{"id":3997,"date":"2014-02-14T04:00:37","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T12:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michellejolin.com\/wordpress\/?p=3997"},"modified":"2014-02-13T22:08:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-14T06:08:00","slug":"mindful-crying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=3997","title":{"rendered":"About tears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You feel the tears filling your eyes.<br \/>\nYou don&#8217;t try to stop them.<br \/>\nYou just let them come.<br \/>\nThen you notice how everything shimmers<br \/>\njust before they begin to spill from your eyes,<br \/>\none by one<br \/>\nand how they cling to your eyelashes.<br \/>\nYou can feel each individual tear fall.<br \/>\nIf you pay are paying attention, you will feel the tears begin to cool<br \/>\nas they flow slowly down your cheeks.<br \/>\nYou feel how cool the back of your fingers are against your face<br \/>\nas you wipe the tears away<br \/>\nYou watch your thoughts spin out of control and then grow calmer<br \/>\nwhile your heart constricts then relaxes<br \/>\nYou notice your breathing getting deeper<br \/>\nas you calm down.<br \/>\nIf you cry mindfully<br \/>\nYou notice everything more<br \/>\nand then you let it go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You feel the tears filling your eyes. You don&#8217;t try to stop them. You just let them come. Then you notice how everything shimmers just before they begin to spill from your eyes, one by one and how they cling to your eyelashes. You can feel each individual tear fall. 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