First Responder comes for help

This new patient is a 24 year old single man who has worked as a first responder for two years. He loves his work because he loves being in a position to serve those in need. However, he has gradually become more and more depressed when he is home. He lacks energy to do anything, can't concentrate, no longer does the things he used to enjoy, such as playing in a band, riding his motorcycle. He entered into counseling for these issues and his counselor sent him to me for a psychiatric evaluation.
I found him to be a very personable, idealistic young man. He did not show any signs of mental illness. He was reacting to some very distressing events which happened on the job. He had been the first one on the scene for several very disturbing events: 1. a woman who was run over by a car as she stood in the road directing a school bus that was backing out of a driveway, 2. a still born infant delivered at home, and 3. a man who committed suicide by shooting himself in the head. These images stuck in his mind and plagued him when he wasn't busy with the demands of work.

It seemed to me that what had happened was that the souls of the recently deceased woman, the baby and the suicide had attached to him. I have found that it is common for the soul of someone who just died to attach to a sympathetic caregiver who is in the vicinity. This happens often with a friend of mine who works in a hospital and attends "code blues" or resuscitation attempts. My problem with the first responder was that I had limited time to work with him, and he had not background or expectation that I was going to do shamanic work with him. He was a good Catholic young man, with no understanding of spirit attachment, journeying in altered states, etc.

So I told him we could try some meditative work to see if that would help. I asked him to close his eyes, take a couple deep breaths and begin visualizing a warm, soft golden light filling his body by streaming gently down through his crown. I took him systematically through the body until he was filled with golden light. This greatly reduced his chronic anxiety level. He felt very peaceful and calm. Then I asked him to imagine a TV screen in front of him and to visualize the face of the woman who had been run over by the car. He was able to do this without getting greatly upset because of the preparation we had done. Then I asked him to imagine a round opening above and behind her, filled with bright white light. I asked him to imagine her turning and looking into that light, then that several angels would come and lift her into it. He was able to do this. So we did the same with the stillborn infant, and the man who committed suicide.

I never suggested that he was actually moving these souls into the World of Light. But the result was the same. He saw each of them move on into the Light.

And when we were done he said he felt much lighter and happier. He said: "I really loved that meditation."

So I encouraged him to do this meditation every time he came home from work if he had seen someone die.