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Whatever makes you glad to be alive - do that, whenever you can.  

“Something amazing happens when we surrender and just love. We melt into another world, a realm of power already within us. The world changes when we change, the world softens when we soften. The world loves us when we choose to love the world.” -Marianne Williamson

Whatever makes you glad to be alive - do that,
 whenever you can.

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Join us as we share the journey into “Opening the Heart.”

📅 Next Sessions:

·  Online: Tuesday, February 10th, 7 PM ET

·  In-Person: Thursday, February 12th, 7 PM ET 185 Lincoln St. Suite 300, Hingham (Crow Point Pizza Plaza)

This Week's Focus on: Opening the Heart

Key Points:

·  True heart-opening comes from welcoming all experiences—pleasant and difficult.

·  Mindfulness doesn’t eliminate sadness or fear; it teaches us to witness feelings with compassion, creating safety and space instead of resistance.

·  Safety and acceptance naturally soften the heart.

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It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. -Antoine de Saint Exupйry

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Opening the Heart

To live with an open heart is not to banish our old patterns or overcome our shadows, but to meet them with honesty and care. Heart-opening begins when we are willing to bring the light of gentle awareness to all that lives within us—without rushing to change it.

In our longing for happiness, we sometimes try to pry the heart open, welcoming love and ease while turning away from grief, loneliness, or fear. Yet the heart does not open through force or selection. It opens through inclusion. Through the quiet courage to make room for everything that arises.

Meditation offers a pathway into this softening. It does not erase sadness or anxiety, nor does it promise only pleasant states. Instead, it changes how we relate to what we feel. As we sit and notice our inner landscape—the tightness in the chest, the heaviness of sorrow, the gentle pulses of joy—we practice meeting experience just as it is, without judgment or resistance.

In this mindful presence, a sacred space of allowance is created. We learn to feel the feeling without becoming lost in it. This compassionate witnessing tells the heart it is safe to open at its own pace. In that safety, holding begins to loosen. The body softens, the breath deepens, and even within difficulty, a quiet steadiness emerges.

As we sit together, let us practice this simple and radical act of acceptance—meeting each sensation, each emotion, with kindness. In allowing everything to belong, the heart naturally opens, and from that openness, connection and tenderness can flow.