Connecting grief, faith, and devotion, RamDev describes the spiritual price we pay when we ignore the fundamental grief we all experience.

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In this episode, RamDev explains to listeners:

• The many forms that grief can come in
• Grief in our daily lives and feeling subtly separate from God and others
• How deep grief can shatter our faith
• Faith as an integral motivator for our practice
• The cyclical, positive relationship between faith and devotion
• Having an intimate, faith-based relationship with grief
• Our addiction to grief and becoming lost in our pain
• How we can consciously work with grief
• Opening to our own grief in order to be fully compassionate to others
• Trusting that we can become vulnerable and awaken to our own true nature
• Noticing sensations of grief and compassion for grief in our bodies
• Having appropriate boundaries when working with collective grief

“Unresolved grief has a numbing effect. These effects tend to accumulate and block our free expressions of the heart. Our goal is not to stop grief, but to help process it in whatever ways it might arise.” – RamDev

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