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Heart Haven Meditations
Tess Callahan
112 episodes
1 week ago
This is number 27 of a 30-part meditation series inspired by Adyashanti. This episode, drawn from the Prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi, invites you to seek to understand yourself and others before seeking to be understood. When you understand yourself deeply, the demand that others understand you begins to melt away. Your heart and mind open, and you enjoy life more. Demanding that others understand BEFORE you try to understand them can block awakened consciousness from streaming through you...
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This is number 27 of a 30-part meditation series inspired by Adyashanti. This episode, drawn from the Prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi, invites you to seek to understand yourself and others before seeking to be understood. When you understand yourself deeply, the demand that others understand you begins to melt away. Your heart and mind open, and you enjoy life more. Demanding that others understand BEFORE you try to understand them can block awakened consciousness from streaming through you...
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Heart Haven Meditations
Awakening Practice 27: Seeking to Understand Before Seeking to be Understood
This is number 27 of a 30-part meditation series inspired by Adyashanti. This episode, drawn from the Prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi, invites you to seek to understand yourself and others before seeking to be understood. When you understand yourself deeply, the demand that others understand you begins to melt away. Your heart and mind open, and you enjoy life more. Demanding that others understand BEFORE you try to understand them can block awakened consciousness from streaming through you...
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2 weeks ago
6 minutes

Heart Haven Meditations
Awakening Practice 26: Pivoting Toward Peace in your Conversations
This is number 26 of a 30-part meditation series inspired by Adyashanti. This episode invites you to bring a sense of spaciousness into your conversations, to get curious about the tiny but impactful turns inherent to all dialogue, and to bring an intention for peace into those moments. It's a practice of deep listening to yourself and another. These practices build on each other, so you can listen consecutively, but if there is one in particular that speaks to you, feel free to stick with it...
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2 weeks ago
9 minutes

Heart Haven Meditations
Awakening Practice 25: Leading with your Heart
This is number 25 of a 30-part meditation series inspired by Adyashanti. It includes some imagery of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, but it's not necessary to be Christian to enjoy the metaphor. My previous episode was about telling the truth, but truth without love is hollow. Here you are invited walk through your day leading with your heart -- a simple but utterly transformative experience. I hope you enjoy. These practices build on each other, so you can listen consecutively, but if there is on...
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3 weeks ago
11 minutes

Heart Haven Meditations
Awakening Practice 24: Being Honest with Yourself
This is number 24 of a 30-part meditation series inspired by Adyashanti. This episode invites you to do something radical, namely to tell the truth, with kindness, all day today, both in your conversations and in your head. As we seek to grow, we often confront holdouts, those parts of us that aren’t sure they want to change. Noticing when we shade or twist the truth brings us to the cutting edge of our growth, the nitty gritty of enlightenment. If being authentic evokes fear, get curious. Le...
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1 month ago
9 minutes

Heart Haven Meditations
Awakening Practice 23: Rooting in Presence
This is number 23 of a 30-part meditation series inspired by Adyashanti. This episode invites you root yourself in Presence. The more present you are, the more you experience your sense of aliveness. Practicing presence opens up energetic pathways in your subtle body through which consciousness, and therefore joy, can flow. These practices build on each other, so you can listen consecutively, but if there is one in particular that speaks to you, feel free to stick with it. Based on the ...
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1 month ago
9 minutes

Heart Haven Meditations
Awakening Practice 22: Changing Your Relationship to Your Experience
This is number 22 of a 30-part meditation series inspired by Adyashanti. This episode invites you to become conscious of what you are thinking about your experience. How you relate to your thoughts determines the quality of your being in the next moment. You have the power to gently choose what to focus on, and thereby to dramatically shift your relationship to whatever life brings your way. It's surprisingly simple. You can change the quality of your being. Theses practices build on ea...
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1 month ago
10 minutes

Heart Haven Meditations
Awakening Practice 21: The Infinite Opens its Eyes through You
This is number 21 of a 30-part meditation series inspired by Adyashanti. This episode is about going from nothing to everything and beyond. It invites you to see life as one continuous whole and to experience infinite potential. Theses practices build on each other, so you can listen consecutively, but if there is one in particular that speaks to you, feel free to stick with it. Based on the teachings of Adyashanti, they can be used alone or as a companion to his audio series, The 30-Day Wake...
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1 month ago
13 minutes

Heart Haven Meditations
Novelist Carrie Birde on Transmuting Suffering through Art
Join debut novelist Carrie Birde author of A Small Tale of Uncommon Grace (Blydyn Square Books) as she discusses her creative process, her road to publication, and the unique spiritual and artistic practices that help her transmute suffering—her own and the world’s—into daily acts of beauty. A literary fairy tale, her novel explores themes of community, connection, and communication. Carrie shares her personal rituals, including yoga, Qigong, and creating paper cranes, which help her ma...
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2 months ago
39 minutes

Heart Haven Meditations
Awakening Practice 20: Newborn Awareness
This is number 20 of a 30-part meditation series inspired by Adyashanti. This episode invites you to rediscover innocence, to let your senses be like that of a newborn, every moment as a new creation. Theses practices build on each other, so you can listen consecutively, but if there is one in particular that speaks to you, feel free to stick with it. Based on the teachings of Adyashanti, they can be used alone or as a companion to his audio series, The 30-Day Wake Up Challenge, or his book, ...
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2 months ago
10 minutes

Heart Haven Meditations
Novelist Paula Saunders on Writing to Heal the Past
Join novelist Paula Saunders as she discusses her moving autobiographical novel Starting from Here, just out from Penguin Random House. A stand-alone sequel to The Distance Home, the novel follows 15-year old René through the challenges of adolescence within the pressure cooker of cultural and socioeconomic stressors. Saunders draws from her own experiences as a ballet dancer. A long-time practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism, she shares how a Catholic nun introduced her to the work of Thich Nhat ...
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2 months ago
48 minutes

