#280 The Great Spirit of Grief

Receive a gift of healing and atunement from the Great Spirit of Grief in this episode of Gaia Translate.

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INTRODUCTION

Welcome friends this is your host Tracy Shoolman and in today’s episode of Gaia Translate the Great Spirit of Grief steps forward with a  gift of  powerful guidance and long awaited atunement.

TRANSCRIPT

Great Spirit of Grief: We are not unacquainted, although that could be said for all members of the human clan at one or another point in their incarnate expression. We are misunderstood. We are feared, and we are loathed. And we understand and accept this. We step forward, as we are the vibratory field, that which is the Great Spirit of Grief. What is the song you have heard in your head, granddaughter, that we have hummed of late? You may sing it. We will wait.

Channel: Greetings, Great Spirit of Grief. I hear the refrain again and again in my head. Grief should be considered untreated as a river, not as a pond. Grief should flow like a river and not be gathered like a pond. That's what I keep hearing.

Great Spirit of Grief: Well, that is accurate. Why do we offer this? Many of you seek to gather and collect your grief. You hold it within you and allow it to fill you up. What happens with water that has and knows no movement? We will answer our own inquiry. It may grow stagnant. It may start to develop that which, when the water has no flow, is allowed to grow within it. That which would be considered unhealthy for life forms who share this environ. We do not judge those energies, in or out of physical form, that enjoy and are called to expand their field in these great pools of grief that are held within many human hearts. However, for the health and well-being of the host, which we would offer is each and all of you, it is wise not to seek to clutch on to your grief, but rather to allow it to flow through you. If you feel any grief in your heart, allow yourself to let the river of tears, of pain of heart, to flow through you rather than to hold them in abeyance within. For they will, for some, pickle you. For others, infect you. And you will find it less and less feasible to maintain your own well-being.

We do not deny that there has and is a great raining of the waters that have and would cause the rivers of grief to flow, this great rushing force in the heart place of many of your clan and that of all other life and flow in this Earth plane. Humans feel they have a monopoly on grief. This is very much an inaccurate statement and one that should be reconsidered. For while another life form may not express as you do through the shedding of water, the heaving of chest, do not doubt that the same river of grief may flow within them at that which has and causes threat or wounding, or even the death of one of their clan. Even that which would be a wind that would blow a carefully woven nest out of a branch of a tree. Would this not cause grief to you if you knew your home blown away? And we would offer from those who would not understand how your heart was expressing, it would simply be an observation externally of you as a being, slowly seeking to rebuild your own nest, slowly seeking to shelter with another and to invest your own energy in that which you had and lost and are in requirement to recreate.

What is grief, daughter? You hear the word love, and that is accurate. Grief is an expression of love that appears to have been suffered through the loss of that which remains outside of yourself, and for some, within. Grief is a manifest expression of what is experienced as a tear in your energetic field. You call it the heart; we call it love. And yet, as odd as this may seem, as you grieve, you love. As you grieve what you fear you have lost, and you have done in some aspect, the loss of a physical structure, the loss of relation, the loss of your job, the loss of a member of family or kin. All these are tangible and are a disillusion and loss of the physical container that either has held you or has held the life force of those who walk close to you.

One can understand a job in this manner. There is less emotional volatility in this comprehension. That which you call job or work is also a container in which the energy of your employment is held. We do not step forward to announce to your clan no need to grieve for that which you feel you have lost fully, the aspect of its energy that is eternal remains. It is simply no longer held within the form that you had grown accustomed to greeting it. For we do not deny the pain of the loss of the physical aspect of whatever it is that has been deconstructed, destroyed, or severed through the will of other, or in truth, mutual agreement. For you grieve even when you agree. For example, you may no longer seek to be union or married to another. You may mutually agree that it is time to sever that energetic agreement through the act of divorcing. And yet, even when you agree that this construct no longer serves the energy field of the individuate, there is still a grieving at the loss of that which was once in a form that could be experienced through the hand or the heart.

