I am very sensitive when it comes to energy now. I can feel when I am onto some train of thought that pulls me down. I’ve been experimenting a lot with this idea lately. For instance last week when I was working on a piece of art, I became aware that I was criticizing myself for not going fast enough; then I started sticking myself with the needle (I was working on a quilt). I put everything away, went into another room, sat down and focused on how well everything is going. I told myself about the areas of my life where I was experiencing some amazing unfolding, and how I was ready for more. My vibration immediately shifted.

When I leave my house, however, it’s a little more challenging to guide my energy. It seems as if there is a dominant force vying for my attention and focus, and it can become overwhelming if I am not careful. It’s like what happens when a celebrity dies. Everyone is talking about it, tweeting about it, Facebooking about it. It’s on the radio and the television. It is energy consumption at its best. Then after two weeks, maybe less, depending on who the celebrity was, it’s all over, until the next one dies.

If the celebrity doesn’t die of natural causes, which people rarely do nowadays, then their deaths become a national and sometimes international focus. For example, Michael Jackson’s death resulted in movies, documentaries, books, conspiracy theories, and lawsuits. It’s rare that he doesn’t appear on the front page of the National Enquirer or some other more respectable magazine that bemoans him, and some others, like Whitney Houston, for having left us all too soon. Even though the celebrity may have left an indelible impression on the world, their passing, surely, places the world in some precarious condition for which it will never recover.

I am not saying that we should stop honoring the lives of people who we have come to know and love, whether they are entertainers, like Whitney Houston, political figures, like Nelson Mandela, or social activists like Pete Seeger. What I am suggesting is that we seem to disconnect or separate these people from the circle of life–from the creation process–which includes death. After all, we all arrive here on round-trip tickets.

This celebrity death phenomenon shifts our focus away from the celebration of our own divinity. There is not one of us who does not have the talent and creativity that Michael Jackson had. I am not saying that every one of us can do the “moon walk.” What I am saying is that everyone has a talent to share with the world, one that can change it, like the talents of Michael Jackson, Nelson Mandela, Princess Diana, Whitney Houston, Robin Williams, Maya Angelou, and many, many more.

What we do, I think, is look at these celebrities’ lives, and then to ours, and tell ourselves, maybe unconsciously, that we will never be like them, not knowing that they are a reflection of us. We won’t believe that however because we believe that what we feel passionately about, what we love to do, can have no impact on the world. We live out the days of our lives allowing our energy to be focused on the “special” ones among us, while we take our talents back on our return trip.

Finally, focusing on the passing of these celebrities, the way we do now, focuses our attention away from the point of our own lives.

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