Module 5: Heart Listening - The Flower of the sense of Taste: Three Levels, One Flow

Embodied Mindfulness Meditation

with Dina Asher Kusnir

An Invitation to Heart-Centered Perception

In a world that often prioritizes head over heart, this meditation practice offers a gentle yet powerful rebalancing. By recognizing the heart as the root of perception, we welcome a more integrated and embodied approach to experiencing life. This journey invites you towards inner peace and spiritual awakening.

When listening to the heart, there are three levels of knowing that unite in one harmonious flow.

1. **Listening to the Pulsation**: Tune into the pulsation of the heart at the radial artery of your opposite hand. Feel the heartbeat resonating within your chest. This deep listening carries immense healing power for the entire body, encouraging a deeper state of meditation.

2. **Nourishing Our Tree of Life**: The heart nourishes and sustains the tree of life known as our body-mind. Each heartbeat is a contraction that sends life-giving blood infused with nutrients throughout our body, connecting every body part as it flows.

3. **Perception Rooted in the Heart**: The heart serves as the foundation of our perceptions. Our sense organs blossom open like flowers to receive the impressions of the outer world, sending those messages back to the heart through the lifeblood.

Embrace this meditation to rediscover your inherent connection to inner peace, healing, and spiritual awakening.

One heart beat at a time we perceive the world.

This Episode: The Flower of Taste: Three Levels, One Flow

The heart is the root of the sense organ of taste, sending nutrients, oxygen, and life force to the tongue. Then sensory receptors receiving the outer world as food or drink enter the mouth.

This realization of the one flow dissolves the boundaries we typically experience between "inner" and "outer." The world comes to meet us at the door of taste perception and dissolves into our body to become us as food.

This practice transforms every meal into a meditation, every sip of water into a moment of conscious connection with life itself. You begin to taste not just flavors, but the very essence of being alive.

Enjoy the taste of your life, not just the food and drink that nourish your body, but the full flavor of being alive, aware, and connected to the web of existence through each conscious taste and heartbeat.

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