Open your awareness as an ocean of compassion.
Vast. Receptive. Able to hold anything that arises.
Bring to mind something that hurts. Let it come close. Notice what surfaces.
Notice too the impulse to move away. To fix the feeling, to cover it over.
Instead, let it rest in the ocean. Let it be held, fully, just as it is. Nothing to change.
To hold any feeling tenderly is an act of compassion.