While in deep grief, Joanna is energetically propelled into an Out of Body Experience, where she sees her departed husband, Michel, quickly appear with a concerned look on his face as he responds to her surprise of seeing him.

Joanna writes:
“I got into bed and was settling down for the night.  I was having a really rough evening, I was missing Michel so much.”

“It was cold, and I was snuggling under the blankets.  My daughter came in, and I started to feel odd.  As she laid down on the bed to the left of me (in her dad’s spot, part of her goodnight routine), my body started humming with energy.  The room slowly filled with vibrations as she and I spoke (and cried) about how badly I was feeling.  My head started to buzz, like it does when I have an out-of-body experience.  My daughter said that she did not feel anything herself, but she could feel the bed slightly vibrating from my body.  Suddenly to my right, next to the bed, I caught a quick image of Michel, standing right next to me, watching me with a concerned look on his face.  It was so real and so sudden that I gasped out loud!  My daughter was worried by my outburst, but when she heard that I had seen a flash of her dad, she was disappointed that she had not.”

“She left the room for a second, and in that moment, I realized that there were still two of us in the room.  I was not alone – Michel was there, and I was still vibrating.  When my daughter returned, I then felt that all three of us were in the room.  Together again, my little family. I just laid there, enjoying the sense of us all together, the knowledge that Michel was in the room.  My daughter and I spoke to him, making jokes, telling him that we love him.  Slowly, the vibrations and energy faded; and after about 10 minutes, I could feel that my daughter and I were the only two left.”

“Since his passing, I have had three instances when I felt Michel get into bed next to me, felt the weight of his body on his side of the mattress.  The first time it happened, I thought that my daughter or my dog had gotten on the bed, and I turned to look, wondering how I had missed them coming into the room – but no one was there.  An episode that stands out: It was another rough day, several months after Michel had passed.  I was napping on my side when I woke up to the feeling of someone getting into bed behind me.  Suddenly, I felt Michel wrap his arms around me, and I was enveloped with such a tremendous sense of his love for me.  Up to this point, I had been sending my love to him, in wave after wave.  This time was the first that I had felt it returned, and with interest!  I was stunned by the beauty and depth of his love for me.  It was awe-inspiring.  It is so hard to describe.  I truly experienced it, like I was feeling it exactly as he did.  I am so grateful for the moment, and I return to the memory of it again and again when the grief drags me down.”

Commentary- Our departed loved ones are very aware of us, even when it feels like they are far, far away. I have to laugh when I think of Michel with a concerned look on his face, when Joanna was able to briefly see him standing there before disappearing again. Perhaps they don’t want to scare us or they would appear to us more frequently. But, probably not.

When we experience an out of body experience (OBE), there is a change in our energetic frequency. As Joanna describes in her experience, it’s common to feel that humming, buzzing sensation when we begin to separate ourselves from the physical confines of our bodies. However, it mostly happens when we are in a sleep state, so we may not even notice it, or if we do… we may just associate this sensation with falling asleep or waking up. What Joanna experienced is called a waking Out of Body Experience and this is a very magical thing to experience, but can be quite surprising. Joanna was fortunate to be present for it and knowledgable enough to be able to identify what was happening in that moment.

Out of Body experiences can be triggered by many things- a sleep state, a conscious effort to leave the body, as in practice or/and meditation. Sometimes trauma can separate a person from their body as well, however drastically or slightly. If one is familiar with what the signs/symptoms are, it is really amazing to experience the moment when it happens.

Normally, our physical frequency is dense in comparison to those of our spirit energy or the spirit energy of those who have gone on. But with the living, it’s like our very body grounds us to this physical realm. The denseness of our bodies constantly remind us that we live in the physical realm where we eat, sleep and go through the motions of being a physical being.  Most of the way we view ourselves and the world is through our physical perceptions.

When a departed loved one can be seen, like Joanna saw her beloved husband, Michel, it was because- between the two of them, and their compatible energy fields, they were able to meet in the same wave length for a moment in time. It’s very cool to realize that we are only frequencies away from actually seeing one another.

But, perhaps the best thing of all, was the gift he gave her that she is able to intensely recall and never forget… this was the energetic love Michel sent Joanna, so she would know of the boundless love he feels for her, even now… and even beyond the grave. This is to demonstrate to her that spiritual love never dies, it just keeps getting stronger than ever before.

You can read more about grief and ways to cope with it, here.