I Heart Meditation

Led by Asatar Bair. Day 7 Meditation: Hold your ideal high. The holidays are stressful partly because the reality of the holiday season may reveal how far we are from the ideals of love, friendship, harmony, generosity, and We may feel like giving up, like it would be easier to just forget about all this, and not try so hard. The problem is, giving up is a defeat. The longing behind these ideals doesn’t simply go away, either. It gets distorted into cynicism and bitterness. What we need is to hold the ideals high. An ideal is like a star -- let it shine brightly in the sky. Let the sense of idealism drive you on, even while you recognize that it's unattainable. That is the nature of ideals; if we could attain an ideal, in this limited existence, it wouldn't be ideal. Nonetheless, an ideal reminds us that there is a perfect reality in the world of spirit, a reminder that we sorely need, for it is human nature to strive for perfection. Meditation offers a chance to explore the height of your ideal within your h

Led by Asatar Bair. Day 6 Meditation: Create a feeling of abundance and possibility. When we feel a sense of abundance, giving to others is easy. Out of that feeling, holidays become a true celebration of the blessed bounty of life. Easier said than done, huh? Heart Rhythm Meditation works with a full, rhythmic breath to create the experience of giving (on the exhalation) and receiving (on the inhalation). As you take a long, deep, full breath in, you will experience a sense of abundance unlike anything you have known.

Led by Asatar Bair. Day 5 Meditation: Give more to others. Focus on what you're giving rather than what you're receiving. When you feel stretched, the last thing you want to hear is that you should give more. You're probably saying, "don’t I already give enough? What about my needs?" We often give in a tactical way, as in, "I'll give you this, so that you will then give me that." This isn't really giving, it's more like a transaction. Not only that, it's probably not going to work, because this, so that you will then give me that." This isn't really giving, it's more like a transaction. Not only that, it's probably not going to work, because it's not focused on the real issue at hand. Other people are unlikely to do what we want or expect, leading to disappointment and frustration when your needs are not met. Meditation provides a way to give your heart and soul what you truly need at the deepest level, so that you don't look to the outside to fill inner needs.

Led by Asatar Bair. Day 4 Meditation: Allow yourself to be loved. The holidays can bring a frenetic sense of seeking to take in more, which can come from a place of feeling the lack of attention and energy, which is, at its root, a feeling of not being loved. Meditation allows you to take in love, to truly allow yourself to be loved The goal of meditation is to experience infinite, unbounded, eternal love, to become Love itself.

Led by Asatar Bair. Day 3 Meditation: Help others be calm by bringing more peace to your heart. Calmness and peace come when you have brought yourself into a slow, stable rhythm. Our culture has many aspects that seem to encourage a rapid, unsustainable rhythm: we stay up late, eat at odd times, eat foods that over-stimulate our senses, and watch TV and movie screens that show us different scenes with increasing rapidity. Heart Rhythm Meditation makes your breath deep, full, and rhythmic, slowing yourself down on all levels, bringing a durable sense of peace that has an impact on others.

Led by Asatar Bair. Day 2 Meditation: See the best in others. In this meditation, you'll experience a technique for experiencing the pure qualities of other people, so that you can appreciate people more and experience less aggravation.

Led by Asatar Bair. Day 1 Meditation: Be thankful for all that you have. In this meditation, you'll experience a sense of thankfulness deep within your heart, which will retune your expectations of the holidays and bring those around you into a state of gratitude.

Led by Asatar Bair. This is an introduction and overview of the ways that meditation can help reduce holiday stress and give you more joy. A new meditation will be introduced each day over the next 12 days.

Led by Puran Bair. In this meditation, you'll learn how to do basic Heart Rhythm Meditation, including making the breath conscious, rhythmic, full, and deep. Puran explores the emotional component of breath, and the mystery of what it means to send breath and life to another person, how this energizes your own heart, and what kind of effect you can have -- both on yourself and others -- by breathing in this way.

Led by Puran Bair. Circulation and rhythm are foundational to health. In this meditation, you'll learn how to use the breath to move energy through different parts of your body, using the energy of your heart. Puran uses two mystical words to focus the concentration. The first is Khaffee, an ancient word which means 'elixir of life', which explains why that word was given to a caffeinated drink that wakes you up. The second is Shaffee, which means the essence of healing. This is a very powerful healing meditation.

Led by Puran Bair. This meditation discusses the physical reality that our bodies give off light, and connects this fact to the spiritual nature of light, providing a meditation practice for working with light in its visible manifestation as well as its more subtle energetic form. This is a recording made at the IAM University of the Heart Residency Intensive.

Led by Asatar Bair. There is no shortage of aggravation in life; here is a meditation designed to help. In this meditation, you'll experience: how to sit, breathe, and concentrate in order to energize your heart; how to use four fundamental kinds of energy -- the Four Elements -- to bring out different qualities in yourself, applying these qualities toward a particularly aggravating person, with the aim of understanding the situation more deeply and helping you grow from it; how to use the Air Element to bring understanding of others, to widen your point of view in order to feel another person's perspective, and to find common ground; how to use the Fire Element to bring humor, passion, and the energy that lifts you up and drives you forward, exploring how this energy affects your sense of another person; how to use the Water Element to bring out grace, abundance, generosity and flow, then seeing how this affects your sense of the other person; how to use how to use the Earth Element to bring out strength, st

Led by Susanna Bair. An excerpt from "Follow Your Heart Meditations", a recording by Susanna Bair that accompanies the book "Follow Your Heart: The Map to Illumination", by Puran and Susanna Bair. Realization is described as the answers to three questions: who am I? Who is God / Universe / Reality? What is the relation between these two? The whole recording is a 2-disc set with over 2 hours of audio. The first disc is discussion of the steps of the path, and the second disc leads you through practices of Heart Rhythm Meditation.

Read by Asatar Bair. An excerpt from the audiobook version of the book "Living from the Heart: Heart Rhythm Meditation for Energy, Clarity, Peace, and Inner Power" by Puran and Susanna 

Led by Susanna Bair. Instructions on how to sit so that you can practice Heart Rhythm Meditation. You'll learn how to breathe fully, deeply, and slowly, in a way that is centered on your emotional and spiritual heart.