Heart Beat Listening

THE ART OF  HEART BEAT LISTENING PRACTICE by Choy

For more than 8,000 years, according to acupuncture theory and practice, the heart meridian is the governor of all meridian pathways of energy.
 
How do you practice it?
Initially, you need to practice the third fundamental Tai Chi Exercise and refer to the third chapter in the 15 Ways to a Happier You book.
 
A brief synopsis is as follows:

  1. Gently place your right palm on your chest to listen to your heart beats
  2. Once you can “FEEL” your heart beats, focus on the rapid little PAUSES in between the heart beats.
  3. If you cannot hear or feel the heart beats, relax, your heart is still there!! You just need patience and perhaps get a stethoscope for yourself. At the Rainbow Tai Chi School, you have stethoscope in the rooms to help you hear your heart beats.
  4. The other palm on your belly is for listening to the pauses in between your in breaths and out breaths
  5. Then, take a deep breath from your belly and fill yourself with rejuvenating chi every day.
  6. Relax into this heart beat meditation for about 5-15 minutes every day.
  7. Feel grateful to chi and to the Shen spirit who lives in your heart.

 
THE BENEFITS OF HEART BEAT LISTENING

  1. Sleep more peacefully when you have accumulated loads of those wonderful PAUSES
  2. Keep yourself energised with heart beat listening and meditation on the pauses in your breathing.
  3. In meetings, when everyone is trying to get to the “heart of the matter”, you get to it faster to help the meeting get to the heart of the solution. And get promoted!! The heart has its own intelligence.
  4. When feeling lonely, heart beat listening help you to feel warmth and loving chi.
  5. If you are ill, heart beat listening helps you to find the right herbs, right doctor, right healer and learn to encourage yourself to heal faster.
  6. For passing exams or long car journeys, stop everything when feeling tired, take 5-15 minutes pause to do seated heart beat listening, you will feel refreshed and ready to go with renewed energy.
  7. Your practice of Tai Chi Chi Kung or any other Artistic skills such as music, painting, dance, acting, etc etc will improve with heart beat listening. Heart beat listening unites your mind with your body.
  8. Heart beat listening help improve your power of concentration. Get the mind to melt into the heart and tan tien (belly centre)
  9. If stuck with resolving a mechanical problem or trying to find something you have lost, slow down to practice heart beat listening and you let go into the Wu Chi (the Unknown). Your heart will show you the way to find the solution naturally and effortlessly.
  10. Heart beat listening connects you to Mother Nature and helps you to flow in harmony with natural rhythms and cycles.