Art of Practicing: When Sadness, Grief, Disappointment Arises...What to Do, How to Process & Practice.

What do you do when a wave of sadness and grief comes over you?

In this episode, Henri has a discussion followed by a practice with fellow Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Tamara Stanfill.

@00:48:44 There is a beautiful Mindful Reiki RAIN Internal Family Systems Meditation Practice to support processing, shifting from sadness

In our society, we have often been taught to dislike any feeling other than "happiness."

If sadness, grief, disappointment, or anger come up, our first instinct may be to want to turn away from the discomfort of the emotion. When that "piece of you" is activated within you, it is carrying an emotion that wants to heard, seen, and when ready to process it to complete the e-motion cycle. Once that is done then you can allow new energy in - like peace, harmony, etc.

We can have non-beneficial patterns and programs that want to stomp out or deny how we are feeling or what we are processing. But the treasure of awakening and being alive is in the feeling.

We practice because when things arise, we may be caught in a storm of emotions that leaves us temporarily in amnesia, but then we remember we aren't powerless. We have tools because we practiced.

These emotions are actually bringers of wisdom, truth seekers, calling something to the surface to be cleared and allowing an awakening and a shift. This allows an expansion of consciousness and a shift to a higher vibrational frequency.

Part of the enrichment of life is that it is filled with all kinds of shades of emotions that can guide us to where we are in the experience. Emotions aren't your enemy.

Learning how to be with things that arise, learning how to offer ourselves compassion while noticing and witnessing any judgemental thoughts that arise and to bring compassion back in is a practice Tamara and I use over and over again. 💗

Side Note: This was done in an Instagram Live, but I thought it would be beneficial so adding it to the podcast.

Much love, peace and Reiki Blessings.

H