A grip on grief

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Yogi Ashwini [1]

Often you hear people saying that they can feel the pain of the other. Think about it. Can you really feel someone else’s pain? You may be aggrieved by their pain and feel sad for them, but can you feel their pain? No. Your pain is your own and someone else’s pain is their own.

However, someone else’s grief becomes yours when you connect with them emotionally.
Both pain and grief cause suffering and amount to cancelling out your negative karma. While the origin of pain is within you, the source of grief is usually someplace else. People tell me that pain is better than grief since it can be cured by medicines, while grief takes a long time to heal, and may sometimes leave a permanent scar. However, it is actually the opposite. It is very simple to get out of grief. Pain, on the other hand, has to be endured. It is a misconception that medicines cure your pain. There have been enough studies on medicine to show that in the long run medicine causes more harm than good.
We relate to our body with the different body parts that are visible to us. There is hardly anyone who is aware of the actual body parts that run the body. It is only a select few who with regular practice of Sanatan Kriya and Ashtang
Yoga are able to develop their awareness of the etheric body and energy centres.
The source of grief is outside your body; it relates to the emotional centre, the solar plexus, located between the navel and chest region. This centre forms emotional connections with the
people you meet through the day in the form of
narrow tubes. You must have observed that if you see an accident on the road or visit someone in the hospital, you feel depressed. It is simply their grief being
transmitted to you through the connections you form with them.
It is ironic that those who give emotional counselling are the ones who are most troubled emotionally, because they are constantly forming connections with aggrieved individuals who pass on their grief to them. To get out of grief all you need to do is cut connections with the person who is the source of your grief and visualise him/her going away from you. Your grief will disappear in a matter of few
minutes.

Yogi Ashwini, the guiding light of Dhyan Foundation, is an authority on yoga, tantra and the Vedic sciences.