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Heart Rhythm Meditation

Concentration - Contemplation - Meditation

Concentration is placing your full attention on one object. It is the first step that leads to meditation. All of the above instructions are in the realm of "concentration." By focusing on only the object of concentration, all stressors are eliminated and you gain relief. After the effort of concentration comes a great relaxation of your mind.

In Heart Rhythm Practice, the object of Contentration is your own heartbeat and breath. These are very real, not imaginary, and this awareness is within your reach. Once you know where and how to look for it, the feeling of your beating heart will come again easily, and remain as long as you like. This awareness of your heart will center and enrich your feeling about yourself.

Contemplation is a change in your point-of-view, to exchange places with the object of concentration. You see how it is to see the world from there, to feel what it feels, as yourself. The object is no longer "there,"' the subject "here" -- now you are the object looking at the subject. This can happen in a flash, and you'll know when it happens because your frame of reference is completely different. One technique for contemplation is to "put on" the object, like you put on a coat. Go inside it and let it surround you as your body.

In the stage of Contemplation in Heart Rhythm Practice, you become your heart. It is generally difficult to imagine that you are small, so imagine that your heart is enormous and you are inside it. At the far reaches of your consciousness, your beat extends to every cell. The needs of the cells are fed back through the nervous system and through the bloodstream to you, the heart, and you adjust your rhythm accordingly.

Meditation is impersonal; it overcomes the (compelling) illusion of duality. In concentration there was no change to your self-concept. In contemplation, your self-concept shifted, but consciousness remains dualistic. In meditation there is no separation of subject and object.

Heart Rhythm Practice becomes Meditation when it becomes infinite, when "your" heart is so expanded that it is no longer your own, but conguent with the hearts of all people. The whole world becomes one cohesive reality, and that reality is THE HEART, the ONE heart. The beating of this heart moves the whole world, stirring the air through the wind, the sea through the waves, and causing the seasons upon the earth.

It doesn't make any sense; it's a feeling that comes over you after the earlier stages. It comes not by willing it, but by calling it. You can't make it happen, but you can prepare for it by concentration and contemplation with the heart.

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