Meditation For Grief

Take a breath. Let the silence hold you. You are not alone in your experience

Grief has many names and many faces, but it is a testament to your love, hope, and dreams.

“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” — Rumi

Loss is not just death. It is also absence. Of people, of jobs, of dreams, of homes, of former selves.

Grief is valid even when it can not be explained

“The soul is a flame that can never be extinguished, even by sorrow.” Hazrat Inayat Khan (India, d. 1927)

Grief is not linear. It curves, it circles, it returns. Imagine walking through a fog.

You cannot rush the fog away. You must simply walk with it.

“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”Frederick Douglass (USA, d. 1895)

You may feel broken. That is okay. Be gentle with yourself, as you would with a child...

...or a wounded animal. Your pain is worthy of kindness.

Let yourself rest. Let the tears come if they do.

Let the silence cradle you. Even here, you are held. Even here, there is life.

It's okay to be sad and overwhelmed. We are all in this together.

Credits:

Created with images by shorty25 - "Garten von Claude Monet in Giverny" • spiritofamerica - "Claude Monet painting featured on large painting in Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, France - shot in August 2015" • Harris Pinkham - "Water lilies - Monet detail" • antomat - "laghetto di monet" • VanSky - "Sunset over the sea. Scene from "The scream" of Edvard Munch" • Silvio - "The scream by Edvard Munch celebrated on african stamp" • Abdulla - "Anguished Echoes" • LitterART - "NEBELWALD . CLOUD FOREST" • mitifoto - "Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer um 1817, Caspar David Friedrich" • Tilmann Boegel - "El Golfo" • olgasparrow - "Silhouette of a young mother and her little daughter at sunset" • vvvita - "Little kitten and mother cat walk on fallen leaves in the autumn garden" • Sergey Nivens - "Stary clear night sky. Mixed media" • Anderson Dantas - "van gogh starry night" • Enriqecido - "お庭に置かれた埴輪の土偶"