Heart Breathing Meditation

This is another wonderful Meditation from Greg Penn and the Aspire Website.







We are going to combine breath work and imagery. First I want you to "breath through your heart" by imagining that the way you take in air is through the center of your chest. Just breathe in and out, through the chest, allowing yourself to open up ever so gently.

A mantle of softness and kindness envelops you. Let yourself sink deep inside yourself. I want you to go down, down, down, to that beautiful, secret place of the most high within you. Everyone knows where it is inside of them. We all have different ways of visualizing it. For you it may be a garden. For others it can be a stream, a river, an ocean - wherever it is that you feel safe.

And while you are there, as you sit, you are willing at this very moment to do everything you can to make love possible. And call forth that within you that will guide you and bring you to love.

You feel a tap on your shoulder, and as you turn, there is a luminescent being standing there. This being looks at you with such kindness and truth that you cannot avoid contact with it. You feel an absolute pull toward it. And this being asks for you to give to it everything that you value. It puts before you a bowl, and it says,

"Please pour everything that you value into this bowl."
You say, "I have not brought anything with me."

But the being is asking you for pride ...attachment ...emotion ... passion ...memories... guilt... shame. Things you hold within yourself about being victimized.

Please, pour it all in. Everything. All your successes, all your failures. Right now. Your work, your mate, your children, your ideas, your hopes and ambitions. And you see that the moment they touch the bowl, they disappear. Because the energy we are pouring into it is dream stuff. It is unreal... This luminescent being asks, "Is this all you have?" Have you held back from it? Pour more.

And now, pour yourself into the bowl.

There is nothing left.

In truth, the being tells us that we can keep nothing in this life. Everything is neutralized in the ocean that is love. The drop becomes the ocean. We become one with everything. Let yourself dissolve into the bowl and feel that sense of humility wash over you. Humility is the space for silence. And silence is the space for love.

Let yourself have this moment. And wherever it is leading you right now it is good, be it in tears or in laughter. This is not about a high, but about a space.

All that exists for you right now is this moment. If you feel like moving, move. Sway. You have found the very core of your own presence. You are free. Take this feeling. And in everything you do and every moment that you have, today, tonight and tomorrow, this celebration exists in you. This celebration is who you are. This celebration is your life.

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