All around us, things are shifting. These shifts are paving the way for accelerated awakenings and advances in consciousness, but along with this also comes waves of emotion.

Perhaps you have been feeling these waves of emotions for yourself in the last few weeks. Perhaps some days you feel at peace and are thriving with this new routine but on others, you find yourself gripped with anxiety, anger, fear, and frustration.

Could there be one word to help define this array of emotions that we are all feeling in the world right now?

At first, I thought the word I was looking for was uncertainty, but as I sat with it, there was something about uncertainty that didn’t quite click.

Maybe uncertainty was a byproduct of something deeper?

Then I came across this article https://hbr.org/2020/03/that-discomfort-youre-feeling-is-grief that shared that this discomfort we may be feeling is actually a type of grief.

At first, I’ll be honest, I scoffed at the thought. I know grief. Oh yes, grief and I have been entangled in an intimate relationship ever since the passing of my little sister back in 2017.

I was sure that what we are feeling now is nothing compared to grief, but then as I sat with it for longer, I wondered if it could be true.

We are all in this together, we are all navigating uncertain, never-seen-before times, and could this have triggered a feeling of collective grief?

Grief is such a large umbrella and is somewhat hard to define. But I know from my own experience, that every day is a different day with grief. One moment you feel ok and the next, you are drowning in its waves.

Most of us associate grief with the loss of a loved one, and while that is indeed a reality for some of us right now, grief can also be triggered by other losses too.

The loss of a way of life, a job, a routine, a stable paycheck, human connection or the way things once were, all of these things can trigger grief.

Now, I personally don’t think there is any comparison between grieving the loss of a loved one and the loss of a job, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t hurt in its own way.

In a sense, we are all grieving the former lives we once held and grappling with the fact that they may never be the same again.

Continued;

https://foreverconscious.com/a-time-of-collective-awakening-2020

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Fox.