May 12
10
The Power of Kindness and Music
Some people say this is about the power of music but I think it is the power of kindness and compassion as well.
Dec 11
30
Ben Breedlove and The White Light
Ben Breedlove’s videos have gone viral so you may have seen this. But I want to bring attention to the fact that one more person is talking about the White Light and the fact that he didn’t want to return from wherever it was that he had gone.
What struck me was that as he talked about cheating death the first time, he seemed to really want to come back but by the end, he was saying that he didn’t want to. It makes me wonder if he made the decision to stay there on Christmas when he had the last heart attack.
My heart goes out to those who loved him and it must be incredibly painful for them, but I feel confident that Ben is where we all are working to get back to.
I have always felt something about my own Near Death Experience. It truly seemed like I had input. The Being of White Light that I was with asked me if I was ready to stay; if I was happy with my life and what I had contributed as I watched my review. The answer to that was “Absolutely not!” I didn’t like what I saw at all and I begged to come back for a chance to change some things.
It is great to see that Ben was happy with his life and I can see why he would be ready to stay 
over there. And in his longer videos, he said he believed in God, as do I, although back in that period of my life before my accident, I claimed there couldn’t be one. I couldn’t imagine a God who would create a world like the one we live in where so many people act as they do.
After having my own NDE I felt a part of something that was definitely a Greater Power. It certainly wasn’t a man on a throne waiting to judge me like I had been taught but there was a loving Presence that is a Higher Power than what I am as Teri Rose. There was a connection though that gave me access to something that I don’t have on my own. I’ve always explained it as feeling like I was a drop out of the ocean but made up of the same essense as the whole.
Like Ben, I want to go back and I do truly believe that we are re-united with our loved ones over there-the place we go when we are free from this physical plane. Those who have gone before us will be waiting for us and we will be the ones waiting for those still on the physical plane. But we will be together again. Love is a bond that cannot be broken even though there is separation.
I knew I had to come back and when I did, it felt like being stuffed back into a confined object, a physical body where I lost my freedom to be the real me.
Since that time, I look forward to going back “home” because that is exactly what it felt like. Christmas day, I believe Ben got to go home.
Nov 11
17
Too Sressed to Enjoy Life
I was struck by the information below that has been going around the internet in an email. According to Snopes.com it is a true story. It really made me think!
THE SITUATION
In Washington , DC , at a Metro Station, on a cold January morning in 2007, this man with a violin played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time, approximately 2,000 people went through the station, most of them on their way to work. After about 3 minutes, a middle-aged man noticed that there was a musician playing. He slowed his pace and stopped for a few seconds, and then he hurried on to meet his schedule.
About 4 minutes later:
The violinist received his first dollar. A woman threw money in the hat and, without stopping, continued to walk.
At 6 minutes:
A young man leaned against the wall to listen to him, then looked at his watch and started to walk again.
At 10 minutes:
A 3-year old boy stopped, but his mother tugged him along hurriedly. The kid stopped to look at the violinist again, but the mother pushed hard and the child continued to walk, turning his head the whole time. This action was repeated by several other children, but every parent – without exception – forced their children to move on quickly.
At 45 minutes:
The musician played continuously. Only 6 people stopped and listened for a short while. About 20 gave money but continued to walk at their normal pace. The man collected a total of $32.
After 1 hour:
He finished playing and silence took over. No one noticed and no one applauded. There was no recognition at all.
No one knew this, but the violinist was Joshua Bell, one of the greatest musicians in the world. He played one of the most intricate pieces ever written, with a violin worth $3.5 million dollars. Two days before, Joshua Bell sold-out a theatre in Boston where the seats averaged $100 each to sit and listen to him play the same music.
This is a true story. Joshua Bell, playing incognito in the D.C. Metro Station, was organized by the Washington Post as part of a social experiment about perception, taste and people’s priorities.
This experiment raised several questions:
* In a common-place environment, at an inappropriate hour, do we perceive beauty?
