Its the new year 2010, January and every day here in Maine, its snow , snow and more snow. Gloom, gloom and more gloom. And we are all freezing our rear ends off. The last decade of problems have not disappeared even though its now 2010. If you have a life threatening economic problem,if you have a life threatening emotional and physical problem, how on earth, does one find strength , stamina and faith to survive and even thrive?

The epitome of a tragedy we hear about is the old plane crash. Who hasn’t heard by now about the “Miracle on the Hudson” about that US Airways flight 1549 airplane that had a bird get sucked into its engine, cause the engine to die and the plane to have to make a miraculous landing into the Hudson. They say that dozen of people on flight were praying en unison and faith in a higher Divine Power coupled with depending on a wonderfully trained human pilot brought the miracle. People who come in- between the cross-hairs of  extra-ordinary events where Heaven and Earth cooperate to bring about the seeming impossible, are never ever the same physically and emotionally.

When faced with a life-threatening event, the high stress can change your brain’s perception of reality. Maybe this is our in-born machinery for a mystical experience because we are all capable of having one during life-threatening, the highest stress states. How? Whether its the Car Crash, the surgery, the plane crash, that excruciating emotional tragedy, extreme stress releases Cortisol, Norepinephrine, opiates, changes in oxygen and God-know’s what else (pun intended) which stun your temporal lobe brain areas and then… Time, space, and what you can see and hear become more adapted toward mysticism.

During one plane crash, a survivor said that he saw the white steamy-like clouds, leaving peoples bodies. As he was trying to claw his way out of the fuselage, he noticed that some people’s clouds were huge, while others were very small. This crash survivor was a very normal, non-new age kind-of guy. Later, he learned that these white things were probably the soul auras as that were leaving the crash victims bodies. The bigger the aura, the greater the life purpose/ the deeds that the person had while on the earth. From that day on, that plane crash survivor developed faith that he had never had before. And that day he began to try to live more fully. Because he wanted one of those big souls.

If you have a life threatening economic problem,if you have a life threatening emotional and physical problem, how on earth, does one find strength , stamina and faith to survive and even thrive? You must go beyond earth to find strength, and stamina to survive a life threatening, life-stopping problem. Please join me in tomorrow’s radio show “I’m a Believer” How Faith and Prayer affects a Life Threatening Illness”.  Please let me know in this blog how your faith has gotten you through the worst.

When I was growing up, I realized that in every grade, in every classroom, there was a bully, a trouble maker that the teacher was always trying isolate..the one individual who seemed to be ground-zero for the production of mayhem and foolishness (to quote Niecy Nash on Clean House, that wonderful TV show on Style Network). Niecy Nash is a comedian and she and her crew each week go into a house that’s an absolute mess, filthy, a horror, and try to drag out all the bad furnishings, the ridiculous decor and well, clean house. At the end of the show, the family is introduced to their new home that has been exorcised from their previous clutter demons. The house is pristine. Lemon fresh.

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could “Clean House” emotionally in our own lives, clearing out those one or two very difficult people , who, through their mayhem, foolishness, nonsense and drama, can often aggravate us to the point of illness.

Do you have a difficult loved one who is driving you crazy? and quite literally making you sick? Letting me know in this blog how you have dealt with it. And please join me on www.Hayhouseradio.com, for this week’s radio show, entitled “Let it Be: How to Stay Well while Dealing with a Difficult Loved One”.

I spend a lot of time during the day watching TV shows and lately there are a lot of stars dying for some reason.. Farrah Fawcett died of colon cancer. Michael Jackson died of a probable drug-related problem. Walter Cronkite died of a stroke/vascular disease. Steve McNair, Ex NFL quarterback was murdered.

You can see all of this outlined at the website www.hollywoodmemoir.com. They have an entire forum on celebrity deaths which gets pretty ridiculous. One the website one can see 246 posts under celebrity deaths, 91 posts under “minor celebrities” (whatever that is), 1 post for “still alive” and finally an amazing 2 posts for a category entitled “trivial deaths”. With the exception of this very peculiar statement, you will be greatly relieved to find that celebrities die from the same types of illnesses as the rest of us. Looking at this list we see most of the top three major deadly illnesses represented. #1 heart disease/stroke #2 cancer #3 addiction/substance abuse related accidents 4# murder.

We all have to die sometime; its the only way to get off the planet …However everyone of us wants to stay alive long enough to love a family, a partner, find passion, our true work, develop our voice, our intellect and our spirituality. A life threatening illness is natures wake-up call to let you know that you need to reevaluate your life purpose and help your recreate one in partnership with God, the Universe or a higher power that you believe in.  Today’s radio show on www.Hayhouseradio.com is going to teach you the medical intuitive and mind-body solutions  to our most common life threatening health problems.

Please share with me and the community on this blog how you or a loved one have turned your life around after a life threatening illness.