Witnessing our grief [Meditation for chronic illness folks #3]
In this 15 minute meditation we witness our grief and make space for it in our bodies to find a sense of rest and ease
Hi friend!
How are you feeling today?
This is the third meditation in this series and today we are going to witness our grief.
I was recently interviewed by
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Also, it is completely up to you whether you want to listen to the meditation with your eyes closed or not. There are no rules here. Listening with your eyes closed will give you a more intense experience, but sometimes intensity is not what’s best for our brains and bodies. I once went through a period where closing my eyes would start a technicolour disco inside my mind and so I began listening to meditations with my eyes open. I discovered that I got a lot from the meditation even with my eyes open.
Enjoy! And let me know how it went in the comments below.
With music:
Without music:
How did it go?
How did you find this meditation?
What eid your grief look like today? Sometimes mine looks like a shrivelled old man, sometimes it’s an effervescent starry sky.
What did your grief need today?
Let me know your thoughts in the comments below.
Thank you Madelleine my grief turned up as pebbles or stones, some light coloured, some dark, some heavy, some light, some cool, some cold and some hot! They needed permission to be here, to be witnessed and allowed. I tucked them up on a soft supportive sheltering bed. Thank you again. Turns out some of my fears are my sorrows needing to be heard.
This is so powerful, thanks so much !!
I had two elements of grief to deal with, both recent triggers - one big enough to trigger migraine attack the other Friday. (Lots of past deep wounding to that trigger, one I sit with in deeper and deeper reflection every damn year) One was a darker shade than the other. Thank you for the invite to pause, I accepted that invitation and 2balloons came to put the shadows in and release. The other day I chose a new path to venture down, one of ease and release. Now the release element makes sense. What the grief really wanted and needed was to be witnessed. Something I haven’t realised before. So maybe that’s why a repeat of these triggering conversations kept repeating in my head? Because the feeling of grief attached to it wanted to be witnessed? I can’t wait to see what a difference this makes. Thank you so much🙏💕