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Open Heart Meditations can help make the world a better place. Ensure you ask yourself WHO you may be leaving out or excluding from the LOVE you send out into the world. Also try focusing on sending love to someone who you struggle with, feel anger towards or even feel intense feelings of hatred for. THAT is a REAL challenge. However, when we do this and GENUINELY feel it, we are expanding our own capacity for love and THIS breaks down barriers which separate us and reduces the "otherizing" so common in our society today.
To truly make your efforts more than simply your personal experience in meditation, ensure that you are bringing that Open Hearted LOVE into ALL you do in life... your thoughts, feelings, words, and actions. Creating a world with less suffering begins with YOU!
Basic Info for Open Heart
Basic Info for Open Heart
Basic Flow of All Open Heart Meditations:
Step 1: Build and generate love in the heart
Step 2: Direct this to yourself first - giving unconditional love to YOU
Step 3: Continue to build/generate love and direct this to your family, friends, loved ones
Step 4: Build the love again/some more and direct this to your community, to the world or to specific peoples in the world
** Start with the self and then expand to those closest and then outward from there, community, world. This process makes the self smaller while also creating a greater sense of connection with the world and being WOVEN into it. **
When to Use Open Heart
When to Use Open Heart
How OH Helped Me with Depression
How OH Helped Me with Depression
How OH Helped Me with Grief
How OH Helped Me with Grief
How OH Helped Me with PTSD
How OH Helped Me with Anxiety
How OH Helped Me with Identity Isssues
How OH Helped Me with Identity Isssues
How OH Helped Me with Survivng Loss from Suicide
How OH Helped Me with Survivng Loss from Suicide
How OH Helped Me with Suicidal Ideation
Go to the What Does it Help Page for more information on specific issues/struggles.
Open Heart for Building Connection and Commpassion for Self and Others
Open Heart: Increasing Compassion for Self & Others
This meditation is the basis and foundation of Open Heart meditations. It increases love and compassion for self and others.
Music: Peaceful Garden by Buddha’s Lounge on YouTube
This Open Heart meditation increases the felt sense of being woven into the very fabric of life
Music: Village Love Story by Buddha’s Lounge on YouTube
The system responds and can return to calm when you send it messages of safety. This meditation is helpful for that, or whenever you need a barrier to the world, a deep sense of safety, unconditional love and support, or when you are doing difficult work. Practicing often can help restore a sense of safety.
Music: Golden Blossom - Tranquil Flute by Buddha’s Lounge on YouTube
This meditation guides you through increasing love and compassion for yourself. Observe yourself and how the experiences of life have impacted you. Through the lens of love, connect with both giving and receiving whatever is needed, fostering and growing your compassion and understanding for yourself.
Music: Healing Mother by Buddha’s Lounge on YouTube
This meditation supports you in expanding yourself as you hold both your joys, as well as, your sorrows.
Music: Buddha’s Flute - Healing Mother by Buddha’s Lounge on YouTube
This meditation gently guides you through sitting with your deep regrets and assists you in allowing and receiving the balm of self forgiveness
Music: Dive into Tranquility by Buddha’s Flute on YouTube
Open Heart for Depression
Open Heart for Depression
CAUTION!! Go to the FOCUS page if you are in an active depression and cannot access self love, love for others, or love of anything. Do NOT judge yourself - this is part of the mind/body state during an active depression. When this is the case, a focus meditation can be more effective until you feel things shifting.
Feel into when you can access love for self and others. When you can, return to these Open Heart Meditations. Experiment, observe and notice to learn the messages your body sends you about which state you are in.
Go to the DEPRESSION page for more detailed information.
Open the Heart with Nature
Nature as Sanctuary
Nature as Sanctuary
Awe is beneficial for everyone, especially when dealing with anything difficult. Do this often - even for a couple minutes when you are stressed/overwhelmed/hurting. This meditation guides you through remembering with all of your senses an experience of being in a place where you FELT AWE
Music: Village Love Story by Buddha’s Flute on YouTube
This meditation is pretty self explanatory. It can offer some sense of soothing to the pain.
Music: Listen to the Flute’s Lament by Buddha’s Lounge on YouTube
Using Movement to Open the Heart
Using Movement to Open the Heart
Click link above to explore more about Open Heart practice for various issues.
Working with Memory: the Benefit and the Challenges
Working with Memory: the Benefit and the Challenges
Using Ouroboros & The Net of Indra
as Open Heart Symbols
Using Ouroboros as an Open Heart Symbol
Using Ouroboros as an Open Heart Symbol
Ouroboros for Shedding the Past and Letting Go
** Caution: This Meditation is not suitable for people living with, or experiencing, suicidal ideation **
Using imagery of Ouroboros, this meditation supports you through times of great change, growth and/or transformation. It assists you through your process of, and your acceptance of, letting go and shedding the past - moving you forward into this new life phase.
Music: Peaceful Garden by Buddha’s Lounge on YouTube
Why the Net of Indra Helps
Why the Net of Indra Helps
The Net of Indra as a Symbol of Connection
This Open Heart meditation increases the felt sense of being woven into the very fabric of life
Music: Village Love Story by Buddha’s Lounge on YouTube
The Vagus Nerve & Polyvagal Theory
What are the Vagus Nerve and Polyvagal Theory & Why do they Matter to YOU?
What are the Vagus Nerve and Polyvagal Theory & Why do they Matter to YOU?
This Meditation anchors you into your stable, rooted self using the vagus nerve; balances the mind through bi-laterall focus and bi-lateral touch
Music: Vagus Nerve Stimulation by Narayanjot Records on YouTube
This meditation guides you through shifting your attention inward to: build connection with self and body; increase awareness of, and ability to listen to, information coming from your body which can help you begin to tune into what state your nervous system is in and to assess effectiveness of interventions
Music: Krishna’s Healing Power by Buddha’s Lounge on YouTube
Go to the Vagus Nerve and Polyvagal Theory Page for images, links and More Info
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