Receptive Feeling: Releasing Perceptions of What is Abnormal

By Rev. Dhyana Kluth

As I gaze out upon the snow falling upon the decaying leaves and the cemetery behind our back yard and prepare for ceremony tomorrow, I ponder upon the conundrum of grief in our culture. I won't explore why we fear it here but to be sure we do. My aim is less analytical than to offer you permission to loose the chains, to feel and express your divine being freely.

Whether we have suffered a sustained barrage of stressful stimuli over a long period of time or a sudden shock, you can be sure our bodies have experienced trauma.  Grief is the way we begin to heal our bodies, realign with our soul purpose and bring ourselves back into balance.

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In this American culture we are expected to keep it together, to not fall apart. There is something wrong with even that language and description because not only are we not meant to contain energy but there is nothing about us that breaks when we grieve and howl with pain and release our tears. On the contrary, when we halt the flow of our grief, we stop the process of healing from trauma and stop the flow of our energy to give birth to new manifestations in our lives.

Even without directly being told we cannot grieve our pain and loss, in this culture, we grow up learning it. It becomes ingrained in our body systems that we must hold on and control and tame our wild nature.

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