I Heart Meditation

In this guided meditation from Susanna Bair, she helps you to establish the first basic tools for Heart Rhythm Meditation: 1) Posture 2) Conscious Breath 3) Rhythmic Breath.  She'll help you to visualize your breath as a stem and become firmly rooted in your body.  She invites you to search for you heartbeat and bring your heart to the front of your attention.

"You want to make your breath your closest friend in life," she says.

This meditation recording occurred in July of 2016, as the opening meditation 2016's two-week long residency intensive of the iamU - iamHeart's two year long intensive meditation studies program. 

Seeking the truth, especially in a world saturated by a divisive media, can be tricky.  Seeking the truth about what's going, even with a keen intellect, will only carry one so far. 

Puran Bair, chancellor of IAM-University and iamHeart co-founder, speaks aptly about seeking the truth in this speech given as a commencement address to the IAM-U class of 2016:

"It 's difficult for us to get a sense of what 's really going on because it 's fed to us through something called a media - which means something in between us and what 's going on, right? A medium. So we ‘re actually reacting to the presentation rather than through reality of the events."

The solution he offers lies within the techniques of heart-rhythm meditation and specifically in a practice called "Contemplation", where you learn to connect with the hearts of others in a way that the intellect can't reach.  The hidden potential in others and in ourselves does not need a medium. You experience that person or situation direction.  By opening our heart, connecting to the hearts of others, we reconnect to something much more universal.  Something is revealed that wasn't evident before.

Join Susanna Bair in a longer meditation that explores the subtle realms within.  Tuning into the field around the physical body, you might observe the boundaries of the body merge with the vastness of the universe as you become more away of the breath and your heart.  Tune into the unconditional shower of light and love available to you at all times.  This is an intermediate level meditation presented in August of 2016 in Phoenix, Arizona. If this topic interests you, a retreat will be given in November of 2016 in Sedona, Arizona.  CLICK HERE to find out more.

Susanna and Puran Bair discuss from their view and their experiences in teaching meditation what one can reasonably expect from short, medium, and long-term practice of Heart Rhythm Meditation.  The benefits start at the level of revitalizing the bio-rhythms and expand into almost every facet of life when practiced in the long-term.

This recording is also available as a video-collage:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFzKVMQXlpg

music from bensound.com.

Building loving relationships, especially romantic relationships, is a progressive process analogous to the three stages of human development (Mind, Heart, and Spirit). Relationships pull us from our own view of how the world works and enable, maybe even necessitate, a shift in our perspective to accommodate the perspective of our partner. This process usually is painful and the mind resists it, but the process catalyzes growth for both participants in the relationship and eventually leads to intimacy. As Puran Bair discusses in this presentation from March of 2016, relationships are central to becoming fully human.

Puran Bair gives a short meditation inviting you to expand your sense of self by tuning into the inner emotional qualities of the heart. 

In the search for a partner or a relationship, one recognizes the qualities of another by understanding that attraction comes from the shared qualities of two hearts.  The mind sees differences, but the heart sees the radiance of the other because it too radiates.  Puran Bair leads a meditation which guides us between the interplay of the mind and heart in intimate relationship.

IAM Heart co-founder Susanna Bair leads this guided meditation to help you apply meditation to your life. It is possible to improve your life in three primary areas: Health, Relationships, and Accomplishments.  In what area is the most pressing need of your life right now? Wherever your pressing need lies, there too you will find your growing edge.  Susanna shows us how we can connect with the wave-like ebb and flow of our breath to allow inspiration to bubble-up to the surface.

Reaching the third stage on the path of the heart - the stage of Spirit - means a surrender into the majesty of one's being.  The individual reaches the state where one realizes the unity of all things with themselves.  In relationship, this state is the recognition of the eternal beloved expressed in the individual they share life with.  The ideal of who one could be becomes expressed fully and the universe and the individual harmonize in speech, thought, and action.  The individual who reaches Illumination finds within themselves the capacity to decode the message which constantly comes from within (from the heart), and feels emboldened to act on those messages with a certainty of their necessity for the improvement of the whole.  Upon reaching this stage, the life of service begins. 

A through "Map to Illumination" can be found in the book Follow Your Heart by Puran and Susanna Bair.