Listening To The Heart

In every moment of life, the heart is beating. Its pulsation is the current that awakens our senses, body and mind; its rhythm flows beneath every state of consciousness through waking, sleeping and dreaming.

Within the heartbeat are great revelations and discoveries about the nature of our human life: our purpose and destiny, our impermanence and immortality, our interconnectedness to others, our place in a pulsating universe, our elemental and energetic essence, our ineffable true identity.

Many teachings are found in the world’s spiritual traditions about the heart and its subtle
mysteries, but the greatest mystery is this: why do we rarely listen directly to its voice?

What is Listening To The Heart?

Listening to the Heart is a simple meditation method that is a complete system of self-study and self-healing. The practices of Listening to the Heart meditation system are based on mindfulness, but also include elements of visualization, imagination, science, mysticism and medicine.

Listening to The Heart is a biologically based form of meditation that is not associated with any culture or religion.

Listening to The Heart reveals our inner spiritual identity that lies beneath identification with race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, and gender. It is a path of exploring the inner and outer universes one heartbeat at a time.

What are the benefits of Listening to The Heart?

Listening to The Heart produces immediate relaxation responses that are easier for most people
to learn and accomplish than most other types of meditation.

Listening to The Heart heals grief and loss, and cures loneliness. It improves the relationship with oneself first, and then with others. It develops self-knowledge, and brings self-acceptance.

Listening to The Heart opens channels of creativity, and brings inspiration and insights.

Simple versions of Listening to The Heart have been researched in modern clinical applications, and found to have specific benefits of improving emotional intelligence, that are particularly helpful for learning how to identify and articulate emotions in healthy and productive ways.

Listening to The Heart reveals our deeper biological unity with the elements of nature and other beings, which creates higher levels of mental and emotional wellbeing. It is a method that directly enhances our inner knowing and intuition about who we are on many levels, including practical guidance in solving real-life problems.

Listening to The Heart reveals the deepest levels of our mind and consciousness, and allows us to explore the great questions and mysteries of life, birth, death and rebirth in a direct biological way.

The 16 Practices of the Listening To The Heart System

Finding the Pulse: Becoming sensitive to the pulsation of the heart

• Using various hand positions to listen attentively to the heartbeat
• Developing refined sensitivity of the heartbeat throughout the body at all times

 Presence and Self Love: The profound nourishment of giving attention to one’s heart

• Healing the emptiness of disconnection from the heart

 The Great Constant: Becoming aware of the ever-present nature of the heartbeat

• Experiencing the heartbeat as the manifestation of ever-present spiritual awareness 

Flowing River Samadhi: Listening to internal waves and rivers

• Meditating on the stream of heartbeats according to the yogic method of “flowing river samadhi”, and other lineages

 The River of Time: Contemplating our lifespan 

• Perceiving the stream of heartbeats as the flow of our lifespan through time

The First Heartbeat: Contemplating the embryonic origin of the mind-stream in this incarnation

The Last Heartbeat and the Great Mystery: Liberation from fear of death by contemplating the final pulsation of the heart

• Intuitively exploring the dimension before the first heartbeat and after the last heartbeat

Ancestors in Our Blood: Listening to the echoes of ancestral lineages in heartbeat 

• Blessing the ancestors, healing our relationships and freeing ourselves from the past

The Seven Levels of Heart Prana: Contemplating the life force that animates the heart

• A pilgrimage to the innermost temple of the Self that renews life with each heartbeat

Unity of Heart and Earth: Contemplating the flow of the earth’s elements circulating through the inner landscape of the body

The Five Flowers: How the heart creates the five sensory perceptions of the world

• How the heart causes reality to appear in consciousness, one beat at a time
• The biorhythmic cycle of waking, sleeping and dreaming as it affects the movement of consciousness in and out of the sense organs

One Heartbeat: Entering the pulsating universe through the heartbeat

• Contemplating the synchronized biorhythms of the body, seasons, plants and celestial cycles

Outer, Inner and Secret Levels of Prana: Discovering the innermost levels of immune power and self-healing

Consulting the Inner Oracle: Listening to the intuition of the heart for guidance

• Becoming attentive to the voice of inner knowing and the path of life purpose 

The Mirror of The Mind: Deepening awareness of the body-mind relationship for enhancing emotional intelligence 

• Listening to the heart to identify, articulate and respond to emotions with spiritual clarity and wisdom

Sitting Forgetting: Listening to the heart to unlearn habits of self-perception and superficial identity

The Course

Join David Crow for a unique and memorable meditation training, devoted entirely to simply listening to the heartbeat and the profound truths it reveals.

Listening to The Heart will be presented in five weekly sessions of two hours each.

In the ten hours there will be instruction, commentary and practice of each method

From David Crow:

“After listening to the pulses of thousands of people in my clinical practice, as I was trained in Chinese, Tibetan and Ayurvedic medicines, I began listening to my own. Almost immediately, I began having insights and realizations that clarified and deepened my understanding of many spiritual teachings. Now, after twenty years, I have listened to millions of pulsations of my own heart, have shared these teachings with thousands of people; my own experiences and the testimonials of others confirm that this simple practice has immediate and immense benefits for everyone.”

“Your heart beats about 60 times in one minute; in one hour it beats 3600 times; after 5 sessions of Listening to The Heart, you will have gained deeper knowledge of yourself by giving attention to 36,000 heartbeats.”