At some point in all of our lives it's inevitable that we shall be touched by the loss of a friend or relative. Death is part of life; but how do we handle it when it brushes close-by?
Even a person who is typically 'quite strong' and resolute can experience significant problems with bereavement and loss. It’s hard to get out of bed in the morning, it’s hard to focus at work, and it’s hard to maintain any sort of a normal lifestyle. In very severe cases of bereavement, you can literally damage your health along the way, both mentally and physically.
If you simply carry your grief, without some form of beneficial intervention, you will inevitably suffer. What’s more, the people around you suffer as well. In extreme cases, grief can wreak havoc with your job, your relationships, and your life in general. It’s very hard to carry on a normal, happy life when your issues with bereavement are getting in the way of daily living.
But what is grief? Grief is the normal internal feeling one experiences in reaction to a loss, while bereavement is the state of having experienced that loss. Although people often suffer emotional pain in response to loss of anything that is very important to them (for example, a job, a friendship, one's sense of safety, a home), grief usually refers to the loss of a loved one through death. Grief is quite common, in that three out of four women in the Western World outlive their spouse, with the average age of becoming a widow being 56 years. More than half of women in the in this statement are widowed by the time they reach age 65. Every year, 4% of children under the age of 15 experience the death of a parent. That's a lot of grief to carry.
Clinical Hypnosis (Hypnotherapy) is recognised as a truly valid way of developing a coping mechanism, where loss and grief are concerned. Keep in mind that this coping is not about forgetting, it is simply a way of altering in a positive fashion how we perceive and cope with the loss. In the 'super-stressed' mode which usually accompanies deep grief, we attempt to function, but we tend to do it superficially, at a conscious level of our mind. Hypnotherapy can give you the tools which guide you, a little more gently, through this process. Note that it is a process, there are steps which we need to go through during the time that we're grieving. The pain of that process however, can be salved by changing the way our minds handle that sadness.
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