The Nature Of Your Heart Determines The Quality Of Your Actions
Insights Spawned From Meditating In Silence
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I was doing my daily guided meditation while sitting outside, basking in the warm autumn sun. When the meditation was complete, I decided to continue on in silence. Just observing my breath and the sounds around me.
A thought surfaced in my minds’ eye: how about doing the meditation practice I once listened to on Spotify, by Maya Luna? Yes!
“Finding The Embodiment Of Receiving”
Last year I came across Maya Luna’s meditation album on Spotify titled The Deep Feminine Current Embodiment Practices. This album has an introduction where she delves into what she means by The Deep Feminine Current. There is also an introduction to each meditation, which you can listen to before diving into the meditation itself.
When I speak about receiving, in terms of the Deep Feminine Current, what I mean is the quality of receiving our moment… Receiving through our bodies in this moment. ~ Maya Luna
In the introduction to Receiving, there are 3 things she talks about in regards to how we live in our bodies. She says we tend to:
live in tune with linear time—leaning forward, seeking the next thing.
live on the surface of our body, with our consciousness mostly on our face and front body.
rise upwards, living in our minds, holding our bellies in.
In the meditation itself, one of the things she does is guide the listener to inhabit vertical time—meaning the depth of the moment—in order to really receive the moment. She guides the listener to move their awareness away from their face and front body, and instead inhabit the back of the body. She also guides the listener to drop more into the lower parts of the body, into the belly.
My Silent Meditation Experience
As I sat in the autumn sun, I decided to do parts of the aforementioned meditation practice from memory, since I wanted to do it in silence. My process, based on her meditation, included scanning, observing and moving my awareness slowly from the back of my head and further down until I rested my attention on my belly for a while.
Then I thought of inhabiting the back of my heart. So as I moved my awareness towards the back of my heart, I felt my heart rate increase… Mmm interesting. I realised that I have actually never given my heart this much attention before. At least, not that I recall. Maybe it was shocked at this sudden influx of attention! Regardless, I kept my awareness at the backside of my heart, as I felt the sensations of the heart heighten.
What I also noticed, as I observed my heart, was an emergence of more sensation in my hands. It was so apparent. The more I felt my heart-space, the more I could feel my hands—especially my palms—vibrating. I stayed in this sensation for a while.
In our disconnection from the deep feminine current, we have a deeply ingrained habit of doing our moment. Or doing something with our bodies. There’s an overactive emphasis on our doing and grasping faculties. So returning our bodies to a state of receiving allows us to immerse into this deep feminine current of reality, where we can experience being touched by life—being touched by our moment. ~ Maya Luna
Later my reflections led me to see how the heart is deeply connected to the hands—to action! Think about this for a few minutes… How do you serve the people around you?
If we are born healthy, with all of our ligaments intact, then our acts of service are mostly done through our hands. We prepare meals, build homes, nurture children, pursue creative pursuits… most, if not all, things are done with the use of our hands. As I’m typing this, I am using my hands. Of course, living life is a whole-body experience, but the hands are the main focal point for all our actions.
Of course! It makes sense to me now, that the heart is deeply connected to our hands—to our ability to take action in the world. Our hands are like an extension of our heart. Our actions will be coloured by the quality of our hearts.
So, have you felt into your heart-space lately? How’s your heart? What resides there? Why do you do the things that you do? If our actions are shaped by the quality of our hearts, then it’s of paramount importance to know more about what resides in our hearts. To know more of what drives our actions.
Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life. ~ Prov 4:23