The heart is the muscular organ which sits above your diaphragm and behind your sternum. It pumps and receives blood through arteries and veins, exchanging oxygen with your lungs as you breathe in the rhythm of life.
The heart has four chambers:
1. The Right Atrium inhales blood from veins, and exhales it to RV.
2. The Right Ventricle inhaling blood from RA, exhales it to the lungs where it is loaded with oxygen.
3. The Left Atrium inhaling oxygenated blood from the lungs, exhales it to LV.
4. The Left Ventricle inhaling oxygen-rich blood from LA, exhales it to the Body.
Approach
Sitting
In sitting meditation, gently bring your felt-sense to your heart. Like shining a flashlight, focus the light of attention on the musculature inside, and the tissues surrounding the heart.
To feel is to know. Without using thought, use your eyes and felt-sense awareness to look within. Hold awareness for several seconds to minutes and breathe as you open to what is there. If it's available to you, look within each chamber.
Be present, compassionate and nonjudgmental, no matter what arises.
Shaking
In standing meditation, inhale and come up onto your toes. Exhale, come down onto your feet, and begin shaking your whole body (it is recommended for women to wear a sports bra).
Relax any tension, shaking gently and non-violently. Close the eyes to feel more, if balance can be maintained. Again, bring your awareness to your heart, and shake the heart lovingly away from the surrounding fascia and connective tissue, so that it is free and unbound. Shake out fear, hatred, grief, despair. If it's available to you, shake out each chamber. Shake for several minutes, feel and let your heart express...
After many minutes of observation and processing, shake in love. Shake in tenderness. Shake in acceptance, and light.
When you are ready to complete the process, come to a stop. Stand and feel your connection to greater life.
Expressions
