Know This Place in Your Heart: from a HMHC Reader and Friend

Michael M. , a friend and facilitator (Alto ITP Group) at HMHC , sends the below poem along with these words: ”May you know, this day, this place in your heart and celebrate it with each living moment of awareness.” Thank you, Michael.

The author of the poem Michael sends is Ivan M. Granger

who writes Sacred Poetry. Click Ivan M. Granger to find his bio and visit his webpage at http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/index.html

“In the state of deep spiritual communion, when the agitations of the mind are at rest and the attention is not seeking outward distractions, all awareness settles into the heart.

This is not to say that one is not aware of the outside world; rather, all of the world seems somehow gathered into the heart. It is as if the heart has expanded to encompass everything. Looking deeper still, you find that everything has always been held in the heart.

On a subtle physical level, you feel a warmth spreading across your chest and glowing in the palms of your hands. Often, you will feel an accompanying unlocking of tension and warmth in the belly, as well.

And you find that you are seated in supreme rest at the center of the heart, touching everything without the need to reach out to do so. It is an experience of expansiveness without movement, of absolute contentment and interconnection.

This is the seat of the heart praised by poets and mystics throughout the centuries. It is the particular focus of Christian and Sufi mystics.”

 Posted by NWH