To The Grieving

This meditation is a gentle reminder that we need not close to our grief but open to it and continue on our grief journey in the ways that are most meaningful to us. We are all grieving someone and this meditation invites listeners to sit with their grief.

Transcript

In this moment,

On Heal Meditations,

To the grieving,

You are here.

Take a deep breath.

I know your heart longs for comfort,

The cut and hurt so deep,

You are not certain you'll be able to breathe.

I know how hard it is to let go of what was.

The cave of grief in your heart feels so overwhelmingly dark that you're unsure when sunlight will possibly be able to enter in again.

One day it will.

Right now,

Give yourself the space to sit in your grief.

Don't numb it with responsibilities,

Tasks,

Movement,

Substances.

Sit in the pain and recognize that your grief is to be felt,

Experienced.

It is okay to cry,

To sob,

To melt down,

To scream.

It is okay to feel anger,

Sadness,

Despair for all you have lost.

It is okay to feel your pain,

Recognize it in your chest,

In your forehead,

Your shoulders.

Take a breath and remind yourself you are where you're meant to be.

Let your soul tenderly hold your aching heart.

There's no need to mask your grief with a smile,

With professional success.

Grief is ugly and beautiful.

Our grief reminds us of our humanity,

Our ability to love and to hurt.

It's a reminder how hard it is to lose someone we love and who loved us,

To grieve what we never had because our loved one is no longer here.

Give yourself permission to grieve all the dreams and ideas you had for the future and all of the things your loved one will never witness.

Know and believe your loved one so desperately wants you to know that they are still here.

Your friend,

Your parent,

Your partner,

Your child is using all of their cosmic energy to reach you,

To give you a sign that they are still here.

Maybe it's their favorite number appearing randomly,

Their favorite flower appearing on your walk,

Their favorite song on the radio at just the perfect time,

A cardinal visiting your windowsill,

A stranger's smile or comment.

Your loved one still loves you and you will always love them.

Your love has not died.

It has changed.

Do not close yourself to feeling and loving them.

Open yourself to them.

Feel all of the things you need and know your grief will never leave,

But it will evolve.

You will go on.

Your life does and will have meaning again.

And remind yourself as long as you have your heartbeat and your breath,

You are okay.

You are still here.

Your soul will love you through it.

The universe is loving you and sending you all of the energy it can as you grieve.

Grieve brave soul,

Grieve.

Reviews

Sending this to my grieving Aunt. Perfect and what she really needs…this sweet road map and life raft and permission to grieve. Thank you kindly✨

Loved that you mentioned not to distract yourself and just feel it. I needed this. 🤍

Thank you 🙏 I lost a dear Insight Timer friend last night. He lived half a world away from me and he was a dear friend to me. We “met” through our daily mindfulness practice in our group live sessions with our teacher, who had taught us about the importance of daily practice. Initially, at the beginning of Covid ( during the lockdown) we had daily live sessions. After the lockdown and life opened up more our teacher cut down the live session as life became busier, so in order to keep up our daily practice, we meditated every day at the same time as our live practice on our teacher’s day off. We weren’t a large group, and we were very dedicated to our practice ( to build it and keep it regular) for almost 5 years. He was the one who was so dedicated to our practice and everyday we’d chat ( I set up the waiting room for 5 minutes) and then meditate. We occasionally messaged each other on more personal stuff that was perhaps didn’t really fit into a group chat. Later today will be the first meditation practice without him there. I didn’t realize how close I could get to someone who was in Insight Timer and had never met live ( there was the one zoom call on the one year anniversary of our teacher’s live on Insight Timer) , our friendship was as meditation 🧘‍♀️ 🧘‍♂️ buddies ( as my teacher put it, sometimes going to the gym to workout is hard to do, and if you have a workout buddy it easier to get to the gym) ( so he was my most dedicated meditation buddy we helped each other “get to the cushion” every day, even if we didn’t feel like it. I miss him already and never expected this kind of grief to show up as it has.
Thanks again 🙏and for giving me a space to honor him and hold my grief gently.

Having lost my husband in summer 2023, I listen to this one and then. It touches on a bunch of very salient points. Thank you

Good mark, I'm resistant to the organic evolution.

I appreciate your words. It was comforting. Thank you

Gorgeous. My son died 3 weeks ago. I'm living this. Ty

It was a hard exercise but a good one. I'm going through a divorce and I am trying to understand grief and experience it without pushing it away. Thanks for your help and support

Heartbreaking, confronting but good.

What a beautiful meditation on grieving! I just lost my brother to cancer and this was helpful. Thanks!