Breathe in Life – Interview with Dorothea Delgado

The Buddhists have a saying that when the student is ready the teacher will appear. The literal translation of that saying is very true. As with any saying or proverb or parable, additional interpretations also can apply.

Taking that into consideration, the above mentioned saying also applies to the people who cross your path. For one of the many great things about life is that the people who are a part of your life are there for a reason. Even the person who is your cashier at the store is meant to be.

I have been fortunate to come across some really amazing souls who are doing what they can to heal the world. Today, I want to introduce you to a spiritual counselor and teacher who is truly a being of love and light. Her name is Dorothea Delgado.

Dorothea has been in my life for the last three years and her knowledge about spirit is truly amazing. I have learned a lot from her and will share some of it with all of you but first let me tell you more about her life.

Dorothea currently resides in Key West, Florida but she is originally from Germany. When she was a young girl, she used to love to go out into the woods and wonder around. She would love the smells of nature and would lie down on the ground. She told me that she was able to see herself being so small that she could fit under a mushroom.

When she felt that small, she was able to see fairies, devas, and elementals. She could sense the energy of the world around her. After going home and telling her mother, she would congratulate Dorothea on having a wonderful imagination.

Then sometime later when she was visiting one of her friends, she went to the shed that was in the backyard and had a conversation with her friend’s grandfather. When Dorothea came home and told her mother, she was told that it was not possible since the grandfather had passed away that morning. That is when Dorothea realized that what was obvious to her, was not obvious to others.

When her grandmother passed away, she was able to sense what was happening with her and realized that she was not dead. She realized that although her grandmother was no longer in her body, her spirit was still alive.

At the age of sixteen, Dorothea read Siddhartha by Herman Hesse and that became her Bible. She knew that she was in the world for a purpose and she felt that her purpose was to help heal people. So she decided to become a registered nurse.

Dorothea was fascinated with the mind and the spirit and the dynamic of that relationship. Therefore, she decided to pursue her education as a nurse in a psychiatric institution. Do to the fact that she was able to see what others did not, she could sense the pain of her patients and became frustrated at the medical system because she felt she really could not be of help in the way that she wanted.

So Dorothea decided to travel and headed to the Caribbean, Central and South America. She made shoes and jewelry to make a living. She also began to counsel people for free.

Eventually, she decided to give nursing another shot and headed back to Germany. This time she worked in the Intensive Care Unit for a year and by the end of the year, she felt that it would be best for her to leave nursing since she was frustrated with the system. Dorothea realized that healing people was her purpose in life but she was not meant to be a nurse.

So she headed back to the Caribbean and eventually ended up in Key West where she has been for the last twenty-three years. She did work as a maid, dishwasher and other small jobs while she did her counseling on the side. She now works as a spiritual counselor full time and has her own online store where she sells products that she has made.

Dorothea’s spiritual training began in earnest in her twenties and was mainly conducted on her own. She did have one physical teacher, Gary Four Stars, who trained her in Native American traditions. However, all the rest of her knowledge has come through her own training.

Being that I have studied with monks and such, all the information Dorothea has shared with me is exactly what I have learned. Her knowledge is profound and talking to her always brings me such comfort and understanding. Each discussion sheds new light on concepts that I thought I knew. Here is a sample of our last conversation:

One concept that really weighs people down is the notion of fear. Have you ever struggled with fear?

Dorothea: I don’t think there is any human being in this dimension that is free from fear. Everybody has it to different degrees. I have cycles of strength and vulnerability. When I am vulnerable, I experience a stronger amount of fear in my system and life. But I never have felt overwhelmed or overtaken by it.

When I was sixteen, I was already doing meditations and striving to be free from fear. One of the ways to free myself from fear was the realization of the importance of trust. Trust in the Divine Order and the awareness that I would be guided by it. And trust it more than my mind and body. That is the case for everyone. We all need to trust the Divine Order.

Do you have any advice for how people can overcome fear and get the life that they want? I guess what I am saying is what is the best way to be in the world so that we all can have a life that we love?

Dorothea: The idea of how to balance life is really a matter of addressing all of the components that are part of who we are.

First and foremost, has to come the acceptance that we know and believe that we are first and foremost spirit. And that higher self guides us even if we are not consciously aware of it.

The idea of beginning to balance life requires us to then address the different components that we consist of which are:

Physical body

Mental body

Emotional body

Spirit Self

Soul Body

All these components comprise one big Mandala. It is all interconnected. So all these factors have to be in alignment in order to have a balanced life.

Someone may want to discover their life purpose but if there is some type of blockage in one of these areas, they can do their best but they will not be able to find the answers that they want.

What about when we pass away. For example, my mother passed away due to cancer. Was that predetermined? Was she meant to go on that date?

Dorothea: Everything holds a vibration or frequency. We have free will to choose how we handle the situations and obstacles that life present to us. Overcoming the obstacles determines if we go north or south. We have the choice as to how we handle the circumstances that confront us in our lives.

So let us say a woman was able to give love to others but not herself then that cancer may bring her closer to her karmic completion. Then it is appropriate for her to have cancer because it insures that the soul can complete its lesson. The body responds to karma. It goes back to those five components that we discussed.

“Death” has guidelines and there are no set rules. As for timing, we have free will but we cannot change the timing of events. At least that is the case 99% of the time.

How about the Law of Attraction?

Dorothea: The movie “The Secret” made it seem that if you have a thought, you can materialize what you thought about. Only a few souls are able to materialize merely by thinking of something.

The real Law of Attraction goes back to those five components. When those five aspects of yourself are in alignment then you can create your reality.

Everything in life goes back to those five components.

What is the distinction between the soul body and the spirit self?

Dorothea: Soul is a part of the spirit self. So when spirit decides to go for another round and incarnate, soul rides down a ray of light and is imprinted with all the information that you need for that given embodiment. That information is imprinted at the moment of conception. That is when the soul enters the body.

Overall spirit self does have a level of substance even if it does not live in us. It is a part of us and that is who we truly are.

We live in a world where people put more faith in money than in spirit. We think truth can be found in what we can see and touch. We forget that some of the things we strive for in life are not things we can touch and see.

The best example is love. How can you touch and see love? Love is not a concrete item but it is a feeling. Just because you cannot see something, does not mean it does not exist.

This is true of spirituality. Many people really do not pay that much attention to it because it is viewed as being not realistic or intelligent. Or rather it is something that cannot be believed because we just cannot see it. To be candid, whenever I write a post that is deeply rooted in spirituality, I am somewhat concerned as to how it will be perceived.

Not that I doubt what I write but rather I am aware that many people value their minds more than their hearts. The irony is that the heart is far more wise than the mind but I guess we all have to do what we feel is best and eventually we all come to discover the same truths. The heart will always win out in the end.

We are all capable of so much but we let fear get in the way. However, we can learn to control our fear and it is thanks to people like Dorothea who help us understand life and ourselves a bit better. I don’t know about you but I am going to do my best to get my five components in alignment. I hope you will do the same!

For more information on Dorothea, please visit her website.

Special thanks to Dorothea for taking the time to answer all my questions. I am blessed that you are a part of my life. Thank you!

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