{"id":354,"date":"2026-08-19T00:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T00:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyprisasterdrake.com\/?p=354"},"modified":"2026-08-19T00:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T00:28:10","slug":"heartfulness-meditation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyprisasterdrake.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/19\/heartfulness-meditation\/","title":{"rendered":"Heartfulness Meditation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>From Heart of Intimacy by Kypris Aster Drake<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Negative emotion that\u2019s stored in the body is often called armor, because it tends to deflect any positive emotional energy that comes your way and also shut down the ability to feel emotions. Armor makes it hard to feel emotions deeply and hard to receive love from other people. Connection with others is extremely difficult, and connection to yourself is even harder. Getting in touch with your feelings is important, because they are your guidance system. Knowing what you feel tells you which direction to go \u2014 which project to choose, which people to spend time<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">with, which partner is right for you, or even which career to pursue. If you have good feelings about something, it makes sense to go towards it, while bad feelings tell you to move away. I often tell my clients that emotions are a sort of \u201cGPS\u201d for life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Practice 7: Heartfulness Meditation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is the meditation I did daily to begin removing my heart armor and reconnect to my feelings. It also was an incredibly nurturing practice in helping me feel safe and protected while I began to let myself be more vulnerable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\ud83e\ude76 Begin by breathing deeply in through your nose and out through your mouth. Let your belly expand when you breathe in and contract when you breathe out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\ud83e\ude76 Let the breath flow so that there is no pause between your inhales and exhales, cultivating a continuous flow of breath, like waves in the ocean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\ud83e\ude76 Grow your roots into the Earth and your branches into the Sun, as you learned to do in the Sacred Tree Meditation in Chapter 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\ud83e\ude76 With this deep breath flowing into you, and your deep connection to the Earth and Sun, focus on your heart. Pull love up from the Earth into your heart when you inhale. At the same time, also pull love down from the Sun into your heart. Feed your heart on this love that comes directly from source, from Spirit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\ud83e\ude76 Now add a link to the South direction. Imagine you are breathing love in from that direction. Visualize yourself surrounded and protected by a serpent made of light and fire that wraps its coils around you to keep you safe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\ud83e\ude76 Next breathe love into your heart from the West. Imagine that there is a large black jaguar purring and walking through the space you are in, making sure you are safe and protected, and helping to remove any heaviness from your heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\ud83e\ude76 Now breathe in love from the North and imagine a beautiful hummingbird with a long flowing tail singing and filling your heart with beauty. Feel the joy of opening to love when you are on the right path.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\ud83e\ude76 Finally, breathe in love from the East and imagine a magnificent shining eagle fanning you with its wings, wafting into your heart the pure essence of Spirit and your best and highest good on the planet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\ud83e\ude76 As you continue to breathe, feel the love coming to you from the Earth, Sky, and these four guardian spirits. Feel all of these helpers and guides connected to your heart, wanting what is best for you and helping to melt away the armor from your heart. Feel your heart grow bigger and more radiant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\ud83e\ude76 Let these benevolent helpers feed your heart on love. Feel how hungry your heart is for this love and let it flow into you and fill you. Let it melt away armor. Let it grow your heart bigger and bigger. Notice what you feel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\ud83e\ude76 Now breathe this love back out, once you are full, to the six directions in gratitude. Let love overflow and spill out of you. Breathe love with the universe, as the center of a mandala. Feel love spill out of you; let your heart be as open as the sky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\ud83e\ude76 When you feel complete, wiggle your fingers and toes and come back to ordinary reality, fully awake and aware and present, bringing this expanded heart feeling with you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Heart of Intimacy by Kypris Aster Drake Negative emotion that\u2019s stored in the body is often called armor, because it tends to deflect any positive emotional energy that comes your way and also shut down the ability to feel emotions. 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