Heart Haven Meditations
Awakening Practice 19: Finding Yourself by Losing Yourself
As part of an ongoing series, this meditation inspired by Adyashanti invites you to find yourself by losing yourself. This is something we cannot “do” but rather “allow.” We let go of the notion of self that has no independent reality in order to experience our true identity, which is paradoxically personal and universal. What is truly me is no other than what is truly you, and what is truly all. Theses practices build on each other, so you can listen consecutively, but if there is one ...
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2 months ago
9 minutes

Heart Haven Meditations
Awakening Practice 18: Intimate Mystery: Taking a Leap of Love
As part of an ongoing series, this meditation inspired by Adyashanti invites you to take a leap into the realm beyond description, a leap of love, born of your care for yourself, others, and the planet. We let go of who we imagine ourselves to be in order to experience who we really are. Theses practices build on each other, so you can listen consecutively, but if there is one in particular that speaks to you, feel free to stick with it. Based on the teachings of Adyashanti, they can be used ...
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3 months ago
11 minutes

Heart Haven Meditations
Awakening Practice 17: The Gaze of Eternity: Blessed are the Poor in Spirit
As part of an ongoing series, this meditation inspired by Adyashanti invites you to relax and let go of ideas, assumptions, agendas, and self-orientation---to be what Christ called, "poor in spirit." This relinquishment allows you to enter the dark core of your being that is always and forever in direct contact with the mysterious, unknown dimension of Being. In this way, you become the space through which Eternity gazes into the world of time. Your eyes are the eyes of Eternity. The fi...
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3 months ago
9 minutes

Heart Haven Meditations
Awakening Practice 16: Open to the Mystery of your Being
As part of an ongoing series, this meditation inspired by Adyashanti invites you to relinquish all struggle, release yourself into awareness, and rest into the dark mystery of your being. It can be used in the morning, at bedtime, or on the spot in the course of your day. The practices build on each other, so you can listen consecutively, but if there is one in particular that speaks to you, feel free to stick with it. Based on the teachings of Adyashanti, they can be used alone or as a compa...
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3 months ago
9 minutes

Heart Haven Meditations
Awakening Practice 15: Access your Inner Peace with Ease
As part of an ongoing series, this meditation inspired by Adyashanti guides you into entering the ground of your being, the silence, stillness and peace beyond all understanding that rests in your depths, and which can be accessed even in life's most turbulent moments. It's always there. This meditation can be used in the morning, at bedtime, or on the spot in the course of your day. The practices build on each other, so you can listen consecutively, but if there is one in particular th...
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3 months ago
11 minutes

Heart Haven Meditations
Awakening Practice 14: Staying Connected to your Heart in your Daily Interactions
As part of an ongoing series of enlightenment practices, this meditation, inspired by Adyashanti, invites you to rest in the paradox of "being" and "becoming." It encourages you to bring the energy of the spiritual heart into your conversations and interactions throughout your day. This meditation can be used in the morning, at bedtime, or on the spot in the course of your day. The practices build on each other, so you can listen consecutively, but if there is one in particular that speaks to...
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3 months ago
9 minutes

Heart Haven Meditations
Awakening Practice 13: Resting in the Spiritual Heart
As part of an ongoing series of enlightenment practices, this meditation, inspired by Adyashanti, invites you to let your human heart be soaked in the presence of your spiritual heart, allowing it to restore and reorient your whole being to completeness and wholeness. This meditation can be used in the morning, at bedtime, or on the spot in the course of your day. The practices build on each other, so you can listen consecutively, but if there is one in particular that speaks to you, fe...
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4 months ago
11 minutes

Heart Haven Meditations
Awakening Practice 12: You are Life Becoming Conscious of Itself
As part of an ongoing series of enlightenment practices, this meditation, inspired by Adyashanti, is a reflection on the Buddhist saying, "This very body is the Buddha." Your body, your being, is an expression of life becoming conscious of itself through you. This meditation can be used in the morning, at bedtime, or on the spot in the course of your day. The practices build on each other, so you can listen consecutively, but if there is one in particular that speaks to you, feel free to stic...
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4 months ago
8 minutes

Heart Haven Meditations
Awakening Practice 11: Experiencing the Unity of Existence
As part of an ongoing series of short enlightenment practices, this heart-centered meditation focuses on experiencing yourself and the world around you as pure energy, and touching into the unity of existence. This practice can be used in the morning, at bedtime, or on the spot in the course of your day. The practices build on each other, so you can listen consecutively, but if there is one in particular that speaks to you, feel free to stick with it. Based on the teachings of Adyashanti, the...
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4 months ago
10 minutes

Heart Haven Meditations
Awakening Practice 10: See, Hear, Taste, Touch from the Silence of the Heart
As part of an ongoing series of short enlightenment practices, this meditation focuses on awakening your spiritual heart, and mixing it with your senses, (touch, sight, hearing, smelling, tasting). The spiritual heart is your perceptual center. It lies dormant in most human beings, but wants to be stirred awake. This practice can be used in the morning, at bedtime, or on the spot in the course of your day. The practices build on each other, so you can listen consecutively, but if there is one...
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5 months ago
11 minutes

Heart Haven Meditations
This is number 27 of a 30-part meditation series inspired by Adyashanti. This episode, drawn from the Prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi, invites you to seek to understand yourself and others before seeking to be understood. When you understand yourself deeply, the demand that others understand you begins to melt away. Your heart and mind open, and you enjoy life more. Demanding that others understand BEFORE you try to understand them can block awakened consciousness from streaming through you...