Anahata – Heart Chakra Meditation Practice
Rumi noted that to reach the sky we must use our hearts.
The Heart Chakra is a very popular focus of meditation practice. Here we will simply review some characteristics and then move on to a meditation practice.
Specific characteristics: Green color, YAM sound (say at least three times with a soft A), sense of touch, located in center of chest (cardiac plexus and thyme area), and malachite or emerald stone.
Functional characteristics: Respiration, circulation, immune system, and life itself.
Emotional characteristics: openness, unconditional love, duty, devotion, peace, harmony, awakened compassion, and emotional consciousness.
Now for the meditation practice.
- Just rest in meditation on the breath just as it is now – just be aware. In and out. In and out.
- Now gently bring full attention to the feelings of a deeper, slower, more complete breath. In and out. In and out.
- Pay full attention to your heart chakra area, and bring full attention to it. If you wish, you may place both hands over your heart area.
- Breathe in green energy very slowly and deeply, and say YAM to yourself at least three times. Say it slowly.
- Go deeper with your emotional consciousness into your heart area. Appreciate it! Appreciate it!
- Use your imagination and breathe in the feelings of inner peace and harmony. In and out. In and out.
- Awaken your deeper emotional consciousness, and feel the sense of unconditional love for yourself and others. In and out. In and out.
- Now simply rest with yourself. Hold yourself emotionally in this unconditional love and inner peace.
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Anahata The Heart Chakra Practice
By Anthony R. Quintiliani, PhD., LADC
From the Eleanor R. Liebman Center for Secular Meditation in Monkton, Vermont
Author of Mindful Happiness
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