Heal Your Heartache

The meditation expects this. It names several possibilities: an iron wall, a small heart, one that is crying or bleeding, one that has crumbled, or no sensation at all. Whatever you find is the right place to start. You are only asked to explore with curiosity and create space to feel.

You breathe in while imagining the breath flowing into your heart, then breathe out as if exhaling from your heart. The guide repeats this pattern for a few rounds, then leaves you to continue in your own rhythm in silence. It is described as a simple heart expansion, meant to let you experience the power you can ignite from within.

The session is not trying to open your heart, release the pain or offer a magical cure. If any of that happens naturally, you are invited to welcome it. The most healing thing, it says, is to allow whatever arises to be felt, including pain and any pleasure you find inside it.

Early on you notice whether your breath has become shallower, faster or changed in some other way as you turn toward your heart. The guide describes heart and breath as interconnected, like yin and yang: the breath fuels the heart and the heart fuels the breath. Noticing the link prepares you for the breathing exercise.

In the closing words, the guide reminds you that even when your heart hurts, love is never absent. It is there in the tears as well as in laughter and joy, because the heart does not discriminate. The most loving thing you can offer yourself is to feel what is there, and be patient with the timing.

You return to your normal breath and simply observe. Notice your body, any place that calls for attention, your emotions, your mental state and your overall sense of being. There is nothing to change; you allow everything to be exactly as it is.