A Zen Mind Guided Meditations - 10 Minute Heart Opening Meditation: Love for Yourself & All Beings

Episode Date: September 1, 2025

💓Love can be a strange feeling at times. It may feel difficult to access, hard to hold, and even challenging to share. This meditation is an invitation to return to the simple essence of love within your heart.  During this practice, you’ll be guided to focus on something you love, and allow that feeling to expand. Through your body, and into the world. This space is meant for embodying the pure frequency of love - receiving it, and being it.  This meditation is perfect for you if you're ready to open your heart, feel more love deeply, and invite more love into your  life and the world around you. With love, Jo  👇👇👇 More from A Zen Mind 👇👇👇 ✨Join Me on Instagram! 🎙️ Listen Ad Free on Spotify 💞 Work With Me 1:1 (Custom Meditations) 💌Join My Email List ▶️YouTube 🌸www.azenmindpodcast.com 💖 Say Thanks & Support A Zen Mind Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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And as always, once the meditation begins, there will be no advertisements and no disruptions. Thank you so much for being here. And welcome to this guided meditation. This practice is centered around the heart and the powerful energy that is love. Love for yourself and for all sentient beings. Take a moment to get into a nice, comfortable position, closing your eyes and letting your body soften completely, bringing your awareness to your breath as you breathe in and breathe out, noticing the breath here with you. In the space, inhale deeply. exhale fully

a bit deeper a bit longer breathe in breathe out inviting your mind to slowly begin to quiet itself in the space

as you simply focus on the breath on the inhale on a rhythm that feels natural and comfortable for you

breathe in breathe out, letting your awareness shift inward toward your inner experience and gently guide it into your heart center and just be here with it, be here with this awareness, breathing deeper into this space and creating space to feel the sensation of your own heart. beating, this gift of life that has lived within you since the very beginning, just noticing it, the appreciation and the awe towards it for your body, for your existence. And in this next moment, gently bring to mind something that which you love. It could be a person, a flower, a scent, a scent, a tree, anything that you can love and just hold it here for a moment,

letting your awareness settle onto it and let it open your heart. Keep expanding it, grow wider and deeper, letting it fill your chest and flow into your whole body, letting the love spread through your arms, your legs, your face, your entire being, letting the love grow deeper and deeper. Not just for this one thing, but the source of what is behind all of it. Let it reach beyond the body, stretching into the space around you. Found your body, found your room, into the world around you. Feel yourself as an open channel for that which is love. Receiving it, holding it, being it, sharing it with yourself

and with all sentient beings, quietly repeating to yourself, stay in this feeling, taking a few more breaths into this space, inhaling this love, into your chest, into your heart, into your body, out into the world, to notice how it feels to be full of love. Notice how it feels to open your heart completely. Taking one more deep breath in and a slow and gentle Breath out. Once you feel ready, you may slowly bring your awareness back to your body, back to the space around you, as you wiggle your fingers and your toes, and gently opening your eyes, energy within and around you, everything that you do. Love for yourself and for all sentient. and so much love. Namaste.