Healing The Collective Broken Heart Meditation

A guided meditation for everyone experiencing sadness and pain from the gun violence in the United States. I hope it's helpful for your healing. I am sending lots of love to you and your family. -David

Transcript

So go ahead.

I want you to get comfortable.

Relax.

Drop your shoulders a little bit.

When you're ready,

You can close your eyes.

Thank you so much for being here if you're here live or by recording.

It's great to see you all.

It's amazing on such short notice that you came to meditate.

You could be anywhere doing anything and you decided that this is a good moment.

So I commend you for that.

So when we close our eyes,

It's nice to actually start with a bit of gratitude for ourselves that we're here to do the work and reflect.

So thank yourself just for being here.

And the meditation this evening or today,

Wherever you are,

Whenever you are,

Is on healing our collective broken heart.

And it's very human to experience heartbreak.

I want you to just notice if you feel some of that energy when something tragic happens,

Like a crack in your heart,

When you feel like you can't do anything about a situation that's already happened and you're just like,

Oh,

Why don't we do a collective?

I know you're all muted,

Just like a collective.

Go ahead,

Take one of your hands,

Just put it on your chest.

Go ahead,

Take one of your hands,

Just put it on the center of your chest for a moment.

Maybe even give your kind of heart,

Energetic heart center,

Little healing with the palm of your hand.

You're going to see some gold light kind of come out of the palm of your hand into your heart.

You're not needing to figure anything out or control anything.

You're just putting your hand on your heart.

Let your hand show your heart compassion.

One of the ways we can show compassion is by touch.

You might even notice when you put your hand on your heart,

You kind of take a deep sigh.

You can put your hand down when you're ready.

I'd like you to take a moment here and just say hello to your heart center,

Your energetic heart.

It may be like a glowing orb or disk.

However you see it,

There's no one right way.

Maybe it looks like a heart.

It's the bridge between the mind and the body,

Maybe even between the body and the soul.

And the heart is where we often carry grief and pain.

Some of that grief and pain is our own from our own experience as a human being,

And some of it is collective pain and grief from being part of a species,

A collective of beings.

We often think of ourselves as individuals,

But we're a collective of beings known as the human species.

So if aliens came to earth,

They would go,

There's a species,

It's human.

And all of our hearts and all of our minds are connected.

On a subtle level,

There's an ocean of consciousness,

Maybe unconsciousness.

Carl Jung called it the third dimension of consciousness.

Collective unconscious,

Collective unconscious,

Collective unconscious.

And so in deep moments of grief,

We can feel that together as a collective.

And so in deep moments of grief,

We can feel that together as a collective of beings.

A friend of mine told me that the largest organism in the world is a is a grove of aspen trees all connected underground.

They seem like they're all individual trees,

Thousands of them,

But actually underneath the surface that you can't see,

They're all connected.

And so is the same for humans under the surface.

We're all connected.

And so one person's grief is all of our grief.

One person's enlightenment is all of our enlightenment.

We could tap into it anytime if we choose.

And right now,

I actually invite you to tap into the grief of those folks in Texas.

The families affected,

The children,

The community.

Let yourself tap into that grief for a moment.

Allow yourself to grieve.

And allow your grief to actually help express their grief.

When we're going through deep pain,

It's healing to see that others understand and feel that pain.

Take a moment to think about what you're feeling.

Take a moment.

Take a moment.

There are parents that lost their children,

Children who lost their siblings,

Grandparents who lost their grandchildren,

People lost their friends.

It's a very real thing,

So we don't need to sugarcoat it.

Let yourself feel and express that grief.

And sometimes as we express grief,

Maybe some of our own grief,

We can feel it.

Maybe something we buried a while ago that we didn't fully process and others wouldn't fully process.

Maybe something we buried a while ago that we didn't fully process and others' grief almost opens a door for our grief to come out.

And when I say process and come out,

Maybe it comes out in tears.

Maybe it comes out in just being honest with how you feel.

You're a human being,

You know how to feel and express grief.

And recognize that there's absolutely nothing wrong with feeling it.

It doesn't mean you're bad or you don't have a high level of awareness.

That's not true.

Give yourself a moment to be a human being that feels grief.

There might be a color to it,

A density.

Sometimes our feelings can be like the weather.

If it's cloudy or it rains,

In those moments we could feel that melancholy.

And what's interesting is when we feel grief and sadness,

It rains out of our eyes,

Doesn't it?

It might rain from the clouds and then it rains from our eyes,

From our noses.

It's very cathartic to release emotion and let the energy really move.

The whole group of children lost their lives prematurely.

I have no idea what the grand plan of the universe is and what each of their souls destiny is.

But on a human level,

They lost their lives.

It's okay to feel that and let that sadness express itself and move.

What I'd like you to do is imagine a beautiful golden rose.

Maybe there's some red in it,

Some love red and some gold.

I'd like you to just send a rose to every child's soul that lost its life.

At this moment,

There's 19 of them and a few adults as well.

And just from your spirit to theirs,

Just send them a love,

Compassion rose from your heart to their heart.

Wishing them a good journey to their next step.

You don't need to know their names.

And with your prayer and your intention and your love,

You're helping them take a step wherever their soul is headed into the beyond,

Into the unknown.

