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Offer and transcend your grief*

James Anderson

Abstract
The only panacea for grief is to realise the eternity within you. Getting to that stage is a long
haul, but you start connecting with the psychic influence as much as possible. Erect a ‘cinema
screen’ in front of your inner eye and connect with all your grief, but from a higher poise.
Allow the film to naturally replay. You are the director and central actor in this film. Allow
your feelings to spontaneously arise and observe your reactions. When you conclude the
film, offer everything the film brought up within you during the film. Offer everything to the
Divine. Finally, integrate yourself, infusing Peace and equality throughout your whole being.

as that. But what is the solution to grief?
The only panacea for grief, like any other
human affliction, is to live in a state of
Oneness and eternity. The truth is we
have nothing that can be lost because we
are everything and we have everything.
However, getting to this knowledge is a
mighty task, so we need to look at ways
of dealing with grief as it stands with us
today.
As long as we live in a state of transience, The integral way does not observe things
grief and other erroneous movements in isolation. It attends to a multiplicity
will always keep knocking on our door. of finer details but always as each one
The minute something is snatched away relates to the whole. Because of this, once
from us, grief surfaces in an automatic grief is conquered, other afflictions and
response. When we perceive that we have difficulties will inevitably be resolved too.
lost something, we grieve: it is as simple As each single movement gets rectified, it

*This article is a synopsis of a session, which took place on 25th March, 2021 at a NAMAH online
workshop, ‘Overcoming Loss and Grief’.

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