Heartful Meditation

A mediation to cleanse our hearts

Sitting in your comfortable meditation position.
closing our eyes & focusing on where your heart is, in the middle of our chest.
Feeling with your mind, the space where is your heart, as a point of awareness, where feelings accumulate. It might feel weightless, care free and have a subtle light colour white, gold, pale pink or pale blue.
Breathing gently in and out, be aware of your heart, what it speaks to you.
Experiencing the release emotions, memories, wishes, fears, and dreams long stored there, and as it does, you will find yourself paying attention.

Paying attention to your heart is the object of this meditation.

Being with our hearts, spiritual meaning in meditation.
Letting feelings come out, purification.
Listening to your heart without judgment or manipulation, this is attention.

Adapted from Deepak Chopra, The Path to Love, by Deepak Chopra (Three Rivers Press, 1997)

Warmth and Kindness

He Understands. When we tell to God what has happened that we feel badly about, then although He already knows we feel better sharing it with Him. If He wants to tell us something at that moment, in quiet prayer, He will tell it to us. He is always warm and kind. Sometimes even if He tells us something we don't want to hear and we know it to be true, but he is never angry or unkind. He is always there for us.
Peace

Practising Compassion

"The Dalai Lama was very clear that despite the massive suffering Chairman Mao rained down upon the Tibetans, that he was his friend. His Holiness said many times that the Chinese are my friends, for they give me an object for my practice of Compassion". I love this excerpt from Nellie's blog Nellieinindia

"Compassion is a profound human emotion prompted by the pain of others. More vigorous than empathy, the feeling commonly gives rise to an active desire to alleviate another's suffering. It is often, though not inevitably, the key component in what manifests in the social context as altruism. In ethical terms, the various expressions down the ages of the so-called Golden Rule embody by implication the principle of compassion: Do to others what you would have them do to you. Ranked a great virtue in numerous philosophies, compassion is considered in all the major religious traditions as among the greatest of virtues" WIKI

Wound for which there is no Medicine

A wound to the body can be healed by a medicine, however for a wound to the heart, there is no equivalent. We still feel pain, physical pain, but it is not because we have been cut or we have an injury to our external body - the hurt is from within us and there is no medicine. There is only one thing that can heal a wound to the heart and that is love. The giving and protecting love of a mother and those whom love us so, is the one and only thing that can heal the wound to the heart. May everyone receive and cherish such love in their lives.
Peace