Waves Of Grief

A beautiful and gentle practice to guide you through allowing the waves of grief to come and go. This is a great daily practice or especially helpful when going through big moments of change and grief in your life.

Transcript

This is a waves of grief meditation designed to help you process your grief and give it space to breathe.

Come into a comfortable seated position with your eyes closed and your hands in your lap.

Begin taking deep inhales and exhaling all the way out.

With each inhale and exhale sinking deeper into your body,

Deeper into your center.

Placing one hand over your heart and one hand over your navel,

Imagine that you're sitting at the edge of the ocean.

You gently feel the lapping of the water around your toes,

Your ankles,

And you're staring out at the waves coming in and going out.

It's now time to allow those waves to become your waves of grief.

Tap into whatever it is that you're grieving in this moment.

Maybe you know exactly what it is,

Maybe you're not quite sure.

Just connect to the feeling that maybe you're avoiding or maybe you just know you need to give space to.

Looking out at the ocean,

Notice a huge wave coming in towards you.

And as it gets closer,

You allow for the wave of your emotion to come up.

You allow tears to roll down your cheeks.

You allow yourself to feel with every part of your body and your heart.

And as that huge wave washes over you,

You feel a release,

A letting go of something that you've been holding on to that has been scary for you to let go of.

Take a deep inhale and hold it at the top for a moment.

Let it out on an open mouth exhale.

Looking out at the ocean again,

Noticing another wave coming in not quite as big as the wave before.

This time you see it coming strongly and you allow yourself again to feel that emotion.

Maybe it's anger,

Maybe it's sadness,

Maybe it's a mixture of both and it washes over you and as it washes over you,

It allows yourself to let go,

Let the tears flow,

Let your heart release.

Taking a deep breath in and exhaling through an open mouth,

Letting go of everything you're holding on to.

This next wave is smaller than the wave before.

You feel it coming and this time you allow yourself to release before it even reaches you.

And by the time it does,

You feel yourself letting go.

It's never yours to carry.

Give yourself to the ocean,

Give your grief to the ocean,

Allow her to wash it away,

To wash you clean.

Inhale,

Hold at the top.

Exhale through an open mouth.

You continue for the next few moments this process of each wave being smaller than the one before until you feel that you have released all the grief that you can in this moment.

Inhale,

Exhale through an open mouth.

Now placing one hand over the other over your heart.

Send gratitude to yourself for sitting with the discomfort,

For giving yourself permission to actually feel what it is that you've been avoiding or what feels so painful.

Grief is a natural human emotion and we so often try to run from it because it's so uncomfortable.

But if you give it some time and space and you listen,

It has a message for you.

So closing your eyes,

Feeling yourself connecting to your heart and asking your grief,

What do you have to say,

What message do I need to hear?

Inhale,

Hold your breath at the top.

Exhale through an open mouth.

Do this meditation as many times as you need and so it is.

Namaste.

Reviews

This meditation has helped me to make peace with knowing it's okay to take this turtle that was run over by a car to be euthanized. I've talked on the phone with places and it sounds like it's suffering and would be a slow recovery process they say it's a commitment. My husband doesn't want to spend a penny but I was willing to investigate and I guess feel some peace that are being told there's really no hope and I just have to put it into his misery. The ending says there is a message everyone gets. My sister has abdominal sarcoma that eventually will take its toll and I think the message is about will be so hard to lose her but I will find a way to make peace with bad when it happens. This was the perfect grief meditation that I stumbled upon. Thank you very much.

The waves was a nice way of breathing through it, thank u 🙏

Amazing. Thank you so very much for this needed meditation.

Thank you. Gentle simple kind. My first time truly grieving my ongoing loss of memory, and so of a sense of self, and of the ability to care for myself. Your meditation helped me look that loss in the face and feel and let go. A great gift.

Amazing. I connected so much to the waves crashing over me. Wish it was longer 🙏🏻💗

My experience of grief is it comes in waves from behind, catching me off guard, leaving me with no choice but to be toppled. It's a profoundly helpful new approach to see the waves coming, and I'm very grateful for this meditation. Thank you.

Thank you for this simple and calming practice which I shall revisit during this intense time. Namaste

So sweet, comforting and healing. Brought me right inside to a place of love and release. Thank you. ♥️🙏🏼♥️

This is a powerful meditation with imagery that helped me connect with the grief I have been experiencing. Thank you so much

Thank you for this. Beautiful, simple loving cadence without unnecessary fluff. Perfect in every way, can’t thank you enough as there doesn’t seem to be enough content out there that isn’t cliche or over played or over done. I really appreciate your beautiful voice and subtle music and directness mixed with simplicity. Really felt held and not talked at or like lion king music was playing in the background during my experience. You have a true gift and lovely voice.

Wish this meditation was longer because six minutes isn’t enough but it is powerful

This was such a helpful meditation for processing the pain of grief. I am managing through the unexpected and tragic loss of a dear friend. So the metaphor of the waves especially resonated with me. I will come back to this.

It allowed me to let my grief out for a few minutes and it was devastating yet powerful, liberating and hopefully healing. I will come back to this. Thank you🙏

I’m going through a painful breakup with someone who has Asperger’s and I still very much love them. Mornings and nights are the most painful. It was nice to cry in meditation, didn’t feel so alone.

This meditation is so gentle and powerful at the same time.
Thank you!

Helpful and soothing. My grief is so uncomfortable and painful. I will keep listening to this one. Thank you so much Amrit.

This was an excellent short immersion into finding and feeling your grief. She has a gentle voice too.

Absolute perfection regarding grief. So calming and helpful.

This is a very powerful meditation to sit with grief. Thank you so much 💜

Great guided release & gratitude for self! #SpreadLove