REALITY & HOW I FEEL are both true even when they disagree. It is very natural for us to get lost in how we feel losing sight of what is. If we like someone; “Wow, they’re such a good guy or gal”, and if we wake up to some anxiety; “the whole world is falling apart”, and for today if Social Isolation is getting to; “I just can’t handle this, I am gonna lose my mind”. Then, sometimes we strive to tap into the facts and start suppressing how we feel. This works for a little while, but then we become overloaded with the intensity of our emotions and are no use to ourselves or anyone else. Part of Leaning In to the moment is drawing awareness to the space between how we feel and what is. Doing that means giving prominence to both equally; how we feel is important and what is going on is important. When they meet that’s useful, but they often operate in different dimensions, and that’s okay. Facing the facts and our feelings means tolerating a dialectic where two opposing things can be both be true in different ways at the same time. Then we are ready to respond to how we feel, as well as to what is with an acceptance that they are exactly the way they are supposed to be.