Meditation for Week 4: OPEN-HEARTEDNESS
“Open your heart and take us in,
Love – love and me.”
~ William Ernest Henley
Every person possesses the quality of open-heartedness. The real test is to stretch into open-heartedness right when you feel most like isolating and shutting down. It’s so easy to close a heart, especially against a partner (if not all humankind, at times). Withholding love is called being “cold” while open-heartedness is called being “warm,” and it’s possible there is actual vital energy being shared when you open your heart to another.
But first, open your heart to yourself. Show yourself love even when–especially when–you fall short, because your shame, disappointment, or regret can never open that heart.
There’s a saying that anger is like picking up a burning ember to throw at someone–you get burned in the process. It’s the same with close-heartedness. You might close your heart to protect yourself from intimidating or hostile forces, and yet closing your heart is one of the most hurtful acts you can do to yourself. Closing your heart as a form of protection is a contradiction. The only protection in any challenging situation is to open your heart so you can keep the vital energy flowing inside you.
Daily Healthy Sex Acts:
- Share with a partner or friend: What opens your heart? What closes your heart?
- Feel the vibration of your own opening heart. Imagine that vibration expanding and basking everyone you encounter today with its warmth.
- Practice synchronized heart-opening with your beloved. Explore together what it feels like to close and open the vital energies of loving hearts.
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