Grief and Spirituality Losing It and Finding It
Whatever your sense of spirituality, life losses can can your spiritual world. Sometimes people lose or reject spirituality while others regain it. And sometimes that spirituality will change and even come in different forms.
Reconnect With Spirit
Spirituality and religion are unique experiences. And whether you spent time in nature or meditation, or enjoy reading a scripture, reconnecting with spirit can help in our time if grief. On the other hand it is possible that our faith may be shook up. Even to the point where we may fee anger and reject it.
Rejecting Spirituality When Grieving
Grief leaves us with more questions than answers when we suffer a loss. So rejecting spirituality, getting angry or at minimum questioning spirituality is more than possible in these times. Losing a loved one, or getting life changing news can bring shock, panic, anxiety and throw all that we know upside down.
Grieving a loss is like a roller coasters. And feeling about everything may change. But at some point you will likely feel something missing and begin to seek it out. This may mean your what you once knew will take on a different form. Some people seek ways to reconnect through art, writing, helping others. And whatever you choose can help you to move through these times of change in a helpful way.
Healing When Grieving and Spirituality
There are many steps that one takes when moving through grief. That means taking care of physical, mental and emotional health. And in grief is to reconnect, maybe even rebuild, a faith or a philosophy challenged by loss.
Sometimes that means looking at your faith in a deeper way. Most religions have long encountered death and loss, and speak to human tragedy in complex ways.
It may not feel like right now but spirituality can bring both comforts and challenges in trying to simplify those beliefs to bring meaning to loss.
Spiritual Rituals
You may find comfort in the rituals that your faith community provides, including rituals offered during illness and after the death. Or you may feel the need to look deeper inside yourself, examining and perhaps even modifying your beliefs as you adjust to life without the person you loved. This may be true especially when the loss was sudden, traumatic, or intentional.
Grief and Spirituality Resources
As you struggle with questions of spirituality after a loss, the resources of your faith can be excellent guides.
To help you reconnect with spirituality, each faith, has books and practices that you can turn to as you try to make sense of the loss. There also may be rituals and practices such as meditation, spending time in nature, journaling participating in arts and hobbies may all offer comfort and assist your search for meaning.
If you require extra assistance consider talking to a therapist or get online therapy in the comfort of your home and on your schedule.
