Go with the pain, let it take you. Open your palms and your body to the pain. It comes in waves like the tide and you must be open as a vessel lying on the beach, letting it fill you up and then, retreating, leaving you empty and clear...
War within and without: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1939-1944 (ed. Berkley, 1981) - ISBN: 9780425050842