Written by Eugene Morgan
Today is Memorial Day. This is a time when families and loved ones get together to have outside barbecues. It’s a time for swimming pools and beaches. It’s time for picnics in parks and frisbee throwing on newly green grass. It’s time for remembrance of our fallen soldiers who have made the greatest sacrifice-their lives.
The last words my father said to me before he passed away were, “Son, don’t forget about your daddy.” No one wants to be forgotten. Remembering a loss of a loved one or a close friend affects us deeply as it should. I think Memorial Day is like a mini funeral, we revisit our loss and feel briefly our grief.
A memory is a powerful mental-mechanism; because when we revisit an old memory, we re-live that moment.
Here is a little but powerful exercise. Find a quiet place and reflect upon the suggestions below:
Suggestions:
“Today is a special day… Today we sit back and pause for moment… We can look back… We can slowly go into our memories and think about our fallen soldiers… As we look back, we can think about our loved ones who also have passed on… We missed them… We can begin to hear their familiar voices… and we feel ourselves smile again… Lets wait and see… and let our unconscious mind bring up those images of our loved ones… That’s right… While we sit and wait, we might as well intensely look at any spot… or focus on our breathing… Then let our eyelids close so we can see better the image… That’s right… We can talk with our loved ones, if we wish to like we would in our dreams… And we can tell them how much we love them and we can hear back, “I love you…” We then can feel them again as though they’re alive… Truly they’re alive but inside us. That’s right… Allow those good feelings to spread throughout our bodies… It’s alright to return to those memories sometimes… This is what give us strength in difficult times…”