Open Your Heart, Quickly
Here’s a great technique for quickly opening your heart chakra. It is especially useful in times where you’re feeling a bit low or not as compassionate as you know you could be.
Along with an open heart chakra comes the energies of acceptance, compassion, and unconditional love. Not to mention, it feels fantastic! 
There are a number of excellent heart chakra meditations and visualization techniques to help you open your heart chakra, but today we’re going to focus on one technique to help you open it on the spot.
This technique is sometimes called “The Thymus Thump” because it activates the thymus inside your chest. Metaphysically speaking, you’re activating your heart chakra.
Here’s how you do it. Simultaneously,
- Smile
- Think about someone you love
- Make a fist with your hand
- Thump on the center of your chest in 3 sets of 3 while saying, “ha ha ha, ha ha ha, ha ha ha”
That’s it!
With this one simple technique, your chakra will start to open and you’ll immediately start to feel more loving and open with the world. 
One cool thing I like to do is after the 9 thumps, keep thumping until I completely bust out laughing. (This usually only takes a few more thumps.) Spontaneous genuine outbursts of laughter for no reason at all is a great sign of an open heart. It arises simply from feeling good.
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Interestingly enough, I’m getting almost incapacitating bliss when doing this lately.
And an open Heart Chakra.
And Joy.
Basically, full on awesomeness.
You have to be really relaxed and already in a good surrendered state (being surrender, not “doing surrender”) for this to happen.
But once it does… wow.
Anyone reading this, this is what practical Enlightenment should be: Subjectively experiential, verifiable by empirical evidence, and repeatable across broad time and modal domains.
The Thymus Thump is all three.
Do it.
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This sounds dope, but I dont understand how to do it, each time you say HA you thump or you thump only once after: “ha ha ha, ha ha ha, ha ha ha”.
I’m really confused here
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It’s pretty straightforward, Tuplad. I hope I didn’t make it sound overly complex.
Basically every time you Tarzan-thump your chest, you say “ha.”
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This is some quality service, very fast
Thanks man, gonna try it out.
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If you don’t feel anything, no worries. You can keep experimenting with it and notice if anything develops within you. Go with your experience. If it works for you, keep with it. If not, let it go and find another tool.
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I’ve been practicing the Thymus thump at least once a day for several weeks now, and I just wanted to thank you so much for sharing it with all of us.
I try to do it in the shower every morning, or whenever I am feeling down or uncompassionate. It even helps when I need to be compassionate with myself. I’ve had a range of experiences from feeling a little better, to feeling the bliss that Eric feels.
So- thank you!
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RubyRed Reply:
October 27th, 2008 at 7:54 pm
Ariel! Hey I recognize you from Steph’s site. I used to go on there before he banned me for wanting my money back
This is so cool I stumbled on this site.. Anyways good luck I’ll be checking out this site more often
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Thanks for this. I lost my cat yesterday and after doing this, I felt a little sadness make way for quiet acceptance and appreciation for the wonderful time I’ve had with her. I’m still okay with feeling sad, but the little oasis of calm this exercise gave me, is very welcome.
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I had the opposite reaction. After pounding my chest, I had a heart attack, a stroke, and an overwhelming urge to fart while singing.
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