Coping With Grief & Death

Please enjoy this 15-minute practice to support those who are suffering from grief associated with the death of a loved one or even the impending death of the body.

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Transcript

Perhaps it is time to make space for something new,

A new way of approaching death.

If you are grieving,

If you are afraid,

If you are clutching someone who's dying right now,

I shall help you through this guided meditation with teachings from the ancient Bhagavad Gita.

Before we proceed,

I invite you to make yourself really comfortable.

Be seated in a comfortable chair or lie down.

Whatever supports you,

Do that.

Close your eyes gently.

Try to go inwards.

And please,

Place both your hands on your heart so you can receive my instructions heart to heart.

If you are grieving,

It is hard to let your breath naturalize,

But let's do it together.

Let us allow the breath to do what it wishes to do.

We are not going to control this breath.

We will simply let it move through us as it wishes to move through us.

Really observe the incoming breath,

The outgoing breath,

The incoming breath,

The outgoing breath,

The incoming breath,

The outgoing breath.

From time to time,

Your outgoing breath may want to linger a little longer.

Let it do that.

You may feel like doing this.

This is your body releasing grief.

Noticing what it's holding on to without even telling you what it's holding on to.

Give your body that permission.

Okay,

You can be relaxed now.

That's right,

Soften deeper.

Allow your body to become more relaxed,

More softened.

Let gravity help you.

Let it take some sorrow from you.

As gravity works on you,

You are dropping so much sorrow,

Tons and tons of it that seamlessly gets taken away by earth.

Sometimes we need to create the special space,

A space for a new awareness to emerge when we are dealing with the effect of impermanence and death.

Perhaps as you listen to me,

You will agree that the end of a clay pot is no end.

It simply returns to its original state of pure clay.

On each wave,

No matter how high it rises and from what height it drops,

It does not end.

It simply becomes pure water again.

Gold that was cast into beautiful ornaments is melted in heat,

But that does not end the ornament.

It simply transforms it back into pure gold.

Just like thoughts that rise in awareness dwell in that awareness,

Return back to pure awareness.

So also,

The body arises in consciousness,

Dwells through it and results back into consciousness.

This knowledge is peaceful,

It is auspicious,

It is the truth.

The Bhagavad Gita helps humanity understand death.

It shall help you too.

Remember,

That which pervades the entire body is indestructible.

All creatures have two parts,

The perishable and the imperishable.

The perishable is the body made of physical matter.

The imperishable is the true Self which is pure existence.

The perishable ends.

The imperishable Self cannot be destroyed even when it seems the perishable has ended.

Listen forth to what the great song of the Spirit said about death 10,

000 years ago.

And as you listen,

Remember to touch your heart with both your hands so you can receive this great wisdom heart to heart from my imperishable soul to your imperishable soul.

Just like a person casts off his worn out clothes and puts on new ones,

So also consciousness,

The great Self,

Casts off its worn out bodies and enters into new ones.

Just as in this body,

Pure consciousness,

The Self,

Passes through childhood,

Youth and old age,

Consciousness itself remains unchanged and passes into another body and the one who knows this understands there is no death,

Merely a change of clothes.

Therefore,

Do not grieve.

It is said,

The bodies that consciousness puts on are destructible,

They have an end.

But consciousness,

The true Self of your loved one,

Remains eternal,

Indestructible,

But because it is invisible,

Incomprehensible to your senses.

Consciousness the Self is never born nor it dies.

After having emerged briefly inside the body of your loved one,

It again ceases to emerge through that body.

Yet though it is not visible,

The Self of your loved one is forever eternal,

Changeless and ancient.

Self does not die when body dies.

Weapons cleave the Self knot.

Fire burns the Self knot.

Water dilutes the Self knot.

Air dries the Self knot.

The Self is beyond the elements.

Consciousness cannot be cut nor burned nor drowned nor dried up.

Self of your loved one is enduring.

It is all pervading,

Stable and ancient.

Therefore,

O grieving one,

O sorrowful one,

As you breathe,

Knowing the nature of the true Self,

Remember,

Your beloved,

Even if they depart one day,

Would merely have dropped their perishable body at their will.

You may grieve for them,

But you should remember this grief is optional.

The one who has changed clothes is happy,

Renewed and eternally existing.

You are doing so well.

The tears that may have arisen in your eyes,

The heart that may have felt overcome,

You both have received wisdom on true eternal being so soulfully,

Graciously,

Gently.

Yes,

There are two parts of you,

The perishable and the imperishable,

And you both have received this knowledge.

The perishable part of you has received this knowledge as if it is brand new.

