Put a bowl on your altar and another container full of beans. Could be garbanzo, mung beans, anything you like. As you go through your day, whenever you notice something or someone you are grateful for, name it and put a bean in the bowl. Maybe take a few moments to reflect and give thanks as you charge the offering with your love and appreciation.
Tomorrow, take the bowl of beans and cook them as part of your Thanksgiving meal, consciously nourishing yourself with them and ingesting those qualities into your blood and bones.
Hope you like the idea, and that it inspires you to create your own unique variation... :-)
Happy Thanksgiving!!!
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
A Question about the heart
Dear Deepika,
I started to do heart meditations and wanting to go into the heart. Part of me is there, but I feel I keep watching it from the mind and don't manage to leave it. Anything to say about that?
First of all, let that part of your mind watch from a distance. maybe that part is worried, wants to make sure you're safe. maybe there's a history of being in the heart leading to danger or vulnerability that was not safe. Whatever it is, my guess is that this distancing part is trying to protect you, and that needs to be honored, not fought with.
Secondly, often when we come into closer contact with the heart, the first thing we encounter is a defensive layer, a sort of disconnection. so even in the energetic heart itself there may feel like a wall, a fuzziness or something that is tight. The art of doing heart meditations is to let that be there.
To let whatever you meet be just the way it is, and to rest there. And then use the meditation to open your heart to that tightness, to that fuzziness, whatever is there.... open your heart to it and love it, enjoy it, feel the nuances of it inside without trying to make it go away, and then something will naturally shift.
sometimes there's an emotion or tension that really needs to move, but often it's a matter of waiting, melting, turning towards whatever is there that makes it relax. and as that layer relaxes, you fall deeper. it's an inward falling in, a subtle settling that happens by itself.
The heart, as a chakra and as an energetic field, has layers... it's a little bit similar to the layers of tension in the body but it's much less solid, so it's a different kind of contact that's needed. in the heart, the very pressure to 'be in the heart', to feel open-hearted creates a tension, since ideals are what burden the heart in the first place. acceptance is the key to opening it again... :-)
thank you for asking, i hope this answer helps. i have also begun doing heart meditations again, i really need that sometimes!
Much love,
Deepika
I started to do heart meditations and wanting to go into the heart. Part of me is there, but I feel I keep watching it from the mind and don't manage to leave it. Anything to say about that?
First of all, let that part of your mind watch from a distance. maybe that part is worried, wants to make sure you're safe. maybe there's a history of being in the heart leading to danger or vulnerability that was not safe. Whatever it is, my guess is that this distancing part is trying to protect you, and that needs to be honored, not fought with.
Secondly, often when we come into closer contact with the heart, the first thing we encounter is a defensive layer, a sort of disconnection. so even in the energetic heart itself there may feel like a wall, a fuzziness or something that is tight. The art of doing heart meditations is to let that be there.
To let whatever you meet be just the way it is, and to rest there. And then use the meditation to open your heart to that tightness, to that fuzziness, whatever is there.... open your heart to it and love it, enjoy it, feel the nuances of it inside without trying to make it go away, and then something will naturally shift.
sometimes there's an emotion or tension that really needs to move, but often it's a matter of waiting, melting, turning towards whatever is there that makes it relax. and as that layer relaxes, you fall deeper. it's an inward falling in, a subtle settling that happens by itself.
The heart, as a chakra and as an energetic field, has layers... it's a little bit similar to the layers of tension in the body but it's much less solid, so it's a different kind of contact that's needed. in the heart, the very pressure to 'be in the heart', to feel open-hearted creates a tension, since ideals are what burden the heart in the first place. acceptance is the key to opening it again... :-)
thank you for asking, i hope this answer helps. i have also begun doing heart meditations again, i really need that sometimes!
Much love,
Deepika
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