Brian Anwar Blog: Feeling Closer In Our Relationships Meditation

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Namaste, and welcome to our Feeling Closer in Our Relationships Meditation. Sometimes because of things that have happened to us in the past, childhood, or other prior experiences, we can develop patterns, and triggers, and ways of being in the world that come from wounds.

And sometimes we can put up walls and find more difficulty in connecting with other people. We can find separation. We don’t feel as connected. We don’t feel as close. And then we start to feel more and more isolated. And of course, none of us want to feel this way.

It’s natural to feel connection, to feel that flowing connection, which of course starts with us, which we work on all the time in our Solluna Circle, and all these different meditations. But also we want to focus on fostering that connection with others.

Doesn’t mean we have to hang out with people all the time or be their best friend. It doesn’t mean we have to call them every day, but at the same time, when we start to move closer and closer into feeling connected to others, it means that our hearts are growing. It means that we are starting to be more aligned, and it means that we can walk through life in a more aligned way, feeling more peaceful. Connection is all about what feels good. It feels really good because it’s our true nature.

The intention of today’s meditation is to help awaken more of our true nature of connection with all of our brothers and sisters on the planet. And again, it doesn’t mean we have to agree with their behavior. It doesn’t mean we have to even like them per se, hang out with them every day, but it means when we find a way to connect on a deeper level, we experience more peace, and we experience more joy in our lives overall, because connection feels good.

Let’s get into our practice today.

Guided Meditation

Please find a comfortable seated position on your cushion, on the floor with your legs cross-legged, or in a chair with your feet nice and flat on the ground.

Start to lift your spine.

Notice if you’re swaying to a side, notice if you’re swaying forward or back, and then just lift your chin – so it’s parallel, not jetting forward, lift your spine.

Keep your hands nice and relaxed on your lap, palms facing up, or facing down, and start to take some deep breaths in.

Now place both hands, please, over your heart, one hand over the other.

Now, as you inhale, you’re going to lift your hands, keeping them together, a couple inches away from your heart, just out.

And then as you exhale, you’re just going to bring it back in into your heart. Very subtle movement in.

Now, you can go out for as far as it feels good to you. I like to just open out slowly, and then exhale, draw back yet.

Please continue on your own with your inhales and exhales.

What this subtle movement is doing is really augmenting and putting the focus on our heart energy. And the heart doesn’t create separation, the mind does that. Our thoughts do that. Our patterns do that, but the heart is just expansive. The heart is full of this high vibration of love. So we’re just subtly tuning into this as we’re relaxing our body. It’s a very small movement, which is inhaling, and lifting up, and exhaling, and pulling back, just starting to really ignite our self connection with our heart energy primarily right now.

So inhaling, and exhaling, and inhaling, and exhaling.

Another few cycles.

Tune into your heart.

Put all your attention there, just your breath and your heart. That’s all you need to focus on right now, breath and your heart, breath and your heart.

Now keep your breath flowing nice and steadily like that, then go ahead and bring your hands down to your lap or your knees, palms facing up. And then just start to take some deep breaths through your heart.

Be aware that the breath is passing through the center of the chest, and then going all the way down into your belly, and just keep going like that.

Just taking some really nice deep breaths, but infused consciously now with your own heart energy, with your own love all the way down.

The truth is that sometimes we put up these walls because it doesn’t feel safe to open up to other people, that they are threatening in some way. They could hurt us. They could annoy us, whatever it is.

In this moment, as you take your deep breaths down, remind yourself that you are safe to take breaths, to be in life. No matter what other people are doing, you are still safe, and therefore you are safe to connect with other people, to open up to them, to open up in your relationships and interactions, because you can keep yourself safe at the same time.

You can create healthy boundaries, but you don’t have to close down. You don’t have to create those walls. You’re safe here. We’re breathing here.

Setting the Intention for Today

I’ll introduce our intention. So feel the breath. As you hear me say these intentions, you can say them out loud. Feel the truth, that you can stay safe. You can maintain that healthy boundary, and at the same time, you can also open up.

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I Am sisters and brothers with all.

Let that start to melt in the truth of that statement. We are connected to all other brothers and sisters. We can find a way to connect. We can stay safe. We can hold our healthy boundaries. We can decide how much time we spend with people, but we don’t have to close down.

We don’t have to build walls. We don’t have to isolate ourselves. We can be safe, and we can be open. We can be discerning, and we can feel connected.

Another deep breath into that truth. Long exhale, and start to bring your hands in together into prayer in of your heart, Anjali Mudra.

Take a moment to allow gratitude to rise up spontaneously for anything and everything that you feel right now in this moment.

I’m so grateful for you, for our connection, for this path.

Sending you so much love.

Om Shanti, peace and love. Namaste