If you sense the tide of grief welling up in you, treat it like the sacred emotion it is, and honor it. Give yourself time to sink into it, allow it to immobilize you with its weight, and trust that it will flow through you and out – if you let it. Grief truly felt never lasts forever – only grief avoided does.

Most meditative practices focus on the mind and becoming aware of our thoughts. By bringing this same awareness to our emotions – and then going further by consciously engaging them and uncovering the wisdom they hold – we can gain an even greater level of self-mastery. Emotional mastery comes not just from detachment, but from also allowing our emotions to fully flow, and receiving all that they have to offer us.

All emotional intelligence begins with awareness. When we fail to notice what we’re feeling, our responses to that feeling will be habitual and automatic. But when we identify our emotions, we can consciously choose to act on them in healthy and intelligent ways.

By healing the parts of ourselves that are frozen in the past, we are able to bring them back into the present – and each time we do this we become less fragmented, and more whole.

Taking time each day to witness our own feelings – whatever they are – is the foundation of self-love. And we can only connect with others to the depth that we are willing to connect with ourselves.

Emotional healing requires more than simply changing how you feel. Your emotions are merely symptoms of the problem – not the problem itself. Even when they hurt.

True emotional healing doesn’t happen without feeling. The only way out is through.

I feel a little pressure because I have to give everything I have in both relays. I can't hold anything back in either relay.

It's really nerve-wracking. You're just waiting, watching your teammate trying to beat the person, trying to keep ahead. You're waiting for your turn and you get nervous, go numb until it's your turn and you dive in the water.

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