4. Tantric Exercises

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Episode 4, Practice, The Meditation of Healing the Heart So one way to start working with our heart is to do heart meditations. I will guide you here into the heart chakra, get to know this sacred space for healing to take place. So allow yourself to find a place to sit quietly and comfortably for a few minutes, turn off your phone, and make sure you will not be disturbed.

This meditation is called Healing the Heart by my sweet dear meditation teacher Davy G. There will be an introduction, then a 5 minute silent break for mantra repetition, ending with a little closing ceremony. Let's begin.

So let's allow ourselves to feather our nest, nestle in, and get as comfortable as you possibly can. Comfort is queen. Now that you have settled in, let's take a long, deep breath in, and let's gently let that flow back right out.

Let's do it one more time. And as you exhale, allow your eyelids to gently float closed. And effortlessly let that flow back and out.

Now just gently allow yourself to witness your breath as it gently moves in and out. Allow your mind to calm down and notice that your body is relaxing. There is nothing else to do.

There is nowhere else to be. Except to be right here, right now, in this sacred, precious, present moment. Place the tip of your fingers on your heart.

The fourth chakra is also called the heart chakra. In Sanskrit, it vibrates, anahata chakra. Anahata means unstruck.

Like a bell or a gong or a bow that is unstruck, pure, untainted, innocent, unstained, perfect. This is your personal connection to love, kindness, compassion, empathy, forgiveness, and peace. The anahata is located near your physical heart in the center of your chest.

As your fingers rest on the physical aspect of your heart center, know that there is an energetic or astral aspect. The anahata is a green glow or a green light that pulses and radiates in every direction. It is not just a physical realm of three dimensions, but there is a fourth dimension also in which your heart center connects to the unmanifest, to the infinite, to the divine.

As you breathe with your fingers on your heart center, feel the love flowing in and out of you. And feel the green glow start to emanate with each breath you take. As you breathe in, into your anahata, into your heart center, awaken the color green.

And as you exhale, feel it expand in all directions. As you feel this shakti, healing energy flows into your heart chakra with each breath, it awakens the physical properties of your heart and the non-physical, more heart-based expression of love. Seamless wisdom teaches that the source of all kindness is self-kindness, that the source of compassion is self-compassion, that the source of forgiveness is self-forgiveness, and that the source of love is self-love.

As the fourth chakra is awakened by this powerful and sacred energy, your deep desires of the heart start to expand and merge with the physical, emotional, energetic and spiritual aspects of your existence. When shakti energy is flowing freely through our fourth chakra, a magnificent expression of the divine principle of infinite flow unfolds. The finite merges with the infinite as the heart-based intentions you've planted like seeds in the fertile soul of the heart begins their journey of manifestation.

Barriers to receiving love start to melt as you become more accepting, more forgiving, more understanding and more compassionate. Once this expression of pure love manifestation take hold, you become more attractive to love. Sweet, tender, divine affection begins to visit you and then follow you, then chase you until it ripples through you, until you start radiating it back into the world.

When this chakra is constricted or energy is blocked in any way, it is a sign that we have stopped trusting, essentially that we have suspended our belief in the divine principle of infinite flow. We feel separate from the boundless current of universal love. And this is where we get confused.

We think that love is out there somewhere instead of just surrendering to it and allowing it to bathe us, unconditional loving kindness, satchitananda. So take a deep breath into your heart right now. And exhale, let it go.

When there is congestion in this energy center, we hold on to grievances, we resist, unforgiving, we don't trust our heart, we are skeptical of others' kindness. In essence, we forget that we are so worthy of receiving love and be happy in every moment. The ancient vibration or seed mantra of the heart chakra is YUM, Y-U-M, YUM.

So right now, let's invite an intention into our heart. Something you like to see unfold in relation to your heart. Maybe it's to be kinder to yourself or someone else.

To be more compassionate to yourself or someone else. Or to forgive yourself or someone else. Or maybe it's just to place your attention in loving yourself, listening to your heart and allowing it to speak.

Or maybe it's just simply to opening your heart and allowing love to flow into you. So let's get clear on that right now. And let's take a long, slow, deep breath together, inviting that intention right into our heart, into that fertile, unstruck soil of the anahata.

Allow it to nestle in, to settle in, into your very being. Feel that sweet, tender heart of yours, holding that intention so dearly, so sacredly. And now plant it, plant it like a seed.

Feel it anchor itself. Feel it take hold. Take a long, deep breath in and let it go.

Let's take it even deeper. Let's use the mantra OM YUM RITAM OM YUM RITAM OM is the universal vibration, YUM is the seed vibration of the anahata chakra, and RITAM is the rhythm of the universe. By repeating OM YUM RITAM, we align our physical world, our emotional world, our material world, our relationship world, our astral energetic world, and our spiritual world.

We merge them all back together and allow them to elevate our intention in each of these realms. This is pure love. As you repeat the mantra OM YUM RITAM, it may get fainter or louder, slower or faster, jumbled or distorted.

However it changes, don't resist. And when you realize that you have drifted away, don't scold yourself. Just gently drift back to OM YUM RITAM.

Repeat the mantra for yourself until you hear my voice again and sit gently with your eyes closed.