Do you know those Asian puzzles that you can spend hours on, only to realize you need to move the pieces closer together? Life is just like that.

When you feel terrible pain in your body, your instinct is to pull away. You want to distance yourself, stop feeling, numb it all.
But what you really need to do is confront it—feel the discomfort, cry if you must.

The more uncomfortable and painful the energy inside you feels, the more you need to move toward it. That’s when you release it.