Grief and Loss
Although grief is a natural way of coping with loss sometimes the feelings can seem too intense to handle. At other times we feel that we have grieved enough yet we can't seem to move past the sadness. Hypnotherapy can help to relieve the intesity or to help make a shift that allows us to experience our feelings in a more comfortable way.	Hypnosis can reduce the debilitating intensity of grief and loss.

Extended information about hypnosis for grief and loss.

Grief is a difficult yet necessary part of the process of coming to terms with any significant change in a person's life, especially the loss of a loved one. It allows us to express our sadness, disappointment, confusion, anger or whatever other emotions we experience as part of the adjustment to profound change. In a sense, grief is the emotion that makes us spend some time concentrating on and thus coming to terms with the change.

Grief generally becomes a problem for one of two reasons:

• Intensity - Sometimes the emotions experienced during the grieving process can be so strong and debilitating that they disempower us making it very difficult to carry on with our normal day to day responsibilities. This can be a very difficult time as our modern culture doesn't always seem to give us the time or space we need to deal with our emotions.
  
  
• Persistence - Sometimes we feel that we have expressed our feelings, felt what we have needed to feel and have even learnt what we have needed to learn yet the strong, disempowering feelings seem to continue longer than we feel is useful to us. It is as if a part of us is ready to move on but another part can't seem to get past the sadness.

Sometimes, when we lose someone close to us, we naturally concentrate on the sense of loss that we feel. This can often lead to feelings of loneliness and despair both of which can leave us feeling less than capable of dealing with our own feelings let alone the daily pressures of life. This situation can sometimes spiral downwards as sad feelings lead to sad thoughts and vice versa, so on and so on. This is often why people seek assistance via hypnotherapy, to help to find new ways of moving through the grief.

Hypnotherapy for those suffering from grief is a very personal experience. Within each of us is a resevoir of emotional strength that has been fed and nurtured over the years by those we love and those who love us. It seems sadly ironic that the time we need to be aware of that connectedness the most is often actually the time we lose touch with it. Hypnosis can be utilised to help us reconnect with our own emotional strength and to draw upon our own memories and experiences to once again feel that sense of connectedness that supports and nurtures us all.

As I mentioned earlier, grieving is a very personal experience and the process of using hypnosis for support during grieving is also very personal and individual. Many people find that hypnosis helps them to find a sense of relief and an easing of the intensity while still being able to feel all the emotions they need to feel over time in order to express their sense of loss in a meaningful way for them.