TWIN HEARTS MEDITATION

"From the Heart of God, Let the Hearts of all Sentient Beings be filled with Divine Love and Kindness. Let the Hearts of all Sentient Beings be Filled with Great Joy, Happiness and Divine Peace. Let the Hearts of all Sentient Beings be Filled with Understanding, Harmony, Goodwill and the Will to Do Good." - Master Choa Kok Sui

The Twin Hearts Meditation was developed by Master Choa Kok Sui to help flush out negative thoughts and emotions that congest our mind and body every day. It is practised in over 126 countries around the world and the testimonials of personal healing and positive life transformation have been incredible. Meditating on the Twin Hearts enables the body to absorb a tremendous amount of energy which many refer to as Prana, Chi or life’s energy. This has a flushing and cleansing effect, then stimulating and energising effect through the practitioners’ system resulting in better physical, emotional and mental health.

He could be a cynical bastard at the best of times, but when life finally fucked him up with a reality uppercut, he would indiscriminately reach for whatever was at hand to help him through the sudden, difficult time he and his family now faced. In the past, whenever he imagined what hard times might look like, he assumed he would take the edge off by retreating into those lofty, erudite cultural things he had obsessed over through half a lifetime of study. But now, so many of those cultural treasures he had amassed seemed to fly out the window, replaced instead by a three-minute pop song on the radio or a trite spiritual meme he stumbled across on his social media feed.

“Relax. Nothing is under control.”

Had he lost his better judgment? Was he succumbing to kitsch mediocrity? Perhaps. Or was it simply easier for his broken heart to take refuge in the small, simple things over which he had no control? This was the universe on shuffle mode, with random moments piercing his tender heart while its defenses were down and he had nothing to shield himself. He could be undone by an Instagram or TikTok story and then, moments later, chastise himself for being such a weak, uncultured slob.

Surely this was a time for the greats—the three B’s: Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms.
And yet it was a fourth B that comforted him more than all those giants:
John Barry.

If there were elevator music for his current state of mind, it would probably be the theme from Somewhere in Time by the legendary film composer John Barry. He had remembered it after being cajoled into attending a personal development course, months before the trouble began.

The four-day course had ended with a final meditation prayer, led by Master Co, a senior instructor at the World Pranic Healing Center. It lasted the better part of half an hour—perhaps forty minutes.

As he listened to Master Co’s Twin Hearts meditation prayer that first time, he felt conflicted. It combined the lightest, most accessible—some might even say superficial—elements of Eastern mysticism with a Western Hallmark-card sentiment, a strange mishmash of text drawn from both Master Choa Kok Sui and Saint Francis of Assisi. As he tried to sit still and go with it, his spiritual snobbishness began to flare. He thought back on the times he had sat with his father and friends, studying ancient Buddhist meditation teachings, and imagined them scoffing at such a rice-paper-thin practice as this.

But when the spoken meditation was suddenly accompanied by the Somewhere in Time theme, his cynicism dissolved. He was transported into a special, movie-like atmosphere in his mind, a place where reality and dreams converged. It was that magic space of memory: watching a classic film on television at his grandmother’s house during those showery-sunny early summer days when raindrops dried within the hour, and you’d wonder what to do at the park once the film ended. Or better yet, those teenage afternoons when you’d take refuge in a cinema, surrender to another world, and feel transfigured by the experience.

In some ways, he now saw his mind as like an old 1980s cinema—projecting memories of past, present, and future. A time machine of image and sound, where, as in a classic film, you remained captive to the sensations and emotions each scene evoked. He remembered the ache of Superman weakened by kryptonite, and the relief of his triumphant return to save humanity. Perhaps he too—like that bodhisattva superhero par excellence—could do some good.

The best music works on a subconscious level. It creeps into unguarded places, where the soft, tender heart of compassion waits to be activated. As pink and golden light filled his mind with thoughts of love for friends, family, and the world at large, he suddenly felt free of conceit. Was it the meditation, or the John Barry music? Most likely both.

It was during that Twin Hearts meditation that he re-discovered the feeling of childhood. Months later, when challenges struck, he would take solace in trancing out to the same music, the prayer still fresh in his mind and heart.

Sometimes the things that heal us in hard times are not the most sophisticated or complex.
Sometimes they are mawkish, uncomplicated, and surprising.

Allow yourself to be a tunnel for divine light and divine joy. Bless the entire earth with light and joy, specially people who are sad, people who are in pain, people who are depressed, fill them with light and joy. Imagine golden light from your hands going down to the entire earth, filling the whole earth with light, with love.