I recorded this the day after we were all told that lockdown rules would be tightened over Christmas and felt the collective sadness. When we are in pain we tend to shut it down and avoid it. It feels that to acknowledge it fully will be too much, so we carry it around and it weighs heavy. The truth is that emotions are simply waves of energy and if we allow them to be felt they pass through us and as they do they transform, leaving us lighter and freer. Your pain may be real and present and if so there may be many waves, let them arise and pass through, breathe through them, and make way for other emotions that will follow in their wake. Love brings joy and pain, we cannot have one without the other. Meet all these emotions with tenderness. These too will pass.