The Guest House: Welcoming Your Emotions

In this meditation, we’ll use Rumi’s poem The Guest House to help us open our hearts to our more difficult emotions, and open the door to feeling more fully alive. This is the place of allowing. This is the place where you surrender your need to control and where you become open to witnessing the deepest aspects of yourself.

The greatest courage is to keep your heart open, no matter what you’re feeling.

Edited by Nadia Greenspan

Reviews

Naming my emotions and welcoming then in, I felt relaxed. I felt a release of tension.

I just happened on this and had to listen to all of it! The poem is great and perfect! The discussion helped me to totally understand. I will probably listen to we again. Thank you!

I love using poetry to invite new ways of looking at life. And you’ve given me a new way of experiencing Rumi’s poem and my emotions with this meditation. The effects are nicely lingering. I’ll be going to the door with this meditation as my guide, often and with delight. 🙏🏻Thank you, Michael. 🍂🩵🍂

I have listened to this many timea. I am grateful for Rumi’s ancient wisdom that still teaches us. This was the first time using the meditation that a part/feeling/guest felt safe enough to speak into the silence. I encourage others to keep waiting as you instruct. When they feel safe and accepted they will speak. Thank you 🙏❤️

So Very Powerful, brought tears as I sat with my guests.
TY and will return to this often. Namaste 🕊 🙏