Coping with grief and loss.
It's not an easy thing to do,
But let's give it a go.
Starting with getting yourself into a comfortable position and gently starting to close your eyes or allow a soft eye gaze.
Starting to relax your mind,
Relax your body.
Feeling your feet against the floor,
Feeling the connection to the earth and focusing your attention on your breath.
As you start to delve within yourself,
Noticing how you're feeling,
Noticing the thoughts without judgment,
Noticing what's coming through you right now,
With love and acceptance.
As hard as that may be,
Knowing that grief and loss is something that almost everyone gets to experience at least once in their lives.
Some of us have more than our fair share and it's certainly not easy.
It can be extremely challenging.
Whether you're grieving the loss of a loved one,
May have been totally unexpected or perhaps not.
Nothing can really prepare you for the state of grieving that you may be in right now.
And knowing that different people experience grief and loss in different ways.
Whether you're grieving the loss of a loved one or the loss of something in your life,
Something quite major that causes you to feel grief.
Very intense emotions may feel like your emotions are running wild right now.
The thoughts in your head,
The feelings through your body,
The questioning why,
Why did it have to happen the way it has?
Why is it so painful?
Why me?
There may be some what-ifs going through your mind as well.
There may be some what-ifs going through your mind as well.
What if you did things differently or what if you said things differently or someone else perhaps had acted differently.
And it's always easier with hindsight to look back and know what you think in your mind that you should have done or what you could have done or what you would have done.
All the shoulda,
Woulda,
Wouldas going through your mind but what if at the time you did what you thought was the best thing that could have been done as with other people or even if it wasn't the best thing it was as with other people or even if it wasn't the best thing it was what you felt to do at the time knowing what you did and not knowing what you didn't know at the time.
And what if right now you could go easy on yourself rather than beating yourself up about all the what-ifs the shoulda,
Woulda,
Couldas knowing that sometimes it's not fair what happens,
What we are given to deal with.
It can feel very unfair,
Very challenging and hard to justify sometimes.
Yet it happens to the best of us.
It challenges the painful moments.
How do we get through those challenging times,
Those painful moments?
And what if you're really not alone?
And what if there is someone there for you to turn to?
What if it's someone that you may not even know,
You may not feel so comfortable to turn to someone that you do know?
Or what if there's always someone that you can turn to,
Even if it's someone that you don't know,
That doesn't know you,
That's willing to hear your story,
To hear you out,
To hear your pain,
To feel your pain with you if that's what you need to get through to get through the dark moments,
The intense moments of grief,
Of loss.
What if you knew that support was there for you when you need it?
