The latter is perhaps more common in my experience, perhaps due to the pleasure that accompanies the excitement as opposed to the isolating pain that grieving brings with it. Although there is no reliable method to short circuiting the grieving period, it has to be lived through one way or another so that the purging of dark, low energies can be done and a modicum of psychological stability established. I think this is generally recognized in the new age community and society in general, and certainly there are plenty of spirit communications which state quite plainly the difficulties of ‘getting through’ the grief and guilt of friends and family members, a frustration which usually leads to guides advising patience to the newly joyful.

Well it is much the same with excitement here on earth. Profound meditations, after maybe many ‘calm but dry’ months, the sudden appearance of lucidity in dreams, an unmistakable voice in the head, a brief vision of the departed smiling and perhaps waving, the hands of helpers tugging at one’s shoulders, birds known to be messengers staring at you eyeball to eyeball, the plumbing or electrical systems suddenly malfunctioning for five or ten minutes; all can manufacture those giddy bubbles of excitement that can blur the land beyond as effectively as grief.