Heart Rhythm Exercises for Life

1. See yourself reflected in another. See how that person is similar to you. See how they become more similar as you feel more accommodation, respect, admiration and love for them.

2. Feel another person. People are very different than they appear and even different than they think. Your feeling of another tells you more than their words and actions can.

3. Identify what it is in yourself that is irritating to you when you see it reflected in another. Recognize that it is your own emerging quality you see in the one you admire.

4. Practice forgiveness, thereby showing the action of the Universal Heart reflected in your heart. Forgiveness can be practiced in different ways such as tolerance, forgetting, and overlooking.

5. Reveal your innermost being with dignity; by so doing, you teach others how the heart operates.

6. Let your heart be moved by the beauty and tragedy all around you.

7. Don't avoid emotional pain; instead, experience your heart's pain with all your awareness, until it becomes a physical sensation. Go so deeply into pain that it becomes the pain of humanity. Let the pain turn to joy, to all feeling.

8. Forget the errors of others. Your reproach may make them firm in their faults. Do not dwell on your own errors either. People are seldom improved by guilt. Blame no one for anything. Rather, try to understand their reason.