* If so, do we stop to appreciate it?
* Do we recognize talent in an unexpected context?
One possible conclusion reached from this experiment could be this:
* If we do not have a moment to stop and listen to one of the best musicians in the world, playing some of the finest music ever written, with one of the most beautiful instruments ever made . . .
How many other things are we missing as we rush through life?
Enjoy life NOW .. it has an expiration date!
Nov 11
10
Creating Heaven on Earth
I think one of the things we are meant to do is to create heaven on earth, or more like it, allow things to be as they were created to be.
Yesterday as I walked through this field in the picture on a gorgeous November day, it struck me how beautiful everything is meant to be. If we would only match our energy to that of the harmonious energy that is the Source of all things, life would be pretty darn good.
There is a natural harmony that has been disrupted by all of us as a whole. When we feel Love in our hearts and contribute that energy to the Universe, we are helping bring heaven to earth or restoring it.
When my energy turns chaotic, I look for things that will help me bring it back to its intended state of coherence. This video I found on YouTube sure helps with that!
Today I am sharing my personal thoughts. They are a response to comments I received after saying I can’t explain my beliefs that came as a result of things I understood during my nde. The comments basically said it is an “out” to say in so many words, that there are mysteries to some things, as has been stated by church leaders who don’t have answers to things.
I stand by my thoughts that some things simply are mysteries. Here is some of what makes up my reasoning on that.
If you haven’t read my “7 True Stories” it won’t make sense but they are full of things I consider to be mysteries. I am able to “manifest” things because of the way I use my mind and I am able to focus energy for healing and that truly is a mystery to me.
My stories are about things that happened to me but I know things like that can happen to you just as easily and maybe they already have.
It’s not easy to explain how I can heal a severed fingertip practically overnight or wake my boss in the middle of the night after he treated me unfairly or preserve and destroy strawberries with the way I use energy and the Light.
I don’t have the answers and I don’t know anyone who does.
Scholars and scientists get into debates over the subjects of consciousness, where the mind is, if it is separate from the brain, the power of intention etc. and they don’t have the answers or always agree.
So even though I know that I am using my mind and brain, creating intentions and manifesting things like I talk about in my stories, it is a mystery why and how it happens.
I’ve got hundreds of real life examples so I know we are powerful and that we are creators. I think that is how we are intended to live so I do. And I continue to get results that are a mystery to me because sometimes things are more complicated than they are at other times. Sometimes it is almost ridiculously easy and other times I have to work more at things. But I always get results that come when I follow my intuitive feelings and follow through with actions I feel led to perform-the Triangle For Success formula I live by and use as a basis for coaching.
So I think we are meant to use our power, not “row, row, row the boat…life is but a dream” as stated in the comments.
I have been able to glimpse things and understand some things but it took a long time to get here where I have a pretty good handle on creating change and healing. So rather than living out life in some relaxing setting, I feel driven to help others realize that there are tools and ways to work with our minds and energy to create change and improve life.
I invest a lot of time, money and energy to continue growing, learning and coaching others because my life was very depressing growing up until I found ways to change things. So I understand what it feels like to have questions that aren’t answered but I’ve found that enough of them can be answered to have peace of mind.
And those answers come when you develop the ability to quiet your mind and emotions so you can hear your inner voice, your inner GPS that does its best to get a message through to you. That message illuminates the shortest path to where you’re trying to go.
At least that is what my real life experiences have shown me.
Oct 11
21
Why Does God Allow Suffering?
I’ve been asked several variations of the same question recently so I would like to give my view on “Why does God allow suffering?” and…
“You say when you had your nde, that God was pure love. Why has he/she created this often times really crappy world with cancer, rape etc? How is pure Love capable of creating a non loving person and planet?”
I don’t think God is the one who created what seems like this really crappy world!
And here’s more of my opinion that answers “Why does God allow suffering?”
