When you or someone close to you is experiencing grief or the end of their lives, it can be a life-changing time. Ongoing acupuncture care and other support for you and your loved ones during the last part of the human journey can provide a space for the processes needed. Making time for care and attention to these needs allows for a healthy and stable closure to this experience of death.
For those transitioning through the dying process, daily support with the suffering and discomfort of the body, as it begins to decrease in function, can allow for emotional and spiritual transformation. Many find the space needed for these processes to naturally occur in the body, mind, and spirit by seeking care that decreases their daily symptoms. Additional treatments that can be supportive include; mental health therapy, meditation, massage, chiropractic care, talk therapy, Chinese herbal medicine, acupuncture, yoga, mindfulness, physical therapy, and exercise.
In our last days, if we are lucky enough to see them coming, there are many new thoughts and ideas that the mind and spirit often face, along with the physical, emotional, and spiritual loss of those we are close to, our daily lives, our identities, as well as our individual manifestations of release from this planet. Often, those undergoing medical care speak of feeling pressure to continue medical treatments even if they no longer wish to due to the perceived or literal pressure that they feel from family and close loved ones. Complex family dynamics are another example of specifically difficult inner and outer conflicts that often come to the surface. It can be helpful to seek support in treating your physical body so that your emotional and mental headspace can remain available for those most important opportunities for connection with yourself and others.
While experiencing death can connect us, it can also feel like a lonely journey. Both for the dying as well as those around them. It doesn’t matter what this looks like, whether it’s a quick illness, sudden grief from unexpected loss, or anticipated grief due to terminal illness or Alzheimer’s that slowly ends a life. In many ways we are all dying and experiencing loss sets us up to think and process this fact in different ways throughout our lives as we change and grow.
When the tough parts of life come up, remember that seeking care in order to process and allow your body to heal is what we are here for.
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