To Those in Grief..

My heart goes out to you. While no one can fully know what you are living with right now, I’m sorry for your pain.

Grief…such a special honoring for the love we share with another. It’s a state of being that actively involves the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual aspects of our multi-dimensionality. Every sensation you have ever felt can wrap around you and either submerge you or enable you to transcend.

Regret…All emotions are a natural facet to the process during your transition and movement ‘through the valley’. Along with memories which elicit feelings of love, strife, guilt and more, it can be soothing to have awareness for the fact that feelings of regret are one of the many natural passions that will envelope you during this time. So feel free to express. Think… feel…cry. Release toxins and ride the waves as long as it takes.

And when possible, step back to achieve awareness for what you can garner through this experience to honor the love you carry in your heart. Doing so offers understanding for where a particular emotion is transporting you, and whether it is serving as an affirming witness to the love you feel. For when you learn to love more fully, connect more fearlessly, or give more selflessly, you ‘ring a bell’ cross the divide, and know a completion of the circle opened through the decision to share a heart with another.

Regret…Someone once said, that at any time, if you could go back into your past, and revisit the person you were at that time, you should only desire to hug the ‘you’ who you once were. Good or bad, the choices made were made with all the resources you had at your awareness level at that time. As life progresses, you learn, grow and are afforded the opportunity to view all existence through a new set of eyes. But that expanded growth shouldn’t delineate who you once were. When bereaved, always remember that at the time you are experiencing emotions of regret; you loved in the only way you knew how. Realize, in reflection, that it truly was the greatest love you could have given.

And embrace the concept that there are many beautiful facets to your rainbow which attracted and held spellbound the one you now miss so much. Please know that they love you still; they understand that what you are experiencing is natural. They wouldn’t wish you to force yourself to move at any greater a pace than your soul is ready for, and they continue to breath air under your wounded wings to enable you the chance to fly once more. And this time, as with every other experience here, when you do fly again, it will be as a more seasoned energy, reaching higher and viewing existence from a more peripheral view.

So take plenty of time to be gentle with yourself. This is all your loved ones would wish, if they were beside you in physicality. Do that which feels right to you, rest, and drink lots and lots of water. With time, you will move through this valley of grief and your soul will naturally find itself ready to float and transcend that mountain to the other side. And know that those whom you love are still very much alive, loving and experiencing existence from a different vibration level. Each time you feel joy; they are aware and celebrate that with you.

I’m wishing you many hugs and much peace along this difficult yet sacred path.