We started our meditations by opening our heart. The technique is to simply place your hand on your heart and breath with your mouth open. Breathing this way, is a universal symbol of opening the heart and say "yes" to the heart and "yes" to letting go.
Christine explained, when we have strong emotions that we do not know how to handle, like fear, anxiety, anger, sadness, etc., the body tends to hold their breath. In the not expressing or allowing the emotions to show up and out, we hold our breath and the emotion gets trapped inside our cells.
When we breath and hold our attention to our heart space we allow these trapped emotions to come out. Some of the participants would feel a pain or discomfort in their body as we did this. Christine explained, they were emotions wanting to leave the body. We were encouraged to simply breath into the experience, and allow it to be. No trying to force anything. Just breath and allow the experience. What tended to happen, when I would breath into whatever I was feeling, somehow the pain, discomfort would end up disappearing. Often during these meditations people would feel a sound that would come out of the body. The sound is just a releasing. The body uses sound and breath for releasing and connection.
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