Grounded Notes is a twice-weekly letter from kinesiologist and functional neuro health practitioner Sinead Kelly. Real tools, honest reflections, and a little nervous system support — straight to your inbox.

If grief, sadness, or something without a name is moving through you right now, try this.

Hand on the centre of your chest. Not to fix anything. Not to make it move faster. Just to be there.

Slow breath. Exhale a little longer than the inhale.

Let whatever is present be present. Don't try to make it make sense.

Stay for 60 seconds.

In Chinese medicine, grief lives in the metal element. The lungs. The large intestine. The skin. It needs room to move, not a solution.

Being with it, not analysing it, is the practice.

That's enough.

X, Sinead

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