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"Recognition of Humanity should be the central focus of Human Existence" ~ Paulo Freire
"I dream of a world where I can lay my vulnerabilities out there, open for everyone, until they are my strengths. I am longing for this."
Harper Steele
5 Neuro-Tools for Grief & Loss
5 Neuro-Tools for Grief & Loss
What Can Neuro-Tools do for YOU?
What Can Neuro-Tools do for YOU?
Toxic Positivity: What is it and How to Avoid It?
Toxic Positivity: What is it and How to Avoid It?
What is toxic positivity? How do people engaging in toxic positivity impact people who are struggling with any issue? Learn how to identify and avoid toxic positivity in yourself and in others. Additionally this discusses what to say to people who approach you with toxic positivity.
Beware the Grifters!
Beware the Grifters!
Grifters abound in the "healing" profession and community. Watch this video for some information on how to avoid those who are preying on your vulnerability, pain, suffering, difficulty and/or struggle. Be CAUTIOUS with your heart, mind and psyche - treat it with the care it deserves with choosing who you work with.
This Site is NOT a Replacement for Therapy, Medication or Medical Treatment
This Site is NOT a Replacement for Therapy, Medication or Medical Treatment
For Information on Grief/Loss from Suicide, go to the Surviving Loss from Suicide page.
This page will be up again soon!
Neuro-Tools 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
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
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
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
Watch for the GEMS
Watch for the GEMS
Grief Can Upend our Sense of Safety in the World
Preparation for the Cave of Safety - How to Create YOURS
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
What is Safety REALLY?
What is Safety REALLY?
For more information, go to the SAFETY page
When Grief & Loss Throw us Into the UNKNOWN
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
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 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 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
Tools for Increasing Connection
Using Neuro-Tools for Connection
Using Neuro-Tools for Connection
The Net of Indra & Ouroboros as Symbols of Connection
The Net of Indra & Ouroboros as Symbols 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 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
Open Heart:Increasing Compassion for Self & Others
This NeuroMeditation 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
Breathing with the Tree of Life
This NeuroMeditation 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
The Law of Kindness for Connection
The Law of Kindness
The Law of Kindness
Living by this law increases both connection with, and compassion for, yourself and others. If you only live by one law, let it be this! Helps you and helps the world.
To Quiet the Mind for Sleep
Mind Racing? Try this FIRST
Use this NeuroMeditation to balance the mind, increase focus and attention, and most importantly to interrupt the signaling from the amygdala so that you can bring your system into CALM. This is my version of one from the NMI page on insight timer and also on this page.
Music: Powerful Meditation Music for Concentration and Focus by Meditation and Healing 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
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
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
When Our Grief & Loss Lead to Depression
Go to the Depression Page for More information on using Neuro-Tools for Depression
5 Tools for the Ebb & Flow of 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 NeuroMeditations 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 VERY Helpful Through the Journey of Grief & Loss
Find a verified, licensed Therapist. This tool allows you to filter for many different things: insurance, gender, age, education, specialty, style etc...
This website has SO many AMAZING resources for LGBTQ+ people. They are broken down in clear and usable ways.
This link takes you to the crisis section of a page, which has very important info. If you scroll up on that page, you wil find more links for many other resources.
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.
WARNING!!!
The Trump Administration cut funding for the
specific LGBTQ+ part of the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline
Beginning in JULY 2025
If you are LGBTQ+, you will not receive the quality of the previous (specialized and appropriate) support through the 988 line and will be better supported by calling or texting other crisis support lines
Here are some options for other LGBTQ+ Suicide and Crisis support:
The Trevor Project: Offers crisis intervention and suicide prevention services for LGBTQ young people (ages 13-24). They provide a lifeline (1-866-488-7386), text support (Text START to 678-678), and online chat, available 24/7.
Trans Lifeline: A peer support hotline run by and for transgender people, offering direct emotional and financial support, available 24/7. The US number is 1-877-565-8860 and the Canadian number is 1-877-330-6366.
LGBT National Hotline: Provides peer counseling, information, and resources for callers of all ages. Available Monday-Friday, 4pm - 12am ET and Saturday, 12pm - 5pm ET at 1-888-843-4564.
LGBT National Youth Talkline: Specifically for youth up to age 25, offering information, support, and local resources. Available Monday-Friday, 4pm - 12am ET and Saturday, 12pm - 5pm ET at 1-800-246-7743.
Helpful Video I recommend watching
The Science of Trauma & Grief
The Science of Trauma & Grief
This is long, and all of it helpful and informative, but go to around 1 hr to find the part about Grief and Loss
The Vagus Nerve & Polyvagal Theory
What is the Vagus Nerve and Why Should You Learn About it?
Go to the Vagus Nerve and Polyvagal Theory Page for Images, Links and More Information
Time in Nature is Helpful for Grief and Loss:
The Powerful Impact of Nature
The Powerful Impact of Nature
Various Ways to Access Nature: Especially When You Can't Get There
Various Ways to Access Nature: Especially When You Can't Get There
Courses for Using Neuro-Tools to Support You Through YOUR Journey of Grief &Loss
Go to the pages below for more information and Neuro-Tools for each:
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
Why Understanding your Personality Type is Helpful
Why Understanding your Personality Type is Helpful
What is Your Temperament and Why it Matters?
What is Your Temperament and Why it Matters?
What Does Perception Have to Do With It All?
What Does Perception Have to Do With It All?
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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