Wild Soul HOPE

A HOPE Method™ Reflection on Grief, Divine Longing, and Mystical Love

 Introduction: When Grief Becomes a Doorway

You don’t read Rumi. You feel him — like a whisper in the ribcage, like the heat behind your eyes when your soul is trying to speak. He was not a quiet mystic. He was a man in mourning.

A man who lost the one soul that understood his — and from that loss, he became fire. He became poetry. He became presence. Rumi didn’t deny his grief. He danced with it. And in doing so, he teaches us that grief is not the end of love — it is a deeper form of it.

 Who Was Rumi?

• Jalal al-Din Rumi, a 13th-century Persian mystic, poet, and Sufi master
• Born in what is now Afghanistan (then the Persian empire)
• Lived much of his life in Konya (modern-day Turkey)
• Deeply influenced by his spiritual companion, Shams of Tabriz
• After Shams’ disappearance, Rumi’s grief erupted into ecstatic poetry and spiritual insight

His words transcended religion, culture, and even time. Because he wrote from the soul’s ache — the universal place we all return to when we’ve lost what we loved.

 Rumi & The HOPE Method™

Rumi’s Mysticism	HOPE Method™ Alignment
The wound is the place where the Light enters you.	Grief becomes a gateway to transmutation
Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.	Energy is never lost only transformed
You were born with wings. Why prefer to crawl through life?	Align with your energetic potential
Love as the path to awakening	Harnessing positive energy through sacred presence
Embrace of longing, not denial	Trauma-informed acceptance & emotional permission

 HOPE Lesson: Honor the Ache

In the HOPE Method™, we speak of transmutation — turning pain into purpose, sorrow into song. Rumi lived that. His words were not written in joy, but in yearning. And still — they glow. He teaches us: Don’t shut the door on longing. Instead, sit with it. Light a candle for it. Let it show you the parts of your soul that still believe in connection.

Let me share with you some words from When the Soul Remembers HOPE – “My daughter’s death broke me open, but it did not break me apart. I still light candles in her name not because I am lost in sorrow – but because I choose to celebrate the sacredness of her existence. She lived. She loved. And because of her, I remember that joy and grief can hold hands. I remember that love never dies – it simply changes form.”

In the stillness after her passing, I began to understand what Rumi meant when he said, “Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.” I don’t grieve her absence the same way anymore. I celebrate her presence – in the hummingbird that hovers just a moment longer, in the light that filters through the trees, in the softness that overtook heart when I finally stopped resisting the ache.

Rumi’s words were never just poetry – they were a path. A way to move through loss and find the divine thread still connecting all things. That thread became the heartbeat of the HOPE Method™. Because like Rumi, I don’t teach people how to avoid suffering. I show them how to alchemize it. How to harness the energy of grief, pain, and longing…and turn it into something sacred.

Just like Rumi, the HOPE Method™ reminds us: We are not here to avoid the fire – we are here to become the light.

 Soul Practice: The Longing Ritual

Each night, write a letter to what you’ve lost:

• A person
• A dream
• A version of yourself

But don’t ask it to come back. Ask it instead: “What did you teach me about love?” “What beauty remains because you were here?” Let the tears come. Let the breath soften. Then burn the page — or tuck it under your pillow. You are not broken. You are becoming.

 Final Reflection: HOPE in the Grieving Heart

Rumi shows us the way of the mystic — but also the way of the human soul. He was a man of deep feeling, fierce truth, and sacred surrender. His grief didn’t end his life. It expanded it. And isn’t that the essence of HOPE? Not escaping the sorrow — but remembering the light that still flickers inside it.

When the Soul Remembers HOPE – Available at books.by/wild-soul-hope and Amazon and Kindle

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