Featured Meditation Series

A Brief Introduction to Agni Yoga
Materials excerpted from The Agni Yoga/Attunement Meditation Workshop
© 2001 by George A. Boyd

As part of our featured meditation series, we will continue exploring Agni Yoga methods that have particular relevance for the healer. This is the second of our techniques, the Love Attunement.

Please note: These are powerful techniques, and for some people, they can bring up poignant and painful material. If you are not a healing or counseling professional, we suggest that you have access to a healing professional, a trained counselor, or psychotherapist to assist you, in case these methods stir up issues that you may not know how to handle.


The Love Attunement

In the Love Attunement, you address that deep yearning for love you may feel, for a connection with an intimate other, and to be truly valued by him or her.  There is no shame or regret here, but yearning and longing for the blessing of love. 

If you have grown up in a dysfunctional family or have known an isolated existence for whatever reason, the Love Attunement specifically addresses your deep emotional pain and yearning. If you lack the experience of love in your life right now or are carrying with you a lifetime of feelings of being unloved, the Love Attunement lets you experience love welling up from a deep reservoir from within you. If you do not feel loved by another person right now, there is no reason you cannot let y our Self experience being loved by the Divine.

Love Attunement Meditation

Sit on a chair with an open posture.  Spread your legs apart and your hands down at your sides as far towards the back of your body as you comfortably can.

Notice the uncomfortable feeling of vulnerability, and focus your attention on it.  Notice your yearning to be loved.  Let yourself silently say and feel the words, "I want love.  I want to love and be loved."  Breath into the center of your chest steadily and slowly, and open to your past, and let yourself re-feel and re-experience all of the times when you felt unloved, unworthy, unappreciated.  Breathe and let yourself remember your past, going back to when you were born, and all the times in which you felt unloved.  Feel the pain of being unloved, and let your tears come, let the emotions come up.

Feel behind you there is the loving Heart of the Divine, the presence of Unconditional Love existing within your Higher Self.  Feel that Divine Love is pouring through your Higher Self from the Heart of the Divine, and it is being focalized as laser beam of light, a single beam of love directed right into the core of your pain, right into the core of your yearning for love.  Take in this love, and let the Divine Love you unconditionally and completely.  Drink in as much love as you need, and drink in love for every time in your past when you were not loved. 

Feel the infinite appreciation and valuing that the Divine has for you, how precious you are, and how totally loved you are.  Let the force of Divine Love melt your heart, and let it penetrate into every hidden recess of pain.  Drink it in, take it in, let yourself be quenched by it, inundated by it, immersed in it, lost in it.

When the flood tides of Divine Love have gently receded, give thanks for the gift of love.  Remember those you love, and those that you would like to love, and feel your connection with them. 

The Love Attunement is a way to get a love recharge when the batteries of your love are low.  Since the Divine has always loved you, loves you now, and will always love you, you might as well let Love into your heart.

If you have any serious medical or psychiatric condition, we strongly recommend that you consult your health care provider before practicing any of the meditations on this website. We assume no responsibility for the consequences of the reader practicing these meditations incorrectly, and we do not guarantee or warrant that you will get positive results from using them.  While the vast majority of people who use meditation do obtain positive results, a rare few do have negative reactions to some of these practices. Should negative reactions occur, we recommend that you immediately stop doing the practice or practices that caused these problems, and consult a health care or mental health professional for assistance if this becomes necessary to resolve the problem.

Note: if you are in recovery from addiction and have found this technique helpful, you may wish to obtain our book, Meditation for Recovery: Key Techniques for Maintaining Sobriety, Sanity, and Serenity, which details many additional meditation techniques in helping you to make progress with your addiction.