Oftentimes after we go through heartache, we decide it’s safer to protect our hearts to keep from getting hurt in the future. So, we consciously and unconsciously put layers of “protection” around our hearts. In addition to feeling safer, however, we might also feel more stuck over time.
Your heart “protection” could prevent you from experiencing something super important to your growth and expansion. Worst case, this could even prevent you from getting what you most want – a deep loving connection.
Which is why I recommend regular heart cleansing. Heart cleansing helps you open your mind, so you can allow an experience to come in, setting judgment and story aside. It keeps your heart light and brings you joy and resilience. It helps you see each new relationship on its own merit, not through the filters of the past and keeps you in a playful curiosity about what might happen.
It’s my philosophy that when we surrender all that heart protection, we are actually safer because our deeper divine heart can shine through like fire. And the world needs a lot more heart fire.
I offer you a 15-minute heart-cleansing meditation where you can shed all that old baggage with the assistance of the Divine Love Mistress, Aphrodite.
Transcript of the heart-cleansing meditation:
This is a sweet little guided meditation that will help you to clear your heart of any conflicted feelings and old baggage that will prevent you from giving and receiving love.
Begin by settling in, getting comfortable in your body. Take some deep belly breaths. And imagine that with your breath you can fill your whole body and bring yourself into a relaxed state.
Now take some breaths right into the center of your chest and into the center of your heart chakra. Allow yourself to think of beautiful things that bring your heart happiness. People, places and things in your life that really uplift your heart. Begin to charge up your heart and open up your heart wide by thinking about these wonderful things, and meaningful people who have supported you, especially in an unconditional way. If you like at this moment you can think about your relationship with the Divine, and really connect with your sense of the Divine, however, he or she shows up.
Now that your heart is really open,
Imagine that you can find a central focal point in the center of your heart and imagine that you can see a candle flame there, marking the very center of your heart, and your heart chakra. Sitting in front of this candle flame, which can be sitting on the altar of your heart chakra, imagine you can step through the candle flame, like a door.
As you enter the candle flame,
The fire surrounds you briefly for a moment, and you are transported to a seashore. Through fire to water.
The waves of the seashore are gentle and sweet lapping at your feet, warm and comfortable, sweet and precious ocean water. And, the lighting is like moonlight, you can even see the moon in the sky bringing beautiful reflections upon the water’s surface.
Here with this ocean of water in front of you, you can contemplate the shadow sides of your heart. Allowing the moon to illuminate these kinds of shadow feelings, the areas where you feel limited in the way you’re able to love. Limited in the way you’re able to receive love and give love in your life. Maybe it’s for certain people, or maybe it’s towards yourself and you would like to love yourself better.
Allow the moon to swirl,
And the energy of the water begins to swirl in your heart to loosen up these deeper feelings, limitations, and obstacles inside your heart that prevent you from a clear and open experience of divine love. Anything that would be free fluid movement of love through yourself and your life.
As these conflicted feelings appear, notice that there are seashells appearing around your feet in the water. And, you look up to notice that there is a beautiful goddess, the Goddess of Love herself, Aphrodite, floating on the water on her beautiful shell. Her long hair shimmering in the moonlight, her smile of pure grace, and her radiance of her heart. She stands before you, ready to accept your gifts, and your willingness to surrender these obstacles to her divine grace flowing through your life.
She beckons you to make use of the shells at your feet and find the parts of your heart that are having conflict about love, and any parts of you that don’t seem to want to understand anything about love, confused about love, or hiding your awareness about the true nature of love. These obstacles and limitations just pop out in the presence of the Goddess, they fall out of your heart like shooting stars, each one landing in a different seashell.
And as each shell becomes full, it floats away across the ocean to arrive at Aphrodite’s feet, whereupon she picks up each one and tenderly cherishes each of your gifts of surrender, and calls each of these blocks and obstacles back home to herself.
Continuing with this process of shooting stars out of your heart,
Releasing the unknown and the known alike, all the different concerns and conflicted feelings that you might have had about love. Whether you’re consciously aware of these concerns or not, allow them all to drop out of your heart. Feeling your heart become lighter and freer, more open and more receptive, as each one of these burdens is lifted out of your spirit.
Gradually as this process begins to wrap up, as Aphrodite herself has received all of your beautiful gifted surrenderings, she begins to shine and radiate towards you. She shines so brilliantly her image becomes challenging to see and all you can see is beautiful rosy golden radiant light coming your way and reminds you once again to stay in your surrendered state. She says, “Surrender and receive my gifts of Divine Grace.” And, as her gifts arrive at you, drink them into your heart and any other place in your body, mind, and spirit that feels good to receive this nurturing, this rejuvenation.
This education allows you to love yourself with even more grace and tenderness than you ever thought possible.
Receive these profound messages from Aphrodite through her vibrational communication. Feeling your heart become full in a way you’ve never experienced before, as she unlocks new capacities and capabilities inside you for you to have new experiences of love in your life. For you to continue your growth and expansion as a human being in your capacity to love and to bring love through into this 3rd-dimensional world of humanity.
Gradually, Aphrodite has completed her blessings and grace. She bows before you, acknowledging your profound choice to incarnate as a human in these times, giving you thanks for the choice you made to come to the planet at this time. She begins to bid you farewell, and she recedes into the setting moon over the ocean.
As you receive and complete your integration of her profound gifts,
You find yourself being pulled back through the flame once again to sit before the candlelight at the center of your heart. The candle that sits on the altar at the center of your heart.
Acknowledging what you have experienced here today and pledging and promising to go FORWARD from this place, to prevent yourself from dwelling on any issues before. Allowing yourself to receive the newness of this moment and staying in your curiosity about what it means for love to be NEW in your life, for you to have a new understanding, a new experience of love, and staying curious.
Taking this curiosity back with you as you merge again into the present and physical form. Take some deep breaths and focus on your heart, arms, and hands. Knowing how your heart flows out to the world through your actions and your behavior, and allowing your heart to bless your arm channels and hand chakras.
Now, open your eyes, take a sip of water, and ENJOY your new experience of love.