Living From The Heart
Language: English
Pages: 396
ISBN: 0979526965
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Living from the Heart is one of the few spiritual books to offer a systematic way to use heart-based meditation in your life; using the energy of the Four Elements (Air, Fire, Water, and Earth) present within your body, mind, and heart, you can energize the part of your being that is needed to respond to life's challenges. Since the time Living from the Heart was first published in 1998, it has emerged as a spiritual classic, this is the book the first revealed the method of Heart Rhythm Meditation in its modern form. Through the Institute for Applied Meditation, the school they founded in 1989, Puran and Susanna Bair have taught Heart Rhythm Meditation to tens of thousands of people all over the world. Heart Rhythm Meditation has a proven record of improving the physical, emotional and spiritual health of those who practice it. Let Puran and Susanna share with you the method which reveals the power and sensitivity of the heart.
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for the meditation practice are indicated by boxes like this one. To follow the practice, just jump from one such instruction to the next. The rest of the material is background to the practice. 17 Introduction We also have recordings which contain additional instruction, available at IAMheart.org. You can make your own recording by reading from the instructions. Then you can use the recording to guide yourself when you’re sitting with your eyes closed. You may also find that you can lay the
meditation from trance or sleep or normal consciousness, for example. If we were to rank the degree of deliberate intentionality that is present in our consciousness, it would range from deep sleep without dreams, where there is no awareness, to concentrating on math or other mental problems, where the mind is completely focused on a specific task. Generally, the various states of consciousness, shown in the graph on the next page, can be divided into two categories, called “asleep” and “awake.”
The best remedy for a wandering mind is natural concentration; that means not forcing the mind. One should at first let the mind work naturally, thinking of things it is inclined to think about. Why should the mind think of something toward which it has no inclination? It is unnatural; it is like eating something one does not like; it will not be assimilated, nor give good results. One should think about anything one loves, then one can learn to concentrate. [Hazrat Inayat Khan] 8 Don’t try to
pattern so difficult for some people. But facing this fear and conquering it unleashes power that can be applied to one’s goals in life.
“Its light,” said the Rabbi. 170 6. Full Exhalation (Accomplishment)
