Opening Your Heart (Love & Abundance Meditation)

Today's love and abundance meditation is about gently and lovingly opening your heart. I invite you to lean in as much as it serves you... to feel out the version of you that is open to receiving more LOVE, ABUNDANCE, JOY, and SUCCESS. | *This 20 minute guided meditation includes a visualization practice.

Transcript

Good morning and welcome to the Artist's Morning.

My name is Darius and I'm so grateful we get this time together.

Today's practice will be one part guided meditation and one part guided visualization.

Our theme is gently,

Lovingly opening our hearts to more love and abundance.

Today we will practice together,

Imagining,

Feeling things going right.

Perhaps things exceeding our expectations.

And just practice and notice what comes up,

What parts of us open up and are ready to receive and perhaps which parts of us contract and resist love and abundance in our lives.

There's no right or wrong way of doing this meditation.

Everything is an invitation.

Lean in as much as it serves you and remember we are playing here.

Your eyes are open,

I'd like to invite you to gently close them now.

Take a moment to land.

Land in your body.

Land in your breath.

Just slowing everything down and noticing what's alive.

What's alive this morning.

What's alive in your inner world.

How is your heart this morning?

If you are open to it,

Place one or even two hands on top of your heart and just connect.

Can you hear and feel your heartbeat?

Your glorious heart,

Your dutiful heart,

Your kind and caring heart.

And allow your hands to fall wherever they like.

They want to stay on your heart,

They're welcome to.

They want to go somewhere else,

They are entirely free to do so.

Taking a nice deep breath here with me,

Breathing in,

Holding at the top and just letting it all go.

We were out our meditation this morning as we experiment and explore and try on abundance and love perhaps at levels we are not familiar with.

If you feel your heart start to contract,

If you feel resistance start to make you smaller you can always place your hands on your heart and lovingly gently just open the space in your heart.

I like to put two hands in the center and just gently brush off to the side,

Soothing myself,

Opening my heart space to allow more love,

More abundance into my heart.

For this next part of our meditation I want us to go on a little journey together imagining for a moment that you are sitting in a beautiful seat,

A comfortable seat and in front of you there are several doors,

Different colors,

Different doorknobs and directly in front of you there is a door that looks a little different than the rest.

It's got plants and wall flowers growing around it.

On the other side of that door is a version of you and your life.

There is a thing you are aspiring and dreaming for.

Don't overthink it,

It could literally be anything and if a few different ideas come to mind you can always come back to this meditation so never fret.

Something in your life you are dreaming for,

Maybe a relationship,

A home,

A stage you want to talk on,

A book you want to write,

A song that's coming through you,

A meal.

Even on the other side of this door you have achieved that dream.

You have achieved that dream and it's surpassed your wildest expectations.

That's what's on the other side of that door.

These other doors have different versions of that experience.

Don't worry about them for now.

The invitation,

The exploration,

The play available to you this morning if you are interested is for you to walk through that door and just feel what that version of you,

Just feel what it's like.

Take a deep breath here and bring your awareness to your body and what's coming up for you.

Remember this is play.

We're going to go through that door and then we're going to come back out here.

If resistance tries to throttle your joy and excitement,

That's okay.

We're going to come back here.

Just for a moment,

I want you to notice how open and available your heart is to receiving love,

Abundance,

Success,

Joy.

Walk up to this door now,

Place your hand on that door knob.

I want to invite you to enter this space now and just receive and feel what's available to you.

Having this room and this world and this version of you now.

You did it.

It happened.

Your dream came true.

Allowing the sensations of joy and childhood giddiness to grow from inside you.

You have full permission to be giddy.

You did it.

It's right here.

Feel it in your body if you are able.

If resistance comes up and says,

Don't get your hopes up,

Don't get attached,

You'll get hurt.

Ask resistance for a moment to sit on that chair outside this room and tell resistance you will join them shortly.

But for now,

Just take it in.

In this room full of abundance and love and success,

Is there somebody else here celebrating with you?

See their faces,

Feel their excitement.

We're going to leave this room shortly,

But before we do,

I want you to take a couple deep breaths and just soak in the juiciness that exists here.

And notice if your heart starts to get scared or contracts.

And if you are able and interested,

See what it's like to gently cuddle your heart with your hands and open your heart space and let your heart know that it's safe here.

You are open,

Not attached,

Just open.

And before we leave,

Take a couple deep breaths here.

