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Grief Management

Grief management is the process of coping with the intense emotions and feelings that arise after experiencing a significant loss, such as the death of a loved one, the end of a relationship, separation from a family member, or a major life change.

 

Our workshops are specifically designed to help people cope with grief by following the process below:

  1. Understanding the conscious and sub-conscious mind knots

  2. Identifying physiological and physical symptoms of trauma

  3. Controlling overthinking

  4. Overcoming self-pity

  5. Challenging mental constructs and delusions

  6. Breaking the chain of negative emotions with positive interventions
     

All our sessions include immersive meditative experiences at their core to help individuals center themselves and address the emotions they have been dealing with.

 

Here’s how our process works in detail:

Step 1: Understanding the conscious and sub-conscious mind knots

 

Mind-knots are created when we enter a loop of negative thoughts.

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Consistent negative emotions lead to the development of knots of negative emotions associated with the knots of negative thoughts,

 

 

 

 

 

The five emotional categories are:

1. Sadness

2. Anxiety

3. Anger

4. Guilt

5. Shame/embarrassment

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Situation

Negative

Emotion

Negative

Thought

Fight/Flight Reaction

Step 2: Identifying psychological and physical symptoms of trauma

 

It’s very common to develop the following psychological and physical signs and symptoms to occur in a person with psychological trauma.

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These signs are:

  • Deformed understanding of yourself

  • Internalization of the abuser’s negative emotions and thoughts

  • Development of mind-knots

  • Destructive self-criticism

  • Low self-esteem

  • Strong inferiority complex

  • Somatization of emotional pain

  • Increased suggestibility

Step 3: Controlling overthinking

 

Overthinking is the process of dwelling on thoughts and analyzing them repeatedly to the point where it becomes difficult to make decisions or take action.

Overthinking can lead to anxiety, stress, and even depression.​

 

There are various levels of overthinking:

  • First level: Mild level that people experience during stressful times

  • Second level: This is usually a characteristic of people with anxiety disorder and can cause stress, insomnia, loss of appetite, etc.

  • Third level: This is a severe level that is associated with mental constructions, which are obsessive thoughts organized in a false reality

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Overthinking also hinders our ideation process which comprises 3 elements:

  • Innovation

  • Development

  • Actualization 

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For e.g.: a person who has developed severe mind knots due to overthinking will actualize negative scenarios triggered by the negative environment or situation, such as initiating fights, suicide, etc,

Step 4: Overcoming self-pity

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When we experience loss, it’s healthy to feel negative about the situation. But that negative emotion has to be then replaced by a positive situation leading to positive emotion to help us recover.

 

Self-pity is a state that creates a gap between a healthy chain of negative emotions and a healthy chain of positive emotions.

 

People who experience self-pity usually stay in a passive state, taking no initiative for problem-solving which converts healthy negative emotions into pathological negative emotions.

For e.g.: sadness becomes depression, anger becomes rage, and fear becomes anxiety causing them to view the world with a pessimist lens.

 

People with self-pity feel their lives are controlled by others and they get angry about their lives, feeling lonely and helpless.

 

Overcoming self-pity requires empowerment and assurance that comes from self-love. This is where we focus on breaking the chain of negative emotions.

Step 5: Challenging mental constructs and delusions

 

Mental constructions are unrealistic, obsessive thoughts organized in a false reality that exists in an individual’s mind.

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Mental Constructs

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  • Understands reality

  • Functions normally most of the time

  • Beliefs are changeable by counterarguments

  • Not completely false

Delusions

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  • Do not understand reality

  • Severely impaired ability to function in reality

  • Beliefs held with absolute conviction

  • Always patently untrue

Step 6: Breaking the chain of negative emotions

 

Repression of trauma and emotional pain causes the creation of clusters of mind knots that put the individual in a traumatized state with emotional and cognitive impairments.

 

Healing psychological traumas requires:
1. Disentangling the mind-knots
2. Re-experience of suppressed emotional pain

 

Disentangling mind-knots: There are two ways of addressing it.
A. Conscious to the subconscious direction (start from cognitive input)

B. Subconscious to the conscious direction (start with pathological negative emotion)

 

Re-experiencing suppressed emotional pain: Emotional

pain might sometimes be so strong in traumatized patients that will also cause physical pain. The paradox is that the emotional pain re-experienced during psychotherapy might actually be liberating. 

 

These negative emotions should then be followed by positive situation-causing emotions such as joy, gratitude, elevation, relief, confidence, hope, happiness, and love.

 

Detangling these knots also replaces animosity with kindness and compassion by helping individuals develop a healthy multidimensional interpersonal perception (the ability to perceive another person as a whole, with flaws and virtues).

If you know someone who could use our workshops, drop us an email.

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