Reflection: Cultivating a Loving Heart (2017-08-30)

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🗓️ 2 November 2017

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Reflection: Cultivating a Loving Heart (2017-08-30) - Love is an innate capacity, and when we intentionally cultivate it, love shifts from a state to a trait. This meditation offers guidance on how to access love, and open ourselves to it in a way that serves this awakening of our hearts.

From the talk: True Resilience – Awakening through All Circumstances – Part 2

"Know that you’re rewiring your brain, your heart, your body, your mind - and that the more times you do this, the more you really give it 20 or 30 seconds to feel directly the loving, the more access you have to this very innate capacity in your being."

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0:00.0	The following reflection is led by Tara Brock.
0:06.8	To access more of my meditations or reflections, or to join my email list, please visit tarabrock.com.
0:30.0	Letting this pause be an invitation to sense what's right here.
0:36.0	So, just begin with mindfulness because everything we're talking about requires mindfulness.
0:45.0	To install a positive experience requires mindfulness.
0:52.0	Attention to when we're having a good experience.
0:58.0	Attention to what it feels like.
1:01.0	And you might sense more for yourself right now.
1:04.0	You know, what is it that you really want to experience more regularly?
1:09.0	Is it peace?
1:11.0	Is it gratitude?
1:14.0	Is it love?
1:22.0	Right now, we'll explore just deepening and installing more of that sense of loving care.
1:32.0	And you might bring to mind an experience with another person someone that is easy for you to feel loved with, to begin with.
1:52.0	And bring that person to mind.
1:57.0	Sense them right here, close in so you can remind yourself of how come you feel loving with them.
2:07.0	You might see the look in their eyes when they're feeling loving towards you.
2:15.0	The expression on their face.
2:22.0	And you might remind yourself of qualities you love about them, how they look when they're happy, when they're amused or entertained.
2:38.0	And they're laughing.
2:44.0	Are in a really tender place maybe.
2:50.0	Reminding yourself of their goodness, basic intention to be honest, to be caring.
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