Holistic Reflexology for Grief

Holistic Reflexology for grief offers a powerful approach to help individuals navigate the complex emotions associated with loss. In this article, I explore how holistic reflexologists can use Reflexology, guided meditations, and evolving consciousness assignments to support clients through their grieving process.

You’ll discover techniques to identify predominant emotions, restore balance, and guide clients toward inner peace and reconciliation.

Whether you are already certified or new to the field, this post will equip you with valuable tools to assist your clients in releasing and processing their grief, enabling them to move into a new chapter of their lives.

Grief from a Holistic Medicine Perspective

Holistic Reflexology instructor Dorit Brauer demonstrates the Advanced Heart-Brain Coherence Pulsating Technique to her students.
Holistic Reflexology instructor Dorit Brauer demonstrates the Advanced Heart-Brain Coherence Pulsating Technique to her students.

Grief can follow death, significant endings, and uncontrollable changes. With it, it can bring forth a range of emotions (i.e., fear, anger, worry, denial, confusion, shock, and depression) and impacts each of us uniquely. No grief cycle is the same.

A Holistic Reflexologist trained in grief can interpret the reflexes in the feet to discern the predominant emotions of their clients. By understanding these emotional cues, they can assist clients throughout their grieving process and work towards restoring balance.

In Holistic Medicine, grief is an invitation for introspection and growth. Pain and loss help us realize that nothing is certain. Change is unavoidable and encourages us to surrender, be humble, live fully, and love deeply.

Everything constantly moves, transforms, and changes in life and our physical bodies. We believe that stagnancy is the absence of life.

Forms of Grief

Grief manifests in many forms, and we likely encounter it daily.

People grieve the loss of a job, the end of a relationship or marriage, the loss of youth, or the conclusion of a vacation. Moving to another city or country, losing a home to a natural disaster, or the pain of losing a loved one to addiction can also trigger grief.

Life’s turning points, such as leaving home, entering college, joining the workforce, becoming a parent, becoming an empty nester, entering retirement, or losing health due to disease, all bring their own forms of grief.

The death of a loved one often brings the most profound sorrow. Death can be unexpected, sudden, quick, painful, prolonged, easy, too soon, or too late, especially if it follows a long journey of suffering, where the end of life may come as a relief.

Death, however, is a great teacher; one day, it will come for us all. Its destination? That remains a mystery.

When I Met Death & How It Changed Me

I met death for the first time consciously when my childhood friend Silke died of cancer at fifteen. Silke’s passing was different than my grandfather’s death a year prior, who had died of old age after having lived a full life.

The void Silke left brought questions:

  • Where do we go?
  • Where do we come from?
  • What is our purpose?
  • Who are we as human beings?
  • Why are we here?

 

Since Silke’s passing, I have built a life around these five questions.

I lived with terrorism and through war and felt the most terrible fear in my bones, which transformed into an urgency of living. I learned that only if we make death our friend we can truly live. Death teaches us about our true nature as human beings. We are mortals in the physical, but we are so much more than that.

Because of my awareness and conscious processing of grief, I know that I’ve lived a beautiful, adventurous, fulfilled life.

What if Life & Death Are Not Opposite Poles?

Many of us think of life and death as two opposing poles, separated by an unpassable abyss with no connection between the two.

This is what creates the enormous suffering that many associate with grief.

But it doesn’t have to be that way.

What if life and death are part of the natural cycles of something greater? And what if we do not cease to exist after we leave this earth?

What if we begin to see our individual lives in the context of something greater? As part of? Not ending, instead continuing somewhere else? Ever evolving?

What Does Holistic Reflexology for Grief Look Like?

I’ve had the privilege to accompany many oncology patients in their last years of life. Holistic Reflexology for grief helps them to reconcile their fate and broken relationships with family and friends and find peace before leaving this earth.

During a session focused on grief, I offer guided meditations to open the door to find answers to some of these questions and align with their higher self. This allows for deep healing, reconciliation, and inner peace. Guided meditation opens a safe space for the negative emotions of fear, anger, and worry to melt away.

What Do Motorcycles Have to Do With It?

