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Strengthening and Feeling Your Heart
(With permission from the Padmacahaya Foundation)
The goals of this simple exercise are to help you to:
1. Improve attention to your heart
2. Decrease the domination of your brain
3. Strengthen your heart and feeling.
The exercise below may seem simplistic, yet it can be profound. The nice feeling that you will be feeling, is the feeling of your heart. The reason that this is profound is because that nice feeling is a direct link to the True Source, the Source of Light and Love. At the beginning level, the nice feeling will be experienced possibly as a sensation of warmth, openness, expansiveness, light, peace, calmness, gentleness, or joy.
When you feel the nice feeling and allow yourself to let go and follow the nice feeling, then it is the feeling it self which will bring you into your heart. At this stage you will be in the outer layer of your heart, and the key to know that you are really there, is that you will be enjoying the nice feeling. If you are not enjoying the nice feeling, then you are not yet in your heart. Simply relax, and stop trying to feel something, because the process of trying or looking for the nice feeling will block your experience. Any effort or attempt to try is a process of the brain that will keep you in your head instead of in the enjoyment of your heart. Some of you will enjoy the nice feeling in your heart the first time you do this exercise. Others will feel something as soon as they realize that they are trying. They just relax, smile and feel the nice feeling that is already there.
Do not do the below exercise as an exercise. Do it as an enjoyment, like eating a juicy watermelon or having fun playing with a puppy. If you approach this with seriousness, or as a disciplined meditation technique, you will not be successful in experiencing the joy in your heart.
- Touch your heart (non-physical heart) in the center of your chest at the level of you armpits. Close your eyes
- Relax your whole body.
- Smile to let your heart and feeling grow stronger. Then, smile to your heart without thinking where or how, to let your heart and feeling grow even stronger.
- Just keep your eyes closed, be relaxed, and smile to your heart…….{1 minute}
- If you feel your feeling expanding, the peace, calmness, lightness, or anything pleasant, just follow the feeling.
- If you do not feel anything, do not try to feel. Just be more relaxed and smile more freely to your heart.
- Keep being relaxed and smile freely to your heart…Enjoy {2 minutes or longer}
- Feel the nice feeling radiating to your friends, personal family, and global family for as long as you like.
- Stay in the nice feeling when you open your eyes. Keep smiling and enjoying.
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