I recently read an intriguing research article about grief entitled: Grief, poetry, and the sweet unexpected.

“The sweet unexpected includes the ease with which trauma survivors engage their trauma narrative, the critical insights that emerge in poetry, the beneficial social context of sharing poetry, and the healing benefits of poetry for writers, care providers, and readers alike.”

The metal organ the lung is the seat of the emotion of grief. The large intestine’s facilitates in letting go or letting go into transformation. Grief comes in waves, often magnified by the holiday season and understood to be heighted during the autumn according to Chinese Medicine.

Experiencing the full spectrum of human emotions is living optimally.  When we are stuck in one emotion or cyclically vacillate between emotions, we are imbalanced.

Therapies like poetry, positive affect journaling, dance, yoga, qi gong can be directed to help us transmute the grief so we do not become only stuck in the emotion of loss.

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