Awakening the Heart
Sign of Awakeness:
Open, resilient, honest, loving
Non-Dual Awakening Experiences:
One sense door, unity consciousness, interdependence, deep listening, Universal and infinite love, personal love, fundamental joy, connection to all time
How to Wake Up:
Connecting with love, experience and each other
Shadows That You May Need to Embrace:
Grief and parts that are normally turned away from
Sign That Heart is Blocked:
Disconnection, solipsism, closedness, feels like you don’t belong in the world
Sign That Heart is Inflated:
Toxic positivity, over-attunement
Working with These Parts
Meditation concentration object: Direct knowing – how can you open to and experience more of what is here?
Element: Fire – transformation and warmth
Process of working with content in the Heart: Focusing, feeling, enjoying
People start to heal when they feel: Connected & cared about
Archetypes: Warrior, Child
Practices: Concentration meditation, heart practices, tonglen, interpersonal practices, crying to sad music
Content
Posts that discuss some of the key aspects of including the heart in your awakening
Practice
Videos
A short practice for getting in touch with your heart space (5 minutes)
An in-depth talk (50 minutes) on open-hearted connection with all experience and a guided Jhana meditation (35 minutes)
Radical Open-Hearted Acceptance Guided Meditation Video
A guided meditation taking you on a journey through the different heart states and how we can adopt them with radical open-heartedness (40 minutes)
Three Characteristics in the Landscape of the Heart Guided Meditation
An imaginal guided meditation (30 minutes) that explores how you can embrace the three characteristics — impermanence, suffering and non-self — in the heart
Podcasts
Meditation, Meaning, Myth and Magic, with Daniel M. Ingram – Part VIII
Stories of darkness and suffering on the path, individual and collective trauma and practicing together for healing
