Mary Ann Winkowski & 3 truths about ghosts

Mary Ann Winkowski is the woman whose life is the basis for t.v. show Ghost Whisperer.  She has written a fascinating book entitled, When Ghosts Speak.  In this work, she offers a glimpse into how she sees an talks to earthbound spirits.  She explains some humans see spirit from birth and other humans evolve to discern spirit presence later in mortal life. 

If you choose to believe that you are an energy being, then you may begin to wonder about the depth of knowledge available to you before and after you leave this world.  In fact, you may begin to generate endless questions about ghosts and spirit.  Mary Ann offers insight to empower you to rethink how you view life on the Earthly plane and imagine existence beyond:

1) Earthbound spirits do not possess any special, higher knowledge.  They may even go out of their way to give wrong information.  They are unable to offer higher guidance because knowledge about immortal life is available to spirits who have passed over.

2) Ghosts do not always leave a strong presence with odors, sounds or cold drafts.  These are the kinds of things you hear about in popular books and movies, but drama can be far from the truth.  As you heighten sensitivities, you may be surprised at what you sense.

3) Never underestimate the significance of dream encounters.  If you sense earthbound spirits are very similar to the living, then you may grow to interact with them during night dreams.  Spirit visit and convey messages in forms you expect or not.  You see them your way.  In fact, perception or detection of spirit personalities can be very different.

5 reasons to feel motivated at this moment

In all likelihood, you got out of bed today. The heart knows precisely why even if the mind is in denial.  This is beyond the basic call of Mother Nature and desire to pass on the bedpan. 

You may infer that you have not yet finished what you started or, that you have no idea what motivates you to go on.  Yet, something does. Otherwise, you would not still be here.  Conside these five reasons to feel motivated at this moment and reflect further on your own;

1) You desire to view the world differently.

2) You realize you readily shift your perception.

3) You have abilities to replace discomfort with love and peace.

4) You begin to grasp limits begin and end in your mind.

5) You have no reason to fear, unless it is an illusion. 

"At one stage in life, I was motivated by just thinking that if you had all this external success that everyone would love you and everything would be peaceful and wonderful."
-Alanis Morissette

What does your perception tell you?

A sense of purpose gives something meaning.  When you feel your life has purpose, you feel motivated to behave in certain ways, to make certain choices.   Purpose is created by the ego and reinforced in perception.  At a given moment, you convince yourself about whatever you like.  As the result, you may be misusing or misinterpreting your senses.

What if you decided your goals, your sense of what is useful, necessary or important, were all suspended?  What if you chose to believe how you experience the physical world is a meaningless distraction from where you truly desire to be?  Could this reveal a side of yourself that you have been unaware of or, unwilling to see?

To stand back from your routines and habits enables you to view your life vert differently.  When was the last time you really had a sense of why do what you do?  Your Earthly perception rows from a sense of personal interests, that is, what you hope to gain.  As you detach from personal interest , you begin to realize you exert effort on nothing for no reason.  If you are determined to reorient your mindset, then this happens as you explore reasons for which you do things.

Take the phone, fax or email.  You use these tools to contact people who are not immediately or physically in front of you.  And yet, part of you is unsure why you desire to communicate.  You bother contacting some yet, do not make the effort in others.   Why?

Something invisible, some inner knowing, causes you to feel each of your efforts is meaningful.  You choose to perceive or discen purpose.  If you give up any sense of motivation then where would you be?  No human perception could offer definitive clarity.

Your evolving mind is guiding you in new directions.  The underlying purpose for your action is beyond your understanding.  Since birth, your soul has slowly expanded to get you where you are at this moment. Your dreams  elaborate on the energy you sense and feel.  You shift focus from subject to subject because you choose to see differently.

Stop fooling yourself

People around you are forever telling you what they believe you can or cannot do.  And yet,  will you always choose to believe other people or, will you evolve to become more attuned to yourself? What if you were evolving to perceive paranormal as your 'normal?'

Take for example that you periodically get premonitions, but do not make much of them.  You may have travel plans on a particular vessel and cancel your plans last minute on an impulse.  When you learn the vessel later hit a hurricane and sunk, then you may think differently about the motivation behind your apparent impluse.  Is there more to that?

Think back to your school days.  Recall how you always sensed which student would raise their hand before they did?  Recall how you knew whether or not you did well on a test, whether you would be chosen to be on the sports team, whether you would feel comfortable or not with certain peers?  This shows you read energy.  You still do.  You know comfort and discomfort, and yet, part of you doubts.  You have to learn to trust.

Some dreams you recall may be explained by tools you have at your disposal in the physical world.  Other dreams may seem whimsical or purely imaginary.  These dreams can also be fragments of your experiences in other let's say, 'spiritual' dimensions.  In the spirit world, you are free of inhibitions that restrict your thinking on the Earth plane.

Part of you presumes you exist in a physical reality and everything else is superfluous.  Another part of you knows that reality is the invisible energy that surrounds you.  This knowing side of you realizes the law of attraction appoints your spirit guides. 

As you evolve to stop fooling yourself, you begin to realize that any spiritual activity you are willing to discern depends on you.  You create the mindset and conditions through which events can unfold and be recognized.  As you attune to your surroundings, you intuit the behaviour of matter based on inner connectedness.  What does this entail?

Intuition is how you become aware of spirit and spirit raises awareness of itself.  This goes beyond conditioned reasoning.  You discern, know and decide without question.  You do this more often than you realize.  You are attuning to what matters,  using extra-sensory perception.  This is an opportunity to deepen unwavering faith and expand awareness of your true faculties. You do it already.  Stop fooling yourself otherwise. 

You are never upset for reasons you assume

Anytime you react to a person or situation, you do so based on your adopted beliefs or assumptions.  You may feel justified because you feel upset or, you feel as though you must vent somehow since events are not going your way.  What if none of that matters?

Whenever you get upset, this signals you desire to unload certain kinds of energy.  To nurture distressing thoughts and hold them inside is a way you disturb your peace of mind.  If a relaxed state of mind is your core state, that is, where you begin and return, then you have reasons why you create the illusion of anything else.  Why would that be?

People create hierarchies of importance.  These are illusions.  One kind of upset is not more or less serious than another.  You can evolve to believe the form of any source of distress in your life matters less than recognizing it is an ego strategy to distract you.

Consider you never worry for reasons you think.  You are never angry for reasons you think. Every reaction has a lag time from its catalyst.  As you learn to follow the thread of your feelings back to reasons why you create them, then your emotional states will no longer control you as they do now. Perception distracts you from meaningful growth.