The Seven Chakras: Heart Chakra

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The heart chakra (fourth chakra), also known as anahata, is an energy center located around the chest. The reason why it is called the heart chakra is because it is located near the heart. Its energy shines with the color of green. The heart chakra looks like two cones that are connected at their tip. One cone extends in front of the body and the other extends in back of the body. The area where they are connected is located at the center of the body. The energies that make up the cones spin opposite of one another. The heart chakra represent: love, compassion, balance, forgiveness, harmony, peace, unity and truth. It allows us to love and feel compassion toward others so we can establish relationship to help us grow spiritually. This energy center is responsible for keeping the thymus, heart, lung and arms healthy.

People who have balanced heart chakras are very compassionate and are unconditional lovers. Their decisions and judgments are usually guided by the heart and not the brain. Our society today does a great job keeping our heart chakra imbalanced. Because of this, many of us are either suffering from loving too much or too little. People who love too much will usually experience a lot of pain because they can’t let go. They become too involve with other people’s personal problems which can manifest into their realities. They hate to see people suffer and will go beyond what they have to do to make them happy. By loving too much, it prevents their love ones from growing independently. People who love too little are usually scare of love because they don’t want to get hurt. Some may even feel unworthy of love or become skeptical about love. Others may treat love as a game to hurt their love ones because they lack compassion and understanding. If people’s heart chakras are imbalanced, they may experience physical symptoms, such as high blood pressure, respiratory problems, chest pain and immune deficiency.

Our education system did a poor job teaching us about how the heart works. In school we were taught that the main job of the heart was to pump blood throughout the body. This was not a very accurate definition of how the heart works. According to Neurocardiologist, about 60 percent of heart cells are neuron cells, not muscle cells. Neurocardiologist found out that the heart operates similar to the brain and can also think independently. The heart and brain are always communicating with each other but does it at the subconscious level. The heart gives us universal characteristics while the brain gives us individual characteristics. The conscious energy of the heart radiates out a form of electromagnetic field that looks like a torus. This electromagnetic field (aura) is what protect and connect us to everything in universe. Through the vibrational energy field of the heart, we build our experience of ourselves and help consciousness expand.

How to clear and balance your heart chakra:

• Crystals: green and pink crystals or stones are usually great for stimulating the heart chakra. Some popular stones are aventurine, jade, emeralds, green tourmaline and pink calcite. Visit this page for more details about using crystals.
• Light visualization: Imagine a transparent green ball behind your chest. Visualize that this is your heart chakra. Mentally look or sense this green ball of energy shining with love. If what you see is mostly dark colors, your heart chakra may be very dirty. To clean it, visualize a pure white light illuminating from the inside of your heart chakra. Visualize this white light cleansing your chakra until it is illuminating beautiful green colors. Cleaning your chakra of dark energy may take a few weeks or months so please be patient.

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