Grief Algorithm

The steps

1. Recognize that grief is not a problem to solve. It is a process to complete. Per Trauma as Incomplete Cycle (Domain 3): the failure mode is forced completion, not slow completion.
2. Identify what was lost at all three Kingdom levels. First Kingdom (their physical presence, your shared physical space). Second Kingdom (the patterns and routines). Third Kingdom (the identity-with that no longer has its other half).
3. Apply Yin/Yang. Grief requires Yin processing (interior, slow, receptive). Forced Yang (productivity, distraction) does not heal; it suspends the cycle in incomplete state.
4. Apply Rhythm. Grief is not linear. The pendulum returns to grief after periods of normalcy. This is rhythm operating; not regression.
5. Per Layer I.G (Slime Mold Integration): the lost relationship is integrated into your present configuration. Nothing is lost in the structural sense — every shared moment is in you. The grief is the recognition of integration becoming visible.
6. Per Mentalism: what made the relationship matter is in the Third Kingdom; that is not destroyed by First Kingdom dissolution.
7. Establish observation per Layer I.F. Track the grief’s actual movement, not the movement you think it should have. Patterns reveal where the cycle is in completion.
8. Per Documentation: write through the grief. Journals, letters to the lost, articulated memories. Per Database: undocumented grief returns repeatedly at full cost.
9. Per Repetition: grief integrates over time. Per the Capsule: every prior moment of grief is integrated into present capacity. The grief becomes substrate, not chain.

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From the GFunnel Methodology v5.1 by Cameron Garlick, licensed CC BY 4.0. Steps are reproduced word for word.