We should begin to examine our own mistrust of grief…
We should begin to examine our own mistrust of grief ... Part of our fear and mistrust of sorrow is that we have been conditioned to encounter it alone and in isolation ... We cannot open to the full spectrum of sorrows that are around us ... so the heart wisely shuts down ... There's a wisdom to our own capacities to numb, to avoid, to anesthetize ... The conditions that we are asked to live within our fragmented and isolated ... The human psych can recognize Resonant signatures or proper space for us to open and empty the cup of our sorrow ... but without the signal frequency ... it's difficult to move the sorrow ... So what happens typically is that we begin to compact grief ... We talk about how we feel depressed ... It's oppression not depression ... the weight of undigested grief ... not just our own ... but generations of sorrow that is accumulated in the heart and soul and has created this state of extra heaviness ... Part of what we need is to again build our faith that grief isn't here to take us hostage ... It's one of the most eminent displays of our aliveness and our love ... Grief is entangled with love and affection ... We grieve because something we love has been harmed or lost or has been dismissed or dishonored and we grieve that
