Do Grief and Loss Lead to Awakening?

[@azcactusflower1]

I would never "go back." 3 months ago my 94 y.o. mother transitioned. Celebration of Life last Saturday. She was at peace with it all. My brutal 2019 awakening assisted in grace while mom was at home in hospice (me caring for her) starting in July this year. Awakening clears all the unnecessary mind created rubble and illusions. Be free to fly untethered.

[@snakedogman]

Breakups always bring me to questioning my expectations about life. Currently in the thick of it. Made me discover your channel, so that's a good thing :)

[@buddhasdojo9368]

"Only this life, only this chance. Never give up." - Jinen Roshi Perfect timing. Thank you. 🙏❤️💗

[@nexus4googleplay612]

Thank you so much for this video! I've had a recent health issue that will require surgery, and it's brought emotions up in such a raw and alive way. While dealing with intense fear and rising repressed emotions, I've also opened up with great sincerity to friends and family. Feeling so much compassion towards all beings experiencing this human experience, and a loosening-up of the robotic half-alive mentally-centered loop. I've started looking at these beliefs, especially those centered around "I am the body". It's been so difficult, but so rich at the same time.

[@FreundderElben]

Who is also reading Angelos book "Awake" with his voice in your head? 😁🫶

[@FetterMuncher666]

for me it is Morgan Freeman ,

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

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[@PirateFrench]

Thank you Angelo. I recently lost my mom and I can feel a deep stillness where there was restlessness.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

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[@AshleyStuart]

I am pretty confident that if it wasn't for the grief, loss and suffering that came with having chronic migraines and being diagnosed with idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH) that I wouldn't have been open to any of this. So, although that period of time was extremely difficult and it's definitely not perfect even now, it's really humbling to have been led to this because of that.

[@renko9067]

I can relate. I had IIH in my 20s. Horrible. It was ‘fixed.’ 20 years after that, the internal trauma from the original illness hit me like a Mac truck. 16 years running now. Wishing you well.

[@AshleyStuart]

@@renko9067 ❤️🙏🏻 Thank you! I’m currently in remission but still use an expensive medication for migraine prevention along with the benefits of this work.

[@macparker3549]

Right on, Ashley. My “fire” involved going to prison, and a very public exposing of my foolishness and human delusion. Yet I feel like I got off easy compared to you and others who are walking this walk because of intense physical suffering. All the best to you… 🔥🫥🙏🏼

[@AshleyStuart]

@@macparker3549 Aww thank you! I don’t think I agree as it’s technically all a form of suffering but it’s so sweet of you to say that. ❤️🙏🏻

[@thecompassofdreams5911]

I can't thank you enough!!!! I was guided to watch this in the middle of deep grief. Grief of letting go of all illusions that I still want to hold on to and want to make real. Ideas and dreams of how I hoped my life should be. Thank you thank you thank you!!! I felt like you were right there with me ❤

[@r7mangm313]

I've been having this question come up a lot and thought maybe I'd comment it in here What do we do when we don't want to leave the fun of being human but still realize there are more truthful ways to live? I mean, the relationships drama, drugs, relating to others, etc In my little temporary awakenings I lost all of that, I lost everything. And it sort of is making it hard to go back, it's making me hold onto whatever I have now even more. Thank you Angelo, I appreciate you:)

[@life13525]

thank you, angelo...

[@ganazby]

Thank you, Angelo.

[@shawnewaltonify]

I will try to make this quick and I promise not to write all over your channel about my ideas. My dream is that Awakening can be brought more into people's lives in the future than all the Awakened masters have achieved in the past. The study you mentioned where successful psychotherapy can be identified by the trait where the patient pauses once the therapist stops speaking. I 100% know that I did that and still know how to do it. I took EMDR psychotherapy and I recalled different events in my life until my therapist and I found one that caused me to get emotions and they were not the events that I expected. For those who seek alternatives to EMDR; I am will to accept that it was not the stimulation of my left and right brain that did the processing, but it was me doing it because I belief in the theory allowed me to feel safe to follow the prescribed guidance. But who knows, right? What is important is that in my sessions we kept going back to this one event where I would recall it and this surprising disturbing crying would come up where I would shake and tremble, and over the weeks this intensity lowered until it was no longer there. Later, in another city I found another EMDR therapist and we found and treated a 2nd life event. I know that there is at least one more event in my history that I relive over and over but I have not started to treat it yet. The reason I am talking about this here is this: if trauma is the source of all suffering, then what you know about Awakening can be applied to any life event no matter how infinitesimal or as big as Ego, I and all perception is illusion. What I mean by this is twofold: 1st, how do you get someone to that safe place where they can truly recall an experience like a war vet relives the something that happened to him/her in the battlefield even when they know they are no longer there yet it completely immerses most of the senses in that other time/place (its totally amazing and confirming that that much sense data can be stored in our memory, BTW); and 2nd, how do you help them do it over and over without being triggered, and measure the intensity decline. If you believe me, then I want to propose to you that the #1 observation that I have in my daily life when I think I am spotting someone processing suffering and not being triggered it is this one thing: shock. My point is that our society and culture has an automatic reaction to anyone who is identified to be in shock and it is to stop the cause immediately. If I am right, then we are potentially removing virtual trigger goldmines in our culture right at the instant that we should be gathering around to support the process. It is a subtle difference between supporting processing and removing the trigger/cause of distress, and it all has to do with our opinions about "shock." To recap: my dream is that Awakening is a universal treatment of trauma, everything from the trauma of having an self, to the events in our lives that we never fully processed because of sensory/information overload and that we relive over and over, to our desires, and to so many levels of suffering, attachment and triggers; it is all the same thing. I know that you don't want to be doing self help, but maybe this distinction is what distinguishes between "self help," and Awakening, because you stay focused on the source but are able to reach any aspect of ones life no matter how infinitesimal and seemingly insignificant I guess my dream is based on my belief that successful psychotherapy is an Awakening, and that was my experience of it. Yes, i understand the absurdity i am proposing, that an awakening within a perception is still perception. Thanks to anyone who read this. I will give it a rest. lol.

[@Durga695]

Jenny Eshed Very much in that space, of grief and loss of living more or less in a safe and secure physical environment and just having been plunged into hideous war....I grieve that sense of feeling secure in the outer world and a loss of security that at any moment a barrage of rockets, can rock the area I live in and blast us to pieces, existential terror arises and subsides. I am not pushing this away nor am I holding on to it. 💥

[@TofuTeo]

Do Grief and Loss Lead to Awakening? It definitely did for me! ❤

[@Ryan-Dempsey]

Thanks Angelo 🙏

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Welcome!

[@boredchubbypanda]

Grateful for all the content you put out. But ngl, I've been kinda missing the videos with music and the cool backgrounds 😅

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

They will come

[@boredchubbypanda]

@@SimplyAlwaysAwake ❤️💜❤️ 😊

[@jug3435]

Why?

[@stevenrosen5955]

brilliant

[@injoyinmyself2018]

1:55

[@Avinash7802]

Plz do an interview with jim newman.

[@lynnhunter4493]

🙏🙏🙏

[@n-xsta]

Death and grief experienced many times in early life definitely was the big factor in asking the existential questions for me 🤎

[@macparker3549]

Gee, yet another one of your excellent videos about the difficult aspects of all this that is quickly going viral! 🤨😁😂 Thanks for continuing to tell the truth, whether it’s popular or not… 🙏🏼🔥🤯🫥🌻