Quote: "We are afraid to die but not scared of where were before we were born." Dorit BrauerIt is interesting that after the publication of my autobiography Girls Don’t Ride Motorbikes – A Spiritual Adventure Into Life’s Labyrinth, chronicling modern-day solo motorcycle pilgrimage across the US to walk labyrinths, I received the most responses from readers about a thought I shared following my near-death experience after a motorcycle crash in California:

“We are afraid to die but not scared of where we were before we were born.”

Readers felt that this one sentence changed their lives and marked a turning point in how they viewed life. They had never asked themselves this question.

What Brauer Institute Graduates Learn about Holistic Reflexology for Grief

Reflexologists learning Holistic reflexology for grief
Brauer Institute Holistic Reflexologists practice new techniques for easing the pain of grief during their further education training.

The Brauer Institute for Holistic Medicine offers its reflexology graduates continuing education in Holistic Reflexology for grief.

In these sessions, they learn advanced pulsating techniques called Heart Brain Coherence to help clients overcome feelings of loss, denial, uncertainty, sorrow, depression, emotional pain, guilt, and regret. Profound breakthroughs happen when reflexologists combine this advanced Holistic Reflexology Heart Brain Coherence Pulsating Technique with deeply relaxed brain wave-level activities.

Clients often report that a doorway opens to a new level of consciousness.

Brauer Institute graduates are also trained in a powerful healing meditation for reconciliation, which they can share with Holistic Reflexology clients during their grieving process. Additionally, they learn specific evolving consciousness assignments for clients to practice between Reflexology appointments, helping them grow beyond their pain. Active participation in their own healing is crucial for clients, as it empowers them with life tools that aid in becoming whole again.

They learn to integrate a profound healing statement from Family Constellation work into their grief sessions with clients. They ask their clients to envision their deceased loved one standing in front and to say:

“I bow in front of your destiny, and I will join you when my time comes.”

These words bridge the chasm created by death and bring humility in front of the greater forces of life.

Because the grieving process can take many months or up to a year, it’s essential for holistic reflexology practitioners to learn and teach that grief must end and life must be viewed in a new way.

Yes, it will never be the same as it was before. But we are alive and enjoy our privilege to live. We are halfway to the grave if we don’t embrace life fully.

A Brauer Institute-trained Holistic Reflexologist can assess how much a person is anchored in their physical body after a loss and has the tools to reconnect their clients to come to life again.

An imaginary dialogue with a deceased loved one can bring solace, for example:

“In honor of you and your destiny, I will make something very special out of my life, please bless me when I stay alive. I will join you when my time comes.”

Brauer Institute Graduates who completed the Grief Training are equipped to assist clients in moving forward and embracing a new vision for their lives. Specific Holistic Reflexology protocols assist in transcending survivor guilt, especially in cases of serious or collective trauma.

What Holistic Reflexology for Grief Can Teach Our Clients

We must remember that even in the most desperate times, life must be lived forward—that it is essential to learn the tools to embrace happiness anew.

The deep love for a loved one no longer here will never cease. You can feel it in your heart and transform your pain into even more love.

Holistic Reflexology for grief serves as a powerful catalyst to help clients come back to life after a difficult period of grieving.

A Life-Changing Approach to Grief

Holistic Reflexology for Grief students
Brauer Institute Graduates successfully completed their continuing education, Holistic Reflexology for Grief Training. From left to right: Aubrey Johnson, Luann Teatino, Leslie Coffman, Michelle Donovan Natto, Stacy Desai and Bethan Young.

Holistic Reflexology training for grief offers a profound approach to supporting individuals through one of life’s most challenging experiences. By understanding and addressing the complex emotions associated with grief, holistic reflexologists can guide their clients toward inner peace, reconciliation, and a renewed sense of purpose.

Whether you are new to the field or an experienced practitioner, the techniques and insights shared in this article provide valuable tools to help your clients release their pain and embrace a new chapter in their lives.

As you integrate these practices into your sessions, you’ll not only facilitate healing but also empower your clients to transform their grief into a source of strength and growth.

Learn How

Learn how in the Holistic Reflexology Certification Program through Brauer Institute.

Need Help Processing Grief?

If you are not local to Pittsburgh and cannot see a Brauer Institute Graduate or Dorit Brauer to process your grief, please schedule an Inner Wisdom Counseling appointment. 

 

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