How To Ground Your Emotions When You're Triggered By Grief
Sadness and grief often sneaks upon us when we’re least expecting it. Sometimes we’re watching a movie, listening to a song or doing something mindless like taking a shower. Almost anything can trigger a memory that brings up an emotion that is ready to be healed.
When you find yourself in such a predicament, find a private place where you can be alone with your thoughts and if need be, let the tears flow.
· Then, connect with your body and ground yourself in the present moment. The goal is to release the stored up emotion of your trauma, not to re-live the actual event.
· Place your hands on your stomach, solar plexus or heart, where ever you are feeling deep emotion in your body.
· Allow your eyes to softly close and bring your awareness inwards to your breath.
As you inhale, imagination a soft, powerful beam of white light enveloping any heavy emotion that is buried in your psyche. See the beam of light pouring into every crevice in your body where unresolved pain may be hiding.
· As you exhale, draw your navel back toward your spine and release the white light up and out through the top of your head.
· Continue to breathe the loving, white light in through the top of your head, into the space where the pain resides. Then, exhale the emotion out of the top of your head surrounded and escorted by the healing light.
Sometimes it’s hard to let go of hurt if we never acknowledged its existence in the first place. In other cases, we don't want to release the emotion because the trauma has become an ingrained part of our identity. In some cases, we feel even more vulnerable without our trauma because we now have to accept the responsibility of fully loving and accepting ourselves, even if others around us still don't see our worth.
As the emotion is leaving your body, thank it for being a helpful warning system and letting you know that something needs to be healed.
Next, breath in and out through your nose 3 more times. As the emotion comes up for you, it may feel difficult to take deep, slow inhales, but try to see the breathwork practice through until you have cleared as much of the emotion as you can.
· Inhale/Exhale
· Inhale/Exhale
· Inhale/Exhale
Notice how your breath feels and where it is in your body. Keep your hands in position for a moment or two while focusing your attention on your in-breaths and out-breaths.
Wrap your arms around your body and gently say to yourself, “I Am Here. I Am Safe. I am Loved”
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With Love, Luck and Grace,
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