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 take whatever was at hand to help him through the unexpected difficult time he and his family suddenly faced. In the past, whenever he imagined what hard times looked like, he'd assumed he would simply take the edge off by taking refuge in those lofty, eruidite cultural things he'd obsessed over his half a lifetime of study. But now he found so many of those cultural treasures he'd amassed would suddenly go out of the window and be replaced by a three minute pop song on the radio or a trite spiritual meme he'd scrolled upon on his social media feed.

"Relax. Nothing is under control."

Had he lost his better judgement? Was he succumbing to kitsch mediocrity? Perhaps. Or was it just easier for his broken heart to access the simple things that he had no real control over. This was the universe on shuffle mode with random things pricking his tender heart while its defences were down and he had nothing to defend himself against them. He could be undone by an Instagram or Tik Tok story and then soon after admonish 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 helped above all those giants.

John Barry.

If there was elevator music for his current state of mind then it would probably be the theme tune to Somewhere In Time by the legendary film composer, John Barry. He'd remembered it after being cajoled to attend a personal development course months before the trouble came.

The four day course had ended with a final meditation prayer carried out by Master Co, a senior instructor at the world pranic healing center and lasting the best part of half an hour to forty minutes in duration.

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 say superficial meditation practice of eastern mysticism with a western Hallmark card sentiment, a strange mish mash of text combining Master Choa Kok Sui and Saint Francis of Assisi. As he tried to go with it and sit still, he found his spiritual snobbishness kicking off in his head in as he thought back on all the times he'd actually sat and focused on ancient buddhist meditation teachings with his father and friends. He imagined they'd all scoff at such a seemingly rice paper thin meditation prayer as this.

But when the spoken meditation was suddenly accompanied by the Somewhere In Time theme, his cynicism instantly dissolved. He was transported to a special, movie like atmosphere in his mind, a place where reality and dreams converged, that magic place where he'd watch a classic movie on television at his grandmother's house on one of those showery/sunny days in early summer when rain drops would be dried by the sun within an hour and you'd contemplate what you might do at the local park after the film ended. Or even better, those teenage days when you'd take refuge in a cinema to watch a movie and find yourself transported to another world and feel transfigured by the experience. In some ways he now saw his mind as like that of an old 1980's cinema, projecting memories of the past, present and future. A time machine of image and sound where, just as when watching a classic film, you remain captive to the sensations and emotions each scene throws up. He could remember that feeling of Superman being in jeopardy from exposure to kryptonite and empathising greatly with the superhero's vulnerability until his triumphant return to save humanity. Perhaps he, like the bodhisattva superhero par excellence, could do some good too.

The best music works on a subconscious level and creeps into those unguarded places where your soft, tender heart of compassion waits to be activated. As pink and golden light filled his mind with thoughts of deep compassion for friends, family and the world at large, he suddenly found himself free of conceit and wondered whether it was the spoken meditation or the John Barry music. Most likely it was both.

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

Sometimes the things that heal us in hard times are not always the most sophisticated or complex.

Sometimes they're 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.