| Opening your heart is essential. | | | | Wouldn't you rather heal your heart and create your |
| If your heart is open, and receptive, you will be able | | | | abundant world? |
| to receive... not just abundant love, which will fill you | | | | When your heart is open, you are more sensitive and |
| with joy, but abundance in every other area. An | | | | more receptive. You appreciate and more deeply |
| open heart allows us to be blessed, and receive, in | | | | take in everything around you, from our emotions, to |
| every way, including financially. | | | | art and color, and other people. |
| When our heart is closed we feel less connected to | | | | Focus on Beauty or Love Heart Meditation |
| our self, Divinity, and other people. We do not see or | | | | A simple heart opening meditation is to look at a |
| receive our own beauty or goodness, or that of | | | | beautiful flower or play with a baby animal like a |
| others. We are less positive, and may even be bitter, | | | | puppy. You can imagine them instead, or envision the |
| angry or only experience negative emotions, when | | | | face of someone you love. If your visual sense isn't |
| our heart is closed. | | | | well developed, you might meditate upon an |
| One of the reasons that we close our own hearts, | | | | appealing picture. It is key is to pick a meditation |
| closing out the hearts of others, is because we were | | | | focus that naturally creates a feeling of love or |
| hurt or betrayed previously. Unfortunately, it is not | | | | appreciation. |
| unusual for people have experiences of physical, | | | | Heart Opening Phrase Meditation |
| emotional or mental abuse as children. It may not be | | | | Another practice to open your heart is to relax, close |
| extreme. It may not be from one's family of origin. A | | | | your eyes and place your hands on your heart. Take |
| teacher may be judgmental or cruel, a neighbor may | | | | a deep breath, and allow yourself to relax and |
| have a consistently negative attitude, or it may, | | | | breathe even more deeply. Allow your heart to |
| indeed, be a parent or sibling who is unloving to us as | | | | soften and say to yourself, I am worth healing. I |
| we grow up. | | | | allow myself to open and heal my own heart. |
| If emotional traumas, abuse, or hurts, occurred when | | | | You can repeat those words, eyes closed, or |
| we were younger or as children, we may have not | | | | meditate on an affirmation you choose. Pick |
| have had the skills to deal with, or appropriately | | | | something with an emotional impact that is simple to |
| express, our intense pain. Also, some families | | | | remember. Consider phrases like: |
| discourage negative emotional expression such as | | | | I love and accept myself, I am enough. |
| anger or sadness. Other families do not know how to | | | | I am my beloved, and my beloved is mine. |
| encourage appropriate expression of negative | | | | Love. Love. Love. |
| emotions, including sadness, grief, despair, or | | | | I am one with everything beautiful, including me. |
| depression. Sometimes people carry pain, at the | | | | I forgive myself for judging myself. |
| cellular level, and in the heart chakra, from an | | | | Repeat the phrase over and over, continuing to |
| unresolved incarnation AKA another lifetime. | | | | breath in and out, hands on your heart. Allow yourself |
| Any block inside of our being, in the heart chakra or | | | | to feel blessed and truly uplifted. |
| elsewhere, is a cellular level issue. Blocks are a barrier | | | | Pain may come forth; if so, witness the leaf of pain |
| to receiving (and sometimes prevent us from giving | | | | float as it floats down a river of love. The pain will |
| as well). Obviously, every person would like to have | | | | dissipate at some point. |
| an open and clear heart, and being, so that they | | | | Love Light Heart Meditation |
| could set intentions and easily manifest and receive | | | | 3. Envision a stream of Divine and Holy Light and |
| them. | | | | Love, emanating from an unending Source above |
| Don't you wish to receive relationship, material and | | | | you. Allow that pure Light and Love to enter the top |
| emotional and other types of abundance? Joy and | | | | of your head and fill your heart and being. Focus on |
| love are such bliss. A life without financial or | | | | the sparkling and healing loving energy, flooding your |
| relationship stress allows one to intend, create and | | | | heart chakra area and spreading outward, until you |
| receive and to pursue greater wisdom, spirituality and | | | | feel warm and tingling in your heart and body. |
| self-expression. Many people spend vast amounts of | | | | Try these simple practices to open your heart. Use |
| time focused on or in poor relationships or dealing | | | | of any of them for extended periods of time will |
| with financial hardship and related issues. | | | | bring powerful Spiritual and heart-opening rewards. |