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I have noticed over the years that many meditators are skilled at allowing life to affect them. They let life in and allow themselves to be touched with increased sensitivity and warmth. What seems more difficult is to let life out, to release it once it has touched us. It almost seems disrespectful to let something go without mentally prolonging the event or pondering over the implications of the experience. It feels as if we have betrayed the experience by letting it go too quickly. We fear we were not really affected by it unless we keep recirculating its memory to show what it meant to us. A good case in point is our need to worry. Many of us feel we need to prolong our caring into worry to demonstrate our love.