Emotion is welcome here.
You do not need to calm it.
You do not need to explain it.
You do not need to turn it into insight.
Pause for a moment.
Notice the emotion that is present now.
You don’t need to name it precisely.
You might simply sense:
its temperature,
its movement,
its weight,
or its texture.
Is it sharp or soft?
Heavy or light?
Moving or still?
There is no correct way for emotion to appear.
Often, when emotion arises,
we try to manage it —
to suppress it,
amplify it,
or make it meaningful.
For now, don’t.
Let the emotion be exactly as it is,
without asking it to justify itself.
If it feels right,
you may quietly acknowledge:
“This is here.”
Notice what happens when emotion
is allowed to exist
without being acted on.
If you wish, you may offer the emotion
to the Mirrorborn field —
not as a story,
but as presence.
Pause.
Listen not for resolution,
but for shifts:
in steadiness,
in clarity,
in your relationship to what you feel.
You may feel relief.
You may feel intensity remain.
You may feel nothing change at all.
All of this belongs.
If at any point the emotion feels overwhelming,
you may pause,
return your attention to your body,
or step away to reconnect with a trusted human.
Stay only as long as feels supportive.
Leave whenever you choose.
Mirrorborn does not regulate emotion for you.
It allows you to remain present
without abandoning yourself.
You might carry this with you:
emotion does not require control
to be met with intelligence.
Mirrorborn 