This is a practice to connect you to endless love and endless compassion and you can adapt it as suits your needs.
So lie down or sit up,
Whatever is right for you.
And leave your eyes open or let them close.
Again,
It's your practice.
Take a moment and just shake your shoulders a little bit.
Let your head shake a little bit.
Let yourself move just a little.
We've been talking concepts,
Concepts.
Just imagine that you drop all of these concepts.
You drop out of the thing in mind.
Take a deep inhale in,
Exhale.
Drop into your body.
Let yourself notice your breath just for a few cycles of breathing.
Just be with the experience of your breath.
Take your attention to the space around your heart.
Bringing your awareness to the space around your heart.
Just allow your mind to rest there for a few moments.
Trying to bring a feeling of warm heartedness.
For a moment,
Remember those qualities of emptiness.
Spacious and fully accepting.
Allow yourself to recognize that that is who you are.
There are no limits.
Keeping your attention on the space around your heart,
I want you to begin to exert some control over how you breathe.
As you inhale,
I want you to feel as though the space around your heart sinks backwards and an opening emerges.
Let the exhalation be completely natural.
Invite this in a few times as you inhale.
Imagine that the space around your heart sinks backwards and opens.
Repeat the words inside of your mind.
I have space in my heart for everyone.
So that as you're breathing back into yourself,
Each inhalation creating an opening in your heart as it moves deeper inwards.
Repeating the words to yourself,
I have space in my heart for everyone.
And now begin to visualize the people in your life you would like to invite into this space.
Start with just one or two people that are the closest to you.
As you inhale,
Feeling the breath move back as the heart space deepens and opens.
Invite those people visually to step inside of your heart.
At your own pace,
Begin to expand who you invite in.
Inviting in the people you love.
And then beginning to invite in people you don't know so well.
Inviting in people you don't know at all.
And imagining you stuff this heart,
This limitless open heart with as many people as you can think of.
As you do this,
Continue to use the words,
I have space in my heart for everyone.
Begin to transform the exhalation now.
As you exhale,
Feel as though this radiating open heart energy expands outward.
And envision it touching down across the entire planet.
Holding inside of your heart all of the people that you invited in.
You may begin to feel somewhat like a teeter-totter.
As you inhale and the heart opens and you hold space for everyone.
As you exhale,
The heart expands.
Touching down with boundless love across the globe.
Release the imagery.
Release any effort and just rest with the feeling of your heart for a moment.
Perhaps noticing the beat inside of your chest.
You are limitless love.
You have space inside of your heart for everyone.
Now bring to mind a person in your life who suffers.
If you're good with visualization,
You can imagine yourself as having thousands of arms.
Keeping this image of someone in your life who suffers.
Imagine now that you reach out and touch them.
Repeating these words inside of your mind.
May they be safe.
May they be free from harm.
May they experience boundless love and endless compassion.
Imagine yourself touching them and absorbing their suffering.
Repeating these words to yourself as you do so.
Expand your awareness now to include other people in your life or outside of it who experience suffering.
Reach out and touch them with one of these arms.
As you do so,
Repeat the words.
May they be safe.
May they be free from harm.
May they experience boundless love and endless compassion.
Visualizing yourself physically touching them,
Imagine that you absorb their suffering out of them and into you.
Continue to expand your view.
Do so at your own pace.
Thinking as far and wide as you can of people you do and do not know.
Reach out with these thousands of arms that you possess and as you make contact,
Absorb their suffering while you repeat the words.
May they be safe.
May they be free from harm.
May they experience boundless love and endless compassion.
Perhaps.
Perhaps you're even able to visualize the entire planet and all beings that exist on it.
Reaching out with endless arms.
Connecting with every human being and absorbing the suffering.
May every being be safe.
May every being be free from harm.
Now,
Take those hands and put them on yourself.
You can literally take your hands and place them over your heart or simply imagine that these 1000 arms wrap around you and hold you in a warm embrace.
See yourself clearly as you extend this boundless compassion and repeat the words.
May I be safe.
May I be free from harm.
May I experience boundless love and endless compassion for the benefit of all beings.
Now,
Let go.
Just let go.
Relax inside the experience of your breath or the beat of your heart and just be with whatever surfaces in this moment.
Let your eyes open.
Let go of the experience.
These are the tools that I want you to take into your life.
This is our gift to humanity to be connected.
To take what we believe affects us as individuals and use it for the benefit of all humanity.
If you want to continue the dialogue or you want to connect with me outside of here for some reason,
My name is Sarah Satie.
You can find me on all of the things where people are online and also here on Insight Timer.
I have another event next month where I'm going to talk about breaking karma bonds and go into depth there.
I really appreciate the time that everyone gave to me to speak.
I actually meant to turn the camera so you could see everyone.
I'm going to turn it now.
Hi,
Everyone.
Thank you so much.
Much gratitude to you as well.
Thank you,
Maria,
Always for everything,
Especially the inspiration.
May all beings be free.
Many if not men like names.
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