Innersophia, Bridge Across Darkness

 

The process of grief

Grief is essentially an experience of soul and as such touches upon our very spiritual nature giving us the opportunity to move to a new place within.

The process of grief moves through us like waves of the ocean, sometimes ferocious and relentless and sometimes washing over us with calming gentleness.

As like the ocean we can never predict or control these effects on our soul even though we may attempt to suppress or to deny the motion of grief. Perhaps even managing to create an impression of being in control of our soul experience by outer appearances.

We can succeed, however, in blocking the flow of grief for a time, even many years, and we become “stuck” at certain stages of the journey through grief, the effects of which may present as disease, stress, depression, behaviour changes etc.

Often at some point the soul brings the grief to the surface to be experienced consciously and may give us clear indications of where we have blocked the process. This is extremely painful and we can manage to re-block the process. Sometimes this is referred to as “compound grief.” If we, at this point of re-surfacing, have the courage and the support to allow it to flow and take a seat on the little ship that will ride the waves no matter where or how roughly they take us, we can begin to experience new horizons, new growth.

For truly grief is a gift of the soul even though, when in its midst we cannot see or want to see that this can be so.

 

Grief coming in waves is like a woman giving birth – contractions move the child into the new life, and so, with grief experiences, the soul gives birth to new life. Grief is often attached to bereavement, the loss of something we hold dear to us.

A change in life is always accompanying grief as its companion. Sometimes these changes are accepted and other times they are on the surface unwanted. No one will say they want to lose someone or something dear to them, of course, and this is the part of grief which is so painful, yet it is attached to the new beginnings for all concerned.

For the deceased there is a new life beginning in the spiritual spheres/for the living there are new beginnings without this person on earth but new relationships to be formed with a spirit companion. So much can be experienced from this new relationship between the two worlds, and if we accompany the deceased on their new journey we begin to become conscious of our own spiritual nature and connection to higher beings.

Sadness, despair and loneliness, real as they are can prevent us from the joy of being companions with our deceased loved ones. This in turn gives them the feeling of rejection.

 

Bridge across the darkness paintings

 

The aim of these paintings is to provide a medium through which individuals on earth can accompany souls in the spiritual spheres and vice versa.

By contemplation on these paintings grieving souls can find their “stuck” phases and find a healthy transition onto the flowing waves of grief which can take them on to the “bridge across the darkness” and into a new stage of life.

Souls in the spiritual world can reflect their distress as they too become “stuck” at different stages on their journey between death and rebirth and contemplation on these paintings can provide them with the same opportunities.