New Zealand Ghosts & Other Haunts

Q:
I have a ghost. Now, how can I deal with it?

A:
If you have a ghost, there are a variety of ways to deal with it depending on question number two: "What do you want?"

Do nothing. This usually involves people who either like the ghost being around or don’t mind the ghost and just want to know what is going on.
The latter can learn to ignore it, much as a person living next to a highway can tune the noise out. There are cases, like restaurants and hotels (especially in Europe) a ghost can actually be an attraction and they WANT the ghost to stay. In which case, you may choose to do nothing.

You may not want the ghost to hang out. After all, if you believe in reincarnation it's not in the ghost's best interests to hang around. It needs to move on. What I like to do is to 1) make sure the ghost knows that he or she is dead (you'd be surprised how many don't) and move them on to the light, or 2) ask them what they want. Sometimes they just want to communicate something. After that, the ghost is happy to leave. Rarely, people who are opening up psychically will mistake their spirit guide(s) for a ghost. Guides are supposed to be with you and moving them on is not going to work. They’ll just come back. It is very rare, that you get a hostile ghost. These are the kind of ghost you most definitely want to move into the light. In dealing with them, you need to remember 3 things:

* Possession in nine tenths of the law -- you live in the house, it's no longer theirs and they need to get over it. It's yours. Period.

* You have everything they have and more because you have not only a spirit/consciousness (just like the ghost) but a BODY too. They are at a disadvantage here. You have more to fear from another human being than a ghost. All a ghost can do is try to frighten or annoy you into hurting yourself. Be firm and they'll realize you have the upper hand.

* 3) The imagination has power. You can use your imagination to "see" loved ones coming to take them away, or even ask your guides/angels to move the entity on. It's really not in the ghost's interests to be stuck. That means that any guides around (theirs or yours) will be willing to help you to get the ghosts to move on to the light. If worst comes to worst, you can annoy them. Remember, the same things that annoy us annoys them.