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Grieving Your Financial Losses

Simon Reilly

I`m continuing to work on The Compassionate AdvisorTM financial advisor speaking PowerPoint presentation and my research is producing some excellent content. Who knows, there might be a book as well.

The grieving work that I am doing for myself that relates to my mom being sick in hospital is being transferred into The Compassionate AdvisorTM work that I am doing.

In kind, I am realizing that financial advisors are experiencing grief, whether they realize it or not, because of their experience of the losses that their clients are going through.

The grieving must be felt in order to breakthrough to a new economic state of mind because if one does not, they will prolong the grief and the experience of this financial debacle.

Grief can show up in any number of ways and for me there are times when I feel like I have jet lag, it is as if I am a half step behind.

The emotionally intelligent way through grief is to stop and feel the pain and allow it to pass.

If you don`t, it will become bottled up inside of you.

Others can feel the following symptoms;

  • Busy work
  • Emotional ups and downs
  • Falling out of routine
  • Indulgence in alcohol, drugs and food
  • Lack of focus
  • Loss of appetite
  • Loss of sleep
  • Lowered immune system
  • Talking about it over and over

Again, the emotionally intelligent way through grief is to stop and feel the pain and allow it to pass through.

What you resist persists. Whatever you defend against you make real.

The quicker you stop and clear the emotions the better.

Remember, you are not your body, you are not your mind, you are not your business, you are not your money … you are something much more infinite.

Who you are is not the economy and not what your clients may be experiencing.

You must take the personal time or all of your life experiences, both the bad and the good can become enmeshed and you could wind up feeling bad about everything.

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