The Five Stages Of Grief

Dealing with Grief; the Five Stages of Grief
Loss usually visits us in a different dimension. The death of our loved one is all that we cannot be able to evade. Grief will always hit us directly and primarily it is challenging to respond to it. The simple definition of grief is the natural response to the loss of an individual or something that is very dear and close to you. Death is a loss that can lead us to grief and therefore each and every person has his best way to cope with the feeling. The stages of grief reflect various systematic reactions that might surface to an individual as he struggles to make sense of understanding how the loss affects him or her. The most crucial part of the healing process is letting go and allowing oneself to accept all the experienced feelings of loneliness and pain. The following are the five stages for grief;
Denial, Numbness, and Shock
In fact, it is not that one denies the fact that the loss or death has occurred, but it is that sense of “no, I can’t believe that this person is no more!” At this stage, our body and emotions have little time to adjust to the way things will be without the deceased. I remember when I lost my dad, I went through this challenging stage. The secret that I applied at this phase was to make the situation real and be honest with myself. Eventually, at this time, the questions that we begin to ask ourselves will not be helpful in any case. I acknowledged the fact that there is the Supreme Being who is in control of everything that I was going through and nothing I could have done to reverse the