Perhaps try on a smile on your face,

A moment of gratitude before we close this door and we go back to our seats.

And now I'd like to invite you to come back through this door and back to that seat in which you started.

Just take a moment to notice how your heart feels here.

There's no right answer.

Maybe your heart deeply enjoyed that experience.

Maybe your heart was scared.

There was a lot of love.

There could have been a lot of joy and abundance there for you.

Sometimes that activates a part of us that's scared to have something because then we could lose that something.

I have so much love and empathy for that part.

I have that part too.

And now you have a choice.

You dear artists have a choice.

Both answers are 100% acceptable as you sit on this seat.

We have one more song.

You get to choose if you'd like to sit in this seat and just be as you are.

Totally acceptable.

Or if you want to go through that door again and explore and experience and feel for one more song,

This is your moment.

I'm going to stay quiet and let you choose where you'd like to go from here.

I'm going to stay quiet and let you choose where you'd like to go from here.

I'm going to stay quiet and let you choose where you'd like to go from here.

I'm going to stay quiet and let you choose where you'd like to go from here.

I'm going to stay quiet and let you choose where you'd like to go from here.

I'm going to stay quiet and let you choose where you'd like to go from here.

Bravo,

Dear artist.

Bravo,

Dear creator.

Whichever path you chose,

I'd like to invite you to come back to that seat again,

Back to your body again.

Just take one deep breath here.

If you're open to it,

Having a little gratitude for your heart on this journey can be exciting to imagine and feel our dreams coming true.

And it can be scary and bring up feelings from the past,

Perhaps.

All of it is acceptable.

All of you is acceptable and welcome.

That's why this is a practice.

We are practicing and playing together.

Test driving success,

Building muscle memory for what it feels like in our bodies.

Thank you for meditating with me.

For those of you joining us live at the artist's morning,

I'm going to put 15 minutes on the clock today and allow us to do some private personal journaling.

And if you're joining us on a replay,

Perhaps on insight timer,

You can do the same,

Of course.

It's been an honor.

It's been a pleasure.

My name is Darius and I'll see you next time.

Reviews

Great meditation!! I’m so grateful for this meditation that I need it to help me to be more courageous in my life.
Thank you 🙏

Amazing 🤩 thanks Darius. I’m going to visit this one often to sit comfortably in my future state until it becomes my present state. Then I’ll be filled with gratitude 🙏

My heart feels open and in the receiving mode. Thank you again, Darius.

Wow. That was a powerful and practical way to gently open my heart. Thank you.

Wow! I was not prepared for my reaction to this meditation… I was sobbing 😢 So powerful! My heart felt so sad when I had to come back through the door ❤️‍🩹

Sending you tons of love for providing us with this amazing meditation! Namaste

You’re helping me remain calm as I recover from surgery. Thank you for your beautiful insights.

Thank you very much that was rejuvenating I'm sending you endless love ❤️❤️

Darius is amazing, his meditations are so fulfilling, he makes my heart smile

I can’t thank you enough for this. It’s going to be my go-to at the moment while focusing on trying to open my heart more. I felt safe and supported in your words and space. Big thing for me. So, again, thank you 🙏

I really loved this meditation. The joy I felt brought tears to my eyes.

Thank you for helping me open my heart! I feel limitless possibilities 💕

Darius, that meditation was beautiful, powerful and catalyzing for me! The timing of this experience, your energy and how you framed the short experience by entering through that special doorway was simply extraordinary! I will share this with many, who are doing the courageous work. I love the sweetness of it balances, and the powerful visualization that can come when we, If we are ready to embrace the extraordinary creators each of us really are. Thank you for sharing your gifts and Namaste.🙌💥🪷💥🙌

Thank you for this beautiful journey to my heart. Sweet sweet blessins

What a gorgeous way to open up your heart and explore an beautiful future.
Thank you 🥰

❤️I love your meditations. I paused the timer for awhile when first going through the door because a lot of big feelings came up. Remembering that the pause button is there was helpful for me. Loved the song time at the end. Thank you! ❤️

That was incredible. The tears that flowed as I allowed myself to be in my dream.. wow. Thank you so much for this.

The meditation is beautiful and has me feeling warm and hopeful. Thank you.

This meditation is such a gift. Thank you very much!🙏🏼♥️

My heart was so happy it could cry and she did 🫶🏼 Thank you for the beautiful release 💚✨