Opening your heart is the most powerful and the most fragile decision you can make.
Opening your heart means you open to trust,
To possibility,
To love,
To being loved.
And very often that same empowering notion can feel disempowering at times.
The heart holds all your most intimate memories,
Both the good and the bad.
It remembers the joys,
The pleasures,
The excitement,
And also the pain,
Frustration,
Rejection,
And all the misunderstandings of your past.
Sometimes you might wish you could protect yourself from this.
Sometimes you might wish love could be easier.
I'm here to tell you that it can be.
Listen to this meditation if you are willing to open up to trust in love again.
To fully embody the understanding that how you resonate is what you'll attract.
That you can choose whom or what you invite into your life.
It all starts by letting go of the past so you can open up your heart again.
Before we begin,
Make sure you are absolutely comfortable.
And just take a moment to observe the space around you with your eyes closed.
Listen to all the sounds of your surroundings.
The sounds directly around you,
As well as those in the far,
Far distance.
Allowing all the sounds,
Loud or subtle,
To become part of your experience.
As you expand your hearing,
You automatically expand your auric field.
Allowing the border between inside you and outside you to fade.
Take a few deep breaths and become really,
Really present.
Continue breathing deeply.
Witness your body opening and relaxing.
Opening and relaxing.
Taking note of all the sounds that have become part of your experience.
Simply listening and breathing.
Listening and breathing.
Now slowly,
Slowly pull your attention towards you.
Feel the support of the ground beneath you.
Observe the natural flow of your breath.
And see if you can hear or feel the rhythm of your own heartbeat.
Become very,
Very still.
Allow the most subtle energies in and around your body to be witnessed.
Just listen.
Now rest your awareness in your heart center.
Breathe deeply into your heart.
Inhaling love.
Exhaling love.
Love is the essence of who you are.
It is the force that gives you the will to keep going.
It is your drive.
The one that ignites your passion and lust for life.
Love is your power.
And the only way to access its potential is to open up.
Open up in soft expansion.
In fragility.
In the vulnerable expression of who you truly are.
Are you willing to be seen?
Are you willing to be heard?
Are you willing to be loved for all that you are?
Simply rest your awareness in your heart,
Without needing to change anything.
Just feel what is there.
Witness the effects as you connect from within.
Inhaling love.
Exhaling love.
Now call in the presence of someone you dearly love.
A friend.
A family member.
Someone you love spending time with.
Who uplifts you.
Feel the instant response of your body as you feel the love flowing through your system.
Breathe deeply and allow yourself to relax into the sensations that are present.
Simply rest your awareness on all that you are feeling.
The love.
The lightness.
The sense of connection.
Inhale love.
Exhale love.
Now place both hands on your heart center and direct the love you feel towards yourself.
Recognize the deep love you have for yourself.
Your capacity to love is infinite.
When you love another,
It is a reflection of the love you hold for yourself.
How you accept yourself.
Recognize yourself.
And how you honor the choices you make in life.
Your heart is your guide.
Your compass.
Always pointing in the right direction.
Your heart holds great wisdom.
Trust that it always chooses wisely for you.
Even when you experience pain.
Even when you experience challenges in love.
Your heart always chooses wisely for you.
Now imagine,
Sense or feel that there are light cords connecting you to all the lovers and beloveds of the past and or the present.
Brightly shining cords of light.
Connecting you to all those you have shared intimate space with.
There is no need to recall their names or faces.
Simply rest in the awareness of the energetic connection that is there between you and them.
Sit here for a moment and simply observe.
Allowing the love you feel in your heart to ripple out into all these cords of light.
The power of the love you hold in your heart is stronger than any difficult experience you may have had in the past.
This love is stronger than any person who ever hurt you or how you've hurt others.
Accept the love stories of your past.
Forgive whatever wrongs were made and embrace the lessons learned.
Recognize how you carefully selected each of these encounters to teach you,
To allow you to grow in your wisdom and capability.
Essentially to love again and again and again.
Courageously feeling the fear yet daring to love again.
That is the true power of your heart.
Trust that your heart always chooses wisely for you.
Return your awareness to the center of your chest.
Connecting to your heart,
Your body and all the subtle sensations that are present in this moment.
Feel the pure love radiating from your chest.
Allow this soft yet powerful vibration to fill you and to ripple out into the cords of light you are connected to.
Stay here for a moment in stillness.
In full acknowledgement of the power of love.
Inhaling love.
Exhaling love.
Trust in the choices you made from your heart.
Trust in the mystery of attraction.
Trust in all that is yet to come.
Love is the essence of who you are.
It is the force that gives you the will to keep going.
It is your drive,
The one that ignites your passion and lust for life.
Love is your power,
And the only way to access its potential is to open up.
Open up in soft expansion,
In fragility,
In the vulnerable expression of who you truly are.
So,
Dare to love.
Dare to be loved.
