Life changing experiences

We all have been through life changing experiences that left us numb and unsure of the future. When something traumatic happens in your life, it changes your whole perspective of life and gives you a new direction and reason to live. Surviving life threatening experiences or trauma can change a persons’ life forever. It can give you a new direction and purpose to life.

When these traumatic experiences happen we tend to get confused about God and his love towards us. We ask ourselves, “why me Lord?” and yet we fail to see that, if not me then who?  We begin to panic and expect the whole world to panic with us. We forget that other people are carrying on with their lives and, what is happening to us is for our own experience so we need to own up and live it through.

When times are hard people turn against you and distance themselves from you. This is caused by the negative feelings that you carry around with you, at that time. Even friends will be fewer when times are hard. This brings about feelings of hurt from within. You feel so alone and hopeless and it makes you wonder why others can be so cruel. While we concentrate on other peoples’ behaviour we neglect to see that these feeling are for our own benefit so that we take a lesson from it.

Life changing experiences make us stronger in the end. These can be anything from rejection, failure, death of a loved one or surviving a life threatening situation. Usually these situations occur when one needs to accept a calling but they are too busy with their lives to listen to the messages from the other side. We tend to dismiss most of the messages we get and concentrate on our lives and what we want to achieve in life. When messages appear in front of us we ignore them with the fear of being labelled “crazy” by others.

I have witnessed people with a calling who wait until they have near death experiences that they begin to seek spiritual advice. A lot of things will happen from minor problems in life e g. money problems, bad dreams, fatigue or minor but persistent headaches. Some people even have visions at broad daylight but still they will ignore the calling, claiming that they are still busy trying to sort out their lives.

The problem is that when you wait too long to recognise your powers, it damages your life and it makes you lose everything that you have worked hard for.

The simplest thing one needs to do is to accept the powers and start on a clean slate where one is aware of the forces that guides them. This will help in giving one a correct direction in life that makes things easy for the future. If we fight against the powers, we never seem to win. The powers will divert your life so much that you end not knowing what is right or wrong in life. Some people have turned to using muti just so that their powers can disappear. This had lead to more complications in their lives and it becomes very difficult to help these individuals in the end.

I have heard stories of magical and unbelievable things that happen to people who try and run away from the calling. Well, I don’t blame people because they run away for a reason…

Some people have survived accidents which took lives of everyone except for one with a calling. This proves that one still has a purpose to live for in life. It is sad though that others have turned into drunkards or mad people just because they didn’t want to accept these powers.

There are so many life changing experiences that shape our lives and give us a new perspective in life that it differs from one person to the other. We need to try and listen to the outside forces that are busy sending these messages to us . We need to have an open mind and an understanding of how these messages are sent and the reasons behind them.

From an early age, I always wondered about life, its’ purpose and the reason for living. I used to have these thoughts that, there was something bigger than myself that other people were not telling me. I was not satisfied with the life I lived, I felt like there must be another explanation as to why I am here.

One day, at the age of 7, I was walking from school with the others kids. Everyone was playing and having a good time but I was just quite and thinking in my head. I had all these thoughts and question and then we came into a small river which we had to cross. I was the last one at the back of the line and I saw something which stayed in my mind for a long time. The earth started spinning and I must have a heard a voice or an answer to my questions. A big rock was spinning in front of my eyes and then it turned into planet earth- remember at this age I had never seen planet earth, I did not even know what it was at that time. A voice said to me ‘there is nothing to it, you can hold it in the palm of your hands”. As a child, I didn’t  make any sense of this but later on in life, it hit me that I was shown planet earth out of nowhere.  At the split of a second, the images disappeared and I felt dizzy. My sister came to me and carried me on her back until we reached home. I forgot about this incident until the time came that I had to accept a calling.

So many other things happened in between, that were life changing experiences for me and they made me believe that my life had a greater purpose and that is to help others and improve lives where ever I can.

When I was accepting the calling and my guides asked me not to go for training, I became scared and had a lot of questions. I wondered how was I going to be able to make it on my own. My guides came and reminded me of a vision I had in broad daylight. They told me that they had been there with me all along and the vision was showing planet earth to prove to me that I can “hold it in the palm of my hand, if I put my mind to it” 

Today, I deal with people who have a calling and they come to me with different kinds of stories, some unbelievable but we as a society have found a way to ignore these things. We have managed to make people feel ashamed of accepting their powers and practice their rituals in freedom. This is a reason why people wait so long before they can accept the calling and make a decision to go onto this path.

I am also one of those people who waited too long just because there is not proper guidance out there that is making all this information available to everyone, so that people can be able to make informed decisions about their lives. Our society is quick to label people with a calling and give them degrading names like being crazy or lunatics. On the other hand, these powers are spreading everyday and want us to acknowledge them. I think it is up to us healers and spiritual people to go out there and spread the information based on our life experiences, so that people who are suffering cannot feel alone anymore.

We have to put a stop to all the myths and lies that unscrupulous healers are spreading just because they want to milk the money out of desperate individuals. People need to understand that when things go wrong in their lives, it doesn’t mean that they must go out there and buy some muti that will remedy the situation. Instead they must kneel down and pray. Prayer is the first step in sorting out your life. Then you need to own up to that problem and stop blaming others. Embrace the life experience and realise that it is making you stronger, if nothing else. Also realise that there is a greater power within you that is trying to reach out and be heard. You need to learn to combine your rituals with the power of prayer and never do anything that is against the will of God.

Whatever you do, it must be for the healing purposes and not to harm your ancestors or other people. People who use muti to try and free their ancestors always end up with major problems. Well, this is the subject for another day…

Let us be on the look out for those life changing experiences and try and learn as much as we can from them…