The Soul of Grieving

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I lost of my beautiful mother on July 27th 2021, and I find myself in a profoundly transitional time. A time where I am re-valuing everything in my life.

Sometimes the unexpected happens when grieving the loss of someone so important in your life.

After her passing, I started going through a lot of old photo albums. I cleared out all my closets and went through every single photo in my entire home, re-living some very interesting moments from my childhood, my teenage years, my 20’s, 30’s… It’s been an interesting journey back in time…

It feels very much like a life review. When you cross to the other side, you spend a period of time doing what’s called a life review. You re-live your entire life. Every interaction and experience you’ve ever had, you re-live. You see it all through the eye of your soul, through the prism your infinite consciousness. Every aspect of the now moments are re-lived, and re-viewed through the spectrum of an unlimited dimension.

You see with love and detachment. You understand at the soul level what lessons you’ve learned and what lessons you still need to work on.

Immediately after my mother passed away, I had the sense that, instead of her being in only one place on this earth, in her body and in her apartment, I had the strong feeling that she was now everywhere in the Universe.

I was watching a beautiful video by Eckhart Tolle where he said something that makes the most sense to me:

The form obscures God

And the death of the from enables God

The formless shines through

where there was form

That is what happens at the spiritual level. Through the death of the form – the body, the person who passes – Spirit shines through. The light shines through. The formless part connected to the form… shines through.

During the life review that occurs after losing someone dear to us, what begins to happen in the grieving process is a combination of this connection with the formless part of our form, the spirit part that is connected to our body and our life, and the new insights this perspective gives us. This shifts us when we look at our entire life as a whole existence.

There are many gifts that come with grieving. Grieving is a very difficult, challenging, hard thing to go through, but at the same time there are some beautiful gifts that can come from it.

One of the gifts is that our heart is so open, so vulnerable, that this opens a spiritual doorway towards true surrender and trust in a power greater than ourselves.

Through my own grieving, I was gifted a beautiful insight and vision. I experienced my own immortal self, my ageless self, my timeless, limitless spirit.

These gifts can directly help to heal what you didn’t know needed healing. Things like self-esteem, comparing yourself to others, or certain false values being exposed. You start seeing that what you thought mattered to you, whether it’s possessions, success, financial abundance, or even how others view you, these begin to be put into a spiritual context.

In the grieving process, that open-heart vulnerability brings to light what truly matters to you.

Every soul is different. Every human being is different. This is a great opportunity to reassess life with a new view. With new eyes. With fresh perspectives.

This can be very challenging as it may trigger the beginning of a spiritual awakening. Through the deep pain of loss, heart opening, vulnerability and life review, as well as through this new connection to the limitless soul now being felt after the death of a loved-one, a profound shift can feel like the shattering of your former life.

While there’s no denying that saying goodbye at the physical level is profoundly painful, there are also great gifts that come the moment the formless can be fully experienced, when a cherished loved-one has transitioned. There are spiritual gifts that can come from the depth of the grieving experience.

For me, the greatest gift that came from that, is feeling that connection with my mother at a much deeper, infinite level.

She truly is everywhere, at all times, now.

What I retain most from my photo album life-review, is the profound gifts that come from being present. Truly present. Present to this moment. Fully taking in the life that is being experienced with every cherished being that we love.

Only in the present moment can we experience the spirit in the body, the fullness of our loved-ones. To be present to another is the greatest gift we can give them.

As they transition, that spirit connection and presence we had during their life will be the greatest gift that lives on forever in our heart and soul.

And this is where my beautiful mother’s spirit now lives… forever in my soul.

©Michèle Duquet, all rights reserved
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[Spoken video version of this post on my YouTube channel]

Today’s Soul Whisper: A Phoenix in Waiting

A bird’s eye view

 

on a day’s walk
the winds of change
exhale defeat

standing still
is our fate

and yet…

through the soul’s eyes
the stillness rises,
a Phoenix
in waiting

its dawn still bright

 

©Michèle Duquet, all rights reserved
Photo credit: Flo Maderebner from Pexels

 

 

Today’s soul whisper: The soul of self-isolation.

The soul of solitude

 

One of the challenges of this time of self-isolation is that it is easy to bypass this unique  opportunity we all have for inner-growth.

I’m specifically speaking about soul-growth.

As a human species, we are here to be human. To be present. To experience our human life through the spectrum of this earthly existence.

Yet our soul is also here, observing, accepting, and loving through its prism of infinite consciousness.

As in all else on this 3D plane, we can very quickly fall back into the comparison game. The social media game. Who is doing what during this time of self-isolation. What’s trending on the video platforms. What’s on Netflix.

As our soul observes, accepts and loves us unconditionally from its realm of vast consciousness, it waits. Patiently. Gently. Lovingly.

Will we awaken or will we remain asleep?

The inevitability of seeing our true reflections while in the confines of our homes can create an emotional discomfort unlike anything we’ve ever experienced before.

We can continue to escape through whatever is trending, or we can stop and face ourselves, face our emotions, face our deep discomforts and fears.

It’s no secret that the true prison we find ourselves in is the one within our minds and hearts. Our thoughts are still what dictates how we live through these times.

Yet, our soul is also here, patiently waiting for us to awaken to its presence and heart-promptings, as it whispers,

I am here.

I am listening.

I am observing.

I am accepting.

I am loving.

I can help.

If you pause to listen to the silence,

I will whisper your own inner wisdom to you.

I am YOU.

The unique times we are in is our unique opportunity to align ourselves with our soul, here for its own soul–evolution.

This is a unique opportunity to go within and heal what we cannot escape from: ourselves.

By opening up to our soul consciousness, we can begin to navigate our human journey through out soul’s perspective.

It is up to us what we do in our self-isolation.

Will we continue to escape through what has always been, or will we pause to listen for the soul-whispers?

Will we remain asleep, or will we awaken to the heart of our soul-journey…?

 

©Michèle Duquet, all rights reserved
Photo credit: Ray Bilcliff from pexels.com

 

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