Day 231 of 365 - Compassionate Latitude
This was the focus for a monthly meditation I participate in online, through an organization called Heart Math Institute. Compassionate latitude was a term I had not heard before. But first, a little background about the institute. It was formed in 1991 by a group of scientists, researchers and educators who were interested in developing practical tools to reduce stress and increase peace. Their research shows that what they call adding heart to daily activities and connections produces measurable benefits to our own and others' well-being. It harmonizes resistance between our mind and heart, creating coherence.
The monthly meditation is offered through one of their free services called the Global Coherence Initiative. It unites people in heart-focused care and intention to facilitate a shift in global consciousness toward balance, cooperation and peace. They offer a recorded guided meditation each month on the day of the full moon. Each month the focus or intention is slightly different. However, the simple formula for it remains the same. It only takes about ten minutes and can be listened to at your convenience or at selected times when many participants around the world come together.
The focus of compassionate latitude for this month was chosen because a recent Gallup poll in the U.S. indicated record levels of stress being reported by individuals, mostly due to uncertainty about the future. This is a symptom of what is going on in society to create division and separation around issues like race, wealth and politics.
Compassion and latitude are two different heart energies needed to find ways we can all get along. Compassion is a powerful quality for really connecting people and opening higher brain centers. Latitude is about increasing tolerance of different views, how people come to them and having non-judgment that allows heart connection. When you add latitude to compassion, it raises awareness to a higher vibration, so we can get past differences and see each others' hearts.
The purpose of the meditation is to access unconditional love for the highest outcome of all concerned. We set a heart powered intention to practice compassion and latitude with our self, in our interactions with others and with life situations.
The simple core practice taught by the institute is the foundation for the meditation. It is called heart focused breathing. When you breathe in and out, more slowly and deeply than usual, you imagine that you are breathing through the heart. Then you activate a genuine positive feeling and let it warm the heart. In the case of this month that feeling was compassionate latitude. Then you radiate that feeling to all the people coming together for the meditation. Then radiate it towards people or situations in your own life with the focused intention. Then radiate it to people, situations or world locations suffering from undue stress.
For your own personal use any time your energy is draining or you feel stressed, you can just use the first two steps of heart focused breathing and activating a genuine positive feeling for just a couple of minutes to shift your energy.
If you would like to learn more about Heart Math Institute you can go to their website where you can learn about their research into heart-brain interaction, human energetics and the power of positive emotions.
The monthly meditation is offered through one of their free services called the Global Coherence Initiative. It unites people in heart-focused care and intention to facilitate a shift in global consciousness toward balance, cooperation and peace. They offer a recorded guided meditation each month on the day of the full moon. Each month the focus or intention is slightly different. However, the simple formula for it remains the same. It only takes about ten minutes and can be listened to at your convenience or at selected times when many participants around the world come together.
The focus of compassionate latitude for this month was chosen because a recent Gallup poll in the U.S. indicated record levels of stress being reported by individuals, mostly due to uncertainty about the future. This is a symptom of what is going on in society to create division and separation around issues like race, wealth and politics.
Compassion and latitude are two different heart energies needed to find ways we can all get along. Compassion is a powerful quality for really connecting people and opening higher brain centers. Latitude is about increasing tolerance of different views, how people come to them and having non-judgment that allows heart connection. When you add latitude to compassion, it raises awareness to a higher vibration, so we can get past differences and see each others' hearts.
The purpose of the meditation is to access unconditional love for the highest outcome of all concerned. We set a heart powered intention to practice compassion and latitude with our self, in our interactions with others and with life situations.
The simple core practice taught by the institute is the foundation for the meditation. It is called heart focused breathing. When you breathe in and out, more slowly and deeply than usual, you imagine that you are breathing through the heart. Then you activate a genuine positive feeling and let it warm the heart. In the case of this month that feeling was compassionate latitude. Then you radiate that feeling to all the people coming together for the meditation. Then radiate it towards people or situations in your own life with the focused intention. Then radiate it to people, situations or world locations suffering from undue stress.
For your own personal use any time your energy is draining or you feel stressed, you can just use the first two steps of heart focused breathing and activating a genuine positive feeling for just a couple of minutes to shift your energy.
If you would like to learn more about Heart Math Institute you can go to their website where you can learn about their research into heart-brain interaction, human energetics and the power of positive emotions.
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