Heart Meditation for Resonance

You can use an easy, effective, proven technique to achieve profound resonance of body, mind, and spirit; resonance with other people; resonance with your spirit guides; and resonance with ethereal beings who can make wonderful things happen in your life. The technique is heart meditation.

Is it really effective? Thousands of people, including me, have experienced profound, positive changes in their lives by learning to spend time in their heart, which mystics for centuries have called the seat of the soul.

Is it really proven? For many years the process of heart centering has been the focus of serious research by noted scientists and engineers at the Institute of Hearthmath in California USA. The results are convincing. www.heartmath.org/research

How easy is it? Simply move your awareness from your head to your heart for a period of time while meditating. The more familiar you are with meditating, naturally, the easier it is to perform heart meditation. Assuming you know how to meditate, enter a meditative state and slowly move your awareness to the heart. You're not in the head just thinking about the heart. Rather, it feels as though your mind has moved into the chest so that your thinking and feeling processes seem to be occurring in the heart. At that point you are in a state in which the body processes relax, and stressful, dissonant patterns of thought begin to disappear.

Persuading the mind to move to the heart
If your mind resists leaving the head, there are various techniques to persuade it to move to the heart. One is to imagine your spine as an elevator shaft, and your mind as the elevator car. It is normally sitting behind the eyes. So you can close your eyes and move the elevator car slowly to the back of the head, and then down along the spine to the heart.

Another technique is to visualize yourself, your mind, relaxing in a boat in your head. You close your eyes and drop anchor to the heart, then slowly pull yourself down through the nourishing consciousness, down to the anchor.

When you arrive in your heart, make sure you're not just in your head thinking about the heart, but it really feels as though your mind is in your chest.

Learning to meditate
The brain operates at different speeds, from very slow during a deep sleep, to very fast when we're excited. Measured in cycles per second, or Hertz (Hz), brain activity is often classified as follows:

In this table, the alpha, theta, and delta levels are often regarded as the meditative states when we learn to enter those states without falling asleep. So the trick with meditation is to slow the brain down while staying somewhat alert. Usually, all it takes is relaxing the body and clearing the mind. Then the brain slows down by itself. These simple steps can be taken:

• Get comfortable in a sitting or lying position and close your eyes.

• Starting at the toes and working slowly upward to the top of your head, concentrate on relaxing all your muscles.

• Clear your mind of random thoughts. This is sometimes easy, sometimes difficult. It may help to count slowly, silently backwards from 50, or visualize a pleasant situation such as a sunset from a mountaintop overlooking the ocean, or concentrate on your breathing, or repeat a relaxing phrase such as, "slow, smooth, relaxed; slow, smooth, relaxed…"

Benefits of meditating once or twice a day include diminished stress, improved intuition and insight, better organized thought processes, psychic development, and much more.

Taking the next step--moving to the heart--then carries your inner coherence to the next level. 

Other resonance techniques such as biofeedback and brain hemisphere synchronization could be explored as effective techniques to supplement our efforts to sustain group resonance, but heart meditation will remain the central focus.