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Basic Info on Grief and Loss
Basic Info on Grief and Loss
This Site is NOT a Replacement for Therapy, Medication or Medical Treatment
This Site is NOT a Replacement for Therapy, Medication or Medical Treatment
Caution with Mindfulness and Quiet Mind and Trauma
Caution with Mindfulness and Quiet Mind and Trauma
For Information on Grief/Loss from Suicide
go to the Surviving Loss from Suicide page.
Using NeuroMeditation for Grief & Loss and How it Helped Me
Using NeuroMeditation for Grief & Loss and How it Helped Me
My Favorite Meditations For Grief/Loss:
This meditation is pretty self explanatory. It can offer some sense of soothing to the pain.
Music: Listen to the Flute’s Lament by Buddha’s Lounge on YouTube
This meditation guides you through shifting your attention inward to: build connection with self and body; increase awareness of, and ability to listen to, information coming from your body which can help you begin to tune into what state your nervous system is in and to assess effectiveness of interventions
Music: Krishna’s Healing Power by Buddha’s Lounge on YouTube
This can be helpful for when we feel pushed off balance by our loss or grief
This Meditation anchors you into your stable, rooted self using the vagus nerve; balances the mind through bi-laterall focus and bi-lateral touch
Music: Vagus Nerve Stimulation by Narayanjot Records on YouTube
This focus meditation uses imagery of the tree of life; drawing energy up from your roots and down from your limbs and leaves, allowing them to mingle, grow and connect you with the vitality of life.
Music: Golden Blossom by Buddha’s Lounge on YouTube
This meditation anchors you in your strong, immoveable center and allows you to rest in strength as you observe all thought, feeling and sensation that arises
Music: Bamboo Garden by Buddha’s Flute
Awe is beneficial for everyone, especially when dealing with anything difficult. Do this often - even for a couple minutes when you are stressed/overwhelmed/hurting. This meditation guides you through remembering, with all of your senses, an experience of being in a place where you FELT AWE
Music: Village Love Story by Buddha’s Flute on YouTube
OH: Increasing Compassion for Self & Others
This meditation is the basis and foundation of Open Heart meditations. It increases love and compassion for self and others.
Music: Peaceful Garden by Buddha’s Lounge on YouTube
Open Heart: Being the Tree & the Forest
This meditation uses imagery of being both the single rooted tree AND the entire forest to Open the Heart and increase connection
Music: Morning Flute Music - New Day by Buddha’s Flute on YouTube
This meditation can be helpful when you feel pulled in opposite directions or the splitting experience arising from what seems to be conflicting thoughts, feelings, or sensations. By helping you stretch and expand the meditation this supports you so that you don’t have to pick either/or, and rather can hold BOTH things.
Music: Krishna’s Harmonious Flute by Buddha’s Lounge
This meditation supports you in expanding yourself as you hold both your joys and your sorrows.
Music: Buddha’s Flute - Healing Mother by Buddha’s Lounge
The Net of Indra as a Symbol of Connection
The Net of Indra as a Symbol of Connection
This Open Heart meditation increases the felt sense of being woven into the very fabric of life
Music: Village Love Story by Buddha’s Lounge on YouTube
This meditation connects you with being like a tree and then slowly to the feeling of being the entire, vast and expansive forest
Music: Relaxing Flute Falling Leaves by Buddha’s Lounge on YouTube
This meditation uses space imagery to quiet the mind for sleep. Using both the darkness between all things in space and its vast neverending expansiveness.
Music: 8 Hour Hans Zimmer Time Cover by Cozy Sleep Sounds on YouTube
Grief Can Upend our Sense of Safety in the World
The system responds and can return to calm when you send it messages of safety. This meditation is helpful for that, or whenever you need a barrier to the world, a deep sense of safety, unconditional love and support, or when you are doing difficult work. Practicing often can help restore a sense of safety.
Music: Golden Blossom - Tranquil Flute by Buddha’s Lounge on YouTube
When you are ready... this meditation can help with acceptance of loss
This meditation helps you to gently stretch into acceptance of things that may be difficult
Music: Dive into Tranquility - Buddha’s Flute on YouTube
This meditation aids you in accepting and facing the unknown through connecting with your core immovable self and anchoring into your strength.
Music: Calm Mountains by Fantasia Echoes
This meditation guides you through increasing love and compassion for yourself. Observe yourself and how the experiences of life have impacted you. Through the lens of love, connect with both giving and receiving whatever is needed, fostering and growing your compassion and understanding for yourself.