For the imperishable part of you,

The eternal part of you has simply remembered what you know already.

Countless times you have changed clothes.

It is painless,

Ultimately.

It is the truth.

It is how life likes to renew itself.

Now that your inner guidance has awakened from within,

Realize death does not really exist because life is eternal.

Life is eternal.

Life is eternal.

Take some time now to rest in this newfound awareness of permanence despite the fact of impermanence.

Let a sense of lightness and relief wash over your body as if a weight has been lifted.

Notice the subtle changes throughout your body.

Notice the spaciousness and lightness in your mind and heart because of remembering the greatest truths.

Whatever your feeling is okay,

Be with that sensation.

When you are ready,

Slowly begin to deepen your breath and bring your awareness back to the room you are in and the space around you.

Take the next few breaths to acknowledge the awareness and the knowledge that you have recovered from within today.

With this practice,

You have honored yourself so well.

And with this next couple of breaths,

Open your eyes.

Smile.

Give yourself a hug.

Give the loved one who has changed clothes or is planning to change clothes a mental,

Emotional,

Heartfelt hug.

And continue to remember and hold on to this one truth,

Life is eternal.

I suggest you come back to this meditation any time you feel like coming back.

This is a greatly gratifying experience to lead you through this guidance.

Thank you for practicing with me today and remembering with me today and discerning between what is perishable and does not matter and what really matters.

The true self of your loved one is imperishable.

I hope you experience light and love today and every day and I hope you have a wonderful day or a good night depending on when we are connecting in timelessness.

I love you.

Reviews

A transformative meditation in this time after my mother's passing. Thank you.🙏🏾

Helping me through my grief during the holiday season, thank you so much ❤️

Beautiful and meaningful metaphors. Heart felt thanks.

Thank you for your words of wisdom. I have been struggling with a recent death, my heart is broken. I’ve been focusing on the physical emptiness, the void of his absence and have been entirely overwhelmed. This meditation with your soothing voice and insightful reminder has helped to extinguish the emptiness in my heart. I thank you for your words of wisdom and for your reminder that only the physical parishes . . .
Namaste 🙏🏼

Thank for a beautiful practice and putting my mind and body in a place I needed.

I listened to the intro of several meditations and even listened to the beginnings of a few. But when the heart is freshly wounded it is extremely sensitive to what it can take in. This meditation is the one that spoke to me. The only one that soothed me. The cadence and tone of her voice was comforting to me and a salve for my soul. It didn’t erase my grief, but it did take the jagged edges of for now. I’m sure I’ll return to it as the rollercoaster of emotions continue to roll through me.

Just beautiful. This perspective is healing. Thank you. 🙏

Thanking you for sharing this supportive and wise guided meditation during a difficult period of grief for our family, providing comfort in the reminder that although our bodies may perish, our spirit is eternal.

This was so beyond comforting and supportive. You have such a beautiful voice and made me feel so connected to you and to spirit. Thank you for this beautiful support.

This was really deep. I learned a lot from it and enjoyed it. I will likely come back and listen again in the future. Thank you for this meditation.

Grieving my son. Thank you for helping me to remember what my soul already knows. Life is eternal. My son is eternal. My love for him is eternal. I will come back to this meditation. Thank you

Very soothing and enlightening and filled with compassion. Will return to this often as I struggle with personal grief, support loved ones who are grieving, and reframe beliefs I have about what death means. Thank you and Namaste

Lovely practice♾️☯️⚛️⚘️☄️🌚
Thank you kindly ✨️ 📿🌟
Namaste✨️🙏🏾✨️🖤🪔🕯

Not for me, no consolation imagining that i will become a other body, it makes no sense. But appreciate the intention.thank you.

Thank you for this soothing practice which took me into a much needed, restful sleep. Namaste

absolutely perfect and beautiful. Thank you so much

Thank you so much for the beautiful and peaceful meditation. I am so grateful for you and your knowledge. Grief has been coming to me in waves, just like the tide. Thank you for helping through this difficult time. I will be coming back to this meditation. Thank you for the peace that I felt in my soul!🙏

A gentle meditation for processing grief. It is challenging to manage the grief of losing a loved one, especially when it is tragic and unexpected. So this thought of them "changing clothes" from their form was a comforting perspective. I found solace in this ancient wisdom.

Very comforting, loving and soothing. I recently lost my mother, this meditation helps me navigate through my grieving in a loving way, thank you 🙏🏾✨💜

Sigh…that was so healing…really needed to hear these words, reminders, as I prepare to lose my best friend. 💔