Module 5 Heart Listening - The Flower of the sense of Taste: Three Levels, One Flow
Embodied Mindfulness Meditation
Module 5: Heart Listening - The Flower of the senseof Taste, Three Levels, One Flow
with Dina Asher Kushnir
Module 5 Heart Listening - The Flower of the sense of Taste: Three Levels, One Flow
Embodied Mindfulness Meditation
with Dina Asher Kusnir
An Invitation to Heart-Centered Perception
In a world that often prioritizes head over heart, this practice offers a gentle but powerful rebalancing. By recognizing the heart as the root of perception, we invite a more integrated, embodied way of experiencing life.
When listening to the heart there are three levels of knowing that become one flow.
1. listening to the pulsation of the heart on radial artery of the opposite hand. Listen and feel the heart beat in the chest. This deep listening has immense healing power for the whole body.
2. The heart nourishes and maintain the tree of life, that is our body mind. Each heartbeat is a contraction of the heart that sends blood to the body with nutrients and life force. Each body part is in direct contact with the heart through the blood flow. And the heart is in direct contact with the organ through the return blood.
3. The heart is the root of our perceptions. The sense organs receive the nutrients and life force from the heart as they open like flowers to receive the impression of the outer world, sent it back to the heart via the blood flow.
One heart beat at a time we perceive the world.
This Episode: The Flower of Taste
The heart is the root of the sense organ of taste, sending nutrients, oxygen, and life force to the tongue. Then sensory receptors receiving the outer world as food or drink enter the mouth.
This realization of the one flow dissolves the boundaries we typically experience between "inner" and "outer." The world comes to meet us at the door of taste perception and dissolves into our body to become us as food.
This practice transforms every meal into a meditation, every sip of water into a moment of conscious connection with life itself. You begin to taste not just flavors, but the very essence of being alive.
Enjoy the taste of your life, not just the food and drink that nourish your body, but the full flavor of being alive, aware, and connected to the web of existence through each conscious taste and heartbeat.