Msg 1.31.11 - Loss & Tragedy

In the face of tragedy, you must of course let yourself feel: Cry without restraint, shake with fear, yell out in anger, accept and embrace your feelings. This is part of the most enlightened approach to tragedy: the Upward Path—the feeling of emotions, the acceptance of them, and the coupling of the emotional mind with the intellect. Along this path, you’ll take the experience—no matter how sad or infuriating—as a learning event, just as all other points on your journey will prove to be. While tragic, you must recognize this is still an opportunity for all involved to grow. Letting both sadness and joy, fear and courage, dark and light fill your world, and learning to find your steady, calm center in the midst of the opposing forces. This is the upward Path. Use the event as an opportunity to gain balance and discover wisdom—the wisdom of love and of letting go, of non-attachment and non-resistance, and using this enlightening experience to eventually help others in need of guidance.

Being able to relate to others who have also experienced tragedy and inspire in them hope—of recovery, of insight, and of moving forward—is perhaps the greatest gift you can receive from tragedy. Turn the negative into positive, the pain into connection. After you’ve taken appropriate time to grieve, to feel your own sadness, make it your work, your mission, your purpose to connect to others who need help. Show them how you’ve experienced feelings, established balance, and gained wisdom that you would never have otherwise had the opportunity to learn.

FEEL, but do not FEED on tragedy. Rather, let it inspire you to transcend the person who you were before. With demise comes renewal, so let this Loss be also your Rebirth. No matter how bleak it seems, no matter how difficult this becomes, YOU HAVE THE POWER to transform yourself into someone greater than you ever knew you could be. We all have the ability to impress and surprise ourselves on a daily basis. Let this be the greatest surprise of your life, so that eventually you look back on this tragic occurrence, and on the person you were before, and on the person you have become, and then look to the sky and thank the Universe for this hard lesson learned, for this wonderful and sad and amazingly divine life-changing gift. And you will thank yourself for taking the Upward Path.