I often hear people say that they use psychoactive drugs like marijuana as a way of ’self-medicating’, meaning acting as one’s own doctor and prescribing medication to oneself. Drugs and alcohol can have profound effects on our cognition and emotional response to people and events. Sometimes that can limit our ability to feel our emotions. That may be helpful at times, but the way of the heart is always to feel more, not less. Feeling less is only a temporary measure, until the heart is strong enough to heal, to turn up the intensity. (more…)
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November 5th, 2009
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Your heart naturally takes on the point of view of others, because when you’re in your heart, you easily put yourself in another’s place. (more…)
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October 29th, 2009
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In the 201 Webcourse, we’ve been discussing the relationship between your physical posture and your emotional state.
Heart Rhythm Meditation is done with an upright, royal posture, the posture of the Pharaoh. It can be hard to maintain this upright posture in life. We’re taught to be less than what we are. We’re taught to bend, to fit in. Many of us hunch, in a posture that seems to protect the heart. But the heart is like the sun; it needs no protection.
I know my posture is the worst when I’m lecturing in front of my statistics class. For some reason, that’s become an unconscious part of my teaching style.
When does your posture change? When do you feel your spine becoming upright, your chest opening, your heart shining out to the world?
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October 28th, 2009
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How do we change our relationships when we can’t get another person to change?
We’re so often stuck thinking, “I’d be so much happier if he’d just change!” or “Why does she have to be this way?”
We tend to think everything would be fine if those we care about would be different. This is the road to misery. We can’t change other people. We can’t make them choose other things. So does that mean we can’t change our relationships? (more…)
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October 27th, 2009
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A common question I get about meditation is: what do I do to keep my mind from wandering? (more…)
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October 26th, 2009
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Any amount of time you spend meditating is going to help you.
Meditation is like food; you need food, and any kind of will do when you’re hungry. But there are different kinds of meditation just as there are different kinds of food.
Heart Rhythm Meditation, where you coordinate your breathing and heartbeat (8 beats in, 8 beats out), while focusing attention on your emotional-energetic heart, is the best possible way to energize your heart, and it can work wonders for your health on all levels. For myself, it’s been by far the best thing I’ve ever learned.
When you’re learning HRM, I’d recommend you meditate twice a day, 20 minutes in the morning, and 20 minutes in the evening. Set a timer so you won’t have to look at the clock. Your sense of time tends to shift when you’re meditating, often time goes by quicker than you think.
If you can’t fit that amount of time in, do 10 minutes twice a day. I think everyone can spare that. Try to sit at the same time in the morning, and the same time in the evening.
Work on your breathing; see your breath as an art form. Try to perfect it. Make it deeper, more powerful, while at the same time smooth, silent, and subtle. Erase all hitches, gaps, or uneven aspects. Let your breath flow like an river, endlessly pouring into the sea of your heart.
Toward the One,
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October 24th, 2009
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Dear friend,
Energize Your Heart in Four Dimensions changed my life.
Written by my father, Puran Bair, and my stepmother, Susanna Bair, Energize Your Heart is a spiritual text of tremendous depth and richness. I had a chance to learn it well, as I had the privilege of editing the text and seeing it through a dozen different revisions, in my role as VP and Editor at Living Heart Media. I’ve read the finished book 10 times or more. I can honestly say that I’ve learned something new each time I read it. No other book on the market comes close to Energize Your Heart when it comes to how to develop the heart in the different ways the heart grows.
Before Energize Your Heart I was in the midst of a great struggle. My marriage was falling apart, and I desperately wanted to keep things together. It felt like my wife and I wanted different things. I walked around with the feeling in my heart, “how can she ask me to do so-and-so… doesn’t she see what I do for her?”
As I did my meditation, read the book, read it again, and worked with my mentor, it started to dawn on me that in asking that question, I’m not coming from a place of love. I started to bow more and demand less. We still have our challenges to work through, but we’re together and in many ways, we’re closer than ever.
So when Puran and Susanna asked me and Jeanie Underwood to record the Audiobook of Energize Your Heart, I was thrilled. The recording came out beautifully. The sound quality is wonderful, and I think you can hear in our voices that this is a labor of love.
Because the recording is over six hours, we decided to offer the Energize Your Heart Audiobook in MP3 format, so it can fit on a single disc. That way we can keep the cost low, just $13.95 for the CD, which comes with a 16-page booklet with all the figures and tables from the book.You can order your copy here:http://www.IAMheart.orgI hope you enjoy the Energize Your Heart Audiobook. Write me a note here and let me know what you think!
From my heart to yours,
Dr. Asatar Bair
IAM Teacher and Mentor
Member of the IAM Board of Directors
Vice President, Living Heart Media
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October 23rd, 2009
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This morning, I sat in the baseball field in the park near my house. It’s before dawn. Fall nights are cold here in San Francisco; the fog and wind moves in around sundown and keeps things cool all night. I’m sitting beneath a stately tree, whose branches spread out overhead.
I do my meditation practices, feeling my breath expand my heart and energize my whole being. I sometimes feel anxious when I heard sounds nearby, like the creaking of branches, the occasional fall of a twig, the rustle of the wind. I’m in a public park, and it’s basically still night. I have my eyes closed. I feel vulnerable. But today, it feels like the life around me and within me have joined together. The branches cannot help but dance in the wind. I breathe in, and the wind blows over my body, which has become this hillside park. I breathe out, and the city comes to life. I feel people awakening, (and many still dreaming), I feel cars traveling on the freeway a mile away, I feel the animals and plants around me pulsing with life.
When my practice has ended, I open my eyes. Still dark, the fog shrouds the ballfield. As it says in Living from the Heart, “There is no end to awakening.” (p. 27)
From my heart to yours,
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October 22nd, 2009
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Dear friends,
Puran and Susanna have asked me to contribute to the Energize Your Heart blog!I’m Puran’s eldest son, a Professor of Economics and Statistics at City College of San Francisco, Vice President of Living Heart Media, IAM Certified Teacher and Mentor, and Member of the IAM Board of Directors.
In the days that follow, you’ll see my thoughts on how to energize, open, and live from your heart.
Toward the One,
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October 21st, 2009
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Hello and good day to all,
I would like to ask something about the square breath pattern. In the different dimensions (elements) of the heart. We use different points of inhalation and exhalation. How about in the Square Breath? Do we use only the nose for both inhalation/exhalation, or we follow what is in the companion cd of EYH to breathe in and out both from the nose and mouth together? Is there any benefit if we use the square breath pattern for each of the dimensions (elements) instead of just using the swing breath pattern?Live long and prosper,Christopher Go
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March 26th, 2008
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