2025-05-29
3 分钟Hi, everyone. I'm Dacher Keltner, and this is Happiness Break,
where we share short science-backed practices to help you connect with yourself,
others, and the world around you.
Today, poet and author Yursa Daly Ward offers us a reflection, a kind of meditative poem,
on how stillness, uncertainty, and silence can be fertile ground for growth.
Poetry, research shows, can help us process our emotions,
engage our memory, and self-awareness, and even ease stress.
Yursa's words invite us into that quiet space.
When you're ready, here's Yursa.
Hello, my name is Yursa Daly-Ward, and I am a writer and poet,
and I really like to write about matters of the heart.
and speak to what might be going on in the nervous system and write questions or meditations on our deeper selves and the spaces that we find ourselves in.
So I'm just going to leave you with a couple of meditations and they don't have names,
but this speaks to some of the things that I've been feeling.
This moment is not the whole story To break is not to fail To fall is not to lose There are worlds that only open in the dark To love yourself through the darkness Is to plant gardens at night No witnesses,
only stars I'd like to offer you another meditation.
Not everything worth finding is wrapped in clarity and sunshine.
Some things arrive through the fog, through tension, through that strange in-between.
Some things you only see when everything else falls away.
And maybe you're not thriving right now.