Tantric Anahata (Heart) Chakra Exercise

Written by Kathryn Ryder Monday, 14 December 2009 17:36

Tantric Anahata (Heart) Chakra Exercise

By Kathryn Ryder

Although advanced tantric practices do require a fair amount of practice and training, anyone can do simple tantra - tantra is transformation and expansion - of energy, emotion, and consciousness,
including  powerful human drives like, sex, breath, and hunger.

The following is a simple 3-minute Tantric Anahata (Heart) Chakra exercise appropriate for
anyone...

1. Close your eyes and notice your current mental and emotional state
-good or bad, up or down.

2. Then start instantly remembering any moment, memory, feeling,
image,sound, or smell, that makes you profoundly feel profoundly
good... happy... even makes you laugh...

3. Remain in that feeling and allow it to intensify until you can feel
it throughout your body. Feel yourself smiling, and your eyes
twinkling.

4. Now think of a loving, happy moment - anything that gives you a
warm, wonderful feeling in the center of your chest. Feel it and
remain in it.

5. Let go of the memory and keep the feeling. Remain in the feeling.
Even amplify it. That "warm fuzzy" feeling in your chest is caused by
your thymus gland, which sits at the left side of your chest atop your
physical heart.

Notice how you feel now...

Transforming, isn't it? The thymus hormones not only give you that
warm fuzzy feeling, but they also dissolve cortisol (the "stress"
hormone released by your adrenals). Cortisol damages your organs in
long-term exposure, and can kill - thymus hormones cause the body to
destroy cortisol and relax again!

You've just performed an instant tantric "de-stress," using nothing
but your own "mind" - your nervous and endocrine systems... and the
good news is, the more you stimulate the good feelings, the easier it
is for your body to have more.

Modern science shows that your body builds new "neural networks" just
to channel the peptides bringing you those good feelings!

6. Repeat the exercise several times daily to strengthen those
positive neural networks, and you'll feel so much better, so much
faster!

Big hint: try this exercise with feelings of happiness, of deep love
or gratitude, with pleasant excitement, with reverence or awe, even
with orgasmic bliss! Do one at a time at first - when they get easy
and powerful, then try blending them!

P.S.
Similar powerful, secular transformations like this one are the
hallmark of the work of the late, great Glenn J. Morris, PhD, ScD.
http://bit.ly/5D8lB3

P.P.S. More traditional tantric versions of this exercise may be
found here:
http://smashanpress.com/laya_yoga_chakras_nadis_esoteric_anatomy.html