Heart Healing Meditation
by Doreen Virtue, Ph.D.

Here is a powerful healing meditation to help you 
lose your fears about love
and to cleanse your heart chakra. You may want to 
tape-record this
meditation with soft background music, so you can 
easily listen to it once
or twice a day.

1. With your eyes closed, and in a comfortable 
position, take two or three
very deep, cleansing breaths.

2. Visualize a beautiful cloud of emerald green 
light surrounding you. As
you breathe in, you take this healing energy into 
your lungs, your cells,
and your heart. Concentrate on your heart a 
moment, as you allow the
emerald-green light to cleanse away any 
negativity that may have caused you
to feel pain.

3. With a deep breath, be willing to allow the 
light to carry away any fears
you may have about love. Be willing to release 
the fear of feeling love. You
need do nothing else except breathe and hold the 
intention to heal yourself
of the fear of love. Just be willing to be 
healed, and God and the angels
will do everything else. Take another deep 
breath, as you become willing to
release the fear of being loved, including the 
fear that if you are loved,
you could be manipulated, tricked, used, 
abandoned, rejected, persecuted, or
hurt. With another deep breath, allow all of 
these fears from any lifetime
to be lifted and carried away.

4. Now, allow the light to cleanse you of any 
fears you may have about
giving love. With a deep breath, be willing to 
release the fear that if you
give love, you could be controlled, abused, 
deceived, betrayed, maimed, or
hurt in any way. Allow all of these fears to be 
lifted completely, and feel
your heart expanding to its natural loving state.

5. Allow yourself to release any old 
unforgiveness you may be harboring
toward those who seem to have hurt you in a love 
relationship. Become
willing to release unforgiveness toward your 
mother ... toward your father
... toward other parental figures ... toward your 
siblings ... toward your
childhood friends ... toward your adolescent 
friends ... toward your first
love ... toward those whom you dated and loved 
... toward anyone you lived
with or married.... Allow all of your hurts and 
disappointments associated
with love to be cleansed and fully carried away. 
You don't want the hurt,
you don't need it, and with another deep breath, 
it is lifted to the light
where it is transmuted and purified. Only the 
lessons remain, and the pure
essence of love contained within each 
relationship, since that is the only
thing that was ever eternal and real within each 
of your relationships.

6. Now, with another deep breath, allow the light 
to cleanse you completely.
Be willing to release any unforgiveness you may 
hold toward yourself
connected to love. Be willing to forgive yourself 
for betraying yourself,
for ignoring your intuition, or for not looking 
out for your highest
interests. Give yourself a hug, either in your 
mind or with your arms.
Reassure your inner self that you will never 
again engage in self-betrayal.

7. You now commit to following your intuition and 
discernment, so you could
never be or stay in any relationship that would 
hurt you. Fully release the
unforgiveness for any mistakes that you think you 
may have made in any
relationship, including your relationship with 
yourself. And with another
very deep cleansing breath, feel yourself healed, 
whole, and ready to enjoy
the love that is the truth about who you really 
are.

As we lose the fear of love, we become more aware 
of the rich range of
feelings that are part of our human experience.

This article is excerpted from Divine Guidance, 
©1998, by Doreen Virtue,
Ph.D.. Reprinted with permission of the 
publisher, Renaissance Books.
http://www.renaissancebks.com

About the Author

Doreen Virtue is a spiritual psychologist who 
holds Ph.D., M.A., and B.A.
degrees in Counseling Psychology and is the 
author of twenty-two books about
mind-body-spirit issues including Angel Therapy 
and Divine Guidance.