Welcome to Sitting With Grief.
My name is Alicia and I'm so glad to have you here with me today.
If you have found this track,
You're probably experiencing a very heavy loss right now and looking for a way to process your grief.
Over the years,
I've learned a couple of things about grief.
The first is that grief and love are very closely connected,
Even in complicated emotional situations.
Most of the time,
If you get to the root of the relationship where the loss occurred,
There is a lot of love there.
The second thing I've learned is that running from grief is not the way to process it.
And I've seen this with myself,
With friends,
Family,
Strangers.
It's really just a way of delaying the hard work of processing it until later.
So in this meditation,
We're actually going to sit with our grief,
We're going to sit with our loss,
We're going to sit with our heartbreak,
We're going to sit with our hopelessness,
With the way that we feel lost right now.
All of these difficult things that are so heavy right now.
We're going to invite those things to wash over us and stay with us for a moment so that we can sit with these things and invite them into our space.
Let's begin with a few deep breaths.
Breathe in.
Breathe all the way out.
Take another deep breath in.
Release all the way.
And a third breath.
Breathe in deep.
And let that go.
Let everything go.
Now place your hand on your heart,
Both hands if you'd like.
And begin by giving yourself compassion.
Without any kind of judgment,
Just give yourself love and compassion right now.
You are loved.
You are held.
While you are feeling this sense of compassion surround you,
Allow whatever emotions to come to the surface without judgment.
Whatever comes to you,
Allow it to come.
Don't resist anything.
Continue to give yourself that love and that compassion.
And if feelings of hopelessness,
Or anger,
Or fear,
Or anything else arise,
Allow them to come.
Allow yourself to feel these things.
But don't let go of that compassion that you're giving yourself right now.
Continue to hold yourself with compassion.
Right now while you're feeling all the things that you're feeling,
We're going to honor the loss that you've experienced.
But we're also going to honor the love that was connected to that loss.
I want you to take a moment here to think of your loved one or your pet,
Or the job you lost,
Or the relationship you lost,
Or an item that was sentimental that you lost,
Or a skill that you lost,
Or part of your health that you lost.
Whatever your loss is,
Take a moment here to honor it.
And to honor the love that's so closely connected to it.
And now we're going to invite the grief in.
Invite it in,
Grief.
I'm here.
Wash over me.
Come into my space.
Come into my heart.
I want to feel you now.
Allow your feelings,
Allow images,
Allow sensations,
Allow all of these things to surface.
Do not resist what you're feeling.
When you really let the grief wash over you.
Remember to hold yourself with compassion.
Keep your hand on your heart.
I'm going to give you a moment here.
As you allow this grief to wash over you.
Take a moment now to collect yourself in gratitude.
We're going to take a moment to give gratitude for the love that was present,
Knowing that it still exists.
Even though we've lost something,
The love is still present,
And still exists.
So keep your hand on your heart or your hands on your heart.
And if you're still feeling that grief,
If it's still taking a hold of you,
That's okay.
But try to transition to gratitude.
On the other side of this grief,
There's a great love and a great connection of some sort.
Send that gratitude out into the world.
If you're at a place where you can speak this out loud,
Speak it out loud.
Send the gratitude into the universe.
If you can't speak it out loud,
That's okay.
Thank you for this love.
Thank you for this connection.
Thank you that although people and situations and pets and things change and move and go away,
Love does not.
Love can still remain.
Connection can still remain.
Remember to hold yourself with compassion.
As you think of this,
The other side of grief.
And when you're done giving gratitude,
Come back to pure love for yourself.
And try to imagine a pink light underneath your hands,
Just surrounding your heart and your heart chakra.
And just beaming out of your hands into your chest and into your being and radiating love and compassion for yourself.
And for this release that you were able to experience today,
As you invited your grief in and allowed it to wash over you.
Sitting with your grief is not easy.
It's a difficult thing to do.
But it's the first step in processing your grief,
Allowing yourself to feel all the heavy and difficult feelings.
So I would encourage you to come back to this track as often as you need to whenever you need a release.
Whenever you need to remind yourself that you have to feel the grief in order to live with it.
And in order to process it.
Let's take a couple of breaths.
If you're still in a meditative state,
Bring your hands away from your heart center,
Put them in a receiving position.
Let's take a couple breaths here.
Breathe in and out.
And again,
Release all the way.
We'll do one more deep breath.
And on this last exhale,
Really let everything go.
Breathe in and exhale.
Open your eyes.
Come back to the room around you.
I'm so thankful that you've chosen to spend this time with me here today.
And I'm sending you peace,
Light and love as you walk through this loss and reminding you to carry compassion for yourself and to carry gratitude for the love and connection that are on the other side of that grief.
And I say are on not were on because that is still there.
I invite you to think of your loved one if this is about a loved one as someone you can still have a relationship with even though they are gone.
I invite you to walk through this grief,
Knowing that your love and connection are still there.
And that you are still connected to this person,
Which means your relationship has not ended.
Although they may physically not be here anymore,
Your relationship is still alive.
So I invite you to think about that as you walk through this journey of loss and grief.
And I hope you'll come back and see me some other time.
I'm sending you so much love,
So much peace and so much comfort.
May God bless you and keep you
