{"id":29294,"date":"2024-11-05T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-06T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rickhanson.wpengine.com\/?p=29294"},"modified":"2024-11-05T17:06:25","modified_gmt":"2024-11-06T01:06:25","slug":"take-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rickhanson.com\/take-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"Take Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What do you do when the bottom falls out?<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#abd1c9\" class=\"has-inline-color\"><strong>THE PRACTICE:<\/strong> TAKE HEART.<\/mark><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><em>Why?<\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>It takes heart to live in even ordinary times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By \u201ctaking heart,\u201d I mean several related things:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Sensing your heart and chest<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Finding encouragement in what is good both around you and inside you<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Resting in your own warmth, compassion, and kindness; resting in the caring for you from others; love flowing in and love flowing out<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Being courageous, whole-hearted and strong-hearted \u2013 going forward wisely, even when anxious, knowing your own truth and, as you can, speaking it<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>When you take heart, you\u2019re more able to deal with challenges like aging, illness, trauma, or conflicts with others. You\u2019re also more able to take advantage of opportunities with confidence and grit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, it takes heart to live in, live with, and live beyond times that are really hard. Your personal hard time might be bad news about your health, the death of a parent, or betrayal by others. Or it could be related to changes in your country and world, and your concerns about their effects on others and yourself; I\u2019ve written about the importance of <a href=\"https:\/\/rickhanson.net\/know-where-you-stand\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">finding and facing facts at the level of society<\/a> (feel free to skip it if you don\u2019t want my take on politics).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are so many examples of honorable people facing great difficulty with dignity, principle, and courage. They did it. 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When big things happen at any scale \u2013 in your child\u2019s schoolyard or in a refugee camp on the other side of the world \u2013 it is completely natural and normal to be shocked and disturbed by them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As best you can, stay with the raw experience, the body sensations, the deep feelings, the stirred up fears and anger and perhaps paralysis. Whatever it is, it is your experience; some may be upset about a big event while others may be glad about it; I am definitely not trying to talk you out of your experience. Be mindful of whatever is passing through the big open space of awareness, observing it without being flooded by it. Painful and counterintuitive as it may be, this is the foundation of releasing really hard experiences and replacing them gradually and authentically with thoughts and feelings that are helpful, wholesome, wise, and even happy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do things that help you come back to center and find your footing. Personally, I prioritize exercise, sleep, and meditation; I try to feel the truth of being basically alright right now, in this moment, moment after moment (alongside and deeper than pain or sorrow); I do the dishes and make the bed. Walk the dog, call a friend, eat something, look at trees and sky, get a cup of tea and stare into space. Take good care of your body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Guard and guide your attention. It\u2019s one thing to find facts and form the best plans you can. It\u2019s another thing to get distracted or upset by news or other people that do not add any useful value.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Take heart in the good that is real. Outside you, there is the kindness in others, the beauty of a single leaf, the stars that still shine no matter what hides them. Right now as you read, all over the world children are laughing in delight, families are sitting down to a meal, babies are being born, and loving arms are holding people who are dying. Inside you, there is your compassion, sincere efforts, sweet memories, capabilities \u2013 and much more. Take heart with others, sharing worries, support, and friendship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do the things you can. The more that events are turbulent, alarming, and beyond your influence, the more important it is to grow stability, safety, and agency inside you and around you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Have courage. At all human scales, strong forces have always tried to confuse and frighten others. Whatever outward action is necessary, you can preserve an inner freedom, never cowed or bowed in your core.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last, I\u2019ve found it really helps to have perspective. Without minimizing one bit of whatever is awful, it is also true that humans like you and I have been walking this earth for nearly 300,000 years. I see the trees, the land, the ocean \u2013 all of it here before me and lasting long after me. Empires rise and fall. 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