The presence of grief in Reiki sessions.

Emotional release through shedding tears during a Reiki sessions is very common. One source for crying during a reiki session is your releasing unacknowledged melancholy, frustration and disappointment. 

Grief of day to day living

When you lead a very fast and busy life you are not usually afforded the time and space needed to address the everyday grief of our human experience. Including the grief that can accumulate when we feel unseen and unheard by family, friends and community. Or the grief of masking; operating in a way that feels untrue to who you are is heavy and burdensome work.

The presence of pent up grief and tension can make you feel inconsolable. If you’ve  been feeling miserable despite your efforts to lift your mood you may need to put more focus towards creating space for the repressed grief to be released.

Grief of change

Sometimes the presence of grief may seem inappropriate for the events that are taking place in your life. You may be in a season of harvest. You’re feeling happy and blessed.

The changes you’ve been working towards are finally happening and yet you feel melancholy. Your first instinct may be to dismiss or admonish it, but this grief is actually calling you to acknowledge and honor who you were and what you’ve gotten through to get to where you are.

Once you take the steps to honor your grief, you create space to fully take in the joy and sweetness of this new season.