Tuesday, 27 June 2023

Meeting yourself when your sorrow is overhwhelming

Sorrow is a feeling of deep distress caused by loss, disappointment or other misfortunes suffered by yourself or others and you experience in different ways:

  1. intense sorrow, pain and rumination over the cause of the devastation

  2. focusing on little else but the devastation

  3. constant mind chatter as your try to make sense of what has happened

  4. triggers of time and sense reminders (sound, smell, taste, sight and touch)

  5. intense and persistent longing and pining for what is lost or broken

  6. struggling to accept

  7. feeling numb or detached from everyday life

Taking time to gently meet yourself in these sorrowful moments, helps you take care of yourself. Taking care of yourself helps you to :

  1. Express your feelings and acknowledge that grieving is painful, but necessary

  2. Be patient with yourself

  3. Find ways to be creative

  4. Be physically active

  5. Gently forgive yourself

  6. Have a daily practice

  7. Stay connected, grounded and present 

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