Simple Heart Opening Practice

In this Meditation I will guide you first through some relaxing breaths, to ground and cultivate presence and peace. Following this we will take a few moments to connect to our heart center, softly begin to listen to it, and ask it to open a bit more.

This is a great practice to do when you're feeling like you've been guarded in life for a while, perhaps hurt by past love or loss. It's quite common for us to close up, and wall off our hearts. In order to connect fully to life and its beauty again it can be helpful to gently invite your heart, with your intention, to open, and in this way become more consciously connected to it.

Reviews

For some time now, I felt “numb” which is not how I’ve been in the past. But, the past and the openness of my heart seemed to have misled me. I still had fear when I considered opening my heart. When I set my intention today to “keep my heart open,” Insight Timer offered this meditation. This meditation was gentle and compassionate and I felt safe to open my heart. I thought I was at peace with how I closed off my heart! But this meditation reminded me of the joy I have known when my heart was open. As I write this, gentle tears of joy are surfacing. I didn’t think my heart could ever feel that fluttery, eagerness again. It does. I do. And it’s not associated with any person, animal or thing! That is wondrous! I’ll be back to this meditation again very soon. I am grateful. Namaste