134 How to Heal from Sorrow and Grief Part 3

The Place We Find Ourselves

Adam Young

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🗓️ 13 March 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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In order to heal from sorrow, we need to move our bodies as we participate in rituals of honoring and releasing our sorrow. A ritual is a sequence of bodily movements and symbolic actions performed with emotion and intention for the purpose of healing and transformation. By the end of this episode, I hope you have a good understanding of what a ritual is and why rituals work. And I hope you begin to develop an imagination for how to do rituals, what it actually might look like for you. You can perform a ritual by yourself. However, rituals are more powerful—and more healing for the community—when others are involved as witnesses to your pain.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the place we find ourselves podcasts.
0:03.8	I'm Adam Young and we are in the middle of a series of episodes about how to engage sorrow
0:09.5	and grief in a way that brings healing.
0:13.2	In episode two of this series, I explain the four conditions that need to be met for
0:19.3	you to experience healing of your sorrow and grief.
0:23.9	And by way of review, those four conditions are number one.
0:28.2	We need to own that our sorrows matter and that they should be taken seriously.
0:35.1	Number one, number two, we need to gradually move from a posture of contempt toward our
0:42.2	sorrow to a posture of compassion and kindness and welcome.
0:48.2	Number three, we need to find a few people who can be the village for us.
0:55.8	This will allow us to risk sharing our sorrow and grief with other people.
1:02.3	And number four, last, we need to move our bodies in a way that allows for the feeling
1:10.7	and the release of our sorrow.
1:13.7	In other words, rituals.
1:16.4	We need rituals to work through our sorrows.
1:21.4	Today, we are going to devote an entire episode to condition for healing number four, moving
1:28.9	our bodies as we participate in rituals of honoring and releasing our sorrow.
1:35.5	By the end of today's episode, I hope you have a good understanding of what a ritual
1:41.9	is and why rituals work, why they're effective, why they bring healing.
1:48.8	And I hope you begin by the end of the episode to develop an imagination for how to do rituals,
1:57.1	for what it might actually look like for you.
2:00.9	Okay, let's start.
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