of death

The work that we under take, continually sheds light on countless chief issues and from many different angles, but below I will choose to tackle one, just to give an example, however a monumental one: Death!

It is not when we alienate ourselves from the things that we fear or dislike that we become better equipped in dealing most effectively with them. And it is not either when we try to control them that we make a better job out of a difficult/painful situation. It is through understanding, accepting and sometimes, even loving some things, making them our allies that permit us to explore, to get to know and really approach them. Just think for a moment, isn’t it with the things that you are most familiar, that you feel more comfortable about? By doing so we learn to make way to our authentic feelings, the ones that rise from within, not the ones that we think are more appropriate, because of our education/culture, or our understanding of it. We obstruct the development of our natural manifestation, when we try to act in ways that we think are expected of us. Therefore never get to know who we really are.



As we begin to recognize our finitude as a natural course of life; acknowledging it for what it really is; as an inevitable living reality, which we all have to face sooner or later, we become more resilient. This enables us to simultaneously approach such themes from another perspective, as we cease living in fear of them. For example by accepting our own death, we experience it more as continuity, another cycle, a change rather than a loss. Consequently, this reality automatically allows us to admit the death of our loved ones in a new way. As my dear late Master; Dr. Michel Guerry so correctly used to say: “It is only when man ceases to fear his death that he begins to LIVE”.