As feelings arise in our meditations, simply allow them to run their course

As feelings arise in our meditations, simply allow them to run their course, witness their intensity without getting involved in it. Allow your ability to “sit” with strong emotions slowly expand. In sitting, it is not uncommon to experience urges to get up, to move, to fly away mentally. This is precisely why meditation is potentially so healing. We learn to sit through our own internal experience and witness it rather than run from it. Feelings and thoughts integrate into a coherent whole. As we witness, we see things in a new light. Our own stories pass before our inner eye, and we see them through the lens of where we are today. We have “a-has”: pieces of the puzzle fall into place, and we make new meaning of what passes before us. We are able to feel parts of us that went on hold or were split off from conscious awareness; we experience them differently, we see them through a more mature lens and reintegrate them with new understanding and meaning. We heal in the quiet of our own minds and hearts. All of this occurs as we sit in stillness, are mindful of our breath and continue to deepen our meditation.