Advanced Meditation on the Heart

After some days or weeks of practicing to
Meditate on the Heart, you will know whether you want to make it a permanent part of your daily routine. I believe that putting attention on the heart is valuable as an addition to any spiritual program. To live from the center of spirit is a constant goal for anyone on the path.

As you progress in the practice, you will begin to notice that sensations, thoughts, memories, daydreams and random physical manifestations start to decrease. The heart center will slowly reveal itself as it really is—through silence, peace, a warm glow, or subtle light. Even if these glimpses are only fleeting, you will find that things are starting to change for you outside meditation. You will start to walk with a more buoyant step. At unexpected moments you will feel a swelling sensation in your chest; you may want to take deep, satisfying breaths. Flashes of elation and well-being may sweep over you at odd times.

All these are signs that the contraction most people hold around their heart center is releasing its grip. The heart center is meant to feel open and relaxed. Before you can receive any profound spiritual insights, this openness must exist. Contraction, fear and tightness all keep spirit from entering you. In truth, spirit doesn’t enter, since it is always there. But making contact with it is like being penetrated with light and insight; this is what we call the flow of love.

Love and spirit are forming a connection every time you meditate on the heart, starting with the first time. Advanced meditation deepens this experience and makes it more conscious. As you continue this practice, you will find it easier and easier to go to your heart for counsel and wisdom, or simply to feel that you are loved. You do not have to speak to your heart in words; your heart doesn’t have to speak to you in words. The language of spirit comes to us as silent assurance, self-acceptance, patience, an appreciation of simply being. As these qualities develop you are maturing in your experience of the heart center.

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Adapted from The Path to Love, by Deepak Chopra (Three Rivers Press, 1997). Reprinted by permission of the author.
Adapted from The Path to Love, by Deepak Chopra (Three Rivers Press, 1997).

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Tim C.

10:34AM PDT on Oct 26, 2011

thanks

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Ida J.

2:51AM PDT on Oct 12, 2011

Robert O.

12:19AM PDT on Apr 22, 2011

Thanks.

12:15AM PDT on Apr 22, 2011

Lady K.

8:49AM PDT on Apr 20, 2011

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KS G.

5:25AM PST on Feb 9, 2011

Thanks for the article.

Bon L.

4:56AM PST on Dec 29, 2010

Thanks for the info.

Jennifer W.

9:04AM PDT on Mar 16, 2009

My husband is deployed to Iraq and now is going straight from Iraq to Afganistan, so I need something to center me. My mother meditates and tells me to try it. I also have two younger children, so I'm basicly a single mother while my husband is deployed. It's very hard, but getting touch with my heart center and centering my chi is very important to me at this point! I've always been about centering your chi and meditating, but never really persuded it. As of now, I think I'm gonna give it a shot! :)

Kate P.

9:35AM PST on Feb 13, 2008

I have been practicing the Heart Breath Meditation that I learn in the Wild Divine biofeedback game for the last few days. Today I had a few moments of unexpected elation. This works and is a wonderful addition to my daily routine.