Get SpiritLit: Release Your Grief to a Purpose
Release grief to a Purpose
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INTRODUCTION
This book is about grief healing through the God meditation and worship.
We all know more about grief than we want, especially since the COVID-19 Pandemic. It is about applying the way to move up from any grief cave (individual or collective) to the mountaintop with a firm purpose in hand, and even more.
The cause of my grief anxiety was not losing my husband Oliver to heart failure. I suffered long and hard due to the lack of two requirements: To Love And Focus On God More Than Grief and to restore calm grasping a purpose for a new life ahead.
Workplace style assessment from civil service tests in the 1980’s placed me as the green analytical employee type. My older sister noted in our childhood,
“You are so independent. Gotta find your own way.”
I consider myself both analytical and an independent thinker which supports my curiosity that challenged religions and spirituality beliefs and practices. Beginning with wondering as a ten-year old what was behind the clouds to first reading about world philosophies in the library stacks my freshman year in college, I was determined to find my own soul my way.
In the summer of 2019, to escape depression and grief anxiety therapies, I gripped TM tighter and soon developed SpiritLit Eye Meditation or SLEM. SLEM can be learned in a few hours and practiced for only fifteen to twenty minutes each morning and evening.
“Go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows.” Rainer Maria Rilke
SLEM is a blend of spiritual and progressive meditation. Spiritual meditation focuses on developing a deeper understanding of spiritual/religious meaning and connection with a higher power. Examples are Christian contemplative prayer, Sufi dhikr (remembrance of God), and Jewish kabbalistic practices.
This is a sound and light meditation and spiritual path that is both profound and practical.
Spiritual meditation can be practiced at home or in a place of worship. This practice is beneficial for those who seek spiritual growth and a deeper connection to a higher power or spiritual force.
Progressive meditation is also known as body scan meditation, aimed at reducing tensions in the body and promoting relaxation.
Go into your closet. Clean your closet
To expand the space inside.
You can’t expand your mind until you clear it of junk.
This form of meditation involves slowly tightening and relaxing one muscle group at a time throughout the body to help SLEM Release any thought and feelings that block a restful SLEM2 session. I learned similar techniques from the online grief counselors and my grief therapist.
This practice allowed my mind and emotions to settle down while sitting comfortably with my eyes closed in my quiet bedroom or screened porch.
I am including the steps of this SpiritLit Eye Meditation technique (SLEM2), which encourages God and cosmic consciousness, and stoicism to broaden our perspectives on death, dying, and grief.
[Stoicism was one of the new philosophical movements of the Hellenistic period. The four virtues of Stoicism focuses on: courage, justice, wisdom, and self-control. It also teaches that our suffering is only a perception or interpretation of circumstances, rather than reality.
It teaches that endurance of pain or hardship without the display of feelings and without complaint.]
SLEM2-Meditation fifteen to thirty minutes twice a day. All humans can attain higher spiritual experiences if they are sincere and commit to diligent practice. Purifying the mind is not easy and takes time and work.
Buddha was born an ordinary person. But when he left the shelter of wealth and witnessed aging, suffering, sickness, death, he turned from the worldly way of life find solutions. He committed to severe penance, intense meditation.
But those extremes are not necessary to real communion with God. SLEM2 is a sound and light meditation. It is a spiritual path that is both profound and practical. The mantra is the sound. God is the mantra and the Light.
Also, a person can experience illumination without remaining in a permanent state of oneness. It can be momentary flash that illumines only the truth for an immediate concern or question.
I call my illuminations Whits that are shared in Chapters 5 and 6.
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About the Book
“Get SpiritLit: Release Grief to a Purpose” is a spiritual self-recovery work which centers around the of loss of a spouse a few months before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic. This book helps in grief and other stressful times to change your focus attention to comforting meditation, pleasant breathing, brighter thoughts, and a purpose. It is not a substitute for medication or appropriate medical care and does not promise a cure. The goal of SLEM2 is to feel closer to the organizing intelligence and power of God to heal and replace grief with a purpose that benefits others.
About the Author
First, as this is a spiritual book, my religious upbringing requires some comment. I was baptized and raised Methodist. I changed to Baptist during my first marriage. Second, my strong childhood curiosity and proclivity to reading and writing happened early and has persisted into these later years. Third, my academic and professional librarian and research experiences are broad, diverse, and universal. I am neither a scientist nor a philosopher, but after fifty years of meditation, many truths were revealed to me. Stoicism is the philosophy that best correlates with accepting life’s bumps as they come. I approached this book from the perspective of a Christian widow to provide comfort to people of all faiths. I write to inspire healing and resilience in the time of great loss of a spouse, a loved one, wars, pandemic isolation, and even the unique American sickness called mass murders.