In Matters of The Heart, We Are One
"Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive." ~Dalai Lama
Your Heart Chakra is the hub of all positive thoughts and deeds, responsible for selfless acts, cooperation, and a feeling of oneness with humanity. It’s the origin point of establishing loving relationships and pursuing spiritual growth.
As Mother Theresa wisely shared, “I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.”
Definition: Heart - the central or innermost part of something.
The Heart Chakra is an energetic processing center for your emotions, unifying dualities in your psyche; it’s your suffering gauge as well as your bliss meter.
Its Hindu word is Anahata, meaning unstruck sound. It’s the vibration of the universe itself - the silence that surrounds audible sound. The Heart is considered your fourth primary Chakra and resides in the middle chest area. It also serves as your spiritual home. This emotional super-highway energizes, connects, and merges physical world experiences with higher states of consciousness. Its purest expression is love.
A green lotus flower with twelve petals depicts the Heart Chakra. It features intersecting triangles, one downward-facing and one upward-moving, forming a six-pointed star in the center. The symbol represents the meeting point of your lower and upper Chakras. This consciousness house is the bridge that offers your mind, body, spirit, and emotions a space for integration.
This Chakra oversees the proper function of your heart, lungs, immune and circulatory systems. The heart pumps blood throughout your body and is bound to your breath, feeding your lungs with oxygen: Self-sustaining processes that define life. Additionally, the Heart Chakra governs your thymus, an essential part of your lymphatic and endocrine systems. It’s responsible for making white blood cells that regulate your immune response. The thymus also releases hormones into the bloodstream that help keep your central nervous system healthy.
Your Heart’s energy is responsible for:
Generosity
Compassion
Love
Gratitude
Empathy
Unity
Trust
Bliss
Kindness
Nurturing
Understanding
Forgiveness
A willingness to allow compassion, kindness, gratitude, empathy, and devotion to flow freely through you is the peak expression of your heart. When your Heart Chakra is fully open, it triggers euphoric states, creating stronger bonds. It also helps release emotional conflict so that you are present for your life experiences. However, embodying these positive emotions exposes you to their counters - fear, anger, sadness, and disappointment - creating an unavoidable slow burn built-in to the human condition.
Understanding lays the groundwork for trust, allowing your Heart to strike a balance between vulnerability and protecting itself from hurt. When you lead with empathy, you learn to accept others as they are and connect with them on an intimate level. You also acknowledge that they are a reflection of your own faults and shortcomings.
By releasing the pain and suffering of past experiences through forgiveness, you free your Heart to embrace more profound love and create an expansive spiritual way forward. This understanding helps you realize the greater truth: We are all on a spiritual journey and interconnected with one another.
The emotional alchemy of your Heart is boundless and rich. This central Chakra powerhouse provides serenity when you remain open to the often contradictory experiences of life.
Let your love become a radical act and force for healing in the world.
Insight to Action: Healing Mantra Meditation - Begin by breathing gently, in and out of your nose. Close your eyes. Bring attention to your heart. Imagine an expansive ball of light and love emanating from your heart, traveling down your arms, and out into the world. Repeat this simple but powerful mantra as many times as necessary to feel its powerful message resonate deep in your soul, “I love you. I’m sorry. Please forgive me. Thank you.” When you’ve completed this exercise, call back your source of light into your heart, and repeat this same message of love to yourself with your hands over your heart - receive its healing energy.
Applying the essential oil of Rose is a beautiful way to open your Heart Chakra. Rose awakens your capacity for love, compassion, and nurturing.