Course XLII - Teaching 10: Exercises for Monitoring the Heart Wheel

The power of the Heart Wheel becomes manifest with intense passions of altruistic or revengeful kind. Here love and hatred are opposite poles for manifested forces of this center.
Here is an exercise tending to guide forces of this wheel:
Keep your mind on the Little Wheel with eight petals.
Adorn this place by thinking up all possible and imaginable beauties, in order to put in it the Master’s image materialized.
This exercise of the humanized Divine, devotion, Sharva –which is so frequent in Christianity and their custom of imagining God with the image of Jesus– is indispensable for the right development of this power.
The one who meditates should not strive for feeling anything about the Master; he just must look at it, with attention. Here expectation, patience and serenity give excellent results.
It is better to stop affective impulses than to release them, and eventually the current of love opens in such an irresistible way that the disciple is unable to know himself and, carried away, becomes the Master’s image.
You should make this exercise being comfortably sitting down, at a solitary and quiet place, or in a temple, or being sitting in the shade of a tree like a pine, oak or birch.
The hands have to be placidly placed one upon another, softly, upon your knees, and your eyes half-open; chest has to be straight, and head lightly inclined forward.
This exercise should be stopped in the event of intense heartbeats, but you can go on if the epidermis of your chest turns red as the result of these intense heartbeats.