After things quieted down, another painful feeling would soon rise up, and round I’d go through the whole cycle again. It went on like this for about an hour. Yet after a while, I realized that my predominant experience was no longer an unpleasant one. Change was afoot. Instead of being stuck in the pain, my awareness was increasingly resting in the feelings of love, kindness, and connectedness that held the pain. As it did, the pain itself started to soften, the worry to lift, and I began to feel a lightness in my body.
