For five minutes at the beginning of your day, allow your feelings to be present.

Don’t try to direct them, enhance them, or manipulate them.

Just notice them.

Just feel them.

Being creatures of both the mind and body experience, we’ll frequently notice that feelings get expressed as sensation in the body.

Watch the sensations, and try not to judge them good or bad (at least for the duration of this exercise).

In the mind, fear thoughts may arise to create resistance, and judging thoughts may attempt to distract us from the experience.

Repeat to yourself:

“My mind is open, and my body is soft; I am willing to trust life now. I am willing to feel life now.”

Melanie Hack
Author of Who Killed My Sister, My friend
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