Does writing a letter to the dead help?

[Bogart]

geonagual made a thread regarding writing letters to the dead. I did it and found it helpful. How does it make you feel?

[happiestmferoutthere]

I wrote a letter. It made me feel much better, although it did make me cry. But, yes. I even thought after I wrote it.... Wow, That was therapeutic! It helped.

[Bogart]

It was very therapeutic for me too. Something I wish I had done a long time ago, when my therapist first suggested it to me.

[happiestmferoutthere]

Yeah... but sometimes when you're grieving the last thing you need is an " outsider" telling you what to do and feel. You have to get over the anger stage first I think. It needs to be done on your terms - in your time.

[birdgirl73]

I've written three letters to my older sister, who died last November 2. It was a very therapeutic thing for me to articulate those feelings and that grief and communicate what I was feeling and thinking. I miss her so much. This may be strange, but what I did each time after I wrote them was burn them with a candle after I did (I still had copies on my PC). Somehow it made me feel like the letter, once converted to smoke and airborne essences, was sent aloft into the spirit world/heavens along with her and was received in some way there. I'm sure that's crazy, but it pleased my avant-garde sense of spirituality.

[DAY-DREAMER-MAN]

Too creepy to try it :S5:

[Kenn]

Its good to remember some times .I'd never thought of writing a letter before ,Thanx Geo .

[wannabehippiegirl]

I've written three letters to my older sister, who died last November 2. It was a very therapeutic thing for me to articulate those feelings and that grief and communicate what I was feeling and thinking. I miss her so much. This may be strange, but what I did each time after I wrote them was burn them with a candle after I did (I still had copies on my PC). Somehow it made me feel like the letter, once converted to smoke and airborne essences, was sent aloft into the spirit world/heavens along with her and was received in some way there. I'm sure that's crazy, but it pleased my avant-garde sense of spirituality.

I think thats interesting....

not weird at all

im sure she read the letters.

[Abeona]

Yes, it helps.


Abeona

[Struck420]

hmm ill be sure to give this a try when the time comes

[WeedyBoyWonder]

I've not wrote a letter about my feeling or even shared my feelings with anyone about my elder brothers death since it happened. I don't mind talking about it, or himself, but I've never opened up to anyone about it really. Maybe a letter of my feelings would be a good idea, just to release them from myself maybe.

[angry nomad]

I believe we can contact the dead. I don't think it's creepy or weird. I saw the spirit of my wife's grandmother a few hours after she died. My wife was asleep in the bed in the guest room of my mother-in-law's house. Her grandmother was sitting in a rocking chair, doing crochet, and she looked over at my wife, patted her on the head and smiled. Then, she went back to doing crochet.

If you really want to contact the dead, try scrying with a pendulum. I do it quite often. The pendulum moves, and you are not doing it, so someone has to be doing it. I believe there are many spirits in the world, and not all are human, so it's not always a dead relative trying to contact you. I also do not believe in evil spirits, so I guess that is why I am not afraid to contact the spirit world.

And, even if you don't believe we can contact them, I do believe writing a letter helps. And burning it is a completely natural, shamanistic thing to do. I suggest if you do write a letter, read it out loud once, then burn it.

[geonagual]

It worked for me when I made that thread. It worked really well..