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Thank you, Priestess. Your post has given me courage to post my own. I've been working with a friend on moving from "living in my head" to "living in my heart". For me it is a difficult process. The last attempt (last Friday) created some disturbing results that left me with headache pain all weekend. I'm just now coming out of the pain in order to process it all. Here's what happened...

I began meditation Friday afternoon to take a look at my heart chakra after being asked, "What's in your heart that you're afraid to feel?". Curious, but open, I began to look at my heart. There was the blackness that enveloped me as I decended from my head to my heart. I felt a tightness in my throat and diaphragm at the same time...like someone/thing was trying to trap me inside my heart. I bailed out and quit the meditation immediately. I was in a terrible mood with lots of pain all weekend.

Should I have stayed with it? I don't think there's anything/one malicious there. I think it's all my stuff, but it really freaked me out. Any opinions?

Herbmom

herbmom,

/*\ Namaste :-}}

- several thoughts -

- the black is a "place" for a missing soul fragment - related to heart matters

- the black is a soul fragment you have taken (unknowingly most likely) from another (we all are quite capable of this)

- the black is your projection of fear and anxiety about something "heart related" - perhaps from the past.

hope this is some fuel for exploration

Since you can go back, it is OK that you bailed out - keep in mind that getting back on the horse is often the best medicine for the fear getting tossed.

>:-}}

Reiki all around,

all blessngs,

firekeeper

Hi HerbMom!

The question you quoted in your post: "What is in your heart that you are afraid to feel?" is certainly a big question!!
Considering all the things a spiritual being has knowingly participated in and (if you accept the possibility of past lives &/or other dimensional lives) the realm of things that one has participated in but is not now ready/able to access, that question -as worded - could bring up quite a bit of stuff, some of which you might not be prepared to feel/face! This could be a very overwhelming experience, and could bring about physical repercussions, as you apparently had.
Perhaps a better question, if you want to explore this area gently - might be "is there something in your heart which you are now ready to feel?" This second question is more likely to bring something which within the range of confrontable experiences. After a success, one could always repeat the meditation, receiving the next "right" thing.
Many blessings to you in your work! Please stay in touvh! batwings

Namaste Herbmom,

Have you thought of trying Reiki to your heart chakra while you meditate and see what happens?

I wonder if Reiki will help to release the emotions.

just a thought :)

Love,light and blessings
helen.

Herbmom - Namaste ....

There is a lovely healing ceremony which I found in Tera-Mai Reiki/Seichem, which includes emotional release techniques. Both I and a close friend, also a Reiki/Seichem master, have used this for difficult emotional releases with clients and have found it wonderful.

Also within the same system, there is a wonderful and very powerful psychic cleansing procedure, which only a Master can perform, but which can be received by anyone, whether they be reiki or seichem or neither.

If either/both of these are of any interest, I will attempt to email them to you - I say attempt `cos the second one includes symbols and I am not too sure of my scanning abilities - p`raps this is my lesson? :-}}

Anyway, all blessings and good wishes,

Love and light,
philanty