Dying to Self?

 This is an important concept for everyone to know about.

In psychology I heard it called "Dying to Self".

However, in other ways of thinking about it it is also:

Hope

Springs Eternal

If we die daily

This concept might seem foreign to you or not but it is also the dying to self concept as well at it's core.

I can remember, for example, a bad breakup with a girlfriend or other profound disappointment in life and crying myself to sleep so no one could see me cry and saying to God: "I cannot deal with this God. Let me die! I cannot live on. Take me God!"

And I would give everything to God as if I was dying and wake up a new person in the morning having let go of how I felt the night before.

I feel survival long term needs some way to do this otherwise people often self destruct physically if they don't know how to die to self instead in some way.

Over the years this concept has evolved for me in that the way it now forms for me is experiencing God overwhelming me as I go to sleep.

I experience God while I say the words in my mind: "God is Here" over and over again until I fall asleep. I find this is the most restful sleep when I do this.

Even when you think about what the first priests were which is shaman in tribes.

What causes a shaman?

IN cultural Anthropology as I studied it in college first in the early 1970s "A Shaman is someone who psychologically died while their body went on living. As a result of this death or deaths this person becomes in touch with both the living and the dead and often can help heal people in many ways because of this.

I remember reading about this and I went: "Oh. This makes sense of why I'm the way I am. I also died many times especially between ages 10 and 15 from concussion caused seizures. And each time it was like being murdered and I only survived because I was still young enough to survive this.

So, as a result I actually became a shaman which is what the earliest tribal Medicine people were called.

So, if you want to live a long time it is necessary to learn to "Die to Self".

Is it necessary to believe in God to do this?

I don't think so. I think you could approach this also from a humanitarian point of view or a Buddhist point of View in addition to believing in God point of view.

The point of this is that life can be very disappointing at times and if you don't know how to "Die to Self" then you might just physically die instead.

So, it's a choice whether you die to self and keep your body alive or whether you physically die because you haven't learned yet to die to self.

My choice of living with the angels and learning to die to self and to God and to the Angels is why I'm still alive today at 75.

If you die your family and friends will be destroyed by it. It's better to stay alive and learn to die to self and to stay alive and be of comfort to all you love and all your friends.

By God's Grace