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grief

I saw this today and i feel i am beginning to surface after being in deep waters all week.
I thought i would share since we are all human...and all go through these things.
Birth, life and death.


"Tending to grief is the essence of the alchemical wounded healer. Proving a sanctuary and safe passage for its unfolding – in the body, the psyche, and the nervous system – requires that we fall to the ground, at times, and weep.

Weep for the shattering, for the dying of a dream, for the entirety of the unlived life. For it is these tears that form the substance of the portal to joy.

Grief is not something we “get over,” but a partner we spin with, honor at times, argue with at others, and lament with as the cycles of our lives unfold.

We live in a world that has lost contact with the holy waters of reorganization. But to marginalize the experience of grief to work against nature. Out in the natural world, the earth grieves by way of her seasons. We can feel that grief in a rain drop, if we allow ourselves to be taken apart and put back together.

There is no endpoint to this restructuring, no final state of resolution where we land in some untouchable place, free from our embodied vulnerability, our somatic aliveness, and from more burning.

Rather, we find ourselves in what the alchemists called the rotatio, the holy rotation of vast cycles of rupture and repair that touch and open the human soul.

The soul is endless and the visitors of grief may companion us for a lifetime. But the grieving, orphaned ones of psyche and soma come not to harm, but to reveal. And to open a doorway into wholeness, mercy, and light.

Grief is not so much a process that we “make it through” and come out the other side fully intact, but a non-linear, purifying midwife of the unknown. It moves not by way of straight line, but by that of circle and spiral." - Matt Licata


Also, grieving to this level puts an immense amount of pressure on my body. It has caused some issues that you can imagine and i needn't do into details of my loud mitochondrial symptoms. I did begin taking Ignatia (homeopathy) approximately 48? hours ago and Bach original flower remedies, Star of Bethlehem - neutralize grief. It seems to be assisting me with allowing my body more time to rest and recalibrate and feel neutrality for moments.

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These are the parts that touched me and I would like to come back and expand on 🙏🤎


"Tending to grief is the essence of the alchemical wounded healer. Proving a sanctuary and safe passage for its unfolding – in the body, the psyche, and the nervous system – requires that we fall to the ground, at times, and weep.

Weep for the shattering, for the dying of a dream, for the entirety of the unlived life. For it is these tears that form the substance of the portal to joy.


We live in a world that has lost contact with the holy waters of reorganization. But to marginalize the experience of grief to work against nature. Out in the natural world, the earth grieves by way of her seasons. We can feel that grief in a rain drop, if we allow ourselves to be taken apart and put back together.

The soul is endless and the visitors of grief may companion us for a lifetime. But the grieving, orphaned ones of psyche and soma come not to harm, but to reveal. And to open a doorway into wholeness, mercy, and light.

Grief is not so much a process that we “make it through” and come out the other side fully intact, but a non-linear, purifying midwife of the unknown. It moves not by way of straight line, but by that of circle and spiral." - Matt Licata
 
'Tending to grief is the essence of the alchemical wounded healer. Proving a sanctuary and safe passage for its unfolding – in the body, the psyche, and the nervous system – requires that we fall to the ground, at times, and weep.

Weep for the shattering, for the dying of a dream, for the entirety of the unlived life. For it is these tears that form the substance of the portal to joy'

Weep yes I understand what the author is sharing here and the term alchemical wounded healer is both powerful and positive..

Really seeing this last round the pattern/ cycle of shattering on a deep emotional level..
V hard to go through. The pain the utter shock of the situation. Grief..... Grief of what isn't...
Watching the ghost of ones life whilst still humanly here..,

The joy came from the relief of the rising out of the depth..

'We live in a world that has lost contact with the holy waters of reorganization. But to marginalize the experience of grief to work against nature. Out in the natural world, the earth grieves by way of her seasons. We can feel that grief in a rain drop, if we allow ourselves to be taken apart and put back together'

Our mother certainly is weeping and using that for expression.. To turn the hands of ' time ' back to the beauty and flourishing joy...
She never left she just got interfered with..

Spirals and the circles in life of life..
Get a bit dizzy with the spirals!
The calling and deep diving into the divine, the healing light of wisdom, truth comfort and freedom. And then, the pure seeing of this ' reality ' as the school of earth, preparing the way for the seamless journey ahead 😇 of beauty..

Humble thanks for this space...
For being a channel
And for Matt Licata for being a wise soul
 

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