A Beautiful Life: In Memory of Nicole McCracken

This is a very special episode where we honor the memory of Nicole LeVeck McCracken who dropped her body this past September after a long battle with cancer. Nicole was a Vedic meditator on her way to becoming a teacher of the practice she loved so dearly as well as an Alcoholics Anonymous sponsor who had passed the steps to hundreds of people in need of recovery. In this conversation, Kristen shares her experience of being part of Nicole’s support team in her final months and what it was like to witness someone in such a high state of awareness move towards her end-of-life transition. Isabel and Kristen discuss the Vedic perspective on death in between light-hearted memories. We hope you listen to this episode and feel a touch of the joy and upliftment Nicole brought to everyone she knew.Show notes: 3.40 A beautiful death – the relationship we have with death 6.00 The Purest Love – student/teacher relationship8.00 Cognition sand answers10.00 The Luckiest Person in the world – being grounded in being 11.30 “All of it is for evolution. And especially the hard times.” Kristen12.00 Nicole´s life 14.00 AA practice of surrendering 16.45 “She was so divine in one way and made you love her. And she was also so human.” Kristen19.20 People´s different reactions to a person dying 21.00 The role of getting her back into the big 22.40 How someone in high consciousness deals with death27.00 “That´s the thing about people in that state, they don´t even have to say anything. Just their being is enough to uplift everybody.” Kristen27.20 “As she got closer, her enlightenment was getting exponential. You could feel it just going higher and higher and higher.”Kristen28.00 Story of the parking lot in the hospital and teaching steps of AA30.40 Devotion31.18 “Devotion and I just put her picture under it. That is who to me embodies it. And devotion is that sacrificing, that honoring of something bigger than yourself. And she did it so effortlessly. It made it so easy to be devoted to her. She was devoted to anyone who had need.” Kristen34.00 The real pranayama and the real yoga – life 36.00 She was always a teacher36.30 A true influence – the upliftment 40.00 Thom Knoles and his goodbye to Nicole48.00 The circle on the other side waiting for ger48.40 It´s not an ending, it´s a continuum – another portal50.55 “It´s also a gift to get to love somebody that much.” Kristen51.00 The gift of grief