I just simply think that is the wrong question to ask. My question is, “Why do so many people continue doing things that cause suffering?”
We were given free will and allowed the freedom to do as we please rather than being told what we had to do. I think we were given a chance to be expressions of God’s Love but look what a mess we’ve made of things.
OK so here’s my rant but not without offering a solution:
We can no longer safely eat fish out of the ocean because it is so polluted with chemicals dumped there by industries that care more about making money than taking care of our planet. I don’t see that as God’s plan or creation.
Kids can no longer safely stand on the street corner and wait for the school bus because chances are pretty good that a predator might come along and do them harm. Predators have always been around but communities stuck together and helped each other out and provided support and protection.
I smiled at a girl riding her bike with her dad the other day and she glared back at me with hatred and defensiveness in her eyes. It seems she had been warned about smiling strangers and taught to see them as the enemy. What a dilemma it is for parents to keep their kids safe yet help them grow up to be well adjusted and happy adults. That’s challenging when you have to stress what they need to fear in order to survive these days.
Go into a public place like a grocery store and look at the people waiting in line. So many people are in their own little worlds and they rarely make eye contact or make the effort to say hello. It’s tough to find time between all the emails, texts, electronic games and cell phone calls now that we have cyber space to play in. We’ve lost our sense of community. Having that bond, it’s been discovered, is a great benefit to health and the sense of well-being.
We don’t eat healthy food grown in our local area by healthy people working outside in nature, moving their bodies and getting the exercise needed to stay healthy. Instead, food is being mass produced while most of us stay out of balance from no exercise, lots of unnatural lighting, being inside in unhealthy air in our environments, eating what seems like plastic food full of chemicals while watching TV shows that put mostly garbage in our minds.
People feel worse and worse physically and big pharma saves the day by creating more pills with more side effects that require more pills. If it requires any effort at all to be healthier, many people won’t do it. So people get grumpier and lazier and look for someone to sue to end their problems.
I don’t believe there is a God up there making decisions about what kind of havoc will fall or deciding what to do to cause these things to happen.
While all this spiritual independence is going on in our little world, I believe God is just being God-vibrating Love and Light. We were given free will and we have created a mess that goes against the natural and harmonious design of the universe.
We know now through new science that we are all connected and one at some level. We pull each other up or down and move through life affecting each other.
We always have a choice and had one in the beginning when things were going astray and we have a choice today. We each matter.
In my opinion, what it takes is getting back to tuning in to who and what we are-spiritual beings created out of Light and Love. I experienced that firsthand when I left my body and car in a ditch by the highway, as have many others who’ve experienced ndes.
Most of us understood things we don’t understand here on earth. We felt the oneness and the connection to the Light and received the understanding that the only thing that is important is Love.
So now we have some pretty amazing studies that show how important it is for health and well being to feel loved and cared for. We are finding that compassion enhances the brain and that meditation strengthens connections in the brain and improves brain structure and brain health.
It seems to me that we have all we need to create healthier bodies and a better world simply by loving ourselves and others and getting back to living the way we were created to live.
But how much real Love do we show to each other here on earth? How much do we go out of our way to contribute to others? That can be anything from picking up a piece of litter to smiling warmly at someone and letting them know they aren’t invisible, to just asking someone you know if there is some little thing you could do to help them in some way.
We have the power to make a difference in big and small ways and they all count.
We can also connect with our inner wisdom and feelings and let them guide the way. It might surprise you how often you find yourself at the right place at the right time.
Living that way is very powerful but if you’ve never paid much attention to that little voice inside or your “gut feelings,” then like anything that is new, it involves creating new habits and developing skills. You can get started by simply deciding to.
Mentally state to yourself and your Higher Power what your intention is or what you want and then determine to notice things going on around you more. See if you can become like a curious child and wonder how it will show up. Do your best to expect a response and be open to receiving one. It often comes in ways you least expect.
