Heart Alchemy Meditation

Drawing from ancient wisdom traditions, this meditation invites you to bathe in liquid love, release sadness and loneliness, and allow your heart to become an instrument of alchemy, transforming sorrows into love, strife into peace, and darkness into light. It begins with a relaxing body scan before focusing on the heart. You are invited to visualize a wisdom figure who lovingly receives any old energies and patterns you wish to release. The meditation ends with a lovingkindness practice. Relax and enjoy.

Music by Christopher Lloyd Clarke.
Audio editing by Eric Fischer of Audio-Refined.
Photo by Artem Sagepin.

Transcript

Welcome,

Friends.

This is a meditation of the heart.

Begin by letting yourself relax.

Close your eyes if that's comfortable.

You can be lying down or sitting.

It helps to have your back straight,

Kind of regal,

Majestic posture,

But most importantly,

At ease.

So take a moment to adjust until you feel comfortable.

Before focusing on the heart,

We will relax our bodies.

So start by bringing your awareness to your feet.

Let your toes relax,

Your ankles,

Your calves,

Your knees,

Your thighs,

Your backside,

And your hips.

Letting the whole lower part of your body relax.

Letting your abdomen relax,

Your lower back,

Your upper back,

Your chest.

Letting your hands relax,

Your fingers,

Your wrists,

Lower arms,

Elbows,

Upper arms.

Letting your shoulders relax.

If you need to roll them around a little bit,

Let your shoulders be at ease.

Letting your neck relax.

And now bringing awareness to your face.

Letting your jaw unhinge a little bit,

Relax.

Let your mouth be at ease,

Your nose,

Your cheeks.

Letting your eyes relax.

Your upper lids resting gently on the lower lids.

Your eyebrows relaxed,

Your forehead.

Letting your scalp relax,

Your whole head at ease.

Gently scanning your body and inviting a sense of ease and relaxation to any areas that feel tight or constricted.

Breathing relaxation and spaciousness into those areas.

And now with your body settled and at ease,

Bringing your awareness to the center of your chest.

Picture a hole like a whale or a dolphin's blowhole right in the center of your chest.

A hole through which your breath moves effortlessly.

Just taking a moment to breathe in and out through the center of your chest.

And now picturing in front of you a being who embodies pure wisdom,

Compassion,

Love.

If you feel you've never encountered such a being,

It doesn't matter.

Just imagine,

Imagine a being who embodies pure wisdom,

Compassion,

And love and joy.

Joy in your presence.

And imagine that this being's heart and your heart are connected through a channel.

And with each inhalation you draw from that being,

From that ocean of love into yourself.

And as you draw in that breath,

You can feel this being's joy in your presence.

The joy of breathing with you.

Breathing together.

Imagine that between this being's heart and your heart,

There is a channel,

A flow back and forth.

And as you inhale,

Love from this being pours into your chest,

Filling you with a warm,

Flowing liquid,

Filling your entire body,

Toe to head,

As water fills a glass.

With each inhalation,

Your whole being filling with this love all the way up to the crown of your head.

There's nothing you need to try to achieve here or try to feel.

It's enough just to picture it.

Picture yourself being filled with the warm,

Liquid,

Glowing love.

With each inhalation.

You may notice,

As you breathe in this light,

That here and there it might meet some resistance in your body.

Old remnants of past life experiences that are not used to love.

Not used to the touch of love.

Those parts of you may recoil,

May be unsure,

May not know what to do with such warmth and love.

These might be little areas of left over frustrations or anger,

Shame,

Loneliness,

Despair.

We all have these.

Let this liquid love pour in around those areas and gently dislodge them.

Those little bits that want to hold on.

Letting this liquid light soak through them,

Ease them,

Encourage them to let go.

They can let go now.

They're no longer needed.

And as you breathe out,

As you exhale,

Letting them go,

The being before you is ready to receive them with love,

Without judgment.

Ready to convert them into more love,

More light.

Just gently continuing to breathe in love through that channel,

That hole in your chest connecting you to this being of love.

Breathe in that love.

Breathe out anything that you no longer need.

No need to force anything.

It's just an invitation to let go.

Letting your breath be smooth and fluid and relaxed and deep.

Long gliding inhalations,

Longer fluid relaxed exhalations.

With each inhalation,

Letting that light pour through you,

Cleaning,

Clearing,

Loosening.

Gently dislodging anything that is no longer needed.

And on the exhalation,

Letting go of all of those old remnants,

Letting them wash out of you.

All of the fears,

The anxieties,

The resignation,

Let it go.

Letting it be a gentle,

Patient process.