We have stepped forward, for we do seek to offer a clarification. While it is so that there are many who grieve that which would be the complete loss of all life force or connection with another member of this physical plane, be it a pet, be it a way of life, be it an ignorance which has sheltered you in some way, or be it the loss of hope. Whatever it is, we acknowledge it has and may affect one profoundly. What we do seek to offer is to pickle yourself in your grief is not in highest discernment for either that you should grieve for or for your own well-being. You become used to this much as one becomes used to the scent within a home wherein you have fried many dishes and never opened the doors or windows or vents to release that particulate from the air. Others may walk in and find the scent of old fried foods hovering as a great haze and for some difficult to ignore. We offer it is useful to open the windows of your heart and to allow yourself to release your grief through the shedding of it. Some will confuse holding on to or being in relation with grief as the holding on to that which they grieve for. This is common. There are many, and you, Channel, are not removed from this group, we would observe, who were in a manner afraid or embarrassed that they would no longer offer the due respect to those they grieve for if they were to no longer take their grief around with them wherever they went.

While it is another discussion and one we are not designed to fully address, we can offer that those, the eternal aspects, which have and are, in truth, the greater measure of all beings when unembodied, are not soothed or honored or pleased when one simply carries around grief as that which is a hollow container for the being and the love you held for them. One could say that for those who are no longer here in a physical form the scent of grief is a bit acrid. The scent of joy-filled remembering is sweet and pleases.

To have that which is, and we speak emotionally, a heart in which your feeling states, your connections emotionally, your love, have and reside, is of course to have that which is a grief at your perceived loss and actual of what you had come to embrace with the threads of your light to connect with through that which has and is an energetic agreement. It is why one has and feels so deeply the rejection of a lover when one has and is not ready to suffer the energetic connection that you had agreed to. It is much like that which is a string that is pulled so taut that when it is severed, the sides of it will recoil back upon those who are the source therein. It stings a bit as that which has and should be, in truth, wound back up as an energy to be returned into your own resource.

Ah, but we digress. There are so many facets of grief that are being experienced by your clan. It is quite a cacophony in the ears of our heart. We do not seek to wound; we seek to heal. For the aspect of grief that is most useful is the one that allows the discharge of what you would perceive of as painful loss and to acknowledge it through the shedding of it, the experiencing of it, not the hoarding of it. Much as a well, that which may be the well of your grief – it is a cliché for good reason – may refill as you turn your awareness to whatever it is you feel is no longer or will ever return to that heart connection you had woven in your life experience. And that is a part of it. It has and is a measure of how you have and love. It should not however be, as we would suggest, a badge of honor or in truth, mastery. For it is not the same to pickle yourself in grief as it is to swim in the river of grief and to get to the other shore as you have and released that which has and rests heavily within the well of your heart.

Much as when one has and leaves a half-opened jar of liquid – we were going to say a half-opened jar of sauce – and the gentle wants us to say a container of milk, so we will differ. If you have a container of that which is milk and it is left within your refrigeration, even in the refrigeration, there is a point where that which is milk will sour, where that which was milk will grow organisms that have and consume it and change it from what it was into what they are.

We believe there are many who have had the opportunity to experience the opening, whatever it may be, of a foodstuff from that place where you contain it and store it, only to find it has become rancid or soured. It is not that you wish to consume, yes, nor would it be a blessing to do so. Much as this container of milk or other requires a timely consumption and then, in truth, the recycling or discarding of the container that it has and was held within, or the cleansing and reusing if you prefer, to hold that which has and is different than new. This is how we would seek to have you perceive your grief.

As you have and would consume your grief in the manner of allowing yourself to feel it fully, to cry it out, to acknowledge it, and to process it so you will transform it, much as if you were to consume the milk or other at your place within your own refrigeration in a timely fashion, you then transmute it into that which serves you and your well-being. Otherwise, it simply may take up space in your field and be that which would not be consumable, nor would you desire to. We accept that the active flow of grieving is less than pleasant, and yet we encourage it, much as one who leaves an infected finger without thinking of cleaning it or treating the infection. It will simply grow and cause greater and greater discomfort and perhaps an unhealthy overall experience for the life form.

