Relaxation is the doorway to both wisdom and compassion.

When you are in touch with your body and heart, it allows you to then be in the world and act with intention and clarity and kindness.

The renowned seventh-century Zen master Seng-tsan taught that true freedom is being "without anxiety about imperfection.

When we're awake in our bodies and sense, the world comes alive. Wisdom, creativity, and love are discovered as we relax and awaken through our bodies.

If you can, do a gratitude practice: Each day write down three things you're grateful for. There are different ways to do this. You can have a gratitude buddy, someone with whom, at the end of the day, you exchange messages listing these three things you are grateful for. Also, you can journal it or reflect on it silently.

Everything we love goes. So to be able to grieve that loss, to let go, to have that grief be absolutely full, is the only way to have our heart be full and open.

Longing, felt fully, carries us to belonging.