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· Jun 10, 2026
Morning Comfort
A Gentle Pause: Finding Comfort in Uncertainty
Warm words and perspective to ease your worries—plus one simple thought to carry with you today.
A Gentle Pause: Finding Comfort in Uncertainty
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Warm words and perspective to ease your worries—plus one simple thought to carry with you today.
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A study at Penn State University found that for people who struggle with worry, ninety-one percent of their specific worries never came true.
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That’s a staggering number.
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And it makes you wonder about the weight of that other nine percent...
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the things that really are uncertain.
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Last week, we talked about finding a moment for self-compassion, for genuine warmth.
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And perhaps the most compassionate thing we can do for ourselves is to learn how to sit with that uncertainty… to simply not know.
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So let’s try that.
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Wherever you are, just let your body settle.
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Feel the weight of it, supported by the chair or the floor.
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Notice the air touching your skin.
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And now, bring your awareness to your breath.
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Not changing it.
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Just noticing the gentle rise...
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and fall...
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of your chest or your belly.
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In...
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and out.
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This rhythm has been with you your entire life, a constant presence through every moment of knowing...
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and not knowing.
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Now, I want you to call to mind something you’re currently uncertain about.
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Don’t dive into the story of it, or the details.
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Just feel the question of it.
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The ‘what if’.
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The ‘I don’t know’.
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And notice where that feeling lives in your body.
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Is it a tightness in your chest?
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A knot in your stomach?
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A tension in your jaw?
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Most of us, when we feel this, our first instinct is to clench.
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To brace.
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To try and force an answer that isn't here yet.
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We are trying to solve the feeling.
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Here's what that means if you're holding that tension right now: it means your body is trying to protect you.
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It’s trying to control the uncontrollable.
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Thank it for that.
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And then, just for this moment, see if you can invite it to soften.
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Imagine that feeling of uncertainty is something you are holding in your hand.
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Feel the tight fist.
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The strain in your knuckles, your forearm.
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That’s the work of resisting.
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Of fighting.
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Now...
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what would it feel like to slowly...
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open your hand?
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To let the fingers uncurl.
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To let the palm face upward.
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This is not about getting rid of the uncertainty.
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It's still there.
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You’re just not fighting it anymore.
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You’re making space for it.
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This is the turn.
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We think strength is in the clenched fist...
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in the forcing of a solution.
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But what if real strength is in the open hand?
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The capacity to stay present and soft when you don't have the answer.
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The courage to yield.
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Not to give up, but to give way.
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To allow the moment to be what it is: unresolved.
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Here’s what that means for that big decision you’re facing, or that relationship you’re questioning, or that future you can’t quite see.
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It means you can stop demanding an answer from yourself today.
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The work is not to find the answer.
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The work is to become okay with its absence.
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To carry the question with an open hand.
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So as you move through your day, just notice the clenching.
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The moments you’re trying to force a resolution.
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And see if you can meet it with this image.
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The slow, deliberate uncurling of a fist.
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It’s okay not to know what happens next.
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You are only asked to be here now.
