As with anything that involves the ego, there is always a duality that exists and there are traps that one wants to avoid in using heart-centered awareness. The first is using the technique to avoid an experience and the pain and suffering from an experience. When you develop heart-centered awareness, moving into the observer state of consciousness allows you to take on fully the pain of the suffering. While this is good, you have now used heart-centered awareness as another defense mechanism. You can avoid this simply by setting the intent that you want to take on the whole experience with an open heart.<\/p>\n
The second trap is sitting with something in meditation, such as taking on your unworthiness for hours at a time, during times when you are not in a state of heart-centered awareness. Then you will victimize yourself by being present with unworthiness, and it can overtake or overwhelm you. When you meditate with a pattern or a dynamic, limit your time in meditation and be sure your awareness resides in the heart chakra; otherwise, you will victimize yourself and wallow in your own illusions and false beliefs of who you are.<\/p>\n
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