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Old 06-10-2010, 08:12 PM
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Heart Meditations

INNER HEART MEDITATION


* First breathe down into your lower belly, below your navel, for several minutes, allowing and accepting whatever you feel.

* Next, as you breathe in your belly also breathe into your heart center in your chest, continuing to allow and accept whatever you feel.

Putting one palm on the center of your chest may help you become more aware in the heart.

If there is tension or discomfort just keep breathing, accepting and letting go and notice how it begins to soften and release.


* Now begin to breathe more deeply into your heart center inwardly toward your back.

(Again, if you feel any discomfort stay with it and breathe as you allow it to soften and release.)

* Imagine your heart center opening inwardly, beyond the physical dimension, into an open quiet space.

* The essence of opening the inner heart is feeling the wide open space there... and breathing deeply into it.


You might feel a warmth or vibration in the center of your chest as you begin to experience love with-no-object... love for-no-reason.


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For another powerful heart meditation, check the next post.

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Old 06-10-2010, 08:13 PM
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YOUR TRANSFORMING HEART


This meditation is based on an ancient Tibetan practice known as Tonglen, and has been used by many generations and traditions to cultivate bodhichitta, or compassion.

Once the steps have been practiced it becomes very simple. It can be used as a way to open and heal one's own heart, for developing the ability of living from the heart rather than the head, for dissolving feelings of separation and isolation, and for giving unconditionally to others, specifically or globally. This is the true nature of Love Itself.

The outer, emotional heart may give pain as well as pleasure, true, but as one becomes more aware one accepts the pain as a blessing, an opportunity. The quality of the pain naturally starts changing because you are no longer resisting it. Then it is no longer pain; it is a fire that will cleanse and deepen you.

It is a transmutation, a transformation process, in which the old will go and the new will arrive; in which the mind will disappear and the inner, spiritual heart will function wholly. Then your life becomes a blessing.



TRANSFORMING HEART MEDITATION


This gift is from Atisha, a second century Tibetan teacher

When you breathe in, imagine you are breathing in the miseries of the people in the world - all the hardness, all the negativity and abuse, all the non-love that exists anywhere. Breathe it in and let it be absorbed in your Heart.

The so-called positive thinkers of the West say just the opposite but they don't know what they are saying. They say, when you breathe out throw out all your misery and negativity; and when you breathe in take in joy, positivity, happiness, cheerfulness. Atisha's powerful method is just the opposite.

When you inhale, breathe in all the misery and suffering of all the beings of the world.
When you exhale, breathe out all the joy you have ---
all the unconditional love, all the peace, all the silence.


You will be surprised at what happens. The moment you take in the sufferings of the world they are no longer sufferings. The Inner Heart immediately transforms the energy. The spiritual Heart is a transforming force. Drink in misery and it is transformed into blissfulness... then pour it out.

Breathe out and pour yourself into existence.
This is the method of compassion:
Drink in suffering and pour out blessings.

Compassion is being a transforming force in existence - transforming the ugly into the beautiful, kissing the frog and transforming it into a prince, transforming pain into healing, darkness into light.

If you find any hindrance in the meditation, notice if you are holding on to expectations and release through heart breathing

Once you have learned that your Heart can do this magic, this miracle of giving, you will like to do it more and more.


Begin with yourself.
Breathe your pain, your suffering, your conflicts and knots into your own pure inner Heart.
Then breathe out from your Heart into all parts of yourself.


Keep going... and notice your increasing lightness.


- adapted from Osho, “The Book of Wisdom”


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“If you can experience it - this is of tremendous importance - then start absorbing it. Don't throw it away. It is such a valuable energy; don't throw it away. Absorb it, drink it, accept it, welcome it, feel grateful to it. And say to yourself, 'This time I'm not going to avoid it, this time I'm not going to reject it, this time I'm not going to throw it away. This time I will drink it and receive it as a guest. This time I will digest it.'

“It may take a few days for your to be able to digest it, but the day it happens you have stumbled upon a door which will take you really far. A new journey has started in your life, you are moving into a new kind of being.....

“But start with your own self. Make a small experiment with your own pains, sufferings and miseries. The moment you accept the pain with no reject anywhere, its energy and its quality changes. It is no longer pain.

“And once you have found the key, then you can share it with the whole existence. Then you can take all the suffering of all the world, or all the worlds.

“Ride on the incoming breath and your small heart becomes bigger than the whole universe, then you know what miracles it can do. And pour out your blessings. It is the same energy passing through your heart that becomes bliss, that becomes blessing. Then let blessings go riding on the outgoing breath to all the nooks and corners of existence."



- from Osho, quoted in "Relaxing Into Clear Seeing" by Arjuna Nick Ardagh



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This is re-posted from arive nan, with her permission.


"I lie down and just focus on the emotion of love itself. I spend some time concentrating on that feeling and the effects it has on my heart rate and mood and the warmth I feel in my skin near my heart chakra.

"Then I let the energy gradually expand from that point to the rest of my body. I concentrate on feeling it spread and grow, radiating out from the heart chakra. Don't rush this part.

"You know where the energy has spread by the sensations in your body. I let it take as long as it takes to spread to my entire body until I can feel it even in my fingers and toes and it's buzzing in my head making me feel something similar to drunk.

"I concentrate on feeling it in my entire body for a while. I feel it penetrating my self.

"Then I tell myself that this energy is the essence of what everything in the universe is made of. Being in love is being aware of it. The energy is me. It is what I am made of. I meditate on that until it's not just a thought anymore and it becomes an experience.

"When the moment happens that I become fully aware that I am that energy, it is quite profound. All the sensations that I took effort to focus on earlier become so strong they can't be ignored. The feeling of love itself intensifies so much it's kind of overwhelming. But I sit with it and spend some in this state.

"Then I let energy and the awareness of being that energy expand beyond the body. Everything is made of this. Not just this body. I feel myself being this energy outside of my body, in everything, in every place in the universe. Then I stay in this state of awareness for as long as I can, because it's a lot of fun.

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After doing this I feel more alive, I can handle stress better and approach matters more calmly."


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Old 03-09-2011, 04:39 AM
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awesome meditation ty
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Old 04-09-2011, 12:02 PM
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I love all your meditation threads. Maybe this will heal my heart condition. Thanks Xan.
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Old 05-09-2011, 02:19 AM
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Becoming more aware in our spiritual heart has healing and transforming power, it's true.


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I have been using a meditation from a favorite channeled source. It's very similar to arive nan's.

Imagine a golden beam of light from source coming through space and filling your heart chakra w/ its golden light as you breathe in. As you exhale it spreads through your body cell by cell. Imagine all the cells begin to shine w/ the golden light as it spreads throughout your body. You can also place your hands on your body and imagine the golden healing light flowing out through your palms and mixing w/ your own energies. You are giving yourself unconditional love.

I have also been imagining this golden light as coming directly from my heart center and spreading through my body and beyond. It's clearing every part of me, my whole being, from distortion and revealing more and more of the golden light of my true nature. This light as always been within but simply hidden.

This is creating a direct connection w/ your source within, unconditional love. It helps us remember we are a whole and complete beings. I have heard this will also allow us to stop running connections to source through others. What do I mean by that? We will no longer seek fulfillment through things and beings outside ourselves because we have remembered our connection w/ source.
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