Sekhem: Shenu Meditation (2)

Breathing into the Spiritual Heart

Allow yourself to be comfortable. Notice how you are feeling from the top of your head down to the tips of your toes. Bring your awareness into your spiritual heart center, the place between your physical heart and your throat.

Take full, deep breaths. Let the chest expand, then allow the breath to move deep into the belly. As you breathe, let your awareness move deeper into the heart center. Allow your breath and awareness to merge and become one, so that each breath takes you deeper into your heart.

Within the heart area, imagine a vase being formed. Feel the breath moving into the vase. A stem connects it to the top of your head, where a flower opens. Breathe through the petals, down the stem and into the vase. Imagine the breath like water, filling the bottom of the vase first and then gradually rising.

Further above your head, visualize a brilliant, beautiful sun radiating an unlimited source of light. Its light touches the flower, and the flower opens to receive it. Breathe the light through the petals and down the stem, filling the vase. Feel every sensation within the heart center as it expands and contracts with the breath, like a wave.

Allow yourself to feel whatever is in your heart center. Do not judge it or try to understand it. Simply experience the feeling for what it is.