I learned a wonderful metaphor that helps me get quickly in touch with Spirit. It was offered by Dannion Brinkley (http://www.dannion.com/) in a keynote speech and I have embellished here:
Imagine an incubator for premature infants with the gloves attached to it. Imagine putting your hands into the gloves and holding the tiny baby inside. Now imagine that instead of a preemie, all the dramas and traumas of your whole life are inside the incubator. Your focus is very intense! Again, notice the gloves that give you an opportunity to move and manipulate what is inside the incubator of your life. Go ahead, feel into your life. Well, here’s the deal (explained by someone who has died and returned three times):
When you cross over to the other side, all you do is soften your focus away from the contents of the incubator, and then move your hands out of the gloves and return to who you are – Spirit. That’s it… Isn’t that great?
…Uh, except for the part where you then get to become all the people with whom you have ever interacted to really know and understand how they felt…YIKES!
I now use the image of the incubator when I make my life too serious or intense. And then when I’m in traffic or trying to go over my erroneous bill for the fifth time with the customer service representative, I try to remember that whatever I’m dishing out will indeed return to me after I take my hands out of my gloves!