Healing Your Grieving Body: 100 Physical Practices for Mourners
By Alan D. Wolfelt and Kirby J. Duvall
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Acknowledging the unique set of symptoms that accompanies a period of mourning, this guide is the ideal companion to weathering the storm of physical distress. From muscle aches and pains to problems with eating and sleeping, this handbook addresses how the body responds to the impact of profound loss. Low energy, headaches, and other conditions are also taken into account. With 100 ways to help soothe the body and calm the mind, this compassionate study is an excellent resource in understanding the connection between the two.
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Healing Your Grieving Body - Alan D. Wolfelt
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1.
FOCUS ON SIMPLE SURVIVAL
After the loss of someone you care about, you often feel shock, a psychic numbing of your senses, and a physical slowing of your body. You are taken down to your very basic needs of physical, emotional, and spiritual survival. Even the simplest acts of your life seem harder.
Your body is wise in this natural slowing down. Well-intentioned people may try to divert you from this turning inward. Society often seems to have the expectation that we take off a day or two for a funeral, and then we immediately go back to work and keep busy.
But your body is giving you the opposite message: to turn inward and suspend activity for a period of time. Physically you must focus on your simple survival needs. Breathe in, breathe out, rest, provide your body with nourishment, drink fluids, and focus on what you need to get through this day.
CARPE DIEM:
Take the time to take a deep breath in and out. What do you need to get through this day? Are you getting enough food, water, and rest to keep your body healthy?
2.
MAKE AN INVENTORY OF SURVIVAL STRATEGIES
What has helped you cope with stress and loss in the past? These strategies will probably help now, too.
Make a list of the most difficult times in your life and the ways in which you helped yourself live through them. Did you spend time with family? Turn to your faith? Help take care of someone else? How did you take care of your body? Can you make use of any of these survival techniques today?
Knowing what calms you is also important. Getting a massage, taking a walk, going for a swim, talking to your sister on the phone, walking the dog, meditating—find what works for you.
CARPE DIEM:
Make a list of what you need to get through the next month. Ask your friends and family to help you meet these needs.
3.
ALLOW FOR NUMBNESS
Feelings of shock, numbness, and disbelief are nature’s way of temporarily protecting us from the full reality of the death of someone loved. Like anesthesia, they help us survive the pain of our early grief. Be thankful for