Practical Wisdom: Living 5D in a 3D World
Integrating higher consciousness into everyday life—one miracle at a time!
Hello, Beloved!
Last week, I drove down from the mountains to Denver to have the stitches removed from three tooth extractions and to receive ozone injections to support the healing. It felt like a simple follow-up appointment — the kind you expect to be in and out of, checking a box and moving on with your day.
Instead, it became a portal.
My holistic dentist gently explained that the ozone shots would sting a little. The first one did. The second hurt more. And the third… cracked something wide open. The pain was excruciating — but what followed wasn’t just physical. A floodgate opened, and I found myself sobbing uncontrollably, tears pouring out as if my body had been waiting decades for permission to release something it could no longer carry.
She held my hand. She waited. She apologized again and again. She hugged me. And eventually, I stood up, disoriented, tender and teary-eyed, and walked out into the world feeling as though something ancient had shifted.
The drive home took an hour and a half — from the Denver valley back up to the snow-covered mountains where I live. I left the gray, heavy air behind and drove straight into pristine white snowfall. And somewhere on that climb, meaning began to organize itself without effort.
The root canals I’ve been removing felt like more than dental procedures. They felt like untethering from old density — from ways of living rooted in fear, people-pleasing, and the quiet hope of not being abandoned. The valley began to feel like my old 3-D life — decades of unconscious patterns and familiar relationships I’ve outgrown. The mountain felt like the higher altitude of consciousness I’ve been stabilizing into over the last ten years.
What I didn’t fully understand in the moment — but came into focus as I drove — was that the third ozone shot had opened a deeper layer of grief that had been quietly held in my body for years. Along with the grief of leaving behind an old life, I felt the sadness surrounding my adopted son, Tony, choosing distance from our family. I honor his desire to find his own voice and his own truth. And at the same time, I honor the very human experience of feeling abandoned — not as a victim, not as a story to analyze, but as a mature recognition that love does not exempt us from feeling loss.
This grief did not feel like a wound reopening. It felt more like a soul contract gently loosening its grip — not necessarily ending, but pausing, or asking to be rewritten. As his mother for twenty-five years, I can hold both truths at once: that our relationship gave him something real and meaningful, and that it could not replace the origins he needed to reconcile within himself. This felt symbolic of a larger truth I am learning to live — that we are meant to be fully in this world, allowing ourselves to feel its changes honestly, while recognizing that the clarity now guiding me is not of this world. From that clarity, what flows is not judgment or grasping, but a love that is fresh, spacious, and free.
Within hours of getting home, my body asked for rest in a much louder way.
I developed a deep, barky cough. Over the next few days, I slept almost around the clock. My energy vanished. My chest ached from coughing. Eventually, my oxygen levels dropped low enough that my daughter insisted we return to urgent care. I came home with an oxygen tank, medication, and a very clear instruction from Life itself: Stop. Rest. Receive.
It was during those long, quiet days that something unexpected happened.
The oxygen tank makes a steady mechanical sound — a forced breath. It is exactly the same sound that filled the room when my mother was dying years ago, when hospice equipment was keeping her body alive. Back then, that sound haunted me. It activated my fear of death — a fear that eventually propelled me into a deep spiritual inquiry.
But now… listening to that same sound, I felt no fear at all.
Nothing mystical was added.
Nothing human was removed.
Only fear lost its job.
The sound became neutral. Almost comforting. Matter-of-fact. It reminded me — not of death — but of continuity.
There is no death. There is only transition.
And even more clearly: resurrection is not something that happens after the body dies. Resurrection is the remembering of Spirit within the body — while we are still here, still breathing, still living ordinary human days.
This is what A Course in Miracles has been gently teaching me this week, especially through Lesson 163:
“There is no death. The Son of God is free.”
I’m not ready — nor interested — in teaching from this expanded state yet. I am still settling into it. Still letting my nervous system acclimate to a life no longer organized around fear, urgency, or proving anything.
And that feels important to say.
Because the Course does not ask us to perform enlightenment.
It invites us to allow fear to dissolve — one honest moment at a time.
This week, my peaceful mind grew quiet enough to let human emotions move freely — not analyzed, not denied, not rushed toward insight. Just lived.
And for now, that is enough.
I’m not offering conclusions.
I’m offering presence.
A front-row seat to integration as it unfolds.
Lainaism
“Awakening doesn’t remove our humanity.
It simply removes fear’s authority over it.”
If you are in a season where your body, your heart, or your life is asking you to slow down — you are not failing. You are listening.
And if fear has begun to lose its job in your life, even a little — trust that what replaces it won’t be something dramatic.
It will be something simple.
Breath. Rest. Peace.
And the quiet knowing that nothing real has ever been at risk.
With love,
Founder, The Awareness Academy
“There is no death. The son of man is free."—ACIM, Lesson 163
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