Finding Light After Loss

When celebrated author Joan Didion lost her husband to a sudden heart attack in 2003, she documented her grief journey in her memoir ‘The Year of Magical Thinking.’ She wrote about how, for months, she couldn't give away his shoes, convinced that he would need them when he returned. This profound denial, this grappling with the unthinkable, resonates with anyone who has experienced devastating loss.

What Didion discovered through her grief—the mysterious ways our minds process loss, the strange comfort found in rituals, the persistent feeling of the departed's presence—aligns remarkably with ancient Yogi wisdom about death and transition.

The Yogis teach us that death is not an ending, but a transition. Just as water doesn't cease to exist when it evaporates, our loved ones don't disappear when they leave their physical form. They transform, moving to what the Yogis describe as "a different vibration, a different state of being."