WRITING PROMPT  It is said that a bird sitting on a high-tension wire does not get burned because his body is not grounded.  Often our bodies try to “ground” us with over-thinking, endless cycles reviewing the past with words such as “why” and toward imagined scenarios in the future with “if”s.

Consider one hurt in your life, a knot that your mind has tied tightly.  Instead of intellectualizing it, try to feel the pain in your body, the wound, the rawness that needs forgiven.  Sit with it like a bird on a wire, but do not ground it.  After a few minutes, just release it from your body and breathe deeply.

In just a few words, perhaps not even sentences, capture only the feeling of letting go. Letting go is just another phrase that means forgiveness, especially for ourselves.