Insights

Dear Readers,
I have created Insights as a vehicle to answer your questions on afterlife communication. My intent is to bring you comfort and even hope. Each month, I will explore a different topic pertaining to afterlife communication. Please contact me with your questions and inspirational stories. Be patient if you do not see your question or story published right away; it will be chosen in relationship to the current topic.

When you are in grief, you feel so alone. But the loneliness you feel is your physical body trying to accept the devastation you have just experienced.

What I hope you can learn to accept is that the loneliness you feel is real but the fact that your loved one is gone is an illusion. As many spiritual teachers have said, "you are a spirit having a human experience, not a human having a spiritual experience." Your spirit is having an experience of loneliness but the reality to your spirit is that it is still in oneness with your loved one's spirit.

When the physical body dies, the spirit moves into other dimensions. During its ascension into heaven, the spirit stops at a dimension of rest. Throughout the time of rest, the spirit may or may not be able to check on its loved ones on Earth. During this time, the bond you share with your loved one has not been broken. You may feel an absence but when the rest period is over, your loved one's spirit will communicate with you in many different ways.

Meditate, listen, and be open to the signs, and you will be divinely surprised.

Love and Peace,
Marianne

Dear Marianne,
My husband died three months ago, and my life has been so empty. I feel totally alone. I read your book, and I am trying to do the meditations so I can feel his presence. I try and try but feel nothing. The grief is stronger than the belief that he is watching over me. How can I feel his presence and know it is really he?

Sandra

Dear Sandra,
The first thing I would like to tell you is please take some time to embrace your grief. When the grief is stronger than the belief, it is harder for your husband to make himself known. Allow yourself to cry. Allow yourself to find acceptance that your life has severely changed, and the change you have experienced was totally against your wishes. Give yourself time, be gentle with yourself, and forgive yourself. As this process unfolds, your belief will become stronger than the grief. Then you will be able to see the signs your husband is sending you.

Just keep remembering he is not gone. You have not lost your husband. Death is truly a transformation of the soul going back home. Life on earth in the physical body is only a temporary experience. In its natural state, the spirit is free from the body.

Sandra, I know this is a difficult time, but I know if you search hard you can make it through and even find wisdom in this painful experience.

I am now going to share words of inspiration I have received from other clients.

Love and Peace,
Marianne

Dear Marianne,
It has been one year since my son died in an accident. I thought he was gone forever. I have worked hard on allowing myself to grieve. I attended your workshop, and I kept reading the positive intentions you handed out at the workshop. The days became easier for me to face. I then started to see signs from my son.

First it was songs on the radio. My son liked a specific type of music that is not commonly aired. Then his beeper would go off with no number attached. But the most important thing I did was listen to what you said and I believed it was he, and I felt much warmth and love.

Thank you.
Donna Vaccaro

Dear Marianne,
I just want to thank you. I was once a skeptic, but now that I've allowed myself to believe, I know my wife is watching over me.

I fall asleep in the chair in front of the television and wake up with the television turned off. She turned off the TV when she was alive and she is still turning it off.

Thank you.
Ben Fargo