When we go through a change like the one we are facing now, as a global community, we are literally forced to change with it weather we want to or not. This can be a very hard time for people especially when we are not ready to change or when we have to face change that we never wanted or anticipated in our wildest dreams.
As a global community, we are facing a falling away of the life we once knew and we don’t know what life will be like on the other side of this challenging time.
I found myself in the grieving process and did not realize it until just yesterday.
The Kübler-Ross model says there are 5 stages to grief.
They are – denial , anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.
They say that we can cycle through these over and over again until we get through the pain of it. Its only after we have processed through these stages that we can come to an understanding of the situation, event, or death that has occurred in our life and be in acceptance of “what is.”
No matter how hard it is to get through we must allow ourselves the time, space, and comfort of grief. If we don’t we are subject to “dis-ease”.
Dis-ease that has not been delt with at the emotional level becomes disease in the body eventually if we choose to ignore it and sweep it under the rug.
To get through these stages and wind up at the end “intact”, we must embrace the stages of grief and turn towards the discomfort of feeling all these things. Crying, Journaling, working out, talking it out with others are all good ways of moving this energy and then eventually moving it out.
Journaling is a great way to turn towards the feelings that come up and it helps get emotions out of your head and on paper. It doesn’t hurt anyone’s feelings. You don’t have to feel regret at what you said and it helps you process your own thoughts, emotions and feelings around the situation at hand before talking with others about your thoughts and feelings on the situation. It helps you collect your thoughts so your not speaking emotionally but now more intellectually on the situation. You may even be able to see the whole picture instead of just a portion of it after lots of journaling.
Also getting enough exercise is key. Weather it’s just a walk around the block for 20 min or it’s lifting weights in your garage, it’s a must to move the stagnant energy that builds up an emotional weight on the body. When the emotional distress sits inside us, it festers. Especially if we are watching too much news, or reading too much negative stuff, we need to get that energy out.
What happens is if you watch something negative you start getting into the fight, flight, freeze mode and they say the quickest way to get that energy out of your body is to exercise right after bad news. this gets it moving out so it doesn’t build up and now you can deal with things better. More clear and level headed.
The last thing people want to do at a time like this is bring on more stress in the body. It weakens the bodies immune system. Bruce Lipton has some great scientific research on stress and the immune system. he has YouTube videos and books on the subject. He’s a great resource. I highly suggest people take some time and see what he has to say.
Please, please, please stay away from the news. We are all informed of the situation at hand and we will always know what’s going on just by talking with others. You don’t need it through the lens and filter of negative and scared media. When we watch media we are not able to process this our own way.
Do yourself a huge favor and allow yourself to process this your own way.
I am sending so much love and light your way. I wish you all well. Keep your immune systems high by eating organic, easily digestible foods while we are going through this global change.
Mandy McKitrick
Mystical Healing Arts
Life and Health Coach
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