21-Day Dhyana Sadhana - Day 12 - The Heart Supports the Spiritual Journey

Day 12 for the 21-Day Dhyana Sadhana, 21-Day Meditation Practice daily online retreat as we approach Divali 2024. 

How does the heart support the spiritual journey? As it opens up to the light of the soul, the soul's desire begins to surface as a guiding intelligence. If you learn to tune into that intelligence and align with it you can lead a life of deep fulfillment. 

In this meditation you are invited to let go of the emotional baggage that limits the heart so that the soul intelligence that can surface to be explored. 

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Meditation Transcript

Please join me in meditation. Posture, in and out. Thank you very much for listening.

Let's close our eyes. Let's take a few deep breaths, opening up the awareness, meditative awareness, inner awareness, which requires gently stepping back from the senses and focusing inwardly.

Take a moment to observe the many levels of being, the many dimensions of your experience. That means observing your body, observing your level of vitality, observing the emotional landscape, the heart space, observing the inner quietness, the inner listening and sensitivity, and of course, observing your mind.

What's the condition and quality of your mind today?

And all of these experiences gets held in your being, consciousness being. It's held in you.

And as you breathe, try to relax into that beingness, the feeling of holding all of these diverse experiences where you can just observe an experience and observe the sense of I.

I am experiencing. I exist. And remember that sense of I. Your sense of self is divinely connected, is rooted in the source, divine space. Can you feel that inner connection?

Now join me in recharging the nerve plexus. Let's come into the abdomen. And those of you who are skilled in using the root chakra, use the root as well as you use deep abdominal breathing.

And remember, you can breathe there. And then when you feel ready, you can hold the breath there for a few seconds to recharge that very large nerve plexus in the gut. It. That's good.

When you feel ready on the inhale, draw the attention and the energy up into your chest and allow the expansion of the chest as you breathe, exploring the full capacity of the lungs.

As you breathe out, you're clearing that heart space, letting go of all the old emotions that you don't need. And you breathe in, you're energizing, recharging, nourishing that nerve plexus at the heart.

And some of you may be able to identify that point. At the center of the chest, there's a particular point where all the nerves meet, a kind of a knot at the heart. Brood through there, just energizing.

Now let's come to that point of the brow, energizing the brain and working with the mental field mind space, gently draw the breath, draw the energy through that point.

When you breathe out, clear your mind, opening up the space of the mind. When you breathe in, energize, nourish that space. And you do this until you actually feel the mind is opening up.

There's a feeling of inner expansion in the mind, clarity, alertness.

Now, coming to the central energy channel, and that requires going a little deeper into the energy system, fine tuning your awareness to locate the central channel and guiding the flow of energy in there.

But as you do this, try to hold a heart awareness. Try to hold that point at the center of the axis and seek the depth of your heart. Don't be scared to open up your heart to allow the deeper power of the soul to shine through the heart.

As you do this, there's a feeling of immensity. The vast power of the heart begins to reveal surfaces in your experience.

And sometimes that can be a little scary because it's new and it's a, a tremendous power. Just hold yourself in the awareness of the soul power behind the heart space, the immensity of your heart.

It's a gentle awareness allowing it to reveal itself softly.

Now let's take a deep breath, and as you exhale, gently channel the flow of energy downwards and make sure to hold your body in this heart connection, loving the body, caring for the body, and staying centered in your heart.

Anchored there, you can open up your mind to your world, your friends, your family, coworkers, the different dimensions of your life that you explore. You can open up your heart to that, just bringing more loving energy, compassionate energy into your life, but from a place of strengthen, rooted in the source it.

Now let's begin tuning into the senses, observing the body and the condition of the body, how it has changed from your meditation and slowly bringing yourself back to the physical awareness and physical presence.

And let's affirm in the mind:

I stay centered in the source of my being, conscious of every level of my experience.

I open up to the deepest intelligence of my heart, in alignment with the soul.

Now tune into the weight of the body resting in the seat. Take a deep breath, pull yourself fully back. Alert the senses, alert the

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Reflection

1. What is it that your heart longs for? What is your deepest soul desire?