Grief deadens the Heart
Grief is an incredibly potent, dense emotion of loss. It sometimes feels like a weight stuck in your chest: you cannot breathe out from it or proceed any further. It isn’t all sadness; waves of anger, confusion, loneliness, and numbness can break loose. It works kind of like an anesthesia to dull the heart by taking away that passing joy and energy, and to empty a hollow, bitter sense of being.
The emotional movement of grief is fierce. When we lose anything or anybody that matters to us, it’s as if a part of us departs, too, the mind cannot accept the loss reality, and the heart feels so heavy with remorse. Many times, this type of emotional paralysis leads to isolation, especially as the grieving person goes into some form of hibernation, not knowing how to cope with the raging conflagration of feelings cooking inside. This isolation exacerbates the pain as the comfort of their love is slowly taken from us.
Mentally, it can lead to dwindling energy levels, disrupted sleep, and loss of appetite. It weighs in mentally to make even the smallest of tasks impossible to tackle. Gradually, the somberness and stress may numb the heart. And, protection is created by this numbness as not to allow pain again. But with all that protection, it not only blocks out any happiness and love but also prevents connecting with each other. In a nutshell, a heart deadens not by a choice but due to…
