This stunningly simple exercise came up during an Akashic Reading so that people learn again to connect with their own heart.
Since many people have gotten used so much to function from controlling themselves and the environment, they have difficulty to let go and feel and trust the insights and actions of the heart. The exercise is stunningly simple and aims at giving people the experience to "reconnect" with the heart.
There is more.
They also learn to feel love in this way for themselves. It is an important part, since this is directly connected with their allowing, embracing, trusting and surrendering ability. It is a quality that needs to grow as part of one's spiritual growth. This exercise helps to develop this quality.
STEPS:
1) Have your hands folded on your chest area, approximately on the level where the heart chakra is, preferably stand for this exercise. Close your eyes.
2) If you have a connection to your guides ("friends higher up"), ask them to help you in this and have them also embrace you with their love for you during the exercise.
3) Feel the relaxation spreading through the body and feel your breathing slowly in and out. Then feel the chest area for a few moments.
4) If you don't already feel the love vibrating from it, send love to it and feel that love is spreading more and more and then wrapping around your body. Feel it and enjoy it.
5) Then send from your heart a beam of white light with love to Mother Earth (either to the center or to the whole "ball" that is Earth). Feel the connection you have to Mother Earth. Sometimes, "something" comes back from Earth, like an acknowledgement.
6) Now, as you feel your connection with Earth, feel your connection with Sky or Space by sending from your heart another white beam of light outward into space to the place "it should go" (it finds its destination by itself). The beam originates from the heart and leaves through the crown chakra (the top of the head). "Charge" it with love and gratitude as the beam goes out. As with Earth, sometimes you feel that "something" is coming back to you, like an acknowledgement.
7) This is how you are now connected. Feel you heart area and keep feeling it and enjoy it, allow the feeling of love to emerge more and then surrender to it.
8) Then, when you feel the time is up, slowly open your eyes again, breathe deeply and then move on to do your activities of the day (or evening).
Do it for about 3-5 minutes as a daily practice (no need to keep checking the clock. You can do it anytime in the day, but it is recommended to not do it right after a full meal. Wait for about 2 hours.
Note: no music is needed, just some privacy in a room is all that you need for this.
Now, as simple as this exercise may look, it can take some time for people, who have difficulty to let go of their controlling mode. But this is a culturing process that is helpful for many other areas in life. Practice it once a day for a while.
For more information about the role of the heart in general health, harmony and spiritual well being see, for example www.heartmath.org. The Heart Math Institute has put together a good collection of scientific research. Here is a related short video clip that highlights the role of the heart that is beyond "just being a pump".
The Mysteries of the Heart (8 min.)
February 2014:
Here is some optional addition to the heart exercise. This is meant for people, who have done the standard variant for some time and want to try this joyful extension.
After step 7 (= step 7a): As you feel the beam of light going into Earth and space along with your love, feel how the beam of light gradually expands or widens so that your body completely is inside it.
Feel the waves of love expanding from your heart and travel through this widened beam of light down into Earth and up into space. The white beam of light may spontanteously change color. If so, allow it and don't try to keep a specific color.
Your heart knows best.
And then, if there is a spontaneous desire coming up in your heart (and not something from the mind) to either travel up or down along inside the beam of light, then simply flow along with it and keep feeling the waves of love. You virtually travel along with your waves of love inside the beam of light.
This moving along up or down may last just a moment or more or not at all, it does not matter. It is all guided or directed by your Higher Self. We simply flow with it. You are connected now and feel the flow of love inside and around you.
