Let Grief Be The Catalyst

Grief comes out of nowhere. It sneaks up on us when we least expect it and rips the heart wide open. This is consciousness calling us to evolve into the highest versions of ourselves.

If we are to be all that we are destined to be, then we must allow ourselves to visit the deepest and darkest corners of ourselves through the portal that is grief.

Grief is a chisel that has been sent to sculpt you. If you allow yourself to sit with the pain of your loss instead of running away to avoid it, you can access a wellspring of creative power and reach a state of unconditional love.

The immense pain of our loss pierces through our toughest layers of armour and penetrates us to our core. Our limiting beliefs, ideations, conditioning and illusions of Self are all shattered to the ground when we allow ourselves to visit this place of pain within ourselves.

In this place of fragility and vulnerability, we have access to the purest state as a human being - a state of innocence that transcends the ego. Our souls are revealed to the light once again.

In this place of soul, there is nothing left to hold us back from accessing our true powers as human beings - no egoic beliefs or attachments to keep us limited and stuck in the earthly, physical dimension. Grief awakens us to our highest spiritual state of being.

It is when we surrender to the pain of grief that we allow the river of life to carry us forwards towards the light of unconditional love and pure creativity.

So often as human beings, we do all that we can avoid the pain that grief brings with it. When a relationship ends, how often do you hear of someone jumping straight into the next one without allowing time for reflection and deep healing? Through escapism and avoidance, patterns and behaviours are repeated and so many people end up stuck in cycles, choosing the same partners over and over again. When a loved one passes away, how often do we hear of someone turning to alcohol, drugs or other addictions to escape their pain and avoid the feelings of grief?

Grief brings with it an opportunity for immense growth and transformation. When we lose someone close to us, a part of our own soul, we can literally no longer be the same person as before. A part of us dies along with the loss. This gives us a chance to be reborn. Grief can fundamentally change who we are and the way that we view the world. It is impossible to visit such depths within oneself and return to the same way of being.

The grieving process opens one’s heart and results in increased sensitivity, and a deeper level empathy and understanding, so long as we choose to accept it as an inevitable and essential part of life and resist the urge to run, hide, and pretend that ‘everything is ok’.