And as you let go,

In the space you've created within you,

The new spaciousness within you,

You have more room to breathe in deeply,

To fill yourself more and more with that clear liquid light.

You may come upon deeper remnants that are holding on,

That are keeping you from moving more deeply into love.

Invite them to let go.

Invite them to glide out on the exhalation into freedom,

To be transformed into love.

In this process,

You're letting go of those things that keep you from knowing your own beauty.

And the more you do it,

The more you can sense it.

Just trusting the process,

There's nothing special you need to be doing or feeling.

Just go with the imagery,

Letting yourself be a transmission of love.

You are a transmission of love,

Of light,

Of peace to others who suffer in the same ways you have.

Staying aware of your connection,

Your channel to this being before you,

Keep breathing in that liquid love,

Letting it pour through you.

And now on the out-breath,

Send a similar love out of your chest,

Directed to anyone you know who's suffering physically or emotionally.

You might know this person personally or not.

It might be a single person or a group.

Whoever it is,

Bring them into your mind and surround them with this golden light.

Bathing them in the out-breath,

Bathing them with love,

Surrounding them with peace and healing,

Letting your own beautiful heart alchemically transform suffering into healing.

If you are comfortable,

You can also bring into this sphere of light any beings for whom you feel aversion or animosity,

Focusing not on their actions but on their soul and touching their soul with love,

Realizing that if this being has done harmful things,

It's very difficult for that soul to live inside that body,

Inside that personality.

Creating suffering for others is creating it for ourselves.

And so,

Offering your blessing to this soul that it might find its way to the light.

So with every breath,

Fill with love from the source and pour it out to all beings who need it.

Still letting your breath be gentle and relaxed and flowing exactly as it wants to flow.

Breathing in sync with this divine being before you,

This channel of love.

Every breath,

A note in the song of your life,

The more you practice this kind of loving kindness,

You may notice that as you meet people who are suffering,

You can offer them this love from the center of your heart.

And if they are willing to give up that suffering,

You'll be able to draw that suffering into yourself,

Not to hold onto it,

Just drawing it in with a single breath,

Letting it change in the alchemy of your heart,

Transforming into love,

Into light,

Into pure liquid energy,

And offering it back to that person as pure love,

Pure joy.

You'll know not to take suffering from anyone who is not ready to give up their suffering,

Only that which they are eager to give up and transform.

This is the power of the alchemy of your sacred heart.

And once you are strong in this process,

The flow that goes in and out of your heart can begin to absorb everything in the universe into yourself.

The beauty and the suffering,

All the forms of the universe,

All the patterns of energy with the in-breath,

With your inhalation,

They all pour back into you.

And as they enter your chest,

Your sacred heart,

They transform into pure liquid energy,

The primordial soup out of which they were created.

And in the out-breath,

You breathe that liquid,

Living love back into all forms in the universe.

Your life becomes a vehicle for this alchemy,

For changing dark into light,

For changing what was lost in suffering into that which is filled with spirit.

With the in-breath,

You drink in the world.

And with the out-breath,

You bring the living spirit to earth.

In this process,

You take your true place in the universe as an agent of alchemy,

A channel for the divine.

You become the breath of God,

Transforming matter into spirit and spirit into matter.

And everywhere you look,

No matter how filled with suffering,

You see the beauty of the living spirit.

And whatever arises in the midst of your day,

Whatever situations come and surprise you,

You will know how to respond.

You will know how to be there,

How to be present,

How to assist,

How to be an agent of love.

The alchemy of your heart is very powerful,

And it wants to do its work.

It's a work of joy.

So when you're ready,

You can gently open your eyes and proceed with whatever is next for you in this day,

Knowing that at any time,

You can focus on the middle of your chest and let the alchemy of your heart work through you.

Your heart knows its work.

It's eager to receive and offer love.

My friend,

May you and all beings be safe and protected and free from inner and outer harm.

May you be at ease and contented.

May you be healthy and whole to whatever degree possible.

May you experience ease of well-being.

May you experience joy.

May all beings be free.

Reviews

Perfect for what I needed right now. I felt the glow of light and healing. Thank you

This was what my heart needed. A must listen to anyone that feels called! Thank you for sharing, Tess 💛

A meditation of love ❤️ receiving, giving, the flow of love 🙏🏼 grateful

That was so beautiful, I didn't want it to finish. 💜. Thank you so much. 🙏🌷

What an absolutely great meditation this was, fully relaxing the body, freeing the mind and alchemizing the heart into pure love, ready to be shared by all beings. Thank you! Namaste 🤓🙏🏻