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Heartfulness : Living by the Heart

Heartfulness is a way of living. A simple and practical way to experience the heart’s unlimited resources. In mindfulness we still the mind and in heartfulness we fill the heart. Whether you are seeking relaxation, an individual meditation practice, or the deepest connection to your inner being, Heartfulness welcomes you.

Heartfulness Relaxation and Meditation is a simple, practical technique that you can use alongside to any other form of yoga, meditation or spiritual practice. In a few minutes, you will learn how to truly relax and feel the lightness and joy of your true nature. You don’t need to know how to meditate or to believe in a particular system or philosophy. The Heartfulness technique shows us to gently turn our attention towards our heart and experience that inner presence for ourselves.

What Heartfulness Can Offer You:

  • Feel the lightness and joy of your true nature.
  • Heartfulness Relaxation is a simple tool to relax and calm your entire body and mind .
  • Heartfulness meditation is simply taking the time every day to tune into that internal presence.
  • In a short while, you’ll learn to remain connected to that gentle support throughout the day.
  • By tuning in to our heart, we learn to be centered in our highest self.
  • Strengthen that connection and cultivate an inner knowing that wisely directs and guides our lives. Grow to face the challenges of life with courage and acceptance. Live by the heart, and become what we’re meant to be.

Heartfulness – Being my best

How do we become better at something? Or how do we become the best we can possibly be in our respective function or life situation? If I am a student, how do I become the best student that I can be? If I am a musician, how do I become the best musician that I can be? How can I become the best worker, the best teacher, or the best parent I can possibly be? If I believe in Buddhism, how can I be the best Buddhist I can possibly be? Or the best Christian, the best ‘whatever’ that I see myself as?

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In short, how do I become the best human being that I can possibly be?

The answer is simple – by putting my heart fully into whatever I do.

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Sounds simple? It is, but it’s not easy!

What prevents me from putting my heart fully into anything? Perhaps I get distracted. Or perhaps I have too many things to do at the same time. Or maybe I don’t truly enjoy what I’m doing, or am not convinced about it. I am fragmented or split in different ways. The full capacity of my heart is broken into multiple streams which get further diluted into tiny brooks.

How do I integrate these fragmented parts of my being into a single channel, which allows me to be the best that I can be, in any situation?

By meditating on the heart. The senses and the mind are trained to appreciate the diversity of this world in all its glorious manifestations. The mind is the most useful instrument for analyzing, dissecting and understanding things around us. But to bring things together, to integrate, we need a different capacity. We need something beyond the mind and the senses.

This is the domain of the heart – to bring together, to make one, and to make whole. How do we access the heart? How do we learn it’s language? By using the mind to meditate on the heart.

Heartfulness meditation helps us tune ourselves to our inner center and integrate our various dissipated capacities and fragmented selves into a single, whole channel.

By doing this, we progressively become better and better at everything we do, and eventually become the best possible human being that we can be!

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