The Fire Starter Sessions by Danielle LaPorte

Author:Danielle LaPorte [LaPorte, Danielle]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 978-0-307-95212-7
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
Published: 2012-04-16T16:00:00+00:00

This is where some teachers suggest envisioning white light extending out of your heart.

Who (or what) do you know that’s hurting? A child. A friend in her first round of chemotherapy. Your racist neighbor who doesn’t even know he’s suffering. Victims of rape and human trafficking. One of many impoverished nations. Starving polar bears. Our oceans and rivers.

Breathe in the wish to take away all their pain and fear. Then, as you breathe out, send them happiness, ease, care, or whatever you feel would relieve their pain.

You can start with your own fear and tough stuff, or that of those around you. Breathe in the worst thing that ever happened to you. That sunk feeling. That thing you wish you could take back. Recapitulate it in breaths: the blackness, the sickness, the fibrous seething rage, the sticky-scratchy, inconsolable weight of it. Take in the unbearableness. You may want to escape. Press on. Go beyond the grip. Inhale the pain in to your every cell. You won’t die. You’re going to expand. Keep breathing.

You’re on the verge of a miracle.

Now breathe out joy. Soothing golden warmth. Luminous flying birds of clarity. Electric rays of smiling karate chops. Feel your lungs as powerful creative engines of healing and righteousness. Pulsate rapture. Let happiness emerge from the fractures. Let scar tissue become bridges that lead to a festival of relief and dancing. See joy. Feel joy. Hear joy. Sing joy. Breathe love into every cell of the situation.

Now do it for other people’s suffering. Please. For that homeless man on the street, in winter. Cold and demoralized. Inhale his agony. Exhale comfort and transformation. The jobless folks with families to feed. Cancer patients fighting to live. People gone mad. Soldiers who kill and the families they destroy. Take in the wreckage. Turn it into light and give back compassion and tenderness.

When your heart is heavy, when you want to feel alive…breathe.

This practice may shatter you. But wouldn’t that be grand? To be shattered? To be so immensely open that you’d feel the truth: that you’re really as selfless, as loyal, as creative, as tender, as strong…as all of us.

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