Music: Healing Mother by Buddha’s Lounge on YouTube
When Guilt or Regret are Connected to Your Grief/Loss
This meditation gently guides you through sitting with your deep regrets and assists you in allowing and receiving the balm of self forgiveness
Music: Dive into Tranquility by Buddha’s Flute on YouTube
Honoring Loss of
Honoring Loss of
Part of Self
Part of Self
Honoring Anniversaries, Birthdays and Other Difficult Holidays
Honoring Anniversaries, Birthdays and Other Difficult Holidays
Working with Memory: The Benefits and Challenges
Working with Memory: The Benefits and Challenges
When Our Grief & Loss Lead to Depression
This meditation assists you in moving through the waters of Depression which ebb and flow.
Music: Bamboo Garden by Buddha’s Flute on YouTube
My Favorite Meditations for Grief/Loss from the NeuroMeditation Institute:
If you haven't yet follow the steps below to access these meditations:
Download the Insight Timer app
Search for the NeuroMeditation Institute page within the app and Follow
Open any of the links for the meditations below and bookmark for quicker and easier future access
Therapy is Incredibly Helpful for the Journey Through Grief/Loss
Therapy is Incredibly Helpful for the Journey Through Grief/Loss
Click HERE to find a licensed therapist near you verified through Psychology Today
This website has SO many AMAZING resources, which are broken down in clear and usable ways, to help you that is safe and inclusive.
This link takes you to the crisis section of a page, which has very important info, but also has more info if you scroll up. There you will find links to finding whatever resource you need.
If you are feeling suicidal you are NEVER alone... JUST dial 988
If you are feeling suicidal you are NEVER alone... JUST dial 988
Or Click Here for a link to their website and talk/text links or click the logo at left.
The Vagus Nerve & Polyvagal Theory
What are the Vagus Nerve and Polyvagal Theory & Why do they Matter to YOU?
Go to the Vagus Nerve and Polyvagal Theory Page for Images, Links and More Information
Working with Safety
Working to Know Thyself
Working with Connection
Working with Nature
Go to the pages below for more information and meditations for each:
Movement Meditations for Grief/Loss:
Using Movement Meditations To Help with Grief/Loss
Using Movement Meditations To Help with Grief/Loss
How Time in Nature is Helpful for Grief and Loss:
The Impact of Nature on Grief & Loss
The Impact of Nature on Grief & Loss
Various Ways to Access Nature: Especially When You Can't Get There
Various Ways to Access Nature: Especially When You Can't Get There
When Your Grief or Loss is Connected to the World's LACK of Understanding Gender -
Are you grieving the loss of family, or family members, because they can't understand the facts about Gender?
Are you grieving the loss of place in community or church because they can't understand the facts about Gender?
These are intense losses and rock our world. These are a few videos and that you can check out for validation and scientific proof that there are NOT only two genders, or share them with those you love and hopefully they will be open to learning.
Also below are a couple books which cover gender in the archaeological record and the understanding of gender in Native North America.
The Facts About Gender
Transgender Neurobiology
skip the long intro
Brain Gender
Skip the long intro
Neurobiology of Trans-sexuality
Changing Ones: Third and Fourth Genders in Native North America
Changing Ones: Third and Fourth Genders in Native North America
by Will Roscoe
Ancient Bodies, Ancient Lives: Sex, Gender, and Archaeology
Ancient Bodies, Ancient Lives: Sex, Gender, and Archaeology
by Rosemary A. Joyce
Temperament, Personality and Perception
Knowing what temperament you are at a base level can help you as you come to KNOW YOURSELF more fully.
We come into the world having a base temperament. This is our Nature. Who we are is comprised of this and all of our experiences in life, especially our NURTURING or how we were nurtured. Understanding your nature can offer you amazing insight into yourself. Exploring the impacts of how you were nurtured, or how you weren't, allows you to see the story that is YOU. Our Nature can't be radically changed. However when we come to understand ourselves better we can gain the awareness to make choices which are in alignment with our nature so that our lives can feel more peaceful and fulfilling. Understanding your temperament, your personality and your perception of yourself and of the world, are critical parts of learning to truly love, accept and respect yourself and the WONDER which you ARE! No one is the same as us... we are connected and can have shared experiences, but the internal world that is us is something which is as unique as our fingerprint.
What is Your Temperament and Why it Matters?
What is Your Temperament and Why it Matters?
Why Understanding your Personality Type is Helpful
Why Understanding your Personality Type is Helpful
Perception and the Lense YOU See the World Through
What Does Perception Have to Do With It All?
What Does Perception Have to Do With It All?
Shifting Your Perception: Redefining and ReCLAIMING What You Value
Shifting Your Perception: Redefining and ReCLAIMING What You Value
Remember to go to the Begin Here and the Other Helpful Resources page for more information, tools, resources and book recommendations that are valuable for the journey through the labyrinth of Grief and Loss.
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