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Background: Heart-Centered Meditation accesses connection to the Heart, revealing the unique organization of individuals. This method of personal development is a process-oriented approach that helps release unconscious beliefs and destructive behaviors. Our life force is activated through this connection to the inner self, guiding us to our needs and healthy motivations.
I. Overview: Heart-Centered Meditation is a practice that accesses the connection to the energy of the heart. With experience, this energy flows throughout the body and integrates the mental, emotional and physical aspects of a person. As a result, one becomes a more naturally aware and responsive person, more able to reveal one's unique and true inner self and experience the dignity and delight of being human.
II. HCM Practice: As one opens and connects to the experience of the heart, one learns to detect and sense the flow of energy in meditation. No effort is made to quiet the thoughts or attain a certain state of mind, use mantras, or still the body. This is particularly helpful for persons struggling with eating disorders, or with control in general. By staying connected to the flow of the heart's energy, a person's inner world surfaces as they face themself to move through their difficulties more easily, with less resistance. In so doing, one recognizes and senses their motivations and needs in the context of the old, recurrent conflict. This allows for a new experience of themself, without judgment, with the heart redirecting the energy toward a natural healthy outcome.
III. Self Development - Personal Practice and Professional Applications
This is a process-oriented approach to self-development. A facilitator's comfort and familiarity with trusting his or her own heart becomes evident when assisting another in crossing the threshold to their own inner self. People are often tentative, testing the waters, when first opening to this kind of uncharted place within the heart. The heart responds, but not on demand - as if by design, in a manner uniquely and perfectly suited to the person. The depth of connection to one's heart, reflects the relationship of trust between the heart's energy and the ego or personality. Contentment happens when we no longer fear ourselves and are free to live in the world. Self-knowledge frees the creative capacities of the person, because he or she is no longer living in fear.
Heart-Centered Meditation is a practice that accesses the connection to the energy of the heart. With experience, this energy flows throughout the body and integrates the mental, emotional and physical aspects of a person. As a result, one becomes a more naturally aware and responsive person, more able to reveal one's unique and true inner self and experience the dignity and delight of being human.
Mary White has been a Heart-Centered Meditation Teacher and Life Consultant for over 20 years. Influenced by meditation teachers both East and West, Meditation, Intuitive Sensing, Energy Balancing and Guided Energy Movement informs her work with both groups and individuals. She works with people to open the flow of heart-centered energies in group meditation and from an intuitive method of inquiry in individual consultations. Mary is presenting Heart-Centered Meditation as the application arm for The Center for Psychological and Spiritual Development.
Jeffrey Rediger MD., MDiv is the Medical Director of McLean Hospital Southeast and an Instructor in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. A fully licensed physician and board-certified psychiatrist, he also has a Master of Divinity degree from Princeton Theological Seminary and publishes in the fields of medicine, psychiatry and spirituality.
