Holding the Weight

When grief is present, instead of replaying the story, sit somewhere quiet and place your attention on the bodily ache itself, the heaviness in the chest, the closed throat, the tired arms. Do not narrate. Do not push toward feeling better. Just be with the weight, breath by breath. This practice is for grief that needs gentle company. Severe grief deserves more than meditation, the steady presence of a trusted person, time, sometimes the help of a counsellor. Within those supports, this sitting is one quiet way the heart begins, slowly, to find itself again.