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As the world immerses itself in a pink shimmer, on this holy Hallmark Day of February 14th, let’s take a moment to think about how we spread the love the other 364 days of the year.

Commercial as this day may be, I think we have Mr Valentine to thank for a great reminder. Not a reminder to by roses or silly hearts of plastic, but a reminder to express our love. Expressing our feelings is not something that most of us practice on a daily basis. In fact, even knowing what we feel is for many a challenge daunting enough.

One way of helping ourselves to express love that resides in our heart is to is to open our hearts on a physical level. Obviously not in a surgical sense, but by focusing on softening the parts of our body that surround our heart we can make it a bit more accessible.

We spend most our waking hours doing things in front of our body. Take just the example of where you are now: in front of your computer (or mobile).

Look at how you are sitting. Do you have a tendency to sink in to your back, hunching it and letting your shoulders climb up towards your ears? Is that a protective shield your are building around your heart? Is your rib cage a cage that barely permits your heart to beat? Give that great, pumping, life sustaining and loving heart of yours have some space!

Draw your shoulder blades together and see how that gently opens the sliding door to your heart on the frontal plane of your body. Then take a deep breath in and fill your inner body with a bright light that shines out to all sides.

Let that light have a tone of pink and instead of buying a rose for just one person today, see how far you can reach with your pink light, how many people you can touch with it and see if it doesn’t radiate even further, far beyond Valentine’s Day.

Yoga tip: Include more heart opening postures in our yoga practice so that your body gets used to open up to spread the love.