Rising Strong After Breakup

You tap the middle of your breastbone with three fingers of your right hand, firmly but gently enough that you don't bruise yourself. If one spot gets sore, you can move the tapping in a small circle. The session describes the thymus as a gland in the centre of the chest and offers the tap as a way to bring care to that area while you grieve.

You can silently repeat, "This relationship is not the source of love." The track separates the vessel from the source: your partner was a vessel for love, but love is something you generate inside yourself. If that vessel has gone, another can arrive, and your supply of love stays with you.

It's the idea that we usually try to dodge pain with comfort food, television, wine or a rushed new relationship. The track invites you to stop dodging and feel what's there instead. Moving through it, it suggests, is a more graceful route than avoiding it, and it leaves you more open to a better relationship later.

It's a circular breath. You inhale into your belly so the lower hand rises, then let the air fill your chest so the upper hand rises, and you exhale in the same order. You aren't asked to control it; the hands simply let you feel the rise and fall, like a tide coming in and out.

"To me" puts you in victim mode, while "for me" asks what you can take from it. The track suggests looking at your biggest takeaways: what you do and don't want in a partner, or how you communicate. Once a lesson is truly absorbed, you don't have to learn it again.

While you feel the knot in your chest or pit in your stomach, you're invited to notice that the pain hasn't stopped your heart from beating. The track uses that steady rhythm as a reminder of how strong you are, even when you feel broken.