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How to Overcome Sadness and Grief
Dealing with sadness and grief can feel overwhelming, but there are answers. Here are 10 tips you may find helpful and healing.
Lori Prokop Healing Sadness and Grief Tip #1
Our experience on earth includes the inevitable passing of loved ones and friends, as well as the ups and downs of career, business, family and life.
Whether you have lost a loved one, a business or a job, I recommend the highly-respected book and movie, “Life After Life.” They have sold 13 million copies.
Lori Prokop Healing Sadness and Grief Tip #2
Do not feel ashamed of your sadness and grief by trying to contain or hide it. Tears are meant to cleanse and relieve. Cry out your pain. Pray out your grief. Peace will come.
Lori Prokop Healing Sadness and Grief Tip #3
For your own healing, continue on with a life of activities as before. Or you may consider finally doing what you have wanted to do for years.
If you have lost a loved one, know he or she would want you to carry on. Whether here or there, he or she really wants what is best for you.
Lori Prokop Healing Sadness and Grief Tip #4
Refrain from saying you have “lost” your loved one. A line of poetry says, “Love cannot lose itself.” You have not lost. Rather, your loved one is living in a new dimension, yet still close to you.
Lori Prokop Healing Sadness and Grief Tip #5
You can ask loved ones who have passed to continue being with you through your prayers, dreams or signs only the two of you would know. Even friends of mine who have not believed this was possible, once a loved one transitions, tell me it is very real.
Lori Prokop Healing Sadness and Grief Tip #6
Many who have loved ones who transition want to know, “Where is my loved one?”
Spirituality has been telling us and research is now beginning to prove he or she is well, strong and happy surrounded by love. Realize your loved one is fine — quite fine. (See Life After Life.)
Lori Prokop Healing Sadness and Grief Tip #7
Realize your Higher Power has made it possible for you and your loved one to meet here on earth.
Think about that. There are over SIX BILLION people on earth. Out of six billion people you could have been with, you and your loved were brought together here.
Find comfort knowing your Higher Power will also make sure you and your loved one will be together “over there.”
Lori Prokop Healing Sadness and Grief Tip #8
Often the best way to overcome our own sadness and grief is to help someone else feel better. What we give out into the world comes back ten-fold. That includes the love and help we extend to another.
Make a list of all the people you know who are feeling sadness or grief. Next to each name write something nice you can do to brighten his or her day. As you follow through with the list of actions, you will find healing, peace, gratitude and comfort in doing so.
Lori Prokop Healing Sadness and Grief Tip #9
Humans have incredible resilience. Having faith and connection to a Higher Power of 100% pure light and love can help relief, healing and recovery comes quicker and easier.
Lori Prokop Healing Sadness and Grief Tip #10
For some people, the greatest sadness and grief relief is found in their spirituality. Some people who have little prior spiritual beliefs seek answer during hardships or loss. Read spiritual books. Listen to spiritual CDs. Watch spiritual DVDs.
I don’t know if this helps you, but I find comfort in the quote, “It is better to have loved and lost than to have not loved at all.”
What do you think? Click on the Questions And Comments link and let us know.
Posted by Lori Prokop
Comments
I am suffering from extreme sadness over my financial situation. I am 48, alone and I'm looking at having to file bankruptcy. I'm having a very difficult time dealing with this fact and the overall sadness is severe. I dont want to take medication - I know why I'm sad but I cant move forward. My family has decided to let me tackle this one and will contact me but wont discuss the problem. They ask but when I tell they dont contact me again and when they do I think they hope I will lie and tell them everything is peachie. This has really hurt me, I feel abandoned by the ones I thought would always be there for me. HELP -
Posted by: Susan at September 13, 2007 7:25 PM
Thankyou Lori
You are indeed a blessing of love and light. Your messages are timely and inspiring. Your desire to serve and give freely of your gifts, time and energy are deeply appreciated. Thankyou.
I look forward to meeting you very soon
With love and gratitude
Victora Taylor
Posted by: Victoria Taylor at June 3, 2006 8:26 PM
Dear Cybaba,
You did a great job of reaching out by posting to this blog and asking. So, your ego will follow your desire. You are more in charge than you give yourself credit. It’s not your ego that is in charge, it is your heart. If you were to look at your situation through this question, what would your answer be? “If I responded to this with love, what would that sound like?”
Could it be that you would, first, love yourself more? Love yourself enough to ask and feel you deserve the help of others? Remember, angels don’t have physical hands. Instead, they work through those who do. So let Love help you by letting it flow through others to you, and most importantly, accept Love.
Financial problems (and every problem) are not “do more problems” or “money problem.” Financial problems are energy problems. That doesn’t mean energy as in people lack energy. Every one has plenty of energy surging through their bodies. The question is “what type of energy.” Did you know the energy of “fear” creates 99% of what you don’t want and 1% of what you do want? And the energy of contentment and ease creates 75% of what you do want and only 25% of what you don’t want? This is called your Life Guidance System. If you want to learn more about this get the free special report at http://www.howtohealabuse.com . It will explain in detail how to launch your life from good to great and create what you want in your life.
So right now, resolve your problem from the highest emotional/energy level of your Life Guidance System that you can. Then, use your inner Life Guidance System to create the life you want, which will likely include fewer challenges.
Blessings of Love and Light,
Lori
Posted by: Lori Prokop at April 25, 2006 12:19 PM
i am in deep distress. the problem i face is a bit finacial.. i know that my friends can help me. but i cannot ask them for help. tell me, how i can help solve my problems. it is just a matter of a few bucks. i can repay them in a few days time, but just because of my ego, i am unable to ask anyone. but the financial crisis can be solved in no time if i open up and cry.. but.. i CANNOT.
HELP ME......
my career is at stake... give me a resolution.
Posted by: cybaba at April 10, 2006 1:48 PM
