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With all beings throughout time
I will honour loss and grief
By giving myself to the moment
Making a ceremony of this passage
Recent studies have provided proof of what humans have always known, that rituals, simple or complex, are extremely useful in processing grief. This chapter offers guidance for creating your own rituals to mark loss and death.
Throughout history, humans have metabolized loss through the enactment of ritual and ceremony. The internal process of coping with major life changes has always found its way to outward expression and release through action that links what is personal to the sacred or universal.
Engaging in ritual, we tap into a field of energy beyond what is…