Exercise to Open your Heart Center

[Phtha]

Center is of course also known as chakra. For what ever reason I have an easier time visualizing my chakras when I think of them as centers.

The heart center is the most important center and 1 of only 2 centers that can access the higher vibrations. These exercises are from the pen of Joseph J. Weed, author and outspoken rosicrucian. I suppose this exercise is more hermetic then anything else. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.

Theres a video at youtube that explains the following exercise in much more detail, along with some other information concerning this exercise from Joseph Weed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KByco5uiypc
(The video will be redone soon, lost more quality then expected during conversion)

Heres the short of it:

The basic law of the Universe is that energy follows thought. Automatically and without any volition on your part, energy flows from you to wherever you direct your attention. Usually we think of material things, the world around us, other people, ourselves, and when our attention is so focused energy flows away from us and we eventually become depleted. This is why we need to sleep. The outflow of energy has to be temporarily stopped, or cut way down, and we must spend a few hours each day replacing what we have distributed.

We can use this law, that energy follows thought, to improve ourselves. We can increase our physical energy, but more than this, we can so energize certain parts of our bodies and certain psychic centers so that they will become stronger and function more efficiently. Now I will tell you how to do this and it is my earnest hope that you will remember these suggestions and practice these exercises as long as you live.


1. Sit erect in a straight back chair, in a dimly lit room. Shut out sound as best you can, and try to prevent interruption.
2. Close your eyes and turn your attention inward towards your heart.
3. Now in imagination enter your heart. To your surprise you are now standing on a plain before a hill, and on the top of the hill is a temple. Hold this visualization, for this is the temple of the heart.
4. Now climb the hill, mount the steps of the temple and enter the center doorway. Observe the appearance of the temple. Is it well kept, swept clean? Or is it covered with dust?
5. Walk into the dimly lit interior and approach the central adytum. As you draw near you observe a flickering light within. The flame goes brighter as you approach and you can see it swell and recede rhythmically in the bowl-like depression in the center of the room.
6. Gaze upon this flame. Send it your energies. See it respond and grow bright and strong as it reaches up to touch the ceiling forty feet above. You are feeding the flame of your heart. You are stimulating it to growth. Breathe deeply and realize in the depths of your being that your heart center is coming alive.
7. Open your eyes, sit in quiet meditation for five minutes before rising, and terminating the exercise.


This is not a Hatha Yoga exercise. There should be no compression of breath in the solar plexus or heart area. Your breathing through our should be normal but deep. The effects are achieved by the visualization, which focuses your attention in an uninterrupted fashion on the heart center and thus feeds energy into it. The additional stimulating helps this important center expand and grow strong. Perform this exercise once a week but never more then twice a week at first.

[cantaloupe]

Thanks for posting this. I'll give it a go.