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This piece is one of a series that emerged from a set of 100 letters written by my grandfather to my grandmother while he was a young soldier serving in the US Army during World War I. I never met my grandfather.
In one letter, my grandfather offered remarkably sophisticated instructions to his wife (my grandmother) to manage her anxiety and loneliness during this unforgiving time of war and separation. He guides her to visualize their eventual embrace, to hold that image and feeling with intentional clarity, and then to allow genuine joy to fill her heart. “This is how I am coping everyday,” he writes, “I find it to be the best remedy.”
I am a student of Eastern wisdom traditions, and was struck by the parallels between his intuitive approach to her suffering and ancient contemplative practices for mental transformation. Imagination can be a powerful tool for emotional well-being.
This piece is one of a series that emerged from a set of 100 letters written by my grandfather to my grandmother while he was a young soldier serving in the US Army during World War I. I never met my grandfather.
In one letter, my grandfather offered remarkably sophisticated instructions to his wife (my grandmother) to manage her anxiety and loneliness during this unforgiving time of war and separation. He guides her to visualize their eventual embrace, to hold that image and feeling with intentional clarity, and then to allow genuine joy to fill her heart. “This is how I am coping everyday,” he writes, “I find it to be the best remedy.”
I am a student of Eastern wisdom traditions, and was struck by the parallels between his intuitive approach to her suffering and ancient contemplative practices for mental transformation. Imagination can be a powerful tool for emotional well-being.