Most of us in the ego world think of grief and immediately are reminded of it's relationship to pain suffering and death. The experience of losing someone even yourself can send us into a spiral of emotions which most psychologists have termed five stages of grief. Very little is known or discussed
about the stages of recovery that follow between each of those five stages leading to the next and what to do once the acceptance wears off. Some believe grief is linear, in that time will heal it but for those of us who have experienced it on an unimaginable scale know that it is centrical. Just because you have experienced all five stages of grief does not mean that they cannot resurface at some point. And this is where gratitude comes in. I know you must be thinking "why would I be happy that someone is gone or that I've suffered a loss, what is there to appreciate in the loss and feelings of suffering?"
And I say to you it's the one thing that you should always appreciate, opportunity. An opportunity to observe your emotions, an opportunity to grow as an individual, an opportunity to reflect on how emotionally intelligent you believed yourself to be, an opportunity to understand your ego, an opportunity to assess your inner circle, an opportunity to reflect on what you gained as opposed to what you lost, and the opportunity to appreciate that you have life to live, choices to make, chances to increase the abundance in you and around you. Emotional pain and physical pain release two very different neurochemical responses both can be traumatizing in miraculous ways. Fear releases fight or flight whereas once you're already in pain your mind and body begin to protect itself. Bringing physiological proof to the term what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. And the key to that strength is gratitude.
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