One of the most important things we can do while still living is to engage in some form of end of life planning. End of life planning gives you an opportunity to step into the dying process from a place of conscious awareness where you can begin to cross your t's and dot your i's. Pre-planning gives you the chance to enter into the dying process knowing exactly how you would love your final day to be celebrated. 

Moving into this process of attending to your affairs gives you the insight to take care of any unfinished business to the best of your ability now. For instance, is there any debit that will remain after you're gone ? Who will be responsible for this once you're gone? Do you want an open or close casket? What funeral home would you like? What can of coffin, etc.? Have you designated a health care agent for yourself?While these are uncomfortable questions to think about now while you're still alive, they are important to address because often time, your loved ones are left with stressful situations that are difficult for them to handle. Pre-planning helps to soften some of the emotional, and financial anxiety that comes with the lost of a loved one.

Having a plan which details your wishes and desires gives a gift to those you are leaving behind. Often times family members are ill prepared to plan a funeral and the stress of deciding what to do may cause conflict among family members. The idea of creating your plan as morbid as it may sound, gives your love ones an opportunity to fully grieve without having to change emotional gears to plan which disrupts the grieving process. They may choose to delegate someone else to do the planning which offers them more time to be in that still place of the heart.

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Each day we are given a gift of life and we get an opportunity to decide how we will show up. Just like in life in death we can choose to leave a footprint that leaves the least amount of negative residue to those we are leaving behind. In stepping into this process, you are in walking the courageous path of the sacred warrior willing to embrace all the avenues of life.