And it's the same place your soul is headed at some point one day in the future.

So we're both human and beings.

And when we let's say,

Shed our human form,

Then we're just beings.

We're no longer human.

So these kids are now beings.

And you're just sharing some love with them from one being to another being.

And their teacher and whoever else passed away.

Whoa.

Yeah,

Now the grief is really coming up.

I want you to notice what you're doing here is healing work and not just healing yourself,

But you're helping heal everyone.

There's a saying that hurt people hurt people.

Unprocessed emotion,

Suppressed feelings,

Covered up pain,

All eventually get infected in the darkness of the human unconscious.

And that's when we start to hurt each other.

And the opposite is to feel our pain,

To let it rise to the surface and accept it.

And to blame anybody or to judge ourselves.

That's how we heal.

I want to tell my students that enlightenment is not some form of perfection.

It's the acceptance of imperfection.

Or maybe we could say the acceptance of our human feelings,

Our human form,

Our humanness,

Without any judgment.

I don't need to be a better version in the future.

I don't need to endlessly be angry with myself for the past.

It's the total acceptance of who we are and how we feel in this moment.

Let's as a group,

Take all of these souls that are moving to their next step,

Hold them up in the light.

Give them a safe,

Fulfilling journey,

A healing journey.

And you may just see their souls as points of light,

As glowing beings.

Wish them the best.

Bring your awareness back into the center of your chest,

Into your heart center.

And just take one more moment here.

And if there are any cracks in your heart,

Perhaps you just give that heart a bit more of a healing and let it come back to wholeness.

Healing is the journey back to wholeness.

Can you give yourself and show yourself the same love that you showed those kids and those people who are transitioning?

This might be news to you,

But long term,

We're all terminal with humanity.

So have compassion for yourself.

You're here for a short time on this earth.

We were born onto this planet,

Not knowing why.

There's no instruction manual,

No guide.

And right as we start to figure things out,

People start passing away and we experience pain.

And it can be really confusing and hard.

So give yourself some compassion that you were born onto a planet where things can be hard.

And there's a lot of weird people here.

Strange things happen.

There's happy people and funny people and loving people.

And there's some really dark people with a lot of pain.

All of the above.

That's the human experience.

I didn't invent it.

You didn't invent it.

It's just here.

So have some compassion for yourself and let that heart heal.

If you notice any cracks,

Just watch them kind of fill up.

Let your heart come back into wholeness.

Wholeness might mean whole acceptance,

Whole compassion,

Whole feelings,

Whole love.

One of the great challenges of love is in the face of pain.

Can we continue to develop that love?

Or do we give up and hide and run away?

The choice is yours.

Do you want to give up and hide and run away and say screw humanity?

Or do you want to heal your heart and continue to open anyway?

And be a healing presence for yourself and for others.

The choice is yours.

I'm not here to make it for you.

And the likelihood is that you have a very special gift to share from your heart to humanity.

I want you to own that energy,

Own that gift.

And I'd like you to start having gratitude for that energy.

And in all of this grieving,

Like I said at the beginning,

There's a gratitude.

We grieve because we love and we care.

Have gratitude for what you care about.

And give the gift of your love to what you care about.

And I think that's the key sometimes when I meditate on what's most important.

If I was on my deathbed,

It always comes to did I experience,

Receive,

And give enough love with the people I care about?

So before we finish this meditation,

Just send that love out to everybody you care about.

Send it out to everyone.

Every member of your family,

Your friends,

Your coworkers,

Strangers you've passed on the street.

And then to all of humanity.

Out to all the animals,

The plant life,

The marine life,

The spirit of the earth itself.

All the way out through the fabric of the universe.

You are a force of nature and a force of love.

Give a light bow to yourself.

You can kind of bend forward and a bow to everyone else in this meditation.

Honoring everyone that's sitting with you meditating.

And then when you're ready,

You can slowly stretch and open your eyes.

Reviews

Initially, I found this a little dated by the reference to a specific incident but I guess since grief is something we learn to live with, it’s always helpful to send love to those who have died. And maybe because it’s been left generic, it can apply to different groups. Unfortunately, these experiences of group loss are not unique. The message of healing is universal and helpful. David is an excellent teacher.

I wanted to sit with you live on the day of but i was not able to make it and am so glad I was able to today. Really helps to grieve collectively even if virtually. Thanks David for helping to open our collective hearts. 🙏🏽💜

That was…incredible! I felt everything. I smiled, I cried. I saw those kids, those people, felt their grieving, felt their pain, their sorrow, their longing, their fear. My heart had cracks I could see in my mind’s eye. I felt rain and thunder around me. And I felt light and wholeness when sewing up my heart. Truly amazing David! Thank you so much for this meditation 🧘‍♀️ ❤️🙏 And May peace be with you as you go through your day. :)

Thank you, David. It helped with ease some of the pain we are all experiencing. 🙏

Lovely meditation, my cat enjoyed it on my lap then when David said to stretch and open your eyes, he got up before I moved. Very much oappreciated the calm holding energy.

Thank you for the great practice ⚘ namaste

David, you help on such a deep level. Thank you🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

Thank you for this much needed heart healing. ❤️‍🩹🙏💜