Recognizing that grief lives in the body—as tension, numbness, or sensation—and that attending to the body is a path to understanding loss.
Mirabai's bhakti was embodied: she danced, she trembled, she gave her body to devotion. Grief similarly lives in the body. A grieving child might experience heaviness in the chest, tightness in the throat, or sudden bursts of energy. Rather than treating these as symptoms to manage, this concept invites children and caregivers to listen to what the body is communicating. A simple practice might be: Where do you feel your grief right now? What does your body want to do with this feeling? Shaking, crying, moving, resting? By honoring the body's wisdom, children develop somatic awareness and learn that healing is not only cognitive or emotional but physical. This approach also respects that young people may not have words for their grief, but their bodies always speak truth. Attending to breath, movement, and sensation becomes a spiritual and practical path through loss.
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