Module 5: Heart listening - The flower of touch on the skin; Three levels of one flow

Embodied Mindfulness Meditation

with Dina Asher Kusnir

An Invitation to Heart-Centered Perception

In a world that often prioritizes head over heart, this practice offers a gentle but powerful rebalancing. By recognizing the heart as the root of perception, we invite a more integrated, embodied way of experiencing life.

When listening to the heart there are three levels of knowing that become one flow.

1. listening to the pulsation of the heart on radial artery of the opposite hand. Listen and feel the heart beat in the chest. This deep listening has immense healing power for the whole body.

2. The heart nourishes and maintain the tree of life, that is our body mind. Each heartbeat is a contraction of the heart that sends blood to the body with nutrients and life force. Each body part is in direct contact with the heart through the blood flow. And the heart is in direct contact with the organ through the return blood.

3. The heart is the root of our perceptions. The sense organs receive the nutrients and life force from the heart as they open like flowers to receive the impression of the outer world, sent it back to the heart via the blood flow.

One heart beat at a time we perceive the world.

This Episode: The Flower of Touch: Three Levels, One Flow

 The skin is the organ of sensation of touch encases our body for protection, for sensation from the outside and inside world.

The heart is the root, sending the nutrients and oxygen and life force to the surface of the skin through all the layers. And the impression from the outside—from the clothes or the air or the chair, the temperature of the air, the pressure—is received by the skin and sent back to the heart, one heartbeat at a time. 

We think we're separate from the world. When the heart tells us that we are one flow, that we are the world through heartbeat, one heartbeat at a time. We are the world, and the world is us.

In memories, in sensations, in feelings, one heartbeat at a time.

Where do you feel your ending and where the world begins? It is this sensation of touch that the world in you and the flow of the heart is one. There is no outside that is not touches you in one of those organs and enters into your being through your heart

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