Alpal,

For resting with it, consider that the weight on your chest is your own light, surrounded by a film of goop. Rather than running, we can breathe, let the past go (see the present as it is), and the goop goes away.

From another direction, imagine a woman getting a blister on her hand. She looks at the blister, sees pain and agitation, and turns away from it, wrapping it in bandages, her hand becoming a source of pain. As the blister heals, she still feels the fear that her hand will hurt her, and so she keeps it wrapped up in bandages long after the wound has healed. To let the fear go, “resting with it” is looking at the hand, seeing what’s really there, and accepting it, unwrapping the bandages and flexing it a little.

Perhaps a cough, some weakness to be tended (as inky kindly suggested), but you’re feeling better, and that’s great! The heavy feeling is perhaps like a shiver from a few chilly moments behind you. Shake it off, friend, its passed! Today’s the day, so what do you wish to do next?

With warmth,
Matt