Gratitude For This Heart Meditation

In this meditation, we bring our awareness to the heart and acknowledge all that it has experienced - the pain, challenges, joy, love, heaviness, and lightness. We practice feeling the heart exactly as it is, with acceptance, kindness, and non-judgment, and explore what it means to connect fully with ourselves in this moment.

Transcript

Find your most comfortable seat. And take another deep breath in. Another deep breath out. Find the point of stillness within you. And after thinking back to all those difficult moments, Again, Just put your hand on your heart. And just let that feel good. Acknowledge all this heart has gone through. Acknowledge all the things this heart has gone through. Thank this heart for still beating. Thank this heart for still being open to itself. And honor this heart for all the challenges it can handle. For a moment, Just feel into the sensory beating of your heart. Accepting this heart as it is. With any calluses, Any pains, Any heaviness or lightness. What would it be like to feel this heart with acceptance? And with kindness. And with non-judgment as to where this heart is in this moment. And ask yourself, What would it mean to connect, For me to connect to this heart fully as it is? And acknowledging that just like your heart is beautiful and radiant and still beating and has gone through many difficulties, The same is true for every other person meditating right now. There's heaviness and lightness and joy and love and pain. Can you from your heart send the wish of loving kindness? To everyone in this class. To everyone meditating right now anywhere in the world. And maybe even to all beings everywhere. And you can keep your hands there or put the hands back down. Let's send the wish, May all beings be free of suffering. And may all beings be free of the root of their suffering. Acknowledging that the world is full of billions of beating hearts. Can you send the wish, May every being be happy. May every being be spacious enough for all their challenges. And just noticing what it's like to send those wishes. May all beings be safe and protected. And may all beings experience ease. And be free of inner and outer harm. And just again noticing what it's like to send those wishes. And thanking yourself. We're doing this expansive practice. Using your own suffering as a way to connect to all beings.