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“When we assume that our suffering is stable and permanent, or when we have been suffering for a long time, we begin to engage in what psychologists call black-and-white, or all-or-nothing, thinking. This means we perceive the world through a dualistic eye, seeing things and situations as either all good or all bad. This type of thinking can easily lead you to generalize about your future based on how you feel now. The assumption is that life stinks and it won’t get better, and the resulting emotion is, understandably, depression.”
― Grieving Mindfully: A Compassionate and Spiritual Guide to Coping with Loss
― Grieving Mindfully: A Compassionate and Spiritual Guide to Coping with Loss
“If you can understand grief as an extension of love, then you will see that there is nothing wrong with grieving. To deny the importance of grieving would be saying that there is something pathological about loving.”
― Grieving Mindfully: A Compassionate and Spiritual Guide to Coping with Loss
― Grieving Mindfully: A Compassionate and Spiritual Guide to Coping with Loss
“When you experience acute grief, it is the only thing that you can attend to. It demands all of your attention, and you know that it is grief that is being experienced. It may gradually lose its intensity, but it can still interfere with your ability to do everyday tasks. When you reexperience it, acute grief makes you feel like you have gone back to the days when the loss you suffered was new and completely overwhelming. A lot of the time, feelings of acute grief will remind you just how nonlinear emotions can be; they may not follow a logical or straightforward pattern and may arise as if from nowhere, or for no apparent reason. I have found that during the process of grieving many people repeatedly reexperience the same intense emotions. Sometimes, these reexperienced feelings, described as “acute grief,” can be more intense than they were the first time around. You probably first experienced acute grief at the moment of your loss. Acute grief is the ground zero of grief; it is the reference point of all of your other emotions.”
― Grieving Mindfully: A Compassionate and Spiritual Guide to Coping with Loss
― Grieving Mindfully: A Compassionate and Spiritual Guide to Coping with Loss
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