Five Simple Steps Toward Recovering From a Loss

Whether you are suffering from the loss of a job, relationship, pet, or long-held dream, an easy-to-follow process is available for starting you on the road to recovery.

1. Name the loss. While this may seem obvious, sometimes it is difficult to surrender to the fact that you are at a loss, particularly if you have tried really hard at something. Before you can heal from a loss you must count it as a loss.

2. Identify the negative aspects of whatever you have lost. This may be difficult especially if the loss is a death, because people will tend to be speaking only positively of the person in question. Perhaps you're relationship with the person was more complicated, a little rockier. Naming the negative aspects or situations surrounding the loss helps to point where you may have stored-up emotions that you'll want to release.

3. Locate in your body where your emotions are stored or blocked. While emotions may be stored in any part of your body, by placing your hands over certain chakras or energy centers in your body while in a relaxed state, you can tune into emotions that may be there waiting to come out. Place your hands over your sacral chakra (the energy center two inches below your belly button) to tune into anger or frustration; hands over your solar plexus (center of your body) to tune into fears; and hands over your heart center to tune into sadness or grief.

4. Allow yourself to feel the emotions. It may help to try to sense a temperature, or color, or sensation-- anger may feel like a volcano wanting to erupt; fear may feel like the color yellow, yellowish-green, or periwinkle. We all experience emotions a bit differently. Tune into how your emotions feel. Then feel the emotional energy leaving your body and washing away.

5. List the positive aspects of your loss. This may be difficult if you were laid off, for example, and you don't want to make yourself feel worse about having to leave a good thing. But naming the positive aspects will lead to positive memories and joyous or peaceful feelings. Put your hands over your heart and allow any joy, peace, or happiness you received from the relationship or lost thing to be stored there.

A video which explains the steps may be found at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkfIxI5wKx0

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