• A call to Presence
• What is like to be truly present?
• Freeing yourself from the past
• Overcoming the obstacles
  to awakening
• Doing the work
• Silence
• The master lesson
• The resistance of the ego
• Childhood Choices
• Grief
• A larger womb
• Choose love, not fear
• Keys to awakening
• Dreams
• Leaving the present moment

 

Grief

Suppose a loved one dies or a tragic or difficult event occurs in your life. It is natural that powerful feelings will arise in response to what is happening. Those feelings arise as a way of working through the painful or difficult experience.

For example, if a loved one dies, grief will arise.

Grief consists of a number of feelings. The first feeling to arise is anger that you have lost someone close to you. You are angry at life. You are angry at God. The second feeling that arises is a deep sense of loss and sadness. It is painful to lose a loved one. The third feeling that arises as a part of grief is the feeling of need. Your loved one was fulfilling a need in your life. A need for companionship! A need for intimacy! A need for someone to share a meal with or go for a walk. The loss of a loved one who fulfilled those needs will mean that those needs might go unmet. This brings up a fear that your needs will not be met. You fear that you will be alone. At the deepest level, it brings up the fear of your own death because no one is there to meet your needs. This fear originates in early infancy.

If you accept and feel these feelings fully, and allow them to surface into conscious expression, it will enable you to cope with the loss or the traumatic event and you will emerge from it in a way that enables you to move on with your life, in a healthy and positive way.

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