This is for when your heart hurts.
Close your eyes with me.
Take a moment to breathe.
Sending breath to deeper parts of you.
When all you think you can stomach is shallow breaths.
Let yourself be here with the pain,
With the hurt.
Sometimes we shy away from it,
But to feel it means we're alive.
It means we have the capacity to love.
The ability to feel is a blessing.
Take a deep breath in.
Let it all go.
The fact that your heart is hurting,
It means that it has the capacity to care.
At times we curse this capacity,
But it will heal the world.
Don't run from it.
Let it be.
At times we think it means we are broken,
That there is something wrong with us.
It couldn't be further from the truth.
Your ability to feel so deeply means that something is very right.
In a world full of wrongs,
It did not harden you.
You did not let it.
So take a moment to be with all that is,
The feelings that are rising up within you.
Let this love fill you up,
Even if the love feels very,
Very hard.
It is still there.
Your heart hurting means that you are human.
It means that you have not shut down.
It means that you are a healer,
Simply because you allow yourself to feel.
Take a deep breath in.
Let it all go.
I know it may be hard.
I know it's not easy.
I know it may be dark.
But please let a seed of hope grow within you.
That all is not lost.
That beauty is on its way.
That the fact that you are here now means your story is not over.
Take a deep breath in.
Take a deep breath out.
Maybe place a hand to your heart.
Let this capacity to love fill you.
Your ability to feel the pain of others,
The pain of yourself,
Is not something to curse at all.
You
