You can open as every form of experience. If you do not — if you close down, pull away, or keep your distance from fully feeling some experience — then you will perpetuate its pattern, its ripples of closure. . . .

First, you can practice opening as your own shape, whatever it is in the moment: anger, joy, confusion, fear, grief, torpor.

After practicing for some time, your openness is, in general, more open than those around you — their clench hurts you more than your own does. Now, you can't help but to practice opening as their shape. Just as you feel them, you open.

— David Deida, Blue Truth