This may seem foreign to you but if you search out some of the latest discoveries about the brain, energy, intention, beliefs, emotions…you might begin to think like I do-that we are the ones shooting ourselves in the foot. God is just there being God, providing the Love and Light-the building blocks for whatever we choose to create through our thoughts, intentions and energy.
We’ve got the power to change things and it’s almost too simple. Research has shown that it takes a very, very small number of people focusing on a positive outcome with a vision that is powered by focused energy in order to make a difference.
But as long as so many people do nothing or expect change to come from out there someplace, the kind of change needed to create something different won’t happen.
There is great power in creating intentions and focusing energy and I have seen what we are capable of. That’s why I share just a few of many experiences in “7 True Stories.” My belief about who is responsible is pretty firm after all the research and experimentation with healing and manifesting I’ve done. So I stopped wondering, “Why does God allow suffering?”
Instead, I do my best to create intentions that impact where life is headed and I coach others on that process so we are making a difference. I believe we are the ones who messed things up and we are the ones who need to fix it. We certainly have the tools to do that and new discoveries that can help are being revealed all the time. We each just have to take steps to fix ourselves first and then help others.
Here’s what was instilled in me from my near death experience and life review:
I can’t control exactly what happens out there in the world but as long as I am doing something to improve myself and in turn the world, then I’m doing my part. And that’s what I want to see next time. I’m especially driven because I discovered that it is all recorded and who you are is painfully evident in your life review. I REALLY didn’t like the Teri Rose I saw in the last one!
Why Does God Allow Suffering
Heart Energy Is Powerful!
Plenty of studies show what is talked about in near death experience stories. You are more than a body and there is great power to be had by you when you acknowledge that fact and focus your energy.
When you realize the importance and power of your co-creating abilities, hopefully you will use your mental power, intentions, and focused energy to improve your life, which makes you part of the solution instead of the problem.
You can work with your brain and feed it information about your future. And you can empower your thoughts and intentions with strong feelings of Love felt in your heart. And empower them with feelings of gratitude because you have faith and belief that they will be attained.
In my opinion, the focus is in the wrong place. I don’t think we are meant to argue over religious beliefs, what things have to be called or what has to be done to get to “heaven.”
I have seen what I am capable of by simply feeling Love, gratitude and appreciation in my heart, and projecting it out into a situation with an intention for the end result. That is my first thought when I have a problem to solve.
It is powerful and it works! Yet so many people are determined to prove there is nothing to this ability we have been given.
On pages 222-225 in “The Afterlife Experiments,” Gary Schwartz, Ph.D. offers some great insight.
He is a scientist looking for scientific evidence to prove or disprove that consciousness survives death. In a series of highly controlled experiments with mediums such as John Edwards who seem to be able to provide information that comes from a deceased person, Dr. Schwartz was able to compile some astonishing data.
The statistical analysis they performed indicated the results could have occurred by chance less than one in 100 trillion times. But still, he says to himself the same words he often hears and that as a scientist, he would naturally think. “They still could have occurred by chance.”
I have to admit it. Less than one in 100 trillion times still means there is a chance!
He goes on to refer to Pavlov’s dogs that were conditioned to salivate and compares that to the way we all grew up being conditioned to make associations with certain words.
Dr. Schwartz says that many people, including himself, “suffer from an insidious form of conditioned neurosis. We’ve been conditioned since childhood to pair words like soul, and survival of consciousness with negative terms like stupid, fake, crazy, shameful, sinful, superstitious, mistaken, and even ‘too good to be true.’ Our beliefs are so thoroughly conditioned that even in the face of controlled laboratory experiments, strong negative emotions are triggered by the findings. We think ‘impossible’ or ‘fraud’ or ‘it’s too good to be true’ automatically and uncontrollably.”
That is so true and I know that firsthand. I found it to be extremely difficult to change my thinking until I found the world of energy medicine and vibrational healing back in the 1980s. But I was desperate enough to keep looking for something that would help me because of my near death experience. I did not like what I saw in my life review.
