How Do You Stop Crying?

Most people will stop crying consciously or unconsciously. Or it's been delivered to them at such a young age that they've learned how to hold it back before they're even speaking, like before four years old. But definitely we shut down our emotional systems because it's too much to feel people's pain. A lot of the work in my meditation practice is learn to expand your capacity for discomfort and heart ache so that that discomfort doesn't send you into a tornado of uncontrollable emotion.