We are not telling you not to have your grief. Far from it. In truth, we are encouraging you to acknowledge it and to process it, and yet not to allow it to become your permanent place of residence. As much as you may feel you honor and you are holding on to that which has left you in whatever form, this is inaccurate. It is confusing that which is a process with that which is a thing, and that is not helpful. We are not here to diminish all of the great and painful grievings your clan and all other life in flow are in the process of undergoing in this great period of imbalance. We simply step forward with the guidance and blessing of that which is the song of love, and as that which has and would offer when one is punctured and bleeds, it also serves to carry away any contaminant that was placed within the wound. To allow this flushing of what will not serve you is useful. And yet, if one allows the flow of your grieving to go unabated, eventually you may find yourself anemic for the other requirements of an informed and lived experience.

For those who have grown quite fond of their grief, to you we say you may always return. Your grief will not abandon you. We simply offer that it is useful, as you will wear a different set of clothing when the ones you have worn have grown soiled or carry the stench of your exertions. You may wash them and put them on again. We would offer this would be your mind memories, your heart memories, which is a knowing that which you grieve for without having it coated in the stench of unreleased grieving. To claim what we would identify as right relation with this incredible blessing, that which is the aspect of love that is and knows itself as grieving, is to accept that this is a process which allows the cleansing of the emotional and energetic field. You see, the tears are shedded, and when you have and shed them, do you not feel better? It is simply a physical out-picturing of the egress of this emotional condition that is required to be as river and to flow from you and through you.

Many have and offer there are negative consequences to sublimated grief and for other emotions as well, yes? Oftentimes it is more obvious, and one has and holds within one and stifles the egress of small angers. Then they may grow and explode a bit, which we would offer usually does not serve any. It is the blessing of the allowance of flow, of the acceptance that, yes, the well of your heart may fill again, and not to turn away, yet to empty it. What is the analogy that your guides have offered you, daughter? We find that quite efficient if you are willing to share it.

Channel: Blessings to you, Great Spirit of Grief. The analogy that I am guided is to understand myself as a dehumidifier, and the dehumidifier won't function unless, when the bucket is full, it is emptied. Then the functioning can continue.

Great Spirit of Grief: That is useful, and we do not suggest, either in your situation or any other, that humans are simply giant grief dehumidifiers. Rather, we extrapolate that the general functioning of human or other life form will know itself at a point of stasis if it does not attend to what requires emptying.

That is what we came to offer, for we are aware it is a great season of shift. It is a great season of grieving, and your clan is well served to cleanse their fields again and again rather than to hold on to that which will and does not serve. Grief is a river and not a pond. For those who wander and carry the great barrel of grief upon their back or in their heart, you do all a service to release it and to return this energy back into the flow of potential. It serves all that which you grieve for and that which you have and conflate. You honor through the denial of this transformation through the act of act of grieving.

We feel we have offered a number of examples of what we would call a less than positive experience for those who have and pickled themselves in unreleased grief. We can say with surety, and we speak for many, there are none who have and know their eternal aspect no longer held within a physical form, be it a system, a human, a four-legged, or that which is a relation. None are pleased or honored or grateful to those who swaddle their grief and allow it to be that which is, if you will, fed from the milk of the breast of your intent. Is it not better for your own heart and that of those awarenesses that you are so attached to through the vibration and energy of love to love them and to hold them in joy and to know them in some aspect as still with you, as not having been suffered who they are? It is simply that part which is greater that is not expressed in physical form.

It is these gentle blessings of the wiping away of some distortion that has gathered much as the salt from a seaside window housing cakes upon the glass, creating deposits that diminish the clarity of you. Does this blessing we sought to serve … We do not diminish in any way the pain that is being experienced by all life and flow in this plane. We simply thought to suggest a manner in which those of your clan may know themselves assisted in this part of the journey.

Is that we sought to serve, daughter. We are grateful, for we felt your resistance and it is understood and we appreciate your willingness to treat this flow as a river upon which the current of our wisdom has been served.

It is complete as you would grant it. We have and will continue our flow.