All of the pieces I discovered eventually led me to train in various modalities of energy medicine so that I can coach others on the process I use today for healing and working with goals.
My “7 True Stories” are just a few real life examples that show what you are capable of when you use your mental power and focus your energy with an intention that is felt with all your heart.
You have all the power you need to change your life but if you’re not doing it and want to, is it time to get some help? Contact Me Here.
I have had several people ask me to talk more about my NDE recently, fear and punishment, reincarnation, and what it felt like to be “over there.”
I don’t say it as often as I would like because it is misunderstood when I do but I live to get back there. Words can’t describe the peace and tranquility I felt but I also knew there were things I was sent here to do that I hadn’t done. So I wanted to come back for that reason only.
But the last thing on my mind was fear and punishment!
All that was important was learning how to be more loving by eliminating fear.
And that is why I work so diligently at getting to a place where no one can push my buttons. I’m a million times better and it’s actually pretty hard to rile me and impossible to keep me there but I still have work to do before I ALWAYS feel inner peace. But that is my lifetime goal-eliminate thoughts of fear and punishment I had been taught to believe in and exemplify the Love I experienced the day I left my body in the ditch in my mangled car.
There is no higher vibration and nothing more powerful than Love. If we act out of Love in everything we do, how can we go wrong? But that’s NOT saying we aren’t accountable by any means. Just the opposite.
I believe what goes around comes around and we are accountable for our actions and the vibrations of energy they create. There’s no such thing as a free lunch where you can create pain through your actions and then simply ask to be forgiven and go on being the same way.
Who you are inside, the part of you that vibrates a resonance that causes you to act in ways that are hurtful to yourself or others, must change. That is what I refer to as “fear energy” and it must shift to the energies that fall into the “Love” category.
We must be able to truly Love one another before we can stay in that place I think of as “heaven.”
Vibrating out the energy of anger and fear is a far stretch from the vibration of Love I experienced during my NDE. I strive to vibrate that energy here on earth and I think that is why we are here-to bring heaven to earth.
But contrary to the comments I get way too often from people who think is easy for “people like me,” it isn’t easy for me. But it IS important enough to me. So I put the effort in that it requires and I think that is what makes the difference.
It was painful to watch my life review. I was surrounded by the vibration of Unconditional Love, clearly knowing who and what I was- a spiritual being have a physical experience, and doing it so poorly. I was wasting something that seemed precious from over there. But still, it wasn’t about fear and punishment.
I really WANTED to do better!
But just like an addict who looks in the mirror and determines to do better because of what is seen and understood at that moment of truth, my problems weren’t solved just because I wanted to change. Whether it is someone with addictions or someone like me who at the time had inner pain and a feeling of being totally at the mercy of my circumstances, we all still have to follow through with the commitment determined at that moment of truth and insight.
Like most people, I have been and still am a work in progress. Because of the many years of work I have done on myself and the coaching and energy work training I have taken and use on myself every day, I have reached “critical mass” and find it pretty easy to be the one in charge of my emotions and how I react to things going on in my life.
But it wasn’t always like that. There was a time when I sure didn’t find it easy to stay “in Love” instead of fear-anger, confusion, depression, hopelessness and all the emotions that fall in the fear category as opposed to Love. But my experience taught me that fear and punishment mode is the opposite of Love mode.
So I made every effort to be “in Love.”
The effort paid off and now it’s exciting to remember where I was and see how far I’ve come. And once I got more control over my emotions and stopped reacting to life, I could use my energy in a different way to design an improved life.
After piecing things together to make sense of things, I discovered a way to work with my brain and energy that was very powerful. I became convinced that we are meant to use mind power and intention to create a better world for everyone. And the basis of that is creating “Love energy” that can be focused with a vision to bring about tangible changes.
My life is full of stories with plenty of examples that demonstrate the power we have to create change by using our mind power and energy on purpose and with purpose.
I work with my formula I call Triangle For Success every morning first thing to set the day and every night as I go to sleep to wake up with ideas and insight whenever I want to see change happening in my life. Emotions and the feelings experienced because of them are truly a language that speaks a message to the field of energy that we are all a part of. Positive heartfelt emotions, self talk or the story that is told in your head and the vision that plays on your mental screen influences what shows up as life.
I work with this process and live it every day because results come from focusing mental power and energy in a way that allows The Universe to deliver what you have in mind.
And fear energy, as I clearly saw during my NDE, has no place in the process. So it makes sense to me that we are given opportunities to eliminate fear and punishment by becoming the loving beings we are intended to be. And I think we are given the opportunity to do that one place or another, until we get it right. So I remain open to all possibilities.
Mary Jo Rapini, Dr Jeffrey Long, Meredith Viera
The lady in this video explains something very difficult to put into words that is common in near death experience stories. NDE stories are filled with attempts to describe the Love encountered. Her perception of things from her NDE is very close to what I experienced.
I am driven to change everything I possibly can regarding who I am and what I resonate from deep down inside because of my near death experience story. I will never forget being asked the question that must be paraphrased because it was more of an understanding than words that were spoken.
The Being of Light who was resonating Unconditional Love showed me a review of my life and asked if this is what I wanted to offer back and resonate out to others.
All I could think of was how badly I wanted a chance to come back and do better. I knew this out of body experience had to end in order to go back but I knew I must. The only thing that seemed important to me was to develop the ability to love others just as I was being loved right then and I knew I had to go back to earth and physical form to do it.
(You can sign up for my 7 True Stories and videos on the right for more about my NDE story and others that show how very powerful we are. I believe we are meant to use the power we have been given to improve our lives and that’s what helps the whole world.)
Here is just one more example of what can happen when you catch yourself telling a negative story (fortunetelling) and then make the shift to using mind power and intention.
As you may have heard me mention, at one point in my life very amazing things were happening that I knew were the result of my time spent visualizing and using mind power. I got scared and threw everything away, convinced that I was doing something evil.
One of the things was a simple little book called “The Man Who Tapped The Secrets Of The Universe” by Glenn Clark. Away it went into the trash but I never forgot the image on the front of the hardback book. It was of a man wearing a suit coat, tie, and cap, standing there in a thoughtful pose with the entire universe as the backdrop.
Over the years, I really regretted throwing everything out and I never forgot the impact that little book had on me. I really couldn’t even remember what the book was about exactly other than that he seemed to be able to manifest something he wanted by putting his mind to it.
About a year ago, I decided to look for it, found it on Amazon and ordered it. I was so disappointed when it arrived. It was paperback with a solid yellow front cover.
I didn’t even read it. It hurt just to look at it and not see the image that had meant so much to me many years ago. And painful to remember that period in my life when I trashed so much valuable information.
The book had spoken to me and his face on the cover symbolized this new world of possibilities that had opened up to me in reading it. It was very simply written but brought profound insight to me that caused me to realize the power of the mind.
It took many months before I had one of those “Duh” moments after catching my negative self-talk about how dumb it was to throw that book out, how it’s out of print and that I’d never get it back.
Just like my story “The Roof” in my “7 True Stories,” I stopped myself and created something different. I saw myself happily gliding back and forth in my chair in the back yard where I like to sit and read. I saw the image of the man on the cover and I felt gratitude in my heart that the book had found its way to me. And then I released the feeling to The Universe.
What do you think showed up in the mail last week? THE BOOK!
My friend Annie saw it on eBay and bought it for me as a surprise because she had heard me talk about it. But here’s the thing. I talk about lots of books a lot of the time.
What made her follow through and buy this one and send it to me “Just Because!” as her note said?
Powerful stuff if you ask me!
Please share your stories or comments below.